Strange experiences in the land of the Peasants’ Revolt
Just returned (well, not strictly true, returned Wednesday afternoon actually) from a week-long stay at Climate Camp which this year was at Blackheath, London (that’s the Peasants’ Revolt connection by the way).
And in the time I’ve been back I’ve been trying to sift through umpteen photos and do a bit of a write-up of the week that’ll be posted elsewhere.
And in my spare time (yep, all five minutes of it) I’ve been trying to think about the totally bizarre experience of attending protests that haven’t been trashed by the cops.
More specifically, protests that the cops stood by and watched unfold… and didn’t try to disrupt. One could almost be fooled into thinking that they’d actually tried to facilitate them!
And apart from a few minor scuffles most of these protests concluded without any untoward incidents.
Hmm. There’s a moral there somewhere.
As I say, I’ll probably be commenting a bit more on this elsewhere (most likely a TawNews article)
Meanwhile I’m slowly uploading (batch by batch) pics from the week to this set on Flickr.
-- fotdmike
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