How To Prove Our Numbers, 15th Feb
Special Branch | 07.02.2003 19:43
This is a cut and paste job (but not ali campbells "dossier" ) is to keep the discussion going so don't erase!!!!!
How to prove the numbers on Feb15
by Dan 10:16am Thu Feb 6 '03 (Modified on 4:35pm Fri Feb 7 '03)
Video cameras in tall buildings for duration of the march.
They wont let us fly over the protest, and they wont release photos from the sty-in-the-sky (police helecopter) but they can't stop us filming the entire march from a tall building at some point after the merge point!
Does anyone have the requisite equipment and / or access to a suitable building?
With such footage there is no-way they could dispute our numbers - we could even do a head count (if anyone has the time to count over 1,000,000 heads)!
add your own comments
Countryside March showed the way?
by muzikin 10:39am Thu Feb 6 '03
Like em or loathe em the Countryside Alliance knew perfectly well that the media would fabricate the figures. So they had counters at the CA march. About five or six people with 'clickers' at the front of a huge temporary 'gate' in Whitehall. Most effective I thought. Even though there was plenty of room for error there was no way the BBC could downplay the numbers by thousands like they have done at the anti-war protests.
data protection act?
by gnome 6:51pm Thu Feb 6 '03
Mark Thomas did a piece on using the data protection act to get cctv footage - & ran a cometition for the best short film obtained thru it.
Possibility of getting loads of folks to get cctv footage this way & work it from there?
(maybe need a route survey to find suitable cameras to obtain film from?)
www.fnord.demon.co.uk/mt/fifth/fifth1.ht...
Bloody good idea!
by Dan 7:42am Fri Feb 7 '03
I saw that Mark Thomas thing!
I'll contact him and see what he thinks :)
Clickers 'ere we come.......
by Special Branch 4:35pm Fri Feb 7 '03
buggermebackwards@hotmail.com
If no one else can count the bods it's OUR job to do it or at least our job to get on the case.... Contact/find STWC, CND, ARROW Blah de Blah.
Some one mentioned contacting a Mr Thomas, this may be a good idea as someone "official" is definatley needed.
WhatDoYouThink???????????
by Dan 10:16am Thu Feb 6 '03 (Modified on 4:35pm Fri Feb 7 '03)
Video cameras in tall buildings for duration of the march.
They wont let us fly over the protest, and they wont release photos from the sty-in-the-sky (police helecopter) but they can't stop us filming the entire march from a tall building at some point after the merge point!
Does anyone have the requisite equipment and / or access to a suitable building?
With such footage there is no-way they could dispute our numbers - we could even do a head count (if anyone has the time to count over 1,000,000 heads)!
add your own comments
Countryside March showed the way?
by muzikin 10:39am Thu Feb 6 '03
Like em or loathe em the Countryside Alliance knew perfectly well that the media would fabricate the figures. So they had counters at the CA march. About five or six people with 'clickers' at the front of a huge temporary 'gate' in Whitehall. Most effective I thought. Even though there was plenty of room for error there was no way the BBC could downplay the numbers by thousands like they have done at the anti-war protests.
data protection act?
by gnome 6:51pm Thu Feb 6 '03
Mark Thomas did a piece on using the data protection act to get cctv footage - & ran a cometition for the best short film obtained thru it.
Possibility of getting loads of folks to get cctv footage this way & work it from there?
(maybe need a route survey to find suitable cameras to obtain film from?)
www.fnord.demon.co.uk/mt/fifth/fifth1.ht...
Bloody good idea!
by Dan 7:42am Fri Feb 7 '03
I saw that Mark Thomas thing!
I'll contact him and see what he thinks :)
Clickers 'ere we come.......
by Special Branch 4:35pm Fri Feb 7 '03
buggermebackwards@hotmail.com If no one else can count the bods it's OUR job to do it or at least our job to get on the case.... Contact/find STWC, CND, ARROW Blah de Blah.
Some one mentioned contacting a Mr Thomas, this may be a good idea as someone "official" is definatley needed.
WhatDoYouThink???????????
Special Branch