Mayday 2001 Anti-Capitalist March London

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(Please Rate) "The dice reflect the myth of the 'free market' within the Monopoly system - But this is an obvious lie; the dice are loaded from the start." Mayday Monopoly Game Guide.

After all the media hype and threats of rubber bullets, about 5,000 anti-capitalist protestors turned out to play Mayday Monopoly in London. Police did what they do best, herding people and bashing skulls, but yer suicidal SchNEWS hacks were still there, dodging the video cameras and truncheon blows to bring you the true story.

"I say I've never seen anything like it - I lie. Back home in South Africa, we had something very similar once. It was called the State of Emergency, and that too allowed police total freedom to detain and arrest and harass and intimidate under some draconian 'special' anti-terrorist law.

In Johannesburg, they used these laws to help people commit suicide out of police station buildings, miraculously losing their fingernails on the flight down - how long will it take for that to happen here?" - Cookie, one of those bloody protestors

Some would say we didn't even need to turn up. Oxford Street had been boarded up and thousands of police replaced the shopaholics, while opinion polls revealed even normal people think multinationals have too much power and are uncaring. The Financial Times meanwhile lamented "Business needs to do more to demonstrate the benefits... Governments must defend globalisation more vigorou

SchNEWS Mayday report (http://www.schnews.org.uk)

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  • Remember, remember, the 5th of november, the gunpowder treason and plot. I know of no reason the gunpowder treason should ever be forgot.

  • "god I hate hippies...."

  • Awesome, damnit I thought all the evidence had been destroyed.

    Red-I Knights of the Order of Odd...

  • FUCK THE POLICE!

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