London Mayday - Suited and Booted with the Hijackers

[STFC]

STFC you're a bitter little man.

....and I've had better protests in my pants than that today.

Not bitter nor little, in fact.

So, what actually happened then?

 

[winjer]

So how did it go then?

Alright, nothing spectacular, the area was swarming with cops (~200 overall) as you'd expect. Lots of stop'n'searches of known faces (mostly Hijackers) before 5pm, probably about 75 people at the start, a sound system was on for a few minutes before the people with it were approached by senior cop and Canary Wharf head of security, who said as long as it was switched off they wouldn't move people on, bit of singing, dancing. Numbers upto about 180 by half-five, people dancing round a "human maypole", more cops getting out of vans and encircling the plaza, warnings that the whole thing is causing a breach of the peace lead (I think) to a decision to move on around ten-to-six, people moved off behind a guy playing saxophone to a 'beach' on the Thames where the soundsystem was turned on again and the cops eventually backed off. One arrest and two fixed penalty notices issued for public disorder offences.

Pretty much all exactly as I expected, except I thought more people would bring radios and instruments.

 

[Hardcastle]

Not found by me.

 

[Bristly Pioneer]

As always terribly late, however there is a report up on the Hijacker site now:

http://www.spacehijackers.org/html/projects/mayday07/report.html