Dancing on the Grave of Capitalism – The Sequel, London, Mon 31 Oct 2011 It's time!
It's time for the Giant Casino Banking Trick or Treat!
It's time to turn the world upside down!
It's time to bury the zombie rotting corpse of capitalism!
At the Hallowe'en New Moon, it’s...
DANCING ON THE GRAVE OF CAPITALISM – THE SEQUEL
Shimmy on down on
Monday 31 October 2011
for the
Giant Casino Banking Trick or Treat
Costume code: spectres haunting Europe (bring tricks), witches, wizards, ghosts, ghoulies, zombie, vamps…
Featuring the
G20 Can-Can Skeleton Chorus Line
Matinee Performance – 4 pm at the Bank of England
Evening Show – 6 pm on the Canary Wharf Plaza
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'Dancing on the Grave of Capitalism – The Sequel' flyer on OccupyLSX Poster Wall,
where we'll meet up from 3 pm on Mon 31 Oct 2011
RENDEZVOUS: OCCUPYLSX 3 PM
We will gather at 3 pm at the Occupy London camp at St Paul's to move down to Bank for 4 pm. Facepaints for zombies, spooks and skeletons available there...
You too can say “KNICKERS!” to International Finance Capital. The G20 meet in Cannes early November to try to save the skins of the banking classes. Fat chance!
Shake up your old bones! Age, sex, fitness NO BARRIER – if you have a skeleton, can wear frilly bloomers and lift a leg stump, you can kick capitalism in the pants, Kick it while it’s down, and then Kick It Harder!
This is a Government of the Dead street theatre production – we are dedicated to the overthrow of capitalism in a street party atmosphere under the sway of the Moon.
SHEER LUNARCHY – Putting the human into revolution!
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Exodus Collective post-mortem – Glenn Jenkins Speaks From 1992-2000, the Exodus Collective of Bedfordshire, England were responsible not only for a large number of underground parties but succesfully squatted and purchased a large piece of land formerly owned by the British Government, and were literally on the verge of kicking off an amazing communal housing / lifestyle venture.
They were the inspiration to other crews around the UK (not least those in Reading - and made national and international press with mostly positive reports of their exploits. They fought off not only the powerful in the Council and Police, but even the Freemasons!
Then, sadly, the collective exploded amongst allegations of violence, teritorrialism against other local crews, hard drug use and general bad behaviour. The group fell apart to the extent where there entire sound system got put through a crusher by the local council and no one was there to protest this as those perceived to "own" it had made so many enemies :(
I won't post the allegations here as I'm not the sort of person who likes stirring up these things; but searching on the other rave sites and newsgroups (or even speaking to any party person who was about from 1998-2001) will soon turn them up (and it is is not nice stuff).
However, their former spokesman Glenn Jenkins has had the courage and tenacity to speak out about what led to the demise of the collective. Its hard reading; but like a fireman poking about the wreckage of a burnt building his aim is undoubtedly to warn those planning collective ventures of potential pitfalls; maybe his words will prevent the demise of another similar venture.
Global vision I was listening to a radio show this evening, and this scottish guy made alot of sense anyone else know about this forum?
I read some of it and it seems quite good,
globalvision2000.com |
And then click on the forum
i love the way that poiliticians do their thing i love the way that poiliticians go at each other. i was driving home today to my homeless shelter in brampton when i heard an anti--dalton mcguinty add that called him the taxman. they were blaming him for the hst hydro tax. they go at each other over these adds like caddy girls in a cat fight.
We got a visit from america…. Things turned ugly, but thats what you get when you think reputation will make you untouchable....
Shepard Fairey: Street Art and Politics in Copenhagen
(that last personal attack is just too stupid and totally wrong and should never had happen and I am deeply sorry for that)
UK : East : Chemical incident outside Adnams brewery.. it could have been worse though, at least it wasn't beer being spilled in the road, that would be a disaster!
it is amazing though how often the local shops "run dry" of Adnams though, considering it doesn't have to travel far..
FIREFIGHTERS are dealing with a serious chemical incident outside the Adnams distribution depot in Reydon, Southwold.
Drums of nitric acid were reported to be leaking on a lorry on the Halesworth Road, Reydon, shortly before 9.30am.
