A Dashing Blade
Takes horses to water but can't make donkeys drink
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Weds 1st April: G20 protests - discussion, reaction and chat
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Corax
Luke 5:16
I read that the spacejackers were allowed to proceed as the vehicle was fully taxed and road legal, thus the cops could do nowt about it...
???
Blagsta
Minimum cage, maximum cage
but people do know this'll happen. Not sure how you can stop it. June 18, whatever year it was, showed the city police just how much damage people will do.
(Did I tell you about getting stuck in McDonalds whils onthe June 18th March as the protestors ( or my fellow comrades in saving the planet) wrecked the front of the building? I only gone for a wee)
This is part of it. Show that people can have the power, not politicians or bankers.
Griff
Hardly posting anymore
Kanda
Diving wanker
I thought they were arrested for impersonating police officers, not the tank??? (They had riot police gear on didn't they?)
cesare
shady's dreams ♥
How strange. Loads of updates on their twitter site about it.
GarfieldLeChat
fucking awesome but wrong
only if you count securicor helmets and blue jerseys as police uniforms they were...
The alternative summit depends on somehow getting into the campus and occupying it, as the university has officially been shut. Maybe the speakers are waiting to hear that it has been 'opened' again?What I don't understand is how Tony Benn can be speaking there when he's also meant to be speaking at the Alternative Summit starting in ½ hour
cesare
shady's dreams ♥
They got done a bit later on when the OB consulted the rule book and realised they could get em for being in possssion of police uniforms, apparently.
cesare
shady's dreams ♥
Probably, I wondered how that Alternative Summit thing was realistically going to go ahead with the full complement of speakers in the circumstances.
lostexpectation
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riggwelter: Police allegedly batoning people for trying to *leave* the protest! (Source: #bbcnews voxpop) #G20 #G20Voice
A Dashing Blade
Takes horses to water but can't make donkeys drink
Seriously, the area is empty! You're talking about the main big glass building (250 Bishopsgate) yes?
+ no indication at all on internal chat channels.
Bollocks.
No.
European Climate Exchange, Hasilwood House, 62 Bishopsgate
http://www.g-20meltdown.org/node/33
http://www.climatecamp.org.uk/g20
cesare
shady's dreams ♥
Not necessarily, I meant Bishopsgate as a target generally was unlikely cos it's meant to be all fluffy bunny climate change stuff going on.
http://twitter.com/climatecamp
citydreams
on the road again
Blue jumpsuits. Hardly Taggart is it.
Blagsta
Minimum cage, maximum cage
yep
Guardian: 3.42pm
The crowd has disipated, but the anarchist block reconverged on queen vic street. They are rowdy again, and ...
...and going to smash up an HSBC.
Paulie Tandoori
shut it you egg!
i was speaking to someone off that way who said that the black block were up for some extended shenanigans into the night so i can well believe this. whether they manage to evade their perpetual police shadow is quite another thing however.Guardian: 3.42pm
The crowd has disipated, but the anarchist block reconverged on queen vic street. They are rowdy again, and ...
Bernie Gunther
Fundamentalist Druid
Treacle Toes
Time
girasol
Addicted to handstands!
Yeap, I thought that too...One guys loads of photographers...
Probably sponsored by Sky or something
In an ideal world you would be right. But you're ignoring the way the media and politicians interact. If there were 500,000 demonstrators they would make a big political impact without having to trash anything. But all we've got is small groups of protestors scattered all over the place. If they are peaceful they get no headlines. But a handful have broken some windows and computers owned by one of the symbolic bad boys of the credit crunch and given some of the press the hook they needed for a story they wanted to write anyway. (well, they really wanted to write that middle england is rising up - but they can't.) But thanks to a few vandals they have written that public anger has overshadowed G20, the inference being that Gordon is humbled and doomed. That Times headline is absurdly disproportionate - they should have gone with your line - 'anarchists ruin a day of dignified protest by attacking the wrong target - but they chose not to.
So here we have half a dozen boneheads helping the Murdoch press to get Cameron in at the next election. That's today's real story.
The Public aren't protesting. The Public are Middle Englanders sitting at home watching the news. And G20 hasn't started yet.
The news from the G20 will the decisions made, not that two figure-heads have shaken hands.
FridgeMagnet
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Ooh, BBC bloke was just there inside the lines by RBS as I think a snatch squad went in - the camera cut off immediately, of course, wouldn't want anyone to see that.
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