Time and time my city leads the way! Can I just say, yet again:

[cboy4]

:loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya:

Pro-Tibet protesters climb Golden Gate Bridge cables

Jonathan Curiel,Marisa Lagos, Chronicle Staff Writers
Monday, April 7, 2008


(04-07) 18:31 PDT SAN FRANCISCO -- Three demonstrators scaled cables near the south tower of the Golden Gate Bridge today and unfurled banners intended to draw attention to Chinese human rights violations in Tibet.

The protest by Students for a Free Tibet came the day before the Olympic Torch is to arrive in San Francisco for its only North American stop before this summer's games in Beijing.

The protesters, two men and a woman, scaled the cables around 10:30 a.m., and unfurled two banners around 11:20 a.m. One banner read, "One World, One Dream, Free Tibet 08," a play on the official slogan of this year's Olympic Games, "One World, One Dream." The other read simply, "Free Tibet."

The protesters also hung two Tibetan flags.

The activists used climbing gear to reach a spot 150 feet over the roadway and 370 feet above the water. They rappelled down about 1 p.m. and were arrested by California Highway Patrol officers. Iron workers will remove the banners and flags, authorities said.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/04/07/MN6L101A0U.DTL

[EFerrari]

1. Go, us!

lol

:woohoo:

[cboy4]

2. LOL. I'm so mad. I went to the Giants game today, but

didn't know this was going on or I would have gone over to look before the 1:30 start. x(

And the Giants lost. x(

[EFerrari]

3. You're still keeping score?!

lol

I saw the clips on the Abrams show -- he put them up, isn't that great? :hi:

[cboy4]

4. lol....I know.....and yea, it's cool Abrams put them up.

I saw the aerials on Nightly News also. :hi:

[El Pinko]

5. Don't get me wrong, I love The City...

...some of the best years of my life were spent there, however, for
every inspiring sight like this there is a 'Critical Mass' clusterfuck or
defecating bum on your stoop when you're trying to go to work in the
morning.

It's a mixed bag, I guess. City is the first in the US to implement
universal health care, and yet it is drowning in red ink and Newsom
never seems to run out of more pie-int-the-sky ideas for taxpayers
to pay for, like citywide Wi-Fi. Fix the potholes first, Gavin!

Sorry - this is turning into an off-topic rant. I love the sight of this banner -

if nothing else, it's beautiful, but I'm not expecting it to result in an Olympic

boycott or a Chinese withdrawal from Tibet...

[cboy4]

6. Dude....the point of my post is San Francisco is one of the

most liberal cities in the country and you can count on its people to always get involved:

OCEAN BEACH:




Every big city is going to have big city problems.

None of your examples are relevant to what I'm talking about....as I'm sure you realize.

[Recursion]

9. I don't know; they kind of are related

The same qualities that inspire Impeach on the Beach and the banners on the GGB are also the qualities that make the city council try to mandate city buildings be furnished in accordance with feng shui, or for a unidirectional actuator control system to not be called "master/slave" (really), or, across the bay, for protestors to say the presence of a USMC recruiting station makes Berkely feel occupied "just like Iraq".

But, yeah, that doesn't take away from the banners. That move was cool and ballsy (or in the woman's case, ovariesy).

[El Pinko]

10. I guess you have to take the good with the bad...

SF has not yet found a way to balance pragmatism and practicality (what works) with touchy-feely symbolism.

SF definitely deserves props for at least TRYING to do the right thing, which is so much more than the vast majority of cities...

[LeftyMom]

7. Way to dash my hopes.

I saw your thread, and I thought to myself, 'has Sacramento actually done something worth mentioning without shaking one's head in shock at the sheer stupidity of our elected officials?' but alas, it would appear that you're cheating on this soggy stuccoed burg with a smarter, prettier and wealthier, if not younger, city.

I can't say I blame you. :patriot:

[cboy4]

8. LOL....I'm a Bay Area boy so it's always going to be my

"home" home.

So I wouldn't call it cheating, so much as having an open relationship with SAC.

:patriot: