Karl Masks
Birds Angel Delight
By the sounds of the audience they didn't win anyone over.
Just Stop Les Misérables
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Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
"idiots"
'Arseholes' would've been better.
Kid_Eternity
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Can't say I have a problem with it, JSO are a lot more interesting than ER in a lot of ways.
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
and yet...here we are still talking about it almost like it succeeded completely
Serge Forward
Just enjoyin' my coffee.
8ball
Decolonise colons!
Well, some enjoying it as spectacle and some enjoying it as art therapy.
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
I see they've got your attention
Karl Masks
Birds Angel Delight
Sure but we dont need persuading on climate change
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Shippou-Sensei
4:1:2.5
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
Are fans of musical theatre notoriously climate sceptical?
PTK
Paul Kegan
Furthermore, do fans of musical theatre decide on UK environmental policy?
MickiQ
In My Defence I was left Unsupervised
That makes them seem even more pathetic than I initially thought
Karl Masks
Birds Angel Delight
The audience cerainly seemed les miserable.
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
Climate change emergencies tend to make people glum
PTK
Paul Kegan
The point of direct action is not to get publicity. It is to change something on the ground, even if for a short time. For example, stopping a train carrying supplies to a warship.
PTK
Paul Kegan
What is the message that the people who engaged in this action were trying to get across? It is unclear to me.
T & P
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As a fair compromise to all parties, instead of being laden with a criminal record and/or handed heavy fines, the judge should instead make the JSO activists in question perform in the ‘replacement’ performance, thus punishing them to some degree with the added bonus of making those first two hours far more memorable for the affected theatregoers than they would have otherwise been
Cid
Proper break this time
Yeah, I just rewatched them both, I forget that the Les Mis criticism is split over both... The stuff in the cats ep is equally fascinating. Also note for anyone who watches, there are some sound cut-outs in the latter bit of the Cats video because of youtube's content algorithms.
Cid
Proper break this time
Yeah I think the youtube copyright strikes were part of this. It's fucking daft, analysis like his is textbook fair use.
e2a: ah, also his stuff getting ripped off and some complex stuff. There's a long statement on his patreon I haven't read.
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Yossarian
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They want an end to new fossil fuel projects in the UK - from their website:
“The show starts with Jean Valjean stealing a loaf of bread to feed his sister’s starving child. How long before we are all forced to steal loaves of bread? How long before there are riots on the streets? The show cannot go on. We are facing catastrophe. New oil and gas means crop failure, starvation and death. It is an act of war on the global south and an utter betrayal of young people.”
“Rishi Sunak has just approved Rosebank, a new oil project in the north sea which will produce as much carbon as the annual emissions of the 28 lowest-income countries combined. It will lead to hundreds of thousands of deaths due to starvation as crops fail in the increasingly extreme weather conditions.”
“Am I not, like Jean Valjean, justified in breaking the law to oppose this criminal government and its murderous policies? Ask yourself, will you, like the citizens of Paris in the play, stand by and watch, or will you stand up against our governments’ criminal plans and call for an end to new oil and gas?”
“The show can’t go on”- Just Stop Oil supporters interrupt ‘Les Mis’ – Just Stop Oil
This evening, five Just Stop Oil supporters have disrupted a staging of the iconic musical 'Les Misérables' at the Sondheim Theatre in Westminster. Just like revolutionaries featured in the story, they are calling on everyone to take a stand against the government's criminal plans to "max out...
juststopoil.org
PTK
Paul Kegan
These days, you would think that someone would have invented an eco-friendly alternative to the petrol bomb. What are we going to put in our Molotov cocktails when petrol-driven cars are no longer around?
That's absolutely terrible.“The show starts with Jean Valjean stealing a loaf of bread to feed his sister’s starving child. How long before we are all forced to steal loaves of bread? How long before there are riots on the streets? The show cannot go on. We are facing catastrophe. New oil and gas means crop failure, starvation and death. It is an act of war on the global south and an utter betrayal of young people.”
“Rishi Sunak has just approved Rosebank, a new oil project in the north sea which will produce as much carbon as the annual emissions of the 28 lowest-income countries combined. It will lead to hundreds of thousands of deaths due to starvation as crops fail in the increasingly extreme weather conditions.”
“Am I not, like Jean Valjean, justified in breaking the law to oppose this criminal government and its murderous policies? Ask yourself, will you, like the citizens of Paris in the play, stand by and watch, or will you stand up against our governments’ criminal plans and call for an end to new oil and gas?”
“The show can’t go on”- Just Stop Oil supporters interrupt ‘Les Mis’ – Just Stop Oil
This evening, five Just Stop Oil supporters have disrupted a staging of the iconic musical 'Les Misérables' at the Sondheim Theatre in Westminster. Just like revolutionaries featured in the story, they are calling on everyone to take a stand against the government's criminal plans to "max out...
PTK
Paul Kegan
Yeah, but you had to look at the website to tell me that. The action of JSO at the theatre last night did not put across that message in the mass media.They want an end to new fossil fuel projects in the UK - from their website:
“The show starts with Jean Valjean stealing a loaf of bread to feed his sister’s starving child. How long before we are all forced to steal loaves of bread? How long before there are riots on the streets? The show cannot go on. We are facing catastrophe. New oil and gas means crop failure, starvation and death. It is an act of war on the global south and an utter betrayal of young people.”
“Rishi Sunak has just approved Rosebank, a new oil project in the north sea which will produce as much carbon as the annual emissions of the 28 lowest-income countries combined. It will lead to hundreds of thousands of deaths due to starvation as crops fail in the increasingly extreme weather conditions.”
“Am I not, like Jean Valjean, justified in breaking the law to oppose this criminal government and its murderous policies? Ask yourself, will you, like the citizens of Paris in the play, stand by and watch, or will you stand up against our governments’ criminal plans and call for an end to new oil and gas?”
“The show can’t go on”- Just Stop Oil supporters interrupt ‘Les Mis’ – Just Stop Oil
This evening, five Just Stop Oil supporters have disrupted a staging of the iconic musical 'Les Misérables' at the Sondheim Theatre in Westminster. Just like revolutionaries featured in the story, they are calling on everyone to take a stand against the government's criminal plans to "max out...
Serge Forward
Just enjoyin' my coffee.
True but it gets attention for them being annoying. So it gets members of the public worked up about the protesters rather than worked up about the substantive issue of environmental destruction.
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