Save Capitol Hill! Kill a dude with more labels than imagination!

If by "kill" we mean "shame", then I regret to confess I have done both.

Kill people who think they are clever.

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...in solidarity with all those jailed for their resistance to the State; In solidarity with workers who buck the Bosses; In solidarity with those who yearn to destroy every system of domination and control.

It is increasingly important that we commit to continued reminders, continued breaching of the capitalist facade... Break their stuff!

Early this morning, on Capital Hill in Seattle we glued shut the locks of one of the many many Starbucks locations available to us. We had a great time.

We smashed a window and left some messaging for the workers.

We can only hope that we provided a break for those involved in that particular Starbucks location, to reflect on their continued involvement in a system that is built, like all their systems, on total dominance and exploitation.

It's exploitation all the way down.

Take a few moments and a tube of superglue to shut down business as usual!

Love and Anarchy,

Jokers Toward Total Freedom

gee, I hope they didn't buy corporate made Superglue (TM) from a corporate store like Rite-Aide or Bartells. Gosh, hopefully they were able to make it at home with household supplies. Because, you know, that would be ironic otherwise.

@4 - Haha! Awesome. You sure made the world a better place. Thanks for that.

@4: You are a petty vandal, and nothing more.

i am confused by the term "yuppie."

i am young(ish). 40 to be exact. i am urban because i live in the city. i am also a professional.

why does "yuppie" sound so horrible? is making a living and living in the city now a thing to be scorned?

Hi.

My name is...

Whew, what a little rebel! You guys just attacked one of the few businesses that provides benefits to its part-time workers. Also, you can't even spell "Capitol Hill" correctly. Ridiculous.

@8 - If 40 is young (or even "youngish"), what would you consider middle-age or, god forbid, old? How long are you planning to live?

Surely you're old enough to remember when the term "yuppie" came about, right? It was sometime in the Reagan administration.

@4 Jesus, are you fucking 12?

You know, I realize this does not fit in with your "no one sees the truth but meeeee!" narrative, but some people get up, go to work, and get by, while still being aware of the unfairness in the world today, even with regard to capitalism.

There's no "worker solidarity" in what you did. You fucked over the people who work at that Starbucks while having ABSOLUTELY ZERO EFFECT on the bosses, or their policies, or the system in general.

I'm sure the barista tasked with cleaning up broken glass this morning is thinking less about systems of exploitation and more about punching you in the face.

@11 so 40 is not young? i thought it was (ish).
well, now that i am old, maybe i can just start spouting off rude things. blacks! homos! vaginas! applesauce! i need a nap suddenly. age will do that to you.

@ 11, I remember Gary Hart was trying to get the yuppie vote during the 1984 primaries, supposedly because he was "young" (he was 46 or so). Later, the "DIE YUPPIE SCUM" bumper stickers came along.

KILL ALL HUMANS!

@4 - Have you actually ever been in a country and lived in a society with no rule of law?

@13 - Weren't you doing that already?

Don't mind me, I'm still coming to grips with no longer being young myself. My clothes don't fit right any more.

8, 11

Yuppie came about because there were few to none professionals living in cities. The down towns were all abandoned hulks. Maybe a few hippies were the only connection to middle class culture.

Yuppies appeared with the surge in the financial industries. The yuppie would rent or buy the floor of an old warehouse, polish the wooden floors and bring some wines in. The original yuppie car was the BMW 2002.

This was a time where a salary of $35,000 was considered grand, and since in-city living was so cheap, it made an office worker a king.

The downtowns were dark, uninhabited and cheap. So yuppie culture ferried itself between various offices, restaurants and clubs. It was a Europeanized lifestyle brought to the US.

The yuppie types were somewhat defined, a bit, by characters in 30-something...which gives you an idea of what they meant by "young".

"@4 Jesus, are you fucking 12?"
You ARE 12, so I guess he's fucking you.

Listen, I've lived in Capitol Hill for 126 years, seen this place change from virgin forests into the shitbarf you see today. I might be really old and grumpy but i salute these kids. And before you all turn all fascist, i'm just passing along the info. ok, gonna be at the soda fountain if you all want to talk. btw, slowly cleaning up shards of glass rather than serving you a fucking cup of coffee sounds pretty good to me. also starbucks is going to have to pay a local glazier to fix the glass, more corporate money going to honest to goodness proletarians, ie: the working class.

@17.

yes. i was, kind of. but under my breath. like a true oldie.

also, buy new clothes.

@ 20 - 'shitbarf'

Okay, yeah... I saw that scrawled on the side of an apartment bldg on my way to work this morning.

