INTERNATIONAL CITY DAY OF ACTION

Next Friday will be the International City Day of Action. On this day, We ask you all to don your finest pinstripe, apply your monocles, glue mobile phone to ear and then head off down to Brighton to disrupt as many dreadlocked soap dodging men and women with dogs on string as possible.
Plan of action:
* to picket henna tattoo stalls
* throw cheap pewter jewellery into the sea
* occupy the dole office and glue the doors shut
* throw soap and other cleansing materials at the men with dogs on strings
* dig up the road and line it with photocopies of huge salary slips
* hang the dogs on string with their string as a little ironic joke
* blockade the promenade with open top sports cars
* buy up all local supplies of scrumpy, special brew, snake bite and black and roll ups - then throw them all in the sea
Police advice to all crusties at present: "Get a job you scrounging b*stards"



-- Anonymous, May 01, 2001

Answers

(Ananova)

More than 600 militant cyclists have brought rush-hour traffic to a halt with demonstrations from mainline railway stations.

More than 6,000 police officers are to patrol London in anticipation of up to 10,000 anti-capitalist protesters.

Smaller protests are expected in Manchester, Birmingham and Glasgow.

The first protests were noisy and colourful with activists cheering and sounding horns as they set off on simultaneous mass rides from Marylebone and Liverpool Street stations. There were no initial reports of arrests.

Protests are expected to focus on strategic sites in London, culminating in a mass action to paralyse Oxford Street at rush hour.

The loosely knit coalition of demonstrators includes environmentalists, animal rights groups and campaigners against the arms trade, with intelligence reports expecting a hardcore of 1,000 bent on causing mayhem in the capital.

Sir David Howard, Lord Mayor of London, said there had been "absolutely no sign" of trouble as the first protest of the day got under way.

"It is looking quite peaceful at the moment and there is almost a carnival atmosphere," Sir David told the BBC. "We are all keeping our fingers crossed that it is going to stay that way."

Scotland Yard say two protesters have been arrested in Southwark, south east London, on suspicion of being in possession of drugs

-- Anonymous, May 01, 2001

Spent a bit of time at the protest outside the Stock Exchange in Sydney and it was going along nicely when i left to go to the pub...

A couple of hours later we learnt that a copper had been stabbed and another hurt his foot.

Harry Roberts was not tought to be involved...

-- Anonymous, May 01, 2001

Anything for a scrap eh min?

You shouldn't be protesting over there....it's not even your country!

-- Anonymous, May 01, 2001

Went down town to smash up the local MacDonalds this morning but it was closed so instead I've hacked into the Bloomberg site to freeze their share price predicter.

FREEDOM FOR TOOTING!

-- Anonymous, May 01, 2001

Some get at the backpackers told me Don Hutchison was going to be there. Might've been wearing a tie-dye t-shirt of course, but i didn't see him. No-one falling over of their own accord anyway...

;((

-- Anonymous, May 01, 2001

I've just stamped my foot - quite hard actually.

Solidarity, brothers!

-- Anonymous, May 01, 2001

Well wor lass gets the day off "working from home" just in case the nasty protesters target her company. More power to their elbows I say, except they could have targeted wor company.

Free Nelson's umbrella

-- Anonymous, May 01, 2001

Any takers for bets on arrests, £millions in damage, no. of McDonalds turned over, no. of plastic bullets fired, etc.?

My money's on:

Arrests: 45
£5 millions
1 McD
20 bullets
96 dogs on a string with spotted handerchiefs around their necks
16 'hardcore' types with improvised masks seen getting agitated in front of police lines on the telly...time and time again
3 TV reporters nowhere near the bother
2 photographers getting battered by mistake by dozy plods
1 old person interviewed saying "isn't it awful, bring back national service / hanging / facist dictatorships"

-- Anonymous, May 01, 2001

Bobby, you missed....

50 pairs of Nikes getting passed out a broken shop window 1 City Analyst sitting on desk stating how this has not disrupted business.

-- Anonymous, May 01, 2001

Happy to be corrected :-)

I also missed "number of times Anita Roddick (sp?) denounces the vandal element not part of the protest but were 'being intimidated by police policy'"

My reckoning is 6

-- Anonymous, May 01, 2001

As it's May Day, Is it OK for me to smash up a telephone box and kil a tree in the Bigg Market after the match tonight?

-- Anonymous, May 01, 2001

Yes Rik....go ahead...

-- Anonymous, May 01, 2001

++++TIMETABLE FOR DISASTER!++++

This is from the BBC...anarchy in the UK, eh!

Timetable of protest (BST)
1000: Gathering at Victoria Embankment
1100: Parliament Square gathering
1200: Feed the birds in Trafalgar Square
1400: World Bank, Pall Mall
1600: Oxford Circus demonstration

Feed the birds???

-- Anonymous, May 01, 2001

That's it!! I've had enough of these friggin hippies feeding those poxy pigeons, i'm taking an air rifle down there to kill them all...the pigeons and not the hippies that is....

I don't mind them smashing up McD's but feeding the pigeons is just a step too far....

-- Anonymous, May 01, 2001

Don't accidently miss, Gav. Or mistake your air rifle for a GPMG or anything...

-- Anonymous, May 01, 2001

How could he mistake his rifle for a firm of Liquidators!?

-- Anonymous, May 01, 2001

I never miss what I'm aiming at..... ;))

-- Anonymous, May 01, 2001

So it's the 'target' that moves is it?

-- Anonymous, May 01, 2001

Usually in the opposite direction DB ;))

-- Anonymous, May 01, 2001

>>I never miss what I'm aiming at<<

But she said to me it went everywh -

;-)

-- Anonymous, May 01, 2001

Bobby - with regards feeding the birds, it's about 2p a bag. IMHO, it's not nice nor friendly to be calling women either birds or bags.

-- Anonymous, May 01, 2001

Ooh....the soapdodgers are finally going for it....they must've gotten sick of getting clean in the rain...

-- Anonymous, May 01, 2001

Police came under a hail of wine bottles, beer bottles and sticks as protesters attempted to surge forward into Regent Street. They advanced momentarily before being pushed back towards Oxford Circus.

Police videoed and photographed protesters at the front of the crowd where some people lost their footing in the crush. Police maintained a line at the entrance to Regent Street but continued to be sporadically pelted with objects including beer bottles, hats and pens.

Hmmmm - hats and pens. Worth the police stocking up on those plastic bullets then. And what sort of rebel use wine bottles?

"Oh no, Ffyon, Tarquin says use the Rothschild '78 not the '81"

-- Anonymous, May 01, 2001

Shuld hev shot the fuchers.

-- Anonymous, May 02, 2001

Did anyone ever reveal themselves as the REAL KLAUS?

-- Anonymous, May 02, 2001