PHOTO G20 Banner of the Day?

[Jackeens]

An elderly woman demonstrates close to the Excel Centre where the G20 meeting of world leaders is taking place in London on April 2, 2009.

NSPU is the National Savers and Pensioners Union.

[xchrom]

1. if only more people here could have that gumption and anger. nt

[KansDem]

2. Yeah, what happened?

I remember the protests and demonstrations of the late 1960s. SDS, the "Weathermen," and other groups were protesting US involvement in VietNam and advocating equal rights.

Now, we're confronted with a crashing economy due to corporate malfeasance, gross unfairness with regard to the "bailouts," and yet another never-ending war, to name a few...

Where's the outrage? Where's the activism? :shrug:

[stillcool]

4. there have been plenty of protests..

over the years..just because you don't see them on your tv, doesn't mean they aren't taking place. Oddly enough, when Code Pink or ANSWER sponsors something they are ridiculed. We've had protests going on simultaneously in different cities and states across the country, but it's not on tv so who cares? Even the GOP Convention where 800 people got arrested didn't matter.

[xchrom]

5. it's not that here haven't been protests -- or that they haven't been on the msm --

but look at the longevity of the g20 protests for example.

french workers who will bring paris to a standstill.

no -- i'm sorry we don't have the equivalent.

we don't have the passion and anger at what is happening to us -- we argue about choice and right to lifers -- amongst our selves or gather in large numbers over safe to be angry issues like war. -- and i'm certainly not suggesting we shouldn't be angry at sending our youth to war.

and i LOVE code pink -- but what? -- there are so few.

americans should be angry -- and moved -- tax policies, the Financials, or jobs overseas, etc -- more much more than we are.

[stillcool]

7. Did you see the film..

from the RNC Convention? http://www.terrorizingdissent.org/
How many people need to be beaten, hosed and gassed before it registers on the protest meter? What American city needs to be 'shut down' for it to matter?

[xchrom]

9. well i've been in protests since before kent state.

and it's been my experience that as a people we still work against ourselves.
we don't get the government we deserve because we leave it up to others -- or once the immdiate danger to ourselves passes -- so too do our protests.

[FireFly70]

8. where's the outrage?

we are at work, trying not to loose our jobs, trying to pay our mortgages, trying to find the money to send our kids to school. How do we take off work to protest, when we are worried about being fired for doing so? Thank God for the internet, at least there is one avenue to stage some sort of outrage. It's not the 60's anymore. People are too bogged down in debt to risk taking off for protests. But what I do see happening, is the people who have lost their jobs already, or who are already homeless are taking to the streets. This will, in my opinion, be the next big uprise, the homeless/jobless.

[flpoljunkie]

3. That's great, but it's hard to top "EAT THE BANKERS!"

[avaistheone1]

6. Powerful photo.

I bet the banksters and the politicians wish this lady would go away fast.

[Hope And Change]

10. K & R!

[ShortnFiery]

11. She's as cute as a button! Too cool. :-) nt