100 old standbys for covering a protest

1) Interview an old lady selling the morning star whoc complains about the numer of communist parties
2) Hang out by starbucks, mcdonalds, RBS and encourage anarchists to throw something through the window

3)Photo of a police officer enjoying his baton action a little too much.

4) photo of protester in a toy police helmet

5) Lesbian drumming troupe

6) Redemption Song

7) Man with bloodied face shouting obscenities at policeman

8) Marcello's bus is cancelled

9) Someone trying to hug/kiss/give flowers to an unsmiling police officer in riot gear

10) Lots of rich kids with that Palestinian tea towel thing round their neck
11) Miserable torn-faced Muslims protesting about Israel whatever the actual protest is about

12, everyone hiding behind masks because they don’t want their lawyer, police, judge, CEO and MP parents to see them.

...and that's just the coppers

13. Pissed-up students who think it's Rag Week

14. Someone being dragged along the ground.

15. Some idiotic placards

http://www.lasthours.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/g20pic9.jpg

16) A bobby joining in the festivities

17. Defaced/redecorated statue of former Colonial big cheese.

18: middle class students with QC dads whining about getting baton charged after throwing bottles at police in an act of palestinian solidarity

19: Rotting Dreadlocks

20: 'the world is my instrument' style lampost drumming

21. Crusty gets caught sneaking a crafty Big Mac down a back-alley

22. Bikes

23. "Hilarious" costumes

24. Julian Cope, monged off his tits

Someone really ought to hold a counter protest about all these middle class young folks with parents that do jobs. But who dammit?

25. Senior policemen lying through his teeth about the numbers taking part in the protest
26. Protest organiser lying through his teeth about the numbers taking part in the protest

27. Shots of smiling council workers clearing up discarded placards etc after protest

Shots of person smashing bank window, done a second time sos that the worlds press (i.e. 100 photographers) can get the shot, having missed it the first time.

29. Tory MP: "I defend their right to protest but..."

The Daily Mail had some rather voyeuristic photos of the poor guy that died yesterday. They framed the story as 'police are pelted with bottles as they try to save dying protester' just to remind us who the real heroes of the day were. No mention of them allegedly baton-charging a sit-down protest though.

30. (New Entry!) Twitter comments from people 500 miles away.

31. (New Entry!) juxtaposed shot of world leaders grinning inanely, putting arms round each other and giving the thumbs up to the camera, like they're at an office party or something.

32. Shot of phalanx of riot police walking determinedly down street pushing hapless photographers out of their way

33. Disreputable rakish celeb du jour joining the protesters and appearing to have a great time.

http://news.hereisthecity.com/news/business_news/8929.cntns

17. Defaced/redecorated statue of former Colonial big cheese.

http://nofunleague.net/mccheese.jpg

Please tell me this is not the victim of their iconoclasm!

34 Chants
a - barely metrical, badly rhymed
b - Buddhist

10) Lots of rich kids with that Palestinian tea towel thing round their neck

Lots of bite me, man, c'mon!

35.Use of the word "snarling" to describe protesters. And "anarchist" for almost anyone.

36. Drippy climate change protestors absolutely refusing to boot a policeman in the nuts

37. the defilement of a police car by smiling protesters