Posted on 07/14/2018 4:07:49 PM PDT by Ennis85
Nearly 250,000 activists descended on the streets of central London today to protest Donald Trump's visit to the UK, organisers said.
Protesters marched through the capital carrying placards reading "Dump Trump" and "Star Spangled Gobs***".
Aerial images showed the streets of central London from Portland Place to Trafalgar Square packed with tens of thousands of people taking part.
Stop Trump, the group which organised the biggest march, said that there were 250,000 people taking part.
The day began with the unveiling of the Trump baby blimp in Parliament Square, which was crowdfunded by campaigners furious that Mr Trump was being welcomed to the UK.
The balloon, which depicts Mr Trump wearing a nappy and carrying a mobile phone, was later pictured among the marching crowds.
Later, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn addressed crowds at a rally in Trafalgar Square and was received with enthusiasm.
"We are asserting our right to demonstrate, our right to free speech," he said.
Mr Corbyn said Sadiq Khan deserves support and not condemnation. "Human rights belong to all of us," he added.
Mr Corbyn said the message of the demonstration was "one of solidarity". He added: "When we unite together with common objectives, we can all win."
The crowd applauded him warmly and chanted "Oh, Jeremy Corbyn".
Into the evening several protesters jumped into the fountain in the centre of the square to cool off and kids followed suit - splashing in the shallow water.
Braver members of the crowd climbed up to the top and protested from there.
While activists were making their feelings known in central London, the President was meeting with Theresa May at Chequers for talks on trade, Brexit and Nato. He later took tea with the Queen at Windsor Castle.
(Excerpt) Read more at standard.co.uk ...
Billions I tell ya, like McDonald’s hamburgers.
lol... yeah
BBC News = oxymoron
Exactly what is it that they are protesting Trump for? That they don’t like him? It’s not like many of the 63 million Americans who actually voted for him thought he was a likeable guy. We like his policies, or at least the ones he says he will try to implement, but he hasn’t done any of the dastardly acts people accuse him of. You are not supposed to vote according to who you “like”. It’s not a popularity contest. Do they disagree with the concepts of America First? Are their feelings hurt because he doesn’t show the European elite the proper respect and decorum? Do they disagree with wanting to stop globalism, rampant migration, and the browning of the world? If so, say so. So far all they do is prance around and say “F___ Trump.” Not very helpful, you Euro trash fools.
BWAHAHAHAH A quarter million people ?!
I heard it was more like 400.
What do people on Crete have to do with it?
With a major emphasis on ‘prance’, judging by that link above.
arguably, the Tea Party protests played a part in paving the way for the Trump presidency, yet BBC has no-one remotely conservative, much less from the Tea Party, on this protest-promoting program:
AUDIO features giant photo of Trump Baby (blimp) balloon.
AUDIO: 52mins59secs: 14 Jul: BBC The Real Story: Do Protests Still Work?
Presenter: Ritula Shah
Donald Trump has arrived in England but he’s not getting the red carpet treatment a US president might expect. Big protests are planned in London, featuring a march to Trafalgar Square and a six metre high balloon of Donald Trump as a snarling orange baby. The protests may let people vent their feelings about the US president’s controversial style and policies, but few expect much change as a result. So, while protests still occupy a prominent place in the drama of democracy, do they really achieve anything anymore?
How have cultural forces and social media changed the way protests are organised? And can non-violent protests still force elected politicians to change?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3cswkdc
guests - David Graeber:
Feb 2014: The Nation: From Occupy to Climate Justice
There’s a growing effort to merge economic-justice and climate activism. Call it climate democracy.
By Wen Stephenson
Sometimes, though, the prospect of climate catastrophe shows up unexpectedly, awkwardly, as a kind of non sequitur—or the return of the repressed.
