Comments on: Best of G20: The People’s March http://alexpickett.com/2009/09/27/best-of-g20-the-peoples-march/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 04:54:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Alex Pickett http://alexpickett.com/2009/09/27/best-of-g20-the-peoples-march/#comment-639 Thu, 01 Oct 2009 02:48:30 +0000 http://alexpickett.com/?p=922#comment-639 I think you make some good points and maybe in my upcoming longer post about why I think the G20 protests failed, I can let you see where I’m coming from. Without the electricity to bring up to the minute updates of what we both saw, I had to look for a way to overview the whole thing. Since I do come from an alt-weekly background, I did choose the “Best Of.” Maybe I was missing doing it for Creative Loafing this year.

The batman guy was obviously there as a spoof — I think he’s open to ridicule, but of course, he wanted that. I see nothing ridiculing about most of the other photos, except our best dressed fellow and, well, all the photos about the cops.

I deeply admire anyone who will stand up for what is right, especially when it is not “cool,” however anti-globalization activists need to get back to what made these protests big a decade ago: Focusing on how to form these abstract ideas into concrete issues that thinking Americans can understand, and real change for the people without the money and resources to spend a week protesting.

]]> By: kelly http://alexpickett.com/2009/09/27/best-of-g20-the-peoples-march/#comment-638 Thu, 01 Oct 2009 02:30:49 +0000 http://alexpickett.com/?p=922#comment-638 Alex,
Hussey’s typical, cynical comment is exactly why these snarky alt-weekly/Vice style “Best ofs” sorta irk me- particularly when it’s aimed toward activism-not because they’re overdone-(they are) and not because I don’t think activism should be dissected with a sense of humor (it should)-but because it’s indicative of a culture of apathy that seems to be taking hold in the post-Dubya era-even when events in the world suggest that people should be caring more and getting pissed off even more. We talked about a recent brief time when protests and activism- were “all the rage.” But what has changed in the last few years (besides our first black prez)? The environment is still disintegrating, rich mad men still send the poor off to kill and die by the thousands, and inequality in the third world is at an all time high. Yet, folks exercising their freedom of speech (when accompanied by funny looking costumes) is seen by trite pricks like Hussey as “freakshows that dont make “any real impact.” I’m all for turning the camera inward and analyzing dissent, poking fun at it when it gets tired (whose streets, our streets?) or stale (remember your “know your rights” role play?), but when folks try to paint dissent in America as uncool or ridicule people who act out of passion and frustration of the world around them and a legitimate desire for change…I can thing of little more vapid, foolish, and dangerous than those that shrug their shoulders and say “who cares.” And this is coming from a cynic.

]]> By: kelly http://alexpickett.com/2009/09/27/best-of-g20-the-peoples-march/#comment-635 Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:33:57 +0000 http://alexpickett.com/?p=922#comment-635 You’re a weird freakshow.

]]> By: Michael Hussey http://alexpickett.com/2009/09/27/best-of-g20-the-peoples-march/#comment-632 Mon, 28 Sep 2009 22:15:07 +0000 http://alexpickett.com/?p=922#comment-632 The Batman photo is hysterical.

I generally think protest don’t make any real impact. Protests are increasingly becoming weird freak shows.

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