G20 Protest in the Guardian
Gruanidad | 22.03.2009 10:20 | G20 London Summit | Climate Chaos | Social Struggles
Check this out:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/mar/22/g20-anti-globalisation-protests
The Guardian's bigging up the G20 protests, with a fair amount of scare-mongering for good measure. Still, they say that there's no such thing as bad publicity...

The Guardian's bigging up the G20 protests, with a fair amount of scare-mongering for good measure. Still, they say that there's no such thing as bad publicity...
'a rumoured plan to block the Blackwall Tunnel and cause a security scare on the London Underground by leaving bags unattended on trains'- didn't the hacks report this sort of nonsense during the runup to the last climate camp. Still, never mind, if a story's ficticious enough to run once, its ficticious enough to run again.
The Grauniad is certainly makiing the G20 protests look like they'll be impressive. They talk about 'leading protest group The Government of the Dead'- although they didn't report any of their previous escapes.
But never mind, this sort of publicity (especially as they include the full itinery) is worth a few thousand flyers at least...
Gruanidad
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and a tank?!
22.03.2009 11:30
fucking aye!
how the guardian et al are making these protests out to be a bad thing i do not know.
1. man is created
2. banks under the encouragement of the government create money is risky ways
3. banks lose everyone's money
4. goverment does fuck all to help anyone except bankers
5. citizens are now the bad guy?
what the fuck.
josh
Guardian journos are liberal middle class wankers
22.03.2009 11:36
So don't be surprised at the Guardian's muckraking - they have be doing it to animal rights activists for years.
anon
Tank You
22.03.2009 11:50
(a)
G20 Which side are you on?
22.03.2009 13:52
Do we enjoy the spectacle of the spectacular of The Middle Class fighting the police, or do we keep raising the concerns of The Police State, that the state to some extent will allow such protesters there moment so they can increase the pressure upon The Working Class, from Climate Change to The Global Crises it is not the making of The Working Class, once again the greed and actions of The Middle Class have brought us here.
The protest over the next coming weeks has nothing to do with the injustice of our class, it has more to do with The Middle Class protecting and protesting to save there privilege, the state welcomes there protest in private as it is a means to practice and clamp down on the Working Class, and if we are asked at underclassrising which side are we are on it has to be made clear neither:
In the last weeks a report was made to parliament [
Following the report the Kent Police voluntarily referred complaints about the actions of their officers to the Independent Police Complaints Commission [
David Howarth, Liberal Democrat Shadow Justice Secretary said [
over-policing], “What happened at the Climate Camp was deeply disturbing and part of what seems to be a disturbing national trend. Political agendas have no place in policing.”
The extent of political policing was further exposed the previous week the Guardian revealed that the police have been building up a database of thousands of political activists [
The police also began their annual summer propaganda offensive against protesters in the form of ‘the summer of rage’ in [
http://underclassrising.net/
Christ
22.03.2009 15:10
Jesus
All The Hype:
22.03.2009 16:53
Do we enjoy the spectacle of the spectacular of The Middle Class fighting the police, or do we keep raising the concerns of The Police State, that the state to some extent will allow such protesters there moment so they can increase the pressure upon The Working Class, from Climate Change to The Global Crises it is not the making of The Working Class, once again the greed and actions of The Middle Class have brought us here.
The protest over the next coming weeks has nothing to do with the injustice of our class, it has more to do with The Middle Class protecting and protesting to save there privilege, the state welcomes there protest in private as it is a means to practice and clamp down on the Working Class, and if we are asked at underclassrising which side are we are on it has to be made clear neither:
In the last weeks a report was made to parliament [
Following the report the Kent Police voluntarily referred complaints about the actions of their officers to the Independent Police Complaints Commission [
David Howarth, Liberal Democrat Shadow Justice Secretary said [
over-policing], “What happened at the Climate Camp was deeply disturbing and part of what seems to be a disturbing national trend. Political agendas have no place in policing.”
The extent of political policing was further exposed the previous week the Guardian revealed that the police have been building up a database of thousands of political activists [
The police also began their annual summer propaganda offensive against protesters in the form of ‘the summer of rage’ in [
MTMCH
All the hype
22.03.2009 17:04
Do we enjoy the spectacle of the spectacular of The Middle Class fighting the police, or do we keep raising the concerns of The Police State, that the state to some extent will allow such protesters there moment so they can increase the pressure upon The Working Class, from Climate Change to The Global Crises it is not the making of The Working Class, once again the greed and actions of The Middle Class have brought us here.
