London Mayday - Suited and Booted with the Hijackers

[Thora]

genuine question Thora - do you enjoy these kind of events? Like do you enjoy clowning and dressing up and that?

I don't know that I've ever been to a clowning/dressing up type event tbh tax.

 

[Balbi]

I can't help thinking that this is 'May Day for people who don't have a clue about what to do on May Day'. Well, I say thinking. I mean applying it to myself. I'm a middle class university student, and am therefore the great satan to the frothing political types I'd start a thread, but i'm all out of buns to throw

 

[bluestreak]

well, to be honest, i fucking love this idea. i've given up on trying to create change with these things, so why not have a laugh.

 

[Thora]

That's the spirit!

 

[bluestreak]

it's the only spirit i've got. cannae be arsed to play cat and mouse with the cops, or march in solidarity with people who think i'm scum. might as well have a giggle. worker's playday after all.

 

[Balbi]

The world turned upside down, or at least wobbling after a few cans of lager

 

[lopsidedbunny]

Here some of the latest info, http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/04/368290.html I had tried to contact a few people but I am not really in "the scene" as it were to spread the word. I hope some hardy folks out there doing a better job than I!

 

[Final]

If the weather stays like this then wearing a suit isn't going to be much fun.

 

[Taxamo Welf]

If the weather stays like this then wearing a suit isn't going to be much fun.

thats a very good point.

 

[Taxamo Welf]

That's the spirit!

if you think thats the spirit then you have answered my question.

Yes, you find this kind of thing enjoyable.

In and of itself.

 

[Thora]

if you think thats the spirit then you have answered my question.

Yes, you find this kind of thing enjoyable.

In and of itself.

 

[Nixon]

why is everyone shredding this guy for postin his mayday event thing up?

 

[Thora]

Cos anarchists love nothing more than a spot of infighting.

 

[bluestreak]

Cos anarchists love nothing more than a spot of infighting.

no we don't.

 

[editor]

go n blow £200 on saville row...

I'd love to get a handmade Saville Row suit for just £200. Have the address of the tailor please? Thanks.

 

[Thora]

no we don't.

Liberal

 

[editor]

what gives you the right to claim you are relaunching mayday, have you liaised with any other groups, are you having open meetings, has consensus been reached within the anarchist movement for this relaunch, and if so why the snide remarks about the tuc march

An anarchist event needing permission from the "anarchist movement"? I like it!

Should they send application forms off in triplicate to:
The Anarchist Movement
PO Box 666
London?

 

[bluestreak]

Liberal

*weeps*

 

[Balbi]

*weeps*

And you can stop your heart from bleeding as well

 

[bluestreak]

*removes heart*

*joins conservatives*

 

[Balbi]

*washes blueys wishys*

 

[bluestreak]

so we're all agreed then.

some anarchists will have a party dressed in suits, some anarchists will march with the TUV in an effort to normalise anarchism, and some will do there own thing.

 

[aurora green]

so we're all agreed then.

some anarchists will have a party dressed in suits, some anarchists will march with the TUV in an effort to normalise anarchism, and some will do there own thing.

*feels torn

I mean I'd much rather have a knees-up on Mayday, but fear the dreads and baby buggy will ruin my city worker disguise...

 

[Kid_Eternity]

so we're all agreed then.

some anarchists will have a party dressed in suits, some anarchists will march with the TUV in an effort to normalise anarchism, and some will do there own thing.

Ffs can't you people get it together?? I'm only one person and wont be able to be in two places at once to take pictures!

 

[lopsidedbunny]

 

[free spirit]

Ffs can't you people get it together?? I'm only one person and wont be able to be in two places at once to take pictures!

with a big enough mirror positioned just right you could... er maybe

 

[The Black Hand]

thye are perhaps equally useless. However one aims to have a playful take on the ritualised cat and mouse game between 'protestor' and police officer and one aims to put anarchism or socialism across to potentially interested parties.

Both events could have the same effect - to get people interested in anarchism or socialism and the cause and effects of inequality. Its just a matter of approach and its up to you, the discerning communist to decide which you prefer.

furthermore, marching with stalinists doesn't clash with dress-up day do you can do bothe

This Space Hijacking event looks to be the most interesting political event on Mayday, though a vibrant 'black bloc' maybe good for a chat too. If the contradictions/confusion can be built on a mass level some of those attendees may get a few £££ a couple of years down the line for false arrest claims.

In what way does either event got us closer to anarchism though? Certainly building for and practicing skills for the hijacking mobilisation increases our confidence and capacity to do more another time.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

with a big enough mirror positioned just right you could... er maybe

 

[Luther Blissett]

though a vibrant 'black bloc' maybe good for a chat too. If the contradictions/confusion can be built on a mass level some of those attendees may get a few £££ a couple of years down the line for false arrest claims.

wtf are you on about?
space hijackers are bringing a vibrancy to the practice of non-violent political activism & community protest



this IS contemporary anarchism

 

[The Black Hand]

wtf are you on about?

Don't worry Luther... Just an observation about the amount of people getting money for being arrested on political actions - remember the MAM 42, The people on the buses/Us airbase action and so on... I remember an RTS meeting in the 90's which saw a lot of money being donated for action from such sources...