Support the French Rioters!
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Zonk
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montevideo said:
I heard a turn out of only about 13 and atleast 60 cops with large FIT team.
Apparently it was represented by various orgs. Most CW have jobs these days-this isn't the fucking 80's!
Revol2 and a 1/2.
Let everyone know when you plan to come over next gobshite, people want to cue up and give you a proper welcome.
And get yaself out of the house fer once you pasty little shit.
revol68
what, fucking what?
Zonk said:I heard a turn out of only about 13 and atleast 60 cops with large FIT team.
Apparently it was represented by various orgs. Most CW have jobs these days-this isn't the fucking 80's!
Revol2 and a 1/2.
Let everyone know when you plan to come over next gobshite, people want to cue up and give you a proper welcome.
And get yaself out of the house fer once you pasty little shit.
do i know you dipshit?
oh and i'll hardly be running from the might that is the fucking anarcho ghetto.
The Black Hand
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LLETSA said:
You'll be waiting a longtime then Letawank... I wasn't there (I live in a chilly northern outback) so I won't be talking about it as I have no first hand knowledge of the events in question (that's never stopped you chipping in where you aren't welcome though)...
As far as I know though that's the first arrest of demonstrators either b4, during or after an event in Harrods...
(as I said info is thin on the ground)
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Starry Wisdom
yr information is inaccurate, unusually. there was a low turnout, admittedly - but 13, rather than 8 - there was a banner, as seen at a recent bonfire night, but it was not unfurled due to the limited size of the area in which the demonstration occurred - there was not the space to stretch it out. there were leaflets (for a pdf see www.londonclasswar.org), and there were people there from several groups as well as some from none. two people were arrested in harrods, where they were - *allegedly* - smacking coppers: tho' the reports i've heard suggest, unsurprisingly, that the opposite occurred. that anyone from that demonstration got into harrods is surprising as that foul store has (certainly had) a dress code of which i've heard of people contravening being refused admission.montevideo said:
as for the balance of class forces - against the gallant band of 13 demonstrators were pitted approximately 80 tsg & fit, a slight disparity in numbers.
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i'd imagine that in larne yr little ghetto is extremely, er, snug.revol68 said:
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might be...LLETSA said:
but more usually territorial support group. i would have thought you'd have known that - it isn't a particularly arcane abbreviation.
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sadly not.MC5 said:
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ghettos aren't always physical places - it seems that you've constructed quite a strong one in yr mind, the bounds of which are clear for all to see.revol68 said:
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jesus, that's just unbelievable. The level of attention you guys get is just amazing. Why does it happen? Is it a divident of the peace process - lots of police with no republicans to watch any more? Are you part of a moral panic? Is it to do with living in a nation at war? I really don't understand it.
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no, we had lots of cops to watch us before the peace process too.sovietpop said:
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it varies. when there were pickets of the greek embassy a year or so ago, we used to get a few plod, but i think that they went slightly over the top today. but for some reason they can always find them when there's a demo going on - when anti-social behaviour (REAL anti-social behaviour, that is) occurs, they're generally not to be found... i wonder why...sovietpop said:
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yeh - but their publick order tacticks are changing with the introduction of their new water cannon, to the old, more mobile tacticks we so knew and loved in the 80s and early 90s.Random said:We used to shut down large chunks of London on a regular basis, so they've taken to crushing us with a heavy hand every time we step out, and so far it's worked
Random said:We used to shut down large chunks of London on a regular basis, so they've taken to crushing us with a heavy hand every time we step out, and so far it's worked
it must be a real problem. It can be difficult to get people to get involved in politically activity anyway - and if the first time you bring someone to a demo they are surrounded by police and face the possiblity of arrest - well it must be hard to bring them back a second time (well, I guess to some people its grist for the mill, but for others it must be intimidating).
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the screen will break?revol68 said:
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it is! when people used to go on a>b marches quite a bit in the 90s, i think a lot of people got involved through meeting people a few times; but tho' people do still get involved, i don't think it's at the same rate as before. people going on a>b marches now are unlikely to return to that sort of demonstrating, and the sort of attention anarchist attract on marches means that fewer of them bother going on them.sovietpop said:
Well a bakers dozen turned up to picket the French embassy today, to be met by at least 70 TSG and FIT team cops.
This made doing anything more than handing out a few more leaflets extremely difficult, so it was decided that rather than sit about waiting for the police numbers (and harrasment) to increase, to pay a visit to nearby Harrods, in case any members of the French ruling class were to be found inside.
This caused panic amongst the police, who seemed to assume criminal intent (entering Harrods is not a criminal offence, although we are sure a few members of the royal family wish it was!)
Cue more police over kill, two arrests for nothing, and a tactical retreat to a nearby hostelry.
A big thanks from Class War to everyone who turned up.
This made doing anything more than handing out a few more leaflets extremely difficult, so it was decided that rather than sit about waiting for the police numbers (and harrasment) to increase, to pay a visit to nearby Harrods, in case any members of the French ruling class were to be found inside.
This caused panic amongst the police, who seemed to assume criminal intent (entering Harrods is not a criminal offence, although we are sure a few members of the royal family wish it was!)
Cue more police over kill, two arrests for nothing, and a tactical retreat to a nearby hostelry.
A big thanks from Class War to everyone who turned up.
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they are, i've seen her wearing them.
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