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This weekend saw one of the biggest protests sweep through London since the Iraq war march of 2003. Dredging through the different coverages, the best seems to come from outside of Blighty, being less bound by the infighting and muckslinging. Here’s background to the 26th of March protest in case you missed it.
From a longer New Statesman article, in turns dismissed as fiction and hailed as honest coverage: ‘’These young people are right to be angry. I don’t think people are angry enough, actually, given that the NHS is being destroyed before our eyes,” says Barry, 61, a retired social worker. “The rally was alright, but a huge march didn’t make Tony Blair change his mind about Iraq, and another huge march isn’t going to make David Cameron change his mind now. So what are people supposed to do?”
Good links in the tweetstream to student protestor eyewitnesses here. Point is, what good did it all do? Once again we see how the actions of just a small cadre of the black bloc (either real or saboteurs) gives ample excuse to all sides for the disproportionately violent response from the police. Looking at the photos from the event, you also have to ask yourself: what proportion of people there were actively participating, as opposed to filming or taking pictures of all this dissidence? It’s enough to make you become a Yes Man.
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