global protest - the battle of prague

[hedlik]

YEAH , we really belived those day that we can change something! we threw fire and got water,we threw stones and got blasted with blank amunition...it was very intense! maybe stupid,maybe useless...but at least we stood up against this BULLSHIT!!! anyway---very well made documentary! stand up PEOPLE!

[Petrrise]

fuck communism..we were part of western europe for thousand years and because of 40 years of "real socialsm" "we are in fucking eastern europe"

[hedlik]

@Petrrise yeah,but remember that 98percent of ppl voted for COMMIES in 48...

[Petrrise]

@hedlik because communists cheated and it was time after war and they promise nothing but peace and prosperity

[decmasta]

good song choice at the end

[sasaneti]

That idiot Gross is most corupted politic in CZECH REPUBLIC. Fuck POLICE.

[Mirosmadrid]

Fucking red scum...

[rhhvu]

Who?...

[rhhvu]

who?

[Quietlydoesit]

"One of the biggest events in the financial calendar"

What he means is one of the regular meetings of the rip-off merchants of the world. They are criminals who haven't been charged yet. That is what they are. They need to be stopped. Boycot goods stop swallowing their media bullshit. Ignore their advertisers and support resistance everywhere.

[bananaempijama]

indeed

[RIKTZZ]

exaclty "private" property, destroy it, nuff said...vermeer shut up

[footieuk]

If its of any interest to anyone, I was the cameraman who shot this... I did a different cut, called Perfect Day, check it out!

[vermeerembrandt]

One can be peaceful and destroy private property at the same tiime, or at least I always thought. What kind of materialst world do we live in when hurting property is the same as hurting people?

[MungoDaSmasher]

And THIS is what you anti-globalists achieve? This is how you think you make the difference in the world? Protesting will just get you beaten up by cops, nothing more. In Italy on a similar protest such as this one- a kid was shot in a head by a cop- and for what?!- he died for nothing! You anti-globalists are sheep- the ones that are pulling YOUR strings are leading you into bloody carnage and you dont see that!!!

[antiflagpwns]

youre an idiot. Protests do matter. For example there was a counter protest against a group called god hates fags in my hometown yesterday and well guess what? We drove them out of town. Yes protests dont do shit but if they are mass direct actions and help disrupt global capitalism then it makes a difference. Events like Prague, and Seattle make a difference by launching movements.

[im2fast2catch]

GREAT VIDEO - WORLD WIDE MARCH AND PROTEST SEPT. 22

SAY NO TO A CORRUPT ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT AND HUMAN CHIPPING! STAND UP AND MARCH FOR YOUR FREEDOM ON THE 22ND OF SEPTEMBER ALL AROUND THE WORLD!!!

GET INVOLVED WITH YOUR FUTURE! SPREAD THE WORD TO THE WORLD !!!

youtube. com/watch?v=z-R8s2YDdVg

[vigilance77]

That's the kind of demonstration those f@%#kers need to see....that kind of demonstration on the streets, in front of the white house in D. C., and outside the Bohemian Grove's annual meetings!

[seanmcg4]

-because they are showing that instead of just complying to be spectators they are willing to take real action against governments and corporations. those in power don't care if people stand in the street and chant and wave placards, in fact it even provides them with a veil of legitimacy because they can then say 'oh look, we live in a wonderful democracy where people are allowed to voice their opinions!'. Ofcourse we caould stand in the street all day shouting and nothing would change.

[marcyeast]

mmm ... as one of the directors of this film i have a couple of questions!

- in what way are 'the anrachists who break corporate windows the only ones who are a real threat to the IMF and World Bank'?

- in what ways is 'violent protest' more successful in their achievements?

- in what ways is breaking windows any more or less a 'symbolic act' that a 'peaceful protest'?

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[assssi]

they say in the movie: "whether the world bankers are listening is an open question." well, if they won't listen to peaceful/creative/whatever protest, then we have to make our voice heard. if the breaking of windows sounds louder in the ears of the people in power than that's what we have to do! btw: usually it's the media who don't give a f*** about peaceful protest, but report only when there's a riot.

[vigilance77]

I agree with you. You have to do something that gets them to take notice. You can write letters to your congressmen, your senators, but how much do they pay attention? I can tell you..most of them don't. They think we are putty in their hands, and we aren't, and have to show them!

[vigilance77]

I'd like to answer, though I'm not the one who posted that. Better than peaceful marches that can easily be dismissed..a little violent show gives the message, "you can't tread on us!" Not without a tussle anyway. It tells them people are angry and getting angrier.

[seanmcg4]

How many decades of 'peaceful' protest have seen, and what has it achieved?, next to nothing!. it is the anarchists who break corporate windows who are the really peaceful ones, for they are actually trying to stop the global capitalist machine. the 'non-violent' protesters are actually helping to perpetuate the war machine by doing nothing but symbolic acts, hence allowing the real violence of capital and state to go on unhindered

[seanmcg4]

well yet again the BBC succeed at their job, to portray the movement as a failure and to turn people against the anarchists, and why?, because the anarchists who break corporate windows are the only ones who are a real threat to the IMF and world bank.