Bike, boots and camera to the ready, I'm off to join I Count down at Trafalgar Square today. Hope to see you there....
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- Polly Higgins
- London, United Kingdom
- I am a lawyer with one wish: to end all ecocides by 2020. I have proposed that a law of Ecocide be added as the 5th Crime Against Peace. When we do that we will end the era of Ecocide.
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November
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- Concentrating Solar Power: how mirrors can light u...
- A few quick climate change facts
- Formula 1 goes green
- My farmer's market
- Out for Lunch in Clerkenwell
- Pronto Condoms
- Queen's Speech introduces Climate Change Bill
- The green implications of the US mid-term elections
- Eco-footprint: Nuclear Power Station v's Wind Farm
- What to do with old mobile phones
- No More Plastic Bags - Action in Japan and Zanzibar
- American mid-term results with consequences
- Global Warming - conclusive evidence
- The Sun - Britian's top tabloid has gone green
- And the sun shone on London's Climate March
- I Count
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5 comments:
How did it go? Give us gossip!
I was amused by this news report.
Some 22,500 people attended the rally, said the police while organisers said 25,000. There were no arrests.
The organisers' estimate was only a couple of thousand above the police estimate?
Pfft! My experience of being on protest marches is that when you tell the press how many people you think there were, you're supposed to take the police estimate and then double it (or triple it, if the march is organised by the Socialist Workers Party). Amateurs. :p
Was sorely tempted to take your advice and round up numbers, but the cat's out the bag now...And is it now a sign of a good rally when there are no arrests? Not quite the spirit of the riots of 1968 - yet!
Hmmm, I said...
My experience of being on protest marches is that when you tell the press how many people you think there were, you're supposed to take the police estimate and then double it (or triple it, if the march is organised by the Socialist Workers Party)
I just browsed through the website of the Respect Coalition (which is pretty much a franchise of the Socialist Workers Party) and they said:
Councillor Rania Khan, RESPECT Councillor in Tower Hamlets spoke at the 60,000-strong Climate Change protest and march on Saturday 4 November 2006. The march assembled outside the US Embassy in Grosvenor Square, and finished in Trafalgar Square.
Wha....? I was JOKING when I said the SWP would triple the numbers!!!!!!!
Spooky. Is this a transferrable skill? Can you do horse racing tips/political outcomes too? You could be the Lazy E tipster.
Do not mock my e-betting skillz. I won £120 for a £10 stake on the Eurovision Song Contest.
This is because I thought "Hmmm, Lordi, those crazy death metallers, are the band that everyone's talking about, but nobody's betting to win. 12 to 1 odds? Maybe I should put a tenner down."
And they romped home, winning with the strongest margin in the history of the Eurovision. I should have put more money down, really.
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