Riot Police Storm Lewisham Council Budget Cuts Meeting (NOW)
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Hard to tell how many of those tweets are first hand and how many are just repetition (I don't have twitter experience).
Best wishes to the people down there. Shame Lewisham stuck with the usual suspects last election - there was an independent bloke running for mayor who was willing to do the job for the average wage instead of the excessive wedge we're paying Labour's bloke.
Best wishes to the people down there. Shame Lewisham stuck with the usual suspects last election - there was an independent bloke running for mayor who was willing to do the job for the average wage instead of the excessive wedge we're paying Labour's bloke.
radio_atomica
mrs vole the vet
If it says 'RT' at the beginning of the post it means 're-tweet' i.e. they have copy and pasted directly from someone else's feed.
radio_atomica
mrs vole the vet
It looks like @hangbitch on twitter is actually there, she's the name everyone's linking to for updates anyway...
Story is up on socialist worker now, fwiw http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/art.php?id=23216
Story is up on socialist worker now, fwiw http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/art.php?id=23216
discokermit
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radio_atomica
mrs vole the vet
love detective
there's no love too small
that was pretty tasty - pitched battles with police & security in the reception of the town hall with the mayor & council cowering in the chamber upstairs shitting themselves - sporadic acts carried out inside elsewhere in the building - police units called in from as far away as camden, main roads through roads in catford shut down - only one person lifted as far as I know on the night
Blagsta
Minimum cage, maximum cage
Good stuff!
past caring
The Cathars were right
Stick to the Strictly Come Dancing threads, it's about all you're good for these days.
love detective
there's no love too small
what you on about?
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
uhh, I thought she meant Lib Dems version, sorry!
shaman75
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Prince Rhyus
Spokesman of King Antonio
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-11870742 is the basic info on the BBC.
shaman75
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past caring
The Cathars were right
Apology accepted - and I withdraw my remark (though I'll leave it there for context) - but Sue had specifically said Love detective was going to be there before the bit you quoted......always helps to read the thread...
love detective
there's no love too small
that video doesn't really give a sense of what was going on inside afterwards - looks pretty calm from that side!
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Not even a dented shield in sight
shaman75
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Fair enough protesting, but what's so great about trying to storm a meeting of elected democratic representatives?
love detective
there's no love too small
because it was meant to have been a publicly open meeting where members of the public had a right to both attend and speak at - members of the community attempted to exercise that right tonight and were met with a barrage of police & private security violence
all previous council meetings that contained cuts topics have either been held in rooms capable of fitting large amounts of the public in and in addition the meetings broadcast on a telly in an overflow room - for tonight's meeting however, they decided not to have the meeting in a room even close to capable of accommodating all those who wished to attend (limiting the attendance to only 40 despite knowing that hundreds would be turning up - despite intense lobbying of the council in the run up urging them to either hold it in a bigger room or at least open up another room and broadcast it), nor did they see fit to broadcast the meeting on the screen in another room like they usually do - they knew the numbers who wanted to attend and did their best to ensure that hardly anyone could - despite it being a pivotal moment for the community and so called local democracy, instead what we got was the symbolism of labour councillors cowering away behind closed doors in a sham undemocratic meeting (guarded by thugs with riot shields, dogs and horses )abdicating their responsibilities to the community in favour of waving through the cuts package - tonight was a collective act of mass anti-social behaviour in and against the community, perpetrated just as much by councillors as the police
all previous council meetings that contained cuts topics have either been held in rooms capable of fitting large amounts of the public in and in addition the meetings broadcast on a telly in an overflow room - for tonight's meeting however, they decided not to have the meeting in a room even close to capable of accommodating all those who wished to attend (limiting the attendance to only 40 despite knowing that hundreds would be turning up - despite intense lobbying of the council in the run up urging them to either hold it in a bigger room or at least open up another room and broadcast it), nor did they see fit to broadcast the meeting on the screen in another room like they usually do - they knew the numbers who wanted to attend and did their best to ensure that hardly anyone could - despite it being a pivotal moment for the community and so called local democracy, instead what we got was the symbolism of labour councillors cowering away behind closed doors in a sham undemocratic meeting (guarded by thugs with riot shields, dogs and horses )abdicating their responsibilities to the community in favour of waving through the cuts package - tonight was a collective act of mass anti-social behaviour in and against the community, perpetrated just as much by councillors as the police
Well I think if it was an open meeting and they knew it would be popular they should have arranged for a bigger venue or had some kind of application and lottery system if spaced was limited to allow some people attend. What were people doing inside, anything to provoke a police response or was it a complete over reaction?