A specialist “Hazmat” fire engine from Lowestoft and two officers attended, but back up was quickly called for and the road - the main route into Southwold - was closed.
PIcture update Southwold: Chemical alert outside Adnams distribution depot - News - Evening Star
a trojan t-shirt BBC News - Trojan T-shirt targets German right-wing rock fans
Music fans who took souvenir T-shirts from a rock festival in Gera, eastern Germany, have discovered they hold a secret message.
The so-called Trojan T-shirts bore a design of a skull and right-wing flags and the words "hardcore rebels".
But, once washed, the design dissolves to reveal a message telling people to break with extremism.
before the wash;
after the wash
The News of the World Scandal This is a clear example of arrogance at the highest level....to have ppl who are so obsessed with increasing the volume of garbage to be read and sold had to find new source material by hacking into ppl phones so as to get the juiciest story is just plain sick. This a clear example of how making money and morals certainly do not mix. Not too mention that they are ready to hack anyone's phone just for this. The arrogance is so blatant : read any of the statements they have put out and you got the impression that no one knew anything abouit what was going on, certainly certain editors who seem to approve stories without knowing where the story/source came from. Bulls**t!!!! What do you think?
NL/BE/FR/DE : Explosions at ikea stores! Found this random article whilst I was looking for info about internet providers in NL.. (for some reason I can't get the RNW article in English, can only get articles in NL, FR or DE.. interesting though that EOD has the same acronym in English and Dutch...
EINDHOVEN (ANP) - De politie heeft maandagavond de Ikea Eindhoven ontruimd nadat zich rond half acht een explosie had voorgedaan in een prullenbak buiten het gebouw. De Explosieven Opruimingsdienst Defensie (EOD) is ingeseind en onderzoekt nu of zich meer explosieven op het terrein bevinden.
Dat heeft de politie gemeld naar aanleiding van berichtgeving op de site van het Eindhovens Dagblad. Voor zover bekend raakte niemand gewond.
KPN Vandaag
Resident Revolution (radical inner-city regeneration in Luton) An embattled inner city housing estate in Luton is set to radically rejuvenate the whole concept of regeneration. Jim Carey pays a visit to the resident revolutionaries of Marsh Farm and discovers an estate buzzing with new manoeuvres.
The rest of the nation had already heard the tragic news. Three small children drowned when their family car plunged into a lake near Luton. So, as the newly formed Marsh Farm Community Development Trust convened its fortnightly meeting, a sombre atmosphere hung over the room. The distraught parents and drowned children lived in the flats directly above the meeting hall. Many of those present knew them. After a minute's silence, Dave Crean, single parent and chairman of the Trust, proposes that community funds should pay all the funeral costs. On an estate which has had more than its fair share of adversity, the motion is carried unanimously. A gritty solidarity prevails.
In the car park outside the meeting hall a dried out bunch of flowers marks the spot where a 29 year old man was stabbed to death two weeks previously. A petty argument in mortal escalation, with knives too easy to hand. 'To my dear son' reads the label.
A couple of weeks prior to this incident, another man had gone berserk with a samurai sword, rampaging through the area before being stabbed four times. Meanwhile the front page of the local paper tells of the arrest of 14 members of a yardie drug-ring selling crack cocaine from tower blocks on the estate.
"Welcome to Marsh Farm mate and all that comes with it," observes local resident and father of four, Glenn Jenkins, wryly.
Former spokesperson of the late Exodus Collective, Glenn is now vice chairman of the newly formed March Farm Development Trust, a soon-to-be-constituted body charged with an important mission: to spend £50 million on transforming their estate.
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"OUR AIM IS TO ENSURE THAT, AS MUCH AS IS PRACTICALLY POSSIBLE, THIS ESTATE WILL BE SELF-MANAGED. WITH A BOTTOM UP RATHER THAN TOP DOWN LEADERSHIP. A SITUATION WHERE RESIDENTS ARE IN CONTROL OF THEIR OWN DESTINY."
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The plan of action includes a massive reclamation of community self management; from growing their own food to operating their own refuse collection, from running their own entertainment venues to instigating a remarkable system of all-inclusive local democracy. The estate is heading for a shakedown and, unusually, it is the residents themselves in the driving seat. If the estate succeeds, which looks increasingly likely, it will forge a revolutionary template which will galvanise the tired concept of inner city regeneration.
