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Taxamo Welf
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thats cos some cunt set off a stick bomb mate.
I think the numbers were the same if not higher, rememebr kids there were 2 rooms.
In Bloom i don't think leeds pulled that many people away, k.
Steve Booth
Bourgeois apologist
Fair comment
Yeah, probably a fair comment. It's just that I'm curious as to how well the movement is doing, and we don't get too many empirical measurements of this. The Bookfair perhaps being one of the few "reliable indicators" (cough cough).
imposs1904
Thread Killa'
Liked Ian Bone's description of the Anarchist Bookfair from his recent radio interview with one of its organisers, Tony Wood:
"On October 18th the most momentous event - some cynics would say the only event - in the annual anarchist calendar takes place, the Anarchist Bookfair. Thousands of anarchists suddenly appear like Brigadoon for the day before promptly vanishing again. Prompting the immortal quote from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, "Who were those guys?"
"On October 18th the most momentous event - some cynics would say the only event - in the annual anarchist calendar takes place, the Anarchist Bookfair. Thousands of anarchists suddenly appear like Brigadoon for the day before promptly vanishing again. Prompting the immortal quote from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, "Who were those guys?"
kyser_soze
Hawking's Angry Eyebrow
Heh, was only joking with that statement!! A small and subtle point about self-organisation and information collation and sharing...
I went to the Peter Marshall workshop, Critical Theory 2008 and The Abolition of the State. I was amazed at how little participation there was in these workshops and how few Anarchists were in these workshops. I really feel it would be good to have more popular education style workshops and even an example of Open Space Technology during a workshop, a 2 hour Open Space tech workshop would be wicked.
Apart from that I had an amazing time, was like Christmas day, spunked a months wages on some superb literature, which I'm still excited about having access to.
Big up the organisers.
Jonezy x
Apart from that I had an amazing time, was like Christmas day, spunked a months wages on some superb literature, which I'm still excited about having access to.
Big up the organisers.
Jonezy x
DJWrongspeed
radio eros
I agree, it was Marshall talking a load of simple ideals without being challenged, you could learn a whole lot more from talking about his history book with a lot of different views.
Picked up this cool free mag, occupied London >
Taxamo Welf
kebagels pls
I agree, it was Marshall talking a load of simple ideals without being challenged, you could learn a whole lot more from talking about his history book with a lot of different views.
Picked up this cool free mag, occupied London >
its tosh tho, isn't it.
Mates of mine do it, but it's utter tosh. Its cool that its free and looks nice i spose.
Treehugger76
I'm also a Hobbit
I really enjoyed the workshops but agree that there were too many clashes and I didn't get to go to as many as I would have liked. to quote a friend it's 'what school would be like if it was fun!'
I wasn't too enamoured with the stalls tho but managed to pick up a few interesting things and stealing a mate's book when he's finished with it.
what's occupied london about btw?
I wasn't too enamoured with the stalls tho but managed to pick up a few interesting things and stealing a mate's book when he's finished with it.
what's occupied london about btw?
My favourite bit was when I went up to a stall and the girl there boasted that the organisation she represented had a camp at a nuclear submarine facility "For 26 years!!" to which I retorted "So it didn't work then?" 
At least she laughed and didn't do anything nasty like scratch my eyes out.
At least she laughed and didn't do anything nasty like scratch my eyes out.
Taxamo Welf
kebagels pls
Taxamo Welf
kebagels pls
My favourite bit was when I went up to a stall and the girl there boasted that the organisation she represented had a camp at a nuclear submarine facility "For 26 years!!" to which I retorted "So it didn't work then?"
i don't think its meant to work is it? Faslane, Greenham etc.
Its just meant to be there.
Thora
Differently Ethical
Bakunin
I am Noodle's bitch.
Now that's hardly the case, is it really?
The folk at Faslane, and at various temporary camps around the country, do a lot of stuff in the form of NVDA that many people wouldn't fancy or simply wouldn't have the balls to go out and do. You've also got to consider the relative power and scale of the the establishment as opposed to that of anti-nuclear activists as well.
Taxamo Welf
kebagels pls
I don't think anyone ever suggested they were going to permanently shut such places down... Making C66 question kinda invalid?
I mean even if 10,000 people turned up at faslane and nonviolently raided it, that's not going to change the countries nuclear policy.
It wasn't a valid question. It was an attempt at wit and the people at the stall laughed. They handed me leaflets which I subsequently read and I gave a donation so job done.
Random
Ethnic nalgocrat
shutting down the cruise middle base was the aim of greenham common, stopping the road was the aim of the newbury camps. Some have more success, some less.
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