Extinction Rebellion
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andysays
Love and solidarity
Who on this thread are you accusing of childishly and dismissively deriding protesters as stinky?
TBH, you appear to be primarily responsible for the tortuous diversion the thread had taken.
I genuinely am stinky after two days pruning damp shrubs, so I will be taking a break from posting here for a couple of hours while I stick my laundry in the machine and have a bath. Hopefully everyone will be a bit more flagrant when I return.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
so xr are getting people to spray paint against their hands
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
flagrant? fragrant?
andysays
Love and solidarity
Plus the danger of leaving finger prints, I imagineso xr are getting people to spray paint against their hands
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this would seem really really silly as - leaving aside the issue of criminal damage - you're marking your hands so all the police have to do is find people with painty hands to nick
FridgeMagnet
Administrator
Yeah, so the procession started in Whitehall Gardens and then looped round down Northumberland Avenue and Great Scotland Yard down to Whitehall itself. It has been going round for a while now - people are walking very slowly. It stopped outside the Department for International Development where there was a short speech relating to that, then turned around down to Downing Street, paused there, then moved on again. When I left people were walking down King Charles St.
The theme was "Red Hands". with lots of people with their hands painted red, which would relate to the thing above about spraypainting, though I didn't see any of that going on. Red Rebels were there obviously. I think I have way too many pictures of them - they are too photogenic, and it's a bit distracting.
I think any large event you see in the next couple of days is going to be a march. In this case the cops clearly didn't know where it was going but they mostly just let it go past, occasionally running around. There were apparently some arrests (I heard a few calls for legal observers, or rather, shouts of "Mic check! (Mic check!) Legal observer! (Legal observer!) Near the front! (Near the front!) On the left! (On the left!)" which does actually work).
Only phone pics but will see what i've got.
The theme was "Red Hands". with lots of people with their hands painted red, which would relate to the thing above about spraypainting, though I didn't see any of that going on. Red Rebels were there obviously. I think I have way too many pictures of them - they are too photogenic, and it's a bit distracting.
I think any large event you see in the next couple of days is going to be a march. In this case the cops clearly didn't know where it was going but they mostly just let it go past, occasionally running around. There were apparently some arrests (I heard a few calls for legal observers, or rather, shouts of "Mic check! (Mic check!) Legal observer! (Legal observer!) Near the front! (Near the front!) On the left! (On the left!)" which does actually work).
Only phone pics but will see what i've got.
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
Do you disagree with the point that terms such as 'crusty' or 'stinky' are used to dismiss XR and its activists? If not, what the suffering fuck are you dribbling on about?
FridgeMagnet
Administrator
It's one of their classic black and white movie stocks - it was used to shoot a lot of famous films like Raging Bull and Schindler's List. Kodak doesn't sell it in individual rolls but other people buy the big 400' rolls and respool them for use in still cameras. I thought I'd give it a shot, it's supposed to have a lot of character.
editor
hiraethified
Sorry, but I've made a few 24 hour bans to stop this thread turning into a complete joke, so you'll have to wait for an answer. And yes, I agree with your point.
FridgeMagnet
Administrator
Red Rebels in a huddle before setting off - this really confused the cops.
Going down Great Scotland Yard and onto Whitehall:
Outside the DID:
At Downing Street:
Going down Great Scotland Yard and onto Whitehall:
Outside the DID:
At Downing Street:
chilango
Hypothetical Wanker
editor has put an s14 on the thread 
Sorry.
...but whatever reservations, and criticisms, I have of XR (and there are many) I don't want them to be lumped in with the manufactured backlash that is promoted by the usual suspects.
XR need to be smart right now, I think they've hit a critical moment.
Sorry.
...but whatever reservations, and criticisms, I have of XR (and there are many) I don't want them to be lumped in with the manufactured backlash that is promoted by the usual suspects.
XR need to be smart right now, I think they've hit a critical moment.
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
I wonder if they're aware that they've appropriated a symbol that is associated by many with Irish loyalism and racism.
How many own goals are these people going to score?
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Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
FridgeMagnet
Administrator
Nick Cave's q&a email newsletter, which is really good and worth subscribing to, is also called "The Red Hand Files".
8ball
Decolonise colons!
planetgeli
There's no future in England's dreaming
Which leads on to his song being used for Peaky Blinders...and makes me wonder briefly if XR are piggybacking on that with what looks like a triumph of style over substance.
And for a demo in a massive inclusive city on a Friday afternoon I can see one black face in all those pictures. It does look very white, middle class...safe.
How much is this really bothering those in power? I mean, it looks great and everything, some iconic images an’ all. But what’s the plan? Because it looks a bit adrift.
Athos
Well-Known Member
British loyalism, surely?
clicker
nanook rubs it....
It can only be an improvement and at least the tourists have got something to photograph.
And now there's an XR protestor dressed as Boris Johnson halfway up Big Ben rigging banners
editor
hiraethified
Stop fucking about and discuss the topic of the thread please.
8ball
Decolonise colons!
The only thing that surprises me at this point is that you think you are facilitating something at this point, as opposed to causing further disruption. I think you are just in a mood where you want to shut someone up.
Actually meaningful discussions about and involving XR are going on in lots of places, so do whatever makes you a tiny bit happier, it makes zero difference to anything.
eoin_k
Lawyer's fees, beetroot and music
The Red Hand of Ulster is hardly an exclusively loyalist symbol, it's origins go back much further as a legitimising myth for O'Neill hegemony in the province.
ETA: You can just about make it out in this republican mural, which features four circles bearing the coat of arms of the four province of Ireland. Ulster is third from the right.
ETA: You can just about make it out in this republican mural, which features four circles bearing the coat of arms of the four province of Ireland. Ulster is third from the right.
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