The money to execute this radical new programme comes from the New Deal for Communities (NDC) scheme introduced by Tony Blair in the late nineties. The rhetoric which accompanying the launch of NDC claimed the scheme would re-approach inner city regeneration with a full frontal emphasis on resident-led initiatives. Previous inner city regeneration schemes had wasted millions of pounds on business-led projects which, although provided lucrative contracts for the commercial sector, produced no meaningful benefit to the community as a whole.
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THE QUALIFYING CRITERIA FOR NDC MONEY ARE HIGH CRIME, WORKLESSNESS, POOR HEALTH AND EDUCATIONAL UNDERACHIEVEMENT AND MARSH FARM ESTATE FITS THE CRITERIA LIKE A GLOVE IN URGENT NEED OF A HAND.
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Announcing the NDC scheme back in the nineties Tony Blair asserted: "Too much has been imposed from above when experience shows that success depends on the communities themselves having the power and taking responsibility to make things better."
Tony Blair's autocratic leadership style since making this statement have led many to have doubts over his genuine adherence to this belief. Indeed other NDC projects around the country have fallen into the same old trap of channelling £millions into the agenda of the business lobby and bypassing residents. However, Marsh Farm is determined that this should not happen to their estate and residents are busy populating the NDC rhetoric with gusto.
"Our aim is to ensure that, as much as is practically possible, this estate will be self-managed," Glenn Jenkins told SQUALL, "with a bottom up rather than top down leadership. A situation where residents are in control of their own destiny."
"When it was announced we'd won the bid we were delighted," recalls Dave Crean. "I don't think the estate can get much worse than it is. The only way is up."
Almost immediately the community signalled its determination to get on with the process by taking over a disused Co-op supermarket and turning it into a community office. They painted the walls, kited it out with office furniture and set about securing computers and resources. From the moment the bright new office was opened it was packed with kids, teenagers and adults; a throng of local residents putting forward project ideas and sorting out amongst themselves how to proceed. It was staggering to watch given the social conditions in which Marsh Farms' residents live.
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IT IS NOT DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND WHY AN ENTRENCHED FEELING OF DESPONDENCY SETTLED STIFLINGLY OVER THE ESTATE. IN 1995, THE FERMENTING SOCIAL DISCONTENT EXPLODED ONTO THE STREETS WITH THREE DAYS OF RIOTING.
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Their estate sits three miles north of Luton town centre. Planned in the sixties and completed in the early seventies, it's a sprawling mix of 4000 households with over 9,400 residents. Three tower blocks mark the entrance to the estate but most of the housing stock is made up of a mix of council and privately-owned semi's. Unusually for such estates the skyline is not cluttered with high rises and there are numerous grass verges and green areas. There are also a lot of burned out cars. The multi-ethnic residents on the estate - which include Caribbean, African, Bangladeshi, Irish, Indian, Pakistani and Chinese - co-exist with a remarkable lack of racial discord. Racism, although it exists, is not a major problem. So there are positives on Marsh Farm.
However, the qualifying criteria for NDC money are high crime, worklessness, poor health and educational underachievement and Marsh Farm Estate fits the criteria like a glove in urgent need of a hand. Unemployment on the estate currently stands at 22 per cent of the eligible population, four times the national average. Nearly 50 per cent of the residents have no qualifications at all, with exam results in local schools falling well below both the national and Luton average.
Burglaries are more than 40 per cent more prevalent than the rest of Luton whilst violent crimes are 54 per cent higher.
Incidence of heart disease and smoking levels are also high for both the area and national average.
Estate self esteem understandably doesn't rate too high, with residents claiming local employers "see the postcode not the person" and are reluctant to employ people from the estate. The average earnings per household are well below the national average whilst the cost of household-content insurance premiums inevitably soar higher.
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THROUGH A PROCESS OF 'SHADOWING', ANYONE HIRED IN FROM OUTSIDE THE ESTATE WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY A VOLUNTEER RESIDENT WHO WILL CONSEQUENTLY LEARN HOW TO DO THE JOB THEMSELVES.
