Extinction Rebellion
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mojo pixy
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Loving the correct apostrophe use. If they achieve any other objective at this point it's just bonus material
TopCat
Putin fanboy
newbie
undisambiguated
from the south the bridge appears cleared but there's no traffic. Traffic at OC.
there are last 24 hours/30 days slideshows on those webcams
Riklet
procrastinación
Walking over waterloo bridge in the middle of the road with the XR stuff sprawling over half of it and just seeing a clear example how city space could be reconfigured, used differently, shifted away from mainly being for private transport, made accessible for everyone's use... thats definitely a vision that will stay with me the rest of my life. Really really powerful and inspiring. 
Friday night (Ive left now) they were playing Bonobo and some dude did some great freestyling too, was seriously impressive.
Friday night (Ive left now) they were playing Bonobo and some dude did some great freestyling too, was seriously impressive.
agricola
a genuine importer of owls
Walking over waterloo bridge in the middle of the road with the XR stuff sprawling over half of it and just seeing a clear example how city space could be reconfigured, used differently, shifted away from mainly being for private transport, made accessible for everyone's use... thats definitely a vision that will stay with me the rest of my life. Really really powerful and inspiring.
Friday night (Ive left now) they were playing Bonobo and some dude did some great freestyling too, was seriously impressive.
Indeed. On the Sunday when they close all the roads for the bike race, London is a beautiful place.
8ball
Merr xmas...
Amazed by this headline - took me a while to even parse it, thinking I'd made a mistake somewhere:
Stop your unlawful protests or go home.
I can't even figure out how people are going to unlawfully protest from home.
Stop your unlawful protests or go home.
I can't even figure out how people are going to unlawfully protest from home.
8ball
Merr xmas...
Why did the XR protester cross the road?
She had superglued herself to the chicken.
I'm pretty impressed with the efforts so far, but a recent Fb post from a very enthusiastic activist mate that was expressing shock at a very small act of police violence is giving me some concerns about a kind of middle class naivety.
She had superglued herself to the chicken.
I'm pretty impressed with the efforts so far, but a recent Fb post from a very enthusiastic activist mate that was expressing shock at a very small act of police violence is giving me some concerns about a kind of middle class naivety.
sunnysidedown
caput mortuum
Walking over waterloo bridge in the middle of the road with the XR stuff sprawling over half of it and just seeing a clear example how city space could be reconfigured, used differently, shifted away from mainly being for private transport, made accessible for everyone's use... thats definitely a vision that will stay with me the rest of my life. Really really powerful and inspiring.
Friday night (Ive left now) they were playing Bonobo and some dude did some great freestyling too, was seriously impressive.
I walked over Waterloo bridge a couple of times yesterday, I don't get to London much these days but the enjoyment of walking around in places without the constant distraction of traffic cheered me up no end. I ended up walking from WB over to Parliament square then through Green Park and up to Marble Arch, tehn back along Oxford Street. It was only when I got past Oxford Circus towards Centre Point that the spell wore off and I nearly got ran over
Fairplay to the ER lot though. I've a few issues with what they're about/not about politically, and I'm currently reading Cohn's Pursuit of the Millennium which is adding a bit of colour to our current times for me, but there's no denying these are spaces opened for everyone to enjoy.
editor
hiraethified
What's wrong with a bit of naivety? At least they've got off their arses.
Miss-Shelf
I'll meet you further on up the road
Parliament Square is being cleared
FridgeMagnet
Administrator
Oxford Street is now back to its normal pedestrian-dodging miserable self. For a few days there it was quite pleasant, if only between Marble Arch and OC. Traffic is still much less though.
8ball
Merr xmas...
A bit of naivety among the youngsters, fair enough, we all expect that, and it's great having people on board who haven't had their expectations of what is possible ground down years of TINA and business-as-usual.
Being in your forties, a well-read, resourceful and intelligent adult, and yet being surprised at the beginnings of a little light defence of capital by the police, however, is a sign of the kinds of weaknesses that many posters on this thread have commented about.
I’m talking about a chap who was locked to the boat for part of yesterday. Not someone with a very tangential involvement.
I can only see three outcomes for them, they will encounter resistance and become smaller, harder and stronger, they will dissipate, or they will be co-opted.
I'm holding onto my chips for a few more hands, and if it looks like the first path I'll be in the game. For now, the watchful waiting continues.
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Gramsci
Well-Known Member
Miss-Shelf
I'll meet you further on up the road
FridgeMagnet
Administrator
Pretty somber at PSq right now. Not a lot of people left. Onlookers are playing slow drums as the cops cut people loose (and also "Perfect Day"). I think someone is still up a tree though.
8ball
Merr xmas...
As in, people being picked up and carried away?
8ball
Merr xmas...
Good tactic.
Not sure how the health and safety clearance situation works with the Met, and the fire brigade won’t be wanting to get involved.
