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fil | 03.02.2009 16:15 | Climate Chaos | Social Struggles

Snowball fight with bankers outside the London headquarters of RBS






A group of 30 protesters gathered outside the London headquarters of RBS to protest over the governments bank bailout. They challenged bankers on their lunch brake to a snow fight, some joined in.

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LAME

03.02.2009 16:29

LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAME

ben stiller

yes

03.02.2009 16:41

its a big game isn´t it

meanwhile in the real world another 5000 jobs go

disappointing

very poor

03.02.2009 17:19

These are the same twats that will reposess a family home and not lose a winks sleep, these are the bastards that proudly call themselves the oil and gas bank and will happily fuck the planet for cash!
i'm all for chucking stuff at banker's but not snow.

do what

excellent

03.02.2009 17:56

I think its great. Its a laugh and creates a culture of disrepect to these exploiters.

Next stop the big workers march mid-Feb, lets make sure the BNP are NOT welcomed.

Anarchist

this was great - some posters here need a sense of humour!

03.02.2009 20:28

god we have some sourfaced killjoys here.

looks like a great way to show how much we hate the banking industry and have a laugh at the same time.

Some people need to get a sense of humour!

Good on whoever organised this.

@n@rcho

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bullshit action

04.02.2009 10:18

how great(!) you gave the bankers something to laugh about, something to talk about over the water cooler. gave them a bit of fun in their lunch break. how shit. go and do something that actually makes a difference. the world is fucking up and your solution is to throw snowballs. school kids are more radical than you. wasters.

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Brilliant action

04.02.2009 11:54

There really are some killjoys on here.

I'm a believer in a diversity of tactics and think its great that some people have managed to turn a “day off work/school” pastime activity into an action against the banks. I think if the killjoy posters peeled themselves out of their armchairs and had a look around they might notice that a wide DIVERSITY of actions are being targeted against this particular bank. If they felt the need they could throw something a bit chunkier at the banker parasites. (DIY!) Upon return to their armchair the killjoy posters might care to peruse some of the history of insurrectionary moments and see the diversity approach repeated time and time again.
Look at Argentina the scale of the horizontal struggle in 2001 would have been nothing without the cacerolazo banging stew pots outside banks, combined with the picatero blocking the roads with burning tyres and defending them with sticks. It was this combining of tactics and movements which gave us one of the more recent large scale autonomous workers movements.

I live outside London and am glad that someone is keeping the focus on the headquarters of the banks and bosses (as opposed to say their fellow worker). To feel the need to slag of this action smacks of the old cobweb lefts instance on waiting for the revolution as opposed to creating it everyday by any means necessary.

@rchie

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WHAT!!

04.02.2009 16:18

Chucking snow really makes a difference eh? Why not give `em a cocktail,a Molotov,that`ll make the bastards think. Who was this by the spazhijokers??

@ngry

because you are a joke.

05.02.2009 01:48

When LCAP raided RBS this christmas and confronted them with the facts of the dole, of poverty wages, slum housing when one in three city bankers would receive record bonuses - no one was laughing.

Watching 'you've been framed' on silent whilst listening to napalm death = funny.

Pretending capitalism can be satirised out of existence by anthropology lecturer fannies = a joke.

Bankers in last picture. They are laughing

Bankers...

05.02.2009 13:02

Working in a bank doesn't make you a fucking capitalist, for Christ's sake. You fucking idiots.

bob

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