G20 demonstrations

Lots of sirens at Aldgate as the same three police vans appear to be having a multi lap race around the one way system. Bit like a crit but with vans instead of bikes.

its kicking off at threadneedle st, riot police, missiles etc

its kicking off at threadneedle st, riot police, missiles etc

just heard from the mrs the same thing - she is there.

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I was in the WTO riots in Seattle in 99. I was working as going to school and working as a courier. My school was a staging ground for the protests on Capitol Hill and I wanted to photograph the demonstrations. I was teargassed and hit with various objects flying through the air and thrown to the ground by a cop. Not trying to get street cred or anything, but these protests are lame.

They're lame because 90% of the people are there for a carnival and a piss up. They're having fun and taking a break from work because they're bored, not trying to change the world. Half the people in 99 didn't know what WTO stood for and I'd wager the same percentage here don't know what G20 means or what they do.

If you want to make a difference do something other than chanting shit slogans and dressing up to have a party.

Bloody right. In my day, malcontents knew how to throw a riot. Today's mildly irritated youth have had it too good for too long. What we need is a full blown recession. Then kids will start to learn about civil disturbance.

leather jacket megaphone boy was wearing calvin klein boxers. what a prize tit.

This day will be another 'gap year' tale to tell all his trustifarian friends down the wine bars of King's Road at the weekend!

RBS is getting its windows broken lol

If you want to make a difference do something other than chanting shit slogans and dressing up to have a party.

Suggestions? other than copying the name of the 12 year old drummer of 70's punk band "Eater".....remember them Clive?

Bloody right. In my day, malcontents knew how to throw a riot. Today's mildly irritated youth have had it too good for too long. What we need is a full blown recession. Then kids will start to learn about civil disturbance.

Don't worry. All the grey Nike tracksuit clad kids will be bunking off school later to throw stones at the police no doubt!

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Shouldn't you be out there protesting about people like me?

But Clive, I thought it was you that was revolting? ;)

I can't be out there, there's lentils that need soaking.

couldnt agree more. made me so annoyed watching it. Little pricks probably bunking off 'uni'. load of plaid shirt wearing tarquins. SYMPATHY FAIL. i hope they get truncheoned over the head and then join the 'real world'

There's a surprising amount of right-wing cunts on this forum.

Suggestions? other than copying the name of the 12 year old drummer of 70's punk band "Eater".....remember them Clive?

Actually he was Dee Generate, but big ups for old-school punk knowledge.

My suggestion would be actually working to affect a change. Whatever you believe in there is likely an organisation already working to that end or else, you know, DIY. Start your own.

Just don't paint a sign and dress up and pretend you're doing something to assuage your guilt at inaction.

Suggestions? other than copying the name of the 12 year old drummer of 70's punk band "Eater".....remember them Clive?

I think I saw a piece a while ago about what happened to him. Quite dull after promising beginnings. Also remember a shock horror piece in the NoW or similar about him.

They were not the world's greatest musicians but that wasn't what it was all about.

There's a surprising amount of right-wing cunts on this forum.

Why is that surprising? the LCD of this forum is that we have an interest in a certain type of bike, what is surprising is that some people assume that it is a "scene" full of similar people to themselves, whichever way they lean.

There's a surprising amount of right-wing cunts on this forum.

I must've missed the "are you a leftie" tick box when I joined.

I didnt read that as a perticularly right wing comment anyway.

as far as I can see, photographers far outnumber demonstrators

Sounds like people are getting caught short:

#G20 They're going into RBS and they are urinating in the bank.

Actually he was Dee Generate, but big ups for old-school punk knowledge.

My suggestion would be actually working to affect a change. Whatever you believe in there is likely an organisation already working to that end or else, you know, DIY. Start your own.

Just don't paint a sign and dress up and pretend you're doing something to assuage your guilt at inaction.

While a committed course of action over a lengthy period is always going to have more chance of being effective, sometimes events such as this can politicise those previously unpoliticised and, just once in a while, popular demonstrations can effect change. The Poll Tax riots are a good case in point.

Times of plenty breed apathy and inertia. Perhaps today's economic issues will give rise to a more politicial youth. Today could be the start of that.

But then again, perhaps not.

Sounds like people are getting caught short:

#G20 They're going into RBS and they are urinating in the bank.

Don't we call that "making a deposit"?

What she said wasn't right-wing. We were stating the fact that a lot of the people there are toffs looking for a little action to break the monotiny of living off a trust fund. Then there's all the people just there to watch. Then I guess there's a small minority who are actually there for a cause they really believe in.

There's a surprising amount of right-wing cunts on this forum.

Just cos people aren't the same and have the same values as you doesn't make them cunts. Theres beem too much of this shit on the forum recently

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school is too apparently.