ratcni01
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you know the war is coming when ...
Mar 06, 2003, 11:45
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you see maps in the daily paper giving locations of "enemy" units and displacement of friendly strike forces, with little bomb and tank symbols and insets providing details (like we are voyeurs/ to be titilated) giving the impression of local knowledge
Note: dehumanising language when "they" describe this
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RiotGibbon
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Re: you know change is coming when ...
Mar 06, 2003, 11:57
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hordes of kids bunk off school around the world, block Whitehall, get arrested for public order offences and have to be forcibly dragged off the top of the gates outside Downing Street
check them out:
http://www.slough4peace.net/gallery/?id=pxINET1780
and don't tell me there's no hope for the young people of today ... I think we'd better watch out, this is going to be 10 times bigger than the CJA, in terms of unifying and radicalising ...
RG
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ratcni01
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Re: you know change is coming when ...
Mar 06, 2003, 12:17
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hey cool, can i bunk off school!!
soz rg, bit low today, just depressed me to see those map things in the metro today, defeatist talk n'all that ;-)
any moves for another march afoot, *asking* rg with ear to ground
even bigger, more nvda peeps - now that's a cheery thought
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Merrick
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further actions
Mar 06, 2003, 12:35
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I'm currently sticking together what details I can find on forthcoming NVDA, the new peace camps and other ways to help. Should be up in the next coupla days. Keep watching the U-Know News section!
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Joanna
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Re: further actions
Mar 06, 2003, 12:43
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There's a demo in Cambridge at 12pm on Saturday. Meet outside Great St Mary's Church by the marketplace.
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RiotGibbon
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everything you need to know
Mar 06, 2003, 14:43
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http://www.slough4peace.net/events/
http://www.schnews.org.uk/stopwar/events.htm
but if you live in the South, you really don't want to miss this:
http://www.guilfin.net/database/showevent.php3?ev_id=evINET2122
or, of course, Honk4Peace tonight in Slough:
http://www.guilfin.net/database/showevent.php3?ev_id=evTSE6552
just been interviewed by local radio for this ... it was a bit embarrasing, as they rang up during the "Peace Prayers" at the church we're having our public meeting at ...
heh
RG
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Telepathine
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Re: you know the war is coming when ...
Mar 06, 2003, 17:25
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...the Beeb starts sensoring it's news items...a few weeks back we were listening to the Today programme on R4...news came on that weapons inspectors in Iraq had found 'no evidence' of chemical weapons...so we scanned the morinig news/papers/teletext etc....nothing...the story got pulled...if both my wife and myself hadn't heard it together, i'd be tempted to think we'd gone mad.
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RiotGibbon
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horses mouth
Mar 07, 2003, 11:31
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my regular reading:
http://www.un.org/apps/news/infocusnewsiraq.asp
direct from Baghdad, all the latest on what they're actually saying, and all about the private interviews that have been going on for weeks ...
RG
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