Awesome disobedience = Thoreau back .

Tibetan protesters scaled up the golden gate bridge today, and unfurled giant banners. This comes less than 2 days before the torch is due to make its stop in San Francisco. The group responsible, calling themselves 'Team Tibet', disguised themselves using civilian clothes, strollers, and i can only hope, fake mustaches. They then used their hidden climbing equipment to rappel up the cables, (150 feet above the road and 370 feet above water) and then unleash their banners.Obviously they were arrested when they came down. They face a possible fine.

The damage is done though, this is great. Great civil disobedience. I'm loving this. I can only imagine what its going to be like when the torch comes through SF. Hopefully people will pay more attention than the last time someone told them to free tibet, which was most likley at woodstock 94, or a bjork concert.


For more on protesting the torch in SF, see here.

For more on the history of Tibet, including rape of tibet by china, see here.

For more on civil disobedience in general, see here.