Ooooo, way to 'stick it' to 'the man'.... ooo

describe what you see when you imagine shitbarf

@20 - in addition to store windows, what other things should be turned into garbage headed for the landfill in the name of supporting the working class?

Vandalism as economic stimulus - why hadn't I thought of that before?

@20 I willing to bet that part-time barista sure would rather have had the paycheck for those hours than your "class solidarity". But hey, since the store is closed no shift! I hope your check is in the mail, 'cause rent is expensive as fuck.

I think just about everyone that made Capitol Hill is what it is today fits into someones definition of the term "hipster", anarchists included. I imagine being one has never been easier.

Aren't the hipsters and the yuppies keeping all those businesses on the hill running? I'm confused.

@23 - Wait, so you're the source of that 'shitbarf' graffiti? Damn dude, way to make a place look worse.

I like graffiti, quite a lot, I photograph it regularly and post it online; I think good graffiti can be beautiful and uplifting. But seeing the word "shitbarf' scrawled poorly on things diminishes the view. It makes things worse. It conjures up gross things, things I don't want to think about when I have to face the revolution of everyday life in which we are fighting to change for the better. It is one of my least favorite pieces -- it is despised because it doesn't communicate hardly anything, except grossness. Whatever ideas you think you are communicating, it says nothing.

Thanks for making Capitol Hill a worse place. Way to follow the totally erroneous and failed path of "immiseration" as a way to lead towards some imagined revolution.

:-P

@4

With the corporate headquarters of Starbucks less than four miles away, you could have very easily done something to disrupt only the managerial class that maintains the corporate hierarchy.

Instead you chose to do something that disrupts the lives of the workers at the bottom.

Your choice. But we do notice these things.

look, i still havent lernt ta read or spell writing, too busy picking myself up by the boot straps for that. so no, im definitely not shitbarf. look to the youngsters for that. anyway, im at the soda fountain drinkin sasperella is anyone wants a nice chat with your local 126 cap hill resident

The Mission District dickheads already did this and it was stupid then. Get a new angle!

@31 - Well, I'm glad your not that crappuke graffitist. I'll knock the spraycan from his/her hands if I ever happen upon them

@32 - Do you remember the Yuppie Eradication League (or Team or something) that used to get up to this kind of shit because, er... I dunno, the Slanted Door had valets or something?

Recently a friend of mine dealt with one of those guys that's still hanging on to it, probably mid-40's, that's been renting part of the property (he bought for next to nothing, 20 years ago) for $6,000 a month, and complaining how much the neighborhood's changed.

Much like The Stranger Capitol Hill has been over for YEARS.

Capitol Hill: Come For The Shit. Stay For The Barf.

Take back the streets and public spaces. Photograph/video record these miscreants at EVERY 0pportunity, not simply while in the act. They use the shield of anonymity as sword, are the enemies of the people and what civil liberties are left, they're petty traitors who have openly declared war on the state, society, even civilization. They hold they shall respect no laws and challenge the notion of individual 'rights'. Name them. Reveal their haunts/location. Only citizens can preserve freedom and reclaim our public venues. Out them! Force them to endure the same standards they force on others--they favor mob violence.

What about "Guppies"?

@ 20 ~ Your memory must be faulty, 126yearcaphillresident. That's OK, I'm getting old(er) and sometimes I forget things too. I've lived here for 155 years and Capitol Hill was never a virgin forest. The top of Capitol hill was an area with scrub grass and a few trees, but it was never a virgin forest. Ah, history. Oh, science. I do wish more people would read some.

Oh yeah...Isn't anyone concerned about backlash? Blowback? Monkey do, other monkey see and do ya back? I'm so glad I don't have solidarity contracts with any "anarchists". I have enough problems without catching someone else's blowback. How does this do anything but draw loathing and/or possible retaliation for anyone in the entire self-described '"anarchist" movement'? Was it a good idea in light of the fact the '"anarchist" movement' is under a microscope right now, and remind me again what's courageous about these "actions"? Will such "actions" make the operation of Black Coffee and other "anarchist" club houses more difficult? I mean, I don't know who hit Starbucks. Since the nature of the '"anarchist" movement' is placing blind trust in anonymous "actions" most people reading this don't either. But of course it sounds like "anarchists" did it. I mean, if it had been cointelpro they would've done a much better job. But isn't it a bad tactic to draw heat to your community, and for no damn good reason? With friends like "anarchists", who needs enemies.

Balderdash! Previous comment was meant for the Starbucks BS. I'm not pro or anti sticker at this time.