<div>Oh yes I forgot about turning up and waving a banner about - that kind of activity gets you TV coverage if you play it right, and we all know that any publicity is good publicity (well almost all - if you're setting vans alight and smashing windows I don't think that does much for your cause - I'm not accusing the heathrow lot of that btw, just thinking back to the anarchist protests we've had in recent years - I'm sure the heathrow crowd are suitably warm and fluffy in comparison, they sound like it lol)
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 14/08/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Peter Childs</b> <<a href="mailto:peterachilds@gmail.com">peterachilds@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span>
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<div><span class="q"><span class="gmail_quote">On 14/08/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Pete Stean</b> <<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:peteste@googlemail.com" target="_blank">peteste@googlemail.com
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<div>You realise that electronic petitions on the No10 website are utterly pointless... they're just a sop to the masses to make them think that their opinion counts (and believe me, I'm close enough to this process to understand how it works, and how it's viewed by Government).
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<div>The only thing that really works in these situations is to be a bit irritating and annoying, so that they think about doing something to stop the letters/emails pouring in </div>
<div>- Write to the relevant members of the BBC Trust (ie those that have a clue about technology) </div>
<div>- Write to the relevant heads of Dept at the Beeb themselves </div>
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<div>That's what I've done - an online petition counts for less than nothing</div></blockquote></span>
<div><br><br>Of course if you really want to know how to cause trouble there is a 4 day conference now running at Heathrow on the subject, I was interested to hear they were planning Child Care, Seminars and it all sounded extremely well organized (Probably using a full PA and Power point knowing most things).
<br>It seams we have now run into the "Protest" season. <br><span class="sg"> <br>Peter.<br></span></div><span class="q"><br>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 14/08/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Martin A. Brooks</b> <<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:martin@hinterlands.org" target="_blank">martin@hinterlands.org
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(204,204,204) 1px solid">On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 09:41 +0100, Nix wrote:<br>> On 13 Aug 2007, John Winters told this:
<br>> > Has anyone succeeded in signing the petition against the BBC's actions <br>> > on the PM's petition site? I've tried twice, but the confirmation<br>> > e-mail never arrives so I can't confirm my entry.
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