Last night's noisy, passionate demo in front of parliament was an encouraging sign that the days of marching placidly from A to B are over...
After the STWC rally, which featured a powerful speech from bereaved military mother Rose Gentle, still raging after a third fruitless visit to Downing Street (Blair is never 'available' to see her) the crowd surged into the road in Parliament Square and made its feelings heard, with real anger, helped by arguably the most powerful chant heard so far during this whole horrific period: 'Fallujah, resist - Bush and Blair are terrorists!' repeated over and over, louder and louder, the crowd ringed by police and vans but the message strong and defiant and perhaps even creeping across the square into the consciences of some of those spineless New Labour MPs...
The 'unofficial' protest lasted for around an hour and was inspiring, a success, but lacked the numbers necessary to unnerve Tony's acolytes and perhaps force them to reconsider whether the Dear Leader is such an electoral asset after all.
Last night was a good start. I now read that demonstrators made their point in Picadilly Circus too. Next time we need more of the same but on a much, much bigger scale. No more 'good humoured' (read: ignorable) marches. It's time for anger. It's time to shake our morally bankrupt PM and his cabinet cronies out of their arrogant complacency. Hit them where it hurts: on the streets and in the ballot box. Support the Impeach Blair campaign. Protest to your own MP. Declare your intention to vote tactically. Whatever it takes. We need to tell our elected representatives that they can get away with their lies and crimes no longer.
This is Blair's Vietnam. And now we must make it ours too.
The 'unofficial' protest lasted for around an hour and was inspiring, a success, but lacked the numbers necessary to unnerve Tony's acolytes and perhaps force them to reconsider whether the Dear Leader is such an electoral asset after all.
Last night was a good start. I now read that demonstrators made their point in Picadilly Circus too. Next time we need more of the same but on a much, much bigger scale. No more 'good humoured' (read: ignorable) marches. It's time for anger. It's time to shake our morally bankrupt PM and his cabinet cronies out of their arrogant complacency. Hit them where it hurts: on the streets and in the ballot box. Support the Impeach Blair campaign. Protest to your own MP. Declare your intention to vote tactically. Whatever it takes. We need to tell our elected representatives that they can get away with their lies and crimes no longer.
This is Blair's Vietnam. And now we must make it ours too.
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Tactical Suggestion
11.11.2004 19:09
This sort of thing happened in San Francisco after the war started and was more effective than one demo.
Tactic
road blocking
12.11.2004 17:02
It's a very effective action. Just take banner/placards.. or flowers - like the activist from San Francisco who joined in last night.
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