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laptop said:
The people what initiated the planning of the Seattle protest. Source: personal communications.

no need to make it sound so clandestine! it was being discussed in the public meetings in the lead-up to the-thing-that-became-j18.
 
Birmingham was part of the Global day of action in May 1998, called for by the newly formed PGA.There's a very entertaining report of the day here :)
and whilst I do think it was a very significant day, if I had to pick one protest from that time I would choose Seattle (as I have on the other thread) for sheer jaw dropping impact and the feeling that things had really shifted in quite a big way.
Quite a good time-line here .
 
Groucho said:
It was the biggest single protest march ever in the UK and the biggest ever internationally co-ordinated protest. The impact of which is still being felt and the movement is still a going concern. The full impact has yet to be felt.

I think there is a strong case for 15 February 2003. :)

But it didn't stop the war. The winner should be something which has actually met it's aims.
 
Badger Kitten said:
Rosa then.


Civil Rights movement.

I think there is little doubt that Rosa Parks will be No 1. The debate on this thread is for the other 9 places in the top ten.
 
Badger Kitten said:
good point.

Or the Ukranian Orange revolution


:confused:

Where a CIA backed candidate replaced Putin's candidate, who he has now reached an accommodation with in order to continue with much the same set of policies (whilst smokescreening this unpalatable fact with a trumped up set of corruption charges & sackings?)

I believe that many Ukrainians are now asking themselves why they bothered.

:(
 
It's such a broad question and hence almost impossible to answer.

But certainly the violently protesting Romanians in Cluj, Timisoara etc stick in my memory. The bravery of those involved in a people vs. Securitate battle for three days in Bucharest.

Or the Solidarnosc protests of 1980-81 in Gdansk.

the 'Singing revolution' of 1989-91 in Estonia, latvia and lithuania which allowed these countries to regain their freedom and independnece after 50 years of Soviet occupation, achived with the connivance firstly of Nazi germany, the the UK &US after the war.
 
steeplejack said:
:confused:

Where a CIA backed candidate replaced Putin's candidate, who he has now reached an accommodation with in order to continue with much the same set of policies (whilst smokescreening this unpalatable fact with a trumped up set of corruption charges & sackings?)

I believe that many Ukrainians are now asking themselves why they bothered.

:(
It's not quite as important as chopping off the kings head, establishing a Reign of Terror, and then degenerating into a Empire which spans from Poland to Portugal, is it? :p
 
mattkidd12 said:
It's not quite as important as chopping off the kings head, establishing a Reign of Terror, and then degenerating into a Empire which spans from Poland to Portugal, is it? :p


:confused:
 
French revolution of 1789 is more important than the "orange" revolution in Ukraine. [you know the joke's failed when you have to explain it :)]
 
Not the most important but very interesting and a feeling of what could have been. The battle of George Square (Bloody Friday) 1919 in Glasgow.

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.. more seriously..

Paris Commune
1968 - various
Zapatista rebellion
Spanish revolution
 
Can't say because I'd have to pick race, sex or class as the biggest issue and they're all massive.
 
The Short & Long Parliments of 1640..

Beginning of the end of the right of the monarchy to rule without parliment.

Or

The barons forcing King John to sign the Magna Carta.
 
The Irish hunger strikes
The East German demonstrations that led to the wall coming down
The attack on the Spar shop at Gleneagles and the removal of the fence panel by Workers Power
 
mattkidd12 said:
Are you an anarchist, by the way?
I am so - but in the categories of left week's thread, 'unaligned'

I was gonna throw in the Spartakist revolt, would that have thrown you off the scent? ;)
 
Chuck Wilson said:
The attack on the Spar shop at Gleneagles and the removal of the fence panel by Workers Power
i think that history will show that the appearance of the Clown Army was when the tide turned ;)
 
Udo Erasmus said:
I would vote for the global demonstrations on February 15th.

I think this demo winning the vote would embarrass the political class at the BBC

.... except that they achieved nothing, and were barely noticable outside the fruit loop ghetto........
 
Jografer said:
.... except that they achieved nothing, and were barely noticable outside the fruit loop ghetto........

Since 15 Feb the UK Govt. have been saddled with the nightmare of this war and occupation. A million votes fell away from Labour, election night was about anti-war - Galloway and Reg Keys, the Military Families are growing daily and the Govt. are falling apart. Meanwhile the movement continues.

Outside of the UK (15 Feb was not just the biggest ever protest in the UK but the biggest ever international mobilisation) the anti-war movement has claimed the Spanish premier, is going strong in Italy - Burlosconi on the ropes and is taking off in the US where Bush and co. are now floundering. Not bad...certainly not 'nothing'. And the full impact is yet to be felt for sure.
 
Groucho said:
Since 15 Feb the UK Govt. have been saddled with the nightmare of this war and occupation. A million votes fell away from Labour, election night was about anti-war - Galloway and Reg Keys, the Military Families are growing daily and the Govt. are falling apart. Meanwhile the movement continues.

Outside of the UK (15 Feb was not just the biggest ever protest in the UK but the biggest ever international mobilisation) the anti-war movement has claimed the Spanish premier, is going strong in Italy - Burlosconi on the ropes and is taking off in the US where Bush and co. are now floundering. Not bad...certainly not 'nothing'. And the full impact is yet to be felt for sure.
and it's all down to the swc? :eek:
 
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