How about you all stop moaning about these newsletters and create your own? There were thousands and thousands of leaflets and news letters around the 1850's to 1900's.....Thomas Paine distributed and made his own leaflet/books out of his own pocket, and gave them out freely....it cost him a substantial amount those days, but these days, it would onlly set you back 10-20 quid.....
SchNEWS activist newsletter calls it a day
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hiraethified
Sad to see the SchNEWS crew shutting up shop:
http://www.urban75.org/blog/farewell-to-schnews-britains-best-activist-newsletter/
http://www.urban75.org/blog/farewell-to-schnews-britains-best-activist-newsletter/
SikhWarrioR
And the Worms ate into his brain
Rather liked Schnews hope it comes back in some form or other we needed more like itSad to see the SchNEWS crew shutting up shop:
http://www.urban75.org/blog/farewell-to-schnews-britains-best-activist-newsletter/
Bahnhof Strasse
Let's av ya fuckin' dancin'!
Terrible shame, love their work.
taffboy gwyrdd
Embrace the confusion!
This is very sad. The Direct Action DIY bulletin, produced in Brighton, is to end after nearly 20 years. Whether you care or not, the bottom half of the statement is real food for thought
http://www.schnews.org.uk/stories/AND-FINALLY/
http://www.schnews.org.uk/stories/AND-FINALLY/
nino_savatte
No pasaran!
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That's bad 
nino_savatte
No pasaran!
Nuff respect and many thanks to them, sad to see them go
taffboy gwyrdd
Embrace the confusion!
Sad to see Schnews go.
I've been a subscriber for a good few years and they raised some excellent causes and protests in their time.
They have carried on the task of keeping the battles going started by the likes of lilburne and winstanley.
I wish them all well and hope they remain in the fight, whichever way they do.
In the age of the internet and online media we all have so much access to information easily. But there is nothing like the feeling of printing off a few dozen news sheets and handing them out.
Bye Schnews and thank you all.
I've been a subscriber for a good few years and they raised some excellent causes and protests in their time.
They have carried on the task of keeping the battles going started by the likes of lilburne and winstanley.
I wish them all well and hope they remain in the fight, whichever way they do.
In the age of the internet and online media we all have so much access to information easily. But there is nothing like the feeling of printing off a few dozen news sheets and handing them out.
Bye Schnews and thank you all.
DrRingDing
'anti-human wanker'
End of an era.
Sterling effort!
Sterling effort!
jakethesnake
In bed for Britain
This is sad news... the end of an era. Good luck Schnews people and thank you for all your efforts.
Bakunin
I am Noodle's bitch.
It's been a few years since I last dropped by the Cowley Club where they were based and things were on a shoestring crew then. It's sad to see them go and I do hope they do come back with something new and different. The old A4 badly-Xeroxed Schnews format was looking increasingly tired and there was tooo much work for too few people when I last visited in 2007. I'm not surprised its folded, but it's still a sad thing all the same.
chilango
Ha! Ha! Armageddon
Thought I'd have a lot more to say. But truthfully that era ended a long, long time ago and it's a surprise that Schnews outlived it by so long.
I've sometimes wondered whether '94 will ever get the same recognition that '68 did on it's 20th anniversary, but it seems not. Certainly far fewer '94ers have scrambled up the greasy pole than the '68ers did.
Anyway, I'm rambling.
Cheers Schnews.
I've sometimes wondered whether '94 will ever get the same recognition that '68 did on it's 20th anniversary, but it seems not. Certainly far fewer '94ers have scrambled up the greasy pole than the '68ers did.
Anyway, I'm rambling.
Cheers Schnews.
Flavour
hang the bankers
What events defined 1994, chilango? Genuine question (I was too young.) - I know what 1968 was about. But for me the 90s seems like it had various protests or movements spread out fairly evenly across the whole decade (up to Seattle '99, of course) ... what was so special about '94, apart from the founding of SchNews (and perhaps a couple of reclaim the streets parties)?
chilango
Ha! Ha! Armageddon
Why '94? I spose I could've picked another year, but for me '94 marked the high point of that wave of protests, things happened before and after too.
But yeah 94...
Zapatista rebellion
Claremont road
Solsbury hill
Rts
Two big cja protests, incl the one where Downing St was under seige.
Stuff happening everywhere, all the time. Still full of optimism and unity. By Newbury doubts and divisions were creeping in.
Arbitrary choice if course, but so was '68 I guess.
But yeah 94...
Zapatista rebellion
Claremont road
Solsbury hill
Rts
Two big cja protests, incl the one where Downing St was under seige.
Stuff happening everywhere, all the time. Still full of optimism and unity. By Newbury doubts and divisions were creeping in.
Arbitrary choice if course, but so was '68 I guess.
Thunderfist
Well-Known Member
As a SchNEWS writer - the positive response to our demise has been overwhelming. However for the last couple of years (despite some good breaks and some influential stories) we were waiting to be blown out of the water by some all new, singing, dancing snapchat and Tumblr integrated multi media experience produced by some wet behind the ears upstarts who would consign us old crusty farts to the hinterlands of irrelevance. For some reason that hasn't happened. So we soldiered on.
Tbh I think it's great to quit while you're ahead so long and thanks for all the ink and puns
I tried to run a paper/site some (god help me) fifteen years ago called yearzero, and the schnews people were about at the same time. its fucking graft. we lasted about 3 years, its even harder when you get any kind of popularity. when people are expecting/waiting for your gear... So im amazed and impressed in equal measure the Schnews team lasted so long, very commendable and...in its own Schnews way...professional.
And Schnews also make some very good points about `Vice` here http://www.schnews.org.uk/stories/AND-FINALLY/. To be fair when I first saw `Vice` doing what they do I thought...good on you. Interesting stuff. It seems the Schnews team agree broadly, but of course Schnews also point out the ownership of Vice is corporate. It's the crux of the matter really.
So to the next round of junior Schnewsers I would say you can go down that Vice/corporate route as long as you don't sell out the politics. The minute someone tells you that you cant say X or Y as the advertisers wont like it (or in my case one time as the government censors wouldn't like it heheheh ) then get out and do something else/neutral. Otherwise you get trapped by having no dough, then they can really tell you what to write.
You can take corporate cash as long as that is what you are doing, taking their stuff and finding a bigger audience.
It's about editorial freedom versus the size of your audience, but you can do both...
And Schnews also make some very good points about `Vice` here http://www.schnews.org.uk/stories/AND-FINALLY/. To be fair when I first saw `Vice` doing what they do I thought...good on you. Interesting stuff. It seems the Schnews team agree broadly, but of course Schnews also point out the ownership of Vice is corporate. It's the crux of the matter really.
So to the next round of junior Schnewsers I would say you can go down that Vice/corporate route as long as you don't sell out the politics. The minute someone tells you that you cant say X or Y as the advertisers wont like it (or in my case one time as the government censors wouldn't like it heheheh ) then get out and do something else/neutral. Otherwise you get trapped by having no dough, then they can really tell you what to write.
You can take corporate cash as long as that is what you are doing, taking their stuff and finding a bigger audience.
It's about editorial freedom versus the size of your audience, but you can do both...
SpookyFrank
Don't swallow the cap
RIP the only good thing about Brighton
I heard that Schnews started off on the Old Kent Road
Didn't something like that happen to a certain poster on here when they worked for the Big Issue in The North?
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hiraethified
Thomas Paine used the most effective technology of the day to get across his message.
And the most effective (and cost effective) technology today is the internet/social media.
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