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hiraethified
Oops! Got my Dors in a twistFine work indeed... but it's Diana not Doris
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Black Lives Matter demos and protests UK, 2020-2021
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Someone brought down the plaque on a war memorial near me a few years back. I say "brought down" it would be accurate to say he nicked it for scrap metal. Still, that sounds less tabloidy.
Serge Forward
Just enjoyin' my coffee.
How about a nice garden gnome sculpture, possibly defending the one with the bare arse 
Treacle Toes
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butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Not much difference really. Elements of the two did get together over the edl visit to the city in 2012 but they ended up falling out a bit as the gas came out of the pub to fight while city didn't.
Other new: I have heard that the Captain Thomas Phillips plaque in Brecon was took down and river-ed yesterday. Our roving reporter hasn't yet been able to get there to confirm in person though. That one was a fucking disgrace, honouring a slaver specifically for anti-racism.
kenny g
Sheeple Awake!
Once is too many in my experience.
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
Whilst I don't think it is a great (or even a good) film, it does have visual, almost painterly flair at times, and it certainly not the worst of its subject matter, not by far. I just know that Frank Harper has a much better, more interesting story in him than this.
kenny g
Sheeple Awake!
If you are into that kind of thing Dagenham Dagenham (2018) - IMDb is worth a watch.
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
I shall give it a go, cheers.
It's not so much the type of film, as the type of actors, who all too often end up in an ever-decreasing spiral of genre roles. Harper's best performances have been when he has stepped outside of this - A Room For Romeo Brass, Between The Lines.
Craig Fairbrass is another - I just know he's got some depth to him, but we so rarely see even a glimmer. But I know Villain has had good reviews, and I was looking forward to checking out Gerard Johnson's latest, Muscle, though COVID put the kibosh on that.
Craig Fairbrass is another - I just know he's got some depth to him, but we so rarely see even a glimmer. But I know Villain has had good reviews, and I was looking forward to checking out Gerard Johnson's latest, Muscle, though COVID put the kibosh on that.
cantsin
Well-Known Member
our young un's in Ilfracombe are having a BLM sitting protest tmmrw lunchtime, after a call for 'BLM' to be mowed into the big ( Capstone ) Hill , ( like 'NHS' was last month ) turned into a pile on shit show on local FB, up to and including some racist goading and the like.
All v unprecedented for round here, lead by ordinary white kids ( about 99.9 % white here ) , kids who seem to visibly identify with and embrace black culture / sub culture, and who are now putting their money where their mouths are. Feels like another sign of things starting to change a bit here, in an area that has been in stasis since the early 70's.
( consensus seems to be Verity's not going in the drink )
All v unprecedented for round here, lead by ordinary white kids ( about 99.9 % white here ) , kids who seem to visibly identify with and embrace black culture / sub culture, and who are now putting their money where their mouths are. Feels like another sign of things starting to change a bit here, in an area that has been in stasis since the early 70's.
( consensus seems to be Verity's not going in the drink )
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hiraethified
Brixton demo today
www.brixtonbuzz.com
Black Lives Matter – Brixton Takes The Knee, Windrush Square, Weds 10th June 2020
Once again, Brixton came out in force to show their support for George Floyd – who was murdered by police in Minneapolis – and the worldwide Black Lives Matter movement. Here’s so…
www.brixtonbuzz.com
redsquirrel
This Machine Kills Progressives
Could you summarise/give links - I'm a div w.r.t. social media.Massive split here in Leeds, BLM and Black Voices Matter. Huge car crash stuff going online. FFS.
Johnny Vodka
The Abominable Scotsman
Could be some aggro this weekend.
www.theguardian.com
Campaigners fear far-right 'defence' of statues such as Churchill's
Tommy Robinson among supporters of ‘defend our memorials’ event
LDC
On est tous des pangolins
Yeah, I'm not on any either - apart from here.
My understanding is it's between Black Lives Matter (BLM, which has been going for a while) mostly being driven by one personality (who's FB page looks slightly ... odd ... edited something out, sorry, trying not to use that term), and Black Voices Matter (BVM) which was set up (also by mostly one person I think) in response to BLM being conservative and refusing to organize any street stuff recently. BVM seems to be mostly the people behind the Caribbean Carnival and West Indian Centre in Chapeltown.
