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Friday, 17 December 2010
More festive larks
Johann Hari is a persistently lovely man:
"There is a cost to this chilling of protest. Every British citizen is the beneficiary of a long line of protesters stretching back through the centuries. Every woman reading this can vote and open her own bank account and choose her own husband and have a career because protesters demanded it. Every worker gets at least £5.93 an hour, and paid holidays, and paid sick leave, because protesters demanded it. Every pensioner gets enough to survive because protesters demand it. What what your life would be like if all those protesters through all those years had been frightened into inactivity? If you block the right to protest, you block the path to progress. You are left instead at the whim of an elite, whose priority is tax cuts for themselves, paid for with spending cuts for the poor.
"Your right to protest is under threat."
& tomorrow is UK Uncut Day everybody!
XL
Labels:
accountability,
action,
civil disobedience,
Johann Hari,
Posie Rider,
protest,
suffragettes,
tax
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