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Weds 1st April: G20 protests - discussion, reaction and chat
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q_w_e_r_t_y
You see an investment scam and I see divinity
See article on CCTV footage in London being down today
free spirit
more tea vicar?
ethel
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N_igma
Epistemic nuisance
I make those batons for a living, if it wasn't for hippies I'd be out of a job.
free spirit
more tea vicar?
or stay on urban...
hope everyone's ok down there, really, really wishing I'd just quit work and gone down coz I don't like this helpless feeling I've got sat here now.
just got to reassure myself that there's a lot of experienced people in the climate camp grouping now, and all the people I know in there have got a lot of nouse about them so they should be able to keep it together.
*worries*
spitfire
Walty McWaltface
and made of metal. I've not been hit by one but have had a go, (no not on a human). I really wouldn't like to be hit with one.
strung out
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they're made of hardened steel
Guardian are saying it happened within the cordon:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/02/g20-protests-man-dies-london
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/02/g20-protests-man-dies-london
citydreams
on the road again
Just got back from the climate camp. Was there around 7pm when the police charged the perimeter, batons flying, bloody heads... No reason, no excuse.
lopsidedbunny
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Garcia Lorca
Anger can be power
i totally feel the same free spirit.. i have a broken bone in my foot which is healing. i feel that I HAD to be there today but sense told me not to for obvious reasons. feel helpless, not that maybe i would have made that much of a difference, but the people who are using their right to protest deserve as much support as they can get.
i can only echo the worry that you have, i hope if anything some little good (although what good does that do for the gent who passed away and his family) may come out of this, IF (and i am totally opened minded) that the over reaction from the robocop policeforce had any relation to this sad occurance at todays event.
Stay safe and stay free to everyone involved.
stupid kid
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I have, on the head and arm, didn't feel it at the time because I was so pumped, but it hurt for days after. The bruise on my arm went purple, it was quite funny..
It was Westminster who were told to take their road cameras off-line. This stuff is all happening in the City of London, which is a different area.
david dissadent
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The people running the place were excellent. The police started kettling people quietly then made a rush to 'protect' the climate exchange building at about 7pm, there was alot of tension and a few people provoking the police and the police seemed happy to oblige, but the general atmosphere of the crowd was determined but calm. They were up against the police line holding it but with there arms in the air, it was tense for a while afterwards but calmed down and for most of the rest of when I was there people were largely calm, having meetings, drum circles and some impromtu hip hop. Legal advisers and legal observers were clearly marked and mixing with the crowd, and gave lots of advice when we were let out of the kettle.
They also managed a controled 'shortening of the lines' (a managed consession of territory to a more defensible location) that really impressed me.
God help the police if people out for violence ever get that orginised.
david dissadent
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Seemd alot of agro on the police outerlines at Bishopsgate. Dont have much info on it as I just caught glances standing on my bikes peddles.
q_w_e_r_t_y
You see an investment scam and I see divinity
Sorry, I always forget that London, even the city centre, is quite a big place.
editor
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david dissadent
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I think they were trying to protect the climate exchange building, they stood infront of it for the rest of the night I was there. But I also suspect it was a probe where a unit initiates contact to determine the orginisation, disposition and moral of the opposition.Just got back from the climate camp. Was there around 7pm when the police charged the perimeter, batons flying, bloody heads... No reason, no excuse.
There was probibly a reason. Just nothing to do with facilitating peacefull demonstrations.
hipipol
Peckham Wry
The officers took the decision to move him as during this time a number of missiles – believed to be bottles – were being thrown at them", said a police statement. The ambulance service took the man to hospital where he died. -
complete and total bollocks oh yeah crate loads of fucking bottles lying around there are always piles of them round the Royal Echange!!!
Utter crap, at the time this poor fucker was dying I was trying to get it, claiming my right as a Citizen to watch whatour supposed guardians were doing - they had a very fixed idea of what their role was and fuck you if you thought different.
I cannot for one second believe that they took the original claims seriously, I saw girls trying to reason with coppers to get out at aroiund !.15 and they had fucking zero luck - by 7 they had double cordons going -from Colman st once you got to the back of the BoE that was it, you stopped - had a look down Old Jewry, didn't look any better - up to London Wall, its blocked off, cops telling up the shops up the street to close - what the fucks that about - up Moorgate - they've gone fuckin totally power mad - what that shit bag cop said to me I wont repeat - but it was right out of some mad future distopia sci-fi lunacy - WE amke the rules.
Dont get me wrong I've seen stuff like this beofre but I like a dumb twat thought we'd moved on - my fault. It still horiifies
complete and total bollocks oh yeah crate loads of fucking bottles lying around there are always piles of them round the Royal Echange!!!
Utter crap, at the time this poor fucker was dying I was trying to get it, claiming my right as a Citizen to watch whatour supposed guardians were doing - they had a very fixed idea of what their role was and fuck you if you thought different.
I cannot for one second believe that they took the original claims seriously, I saw girls trying to reason with coppers to get out at aroiund !.15 and they had fucking zero luck - by 7 they had double cordons going -from Colman st once you got to the back of the BoE that was it, you stopped - had a look down Old Jewry, didn't look any better - up to London Wall, its blocked off, cops telling up the shops up the street to close - what the fucks that about - up Moorgate - they've gone fuckin totally power mad - what that shit bag cop said to me I wont repeat - but it was right out of some mad future distopia sci-fi lunacy - WE amke the rules.
Dont get me wrong I've seen stuff like this beofre but I like a dumb twat thought we'd moved on - my fault. It still horiifies
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
If an accurate version of events ever reaches the public domain perhaps. The stuff with coppers demanding people delete their photos especially, I can't see something like that making the papers to be honest. Various news outlets are trotting out the police justification for the use of cordons, that 'missiles were being thrown', which true or not will probably convince lots of people that the practice of arbitrarily detaining huge numbers of people is a perfectly kosher thing to do.
Only time will tell, but it's never wise to put too much faith in middle England's capacity for moral outrage IMO.
free spirit
more tea vicar?
there are photos purporting to be of the dead man online, both of him lying on the ground being treated, and being put into the ambulance.
RIP
not sure if I should post the link or not?
RIP
not sure if I should post the link or not?
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