Mayday a Success!!
John Smith | 01.05.2003 16:09
John Smith
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John Smith | 01.05.2003 16:09
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Comments
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Pigs v Sheep
01.05.2003 16:23
Dissidents were coralled like sheep in a pen, by the pigs at Trafalgar Square.
Agog
Police Censorship
01.05.2003 16:49
Also the City of London timeline which hasn't been updated since 4.45pm, even though its nearly 6pm and there are still loads of people in Trafalgar Square according to Indymedia.
Miss Point
Homepage: http://www.bbc.co.uk/london/travel/jamcams/mayday_cams.shtml
The police are so quick
01.05.2003 17:39
"1720 on May 01 2003: There are currently a group of approximately 400 people participating in a demonstration in Trafalgar Square."
It is now 6.40pm, come on Mr Plod what's going on? Your advice is so out of date its useless.
Miss Point
Homepage: http://www.cityoflondon.police.uk/incident-room/latest-details/details1.htm
Nobody makes a loss
01.05.2003 18:33
No one loses big on May Day. These figures are for lost sales but you can't lose what you never had. These business stock levels will be the same on Friday as they were today. So they can sell the stock tomorrow and they haven't lost any money. Their heating and lighting costs will be next to nothing so in the end all they lose is a days rent which they were gonna have to pay anyway and the cost of a few boards.
Neil
Moving on from J.Smith's verbal diarrhoea
01.05.2003 20:43
Your Nazi-style fervour that is dismissive in such a broad-sweeping way indicates that the natural tendency of human beings to create wealth is denied by you, as your comments fail to make any connection to the very real and legitimate protests happening today. Your over-arching vision is laughable, a conclusion which you assume is the sum of the parts of what everyone other protestor today would take to be the logical conclusion of what needs to happen, you pathetic misguided fool. Better we kill everyone so that we really stamp out that natural human tendency to create wealth.
Anti-Capitalism is meaningless when we have half-witted comments posted like yours. Anti-capitalism must surely be rooted in the philosophy of cooperation and mutual sharing, yes, but we can't stamp out the natural inclination to create wealth. otherwise, it's just stalinism. The real point in anti-capitalism is to take issue with the privitisation of credit, since most money creation by banks is geared into capital accumulation via useless consumer spending instead of publically-created credit for things of benefit to society and that are environmentally sound (i.e. public transport, solar panels, wind generators ..etc).
SuperShopper
Mayday
01.05.2003 23:09
Pacino
Mayday
01.05.2003 23:11
darryl
Mayday 03
01.05.2003 23:14
Darryl
Think about it you twat
01.05.2003 23:49
you are fucking dreaming if you think that is natural or even something that needs to be supported. Moron
Jimmy
great day
02.05.2003 01:10
big respect to everyone on the streets today, loads of energy, almost felt like waking from a dream after all the anti-war demonstrations. oil, arms, war, what can you say, it's all pretty clear.
mayday - our-day,
damn right!
awake!
mixed day
02.05.2003 03:38
but spending hours penned at the end was not appreciated...
IMHO:
What's the most annoying/disempowering thing about recent maydays?
Getting penned in.
Why do we get penned in?
Cos the cops sometimes outmanuever us.
Why do we STAY penned in?
Because the cops outnumber us and are violent.
So what's the answer?
More mobility, more people, more padding :)
Easier said than done tho I suppose :P
green_tube
mayday
02.05.2003 05:25
nastynige
Never again
02.05.2003 10:54
James Koppert
Homepage: http://www.bdhc.tk
May Day
02.05.2003 11:10
blogger
limping..
02.05.2003 11:25
yeah, be careful, them riot cop boots cause nasty bruises...
I realy should've worn some damn padding...
bogzla
Lack of of a showdown just a lot of KO corral
02.05.2003 11:39
People were prevented from leaving the cordon in a heavy handed fashion but the number of Police to protestors about 800 cops to 3000 protestors meant that dissent was vocal but there was no getting out.
There was just a load of crustys drinking Special Brew and then complaining that they couldn't get out to piss!!!
We eventually got to Trafalgar where we were hemmed in and forced to listen to dodgy Drum and Bass- Oh the final torture!
Waste of time and effort
apeinflames
bad luck endell prisoners
02.05.2003 12:00
people are right though, we should not let ourselves be surrounded like that. everyone needs to be more alert and move quicker in these situations. the green group escaped several attempts by police to surround them, often with the whole crowd running.
success and failure / freedom and detention
can't win em all
pete
What next time
02.05.2003 18:45
Stevie
Why Bother
06.05.2003 08:33
Billy
Arrested at 3.30 on the Strand
07.05.2003 08:46
Thanks.
Tammy
e-mail: totto@fish.co.uk
Why anti-capitalism is such a complete joke.
08.05.2003 10:21
>you are fucking dreaming if you think that is natural or >even something that needs to be supported. Moron.
Hospitals are wealth. Houses are wealth. Food and clothing are wealth. Isn't it funny when someone points out it natural to want these things, they get called a "moron"?
It's funny to see a site dedicated to stories about people getting hit by policemen. On the front page now, "were you hit by a policeman? If so, contact us!". A community desperate to identify itself with an oppressed minority.
Anti-capitalism is a joke. Seperate out the issues you care about, protest by all means, but half-witted rhetoric about "capitalist scum" is plain embarrassing. We live in one of the most open, permissive socities history has ever seen and to pretend that you're particularly hard done-by is simply ridiculous.
Phil
e-mail: vanronson@hotmail.com
Kick it till is breaks
08.05.2003 12:02
And we fuck over people all over the world, we have an encroaching big brother society, more and more repressive laws - but they are subtle rather than overtly brutal, but society is brutal none the less.
Lets face it society is going to shit and about time too, because it aint sustainable in terms of the ecology of the planet or our humanity. Alienation is widespread, despair, emptyness in short the misery of daily life - you just have to open your eyes, your mind and your heart to let this poverty be realised!
Of course the anti-capitalist movement is full of half baked remarks- thats because it is made up of a grab bag of liberals, socialists, trots, and god knows who else. It has a partial critique of society and fails to really anlyse the root cause of all this shit - CIVILISATION and mass society is exploitation of nature and animals (we are animals), dont tinker with the system with 'anti-capitalism' kick it till it breaks....................
ted
the sum of our parts!
08.05.2003 16:12
bennyboy