English AntiRiot "Operation Cup Of Tea" Campaign Has 300,000+ Fans & Trending Massively On Twitter

English Tea 'Antiriot' Brews Online

August 11, 2011
By Kristin Deasy, Shahran Tabari

Parts of London ablaze, people screaming, mobs advancing. OK, it's time to pull out the big guns. Cue "Operation Cup of Tea."

No, it's not the next James Bond movie. It is a massive online campaign in response to this week's violence in England, in which scores of buildings and stores were demolished and more than 1,000 people arrested.

The new initiative, which describes itself as an "antiriot," recruits the calming, classically British beverage in a bid to end the violence.

"We don't need to riot, and this is how we will show it," says https://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=261568193854371">the Facebook page, in which people upload photos of themselves drinking tea. It now has some 300,000 fans and has become a hugely popular trending topic on Twitter (http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23OperationCupOfTea">#OperationCupofTea).

More: http://www.rferl.org/content/britain_riots_sam_pepper_antiriot_operation_cup_of_tea/24293922.html

Operation Cup Of Tea's homepage: http://www.operationcupoftea.com/

strange, those brits.

If you follow the links you'll see why that response was a miss.

"Money raised by the initiative ... is to be put toward rebuilding areas damaged by the riots."

;-)