Was anyone else involved in direct action/protests in their yoof? How do you feel about it now? Just wondered 'cos ten years ago this week...

[AnarchyAunt]

...my 17 year old self was dragged out of the entrance of a tunnel in a derelict house on the Birmingham Northern Relief Road protest, arrested, kept in police cells overnight, and charged with obstruction of the undersherrif (some pics on my profile for a while).

We lost and the road was built - 27 miles of privately run toll motorway, destroying 40km of greenbelt land and 2 SSSIs, and perpetuating the madness that we can tarmac our way out of traffic chaos and environmental destruction.

I'm still damn proud of trying though.

Went on all sorts of marches and demos. Especially remember poll tax and clause 28.

I remember one time doing a protest outside McDonalds, and a passer-by started arguing with me because she insisted I was wearing leather shoes (Actually they weren't leather and I told her so, but she wouldn't believe me so it degenerated into 'yes they are ' 'no they're not' :O )

you were all supposed to shout 'out out out;

ahhh well

NotanOtter, Ah! But wouldn't you be worried about them.

not really as long as they were not extreme

Out Out Out!

Maggie...

Hoot if you support the.......

those lovely colliery banners

the sleep in on (?) a bridge in london was it tower bridge

Oooh Piffle...I still have my "Truck off Fuxton" badge somewhere!!!

I look back with pride on my very active membership of the women's collective at university, the "Keep NZ Nuclear Free" campaign and the anti springbok marches.

My DH still has 'Victory to the miners' and 'Stop school closures' and 'Save ILEA' badges.
We had to take down a his framed postcard photo of a 'policeman on a horse with a stick at the miner strike' as my very close friend and colleague went into aperplexy and the two men went on to rant all night. I love my DH, I wish I meet him then. I now got visions of me trying to arrest him and shagging him instead in a back alley. Oh! we might play that tonight.

I have a t shirt printed with "Replace Rhodes Boyson with a Wombat"

I can't remember exactly why we wanted to repace RB - except that he was a Tory Education Minister and therefore needed replacing or why we thought a wombat would do better. Except that RB was a Tory education Minister and therefore a wombat would almost certainly have done a better job.....!

PMSL at starbear and seeker!

I was only 5 at the time, but maybe a wombat as Education Minister (or other animal) would have been better than the one we had - one Margaret Thatcher, Milk Snatcher. I loved my bottle of milk at school and remember how sad I was when it stopped, presumably around the time of my 7th birthday.

Close the BNP bookshop in Welling was the best. Union stuff as well.

I joined Socialist Students because the bloke who ran it was fit but also because it was the most lefty organisation at uni.

I went on the Stop the War march which was almost bewildering - to be on the same side as what seemed like everybody else for the first time ever was amazing.

However, there were a lot of people who were anti-war for all sorts of reasons - one woman I worked with was anti-war because it would increase the number of asylum seekers in the UK

Slight tangent - does anyone remember the Silver Moon Women's Bookshop?

yes Charing Cross Road.

I do remember Silver Moon, I still really miss it.