The protest over the next coming weeks has nothing to do with the injustice of our class, it has more to do with The Middle Class protecting and protesting to save there privilege, the state welcomes there protest in private as it is a means to practice and clamp down on the Working Class, and if we are asked at underclassrising which side are we are on it has to be made clear neither:
In the last weeks a report was made to parliament [
Following the report the Kent Police voluntarily referred complaints about the actions of their officers to the Independent Police Complaints Commission [
David Howarth, Liberal Democrat Shadow Justice Secretary said [
over-policing], “What happened at the Climate Camp was deeply disturbing and part of what seems to be a disturbing national trend. Political agendas have no place in policing.”
The extent of political policing was further exposed the previous week the Guardian revealed that the police have been building up a database of thousands of political activists [
The police also began their annual summer propaganda offensive against protesters in the form of ‘the summer of rage’ in [
MTMCH
Only a fool would go to work on April 1st.
22.03.2009 20:53
Unusual for central London?
The only significant snow we've had in 18 years, in February stopped 20% of people going to worker, closed air ports, stopped all London busses and most tube trains, damaged trading on the stock exchange and cost the economy an estimated £1,000,000,000,000 in lost trade, so unprepared were we, for this now unusual event.
Well if the economy slowed down a bit, maybe, just maybe we would get more snow, as we should in February, who knows? But one things for sure; if the economy slowed down a bit, we'd have more time to think, and time spend our all too short lives with our families and friends away from traffic jams, airport queues and bickering bosses.
The employees of financial institutions would be well advised not to don their suits, not to go to work during in protest, tell their bosses to go to hell and join the meltdown!
You'd have to be mad to go to work on april 1st.
twiggs
Conversation on the day:
22.03.2009 22:49
On the phone latter oh Mother it was a riot..
Tabbatha and Tarquin
opposition report
23.03.2009 01:46
It is a time of extreme change. There is a 'think-tank'(?) report today that has been reported upon in the MSM, that rates countries by an imaginary index of disobedience by nationality. As if.
Danny
Wrong paper
23.03.2009 09:52
It's not a Guardian story. It's an Observer story. Small point, but suggests you're not paying much attention.
Those who saw the Observer report will also notice the illustration: the front page of Class War urging readers to "Burn a banker". Would say that was a bit more inflammatory and scare-mongering than anything in the Observer article.
Norville B
Lets Talk..
23.03.2009 11:24
Time again we are told it is divisive crap, to bring forward at this time of the global crises, concern over climate change, the issue of The Middle Class. We are openly classist, not because we are having a temper tantrum, being naughty children, rebelling against The protest over G20 for the sake of it, neither are we seeking attention.
We might have the same concerns, and issues of those involved in The G20 protest, but feel there is more direct action we can take within our locality, for us there seems to very little, no point in taking part of finding a common path with the likes of those involved in what we feel is a utopian and somewhat crass protest.
As has been said it is nothing but a stunt, in all of The Hype we have not read any serious alternatives towards the everyday problem of capitalism, just the need to protest what seems to us for the sake of it, we have been there on such protest and to be frank wish we had not waisted our time in trying to engage or work the middle class involved.
It might be all to easy for us to sit in our little meetings, plagiarise some of our content, spend time writing a cretquie on all of this, then face the bile spewing from the mouths of those involved, telling us we must engage and find common unity.
There is no common unity we have with The Middle Class, there will never be any, we dislike the stretchers of capitalism such as the G20, The Police as much they might do, but we do feel our time our energy is far better spent in giving them a kick.
Agreed it might seem we are just a bunch of extrema head bangers, to place ourself s against The G2O protest, and when we are asked which side are we on, it is simple the side of The Working Class, with so much media attention upon what you are planning, do you not feel you have wasted another opportunity to place anarchism into the conversation? Because we feel once again another opportunity has been waisted, and this is the real shame.
http://underclassrising.net/
solutions and alternatives needed urgently
23.03.2009 11:57
yes yes spot on. the grand contradiction of the Climate Camp etc. claiming not to be just a lobby group, yet standing outside governmental meetings whinging, yet not proposing a serious alternative system...
if they were in power what would they do? not even they can tell you...
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