They both originally organized 2 demos for Saturday at different locations, then it looks like someone faked the BVM flyer to redirect their demo to the BLM one. Cue: massive kick off online. Leeds BLM are also trying to raise a huge amount of money (I think £100,000) with no oversight or accountability to where that might get spent, so more trouble is brewing for sure. BLM also approvingly posted some West Yorkshire Police kneeling pics. Also some people have posted making some criticisms and been rounded on for having white privilege and that they should shut the fuck up.
TBH I think this is a really interesting and illustrative issue with them both. It's largely (as was noted in one of the early idpolitics posts on that thread) an issue of representation and desire for being the authentic voice of a community that comes from drawing this imagined 'community' together on the basis of the shared characteristic of skin colour, and without any underlying politics or shared material position and interest.
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redsquirrel
This Machine Kills Progressives
Ta for the summary LBC. Depressingly familiar stuff.
TopCat
Putin fanboy
He made a lasting impression.
Brixton Hatter
Home is south London mate
Yes, I noticed this local suggesting the plaque have been removed and given a new home in the River Usk - no picture unfortunately.
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
Could also be a function of the fact the first person to set up the (insert name here) (insert city here) facebook page ends up with way too much power.
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Theres a FLAF group at Rovers as well as DFLA
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Well my reaction ito the removal of Gone with the Wind is one of confusion tbh. I'd have been more impressed if HBO had put some money into a new series that tackled police racism in the States or a historical anti racist campaign.First they came for the statues, and we did not speak out... Now they're removing such massive film family favourites (and 100% historically accurate of course) as Gone with the Wind. Where will it all end???!!!
Gone with the Wind removed from HBO Max
Can't fucking wait for the fash's reaction on Twatter....
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
The town council put this statement out now so it's def gone:
Earlier this year, the Town Council committed itself to review the plaque located on Captains Walk which noted Captain Thomas Phillips’ connection to the town.
Work to remove or review the plaque was unfortunately delayed due to the Coronavirus pandemic.
As the plaque has now been removed before the Town Council could complete its work, the Town Council, in consultation with the...blah blah
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
The Colston statue has now been removed from the river by the council - who are now, it seems also claiming ownership by declaring/mapping it 'highway' (which may have been what happened to the paving at St Pauls during Occupy there thus giving the Corporation of London the right to evict) - and placed in safe keeping before going to a museum. This would presumably be the proposed Abolition Shed on the harbourside whose organisation committee the deputy mayor and mayors' voice whilst chairing demanded that the Merchant Venturers (Yes, Colston's lot!) be involved in, and then got the group of identity-entrepreneurs she and the mayor have stuffed the group with to turn on dissenting voices whilst rubbishing their involvement in counter-colston campaigns - some for near 40 years now. Of course they're tripping over themselves to claim the credit for the anti-colston campaigns and to highlight their own personal and principled opposition to the venturers. Not everything in bristol is at it first appears.
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strung out
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Knowing people involved in the Colston Hall renaming, some of them are pretty frustrated with how the mayor's office and council (who own the building) effectively washed their hands of any involvement in it, leaving Bristol Music Trust to take the flak and do the heavy lifting for the last three years, with those same councillors/individuals in the mayor's office now suddenly super interested in re-evaluating Colston's legacy.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Indeed, and such is the number of pies the venturers and the like have their fingers in locally this was/is happening across nearly all aspects of political/cultural/economic/educational/etc life in bristol - and has been for decades now regardless of the administration. They all bend the knee to the venturers behind the scenes while publicly...
Apparently Saturday's demo has been called off due to threats from the far-right
www.theguardian.com
No doubt the fascists will see this as a victory
BLM organisers call off London event to avoid clashes with far right
Black Lives Matters activists say hate groups plan to target protests and ‘defend memorials’
No doubt the fascists will see this as a victory
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cantsin
Well-Known Member
our one was v impressive, fun, encouraging .... young, chaotic, pure grass roots / self organised energy .... we were chatting with the organisers, and know that a year ago would have been inviting them to our ( reasonably fun / drink assisted, totally pro Corbyn small local group ( not CLP) - now I cldn't even be arsed trying to divert that energy of theirs into what is Starmer -world)
www.northdevongazette.co.uk
Hundreds turn out as Ilfracombe says ‘Black Lives Matter’
Hundreds of people of all ages turned out for a peaceful Black Lives Matter demonstration and sit in on Ilfracombe seafront today...
ska invita
back on the other side
They made The Wire tbf
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Yup I thought about that and that’s why a put in ‘new series’ Do you remember the scene where Bunk and Lesyter took the piss out of witnesses speaking their own languages and told them to speak English ?
