[Niamh.]

"the group said black people are '28 percent more likely to be suffer air pollution" What?? I have to say this protest sounds ridiculous and is not going to garner any sympathy for the group

[Livia]

Any word on how air pollution affects white people, if they're Jewish? I might have to start my own protest.

[lostalex]

Originally Posted by Livia

Any word on how air pollution affects white people, if they're Jewish? I might have to start my own protest.

It's definite;y hurting gay people more, the heat makes our makeup run.

[the truth]

Originally Posted by lostalex

It's definite;y hurting gay people more, the heat makes our makeup run.

indeed you should definitely march against that oppression across the gatwick airport, I wear glasses and in the steamy hot weather they tend to slip down my nose a bit....Its high time, the 4 eyed bespectacled under class,, ran riot across heathrow runway too....our cause is easily as just as BLM UK

[Cal.]

[Vanessa]

Hey, that's my route to Rome

[Tom4784]

I'm pretty sure BLM UK is, at best, meant to be some sort of satire group or, at worst, an attempt to disparage the actual BLM movement. The fact that they are making such silly claims and there doesn't seem to be a black person among them makes me think it's the latter.

BLM protests in the UK are stupid anyway, we can't do jack**** about the state of the US police force.

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Dezzy

I'm pretty sure BLM UK is, at best, meant to be some sort of satire group or, at worst, an attempt to disparage the actual BLM movement. The fact that they are making such silly claims and there doesn't seem to be a black person among them makes me think it's the latter.

BLM protests in the UK are stupid anyway, we can't do jack**** about the state of the US police force.

Oh yeah ffs

I think you might be right

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

Oh yeah ffs

I think you might be right

I don't think that is the case listening to one of the organisers being interviewed, apparently they also have an issue with the average earnings of people using City airport (136,000 euros) looking at you Arista and Vanessa, how dare you do well for yourselves

[kirklancaster]

Originally Posted by Dezzy

I'm pretty sure BLM UK is, at best, meant to be some sort of satire group or, at worst, an attempt to disparage the actual BLM movement. The fact that they are making such silly claims and there doesn't seem to be a black person among them makes me think it's the latter.

BLM protests in the UK are stupid anyway, we can't do jack**** about the state of the US police force.

TBH; this had crossed my mind too. The REAL BLM movement surely CANNOT be that stupid.

[Ithinkiloveyoutoo]

Originally Posted by kirklancaster

TBH; this had crossed my mind too. The REAL BLM movement surely CANNOT be that stupid.

I think people with a brain understand the original premise of Black lives matter and understand that with every movement come opportunists. People that never actual cared about the movement are just going to use incidents like this to further discredit what it was actually about.

I find this outrage kind of hypocritical too since there was no outrage about the protest disrupting cross channel travelling yesterday from people protesting against refugee camp.

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Ithinkiloveyoutoo

I think people with a brain understand the original premise of Black lives matter and understand that with every movement come opportunists. People that never actual cared about the movement are just going to use incidents like this to further discredit what it was actually about.

I find this outrage kind of hypocritical too since there was no outrage about the protest disrupting cross channel travelling yesterday from people protesting against refugee camp.

Because the camps are growing and Calais is fast becoming a port to avoid rather than go through, seems a legitimate protest to me for both residents and businesses alike, if the City Airport protesters were protesting about climate change for the whole community they might have had some sympathy.

[Ithinkiloveyoutoo]

Originally Posted by Cherie

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m, if the City Airport protesters were protesting about climate change for the whole community they might have had some sympathy.

But last time they protested people found a reason not to listen. When they protested against actual deaths there was a reason not to listen. People always find excuses not to listen.

Whether you think their protest is legitimate or not the bottom line is if you're outraged about travel chaos caused yesterday you should have also been outraged about the chaos the day before. So to me the outrage is more about who the protest is coming from.

[Alf]

Just ignore them and keep the planes moving, they'll soon move.

[arista]

Originally Posted by Alf

Just ignore them and keep the planes moving, they'll soon move.

no they were Chained to that Airport steps.


They arrived on a dingy
via the water.
thats how the punks sneaked on.

[arista]

After 6 hours
the Airport is now open.

9 Punks arrested

[bots]

we never had these issues before the brexit vote

[kirklancaster]

Originally Posted by bitontheslide

we never had these issues before the brexit vote

Stop winding BOTS.

[Livia]

Something else that strikes me about this stupid protest... there are poor areas in Newham but there are vastly wealthy parts now, with people moving in from all over because of its proximity and transport links to the city. And over in Tower Hamlets the gentrification is even more widespread. So, do they think the planes only fly over the poor bits?

They are ****ing idiots.

[arista]

Originally Posted by Livia

Something else that strikes me about this stupid protest... there are poor areas in Newham but there are vastly wealthy parts now, with people moving in from all over because of its proximity and transport links to the city. And over in Tower Hamlets the gentrification is even more widespread. So, do they think the planes only fly over the poor bits?

They are ****ing idiots.

Yes Pathetic

[Saph]

ugh I hate people like this

[Livia]

I'm shocked there isn't more outrage about these boneheads weakening the ligitimate message of BLM in the US. They've made themselves, and the cause, look silly. If I was something to do with ehe BLM movement in the US I'd be bloody angry about what they did and what they said.

[Crimson Dynamo]

Just about sums up BLM UK for me



pathetic

[Kizzy]

Maybe it means the communities where ethnic minorities live are in areas where there are large conurbations which have high levels of air pollution?

[the truth]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

Maybe it means the communities where ethnic minorities live are in areas where there are large conurbations which have high levels of air pollution?

protest against the airport or the politicians but making it a race matter is absurd