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RISING TIDE BLOCK WEST END

mini mouse | 16.10.2004 09:29 | European Social Forum | Ecology | Social Struggles | London

RISING TIDE BLOCK TRAFALGAR SQUARE, HAYMARKET, ST. JAMES’

Global warming protestors Rising Tide brought traffic to a halt for almost an hour in London’s West End today.

Police photograph mermaids, etc.
Police photograph mermaids, etc.

A photo fit bus?
A photo fit bus?

Police do their bit for global warming
Police do their bit for global warming

an empty Haymarket
an empty Haymarket

The reason Haymarkeet is empty!
The reason Haymarkeet is empty!

The reason Lower Regent Street is empty!
The reason Lower Regent Street is empty!

A sample protestor
A sample protestor

Outside BP
Outside BP

What you do when you leave the CIA?
What you do when you leave the CIA?

Police blockade wrong gallery
Police blockade wrong gallery


There was the usual regrettable police evidence photography of the assorted mermaids, snorkellers and sea monsters, but on the plus side it was good to see the majority of them doing their bit for the planet skipping about on bicycles.

Leaflets were distributed. A slack jawed American tourist declined his, explaining “Why worry, I’ll be dead before this all happens”.

Well, no loss there then.

BP’s offices in St James got a good fifteen minute chorus of drumming, whistles and catcalls, as did The National Portrait Gallery, the venue for BP’s Portrait Awards, facilitated at first by police guarding the wrong bit.

“We love art, artists, and indeed the people who work in this building” said a protestor.

“We just don’t think BP should try and disguise their crimes by pretending they’re nice guys”.

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