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G20 Action : Your Options : Amuse or Annoy

Posted on March 30th, 2009 Jo No comments

The “protest community” have a very stark choice about options for non-violent direct action and other forms of demonstration this week. Either you do something to entertain and amuse people, or you do something to annoy.

At a stretch you might even manage to do both, but for the most part it is an either-or situation. Do you hold a street party in fancy dress, or do you try to blockade something, lock on and shut it down ?

Do you publish a newspaper pulling apart current Economic, Energy and Climate policy ? Or do you set up a tent outside the London Climate Exchange and refuse to leave ?

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Climate Change, Media, Peace not War, Social Change Climate Change, demonstration, direct action, Economy, Energy, Fossil Fools, non-violence, protest, Social Change
Shake Things Up

Posted on March 29th, 2009 Jo No comments

Some of us will be arrested. Some of us can’t afford to be arrested. But all of us are committed to some kind of direct action on 1st April, Fossil Fools Day 2009.

We are going to shake things up.

We owe it to ourselves. We owe it to our children, our neighbours, the dirt-poor drought-ridden farmers in the Global South. Even the wretched polar bears.

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Climate Change, Peace not War, Social Change Climate Change, direct action, Energy, non-violence