handing out to shareholders

police clue themselves up about BP's destructive operation

no honestly!

well some saw the funny side!

yet more interest

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war=peace
The pressure to aquire oil reserves leads to war and conflict, this creates opportunities for reconstruction, which leads to the expansion of global markets, which erodes petty national and cultural differences, which 'viola' ensures global peace and harmony.

UK Defence Budget 2003 £25.6bn
UK Foreign aid Budget 2002-3 £ 3.7bn
'Community Investment' 2002 £ 0,09bn
BP net profits 2002 £ 9.4bn
"
... huh?!

what about creating employment?
what about food on my table?

I would like to express my support to your activities and you should know that here in my country many people (simple people) are doing our best against oil-for-war.Also, i want to invite you in Thessaloniki at 23th of June for the meeting of the europeans leaders.it will be very nice to demonstrate all europians against war, against unemployment and against leaders of this unlucky world.Thank you.

and all we have to show is a series of pictures of coppers reading our propaganda, and some banners hardly visible even to shareholders (certainly not the execs)....oh dear.

Maybe some of da fuzz were doing it for intelligence gathering, maybe some of them were bored stupid - I certainly was.

And wow did we bother the now quaking BP that day - that'll teach 'em...!

participation for participation's sake (or protest for...) ain't necessarily worth it. And pretending otherwise'll just keep us in a complacent fantasy world.

I hope we can get truly creative and inspirational at future and various AGMs, using the many diverse talents we have, and shut the fuckers down - shit, we've managed it before over the last ten years, why now do we just have samba to show for it!

carnival chaos indeed!

hmm.

If we are demonstrating for ourselves and using the occasion as a personal expression of anger then fucking shit up, and having a laugh with it is great.

But maybe this is not the occasion...

Do we want to destroy BP? Of course, but then this is not realistically going to happen through stopping an AGM.

So we can't destoy them on one Thursday morning..., so if we are not just demonstrating for ourselves, who are we doing it for in this situation?

Are we realistically trying to inform some ignorant shareholders? Are we trying to shame BP into changing? Do we believe we can influence anything other than our friends expectations and respect, or are we just digging our head in the ground wishing we had a bomb, cos hey, that's the kind of dialogue they use ain't it?, and we've given up now, cos the bigger and better the shit we do the better...

Maybe less is sometimes more -

If we realise that we can't destroy BP on this one day, and we are trying to any informing or shaming, then that means coming down off our lofty post and letting non-anarchos/protesters/greenies and shareholders know the facts. Do people feel ready to accept information from someone who shoves a leaflet in their unexpectant face and dances around them in pink bikinis to Samba music?.... unless you have some experience of this sub-culture, probably not.

When we are only interested having easy dialogue with the pre-converted, and we still honestly believe that we embarrass "them" in anyway then maybe it is time to forget it and bury our heads in the test-tube and hope for a big bang.

If someone in a suit with a brief-case marched into my house and told me to read this report and fuckin change my ways, I'd take one look at her/him and think: I like my way more than their's, I have nothing in common with them, I probably share non of the same opinions, and they don't even figure in what I call my life. They wouldn't embarrass me, I wouldn't give a fuck, or talk to them...

Maybe things start changing when the suit comes off, and the lap-top disappears, cos we are all in our ghettos, and judgements about belonging and identiying are so intrinsic to the way we function in such an alienated mass-society.

While our analysis still fails to realise that we don't look or act like most people in the UK, we still seem to think that , unlike us, other people are not at all judgemental about appearences. (Just try turning up to the EF gathering in a suit, or with shaved legs and a can of 'Sure'!) But of course, when other people shy away from people they can't imagine that they identify with, well then they are bigoted cunts.

Hmmm, until we can begin to have any kind of dialogue in particular situations with the convertable unconverted, as well as doing covert more full-on stuff that we get away with, then we can forget ever sitting around chatting meaningfully with a variety of people, or ever being able to change this nightmare, cos we only currently know how to inform ourselves.
But then maybe we are happier in our self-justifying ghetto anyway.

I went to the carnival last Thursday expecting some hundreds and found the usual ones. I don't know why, but I feel disappointed about this. Is it that people don't bother about climate change and wars or is it because the action hasn't been properly advertised?
I think more people would have participated if they had known.

I went to the carnival last Thursday expecting some hundreds and found the usual ones. I don't know why, but I feel disappointed about this. Is it that people don't bother about climate change and wars or is it because the action hasn't been properly advertised?
I think more people would have participated if they had known.

Interesting rant but uh, what's the product you have to show us? You say, "to have any kind of dialogue in particular situations with the convertable unconverted, as well as doing covert more full-on stuff that we get away with" is your recommendation for some success in the future. How about fleshing that out more specifically as to what the hell you figure will get a dialogue going...specifically? covert shit...whoopee? You seem to just offer contradictions and tail-chasing the dog stuff. These guys got out there and did something concrete and you seem to discredit the whole affair as totally worthless while you appear only to sit on your hands and review pointlessly.

Um, I'm trying to say that we can do actions on different levels, and as I was there too, and thought that a lot of what was there was great, I am obviuosly completely pro this type of opposition. I do also feel like we need to get better at talking to people on their level.