2.4.09

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Why? WHy? WHy???????????
























HOMAGE TO MARAT
From "Marat / Sade"
(Adrian Mitchell / Richard Peaslee)
Peter Weiss


Four years after the revolution and the old king's execution
Four years after I remember how those courtiers took their final vow
String up every aristocrat
Out with the priests Let them live on their fat
Four years after we started fighting
Marat keeps on with his writing
Four years after the Bastille fell
He still recalls the old battle yell
Down with all of the ruling class
Throw all the generals out on their arse
Good old Marat by your side we'll stand or fall
You're the only one that we can trust at all
Four years he fought and he fought unafraid
Sniffing down traitors by traitors betrayed
Marat in the courtroom Marat underground
Sometimes the otter and sometimes the hound
Fight ing all the gentry and fighting every priest
Businessman the bourgeois the military beast
Marat always ready to stifle every scheme
of the sons of the arse licking dying regime
We've got new generals our leaders are new
They sit and they argue and all that they do
Is sell their own colleagues and ride upon their backs
And jail them and break them and give them all the axe
Screaming in language that no one understands
Of the rights that we grabbed with our own bleeding hands
When we wiped out the bosses and stormed through the wall
Of the prison they told us would outlast us all
Marat we're poor
And the poor stay poor
Marat don't make
Us wait anymore
We want our rights and we don't care how
We want our revolution now
Why do they have the gold
Why do they have the power
Why why why
Do they have the friends at the top
Why do they have the jobs at the top
We've got nothing
Always had nothing
Nothing but holes and millions of them
Living in holes dying in holes
Holes in our bellies and holes in our clothes
Marat we're poor
And the poor stay poor
Marat don't make us wait anymore
Poor old Marat they hunt you down
The bloodhounds are sniffing all over the town
Poor old Marat you work til your eyes turn as red as rust
poor old Marat
We trust in you ....



http://londonist.com/2009/04/g20_protests_continue_into_the_nigh.phpG20 Protests Continue Into The Night
Climate Camp on Bishopsgate / image courtesy of Matt Perdeaux from the Londonist Flickr pool

As the night draws in, what's happening on the City's streets?

People are finally being released from the kettle at the Bank of England, one by one (and after a spell of being searched and photographed). Things took a nasty turn around 6.30pm, with missiles being thrown (we heard one girl, just released from the pen, complain about something metal that had come through the air). Police were running frantically around corners and the Guardian reports a baton charge. Let's not forget though, these people have been held there since lunchtime and frustration will be mounting.

We're shocked to hear of police closing in the Climate Camp - and Indymedia is talking about a baton charge there too. A ramble through the Camp around 6.15pm this evening was as pleasant a stroll as we've ever taken in London. Protesters have erected tents in the road between Wormwood Street and Threadneedle Street, were cooking food and generally chilling out - it reminded us of a miniature urban Glastonbury. We were slightly perturbed by the sight of police with helmets and shields but didn't think for a moment they'd go in.


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A & D
The Alternative London Summit is happening right now at UEL!! Chris Knight is here along with other protesters.

becomin g is en tre les grands choses meets between the two


gohere


& here

as in the above rallies