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G20 Protest in the Guardian

Gruanidad | 22.03.2009 10:20 | G20 London Summit | Climate Chaos | Social Struggles

Check this out:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/mar/22/g20-anti-globalisation-protests

The Guardian's bigging up the G20 protests, with a fair amount of scare-mongering for good measure. Still, they say that there's no such thing as bad publicity...

'a rumoured plan to block the Blackwall Tunnel and cause a security scare on the London Underground by leaving bags unattended on trains'- didn't the hacks report this sort of nonsense during the runup to the last climate camp. Still, never mind, if a story's ficticious enough to run once, its ficticious enough to run again.

The Grauniad is certainly makiing the G20 protests look like they'll be impressive. They talk about 'leading protest group The Government of the Dead'- although they didn't report any of their previous escapes.

But never mind, this sort of publicity (especially as they include the full itinery) is worth a few thousand flyers at least...

Gruanidad

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and a tank?!

22.03.2009 11:30

"There is also speculation that protesters will drive a tank to the ExCeL conference centre in London's Docklands,"

fucking aye!

how the guardian et al are making these protests out to be a bad thing i do not know.

1. man is created
2. banks under the encouragement of the government create money is risky ways
3. banks lose everyone's money
4. goverment does fuck all to help anyone except bankers
5. citizens are now the bad guy?

what the fuck.

josh

Guardian journos are liberal middle class wankers

22.03.2009 11:36

Guardian journalists are liberal middle class wankers. They may flirt with things like radical politics but at the end of the day they are all entrenched in the system and want to protect their privileged upper middle class Islington lifestyles.

So don't be surprised at the Guardian's muckraking - they have be doing it to animal rights activists for years.

anon

Tank You

22.03.2009 11:50

Do the space hijackers still have the tank they bought for dsei in 07? Can we borrow it pwease?

(a)

Only a fool would go to work on April 1st.

22.03.2009 20:53

'Transport could also be paralysed'
Unusual for central London?

The only significant snow we've had in 18 years, in February stopped 20% of people going to worker, closed air ports, stopped all London busses and most tube trains, damaged trading on the stock exchange and cost the economy an estimated £1,000,000,000,000 in lost trade, so unprepared were we, for this now unusual event.

Well if the economy slowed down a bit, maybe, just maybe we would get more snow, as we should in February, who knows? But one things for sure; if the economy slowed down a bit, we'd have more time to think, and time spend our all too short lives with our families and friends away from traffic jams, airport queues and bickering bosses.

The employees of financial institutions would be well advised not to don their suits, not to go to work during in protest, tell their bosses to go to hell and join the meltdown!

You'd have to be mad to go to work on april 1st.

twiggs

opposition report

23.03.2009 01:46

If you are less than 35 years old then you don't remember what a serious recession is like. A capitalist recession is like a cull of the poor and weak. The last depression could qualify as a class genocide.

It is a time of extreme change. There is a 'think-tank'(?) report today that has been reported upon in the MSM, that rates countries by an imaginary index of disobedience by nationality. As if.

http://a330.g.akamai.net/7/330/25828/20090318195802/graphics.eiu.com/specialReport/manning_the_barricades.pdf

Danny

UK Indymedia