I wasn’t expecting much from G20
Taking Stock
I wasn’t expecting much from G20.
Before I left Sydney I sat down with myself and discussed the futility of summit protests. I admitted to myself that I felt ineffectual and embarrassed. I knew our numbers would be small and I wondered what we could possibly do that would mean anything; that would affect anything.What I really wanted was to be able to blockade the summit and I knew that wasn’t going to happen. I couldn’t bear the idea of another "Carnival Against Capitalism". Another lame spectacle offered as some kind of consolation prize for not being able to do anything else.
…I don’t entirely mean this. I am fully aware of the beauty of creating alternatives to those structures and processes we seek to depose. I think street parties are wonderful. "Really free markets" are lovely. But it wasn’t how I wanted to protest the first Australian meeting of the top 20 world economic powers.
Fundamentally, I wanted to disrupt it. (more…)
What steaming load of shit. You just came along all 80 and ruined it for the 3000 other people. You didn’t do things at other times and places… else you could have turned up on Sunday. What did you want to achieve anyway? What does smashing shit up and hurting human beings do? You didn’t have goals, and you didn’t acheive them, and you ruined it for everyone else who had goals. You are all teenagers and in your early 20s and you talk like you can’t stand another peaceful protest - but at that age, how many have you actually gone to? What kind of political stamina do you have? What a fucking bunch of violent losers.
Comment by pfft — December 12, 2006 @ 5:59 am