maybe i would have turned out if there had been tea and cakes afterwards :P
(you still haven't told us about how you got interviewed, or how friends of yours ruined some TV footage.. I'm stuck in my room working and waiting to hear all about this...)
This sounds like an interesting event. I wish I had been in Oxford to participate.
Actually, the being interviewed wasn't particularly interesting. Just a few questions about why I was there (the fact I rely on animal testing to be alive...) and that sort of thing.
As for the ruining TV footage; well, someone known to us had written "Hi Mum" on the back of his placard, and turned it round whenever cameras were in sight. Seeing the photographers on Holywell St collapse in laughter when they saw it was good fun though!
Always a problem being a militant moderate or, like me, a revolutionary centrist. I tried to image an eighties style trade union rally revised to suit: "What do we want?"; "Whatever can be reasonably afforded without ruining our employer and commensurate with our skills and efforts."; "When do we want it?"; "As soon as it can be fitted in with the prevailing economic cycle in our industry." None too catchy eh?
I expect you're far too young to remember the 'Angry Brigade' a bunch of right-wing nutcases probably in the mid 1970s. Some of us tried to start the 'Fairly Contented Brigade' but it never really took off....
I too was on the ProTest rally the other week. It was just as your correspondent described it. What a pity that the late John le Mesurier was not able to be there as a steward ("Would you mind awfully just moving this way. Thank you so much").
As an over 50 my only regret was I felt was that there should have been a Saga section where we didn't have to chant.
Well done everyone!
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