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Black Lives Matter demos and protests UK, 2020-2021
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Voley
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Hello.
nogojones
spelling is overrated
FridgeMagnet
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Reminds me of the civil war statues in the US South, which are generally also pretty cheap and even generic, and erected some time after the events for political reasons - actually starting at around the same time as the Colston one (1895).
eta: Wikipedia isn't telling me who actually had it put up but it has been updated with the current location.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
Plenty of those statues actually used the same bloke in them - whether it was as a confederate or unionist memorial.
keybored
Well done. You remember cat good.
gentlegreen
I hummus, therefore I am ...
I hope the Bristol police prosecute this crime with the seriousness it actually deserves.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Nothing new:
gentlegreen
I hummus, therefore I am ...
Proper job Bristol copper at 18:03
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
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Proper job Bristol copper at 18:03
The Mayor on now saying he hasn't been able to change the statue's plaque in four years because he's black.
SovietArmy
Well-Known Member
This event about statue made my day. I wounder which statues goes next. Queens and Kings?
Ax^
Silly Rabbit
tbf i want to see the push back from some quarters
I want to see their rage
if anything good comes from this year is it proving they have not won..
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DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
Pound to a penny A&SC puts more resources into unmasking today's dastardly statuecidal mob than they did investigating the attack on Marlon Thomas or the murder of Bijan Ebrahimi.
Ax^
Silly Rabbit
the women defended a policy that would of exluded her own family to entering the country
don't know much more you need to know that the women is a prick
Mr.Bishie
pickled egg
Just said exactly the same to Mrs B.
newbie
undisambiguated
Hmm. I went to the US embassy today but left pretty quickly, largely because covid. There were people handing out masks, and most people wearing them and being careful, but from Vauxhall onto Nine Elms Lane and down the slope you can't see the embassy, so inevitably everyone kept gradually moving forward, getting closer and closer together, and that made me too uncomfortable so i quit.
But the virus is hopefully a short term problem. More concerning, once onto NEL you're funneled into what is fundamentally a long, claustrophobic queue, with no way to filter out, in fact no way out at all except to go back in the opposite direction to everyone else. Today that felt like a rotten breach of solidarity, on another day the constrictions could create seriously dangerous conditons, where people panic and could get crushed. It's certainly not somewhere I'd want to be if everything kicked off, there's nowhere to run, nowhere to scatter, the sight lines are terrible. Nor would I take children there.
The embassy is on a main road strip between the river and a railway embankment, a position almost designed for controlling or possibly even kettling a large protest. Right now there's building work and hoardings everywhere, when the huge towers are finished that may open out a bit, but from the dogs home to Vauxhall only NEL, the river footpath and one small tunnel under the railway need to be sealed off for a perfect kettle for many thousands of people. That won't have escaped the notice of the police, they'll know they hold all the cards when protests are held there.
The crowd was lovely but I came away feeling a bit despondent.
the trees are pretty much at the riverbank.
But the virus is hopefully a short term problem. More concerning, once onto NEL you're funneled into what is fundamentally a long, claustrophobic queue, with no way to filter out, in fact no way out at all except to go back in the opposite direction to everyone else. Today that felt like a rotten breach of solidarity, on another day the constrictions could create seriously dangerous conditons, where people panic and could get crushed. It's certainly not somewhere I'd want to be if everything kicked off, there's nowhere to run, nowhere to scatter, the sight lines are terrible. Nor would I take children there.
The embassy is on a main road strip between the river and a railway embankment, a position almost designed for controlling or possibly even kettling a large protest. Right now there's building work and hoardings everywhere, when the huge towers are finished that may open out a bit, but from the dogs home to Vauxhall only NEL, the river footpath and one small tunnel under the railway need to be sealed off for a perfect kettle for many thousands of people. That won't have escaped the notice of the police, they'll know they hold all the cards when protests are held there.
The crowd was lovely but I came away feeling a bit despondent.
the trees are pretty much at the riverbank.
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HaveMyPassword123
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