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There's a pretty broad cross section of people behind the campaign although the 'festival people' are often the most visible and are often among those most willing to get arrested...many of us (myself included) don't want to have to deal with the complications of a criminal record but that shouldn't stop us going down and showing our support as global warming doesn't discriminate based on your fashion sense or lifestyle choices
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Maybe it will lead to something
We know Occupy and the Gilet Jaune nudged the dial. How demonstrations make change is never clear at the time. Be hopeful.
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this is an important post in this thread
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Having spent a day at Marble Arch, and being part of one of the affinity groups that work as small teams with specific functions, I have to say that although there are a few of those "types" (although I have yet to se a crystal) They are not predominant.
It is a new mix of people who share a fear of the future and have managed to get climate change into the news like never before. It's almost never mentioned in the news until there's disruption, and better to have the disruption caused deliberately than as an out of control act of nature.
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I went to the bridge, Marble Arch and Oxford Circus today. In many ways an impressive achievement but equally it's hard to escape the feeling that Glastonbury (both the festival and the 'spiritual' people) has come to town and that you are never more than ten feet away from someone who has an unhealthy relationship with crystals. And folk music. Reminded me of the Fast Show line about 'loose fitting, vaguely ethnic clothing'. I am not sure how Jon Snow would feel about it but it wasn't much less all-white than any other non-BAME specific protest.
Maybe it will lead to something, maybe the dreaded 'awareness', but the notion that the government might choose to meet these people, or any representative of them, is beyond satire.
Then again it really was impressive to see Marble Arch full of tents and I wouldn't knock the commitment needed.