Anti-war demo

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If you can make it, please attend.

http://www.stopwar.org.uk/

― Venga, Friday, 27 September 2002 17:52 (twenty-three years ago)

Ed and I are going to Hyde Park. Would march but have a date with some flat-pack.

― suzy (suzy), Saturday, 28 September 2002 08:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Good luck!

― James Blount (James Blount), Saturday, 28 September 2002 10:35 (twenty-three years ago)

a lot of my friends are on it, and i sort of meant to hook up with them if poss, but i felt so groggy this morning i stayed in bed :(

a reporter on TV last night annoyed me by saying "until recently, you'd be forgiven for thinking marches and demos had gone out of fashion, then the countryside alliance blah blah" oh FUCK OFF you FUCKING RETARD!! who needs 12-foot lizards when the media is structured by the brainless stupidity of the snappy zinger-intro

by contrast the anchorman on channel five news gave jeremy corbyn the requisite -i-am-jeremy-paxman grilling question — "isn't the problem with marches like this that they're anti-war in all circs" — but even despite his mealymouthed answer actually the overall strand was unexpectedly respectful (= meejah still not certain which way pop.opinion will jump on this?)

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 28 September 2002 10:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Christ, even in the U.S. they don't pull the 'remember the sixties?' routine anymore. Now they just pull the 'what do these people want?' routine and interview some black clad punk who answers to the name of "Pixie" (way to get your views taken seriously by middle America, kid) saying things like "people talk about violence like it's bad!"

― James Blount (James Blount), Saturday, 28 September 2002 10:54 (twenty-three years ago)

well big demos in the UK did NOT dip after the 60s, they continued at a fairly consistent level through the 70s, 80s and 90s, so i don't even know when this guy even thinks they went out of fashion, unless he means like April 2002 or something: it's like saying, "you'd be forgiven for thinking trousers went out of fashion but HERE'S A GUY NOT WEARING A KILT!!"

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 28 September 2002 11:36 (twenty-three years ago)

jeez what an idiot. as if protests have anything to do with 'fashion' or something to grow out of...

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Saturday, 28 September 2002 13:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes that's exactly what I was thinking, but I'm as annoyed when people my age or just people go "oh our generation never protests about anything", I mean you'd swear it was a hobby you do every week regardless of whats happening, they might as well be saying "kids these days play videogames so much, what a disgrace". "With the possiblity of war in Iraq, what better a time for protests to become fashionable again eh???"

― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 28 September 2002 15:21 (twenty-three years ago)

What a coincidence!

― James Blount (James Blount), Sunday, 29 September 2002 08:09 (twenty-three years ago)

Wonderfully successful protest yesterday (even if the police pulled the plug on the last couple of speakers). Noticeable that the gen public we passed en route seemed a lot less hostile or indifferent than usual and many more than is normal were actively encouraging and supportive.

I think Blair is currently a very worried man.

― Venga, Sunday, 29 September 2002 08:39 (twenty-three years ago)

"until recently, you'd be forgiven for thinking marches and demos had gone out of fashion, then the countryside alliance blah blah"

What I like about this is: who is this 'YOU'? Presumably not the people who have been on marches. Who is it that TV presenters think of when they address their audience?

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 29 September 2002 10:36 (twenty-three years ago)

12CD ppl

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 29 September 2002 10:37 (twenty-three years ago)

Sloppy journalism for sure. Perhaps the writer wants to fit the anti-war demo within the context of rising militancy in the UK. Stupid though, as trade disputes and foreign policy demos are two completely different forms of political protest.

― bert, Sunday, 29 September 2002 21:51 (twenty-three years ago)

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