I think we should do more. I want to see people donning balaclavas and smashing street video cameras. But there is more to Monday than that. When we first started out we managed to get 500 people on a protest in 1995, then we had 2,000 and we expect 10,000 or more this weekend. There is definitely something going on.
People know that the world is threatened by an ecological crisis.
Unlike in the 1960s, they despair of conventional political parties to do anything about it. That's what direct action is all about,' Jordan says. Youth movements in the past have always had a focus to their protest, whether it was radical politics in the 60s or punk in the 70s. The protesters' claims that the world's eco-system could collapse by 2030 may be exaggerated, but it is true that the world's leading consumer brands generate annual turnover greater than the poorest 20 countries' total wealth. Walk down any high street in almost any city and the logos are the same - McDonalds, Coke, Starbucks, Levi's.