MAYDAY- 10th anniversary at Parliament SQ-OCCUPY!!

Type: Other - Carnival
Start Time: Saturday, May 1, 2010 at 1:00pm
End Time: Thursday, May 6, 2010 at 7:00pm
Location: Westminster, London
Street: Parliament Square
City/Town: London, United Kingdom
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DescriptionThe politicans at Westminster have plenty of plans for their own futures, but no plans for ours!

We're going to Reclaim Power and take the future back into our own hands.
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DEATH – TO THE OLD CORRUPT ORDER
On International Worker's Day, Saturday 01 May 2010, the Four Horsefolk of the Apocalypse will be galloping back at the head of four May Day Carnival Parades:

• The Red Horse – will drag the carcass of Gordon Brown:
— from Labour Party HQ, 39 Victoria Street, SW1H 0HA at 2:00pm
— event page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=338167061775

• The Silver Horse – will drag the carcass of David Cameron:
— from Conservative party HQ, Millbank Tower, SW1P 4DP at 2:00pm
— event page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=315494162167

• The Green Horse – will drag the carcass of Nick Clegg:
— from Liberal Democrat HQ, 4 Cowley Street, SW1P 3NB at 2:00pm
— event page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=363481372782

• The Black Horse – will drag the last remains of Nick Griffin:
— from Clerkenwell Green, EC1R 0DU at 1:00pm
— event page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=340247816939

All four Carnival Parades will converge on Parliament Square at 2:30pm, and the carcasses of the four party leaders will be hanged, drawn and quartered, or guillotined in accordance with the wishes of the assembled multitudes in a huge May Day Carnival. Each Horse has it's own Event page, where we invite you to also register your attendance at this historic event.
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LIFE – TO THE IDEAL WORLD EXPOSITION
The Carnival will establish a Direct Democracy Village, occupying the Square at least until the General Election, now likely to be on Thurs May 6. All manner of folk with positive, popular, sustainable ideas for an abundant, green and ecologically harmonious future may grasp this opportunity to help make them a living reality, through 'System Change not Climate Change'.

During this time, People's Assemblies will convene on the green, where people can meet as equals to decide what we really want.

WE DON'T WANT A WORLD RUN BY BANKS.
WE WON'T PAY FOR THEIR CRISIS.
WE ARE PATRIOTS FOR THE ONLY COUNTRY WE'VE GOT
-- PLANET EARTH.

DOWN AND OUT WITH THE OLD, CORRUPT ORDER – POWER TO THE PEOPLE'S ASSEMBLY

 

I dont think anyones saying that this is going to bring down a government, that is your perception. Ive just come from a meeting yesterday in which protesters have just stopped the last ancient woodland in south East of England being destroyed by developers and have spent 3 years fighting it and remarks like yours just belittle the effort that people put in to small protests, just last year our "small protest" stopped seals being used as entertainment near a road for a sealife centre, just 2 examples that armchair anarchists could learn from instead of making up petty excuses ( fuel, pens etc) to try to justify their apathy.

Yes this protest aint gonna change fuck all like the ones mentioned above but its a week before our election and a chance to show how sick we are of politicians/bankers etc and its also a carnival as a celebration of dissent, i couldnt care if some people think its not achieving anything, what are they themselves achieving by doing fuck all? should no one be out on the streets anymore (just what the government wants) or should we be out now more than ever, i know that a million marched against the war and didnt change nothing etc and i do agree with you in that sense, same as the odd riot doing nothing but actually getting out on the streets can be most effective sometimes, ie another example is thats the fascist BNP were trying to set up a group in my home town last year and what happened?? they were met on the streets and kicked out of town by protesters and now they dare not come back (i can give you more detials on any of these protests i you wish) so please dont say protest does fuck all

 

Protests are fuck all as long as they do fuck all- what a shite statement, how did we know that protesting against the nazis would stop them until we tried??
You keep going on about this protest about pink ponies or going on about tree hugging? well people are out there risking arrest/getting beaten up etc to defend animals/enviroment/freedom of assembly etc and it seems your just the kind of punk who is more interested in the way they look than supporting people who want to do something instead of mantaining your ego.

You go on about storming the whitehouse etc, well go and organise to do it then! I really couldnt give a shit about what the public think of protesters, we get it here when we demonstrate against a local bomb factory and get abused (ie-get a job,take a shower) do you really think we care what these apathetic ignorant cunts think whilst this company just carries on sending weopens to drop on innocent people, we wanna cost them money and shut them down (weve already cost them almost 2 million and recently £350,000 damage after breaking in and destroying the place) SHOULD WE NOT DO THAT COS THE TV FREAKS WILL SAY WE ARE TROUBLEMAKERS?) do me a favour!

People are out on the streets in Greece at the moment trying to oust thier government, should they be doing that? or do they just carry on living in shit with a corrupt government in power, fucks sake man its so easy just to sit back and slag off protest, no doubt you live a comftable life and dont feel the need to stand up against anything, students at my local university are outside today (sussex university) protesting against 56 million pounds of cuts, should they not be there? so come on when should we protest or not protest?
Im sure that this mayday protest aint gonna change the world or oust the government but so fucking what, like you say you do your bit by talking, others do theres other ways, if you dont like that then well, see ya on the streets

 

By the way i just wanted you to know that my response is not a personal attack, your entitled to your opinion as i am my so i dont want this to become a slagging match, i would rather just take the post down and im sure we prob have more in common than not so although we disagree with this post i still respect your viewpoint, i just sometimes come across as "in your face" when im typing but dont mean to shout you down or shit like that so i hope we can remain adult, what made me angry was i posted this to get people to come along and not to have to try to defend it, cheers, Rob

 

Fair enough, but this was still meant to just be a carnival as it says on top of post and was not intended to "bring down the government" , maybe your reading too much into it? Anyhow thanks for debate