We're officially a Domestic Extremist

from last May Day

We are domestic extremists

And have been for many years

Future Pie

Junior Spesh

spend to much time on-line when i get depressed

it's junior spesh

Kim Noble Will Die

C.C.T.V is bad for you

Swoop

Climate Camp Swoops On E.on Two Days Early

Climate Camp Swoops On E.on Two Days Early
October 15, 2009

Just days before the Great Climate Swoop, the Camp for Climate Action
has upped the ante in its bitter battle with energy giant e.on, by
publicly occupying it flagship public relations YouTube channel,
Talking Energy.

Videos from Climate Camp, Plane Stupid, and Climate Rush activists
have finally, after three days of mysterious 'technical problems' and
mounting pressure from internet free-speech advocates, been uploaded.
And comments are flooding in to support the videos, which outline just
why these groups are pulling together to shut down E.On's Ratcliff
coal power station this weekend.

In some ways it would be funny so see this massive corporation spend a
reputed £4 million on a contract with PR monkeys Edelman, to advise on
coming up with such a bad website with those hilariously clunky wooden
videos, if it weren't for the fact that their main activity – burning
coal to produce electricity – could send so many people, plants and
animals the way of the dinosaurs.

So, lets give them what they don't really want, a full and frank
debate about how we deal with climate change. Get watching – http://www.youtube.com/user/talkingenergy
we want these three videos, Talking Greenwash, Talking Just
Transition, Talking Environmental Justice, to be the top viewed on the
site. Then post a comment, and forward onto your friends.

We want to make these videos became the most viewed items on their
youtuve channel TODAY to help get the facts out about climate change,
and E.on's appalling failure to act. Can you help it to go viral?

And go on, make your own video and post it, shoot it on your computer
web-cam... whatever, just occupy their space!

Perhaps we should move some of the organising for the swoop onto the
their comments pages?

If want to come to the Great Climate Swoop this weekend then you can
join up by signing up for the sms service:

If you are coming, bring a 'clean' phone and share your experience live.

Or if you can't make it, watch the whole thing unfold on our 'live'
reporting site, which will take over the climatecamp.tv site for the
weekend.

We'll be using these and other online tools to provide live, minute-by-
minute coverage of the action as it happens. Keep checking back to the
Climate Camp blog for news and updates – or subscribe to our RSS feed
for realtime updates.

As one of the Climate Campers who appeared in the film, said "E.on are
right about one thing, the need for a debate on how to radically
reduce carbon emissions to avert a climate catastrophe. But they are
wrong to think that their Ratcliffe power station can stay open –
every year it pumps more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than many
developing countries. To slash emissions as much as we need to, it has
to close."

Join us at Ratcliffe-on-Soar or online and help take the power back.

http://www.climatecamp.org.uk/blog/2009/10/15/climate-camp-swoops-on-e-on-two-days-early

Finally, better local graf

Pee In The Shower

Call out - The London Free University

The London Free University

We believe there can be no right to annex thought and learning, to erect concrete buildings in which to lock up knowledge.  

Their universities create obedience, uniformity of thought and docility. Beyond their gates is our intellectual freedom - within them are the resources we need. Until these gates are opened for all we shall remain alienated from each other and from our futures. We want to question access to knowledge, the uniformity of success and production, and to experiment with alternatives and the redistribution of knowledge. We invite you to cross these borders and see where we can go with the freedoms we create for ourselves.

We're starting by doing, by learning how to hack, pirate and redistribute knowledge whilst building alternatives. Join us in this exciting new project and come to a planning meeting at LARC, 21st October, 6pm.

If education is not a commodity then can it be stolen?

thelondonfreeuniversity@gmail.com

What's your top 10 ten favourite disobedient achievements/struggles?

"Everything we take for granted: the weekend, gay rights, contraception, women wearing trousers, the right to strike, to form a union, the abolition of slavery… everything was won by disobedience, fought for by people who refused and resisted, claimed back from those in power. Their disobedience was a gift to our future"

To help promote Put The Fun Between Your Legs: THE BIKE BLOC(1) - the Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination/Climate Camps mobilisation for the Copenhagen UN Climate Talks(2) in December - we are producing a massive banner that will list some of the achievements that have been won and struggles that still need to be won through disobedience.

So that we can create an exciting and inspiring list we'd like to know what your favourite achievements/struggles are? 

What do you feel are the most important victories and what are the most important battles that still need to be won through disobedience? 

They don't have to be limited to the UK, they could be well known, or really obscure.

If you could take a few minutes to think about the past and the future and send me a list of your favourite 10, or less, we'll pick the most inspiring ones and include them in our massive banner. - send them to james@labofii.net

The banner will be hung for a week and a half from Artsadmin (on the edge of the City of London). Outside the Arnolfini, Bistol (during the lab of ii's residency during the C-Words events((3))) then taken to Copenhagen for the COP 15 mobilisations.

Think outside the box, or better still, rip up the box, recycle it and start again.

1 - http://www.funbetweenyourlegs.info/

2 - http://www.climate-justice-action.org/mobilization/reclaim-power-pushing-for-climate-justice/

3 - http://www.arnolfini.org.uk/whatson/exhibitions/details/416

No third runway

Putting the fun between your legs: The Bike Bloc

In July this year, The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination, a UK based art activists'' collective (www.labofii.net) was commissioned by the Copenhagen Centre for Contemporary Art ( www.kunsthallennikolaj.dk/en/ ) to make a new piece of work for Rethink, (www.rethinkclimate.org ) an exhibition of "political" art during the December UN climate change summit. Last week the gallery pulled out claiming it could no longer continue to support the project for "practical reasons".  In fact they were frightened that the project involved non-violent civil disobedience and that this might be disapproved of by their funders. We feel that the December's mobilisations in Copenhagen are a landmark in history, where trying to "play safe" is not a luxury we can afford. This was a political pulling out not a practical issue. We are writing to ask for your support so that despite the obstacles of cowardice the project can still go ahead.

The project Putting the fun between your legs: The Bike Bloc, is a collaboration between The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination and the UK Climate Camp (www.climatecamp.org.uk). The idea is to design and build a new tool of creative resistance for the RECLAIM POWER mobilisations taking place in Copenhagen on the 16th of  December 16th, a day of civil disobedience supported by over 200 organisations many from the global south.(
www.climate-justice-action.org ). Made from hundreds of recycled bikes, The Bike Bloc will merge device of mass transportation and pedal powered resistance machine, postcapitalist bike gang and art bike carnival.

Bike hackers, artists, welders, climate campers and engineers will be working together to design and build The Bike Bloc across two cities: Bristol (Arnolfini Gallery 15th – 30th Nov, – as part of C-words exhibition - www.arnolfini.org.uk and somewhere in Copenhagen (4th- 18th  Dec.) The trouble is we no longer have a space or support resources in Copenhagen, which with only 8 weeks to go puts us under immense pressure.

If you have any idea of places, organisations, or, of collectives that would be interested in hosting this project, and are prepared to walk the talk, or would like to be involved please contact us as soon as possible.

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