Pix-&-Vidz of Call Time on Global Greed, Guidh
Published:
November 12, 2008 09:41
by
Tim Dalinian Jones
Neighbourhoods: city guidhall
A couple of score demonstrators mobilised by the Trade Justice Movement and some of its affiliated member organisations stage an Alarm-Clock Themed Noize Demo [1] outside the Guidhall in the City of London. Inside, buried up to his eyeballs with his snout in the Lord Mayor's Banquet trough, our class enemy Gordon Brown was addressing his paymasters in the British Capitalist class on how to prolong the death agonies of their decadent, decomposing and despicable economic system.
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