G8 Protests
Over at post no bills there is a fantastic, first hand description of the G8 protests in Edinburgh.
If, as pundits like to inform us, we are indeed living in a Western world mired in apathy and fuelled by inescapable greed someone should be so kind as to inform the trainloads of people that travelled from London to Edinburgh on Friday. They – almost to a person – despise Bob Geldof but have come anyway. Theirs is not the celebrity-sanctioned protest, but a truly challenging indictment against the very structure of society. For this reason (and not because they wear black) these groups are the biggest threat to the status quo, will be dealt with accordingly, by the police, by politicians and by the mainstream media.
