Palestine Action and Extinction Rebellion highlights the importance of Boomers using their white privilege
Half of arrests at Palestine Action ban protest were 60 or over, data shows
Half of the people arrested during the protest in relation to Palestine Action in London on Saturday were aged 60 or above, according to police figures.
A total of 532 people were arrested at the largest demonstration relating to the group since it was proscribed last month. All but 10 were under Section 13 of the Terrorism Act for displaying supportive placards or signs.
An age breakdown released by the Metropolitan police on Sunday revealed that nearly 100 of those detained were in their 70s and 15 were in their 80s. Of the 519 arrested people with confirmed dates of birth, 49.9% were 60 or older.
Here is the reality.
Direct action is the only action that works now be it the genocide in Gaza or the environmental crimes against humanity that polluters are causing with climate change.
Here is another reality.
The Pigs won’t beat the shit out of White Boomers.
In NZ, the cops are great for beating up Māori, chasing young people to their deaths and hassling the homeless, they ain’t so good and hurting white boomers.
It is time for our White Boomer Activists to lean into this privilege and put their bodies on the line at the very forefront of the fight.
Direct Action by our white boomer comrades be it Gaza or Climate Change is the only way to force real change.
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What it shows is that segmenting society into groups by age and pretending within the group they all think the same and have the same intrests is such bollocks. OK X, OK Boomer, OK millennial.
You mean (gasp) somebody thinks we are still useful? (Being retired means we have time to do these things and it is a nice day out for us).
I would be almost ideal for the role. Regrettably not female, but I am white, 70 years old, and well overweight. Hauling my passive ass to the van would take 4 cops and they would need a rest afterwards.
Just the type of boomer that desperately needed on the frontline
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Damn right Sleepy! I look forward to seeing you there. Last time I was at something similar I was in the grip of a buxom policewoman as she womanhandled out of the road.
‘You are not supposed to enjoy this and I am tired of you coming back all the time, ‘ she muttered.
‘Do you want to handcuff me and work me over in the cells?’
I’m still waiting for my white privilege to kick in so I can take a break from working my arse off.
oh – you’re a poor me wannabe – now I get it.
Yip pakeha just don’t know how privileged they have even if you’re dirt poor who has a better chance of getting a handout on the street by a sympathetic citizen than what a Maori would get.
There will be shitloads of NZ Europeans who are really struggling / up shit creek but they would rather have nothing than ask for handouts on the street.
you are being played like a fiddle
I reckon most people who actually give to street people are colour blind.
May be you were only given White Trash Privilege 😉
In fairness, a lot of good boomers like Minto and the CAFCA fellas have been getting the s**t kicked out of them by pigs loyal to Americans and other filthy foreigners for most of their lives.