Mayday 2K protest, Parliament Square 1st May 2000 - twenty years ago!

[editor]

So who was there?!

Photo archives: London Mayday 2K protest, Parliament Square, 1st May 2000 -

Twenty years ago, Parliament Square in London was filled with anti-capitalist protesters, green campaigners and activists for a celebration of Mayday. Here's some photos from the day: What was it about? This statement from London Mayday describes what the action was about: Mayday has been a...

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[stavros]

I wasn't but I think coverage of it, possibly in the NME, led me to this here site.

 

[BigTom]

I was, but all those post-RTS anti-globalisation protests have blurred into one in my memory now and I couldn't tell you what things happened at which one anymore!

 

[klang]

i was there.
nice to see the photos.

 

[klang]

20 years ago eh!?!? ...and there was me thinking I was lucky to have made it home just before lock down...

 

[Spymaster]

The day I found U75

 

[Pickman's model]

I was up the way kettled in trafalgar sq

 

[Spandex]

I don't know how well known this is, but weeks after the government had tidied up Parliament Square and returned it to its usual boring countenance a fair sized cannabis crop started sprouting in the Square. HM Government, finding itself in possession of illegal drugs, had to returf the entire Square

 

[stavros]

The day I found U75

Newbie.

 

[Argonia]

Twenty years, fucking hell. I was living in Japan at the time.

 

[kenny g]

When it all started going a bit shit.

 

[AverageJoe]

I was locked into the Sun and Thirteen Cantons in Beal St watching live on Sky News at the same time as watching it out the pub window. Ah memories

 

[TopCat]

20 years ago? Blimey. Nice to see the pic of the urb up the lamppost.

 

[hash tag]

I might have been there?
It reminds me, Brian Haw was still alive and hadn't yet made his way to the Square.

 

[Pickman's model]

20 years ago? Blimey. Nice to see the pic of the urb up the lamppost.

How time flies when you're enjoying yourself

 

[DJWrongspeed]

was there and managed to get out before the kettle. Was there elephant dung to scare the police horses? i'll never know.

 

[Fozzie Bear]

Cdde stethoscope has asked me to post this for her which I am happy to do albeit several weeks afterwards

 

[Fozzie Bear]

I was at the bookfair in Holloway the day before (but missed the infamous battle of Holloway Road and sound system in spoons incident to my shame - if it was that year?). And at Parliament Sq on the day which was pretty cool.

I was briefly living with my parents again at the age of 30 and got a lot of shit from them for having been there but unlike the teenage me could not really be arsed arguing about it. Which was good actually. Liberating.

 

[mao]

I was there too, and IIRC we were kettled by police in Oxford circus the following year

 

[DaveCinzano]

I was briefly living with my parents again at the age of 30 and got a lot of shit from them for having been there but unlike the teenage me could not really be arsed arguing about it. Which was good actually. Liberating.

 

[butchersapron]

Few bits and pieces i just found prompted by Steph's above - couple of quite smart fold out things that are quite detailed and a rather hefty (30 page) program for the Idea and Action Conference (may do some pics later), but more importantly in the wider and longer historical perspective, i also found piece of almost pure bone-wrightism of a sort i rarely - and sadly - see around anymore:

Spoiler: No peace police, no party builders, no workshop facilitators

 

[freakydave]

smash capitalism and replace it with something nice

 

[sunnysidedown]

here we go

 

[Fozzie Bear]

ooops also the back

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

I think i was there. Lots of that sort of thing in those years and it’s all a bit of a blur tbh.

 

[chilango]

I was kicking around the edges of this:

Mayday 2k 2000: Mayday Mayhem in Manchester

www.urban75.org

 

[DaveCinzano]

I remember driving from a discreet happening earlier on in the day to the silly A30 photo opp thing to publicise the then incoming Terrorism Act, and heckling a very earnest-looking Nicholas Witchell as he strode towards Highbury Fields, a man who very much looked as though he would rather be sipping tea with, ooh I don't know, Prince Andrew say, rather than covering a bunch of hippies, anarchists and art terrorists