democracy village direct action again

[London] | 20.05.2010 18:22 | London

two activists from the parliament square 'democracy village' climbed westminster abbey this afternoon

another day, another banner drop!

at around 4pm this afternoon, two democracy village activists accessed the roof of westminster abbey for another 'trrops out' banner drop.

this is another in a series of actions launched from the camp, and campaigning against the continued unwinnable and indefensible "war" in afghanistan.

pic courtesy of 'peaceful warrior' from the camp

[London]
Original article on IMC London: http://london.indymedia.org/articles/4844

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banner drops are not direct action. direct action directly hits the activity one is against. for example, hawk jets flying to east timor to drop bombs - folk smash up hawk jets before they can take off. its direct, it stops the bombs. banner drops against war are perfectly valid but they are not direct. they are propaganda - they pass on a message, they don't bring any troops home directly.

pendant

direct action

21.05.2010 12:55

A more direct form of action would have been to have campaigned against the war parties and candidates in the run up to the election. Then we could have at least been able to affect the voters and therefore the outcome of the election that decides the MPs - who in turn directly choose the policies and activity of the Government. I tried to tell some people but got very little response.

Instead we have had yet another election disaster where the war parties are still in power. Just like in 2005...

Brian B

nice drop,hey critics howd u know banner droppers arent doing nvda&voting2?

21.05.2010 18:39

green syndicalist

it's about campaigning

24.05.2010 09:23

howd u know banner droppers arent voting2?

I was referring to campaigning to try to affect the election as a whole rather than just your own personal vote (which a lot of people do anyway).

The point to me is that if peeps are ignoring attempts at more direct ways to affect things then it takes much more of the non-direct/symbolic actions to get things done - that's if they have any effect at all. lives could have been saved if the election results had been different.