Heiko wrote:
>Well, this is fun, so what ?
>>on the TV and they had a whole afternoon. Well what did they do..graffiti
on
>>a statue of Churchill and the Cenotaph (a memorial to those who died in
>>wwI/wwII). The slogan on the cenotaph was okay.."Why glorify war?". Other<
I agree that the graffiti stuff is fun..check out the grass mohican on the
statue of Winston Churchill at the BBC's site
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_732000/732791.stm
The thing is that these protests are supposed to be dealing with serious
issues and a lot of the activities just make a mockery of the serious points
being made. Also the graffiti was pretty badly done too, people seemed to
have just drawn over each other's stuff so you couldn't make out the
slogans. I would like to have seen more high quality graffiti if they're
going to do it at all..the grass mohican is the most fun thing...that I do
like but really what has any of that got to do with protesting about
capitalism and greed. Now smashing a McDonalds would have been okay as well
but they then smash the shop next door which is not a symbol of anything
unlike McDonald's. Apparently later in the day they also smashed Rymans on
the strand which sells mainly envelopes, paper, files, pens etc. So after
attacking symbols of capitalism they attack stationery?
On looking at the BBC site apparently some paving slabs were lifted and
flowers planted..a shame there's no good pictures of that. Although check
this link
quite low on the page for a nice shot of a young man planting a small pansy
or viola on a statue:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_732000/732568.stm
To be honest if yesterday's protest is a sign of anything it's a sign that
capitalism has nothing to worry about...for now ;-)
cheers,
Sol.
