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"Incredibly, it began with a two-minute silence for the victims of the
Southport knife attack.
What followed was angry, often racist and mindless violence during which front
windows of homes were smashed in, cars torched, residents terrified and police
repeatedly attacked with missiles.
Middlesbrough resembled a battle zone on Sunday afternoon, the latest place to
be chosen as a venue for far-right led violence.
About 300 people gathered at Middlesbrough’s cenotaph at the gates to Albert
Park at 2pm. They had been encouraged to turn up by posts on social media. A
striking number were men and women in their 50s and 60s.
“We’re fucking angry,” said one woman in her 60s. “I know we’re only plebs from
a poor town.”
Another shouted: “This is our way of life that’s at stake.”
One elderly couple took time to go to admire the Brian Clough statue in the
park before returning to find somewhere to sit.
But shortly before the crowd set off, a large group of younger masked men
walked up to the cenotaph. Things began to feel more sinister and scary.
A man in a blue T-shirt, an organiser, couldn’t get his megaphone to work so
yelled instead that it was a protest not about race or religion but about the
children who were killed.
By the end, they seemed like hollow words."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
