Wir, die Neugierigen, nach 80 Demonstranten die Attraktion übernommen und allen einen freien Einstieg für alle anboten
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/curious-forced-close-after-80-10363618
Von Anony_mouse202
Wir, die Neugierigen, nach 80 Demonstranten die Attraktion übernommen und allen einen freien Einstieg für alle anboten
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/curious-forced-close-after-80-10363618
Von Anony_mouse202
32 Kommentare
What an awful set of people.
Slightly less awful are the visitors who took advantage and went in without paying.
Everyone involved unfortunately lived down to my expectations.
>“It was all a bit confusing,” he said. “We walked up and I saw the massive queue. I started speaking to this lady that works at We The Curious, and all of a sudden I was accosted by this woman in a red t-shirt saying ‘the queueing system’s gone today, you can get a full refund, queue up over there, you may or may not get in, it’s up to us, it’s our discretion’.
What a bunch of weirdos, seems more like power tripping dictators
Very strange course of action to take.
You protest about a venue and its funding by encouraging even more people to visit it for free 😂
This is one of those fun sounding ideas that doesn’t really work in practice. Parents and kids who are happy with some chaos and mucking in no doubt had a great time, meanwhile SEN parents were inwardly bracing themselves for the inevitable meltdowns to come.
How did the police allow this?
I’m sure it’s illegal to hijack a company and then start to run it?
> we’ve been invaded by these people, they’ve taken over We The Curious, it’s about some funding we had ten years ago.’
Sums up how stupid these protestors are. 9 years ago they accepted some funding from the helicopter manufacturer down the road. That’s it.
Since then they’ve implemented a policy to prevent them taking funding from a helicopter manufacturer down the road and haven’t taken any of that money for over 6 years.
> Acorn gave We The Curious a letter listing four demands, which included cutting ‘all ties with arms companies’, donating the same amount of money they originally received from Leonardo in 2016 to a charity supporting Palestinian civilians, making a public commitment not to accept ‘arms industry funding’ in the future, and to join the ‘Bristol Apartheid Free Zone’.
Yeah, get fucked. It’s great you care about wars and all that but maybe do something useful rather than whatever the hell this is in a kids attraction?
It’s a shame, I’d previously looked to join acorn due to their support of renters
Last I heard, Acorn were a renters union, dealing with rogue landlords.
When did they go off on this absolute tangent to their original purpose?
> which funded an exhibition at We The Curious back in 2016
I could understand it if the exhibition had just opened… But protesting an action that happened 9 years ago simply because of who the sponsor was… tenuous. There have presumably been many other exhibitions since with other sponsors too.
How much of an ego trip are those guys on?, and the police stayed there watching and did nothing?
Moronic arseholes.
I can only assume the extinction rebellion protestors have moved into this
>Acorn were protesting about the venue’s nine-year-old links to military company Leonardo, which funded an exhibition at We The Curious back in 2016.
Really want to get Acorn’s side of this because that’s mental if true.
Isn’t a sizable part of Bristols economy defence firms.
Idiots, a poorly researched protest that is going to be associated with Acorn and any future actions.
Whoever thought this was a good idea deserves utter contempt.
On the right we have people trying to burn down hotels full of people
On the left we have people trying to traumatise disabled kids
What a world of cunts we live in
I am absolutely anti-Israeli government right now. I think the UK needs to stop sending arms and funding to them now and should’ve done years ago.
But this protest is utter nonsense. Oh no they received charitable funding 9 years ago, so flipping what. Just a bunch of see you next Tuesdays ruining people’s day and damaging the operation of a charity to make an irrelevant point.
This union thought that the best way to get the average Joe on your side was by intimidating children with SEN.
Stay classy, Acorn.
What’s going on in Gaza is terrible but absolutely no one there is benefitted by a niche tourist attraction in Bristol being shut down for the day because of some historic, and seemingly not repeated, funding they accepted.
I’m a lefty and needless to say, don’t support genocide or anything Israel is currently up to but Gaza as a cause is starting to suffer from god awful performative types who have co opted it as a weird part of their identity. There may not be loads of them but mad shit like this gets the wrong kind of attention.
It’s like attacking Cisco (overall a much better target than We The Curious) but doing so at London Pride thereby derailing another minority group’s event thereby engendering no sympathy whatsoever.
Another group to add to the Panini sticker album titled ‘Narcissistic Arseholes’
Why don’t these empty heads go and protest in Israel or Gaza?
Why are these groups so happy to sabotage European defence manufacturing and militaries over minor involvement in Gaza, but are almost silent over the Russian invasion of Ukraine?
Have they thought that sabotaging our defence production at this time might endanger our ability to protect ourselves from the much larger invasion happening IN Europe?
Makes you wonder who is pulling their strings.
Yet another group of losers being a nuisance while under the delusion that they can make a change.
Some people have fried their brains over obsessing about world news thousands of miles away
Could have went and protested at Leonardo, but chose here instead, not that committed to their cause are they. Using something from a decade ago rather than going after Leonardo right now because they don’t have the conviction to actually do anything „meaningful“
They are quite literally scum and targeting children here, some with additional needs. Typical left wing bullying and shouting down.
Oh fuck off targeting an amazing places like we the curious that only recently opened up after being closed for ages because of a fire.
Absolutely pathetic people for wanting to fk over kids having a day out to learn and explore science.
Parents who took the free entry also need to look at themselves here
Protesting is just like capitalism – advantage goes to the first movers.
A guy from Acorn knocked on my door recently asking for me to sign up, and I was seriously tempted. I usually have a blanket No to door knocking chuggers. This shit makes me really glad I didn’t.
I’m confused about their goal here.
How does forcing a children’s science museum to give a bunch of money to a military organisation help anti war efforts??
If they’ve already committed to not accepting donations from them again years ago, who gives a shit???
Hold on weren’t the police called or something? You can’t just go somewhere and go „we are taking over ‚. Fuck off.
Okay this one is just stupid. I lived in Bristol for years this place is great, iirc they had to shut for ages because of a fire and haven’t been open that long. It’s an attraction for kids helping teach them science FFS who looks at that and says ‚yup clearly a bad thing‘. Surely you weigh up where you target? Surely there’s plenty of actually bad things to protest? Wild.