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It is not difficult to understand why an entrenched feeling of despondency settled stiflingly over the estate. In 1995, the fermenting social discontent exploded onto the streets after an altercation with the police escalated into three days of rioting. The disturbances only came to a halt when an illicit rave held nearby redirected the force of the anger.
One of the DJ's at that event was local resident Bruce Hannah, now acting secretary of the Marsh Farm Development Trust and co-ordinator of a new project which has become the talk of Marsh Farm's youth. A recording studio....
The new musical equipment has just arrived and, on our way down to check it out, we pick up Sean, a black teenager and winner of a recent DJ talent contest on the estate. Spotting a mate of his walking along the road, he asks us to pull over. "Oi Richard," he shouts, "we're going down to check the new studio". Richard - a white teenager and winner of the MC section of the talent contest - climbs on board. He's sporting a huge black eye and noticeable cuts and bruises on his arms. For the rest of the journey he chews on about how he "got jumped last night" and how he's gonna "mash the geezer up later when he's on his own and not with his gang". In fact he doesn't stop going on about the incident until we reach Marsh House, the small council-owned building at the edge of the estate in which the recording studio is being set up. Bruce Hannah is busy unwrapping the new gear; a rack of brand new samplers, sound modules, synthesisers, a computer and a digital mixing desk. The MC and the DJ run their fingers over the faders and buttons in silent awe, before Sean finally pipes up: "We're gonna make 'nuff phat drum and bass tunes wid this." "Yes-I" says Richard and starts mumbling a little rap he's got going in his head........
"I can't walk across this estate without getting pulled by some youth asking about the studio and when it's gonna be up and running," says Bruce. "At the moment we're gonna keep it open from 9am til 9pm but eventually we want to have it running all night."
His nocturnal aspirations are a radical departure. Most amenities operate only in the daytime, leaving no focus for the majority of youth who roam listlessly about at night. A few weeks previously the Development Trust instigated the construction of a new sound system, with youth on the estate pitching in to construct a set of large speaker cabinets. The rig was christened at a one day festival on the estate held last year and a large gaggle of MC's, DJ's and other youth gathered round the sound. "The idea is to help set up and the training," explains Bruce, "and then vanish, leaving the youth to run it themselves."
This three prong process of facilitating, teaching and vanishing is a fundamental approach informing all the projects proposed for the estate. Through a process of 'shadowing', anyone hired in from outside the estate to work for the Community Development Trust will be accompanied by a volunteer resident who will consequently learn how to do the job themselves.
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THERE ARE STICKY HANDS REACHING FOR THE TILLER BUT THE MARSH FARM RESIDENTS SEEM WELL AWARE OF THE DANGERS.
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A company called Renaisi have been hired to help the residents get started. According to the project manager, Tony Jules: "Renaisi's involvement is temporary until the residents learn to do the job themselves.
"Renaisi will only stay as long as necessary and will leave when the residents are all up to speed on administration." A former representative of the revolutionary government of Grenada and a veteran of several inner city regeneration projects in London, Tony Jules describes his latest job as "particularly professionally exciting".
"When I arrived here my first impression was of a hive of activity," he recalls. "A lot of genuine people doing things for themselves; a lot of spontaneous energy. My first task was to organise some embryonic administration to respond to it. And two of the reasons why this task is so exciting is the amount of green spaces here and the Coulter's project."
Coulter's is a 120,000 sq ft empty warehouse bang in the middle of Marsh Farm estate. It is now the stuff of dreams.
The residents now intend to buy the building for £4.75 million and run it as an enormous resident run community centre. A tour round its unused expanses reveals the reason for all the excitement. In the middle, a huge floor space. Round the edges, a fully fitted café, a first aid room and a mass of rooms all in good clean condition and ready to foster hundreds of projects. The ideas are flooding in.
A nurse on the estate wants to run the first aid room as a place where residents can have a regular check up; "an MOT centre for humans". There's a cable TV proposal where residents with an interest in film will be trained to create programmes and films and then show them on a local cable network. The Community Trust have been in contact with NTL which own the cable networks on the estate to work out a deal. A staggering deluge of creative projects and proposals include community builders co-ops, an affordable animal hospital and a community mechanics, a theatre and a snooker hall. Every service operating at a low price and every project involving accredited training by local colleges and directly applied to the community.
