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Laboryes
Post Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2010 4:19 am

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This isn't just a student protest. It's a children's crusade

'The word spread through Twitter and Facebook; rumours passed around classrooms and meeting halls: get to Westminster, show them your anger.'

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Laboryes
Post Posted: Sun Nov 28, 2010 4:39 am

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When I returned home, I saw the news was reporting violence, harm and destruction. I realised that this was the complete opposite to what I had experienced earlier that day. I saw people standing up for their rights, music being played with instruments, and if anyone was being disrespectful, it was a handful of angry students, or the police themselves.



“We are the future”: Report from Student Demo

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Laboryes
Post Posted: Fri Dec 10, 2010 2:56 pm

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Student Protest / Riot - Police Charge Protesters On Horseback

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axWyu1t4rkE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4HsUn0opMU

This video a must see....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuhQEasXzCs&NR=1

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Laboryes
Post Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2010 3:49 pm

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The ubiquity of the camera phone among the young has turned every protester into a citizen reporter, capable of accessing images that instantly refute the claims of the authorities. Those same handheld devices allow the protesters to communicate so swiftly that they are able to avoid being corralled by the police and unlawfully detained. They know their rights because they can Google them.


Student protesters: teaching the left's old guard a thing or two

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