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Or maybe Seattle was the safety valve? What's the difference? Either way its peopel letting off steam.seremtan wrote:i wasn't getting at you. it's just this and the G8 protests are all 'approved', which has me suspicious. i mean, when Tony Blair is having a big hug with Geldof, the guy who wanted kids to skip school to go protest at Gleneagles, it makes me think that this is no Seattle but instead just a safety valve - and safety valves are part of a system of control4days wrote:eh? lol i suppose that's what it is. - was mainly thinking of going to catch up with the people i only ever see at demos - trash a mcdonalds and maybe doing a bit of shopping, usual anti-capitalist stuff - but if a city centre with a capacity of 150,000 is supposed to be holding over half a mil then it just doesn't sound like it'll be fun.
Let's suppose you're Saint Bob the Gandalf... do you
A)Go and throw rocks in obscurity and generally just piss people off
B) Win power and influence, in order to actually make a diffference
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