Million Mask March

[Red Phoenix]

Am following this tonight so thought I'd make a thread for it, instead of derailing something else. Will post any streams that seem to be working too if they're good enough.

 

From a recent image :

 

[Red Phoenix]

Another from the Grauniad :

 

 

Live updates from them here : http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live/2015/nov/05/million-mask-march-gathers-in-london-live-updates

 

RT live updates (they had a great live stream last year too, will post later if they do it again and I find it.) : https://www.rt.com/news/320840-2015-million-mask-march/

[Red Phoenix]

"Failure to comply may result in arrest" - messages beamed on National Gallery to warn #MillionMaskMarch protesters : https://twitter.com/RTUKnews/status/662332679585726464

[Red Phoenix]

RT live stream, think it's kicking off already (edit : yep, it is) :

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOQPLiryX3c

[Red Phoenix]

This is all Putin's fault, obviously.

[Jairzinho]

I'd have gone on this if my course didn't start today. 

[Red Phoenix]

RT just cut their stream saying "live event is over." Sucks, they had it on for hours last year.

[Red Phoenix]

Another stream here : https://www.rt.com/on-air/london-million-mask-march/

[Red Phoenix]

That last link was working btw, they just took it down shortly after, now there's an error message instead. If I find another good enough will post back.

[Oh Buoy]

Here: http://newsblogged.com/live-video-million-mask-march-london-2015-millionmaskmarch

[Red Phoenix]

Here: http://newsblogged.com/live-video-million-mask-march-london-2015-millionmaskmarch

 

Thanks, was using that earlier but RT was down and the bambuser streams aren't working for me. Good to see RT is back now though.

 

Looks like it kind of fizzled out anyway. Very early on it was full on chaos with hundreds pushing back police lines, setting off fireworks, etc. It kind of reached a peak there it seems.

 

Fuck knows what happened to them gathering outside parliament, like they did the last couple of years. Maybe the cops prevented that from happening properly tonight.

[Trumo]

Yet another idea that the selfie brigade will take over. At least Natalie Portman doesn't become a slaphead in this one.

[General Dryness]

I'd have gone on this if my course didn't start today.

My mask was in the wash.

[Red Phoenix]

Some handbags here, it's all getting a bit boring now though tbh (this link will probably go down soon too.) : https://www.rt.com/on-air/london-million-mask-march/

[cloggypop]

[Oh Buoy]

Complete gobshites doing one mask at a time.

[Red Phoenix]

Would've been great if a load of these were made, could've mixed it up a bit : https://twitter.com/JEdelson81/status/659447624815243264

 

Think they only made 1000 though as part of a competition.

[Red Phoenix]

This probably sums a fair bit of it up, the first video is what it was like right near the start : http://mashable.com/2015/11/05/million-mask-march-london-protest/#6MkfZEqgbkqh

 

The police couldn't hold that line and got pushed back a few times (riot cops and cops on horses further back there seemed to halt it eventually.) A few clowns torching a cop car too later on with journos gathered taking pics, wouldn't be surprised at all if that was staged.

[Ginny]

on bbc news

[Red Phoenix]

on bbc news

 

The BBC are an absolute fucking joke as usual. MoD backed propaganda garbage.

 

One article here : http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-34741434

 

We have the car burning in the first image, one mention of "anti-capitalist rally", one mention of "anti-inequality slogans", nothing else about why people have gathered there for several years to protest. Next image : the car burning again! Huge fucking surprise. The MoD probably couldn't have set that piece of shit up better themselves. Saying that though maybe they did actually write most of that, and possibly arranged for the car being torched too.

 

It's just so obvious that you get a few people smashing a cop car up, then it's the main focus of a british bullshit corporation article. What can you expect though, they're not independent, they're manipulated by government agencies, so they're never really going to be of much use to any of us anyway with a lot of their so-called reporting.

 

Most of us here could've put together a better piece than than shite, which just proves how much of an utter joke they are because they're supposed to be paid to do that, and with experience and so on. Experience at writing propaganda and being in the pockets of the elites, that's about as far as they seem to get.

[Red Phoenix]

Maybe the government should buy a new cop car with some of the funds they get from selling arms to the middle east.

[Red Phoenix]

Oh the BBC have touched up the article a little now. By.......moving the car torching images further down, adding couple more sentences and a video. Bravo! Long live the BBC.

[Trumo]

The irony of this anti-capitalist Million Mask March is that some people will have made an absolute fortune from producing and selling those masks.

[Red Phoenix]

The irony of this anti-capitalist Million Mask March is that some people will have made an absolute fortune from producing and selling those masks.

 

Yeah. Two things to change would be for people to wear their own masks, just completely mix it up. Also have a few focused messages about why the protesting is taking place, and try to raise awareness more. If they carry on doing this each year I don't really see how it's helping much. I do admire the effort they've put into it for several years though. With a lot of their other activism (Anonymous as a movement) though they've raised awareness well over the years in several areas, and also helped quite a lot of people, so for some to just focus on these Nov 5th protests would also be missing the point.

[Boss]

The irony of this anti-capitalist Million Mask March is that some people will have made an absolute fortune from producing and selling those masks.

 

It's a shame you've got such a vendetta against these mask makers.