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I hope it continues and that people from the surrounding area come to reinforce the blockade. That would be a great sign. It may fizzle out rather quickly. Apparently there are British Olympic athletes among the protestors
 
This was posted on their facebook page earlier today :

REBELS BLOCKADE AMAZON FULFILMENT CENTRES UK-WIDE ON BLACK FRIDAY

In a mammoth decentralised action, rebels are making a stand against one of the world’s biggest companies, its exploitative business model and the system it represents by blockading 13 of Amazon's fulfilment centres the length and breadth of the UK.

Aiming to disrupt up to 50 per cent of Amazon's Black Friday deliveries, today over 300 rebels are calling out how people and planet, together, are being degraded by billionare-run corporations and the Governments that allow them to run rife - trapping us in a web of toxic consumerism, forcing workers into low pay and precarity, and destroying the natural world.
 
Well for good or ill they're going with the idea, they've confirmed it on their facebook account aswell, but unfortunately the cat is out of the bag now - so I can't see them pulling it off :


With everything else going on at the moment, it's not the time to be doing that, fucking eejits,
 
Might as well go here cos I dunno if it's worth a new thread, anyone know anything about Youth Climate Swarm/Just Stop Oil?
Are they an XR break-off, rebranding or what?
 
With everything else going on at the moment, it's not the time to be doing that, fucking eejits,

Absolute cloud-cuckoolandists:

"The group said it was aiming to create 'enough disruption to force the UK government to commit to Extinction Rebellion’s immediate demand: to stop the fossil fuel economy'."

Yeah I'm sure maximum disruption at refineries will cause the UK government to do exactly that thing. :facepalm:
 
sure, it's best to only carry out political actions at times when they're likely to cause minimum disruption or fuss.

Surely it's best to do them at a time and in such a way that you're most likely to achieve your stated aims. Unless of course you're doing the actions for some other reason, for example to feel better about yourself.
 
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