inspired by both listening to Super Black Market Clash again - only it's third (or so) play and it's already an old friend (in a good way) fun, enjoyable, capable to be both comforting and surprising (especially on Stop The World)., and Oxfam's new Campaign magazine on Climate Change promoting the Put People First rally (which I can't get to)

Anyway - the police/authorities appear to be running scared, if my mum's accounts of what she heard on the news was accurate  ("they had an anarchist on it" -  Ian Bone of all people - and "that march is going to a big and hairy one" apparently, thanks Mum.) and (are) trying to turn people off  to it.

Three appropriate bits of lyrics

from White Riot
"All the power’s in the hands
Of people rich enough to buy it
While we walk the street
Too chicken to even try it

Everybody’s doing
Just what they’re told to
Nobody wants
To go to jail!"

from Armagideon Time / Kick It Over

"A lotta people wont' get not a-justice tonight
A lotta people sitting down, by the light – ah!
A lotta people a-wont get no a-supper tonight
A lotta people a-wont get no a-justice tonight
Remember, a-kick it over
No one will guide you through armagideon time
Armagideon"

and
"A lotta people aint got no supper tonight
A lotta people gonna have to stand up and fight"

hopefully it won't end up like this -
from Groovy Times

"The High Street shops are boarded up
An' the Terrace it is fenced in
See-through shields are walled across
The way that you came in
But there's no need to get excited
As the lorries bring the bacon in
'Cos the housewives are all singing
Groovy times are here again

They discovered one black Saturday
That mobs don't march they run
So you can excuse the nervous triggerman
Just this once for jumping the gun
As they were picking up the dead
Out of the broken glass
Yes it's Number One, the radio said
Groovy times have come to pass!"

 eta: I'm not posting these as an encouragement for mindless violence or brick throwing, literal rioting etc..
and I managed to find the CH4 report, just watching it &  it turns out the suggestions/mentions of violence seemed to come from clips of Seattle and Ian Bone was on it but only to give a sentence or 2 - barely a minute, the most dangerous part of his brief interview was their introduction claiming (in a threatening voice) that he 'wants the banking system destroyed'

Knowing my mum she probably got him confused with Chris Knight on an earlier programme - http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/uk/direct action this weekend/3044372

(just read a long discussion on urban75 partially about this - opinions are he's either an idiot/"loony", naive, been made to sound worse than he meant and/or deliberately "...goading the police to keep it fluffy and companies to turn their lights off voluntarily.")