buy nothing day demo (1 Viewer)

[wackdoodle]

Originally posted by leon-o-tron
Can I bring my shotgun? Just for intimidation like I won'd load it . But when I point it in the shoppers faces they wont know that. And can we smash up McDonalds too? I've got nothing against them but I just like smashing things up and I can then say it's because of global consumnational rises

What the heck does "Global Consumnational Rises" mean?
And why would you try to intimidate your fellow man?

 

[pete]

Re: Re: Re: ridiculous optimism!

Originally posted by wackdoodle
Exactly. Most of those people in the Dame street riots last year hadn't got a clue what the protest was about. They were mostly idiots drinking cans with taches and bubble jackets.

I fear you may have missed my point.

 

[Hector Grey]

state o' denmark here.

 

[wackdoodle]

Re: Re: Re: Re: ridiculous optimism!

Originally posted by pete
I fear you may have missed my point.

You shouldn't fear anything Pete, you shouldn't fear anything. Don't be afraid; just explain your point properly and it won't happen again.

 

[wackdoodle]

Originally posted by deco[y]
just read this on indymedja. posting it here cos no-one reads the politics board. right? thought some here might like to know.

buy nothing day demo on Satuarday

2 pm, Central Bank, move to Grafton Street.
come out and protest against the increasingly consumerist society

central bank, 2pm is the meet up point. the hope is to head up GRafton street and disrupt shopping, if even just for a few minutes. Make people stop and think about their actions. Anyone with information leaflets about sweatshops, neo-liberalism, alternatives, please bring them along and hand them out to shoppers. Tomorrow is an attempt to inform people who are blindly shopping their lives away in a search for happiness and an attempt to win their hearts and minds and maybe set them on the path to questioning the corporate influence that is all pervasive in our lives.

It should be a bit of a carnival atmosphere. Musicians, bring your music. Bring foghorns and whistles and noise and a smile and turn tomorrow from the usual high street display of banal shoppers and droned looks to a boulevard of fun. Stop shopping. Start living.

If you REALLY cared about the poor people in the sweatshops, why don't you do something about it instead of sitting there on your flashy PC (probably made in China), organising protests that will never make a difference?
If you want to make a difference, sell your PC and send them the money. It will support 12 familys for almost a year on their wages.
Stop just talking like you care, and prove it.
F**king wannabe activist.

 

[Hector Grey]

man this is good stuff.

wannabe activist. i like it. i really do.

 

[kstop]

Re: My list:

Originally posted by madouva
* Soup from Soup Dragon (I figured they're a cottage industry, not a chain of c*nts).

Mmm, Soup Dragon pea and ham....

almost wish I hadn't gone for the aul' An Post xmas lunch now.

 

[leon-o-tron]

Sorry for your ignorance Wackdoodle, Global Consumnational Rises = G8 Anti Summiteers = Capitalatistic Fat Rats = the opposite of those watered down commies, the Socialists.
Read the Socialist Workers Party paper and get a life Afroman

 

[wackdoodle]

Originally posted by leon-o-tron
Sorry for your ignorance Wackdoodle, Global Consumnational Rises = G8 Anti Summiteers = Capitalatistic Fat Rats = the opposite of those watered down commies, the Socialists.
Read the Socialist Workers Party paper and get a life Afroman

You don't know me. I already have a life. And don't diss Afroman again. He's done more with his rap career than you ever will.


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[spiritualtramp]

Originally posted by wackdoodle
And don't diss Afroman again. He's done more with his rap career than you ever will.


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oh for fucks sake

 

[path]

Originally posted by silo
deco[y], are you the path?

Nope, different person.

 

[silo]

ah. well... hello there path.

 

[deco[y]]

Re: Re: buy nothing day demo

Originally posted by wackdoodle
If you REALLY cared about the poor people in the sweatshops, why don't you do something about it instead of sitting there on your flashy PC (probably made in China), organising protests that will never make a difference?
If you want to make a difference, sell your PC and send them the money. It will support 12 familys for almost a year on their wages.
Stop just talking like you care, and prove it.
F**king wannabe activist.

Are you taking the piss?!

Here is an idea - why don't you do that yourself, instead of telling me to do it? I won't ask anyone to do anything that I am not prepared to do myself. But the stuff you just came out with (well 3 weeks ago actually : Ed) is typical of arm chair cynicism, where it's easy to take potshots at people who attempt to raise some awareness or make some point, cos you're actaully not arshed yourself. You don't know me or what I believe. All you know is that I posted about a protest highlighting over consumption in Ireland with the idea that these things should be advertised.

But either you are very smart and funny and trying to rise me (worked, but only a little bit) or you are a moron. PC made in China?!! Ha!

And obviously, as I said in my first post on this thread, I think these protests can make a difference.

And I can confirm [thepath]'s contention that we are different people.



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[deco[y]]

Re: Re: ridiculous optimism!

Originally posted by pete
I on the other hand, am a cynic.

[not directed at anyone in particular]

I just wonder about who the protesting benefits most - the undeducated masses, or those who need to feel validated by being involved in protesting, regardless of what they're protesting about.

[/not directed at anyone in particular]

Sounds like the Socialist Workers Party.

This sounds somewhat akin to the idea that middle class kids from the south side, whose Dad is rich and a capitalist pig (I am none of these for the record, I am painting the stereotype) can't protest cos they are only doing it to ease their guilt. Which I always think is such shite. People can't help what they are born into, but if you feel strongly about something, genuinely, you have as much right to protest about it, even if it doesn't directly affect you. For instance, Father Bergin getting beatings from police batons in the US of the fifties for defending black people riding in white areas of buses.



!cheezy

 

[mazzyianne]

Aw yeah!!
Besides, buy nothing day might not have been a total success but (from my experience of the day) by the end of it we had got our message accross to a fair few people, given away fuckloads of freemfood, both to homeless people mainly but randon punters too, who were well confused by being given free stuff and stopped to ask what the story was. All the food would have gone to waste if we hadn't 'rescued' it.
So any way you look at it, it was a worthwhile venture.
Take that cynics!!.|..|