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Tombola Action in Central London tomorrow!

the Lucky Dip of Defiance | 31.08.2009 12:29 | Climate Chaos | Energy Crisis

22 Climate Criminals in a Target Tombola Tour of Central London...

Join the Rambling Raffle of Resistance around Central London in a game of chance on Tuesday morning. We will be leaving Climate Camp (

http://www.climatecamp.org.uk) in Blackheath at 8am. If you can't make it there then meet us in Central London at the first location which will be picked out of the hat on Monday night, 9pm in the Main Marquee and will also be announced on indymedia UK and London.

Come with people: Come with plans: Come Prepared

and if you're at the camp then visit the Action Support tent!

For a list of the 22 places and why they're evil see;

http://london.indymedia.org/articles/1920

the Lucky Dip of Defiance

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arghhh

31.08.2009 13:51

this is just lame, fluffy street threatre...the kind of cutesy shit your local drama youth group would do. where the fuck is the direct action??

(a)

Calm Down

31.08.2009 13:53

It's a wind up of course. Not the likes of the Climate Camp organisers would be that stupid................................................................................................................................................................................. would they ?

Calm Down

Yawn

31.08.2009 15:51

From the same people who gave you today's "action" - 30 people in matching T shirts turn up at London City Airport and sit down in arrivals, security having clearly been well prepared simply ignore them, arriving passengers either take the piss or step round them, 30 people stand up and shuffle off outside again. London City Airport suffers exactly nothing !

This is the kind of Direct Action that the camp for climate action is capable of organising, am I the first to wonder if the organisers are in the pay of the goverment, a nice little let off steam valve for the yoof ?

Happy Clappy

Give it a chance!

31.08.2009 18:56

It hasn't happened yet - so YOU still have a chance to make it something amazing instead of sitting back and hoping it'll be crap.

@non

your number one fans

31.08.2009 19:57

people are dissing it because it doesnt involve wearing hoodies, balaclavas, or scarfs; it doesn't involve shouting at police, getting searched by the police, or getting photographed in hoodies by the police.

Basically people are percieving it to be bad for their street cred / coolness / anarchist image.
Thats why they dont want to go.

time

First victim announced

31.08.2009 20:48

First location announced. Meet 9am at the bank of England.

Target toMbola

@ time

31.08.2009 21:21

The reason people are dissing it is because it involves a bunch of middle class SWP and Green party types standing outside a location with placards achieving very little for 6 hours.

Grounded in reality

reality

02.09.2009 17:00

actually, contrary to what all ya have been saying. as one of the ramblers we blockaded the side entrance to RBS in solidarity with an action that was already happening there meaning that no-one could get in or out for a significant part of the day then we moved off to Edelmans to help out again by blockading the back entrance. finally the raffle moved off towards E-on to celebrate them winning the vote on where the mass action is gunna be (E-on's Ratcliffe-on-soar), unfortunately we couldnt get inside but we still managed to crank the sound system up tory and disrupt things as much as possible. next time dont just judge somethin before it happens.

Raffle of Resistance

02.09.2009 23:23

re the quote: ''where the fuck is the direct action??'' ...

The actions at both RBS and Edelman only covered one door and in both cases it was the job of the Raffle to make these into actual blockades. This meant 100+ people, half of whom had never taken any direct action before shutting down these buildings- linking arms, pushing past cops/security, keeping mobile and blocking all entrances. We were particularly happy to see the RBS share price drop for the day.

We then took to the streets and marched through the socpa zone, ran up whitehall and eventually linked up with others at BP's HQ to show solidarity against the Tar Sands development. We finished up at E ON's central london offices in a blockade/ rave. The banner read something along the lines of 'Capitalism Can't Solve Climate Change'.

and regarding the quote: '' The reason people are dissing it is because it involves a bunch of middle class SWP and Green party types standing outside a location with placards achieving very little for 6 hours''

This is a completely bullshit assumption based on the name of the demo. Actions dont always have to have hardcore names for them to be worthwhile. 'Carnival against Capital' anyone?

armchair anarchists can fuck off

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