It seems to me that, while large scale protests, like the anti-war rally on Saturday, receive some media coverage the majority of actions are now effectively air-brushed from history by a compliant mainstream media.
In years gone by, there used to be such a thing as journalism – you would hold a demo, disrupt some traffic or hold a few banners and this would be covered on the news, possibly unfavourably, but they would cover it.
I think we would all agree that this is far from the case now – even the travel reports referred to the DSEI train disruptions as an ‘incident’ the other week.
It is for this reason that I think that these sort of demos need to change their approach.
The majority of the problems we face as a planet these days stem from greed – People happy to commit all sorts of atrocities in order to increase their profit margins. My suggestions would be, let’s start targeting these people. At the moment the demos seem to be a case of trying to publicise a cause in order for the public to support it and thus pressure the powers that be to change things. I think we only need to see Blair’s attitude on Iraq to know that he couldn’t give a monkeys about public opinion and a good number of people who might otherwise care are sunk under a huge swell of disinformation.
Now lets consider another scenario: Mr F. Cat or his wife are at the gates of young Master Cat’s very expensive private school with all the other clique parents, only they cant actually drive into the school due to a large protest singling out Mr Cat and graphic details of all the not so fortunate children who have died or been maimed in his quest for profit. They get through that then Mr Cat goes off to have a round of golf to de-stress but what does he find but the same thing at his nice exclusive golf club. Not only does he have to deal with this but, as it is inconveniencing his peers, he may even have to rethink where his kids go to school or where he has his round of golf etc.
Hopefully you see the subtle difference here, basically these people don’t care one jot if the great unwashed are against them, they live in a nice little world where the MSM takes care of all of that for them, but, when the results of their profiteering come crashing down then you start making some headway – look at Huntingdon life sciences losing a wall street listing for example. You could have had a million on the streets in protest and nothing would’ve happened. As soon as all the other suits from the other companies thought they might be caught up in it and inconvenienced the company quietly had its listing dropped.
Lets start hitting them where it hurts – The individuals behind the corporates and their lifestyles!