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Using the Vuvuzela in Protests

Snookie

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Snookie

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On way to protest could be to use vuvuzelas to disrupt TV coverage of games and the day to day operations of the club. The way I see it working is as follows:

  • As many people as possible assemble outside before the game and set off a racket that makes it really unpleasant to be around. Ideally it would be loud enough to disrupt TV/radio coverage, but even if it didn't Keys, Green etc would have to refer to it in their pre-game build up, thereby raising the profile of the protest. This could happen at home and away games.
  • Protesters then remain outside the ground when the game starts keeping up the noise. The sight of empty seats and that fecking noise should re-enforce the point. I don't think it needs to last more that a few minutes so people can protest without missing that much of the match.
  • After the final whistle people would again assemble outside the ground and take up the noise to disrupt media coverage.

You could then extend it further by:

  • Setting up outside the club offices during the week and blasting away to disrupt the day to day operations of the club
  • Finding where G&H are staying any time they are in the UK and disrupting the poor diddums sleep. And so on.

I think this approach has a number of advantages:

  • It doesn't involve Liverpool fans blocking other Liverpool supporters from attending the game. I believe this has the potential to lead to violence thereby undermining any protest. The fecking din of the things would however discourage people from going to the ground and achieve some of the objectives of a blockade.
  • Its very simple to understand what is going (for fans etc) on and an easy story for the media to put together.
  • It could provide a source of funding for other protests. If the vuvuzelas were sold by a fans action group any of the profits from the sale could be used in other protests. I'm pretty sure that they could be bought very cheaply now the world cup is finished or possibly made locally without any need for sophisticated technology.
  • It could tie together other protests. Of the vuvuzelas were black they would fit nicely with the standards corrupted shirts protest.

There are a number of practical issues that need to be overcome.

  • The purchase and sale of the things. The sale could be handled by any one of the protest groups or maybe another one could be set up specifically to manage the task (the Liverpool Fans Orchestra?). Where you'd source them someone else would have a better idea than me.
  • The club is not going to allow them in the ground so we'd need to work out a way to store them while people are watching the game. A few vans should cover that.
  • How do people retrieve theres? If they are cheap enough then I don't think people will care. Also if they are just seen as way of protesting I don't think people will worry too much about who owns them. If you present the purchase of them as a partial donation to the cause then again that should help.
  • Finally, there is the issue of the police response. I cannot see the protests outside club offices or hotels being allowed to last too long and they may possibly result in arrests but the same thing also applies to some of the other suggestions being made by people.

Thoughts?

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Snookie

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<br />they're banned from football grounds aren't they?<br />
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Sorry if I didn't make it clear but the idea was to do it close to the ground but not inside so that wouldn't be an issue.

Conrad

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I agree. If organised, it could be effective, not on its own , but as part of a series of measures along the lines discussed elsewhere on here

Cheesecake

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problem is that they are banned from grounds - meaning you cant take them in, so people using them would have to abandon them outside the ground to get into the game, given the price of going to th game I dont think people will be up for paying 7.50 extra for each game they protest at. Of course there will be plenty of scallies selling them for £2 after they've been abandoned after the first game - they could operate a lease type set-up, they'd make a mint, maybe!

johngibo YPC

johngibo YPC

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My stance on any protest suggestion at the moment is 'Is it better than nothing'. If i answer yes to this i offer to get on board.

We are essentially doing nothing at the moment on a collective scale, so i'll help with anything that beats that

David Hodgson

David Hodgson

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That's Snookie's website

 

 

 

can you come up with something better?

 

I think we get special SOS whoopee cushions made, and hand them out to everyone in the ground, and at a given signal just after kick off on a big SKy game, everyone simultaneously sits on them, in a protest that will be seen as 'farting in the face of Hicks & Gillette'. Stink bombs could be let off too to add to the effect.

Hassony

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I think we get special SOS whoopee cushions made, and hand them out to everyone in the ground, and at a given signal just after kick off on a big SKy game, everyone simultaneously sits on them, in a protest that will be seen as 'farting in the face of Hicks & Gillette'. Stink bombs could be let off too to add to the effect.

 

not bad, but i still think my laser pen idea is the best one so far

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