Target: 'Men In Suits'

Increasingly amongst EF!’ers there is a belief that the decision makers should be targeted for action more rather than endless encounters with workmen who talk at length about their mortgages. Thus the 'Men In Suits' Campaign - three particularly successful attempts at belittling those caring men with big cigars.

In Bristol on June 18th Roads Minister Robert Key was in Bristol at the launch of Green Transport Week. Approximately 200 protestors had the fortunate experience of meeting this great man, and were so excited at this that they all tried to converse with him at the same time during his speech. Coincidentally they were all repeatedly saying something like. “You are scum. You are killing our children.” The ministers speech was inaudible, especially after someone liberated the microphone.

A crown of ivy leaves from Solsbury Hill was produced and the objective was to place this on Bob’s fat head. However, the heavy police cordon remained just about in tact and so it was thrown at the stage. The whole event was a fiasco and brought Mr. Key one step nearer to receiving his P45 in any forthcoming reshuffle. John MacGregor , Transport Minister, another prime candidate for redundancy, also had visitors lately. He was attending a £770 a head conference on European Road-building at the Hotel Intercontinental in London (15/6/94). Road Alert were joined for this action by Greenpeace, who made their debut in transport direct actions in great style. The event was infiltrated by ’press’, and MacGregor’s speech was drowned out by these ’journos’ with James Bond style briefcases with in-built tape recorders and amplifiers which played loud extracts of traffic noise. The activists and briefcases were gradually removed one by one. Apparently the meeting was well and truly trashed and Road Alert have bean removed from MacGregors’ Christmas card list Lamb (Lloyds and Midland Boycott) have been abusing their “friends” at Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank (HSBC) . To quote the Financial Times: "The annual shareholders’ meeting of HSBC holdings, the parent company of Midland Bank was yesterday halted amid chaos as a student protester handcuffed herself to the chair occupied by Mr Keith Watson, the bank’s chief executive. The meeting was disrupted as the student was carried out of Barbican Hall in London. Guards had to cut another student free from a microphone cable next to Sir William Purverts, HSBC’s chairmsn, and pull him from the stage along with others. The meeting resumed after being halted for 10 minutes.” Sir William is misquoted as saying his four children “leave me in no doubt the importance of the environment... the world's environment has been severely damaged and continues to be, and we take a keen interest in ensuring that it stays that way. I need children to tell me that, as I’ve had any earth spirit I ever had beaten out of me at public school, a damn hard beating never did me any harm.” For more information call Lamb on 061-274-4665.