Thurs 2nd April: G20 protests
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Good. Shame their genuine grievances over jobs are being overshadowed by the antics of the middle class football hoolies yesterday.
Blagsta
Minimum cage, maximum cage
Your superhuman powers of determining social class from a few photos and videos are truly a wonder to behold!
I spent many years photographing large scale public disorder events like this and spent a lot of time hanging round with various trots and peace activists and stuff like that as part of that work.
I always found that those who espoused revolution most strongly were not the average low paid worker or even skilled worker they were the sons and daughters of lawyers, business people, high end public sector workers etc etc etc.
Its not a case of having a 'superhuman ability' to determine social class its what I have observed from being in amongst them.
Blagsta
Minimum cage, maximum cage
You're such a lying wanker
onenameshelley
is Major Morgan's bitch
editor
hiraethified
I'm sure the police will be along shortly to change all that.
FabricLiveBaby!
Live Baby Fabric!
ffs, for those STILL banging on about class like ti is the be all and end all.... is class really THAT important when it comes to something like economic change. Surley it doens't matter what class you are from as long as you support a change?
I am not attending, but keeping my fingers crossed and sending good wishes for all those brave enough to go.
I am not attending, but keeping my fingers crossed and sending good wishes for all those brave enough to go.
Blagsta
Minimum cage, maximum cage
Class is about economic change!
The problem is when people conflate social/cultural class signifiers with relationship to capital. This has been gone into many times on here. Do a search on the subject!
ajdown
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There looked like there was about 30-40 plod escorting them when they left the park actually.
danny la rouge
Ninja swords for all disabled people
As blag has suggested, you seem a little confused as to what class analysis means.
hipipol
Peckham Wry
Ive probably paid more tax then you've had hot fucking dinners sunshine, for that reason you wont mind me sending a load of blokes in helmets and flack jackets to give you the good kicking you so obviously richly derserve
Turd
12:36 Police on ground floor of Earl St Convergence Centre
12:34 Report of Police entering Rampart with shields, building fully surrounded
12:30: 100 Riot police with door opening equipment and armoured vehicles are outside the Earl St Convergence Centre
12:28: Police officers are climbing RampARTs.
12:20 Bank is swarming with police, eveyone there is being searched under Section 60
12:14 Police are getting out ladders outside RampARTs social centre
11:44 Police are stopping and searching people outside the Earl St convergence centre. They are taking people's phones saying that they have been stolen if people do not cooperate. Legal advice is to stay inside the convegence centre at the moment.
http://london.indymedia.org.uk/articles
12:34 Report of Police entering Rampart with shields, building fully surrounded
12:30: 100 Riot police with door opening equipment and armoured vehicles are outside the Earl St Convergence Centre
12:28: Police officers are climbing RampARTs.
12:20 Bank is swarming with police, eveyone there is being searched under Section 60
12:14 Police are getting out ladders outside RampARTs social centre
11:44 Police are stopping and searching people outside the Earl St convergence centre. They are taking people's phones saying that they have been stolen if people do not cooperate. Legal advice is to stay inside the convegence centre at the moment.
http://london.indymedia.org.uk/articles
hipipol
Peckham Wry
few people are able to generate the in my gut cell level loathing you manage somehow to call from me mate - I am astonished at your ability to plumb even deeper depths ON A DAILY BASIS!!!!!
I supose it inicates a level of skill and should be admired in the way difficult to kill bacteria can be admired, but ah, we have all sorts of shit to deal with bacteria, how to eradicate you, this is the question........
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
He has similar powers for determining philo- & anti-Semitism, you know!
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Fuck VAT, I'm wondering whether I can claim 30+ years worth of income tax back off "the man"!!
Bollocks I can supply you my former client list I'll pm it to you if you want. Tosser.
In light of the fact that protestors are being writen off elsewhere as middle class or trustafarians, non-tax paying hippies, purely in that context its irrelevant. Its irrelevant because its bollocks. Tired lazy generalizations, I think that was the point flb was making. That is all.
Cool at least I'm making you think. I'm angry at the fucking bankers and much much else but I cannot condone protestor violence. Its counterproductive.
What is this protestor violence? a couple of daft cunts lobbing a bit of steel through a window?
So what does your superhuman abilities to deduce social class tell us? That the most lowly paid people don't have the time to take a day off protesting or the time to educate themselves as to the nature of the system that represses them?
xes
F.O.A.D
no, it was self defence. Watch the videos floating about with peaceful protesters with their hands in the air, being battered and stormed back by nazi scum police.
There are some protesters there for a fight but my impression from afar has been that the vast majority of the conflict was in reaction to police behaviour. Even the smashing of RBS seemed not very well planned and almost as if some people felt they had to play up to the cameras.
I mean some of these people were not even wearing masks, and their faces a plastered all over papers in mid swing of smashing a window. Hardly seemed very professional, more like a spontaneous thing.
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