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Protest 2.0: G20 Protest gets twittered

As world leaders head for London's G20 summit this year, twitter is finding new use among protesters: here are some Tweets collected on my iphone:

"Very good day with positive (and light) police presence" - sierrakim

"It's the end of the world as we know it ... and I feel cross" - chrisjords 

"This is the beginning of the fight for the next 20 years...neo-liberal capitalism is on it's knees and we must kill it off" - Mark Thomas

• Here are some G20 protest pics
• The Guardian's: Matthew Weaver gives us a live report using audioboo (audioblogging) here 
• Uk tech crunch reports on megamouth shouting out your 'tweets' as they come in- calling it protest 2.0
• Numbers: police estimates: 35,000 (bbc), protestor estimates (twitter): 50,000
• I'll be blogging on role of twitter in protest like as we approach G20 summitt on 2nd April

In meantime, why not catch up on latest tweets reporting from the rally, yourself: make sure to include the tag '#G20rally' somewhere in your tweet. That way it gets grouped together with everything that others are writing about these 'Put People First' rallys. 

For more info about how to setup twitter and report live from the event using it and your phone: go here 

Lesley Riddoch: Jade's legacy: a society that can no longer care

Lesley Riddoch: Jade's legacy: a society that can no longer care.  best critique I've heard yet - connects a bit with the reason why 'red nose day' rakes it in more in a recesssion and why other charities lose income - why? some thinking from friends suggests that it is because 'consumption' (both popular and illicit) increases and becomes even more central to many during financial quakes - not the other way..

global meltdown: abyss opening or heaven coming down?

A series of ecological, economic and political shocks are rocking the world.    

Although the current crises are dreadful - they may be waking many up to the fact that 'empire' (economic or otherwise) may not be an inevitable 'way' of securing our future as we used to think - and that this reality shock could open up some amazing possibilites. 

edinburgh guerilla mince-meet action

- arranging 4 (mince -hah) meet ups at 4 venues at 4 times of the day around edinburgh on December 10th

- inviting a spectrum of wild saints, muddy activists and big-hearted artists to hear from each other about how their new funded and unfunded projects are getting on - over a laugh and some mince pies

- hit n run- marvellous

nothing is wasted

track history and watch god the fire move  

and empire follows to capture and use it

and after it is sated on our dreams and our blood

after we let it steal, kill and destroy us

- break the poor, scar our land in front of us 

the god of desert and slaves turns it all into something... 

b r e a t h t a k i n g

global economic breakdown or breaththrough?

Breakthrough? Could this crisis - apart from scaring the heck out of everyone- also stir up and empower a new level of movement - where more activists, artists and saints - instead of shutting down (no money) get even more released, more project supporters and angels start taking pity on their cities - being enraged and alarmed enough to get out of their comfort zones and work together across denominational, industrial, cultural and political lines to take on some of its giants.   

what if it kickstarts a revolution of engagement with creative justice art and animate non-violent resistance to the forces of empire ..

the manifesto

The Manifesto is a website just launched - which Anna Bryon was speaking to me about recently:

Creating a future scotland that is healed o its colonial sickness is definitely my bag.. this sounds really promising.. I like their 2 projects - 'africa & identity' and 'transforming scotland'

I like that they recognised the importance of critiquing power and economic relations of our tartan scottish colonialism in the past (and present) AND struggling to create a new haggisland that disnae play these same auld games in the future...

 in their ane words...

It is finished; scotland's empire is over: time tae detox, time tae shine!

Interview with the prophet haggis, wha bides on a wee abandoned island near the forth road bridge in edinburgh - the 3 giants that stalk scotland today, he says he thinks are: 

sectarianism, masochism and addiction.

the poorest parts & cities suffer most still, he says-

average death-age of males in glasgow: 59

can we fix her?, yes we can- by turning these 3 enemies into 3 friends - haggis argues.   

What is causing this old land pain..?  he asks
do we have an accurate diagnosis for her yet -so we can at least know where to aim at ? he continues, and not just put a plaster over the wound? he adds with a wee grin..