{"id":2817,"date":"2019-10-20T16:29:19","date_gmt":"2019-10-20T20:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=2817"},"modified":"2019-10-20T16:29:19","modified_gmt":"2019-10-20T20:29:19","slug":"a-stinkin-rebellion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=2817","title":{"rendered":"A Stinkin&#8217; Rebellion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/stinkinrebellion\/stinkinrebellion.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"border: 0px none; margin: 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/stinkinrebellion\/stinkinrebellion650w.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"421\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>So, aaaaanyway&#8230; the resolute doorknobs at Extinction Rebellion<\/strong> have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/home-news\/extinction-rebellion-protests-london-today-spray-paint-red-handed-march-a9160876.html\" target=\"_blank\">staged a protest<\/a> involving <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/stinkinrebellion\/XRredhanded_flyer72dpi.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">spray-painting your hand red,<\/a> leaving a &#8220;bloody&#8221; handprint on a government building or corporate HQ, then looking for a cop to turn yourself in. Yeah, that&#8217;s right.<\/p>\n<p>This empty dipshittery follows an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/home-news\/extinction-rebellion-protests-london-today-tube-train-canning-town-station-underground-a9159631.html\" target=\"_blank\">earlier debacle on the London Tube<\/a> in which XR tried to shut down the subways, resulting in protesters being roughed up, beaten and thrown off the trains by irate commuters.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I&#8217;m no tactical expert, but it seems that a subway-blocking action would go down best when you&#8217;ve reached the point where things are so bad that the streets are already full of fed-up, pissed-off people, and the general strike is already underway. Otherwise, you&#8217;re just pissing off the working class.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>For further reading:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wrongkindofgreen.org\/2019\/05\/06\/extinction-rebellion-training-or-how-to-control-radical-resistance-from-the-obstructive-left\/\" target=\"_blank\">Extinction Rebellion Training, or How to Control Radical Resistance from the &#8220;Obstructive Left&#8221;,<\/a> at Wrong Kind Of Green, 05.06.2019<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>11&#215;17 inch medium-res <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/stinkinrebellion\/stinkinrebellion.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">color .jpg image,<\/a> 1mb<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, aaaaanyway&#8230; the resolute doorknobs at Extinction Rebellion have staged a protest involving spray-painting your hand red, leaving a &#8220;bloody&#8221; handprint on a government building or corporate HQ, then looking for a cop to turn yourself in. Yeah, that&#8217;s right. This empty dipshittery follows an earlier debacle on the London Tube in which XR tried [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,10],"tags":[1007],"class_list":["post-2817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-media","tag-extinction-rebellion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2817"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2819,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2817\/revisions\/2819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}