Defend the right to protest at Occupy LSX Sat, 28, Jan, 2012.
OccupyLSX | 26.01.2012 14:07
Occupy LSX will be hosting a defend the right to protest event on Saturday the 28th of January at the Occupy LSX site outside St Pauls Cathedral from 12noon to 6pm. We will be having loads of bands and entertainment. We want thousands of people to come down and join us for a day of party and protest.
Spread the word far and wide. The Corporation can't get rid of us by evicting us as we will return to protest against the unjust banking system again and again.
Facebook event:
http://www.facebook.com/events/156827497764075/
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clashes with disability welfare event
26.01.2012 18:39
so, when was this agreed?
fragile
Solidarity!
26.01.2012 20:03
We are all working together even if we are not all in exactly the same places at exactly the same time.
Somebody has to do the work.
Nick Martian
e-mail:
earthaidcampaign@gmail.com
@fragile
27.01.2012 02:51
bumbly
Defend The Right To Banking / Smash The Right To Defend
27.01.2012 04:09
1) loads of union flunkeys who have never defended any real effective protest by the brothers (and sisters) since the introduction of The Employment Act of 1980 outlawed mass picketing, one of the best effective tactics of working class solidarity.
2) a bunch of NUS officers and SU reps who may or may not be going somewhere career wise but are hardly the spokespeople of a generation sticking it to the Man (or WoMan) like the mighty working-class street fighitn' Jack Straw was when he was leader of the NUS in 1969 before becoming Home Sec and Foreign Sec later and being a creepy scary dude with specs and total power.
3) Billy Bragg, whose relevance to UK politics passed it's sell by date when you could buy 'Life's A Riot With Spy Vs Spy' for cheap in Woolworths (which I did) in 1984, one year before he hooked up with Red Wedge to try to elect an embryonic neo-liberalised Labour Party to power. The Blair years, being the Labour Party's eventual total neo-liberalising and only chance of election and, of course, the world of shit of which we are reaping currently.
4) Slavoj Zizek, the reconstructed Bernard Manning of the academic communists Uni End of the Pier show summer and winter season.
5) Education Activist Network (SWP front) / National Campaign Against Cuts & Fees (56 other varieties of Leftie fronts trying hard at Networked Leninism but falling back on ideological impasses)
'Defend' is alway a popular choice with the masses as they rush out and defend this and that thing to ensure their 'right' to protest. It's about on a imagination par with the also popular front runner for campaign names - 'Smash'...as in 'Smash Cameron', 'Smash the Education Act', 'Smash The New Potatoes'.
Surely there is no 'right' to protest really and if there was who would say it was 'okay' for you to protest as opposed to people getting up and saying 'fuck this for a game of soldiers' because they were super-pissed about stuff. So asking for it to be okay please can we protest instead of just doing it and dealing with the consequences is about as good as asking for 'unjust' banking system to become a just one. Consequentially, with rights or no rights, the cops come and bash you round the head based on orders from above anyhow. Many people seem to not realise this subtle point that protest cannot be protected from state violence by have a 'right' to do it. That's not really how the system works. Only in the minds of liberals who think the system can be made to be so much betterer and just and fair. Such liberals being happy that we have a minimum wage of £4.98 for young'uns and £6.08 for old'uns for all those proletarian retail workers, security guards, hotel and catering staff enjoying the fruits of such a just society.
Let's not be silly. Let's just be out on the streets because that's where we like to be and that's where the heart of the political matter is. So get on down the Occupy on Saturday and say FUCK THAT to the suits of the Corporation of London, the Metropolitan and The City po-lice, St Paul's god-botherers, anyone who asks 'but what do Occupy want..can you give me five bullet points so I don't have to deal with anything that might make brain move in mysterious ways?', the politicians over at the Dung House and any silly sausage who thinks 'we can all just get along, us 99% y'all and reform capitalism to be NICE' as the TSG step-up and taser a random selection of Occupy people regardless of their score on the Liberal-Pacifist-o-meter.
Saying 'FUCK THAT' is not a right, it's a pleasure. It needs no defence.
Limahl
@ Limahl
27.01.2012 10:06
smasher
Smaah again
27.01.2012 13:21
However, there were many other arguments made about the dull use of the 'word' defence and some other observations which I thought were quite interesting.
Anyhow, back to my sofa, happily masturbated and sated now as part of the Global Commentariat.
Limahl
Snashy more
27.01.2012 14:38
Limahl