Extinction Rebellion

[The39thStep]

"Give peas a chance "

 

[8ball]

Best banner in the flesh. View attachment 187031

Uh oh...

 

[not-bono-ever]

Coppers dragging people off. Bemused tourists. Communal kitchen dispensing hot food. No traffic. Bears in the air.

 

[8ball]

"Decolonise XR"?

 

[Marty1]

Best banner in the flesh. View attachment 187031

That’s an interesting banner, does anyone know what XR mean by that slogan (climate struggle = class struggle)?

 

[littlebabyjesus]

That’s an interesting banner, does anyone know what XR mean by that slogan (climate struggle = class struggle)?

A link between two forms of exploitation by the same set of exploiters, perhaps? I don't think it's that hard to imagine what is meant.

 

[8ball]

I don't think it's that hard to imagine what is meant.

"Stop these oiks flying to Ibiza twice a year before they kill us all"?

 

[TopCat]

Targeting the city makes sense. The plod there will find it hard.

 

[8ball]

Targeting the city makes sense. The plod there will find it hard.

Why is that?

I'm not from London.

 

[TopCat]

Why is that?

I'm not from London.

It's a small space and the City of London Police have a reputation to maintain. They are more aggressive than the Met Police and will find it hard to counter the tactics without coming across like the thugs they truly are.

 

[Pickman's model]

"Stop these oiks flying to Ibiza twice a year before they kill us all"?

interesting flight stats here 1% of English residents take one-fifth of overseas flights, survey shows

 

[8ball]

interesting flight stats here 1% of English residents take one-fifth of overseas flights, survey shows

Send XR the link.
That idea of a progressive tax on flights is interesting - I can see the properly rich fighting that one tooth and nail.

 

[Pickman's model]

It's a small space and the City of London Police have a reputation to maintain. They are more aggressive than the Met Police and will find it hard to counter the tactics without coming across like the thugs they truly are.

are you forgetting operation benbow?



https://www.justiceinspectorates.go...-of-london-strategic-policing-requirement.pdf (2014 pdf)

 

[Pickman's model]

Send XR the link.
That idea of a progressive tax on flights is interesting - I can see the properly rich fighting that one tooth and nail boarding pass and duty free.

c4u

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

It's a small space and the City of London Police have a reputation to maintain. They are more aggressive than the Met Police and will find it hard to counter the tactics without coming across like the thugs they truly are.

Since the off last Monday many of the filth in show have had the red and white checked caps...

 

[8ball]

Since the off last Monday many of the filth in show have had the red and white checked caps...

Guess that makes sense.
Inadvertent display of honesty, in a way.

 

[Marty1]

"Give peas a chance "

That short clip seems pretty heavy handed of police arresting a seemingly jovial character.

Don’t know if he’d been up to any mischief prior but police should have given him a second chance purely based on his amazing costume.

 

[TopCat]

Since the off last Monday many of the filth in show have had the red and white checked caps...

They are worse on home turf

 

[not-bono-ever]

A largeish phalanx of yellow jacketed filth have just jogged along cornhill to the protest. It looks like the jog has wiped them out

 

[Pickman's model]

A largeish phalanx of yellow jacketed filth have just jogged along cornhill to the protest. It looks like the jog has wiped them out

that's what i like to hear

 

[Gramsci]

XR main camp is now at Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens in Vauxhall. This is Lambeth council land. So far being left alone. Must be over hundred tents.

Photos early this morning on way to work.

 

[not-bono-ever]

XR chatting with the blue jackets all smiles .These people are not your friends. They will set about you when the order is given.

 

[8ball]

XR chatting with the blue jackets all smiles .These people are not your friends

Learning experience is on order and with the couriers...

 

[8ball]

XR main camp is now at Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens in Vauxhall. This is Lambeth council land. So far being left alone. Must be over hundred tents.

Photos early this morning on way to work.View attachment 187063 View attachment 187064 View attachment 187065 View attachment 187066 View attachment 187067

Wow. Great photos, but you missed the one saying "CLIMATE CRISIS. GENDER CRISIS."

 

[Pickman's model]

XR chatting with the blue jackets all smiles .These people are not your friends. They will set about you when the order is given.

sometimes people have to learn things like this for themselves

 

[8ball]

sometimes people have to learn things like this for themselves

If you insist that "innovation" means ignoring all the lessons of the past, then you get what's coming to you.

 

[Pickman's model]

If you insist that "innovation" means ignoring all the lessons of the past, then you get what's coming to you.

if after seeing hundreds of their comrades arrested they still have illusions in the cops all the lessons of the past ten thousand years of human civilization will have utterly passed them by

 

[8ball]

if after seeing hundreds of their comrades arrested they still have illusions in the cops all the lessons of the past ten thousand years of human civilization will have utterly passed them by

The cops have been pretty gentle on the whole so far, and a big part of their aim was to get arrested.

 

[Gramsci]

Bank still blocked off. Big crowd here. Cops not doing much at moment.

 

[8ball]

Bank still blocked off. Big crowd here. Cops not doing much at moment.View attachment 187068 View attachment 187069 View attachment 187070 View attachment 187071

I quite like "we only want the Earth".