from RT:

Activists who established a commune around an abandoned police precinct in Seattle are finding out the hard way it’s not easy to run a revolution, dealing with food supply issues, internal squabbling and even a wannabe strongman.

After Seattle PD vacated the East Precinct in the Capitol Hill neighborhood on Sunday, activists moved in and set up an “autonomous zone” spanning several city blocks, putting up barricades and “persuading” local residents and businesses to de facto separate from the city.

Their creation has been dubbed the “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone,” or CHAZ.

Night 2 of #CHAZ: the East Precinct is declared a community center by demonstrators, plus a screening of Ava DuVernay’s “13th” in the middle of the street. #seattleprotest https://t.co/G7UNrKYuqw

— Chase Burns in the CHAZ (@chaseburnsy) June 10, 2020

“Right now at CHAZ there is food, security, bathrooms, art, love, public discourse, action, education, film viewing, and much needed community building,” said one activist. The film in question was Ava DuVernay’s documentary ‘13th,’ about the connection between slavery and prisons in the US.

DuVernay reacted by wishing “blessings and bravery to all the good people at #CHAZ tonight.”

Blessings and bravery to all the good people at #CHAZ tonight. Onward. xo https://t.co/73HXJAvjzD

— Ava DuVernay (@ava) June 10, 2020

Not satisfied with enlarging their zone, the activists took over the Seattle City Hall on Tuesday, accompanied by councilwoman Kshama Sawant, a socialist, and demanded the resignation of Mayor Jenny Durkan, a Democrat.

They also released a long list of demands, some apparently reasonable – the release of everyone serving time for marijuana offenses, for example – and others patently absurd, such as the abolition of police, courts and immigration enforcement.

There is something ironic, of course, about their first action being to build a “wall” to protect their territory…

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