[rl/occupy] they're trying to destroy a turtle nesting area at one of my favorite beaches
i'm so disappointed with the state of my island
Guy named Jim Spring is trying to build a retaining wall on the natural habitat/beach area called Sandy Beach up in Rincon
People are there protesting, sitting in front of the machinery he's gotten through illegal means to start construction
Couple of people were threatened with bulldozers before the authorities came, but then SURPRISE SURPRISE
Someone calls in fuerza de choque (Swat, essentially) and now it's turned into an occupy deal.
needsmoarbats: Everything's okay for now, but it will probably end up escalating like it always does.
The difference between your SWAT forces and ours is that ours aren't trained. Tbh, things get a lot worse down here for protesters than they do in the states.
Last big thing I remember, a bunch of students were peacefully protesting a price increase in tuition that was never adequately talked about and the governor sent in SWAT to quell them.
SWAT arrive and start shooting tear gas everytwhere -- into the crowd, into nearby houses, into cars through windows. And one girl in her apartment, second story, with no attachment to anything going on at the
time
epidemico
has
a canister land on her leg and burn a hole through it.
Prolly not. The whole thing just got started a day or so ago, and our movement(s) are more contained to facebook