was hosted by very good friends of mine -you know the one... the one disrupted by the "renegade" group from occupy - you know the ones - the jerks all in black...
Bar Tartine manager Vinny Eng said they were able to go on with the pop-up dinner they were hosting there, which ended before 11 p.m. The small section of window that was smashed was in the newer, side portion of the dining room. "Luckily no one was seated over there tonight," he said. "So there was a little glass on the floor but no one got hit."those are MY friends - NOT the 1% - but very hard-working people who have invested their futures to start a small business - who pay their few employees well above minimum wage - who are struggling to make a go of their business. that was THEIR event - at great expense - to promote their new product.Few if any arrests were made, and all the businesses plan to be open today.
Though members of the Occupy movement quickly tried to distance themselves from the chaos, it was hard not to make the association, given the planned May Day actions today, and calls on the May 1st Strike Day website for anti-gentrification actions. "We were hijacked and it was an utter clusterfuck," wrote one Occupy organizer on his blog.
THEY are the ones who were "harmed" by the irresponsible actions of those hiding behind the occupy movement - those that SOME on this site defend for "only damaging property" (not the majority - just the disillusioned few, to be clear)