Tag: protesters
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Queer as in fuck you
In Pride Month I learned the sad story about David Olio, who was forced out of his job for playing, not reading, an Allen Ginsberg poem ‘Please Master’ to 17-18 year old college bound kids. Was this in the 1960’s? 1970’s even? No, earlier this year, in Connecticut. Several things annoy me about this from…
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5 Years of Angry
Went to see Super Furry Animals tonight, it was great, but before a very emotional ‘Fire In My Heart’ Gruff Rhys spoke about the current situation in the UK, with the Tories being re-elected. He said ‘Let’s get angry. 5 years of angry’ to cheers. They later did an appropriately angry ‘Man Don’t Give A…
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Mashing up politics
(Powershift Flashdance London 2009) I was looking at the frankly disgusting video of Lord Monckton calling COP15 climate change protesters (noisy but peaceful; and ones that like SustainUS seemed happy to debate – he should try and meet some of the hardcore G20 anarchists they’d probably just punch him in his upper class fat ToryUKIP…