Reclaim the streets 09

delop

Is there a march this year? I haven't heard a peep about it...

phasers

Yeah, it was on yesterday. Didn't you get the email?

Gone Drinking

Everyone's too busy Reclaiming the dole 09

Saibh

delop wrote: »

Is there a march this year?

Yes, last month

stovelid

One thing that always confuses me: why do they always try and reclaim the same street? Surely there are plenty to choose from?

Sheriff street or Oliver Bond Street are two thoroughfares in desperate need of reclamation by the protesting offspring of the middle and upper-classes. Potential protesters will be delighted to know that these streets are the natural habitat of the oppressed underclasses, and unlike Dame Street, you are unlikely to risk getting your allowance cut off when you bump into your father on his lunch break from the bank/stockbrokers/solicitors/university/office when you're on the doss from college, winding up the police.

delop

phasers wrote: »

Yeah, it was on yesterday. Didn't you get the email?

Ah that was it so, what that you in the bright pink rubber underwear running down Dame st? :eek:

phasers

delop wrote: »

Ah that was it so, what that you in the bright pink rubber underwear running down Dame st? :eek:

That could be one of many thousand people

I need you to be more specific

Degsy

stovelid wrote: »

One thing that always confuses me: why do they always try and reclaim the same street? Surely there are plenty to choose from?

Sheriff street or Oliver Bond Street are two thoroughfares in desperate need of reclamation by the protesting offspring of the middle and upper-classes. Potential protesters will be delighted to know that these streets are the natural habitat of the oppressed underclasses, and unlike Dame Street, you are unlikely to risk getting your allowance cut off when you bump into your father on his lunch break from the bank/stockbrokers/solicitors/university/office when you're on the doss from college, winding up the police.

Wonderfully put.
The middle class twats wouldnt dare venture out of thier southside comfort zones or it wouldnt be the police that would be beating the shiit out of them.
Pseaudo-idealistic,cowardly ****.

Dudess

stovelid wrote: »

One thing that always confuses me: why do they always try and reclaim the same street? Surely there are plenty to choose from?

Sheriff street or Oliver Bond Street are two thoroughfares in desperate need of reclamation by the protesting offspring of the middle and upper-classes. Potential protesters will be delighted to know that these streets are the natural habitat of the oppressed underclasses, and unlike Dame Street, you are unlikely to risk getting your allowance cut off when you bump into your father on his lunch break from the bank/stockbrokers/solicitors/university/office when you're on the doss from college, winding up the police.

Reminds me of a guy I knew whose "radical" activities included shouting things like "McDonalds are bastards" and for a while he lived in a shed in a field... owned by his solicitor father.

delop

Degsy wrote: »

Wonderfully put.
The middle class twats wouldnt dare venture out of thier southside comfort zones or it wouldnt be the police that would be beating the shiit out of them.
Pseaudo-idealistic,cowardly ****.

When did the attitude in this country get so right wing Sigh...

Dudess

He's one person - doesn't make the whole country's attitude right-wing. Was it more left-wing before or something?

It's not overly right-wing either - as in, embracing of right-wing ideology. It's simply observational.

I'd agree with him that a large contingent of the Reclaim The Streets protestors are well-heeled kids "slumming it".

Dartz

I think they just like the sight of burly country guards with their massive truncheons....

arybvtcw0eolkf

Dartz wrote: »

I think they just like the sight of burly country guards with their massive truncheons....

You'll have the boards ladies reaching for their batteries if your not careful :P


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dsmythy

Hopefully not. What exactly are they "reclaiming the streets" for anyway? They block a road being used by.... regular people. Not going to gain you many recruits methinks. It's also against the law to block a street without pre-arranging it with the Gardai but they'll cry nonetheless when they are told to stop.

AckwelFoley

Id LOVE a reclaim the streets march in Athlone.

Since i lost my Job in December ive alot more free time, and im sure id be able to spare 15 - 30 mins of my time to hammer the fcuk out of a few of those knotty unwashed tree hugging ****

O'Coonassa

delop wrote: »

When did the attitude in this country get so right wing Sigh...

Around the time of the Cashel Synod AFAIK