[Gllug] Reminder - Protest BBC iPlayer Tomorrow - Tuesday August 14

[Pete Stean]

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)


Pete

On 14/08/07, Peter Childs <peterachilds at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 14/08/07, Pete Stean <peteste at googlemail.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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).
> >
> > 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
> > - Write to the relevant members of the BBC Trust (ie those that have a
> > clue about technology)
> > - Write to the relevant heads of Dept at the Beeb themselves
> >
> > That's what I've done - an online petition counts for less than nothing
> >
>
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> 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).
> It seams we have now run into the "Protest" season.
>
> Peter.
>
>  Pete
> >
> > On 14/08/07, Martin A. Brooks <martin at hinterlands.org > wrote:
> > >
> > > On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 09:41 +0100, Nix wrote:
> > > > On 13 Aug 2007, John Winters told this:
> > > > > Has anyone succeeded in signing the petition against the BBC's
> > > actions
> > > > > on the PM's petition site?  I've tried twice, but the confirmation
> > > > > e-mail never arrives so I can't confirm my entry.
> > > >
> > > > It worked for me.
> > >
> > > AOL
> > >
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