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London Student protests - Wed 8th Dec+ Thurs 9th

littlebabyjesus said:
Fourthed.
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I'll raise a glass to that. :cool:

gawkrodger said:
seconded - went to a local occupation last night (the first night of it - admittedly sanctioned by the uni but heigh-ho!) Turned up with two bags of food as solidarity form the Wobblies print union and it went down a treat. Most present were eager for new ideas and to debate etc. I was warmly welcomed (unfortunetly I was the only non-student/academic staff) and really quizzed about ideas on how to organise, direct action etc. For nearly all this was their first ever kind of political involvment and they were imaginative and excited. The old 'violence' argument popped in and was pretty much dismissed as irrelevant.

Made a bunch of contacts and reckon we can really build something
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And that! :cool:
 
butchersapron said:
So what changed your mind? :D
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I have said many things on here, and have views I've never written on here at all. If you want to fixate on certain things I've said, go ahead. I have never been liberal with a small l or a big L, and on a day when we have been trying to get through mounted police lines and held against our will for hours, I'll be selective too and take your comment in post 837 as your real thought of the moment :p
 
I can't get to these things so easily any more so I sent a pizza across to a starving bristol occupation :cool: They were well surprised.
 
Top tip of the day: if you can keep a tree between you and a police horse, there's really very little they can do to move you :D
 
gawkrodger said:
seconded - went to a local occupation last night (the first night of it - admittedly sanctioned by the uni but heigh-ho!) Turned up with two bags of food as solidarity form the Wobblies print union and it went down a treat. Most present were eager for new ideas and to debate etc. I was warmly welcomed (unfortunetly I was the only non-student/academic staff) and really quizzed about ideas on how to organise, direct action etc. For nearly all this was their first ever kind of political involvment and they were imaginative and excited. The old 'violence' argument popped in and was pretty much dismissed as irrelevant.

Made a bunch of contacts and reckon we can really build something
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Went to both bristol occupations tonight - security tight as fuck but was told by crew at one that they'd all gone to london but security covered, made it look like there was people there

(i'm edting this bit out very soon)
 
Bristol really need to sort out twitter account. Sounds crap, but it's true. I only heard about it via bristle on facebook.
 
Jeff Robinson said:
sixthed.
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yeh I should also for the record add my agreement ha.

I'm currently getting loads of messages from mates who were there (many non-political). They are all saying the same stuff - the OB were utter, utter cunts, but thousands of people were incredibly brave and imaginative and all finsihed with the same thing.

This is only the start and we're going to fucking win!

If you knew some of my non political mates saying this you'd see why I'm so excited about this!
 
gawkrodger said:
yeh I should also for the record add my agreement ha.

I'm currently getting loads of messages from mates who were there (many non-political). They are all saying the same stuff - the OB were utter, utter cunts, but thousands of people were incredibly brave and imaginative and all finsihed with the same thing.

This is only the start and we're going to fucking win!

If you knew some of my non political mates saying this you'd see why I'm so excited about this!
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Your mates are right -when it tips over into stuff like this we've already won.
 
gawkrodger said:
oh, and nearly all seemed to think parliamentary politics is a waste of time
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The quality of quite a bit of the debating over the past couple of days was shocking - so many rhetorical and false-shock Q&As.

"Does my honourable friend agree that what they are proposing is really awful and have bad effects in his constituency as well as mine?"
"I absolutely agree with my honourable friend that what they are proposing is really awful and have bad effects in her constituency as well as mine"
 
where to said:
I never thought I'd say this but twitter is absolute quality, the best method of communication out there right now. I'd really urge anyone reading this to get on there and have a shot at it.
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This - I recently found out how useful a method it is for bypassing the corporate media.
 
I know it's pretty meaningless with me being the other side of the world, but just wanted to say well done to the everybody involved in the occupations and protests. As butchers said you're absolute stars.
 
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