How to start a protest

hairyslug

So the government are getting us to drop our soap in the shower on a daily basis now (household/water/tv), every time a thread starts its the usual stuff, they get away with it cause we do nothing.

So, lets just say we want to do something, hypothetically loike, how do you plan/organise (a peaceful) protest, does it just start with 1 person outside the dail and it slowly grows into a mass, something like you see in greece or is there stategic planning to be done.

Ive got me a pitchfork and im not afraid to use it.

Sindri

Dynamite and lots of it.

FatherLen

turn on the dryer at full speed.
throw a brick in.
lol.

admiralofthefleet

chain yourself to railings and hold a sign that says 'down with this sort of thing'
priest collar optional

Kevin Duffy

Well, it's a bit late now, but I'd advise not starting in AH.

AngryBollix

hairyslug wrote: »

So the government are getting us to drop our soap in the shower on a daily basis now (household/water/tv), every time a thread starts its the usual stuff, they get away with it cause we do nothing.

So, lets just say we want to do something, hypothetically loike, how do you plan/organise (a peaceful) protest, does it just start with 1 person outside the dail and it slowly grows into a mass, something like you see in greece or is there stategic planning to be done.

Ive got me a pitchfork and im not afraid to use it.

Yes you are

Cover yourself in chicken blood (any blood really, except caterpillar blood, its green and you would look stupid) and run into the Dail screaming "CAREFUL NOW!"


Oh yeah get a female friend to flash the guards at the gate as a distraction.

TheBegotten

Don't look at the gates of the Dail too hard, they might charge you with destruction of property.

Joe McNamara

holystungun9

you put your left leg, you put your left leg out, you put left leg in and you shake it all about.......

Guill

Start with an agenda and work from there.

kumate_champ07

bongos

ilovesleep

Email the socialist party (spelling??) with your concerns perhaps even links to boards.ie debate that back up your concerns. That would probably be your best bet.

Slydice

Well, if it's just gonna be you or maybe you and less than ten others, fire ahead and march up outside the dail with yer placards and do some speeches/protest chants.

If you are gonna be organising a group of more than ten, then decide how you want to do your protest (where you want to march, what it's all about etc) and advertise it. It might be worthwhile letting the gardai know if you'll be having a big crowd that might take up some of the road. They'd probably see about having some sort of an escort system for you so that they could block or guide traffic around you.

af_thefragile

You gather a bunch of hippie/hipster type and head down to central bank. The rest should follow on its own...