Oxford Circus 15:45pm

indy | 01.05.2001 14:48

Oxford Circus is being cordoned and people are held inside.

The crowd is being condensed into the Oxford Circus area. Yellow jackets on three sites and riot policemen on one site, who are doing sporadic baton charges. The mood inside is pretty chilled, apparenlty. Lots of people are trapped outside the cordon and more continue to arrive, as section 60 means people are not let either in or out.

indy

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Mayday protesters have inflamed situation

01.05.2001 14:57

These people should have cooperated with the police. There is now a sense of panic and frusration which could easily have been avoided. You can't fight something as abstract as capitalism. The whole idea is nonsensical.

Cybergroover
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anticap protests touch nerve

01.05.2001 15:47

I was on the Elephant & Castle protest but couldn't make it to Ox Circ. Local people who weren't actually on the protest were very supportive including several groups of building workers, kids on school trip to
imperial war museum and various householders who cheered our banners ("f**k capitalism") and took literature. i'm now watching bbc news 24 which has virtually constant coverage from oxford circus .. hilarious as their talking heads have run out of anything to say and cant find anything damaging to say about us ... imagine the disruption 50,000 or 100,000 people could cause along similar lines. let's keep fighting global capital, see you in Genoa, also check out www.resist.org peace

elbee
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Yeah man...

01.05.2001 16:47

Yeah man......let's fight....fight...er.....er...what is it we're fighting? Oh yes capital-something, I think.....oh never mind.....just pass the Special Brew. Nice dreadlocks, by the way.....

cybergroover
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"These people"?

02.05.2001 09:50

"These people" included tourists, passers-by, shoppers etc who were cordonned off along with the (largely peaceful) protestors (plus a few idiots looking for trouble), and detained for 8 hours with no access to food, water or toilet facilities, and no explanation of why there were not allowed to leave. The idea of 'co-operating' with the police was not even a possibility - we were hemmed in and prevented from dispersing even if we had wanted to.

Joe Zen
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Homepage: http://www.barbelith.com/collective/zenith

tous ensemble

02.05.2001 09:53

"tous ensemble, tous ensemble, ouais, ouais!"
The police helding us inside Oxford Circus for 7 hours just fueled my anger and hatred for those "no more than 2 neurons" pigs...
I want to thank the nice italian girl for being so full of joy, and for teaching me songs! Please contact me for Genova!
Take care all!

nicolas
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These people

02.05.2001 15:06

No.....what I meant was the people organising the protest should have cooperated with the police from the start. But of course they wouldn't do that, would they, because the police are the enemy etc etc etc. So the police did what was necessary. No-one objects to a peaceful, properly organised protest, organised safely with police involvement.

And I think the police were quite restrained, given the kind of provocation they were faced with. Any other country and things would have been very different. People who think Britain is repressive just do not know how lucky they are. How do you think the police in China would have dealt with this for example?

20 million pounds this farce cost London. Money that could have been spent on something useful.

Mindless. Totally mindless.

cybergroover
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Message to cybergroover

02.05.2001 19:46

Hi Cybergroover

I think you'll find that the £20m figure relates to that of lost business and not damages to West End.

I agree with you it is £20m that could be spent elsewhere. Yesterday it wasn't spent in Nike or Gap or Clarks. By the way can someone please explain to me why Clarks should see itself as a target. What has it got to hide?

The £20m which I hope has yet to be spent could perhaps go to helping children in Sudan who have FAMINE knocking on their door or providing decent services to London's homeless.

Face it capitalism is shite. We can build an alternative. If you reply and I don't respond immediately I aint being rude its just that I've gone home to the green fields of Hertfordshire.

Cheers Gary Jarvis

Gary Jarvis
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