pedro san pedro
24th February 2005, 03:45
A recent action by Greenpeacce UK saw activists entering the International Petroleum Exchange in London with loud speakers on the day that the Kyoto Protocol, with the goal of shutting it down for the day (and stopping the sale of oil for 1 hour ). The exchange does one thousand billion dollars of business each year, so even an hour costs a bit of money :P
Unfortunately, the activists went in after lunchtime, so there may have been a few brokers coming back from wet ones, as is indicated by the scuffle that broke out. To the activists credit, noone fought back. 27 activists were arrested.
RATM's shutting down of the New York (I think?) exchange by playing outside it also comes to mind.
I wonder what the effect of a coordinated international attack such as this would be? how much money would it cost the capitalists? obviously you would need a lot of people prepared to be arrested, but it seems that it would be relatively easy to shut them down. The pit focused upon by Greenpeace was oner of the cliche yelling pits (dont know their real name), so they were able to disrubt trading simply by making lots of noise.
it was also a non-violent action - perhaps the ELF propents of damaging property to cause financial damage could learn from this action?
Unfortunately, the activists went in after lunchtime, so there may have been a few brokers coming back from wet ones, as is indicated by the scuffle that broke out. To the activists credit, noone fought back. 27 activists were arrested.
RATM's shutting down of the New York (I think?) exchange by playing outside it also comes to mind.
I wonder what the effect of a coordinated international attack such as this would be? how much money would it cost the capitalists? obviously you would need a lot of people prepared to be arrested, but it seems that it would be relatively easy to shut them down. The pit focused upon by Greenpeace was oner of the cliche yelling pits (dont know their real name), so they were able to disrubt trading simply by making lots of noise.
it was also a non-violent action - perhaps the ELF propents of damaging property to cause financial damage could learn from this action?