Guardian: Mayday Protest - Media Propaganda
hmor | 25.04.2001 09:21
Another journo starts to notice the huge amount of propaganda that's been pumped out by the press over last 2 months...
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25.04.2001 10:49
WEDNESDAY APRIL 25 2001
Wanted: 25 May Day anarchists on the run
BY DANIEL MCGRORY AND STEWART TENDLER
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2-119623,00.html
April 25
Anarchists plan London mayhem
JAMES McKILLOP
http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/archive/25-4-19101-23-25-24.html
Wednesday 25 April 2001
'In your face' police tactics put pressure on May Day agitators
By John Steele Crime Correspondent
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=003864436460684&rtmo=asbpNXsL&atmo=rrrrrrrq&pg=/et/01/4/25/nmay25.html
Tuesday, 24 April, 2001, 12:33 GMT 13:33 UK
Mayor and Met unite over May Day
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk_politics/newsid_1294000/1294381.stm
Sir John Stevens has warned of bomb scares
VIDEO:
The BBC's Jane Peel
"All police leave in the capital has been cancelled"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1290000/video/_1294381_mayday13_peel_vi.ram
AUDIO:
Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone
"Direct action is not violence"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1290000/audio/_1294381_mayday_livingstone22.ram
24th april 2001
Mayor's plea over May Day protests
http://itn.co.uk/news/20010424/britain/14mayday.shtml
http://www.sky.com/skynews/storytemplate/storytoppic/0,,30100-1013109,00.html
24 Apr 2001
Police Target May Day Ringleaders
23 April 2001
News from the Mayor of London
Advertising campaign launched against May Day Monopoly protests
http://www.london.gov.uk/news/2001/153-2304.htm
You are in: News Releases: GLA/ 2001/153
The advert is available as a PDF file.
http://www.london.gov.uk/news/images/mayday.pdf
mh
Ken Livingstone says "Make MayDay Violent!"
25.04.2001 13:57
Surely if lots of peaceful protesters turn up, the violent few will appear as that, and many of them may not feel so comfortable being violent.
Is it a violent protest he wants? Because if peaceful protesters stay away that only leaves the violent ones, with more room to cause trouble.
I remember last years protest as being peaceful, then ripped to pieces by police horses and baton charges, then shat on by the media.
A lot of people were expecting "people's champion" red ken to turn up in defiance to the anti-people Blairites. Now he has linked arms with them and the police.
Great!
BlindMind
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PEACE
25.04.2001 15:01
Let us show who the real thugs are.
Let the peaceful come to London May 1st.
There may be some violence. From the police.
Let the peaceful dissidents be heard.
Let democracy be heard.
Peace.
I'm coming too
Quebec and the BBC
25.04.2001 17:09
elec40
About time
25.04.2001 17:22
undercurrents
Homepage: http://www.undercurrents.org/mayday/
No "REAL" story
25.04.2001 22:08
That goes for cops present too, as well as protesters. Don't forget to take your conscience with you on the day. Obey no orders except what your heart tells you.
Don't be robots!
And don't let the post event propaganda let you go all doublethink and doubt what happened. Write down what you remember happening May Night, and post it to indymedia, send letters to papers, tell your parents, etc etc. If there are thousands of people doing May Day, then all present have a responsibility to tell the truth and NOT to remain silent. (Make up your own mind if the Sun jam a camera in your face (and lies in your mouth) of course...)
Mayday is OURS not THEIRS. Just work out what OURS and THEIRS means to you before turning up.
BlindMind
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britain Sucks!!!
26.04.2001 08:17
Larry
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Traitor Ken!
29.04.2001 13:09
Had thought he was one of the few 'Labour' members left - but obviously not.
Ali Hunt
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TONY BENN
01.05.2001 15:09
Action is the only means by which an individual might find expression within a hegemony which is shorn up at every seam by government and primarily corporate control.
We cannot be denied recourse to such action.
SWING
SWING
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BRITAIN SUCKS
12.09.2001 18:18
NASTOFF