NUS national protest against the cuts 10.11.10 [London]

[smep]

Burn it to the ground

I know 9/11 may have led you to believe otherwise, but in the real world steel-framed buildings don't burn to the ground.

 

[Orang Utan]

Student angry at being dragged from his bed for the afternoon protest?

 

[Voley]

The bloke from C4 news had a similarly annoying interview technique - something along the lines of 'What made you get out of bed to come here?'

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

And this is really changing the world, isn't it? Double right backatcha

whom said it changed the world, you nob?

it certainly registers a level of discontent that goes beyond the fucking chattering classes tbf.

 

[audiotech]

Congratulations Young Man you are the coolest person in the whole UK.

The new Jackson Five.

Can You Feel It?

 

[Louis MacNeice]

It was actually the peaceful suffragists, not the protesting suffragettes, who are acknowledged to have led to that particular change in the law.

I think the first world war might have had something to do with it.

Cheers - Louis MacNeice

 

[Corax]

I doubt the met got as many volunteers for this one. I'm sure they hate students, but nowhere near as much as they hate 'swampies' (to use but one of the nicknames they use for virtually any left-wing protester on police blogs and forums).

 

[Mr Moose]

I agree.
Poll tax march = violence= change of government policy
Womens rights march = violence and civil disobediance = change of government policy
March against war in Iraq = peacful = no change of government policy
Nuff said?

The war in Iraq was a sufficiently worthy cause; to stop a nightmare - sorry, this isn't worth injuries and custodial sentences and we should be careful about egging them on from the sidelines.

 

[butchersapron]

a) yes it is b) it won't be from them where the real trouble comes. We shouldn't even allow this to develop into a 'them' thing. I've been quite impressed by how aware the students were of the necessity to put their action across as part of a reaction to an attack on society as whole, as part of a social-front.

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

More photos here

thanks, very good

 

[temper_tantrum]

The war in Iraq was a sufficiently worthy cause; to stop a nightmare - sorry, this isn't worth injuries and custodial sentences

What is 'this' and why is it not worth it?

Edit: Cracking shot:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/laurence-hardy/5164103075/in/set-72157625355444058/

Edit again: It's really interesting how 'social media' (wanky term) have altered the coverage - people on the demo filming and photographing, and then passing it on to the mainstream media. Makes it far harder for the police side of things to dominate coverage, don't you (you all, in general) think? Wish I'd had that capacity on some demos I've been on.

 

[Voley]

I've been quite impressed by how aware the students were of the necessity to put their action across as part of a reaction to an attack on society as whole, as part of a social-front.

Agreed.

 

[stethoscope]

The war in Iraq was a sufficiently worthy cause; to stop a nightmare - sorry, this isn't worth injuries and custodial sentences and we should be careful about egging them on from the sidelines.

How many people do you think should get screwed over until you consider it a 'worthy cause'?

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

from twitter

"@guidofawkes Bet this offer will be cancelled in Millbank restaurant "Pizza Express Student Discount – 20% off Food Bill With NUS Card""

 

[Mr Moose]

The more spirited actions today; the ones that end up with people going to jail for a sizeable chunk when everyone else has got bored and moved on. There won't be a national strike to get them out of jail.

Don't get me wrong - part of me is very pleased to see it get so personal for the coalition. But is much of it good tactics given the cameras? No.

 

[Brainaddict]

The war in Iraq was a sufficiently worthy cause; to stop a nightmare - sorry, this isn't worth injuries and custodial sentences and we should be careful about egging them on from the sidelines.

Not a sufficiently worth cause? This is about an ideological war against the majority of people in Britain (in fact it's a global battlefield but lets not get into that). These cuts will result in sickness, mental illness, family break-ups, deaths, the increased development of an 'underclass' who will be considered useless except as cheap-as-chips labour, and the entrenchment of a 'useful' wealthy and professional class who will defend themselves against those born into the wrong social class (social mobility having gone out the window) with increasingly authoritarian measures and even more shrill propaganda, so undermining what little democracy we have at the moment and closing down debate yet further over how society should live and support itself, thus ensuring that in a few years they can get away with even more than they are doing now...and so on.

You're right that we shouldn't be egging them on from the sidelines though

 

[audiotech]

 

[Mr Moose]

How many people do you think should get screwed over until you consider it a 'worthy cause'?

Well go and get arrested, duffed over in the back of a van and do six months. Then say if it was worth it...on this occasion.

I'm not saying do nothing, just choose your battles and where to have them.

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

The war in Iraq was a sufficiently worthy cause; to stop a nightmare - sorry, this isn't worth injuries and custodial sentences and we should be careful about egging them on from the sidelines.

i think you're comparing apples and oranges tbh.

 

[Mr Moose]

i think you're comparing apples and oranges tbh.

Someone else was comparing them - I took up their theme.

 

[audiotech]

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

Someone else was comparing them - I took up their theme.

which is why it's sometimes more constructive to ignore such ludicrous comparisons.

if the iraq war march proved anything, it was the limits of peaceful protest, rather than the potential of something else, iyswim? ghandi never meant shit to me....

 

[frogwoman]

a) yes it is b) it won't be from them where the real trouble comes. We shouldn't even allow this to develop into a 'them' thing. I've been quite impressed by how aware the students were of the necessity to put their action across as part of a reaction to an attack on society as whole, as part of a social-front.

Agreed.

 

[where to]

this photo is apparently taken shortly after riot police turned up to protect Lib Dems offices, they just got there before the protesters its said.

 

[where to]

NATIONAL WALKOUT
AGAINST FEES AND CUTS
24th NOVEMBER

http://anticuts.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/walkout.pdf

 

[Belushi]

Just catching up with todays events. Well done students! Didnt know you had it in you!

 

[where to]

NATIONAL WALKOUT
AGAINST FEES AND CUTS
24th NOVEMBER

http://anticuts.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/walkout.pdf

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=134751449911080

http://educationactivistnetwork.wordpress.com/

 

[where to]

interesting post from the Libcom website forum:

As the march passed the Tory HQ for the first time, people stormed the wrong building, smashing a few windows and leaving the office workers there looking quite bemused as to what the hell was going on.

I think most continued on to the end of the march after that, which was just the big screen on the street playing some really random looking anti-fees+cuts campaign video (there was images of baby lambs at one point?) before heading back to see loads of people massed outside the correct building.

The idea that it was an anarchist minority causing the trouble is mad, there were thousands of students taking part and were all well up for it. I actually bumped into a guy i went to school with and he thought it was amazing - and hes a sabattical at his uni lol. Other reports make no sense - 20/30 people inside? Youve only got to look at the photos to see there was way more than that. If there had been more room, even more students would have been in the immediate area surrounding the building, but the space was too small and there was loads more standing around in the street.

The one bad bit - the absolute dickhead who through a fire extinguisher down from the roof, landing near where protesters and police were battling each other. A comrade actually said he saw a policeman or woman get clipped by it i think, but not sure. This was followed by "STOP THROWING SHIT!" chant.

 

[where to]

Coordinating meeting: Where next after the national demonstration?
Monday 15th November, 6pm, King’s College London
Speakers include Aaron Porter (NUS President) and Alison Lord (Tower Hamlets College strike

give that bastard hell.

 

[madzone]

The war in Iraq was a sufficiently worthy cause; to stop a nightmare - sorry, this isn't worth injuries and custodial sentences and we should be careful about egging them on from the sidelines.

Why isn't it?