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Labour propaganda successfully subvertised in Manchester

Tom A | 15.03.2004 17:52

A small protest was held after the main Manchester demo at the security fence by a spin-tastic Labour "Big Conversation" poster outside the Central Library.

Don't mention the war!
Don't mention the war!

Soon the police come to try and spoil the show...
Soon the police come to try and spoil the show...

....but we stand firm
....but we stand firm

Still the police try to dissuade us from carrying on
Still the police try to dissuade us from carrying on

Reinforcements are sent in
Reinforcements are sent in

Still we are not swayed
Still we are not swayed

Our patience is rewarded as the Labour posters are taken down!
Our patience is rewarded as the Labour posters are taken down!


This small action soon got the attention of the police, who soon insisted that we could not have it stuck to the poster, and demanded that we hold it a step away from it. In spite of the police, who were on a power trip at this point, we persevered, in spite of a policeman who was "personally offended" by our action, and someone who had an answer to everything, and was generally insulting to everyone, we later decided he was probably an agent provocetur.

Finally, in what was a small victory, the security TOOK THE LABOUR SIGNS DOWN!!! Obviously it was causing too much of an embarressment so they were removed, a small victory in the battle to reclaim the streets of Manchester.

Tom A
- e-mail: *tomarmstrong*at*riseup*dot*net

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Nice!

15.03.2004 18:22

Well done! The "Big Conversation" is a bloody joke!

They didn't listen to the people when millions marched against the iraq war. They didn't listen to people when they were told in no uncertain terms that we don't want GM.

Now they say they want another public conversation about GM!!

The big conversation and their other phoney consultations are just PR SPIN devices to allow them to say they are engaging the public, when in fact they only listen to what they want to hear.

Ya Basta!

millbankers united

Image size

16.03.2004 02:40

No offence intended, but you need to reduce the file size of these images. The page is almost unviewable on dial-up and may freeze up an old pc. You have 1.2Mb of stuff on one page. One tenth of that is a pretty big page for dial-up. In the end it is about people seeing these :-)

GS

Images reduced

16.03.2004 09:29

good ways of doing this include GIMP on linux and MS windows:
 http://www.gimp.org/

...or the image resizer powertoy on windows XP:
 http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/downloads/powertoys.asp

IMC guy

Yeah, sorry about that

16.03.2004 09:38

I meant to resize them but didn't realise I haven't until it was too late, and I didn't know how to resize picutres that were already uploaded.

Anyway, thanks for doing it.

Tom A