Birmingham (England)
Ten of us picketed today in Birmingham (England): Dave, Jens,
Damian, Martin, Hartley, Ian, Andy and Pam, Steve C-T, plus Santosh.
John didn't come presumably because of the state of his local trains
into London, and Roland because it was Grand National day. It rained.
Well, it only rained hard part of the time, and it even stopped raining
altogether once or twice. It was windy, and very cold; my hands needed
a good warming afterwards. Things got off to an odd start when Ian took
a wrong turn with the Boombox and we thought we'd lost him. But we got
it going and I had a go, LRon Hubbard had a go (posthumously, on tape),
and Martin had a go; we could have done with JohnR really.
One small OSA clam scuttled round the edges. He used a mobile to
phone the police, who seemed to be telling him to go away and stop
wasting their time. Between one and two clams carried on against
out picket. He said he had a "surprise for us at the end", which
seemed to be that the total of body routers went up to four the
moment we departed. he followed us, taking pictures, to a pub just
next to the station. Leaflets went reasonably well, we must have
put out about 500; the street was busy despite the intermittent
light rain. Some SPs seemed to prefer demonstrating under the
concrete awning of Pizza Hut rather than out on the street, though.
All in all, a pretty good picket. Back next month.........
7 Apr 2001
Dave Bird <dave@xemu.demon.co.uk>
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