Another project at the proposal stage is a multimedia centre aiming both to train residents in using computers and to provide the hub of an intranet for the entire estate. It is hoped that the creation of an intranet might then provide a forum by which residents of the estate could discuss local issues and offer their opinions on decision-making issues without having to attend formal meetings.
The Trust are in contact with a recycled IT firm about equipping every household with a computer. Ten computers available for training and community access have already been set up in the Trust office.
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"I SUSPECT THAT INSIDE WHITEHALL THERE ARE LOTS OF PEOPLE WHO ARE VERY SUSPICIOUS ABOUT THE CAPABILITIES OF LOCAL PEOPLE."
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Jackie Jenkins somehow finds the time to mother four children and take a very active role in the setting up the new Trust. As part of her work she is co-ordinating a skills audit of the estate, filling a database with the names of local carpenters, mechanics, plumbers, builders etc.
"The idea is to have what we call 'sticky' skills and 'sticky' money," explains Jacki. "Why not employ a neighbour to repair and build; someone who really needs the money and has got the skills. In that way it's like ethical spending and keeps the skills and money on the estate."
Furthermore residents who register their skills with the Community Development Trust will then be employed by the Trust either to train others and/or to carry out work on the estate at a later date.
Jackie is also co-ordinating a project to carry out an archaeological dig on a 4,500 year old megalithic henge site which forms part of the estate and is writing a book on the history of the estate from the Stone Age to the modern day. With professional archaeologists co-ordinating and local residents pitching in: "It will give the kids a hands on buzz about their own history and pride in their area."
Other big projects in the offing are a large eco-farm in the fields around the estate and a proposal to take-over the £430,000 refuse collection job, currently tended out by the council but viewed by residents as unacceptably deficient. This is a radical manoeuvre in that it takes over some of the duties carried out by the local council.
In order to ensure that the residents remain firmly in the driving seat for the ten year New Deal process, the newly constituted Marsh Farm Development Trust board has decreed it should be made up of twice as many residents as council officials or service providers; a ratio the residents have insisted on keeping despite pressure from both council and local businesses. There are sticky hands reaching for the tiller but the Marsh Farm residents seem well aware of the dangers.
A remarkable system of street co-ordinators is being designed to keep every resident connected with the process in an impressive devolution of power and a blueprint for a more representative local democracy.
"I suspect that inside Whitehall there are lots of people who are very suspicious about the capabilities of local people," says Tony Jules. "But I do believe there's a lot of skilled people here who can do the work which is currently being done by bureaucrats and people like myself in council offices."
This resident revolution - for that is what it is - now looks set not only to transform the estate itself but to provide a remarkable template applicable to other sink estates around the country. The Development Trust have now opened offices inside the huge Coulter's warehouse in the first step towards full occupation. "These are exciting times," confirms Bruce Hannah.
Meanwhile the Marsh Farm youth are getting ready for their second outing with the new community sound system. It's to be held next Friday on the estate and the youth have decided amongst themselves that everyone should pay a pound to get into the party with all money going to the family of the three little girls who drowned. The unity in the community has never swollen so proud and full of meaningful promise.
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SQUALL will be following the development of the radical initiatives on Marsh Farm Estate so watch this space.
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South Sudanese rave on roundabouts whilst comms minister sorts out domain confusion.. BBC News - South Sudanese celebrate their divorce
A new country also needs a internet domain and telephone dialling code. The ITU have allocated them 00 211 as there is lots of spare spare in the African country codes but there are issues with allocating them .ss for internet - not least that they might have the somewhat bizzare phenomenon of Neo-Nazis trying to register hostnames in a country with a mostly black population for their websites...
FEATURE-South Sudan takes final steps toward statehood | News by Country | Reuters
Strange Goings on in the World….. Stick anything weird goings on in the world that you see in the news or other media sources here. I'll start it off, here we have another mass animal death event and it's in our very own backyard.
UK: Hundreds of Dead Starfish Wash Up on Talybont Beach -- Earth Changes -- Sott.net
Of course the experts will tell us that this is all normal. Underwater fireworks were to blame or maybe it was swamp gas mixing with Jordans manky tits that caused these latest mass animal deaths.
Again, any weird shit going on stick it here! :love:
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