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What was the first demonstration you ever went on?

It wasnt in memory of Stephen lawrence as far as I recall, some twats did decide to twat a mates mums garden as part of the protest :rolleyes:
 
I was chatting to a cab driver recently who lived near the demo and said his newly built garden wall was totally demolished by the protestors who used the bricks as missiles. He was laughing as he said it though[/QUOTE

sounds like lots of gardens got twatted .
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Not always on purpose, the police had 10s of thousands of people trapped on a small strech of road with garden walls on one side and a cemetry with a high wall with metal railings on top on the other, when the police attacked the front of the march people had nowhere to go.
 
I lived in Plumstead then. My g/f lived on Wickham Lane.

Weird old day - she had a massive 'Smash The BNP' banner in her window and we kept wondering wheher we were going to go home to find the place totalled. The BNP never turned up as it was.

'Have you seen the master race? Nooo - ooo, noooo- oooo!" :D
 
butchersapron said:
Not always on purpose, the police had 10s of thousands of people trapped on a small strech of road with garden walls on one side and a cemetry with a high wall with metal railings on top on the other, when the police attacked the front of the march people had nowhere to go.
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I wasnt there, I'd always presumed it was over-excitable student types :D
 
Was there still some sort of miners action in the early 90's? I got a coach down to London with demo that I think was about that from Manchester. Was a lot cheaper than the train or the National Express.

Obviously jumped off at a the tube station and got a train to my folks house:D

Not sure how they got on. The talk on the coach was that they were basically going for a ruck with the police. Quite a few were tooled up.
 
Yeah, that's how I remember it, too, butchers. Totally hemmed in. Someone set a flare off and it all got a bit claustrophobic and panicky. You can never quite predict how things'll turn out in a situation like that.
 
When I was 12, the students of my school held a sit-in to protest the unfair dress codes. Girls had to wear a tunic and white blouse, boys could wear whatever they wanted.

I took my kids aged 15 to 3 to a protest march in my town. They were protested the opening of a pig farm (factory) in our area. I had no problem with the farm (less than a km for my house), but I wanted the kids to experience a demonstration. We all had fun!!!!
 
Yelkcub said:
Was there still some sort of miners action in the early 90's? I got a coach down to London with demo that I think was about that from Manchester. Was a lot cheaper than the train or the National Express.

Obviously jumped off at a the tube station and got a train to my folks house:D

Not sure how they got on. The talk on the coach was that they were basically going for a ruck with the police. Quite a few were tooled up.
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92 - big miners support demo.
 
Yelkcub said:
Was there still some sort of miners action in the early 90's? I got a coach down to London with demo that I think was about that from Manchester. Was a lot cheaper than the train or the National Express.
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Tories closed down most of the remaining pits (including those scab UDM cunts who'd blacklegged in the strike)
 
moon said:
Yes I was there and saw the SWP throw bricks at the BNP headquarters before things kicked off. It was meant to be a peaceful protest in memory of Stephen Lawrence, but I guess the violence got the press interested :confused:
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That would have been the May 8th demo, Rolan Adams dad spoke before the march took place. I was, again for my sins, in the front lines of stewards and very few if any SWPers were playing up outside the HQ. I know as someone who looks like me was, with others, forcing the p9olis back using the barriers supposedly to keep us away. It went a bit mad outside the HQ for a while. That May 8th demo was the first along that route regarding the bookshop that was either not attacked by the BNP/fash or re-routed. I felt sorry for the asian woman who lived next door who got her windows put in. Afaik the window was paid for by the demo organisers.

A week later the SWP/ANL in an act of sectarianism as usual, organised their own much, much smaller demo along the same route.

As Butchers said the October 16th demo never even got onto Upper Wickham Lane as plod, disastrously and deliberately, blocked it at the junction with Wickham Lane.

As butchers also pointed out some walls gave way under the weight of numbers forced against it. That there was then 'ammo' to use is no surprise.
 
butchersapron said:
Not always on purpose, the police had 10s of thousands of people trapped on a small strech of road with garden walls on one side and a cemetry with a high wall with metal railings on top on the other, when the police attacked the front of the march people had nowhere to go.
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yup, the cemetry wall collapsed in the end didn't it? heard some horrific stories of kids being crushed and seperated from their mum
NVP said:
I lived in Plumstead then. My g/f lived on Wickham Lane.

Weird old day - she had a massive 'Smash The BNP' banner in her window and we kept wondering wheher we were going to go home to find the place totalled. The BNP never turned up as it was.

'Have you seen the master race? Nooo - ooo, noooo- oooo!" :D
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i lived up past plumstead common, closer to welling in a dot house. there were a few facists about but small groups hiding behind police lines iirc
Belushi said:
Good parties up Wickham Lane in those days.
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ai :) no 54 iirc ? lived in one of the squats further up for a bit a bit later on.
 
Fedayn said:
Yeah, as I said, May 8th, i'm on the video as are a good few mates. The lad who got twatted and alleged as a BNP member was a leading member of Militant up here in Scotland.
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ouch, was he ok? Looked like he took a good beating. I wonder what made them think he was a member of the bnp?
 
NVP said:
Weird old day - she had a massive 'Smash The BNP' banner in her window and we kept wondering wheher we were going to go home to find the place totalled. The BNP never turned up as it was.
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C18 and some BNP hangers on were too busy getting leathered by AFA over in Abbey Wood at the time of the demo. The fash had gone there to plot up and pick of stragglers after the demo. They didn't get their way though iirc.
 
moon said:
ouch, was he ok? Looked like he took a good beating. I wonder what made them think he was a member of the bnp?
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A bit battered and bruised but okish yeah. Well I don't really remember what happened but iirc those who attacked him were dealt with in some way later. As you'll ntoice alot of those protecting him were black lads who knew him. Iirc they knew what happened.
 
Hi-ASL said:
16 October 1993: http://www.dkrenton.co.uk/welling.html

First and last. It was riotous. I thorougly enjoyed myself.


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Is this the same one that went through Plumstead ??
 
I spent half my childhood on demos and cant remember the first one, but I do recall being taken on marches in my pushchair. When I got a bit older my parents would make me wear a sandwich board :o:o:o
 
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