Happy J18 - Ten Year Anniversary - Pics + Links
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June 18, 2009 01:45
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Ten year's ago today and a global Carnival Against Capital was erupting across the world with co-ordinated protests taking place in over 40 countries on June 18th 1999.
Directly targeting financial centres the J18 day of International Action was stunning in its scale and ran alongside the G7/G8 meeting in Koln Germany. It followed the Global Street Party that had been held alongside the G7/G8 meeting in Birmingham in 1998 and co-ordinated through Reclaim The Streets.
To remember it, here's a set of 23 pictures from London J18 courtesy of a photographer who was there for the morning and the party, but who missed the ensuing riot as police fought to regain control of the City of London.
The reasons for struggle are greater now than then, and climate change and economic meltdowns threaten the lives and livelihoods of us all.
J18 Flyer Front (one of many)
There were quite a few ladders...
Monopoly - now there's an idea
The only good system is a sound system
Chilling near to LIFFE with punk band playing
More ladders...
LIFFE Financial Futures Exchange Bricked Up
New london wall?
Small is beautifull (but the big techno system at LIFFE was a laugh)
Bankers...
erm... quite.
"erm, not sure about this..."
Refuse - Resist - Reclaim - Revolt
Crowd at Liverpool Street Station
Bigger view
Banner prep
Crowd outside Liverpool St Stn
Up for it
Passing Bank of England
Bank Tube
Giant Heads - some had soundsystems
Common Treasury
Free the River
Back of J18 flyer with International Contacts
There's too much to mention about J18, from the sheer joy of taking the City to the full-on battles, from the dancing and the masks to the spoof FT paper to pirate radio broadcasts, from the bricking up and storming of the London International Financial Futures Exchange to the knocking out of CCTV cameras, from the electronic disturbance actions to the beginnings of Indymedia, from the exhaustion to the recriminations and the state backlash against RTS and everyone else protesting for a better world.
But most of all it was GLOBAL: "Our Resistance is as Transnational as Capital"
See this collection of 2 pages of web links to original reports, websites, analysis, pictures and video:
http://www.delicious.com/directmedia/j18
Enjoy.
(photos courtesy of photographicon.com)
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Great memories!
I was there!
I was 27 y.o. and have arrived 5 days ago to England to be there. We traveled in a special coach from Sheffield. I was in that little square near LIFFE that I would like to know its name.I saw and lived a lot of good things,and wrote a report here in Chile, my country. I talked to a lot of people about Reclaim the Streets, and the protest carnival concept, but you know , the riotist model prevailed.
It was an incredible experience.
Then I read some reports in the Organise! magazine, that I was sent, and on the net, years later, like on the irational site.
But nothing is like having been there.
I kept the green mask for years, but recently let it go.
I hope I can go to England some day again.
Big emotions seeing those pics.
I think I fell in love like fifteen times that afternoon!
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