The Smash EDO mayday event in Brighton is going to be the biggest ever demonstration the whole of the south coast has ever seen. But to make it the biggest we need to build up support that is why we are asking everyone to try to help to get one hundred thousand people on the smash EDO facebook group here before next May:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=62623201953&ref=search
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=62623201953&ref=search
Preperations are already beginning to for the mayday 2010 smash EDO Mayday event in Brighton. We set up the smash EDO facebook group about 18 months ago to help build support for the campaign to get the arms factory EDO out of Brighton. But so far only a couple of hundred people have joined it so far. So please join it if you haven't already and invite as many of your friends as possible to join it too. We think we can easily reach 100,000 members by next Mayday and have a mamoth demonstration in Brighton to shut down EDO.
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privacy
29.07.2009 11:55
why
Terrible idea
29.07.2009 13:23
xyz
oh no only not facebook!
29.07.2009 13:57
ps i pissed myself already.
Chicken
The facebook group is just for the campaign it is not for the demo!
29.07.2009 16:34
The police will also have one hell of a job sifting through 100,000 members of that group and tracking them all down.
Should people also not join the One Million against the BNP group as well incase they get raided by the police for planning an anti-facsist demo?
smash edo campaign supportter
oooh what fun
29.07.2009 23:24
or how about a flash mob?
it all sounds like such good fun
I cant wait to sign up and then impress all my banker mates about how wadical I am
10,000 on facebook = 10,000 er, on facebook...... fuck all else
jeff
Chill out Jeff
30.07.2009 08:01
Nicey
Man must abolish war or war will abolish mankind
30.07.2009 10:06
Anti-arms trade activist
The people behind facebook
30.07.2009 11:35
Sneintonite
lolwut?
30.07.2009 22:13
...and one hell of a job sifting through just 100,000 members? What do you think they are trained and paid to do? you clearly don't understand about databases. It's a very trivial job.
Think before getting people to do stupid stuff.
{A}
It is not stupid to get hundreds of thousands on the smash edo facebook group
31.07.2009 08:54
The aim is also so that when next years smash edo demo comes aroundwe have got far more people out on the streets of Brighton instead of only a couple of hundred who get shoved and pushed around by the police and don't manage to get any where near the EDO factory.
Also why are you so scared of anti-EDO activists being on facebook - it is not a crime to be against the arms trade! I would also put the wind up the arms industry a hell of a lot if a few hundred thousand people showed their support against the arms trade by joining this group!
If we really put our minds to it then we could get one million people on the smash edo facebook group so that at next years smash edo demo there are around one hundred thousand people out on the streets of Brighton.
Anti-arms trade campaigner
Pointless
31.07.2009 09:06
No, people shouldn't join it because it's totally fucking pointless. These things are just the internet equivalent of Socialist Worker hassling people to sign their pointless petitions. And since most people's facebook profile's are done with their real details, they will allow the cops to add to their no doubt extensive databases of real/imagined/potential troublemakers...
kev
There should really be ten million on the smash edo facebook group.
01.08.2009 10:29
smash edo campaigner
Ten million would be much much worse....
01.08.2009 20:14
Yes, it would. Its effectively gathering a huge database of people's political inclinations that is trivially easy for the police to access. And if its a worldwide thing then that includes people in countries with more obvious consequences for that than here, This is indeed a bad thing. And if you think several hundred thousand people will come to the Brighton demo no matter how many people sign up online then you're a little optimistic to say the least, I think you'll find very little relationship between online clicks and feet on the street...
Kev
No it wouldn't!
02.08.2009 12:08
Also the government does not keeps databases of peoples political views! Where the hell did you get that idea from. Where do you think this is Zimbabwe? Britain was still a democracy when I last looked. If you didn't know there are privacy features on facebook which prevent people who you have not added as friends from accessing all your details.
I wish people would stop trying to sabotage the campaign to build a "MASS" movement against the arms trade! Was the Poll Tax defeated by tiny cladestine groups or by a big open protest movement which encouraged millions to join it?
Anti-arms trade campaigner.
naive
02.08.2009 19:23
kev
It would cost a fortune to print a million leaflets!
03.08.2009 10:26
This is how building a mass movement against EDO using facebook would work. You tell loads of people to join the smash edo group. They in turn tell all their friends on facebook to join it and so on. That way the campaign snowballs and introduces the campaign to loads of people who have never even heard about it before.
It is not just about getting political people on board but about raising the profile of the smash edo campaign to as many people as possible. You talk as if it is illegal to belong to any campaign group against the arms trade and war.
Anti-arms trade campaigner