Talk:N30
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[edit] N30
Crowd Estimates: AFAIK, the lowest estimate is 35,000 in the AFL-CIO march and 3,000 in the street blockades and surrounding actions. Mike Erwin 06:13, 18 Jul 2006 (PDT)
[edit] Organizations & Planning
Given the anarchist nature of this site, can someone add and explain the relationship between DAN (the Direct Action Network) and SAR (the Seattle Anarchist Response)? I read some early claims that the Ruckus Society (among other groups) bypassed consensus process and pushed no-property-destruction rules into the DAN action guidelines; some dissenters formed SAR in response. I was not there and others might be able to clarify this. Mike Erwin 06:13, 18 Jul 2006 (PDT)
[edit] "N30"
The timeline's off. Although some people arrived in the blockade area before 7:00, the mass marches left Victor Steinbook Park and (ottomh) Seattle Central Community College between 7:00 and 7:30. I checked ARC 11134 (the police radio recordings, tape 2, disk 2b, tracks 5-6); the police began using tear gas between 8:36 and 8:40; there's a 4 1/2 minute gap in the recording followed by firing sounds. Mike Erwin 06:13, 18 Jul 2006 (PDT)
excerpted draft transcript follows Mike Erwin 06:13, 18 Jul 2006 (PDT)
8:35
[woman's voice]: King County Radio to Command-30 on Sec-10?
[man's voice]: Command-30, go ahead.
[woman's voice]: Command-30? Team-32 is stationary at, uh Pine and 8 per Seattle's request.
[man's voice]: 10-4.
[man's voice]: Car-2-1, can I have a comm unit, uh, at 7 and Pike, I need, uh, someone with me, with their command, at all times.
[man's voice]: 2-3-2, it's Comm-5 on the air, whatever else is. Traffic car on 8th and Pine, if you could move it please?
8:36
<ed: November's recording was erased before December's copying. Officer Lawson reads out the times, over the hiss of the erased section. According the the SPD AAR, they did not even stage Chemical Agent Response teams before 9:00. According to earlier sections, they were deploying these before 8:00 and according to the following section they were firing chemical grenades before 9:00.>
ARC 11134-2B Track 6/10----
8:40
[man's voice]: 9-Adam to 2-3-2, be advised we have a second wave coming to 8th and Pine, and they are currently at 9th and Pine, look like they are poised to possibly come this way.
8:41
[firing]
[man's voice, muffled]: CAR-Team, there was our first [unintelligible] freak zone. Some [unintelligible] were having trouble at 6th and University, 6th and Seneca, and status, please.
[firing]
[man's voice]: Now.
[woman's voice]: Radio to Demo Desk?
[firing]
[man's voice]: Demo Desk.
[woman's voice]: Can you check the status of those troopers at 6th and Seneca?
[man's voice, muffled]: [unintelligible] okay.
[static]
[firing]
[man's voice]: Hey, Guardian-1, do you pos- [unintelligible]? The crowd that was moving towards the Paramount is milling around there. They haven't decided which way they're gonna go. They tried to continue to southbound and were stopped, so they're now just milling by the buses.
8:42
[firing]
[firing]
[man's voice]: Demo Desk Radios? We're supposed to have an SPD element at 6th and Seneca. See if you check.
