Carnival Against the Arms Trade
I really should have made some mention here of the recent Carnival Against the Arms Trade last week, but I ran out of time. At least I managed to get something posted to TawNews though…
“Recently smashEDO have been holding “noise demonstrations” outside EDO’s site at Home Farm Road in Brighton every Wednesday afternoon.
But this past Wednesday (4th June) the regular local effort was supplemented by something much larger… the Carnival Against the Arms Trade…With everyone in high spirits and numbers reaching an estimated 600+, folk having turned up for the event from all over the country and being joined by Critical Mass cyclists, the Carnival set off up the Lewes Road toward EDO’s offices…
…people adopting the fitwatch approach seemed to be all over the place, photographing the cops photographing the Carnival, waving flags in front of the cameras of FIT and local “intelligence-gatherers”, and generally giving the snoop cops a bit of a hard time…
And how many times do we need to witness a largely peaceful (although perhaps noisy) demonstration quickly turn into something potentially quite unpleasant by the provocative over-reactions of the cops?”
Read the full article here.
-- fotdmike
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