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Now you're going to ring in a bomb scare. Apparently...

townie | 23.04.2001 22:15

More lunacy from the times.

townie
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bomb scare

23.04.2001 22:33

re;bomb scare
yeah an i thought it was their side that had all the bombs
durrrrr

amarcus
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what bombs?

24.04.2001 08:28

this would be more enlightening if you gave a link to the article or told us what it was about. Not all of us read the times.

olie

olie,
I agree, it would be good for people to see these articles (although I've actually seen this one myself) and also hear from Mayday organisers to know whether there is any truth in this - looting shops I can get but what good would bomb scares do? Also the article said activists would be making crank emergency calls to disrupt the city!!? What? What is the truth can anyone tell me?

Also - AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE PLEASE COME DRESSED LIKE DENNIS THE MENACE ie jumper with stripes mad with black tape and an afro wig. We shall hence forth be known as the mayday menaces haha.

pete

Reference for that story

24.04.2001 11:01

For a listing of over 70 corporate media articles re mayday 2001 see Mayday Media Watch - articles section at:

http://uk.indymedia.org/index.php3?resist=mayday&stance=m1coverage

MONDAY APRIL 23 2001
Mass bomb scare ploy planned for May 1
BY DANIEL MCGRORY

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2-118536,00.html

Sunday April 22, 2001
Armed police on May Day riot alert
Martin Bright and Frank Kane

http://www.observer.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,476586,00.html

mh
Homepage: http://uk.indymedia.org/index.php3?resist=mayday&stance=m1coverage

Apologies

24.04.2001 13:37

Sorry, there was an article and comments but indymedia obviously didn't want them...

Not that I would suggest there's any conspiracy to stop you reading it or anything.

townie
mail e-mail: cant_cope@hotmail.com

you must have not ...

24.04.2001 14:32

you must have not upoaded it correctly because there's nothing been hidden....

Latest meeja stuff:

ANOTHER Evening Standard Web Poll:
VOTE: will you take part?
Will you stay away from the May Day Monopoly protest as Mayor Ken has urged?

Yes
No

http://www.thisislondon.com/dynamic/news/story.html?in_review_id=383944&in_review_text_id=329994

EXCLUSIVE: Mayor Ken on the protests
(well not exclusive really just the same as before)
Evening Standard Apr 24 2001

http://www.thisislondon.com/dynamic/news/story.html?in_review_id=383935&in_review_text_id=329978

WANTED: May Day anarchist
Evening Standard April 24 2001

http://www.thisislondon.com/dynamic/news/story.html?in_review_id=383933&in_review_text_id=329976

Why the anti-capitalists are fools

http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,477370,00.html
Tuesday April 24, 2001
The Guardian

Prepare for May Day madness

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/dynamic/lifestyle/londonlife/top_review.html?in_review_id=383315&in_review_text_id=329259
by Matt Munday

Until recently, Wombles were best known as the diminutive furry creatures from a Seventies kids' TV series who kept Wimbledon Common tidy. Although they lived in a commune of sorts - a burrow underneath the common, to be precise - and preferred not to mix with outsiders, they were a fairly genteel bunch who never got in trouble with the police.

so much for left-wing media

24.04.2001 17:03

Some of the most ludricrous articles have come from the guardian and the observer (and the independant if i remember correctly but i might be wrong).

go figure, as an american might say