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photos from Crieff blockade
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Comments
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Kids on blocks
06.07.2005 11:47
No-body
Good Crieff
06.07.2005 12:20
Nice to see them wearing Berghaus, Karimore, and Goretex. Fight global industry - buy their goods!
A Watching Scotsman
Fantastic Effort
06.07.2005 12:31
Davey and Jane from Melbourne Australia
Kids on Blocks
06.07.2005 12:39
Mama
Love?
06.07.2005 13:40
No-body
"A Watching Scotsman"
06.07.2005 14:40
1. Second Hand
2. Stolen
3. Borrowed
If they did buy it new then I agree that it is bad - but it does not affect the demonstration at all and is another issue. You have to draw the line somewhere.
fredrico
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Made by chinese workers
06.07.2005 15:18
Ast
Fantastic effort 2
06.07.2005 16:26
Karin
You people ROCK!
06.07.2005 16:42
Rodney doo little
A Filthy Capitalist Invention
06.07.2005 17:36
And it wouldn't have been invented (in Livingston - that's in Scotland my American chums) by old Wullie Gore if he hadn't been undertaking a speculative capitalist venture. Oh no, better not use that then?
Hypocrites, the lot of you.
Me Again
And the point is?
06.07.2005 20:22
Confused of Perthshire
The kids these days...
06.07.2005 22:01
artaud
Nice blockade!
06.07.2005 22:57
Fuck purists - go naked and stay inside eating soy beans.
/sg
sg
Oh dearie me
07.07.2005 10:27
Here we have a small group who block what is at best a minor road in Crieff, miles from the summit and somewhere they're not going to get into any trouble. They're all well dressed kids, perhaps middle class, wearing goods which exemplify what they're trying to undermine. As my friend above says, a wee jaunt fae the Uni to give them something to talk about.
This isn't action, and barely counts as inaction. Even if I were an anarchist/anti-capatilist I would have to conceed that it was a useless waste of time which does nothing to strengthen any cause.
I bet they didn't show the photos of the policemen laughing and taking the piss.
Me Again
TRUE.. it anint really the bloc is it??
07.07.2005 23:13
rob yahoo...
EVERY Little Counts...
08.07.2005 20:50
disko kid
responses
09.07.2005 11:11
Please can the poster tell us where it's possible to buy/get waterproof clothing that is manufactured in a socially and environmentally sustainable way?
On the issue of being at Uni:
I'm glad u thought I looked that young ;-)
On the issue of effectiveness:
A number of support staff and US delegates were staying in Crieff. 1 delegate was stopped for 2 hours (ish) by the blockade. Although it was a fairly minor road, there were only 5 of us and we thought it'd be better to do something small that worked than to try for a bigger target and fuck up.
ciderpunx
Sad
09.07.2005 15:14
well done. you understand that sweatshop labour is a bad thing. ive got a slight inkling that the people featured in the photos do too. everyone living in britain is somehow contributing to others suffering (unless you never buy a thing and live 100% self-sustainably which is near-on impossible within a western industrialised country.)
ive got a feeling that the computers you are using to write such useless drivel are not locally sourced fair-trade and vegan and made sustainably.
"We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking up at the stars." Oscar Wilde.
Well done to the blockaders.
Tony
Sad
09.07.2005 15:26
well done. you understand that sweatshop labour is a bad thing. ive got a slight inkling that the people featured in the photos do too. everyone living in britain is somehow contributing to others suffering (unless you never buy a thing and live 100% self-sustainably which is near-on impossible within a western industrialised country.)
ive got a feeling that the computers you are using to write such useless drivel are not locally sourced fair-trade and vegan and made sustainably.
"We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking up at the stars." Oscar Wilde.
Well done to the blockaders.
Tony
very effective action
11.07.2005 10:52
it is narrow at this point because it crosses a riverbridge. Meanwhile another group were blocking
the B8062, forcing support staff, delegates etc based in Crieff to take a very roundabout route.
Search for Crieff on any UK mapping website and you'll see what I mean.
To the person who said these roads were closed anyway, just because they were closed to the public and/or controlled by police (which I'm not even sure you're right about in this specific case) doesn't mean they weren't being used by delegates - if anything it seems more likely. Several of the vehicles in the queue that built up at the start of the blockade were very obviously delegates.
To the person who said the lock-on crew 'weren't going to get in any trouble' - well, they
were arrested, held for about 10 hours with no food and charged with breach of the peace
with bail conditions to leave the areas of G8 action immediately. Obviously it's all relative, and
of course other protesters elsewhere did risk much more than this (to say that the blockaders
were 'risking their lives' is a slight exaggeration to be sure!), but it's hard to think of a way such
a small group could have been any more effective in the circumstances.
Even if you don't agree that this type of road blockade is itself an effective or worthwhile action
it tied up 3-4 vanloads of police for around an hour and a half (the blockade itself was in
place 2 hours) thereby preventing them from policing other actions.
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Hardy endangered
14.07.2005 13:49
How exactly are they risking their lives? They're putting themselves at some discomfort, but that's about it. Chaining yourself to a road blockade is hardly a dangerous activity, it's not like we live in a country where the government would order the police to open fire or kick the living daylights out of you for what is a relatively peaceful protest.
As for the blockaders, perhaps they would all like to sign a letter of apology to all the residents who had nothing to do with the G8 Summit yet were still inconvenienced by these blockades and having thousands of hippies invade their normally peaceful village?
Paul
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Paul
18.07.2005 14:32
"thousands of hippies" ???!!!!
You seem rather intolerant, and rather imprecise for a Linux geek, Paul! There were about 5 /normal/ people (with jobs and everything) locked on in the road, and maybe 10 others doing support or just passing by - that makes you a couple of orders of magnitude out on numbers, as well as misrepresenting who was protesting.
I take your point about apologising for inconvienience, and, in fact leaflets explaining the action and apologizing for the hassle were distributed.
Of course it would be nice if the G8 leaders had been polite enough to apologize to the thousands of people who are dying from corporate greed, and who are destined to die because of climate change. I wouldn't hold your breath though ...
bridge_troll
Thousands of hippies
19.07.2005 14:13
Yes - there I was referring to the general G8 protests, which I believe involved 4,000 extra people descending on the town of Auchterarder.
I'm not intolerant per se, I just don't think protestors have the right to block roads and stop innocent bystanders from being able to get to where they want to go. If worst came to worst the delegates could have just been helicoptered in anyway.
Paul
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