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Batman protests Buckingham Palace

category international | rights, freedoms and repression | other press author Monday September 13, 2004 22:22author by iosaf Report this post to the editors

in a return spectacular by the group "Fathers for Justice" who dye attacked the House of Commons

Today one of their activists dressed as Batman climbed the cornice of buckingham Palace in central London and hung out for a few hours till a crane took him down.

The last time the security of Buckingham Palace was breached was last year for the birthday party of one of the princes in which a comic dressed as Osama Bin Laden gate crashed.

This is the second time, this group "Justice for Fathers" has bypassed security in the Westminster City area this year, and both times the group which preserves the anomynity of it's activists have launched their protests with a certian "class caché".

They're so good at it, you could almost be forgiven thinking they're taking the piss with semi-official impunity.

Or maybe, Batman was just answering the recognised emergency number light in the sky signal which the Americans somehow thought appropriate to mark 911.

http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0@2-3214,36-378995,0.html

author by Monolingualpublication date Mon Sep 13, 2004 23:20author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Its all in French.
With no spectacular pictures.

ps
Anyone got a link for the French film industry temporary workers who disrupted a film festival recently?

author by eeekkpublication date Tue Sep 14, 2004 13:51author address author phone Report this post to the editors

go to www.italy.indymedia.org

venice is in italy btw ;-)

author by Fergalpublication date Tue Sep 14, 2004 15:37author address author phone Report this post to the editors

As far as one can tell, Batman was protesting on behalf of "Fathers 4 Justice", rather than the rather more unsavoury "Justice for Fathers" (who are a fairly reactionary anti-gay, anti-single parent "family values" group).

The laws and policies he was protesting are similar to those in force in Ireland, and arise from a traditional view that children are better off with their mothers. This assumption manages the difficult feat of being offensive to both sexes. It patronises women ,by classifying childcare as exclusively "women's work" while implying that men have no ability and therefore no role when it comes to taking care of their own kids.

Legally, the courts are required to place the welfare of the child their primary concern in deciding the custody issue. In practice, many judges tend to slip too easily into the clichéd "dead-beat dad/Long-suffering mother" view of things, and give full custody to the mother almost as a matter of course.

Despite the nature of the protest, this is actually a valid issue, and one I personally would like to see speedily resolved, as it'll give John Waters one less thing to complain about.

By the way, what's "class caché"?

Related Link: http://www.fathers-4-justice.org
author by :-)publication date Tue Sep 14, 2004 20:28author address author phone Report this post to the editors

means absolutely nothing, I just thought it would get the snobbier people interested, get them thinking there was a turn of phrase used by those who live behind proper lace curtains that we in the gutter hadn't heard yet.

only one photo was distributed and went "european" today.
you can see it with background info on those who took part (including the non-photographed Robin) in The guardian at-
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1303991,00.html

 
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