I was reminded of this not long ago when I came to a showstopping passage deep in the final chapter of anarchist anthropologist David Graeber’s The Democracy Project: A History, a Crisis, a Movement, his interpretive account of the Occupy Wall Street uprising, in which he played a role not only as a core OWS organizer but as a kind of house intellectual (his magnum opus, Debt: The First 5,000 Years, happened to come out in the summer of 2011). Midway through a brief discourse on the nature of labor, he pauses to reflect, as though it has just occurred to him: “At the moment, probably the most pressing need is simply to slow down the engines of productivity.” Why? Because “if you consider the overall state of the world,” there are “two insoluble problems” we seem to face: “On the one hand, we have witnessed an endless series of global debt crises…to the point where the overall burden of debt…is obviously unsustainable. On the other we have an ecological crisis, a galloping process of climate change that is threatening to throw the entire planet into drought, floods, chaos, starvation, and war.” ...
Graeber’s solution—“a planetary debt cancellation” and a “mass reduction in working hours: a four-hour day, perhaps, or a guaranteed five-month vacation”—may sound far-fetched, but at least he acknowledges the “galloping” climate crisis and what’s at stake in it...
L.A. Kauffman, who writes for Guardian & CNN, etc:
7 May: Guardian: We are living through a golden age of protest
by LA Kauffman
We are seeing a level of organizing with little precedent – but it’s time for stronger forms of demonstration, such as sit-ins and street blockades...
More than 900 emergency protests are being planned all around the country if Trump should fire Robert Mueller or otherwise compromise the legal investigation into possible wrongdoing by his administration...
21 Jun: CNN: Crowd gathers at LaGuardia Airport to support children believed to be separated from families
By Madison Park and Ellie Kaufman, CNN
Dana Fisher:
4 Jun: NY Post: Associated Press: Pope to meet with oil execs on climate change
Dana Fisher, a sociologist who studies environmentalism at the University of Maryland, said the pope is cementing his leadership on climate.
“He certainly is trying to lead for the planet and Lord knows we need it,” she said...
plus Fatima Shabodien, Country Director, ActionAid South Africa; feminist political activist, who sees “resistance” protests as gimmicks.
btw, the Tea Party did get a mention around 45min into the program, but was brushed off instantly.
Dana Fisher admits American “resistance” is too connected to the Dem Party & that protests in US are basically the Democrats taking to the streets.
BBC Ritula Shah: but you get movements within political parties, if you think of the tea party movement. was that a protest movement within the Republican Party?
Dana Fisher: in my view, not at all.
L.A. Kauffman: i don’t think the “resistance” is really within the Democrat Party either.
Actually, Mayor Khan prevented a pro Trump rally using security laws, while allowing the raucous protest.
Same as when thousands of women died trying to murder their babies while in the womb in the 60’s?
Plus, I would say to them: Are you, any of you, U.S. Citizens? If not, it doesn’t matter what you think. You don’t get a say.
Sodomites, socialists, people who couldn’t articulate what they or their opponents believe and so substitute slogans for argument, what they believe, what they want for the USA doesn’t matter. This is not their country; this is not their government; President Trump is not their President. It is our country; it is our government; he is our President. Our ancestors cut the ties with your country 242 years ago. You don’t matter to us anymore.
.. all of which bolsters my point in #43.
“BBC=CNN”
BBC=Hitler’s Ministry of Propaganda.
From Texas to the people of London who disrespect my President. Eff off fools...
What a sorry collection of lost and deceived leftist rabble rousers. Their delusions run strong and if there is to be reawakenings it will be of the rude variety.
Vast majority of the crowd were gays, communists and whatever other left-wing organization you can think of.
However, where are the V-2’s now that they are really needed? /sarc, I think, but maybe not
England is dying. The spirit of WW2 is long gone, smothered by the Marxists/socialist elites and labor leaders.
Somebody put a bullet in the old lion’s head as a mercy killing.
Then Khan can replace it with a mosque and a camel.
That may have been an incentive. “Be at the rally, or we will find you!”
Great Britain is turning into a totalitarian state
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