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| Floor & orders . . . peaceful protesters blocked from sitting on tarpaulin sheets, aka 'structures' (pic:nationofchange.org) |
I ended up going along to the Occupy London protests last weekend and ended up doing a little video report from it.
Couldn't help myself, it was rather an intriguing day.
Arriving at 10am, I soon found that a plain cardboard box and marker pen would be necessary.
Luckily, there was a well-known supermarket chain mini-store across Parliament Square.
I ran across, to find a sturdy looking cardboard fruit pallet on the wall by a bin.
Beauty. Or so I thought.
Upon unfolding, it had many creases, was long, thin and zig-zag shaped.
And I haven't typed the word 'zig-zag' for years.
Needless to say I'd need a new box. A friendly chap called Simon in the picket line had lent me a black marker pen, and I had an plan for a daubing to enscrawl upon it.
To more delight than I've ever had at seeing a man push a cage on wheels, a man walked out of said supermarket mini-store with a cage on wheels, full of empty BOXES.
Thankfully, Pablo let me in the back of his van and so I got a good chance to plunder for some placards.
Found a few. Got back to the protest.
It struck me that, in amongst the banners of 'We Didn't Vote For NHS Sell-Off' and 'We Didn't Vote For Endless War' - both of which are very true - the undertone was one of anger fuelled by compassion.
If they hold banners saying 'we are the 99%' then do remember that statistically, literally, you also probably are, and so these people are doing this because they want the best for you too!
But you won't hear that reported in the media.
You might hear about two arrests over a weekend, when people tried to get on to the grass.
I could go on about the experience, but I think the video says the rest.
Looks like it'll be the start of more of the same to come.
And speaking of peaceful manners of executing things, here at The Peace Party, we will be announcing our list of candidates for the 2015 election in the coming weeks, following the end of year meeting.
As I shall keep saying, this is a snowball effect and even just by reading this you are a valuable flake in the process of rolling growth down the mountainside of humanity. Then when it all settles into a valley it'll melt into a lake and we'll all be bopping up and down etc.
DON'T THINK THERE'S ANYONE WORTH VOTING FOR? That. Is all. Set. To change.
