Time to put the weekly FTP march to bed

January 21, 2012 at 10:43 pm.

With all due respect to the men and women of TAC, victory should have been declared after the end of last week’s successful FTP march. A few weeks ago TAC was predicting a thousand or more participants; this week, the march drew 50-100 (Jasper Gregory’s best estimate was 70). It’s probably not going to get any smaller than that in the weeks ahead, and I support your right to march whenever and wherever you like, but the point has been made and it’s little more than kabuki theatre at this point, a game being played between TAC and OPD. And Melvin…you may not realize it, but you sound positively bored when you chant ‘fuck the police’ through your loudhailer.

Time to move on to something more constructive, IMHO. Perhaps next week’s Move-In Day would provide the perfect opportunity to refocus?

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