Guerillas=bad press

["Verne L. Chinampas" <moistearth@yahoo.com>]

Thich Nat Hanh, the notable Buddhist teacher indicates that to have
peace, we must be peace.

Those who have declared "war" in order to create gardens are seriously
misguided. Britain is one of the most garden-loving nations on earth,
but the guerrilla gardeners have managed to look spiteful and
disrespectful toward a national hero on a traditional day for loving
earthfulness.

Sure, I don't know the whole story in London, but if the clipping found
below is any indication, perhaps the guerillas need either a better
media director, or a more harmonious/effective way to achieve their
honorable goals.

Verne


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Monday May 1 8:19 PM ET 

Protests, Scattered Violence Mark May Day

BERLIN (Reuters) - The world marked May Day with demonstrations and
scattered violence on Monday.Demonstrations turned violent in several
parts of Europe and hundreds of protesters took to the streets in U.S.
financial centers.

Leftists briefly clashed with hundreds of neo-Nazis in Berlin and later
fought pitched battles with police. About 50 people were injured in
separate clashes in the port city of Hamburg.

 
Masked demonstrators fought riot police in London as an anti-capitalist
demonstration degenerated into what British Prime Minister Tony Blair
called ``mindless thuggery.''

Churchill Statue Defaced

Parliament Square was sealed off after the grass in the center was
ripped up and laid across the road by eco-activists staging what they
called a ``guerrilla gardening'' protest. A statue of wartime leader
Winston Churchill was defaced, with a layer of green grass sod laid
over his head, punk-style.










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