Mayday - Guidelines for the Noisy Block to Farmleigh

by John Thu Apr 22, 2004 18:30

This item was posted 3 hours and 34 minutes ago, but no one has commented yet. Shows how much interest there is in this ridiculous stunt. I doubt if you will get 500 to attend. Face facts, the Gardai wont allow you anywhere near the banquet, certainly not within audible saucepan-banging range. And quite right too. If I was having my dinner and some clown started banging a saucepan outside the window, I'd throw my custard pie at him. The Gardai will confine you to a field far away from the banquet and all you will do is deafen yourselves and frighten the rabbits.
There are more pleasant ways of making yourselves go deaf, and I suggest you stay at home and try them, rather than indulge in this farce.

by Pink Punka Fairy - Pink N Silver Thu Apr 22, 2004 20:45

Call For A Pink And Silver Bloc for Bring The Noise!
to all Fairies-in-the-flowers And neighbouRhood trouble-Makers .
to every recLaimer of streets, counter of hEartbeats and keeper of secrets.
to petty thIeves who are proud of it, and to hardcore veGans who are sick of
it.
to the lover who can't get it up without a day of war behind him.
to the warrior who can keep her cool, tasting the nigHt of love ahead.

To anarchists not Black, socialists not Red and ecologists not Green.

We are calling:

tiki-tiki-tiki-AHuuuUUUUUUUUUUAH!

We invite you to join us in creating a PINK AND SILVER political and tactical
space for the Noisy Block to Farmleigh. We understand the
heart of Pink and Silver as 'tactical frivolity': a creative, joyous, fun,
diverse, fluid and life-affirming form of direct action and civil
disobedience. A beautiful self-organised mongrel of party and protest, based
on values such as autonomy, solidarity, diversity, initiative, indiscipline
and mutual aid. Pink and Silver has both soft and hard edges, depending only
on what you make of it, although they are usually both present in action and
people can frolic from one to the other. If you want to know more about the
story of Pink and Silver, visit the websites listed below. But you will
always know Pink and Silver when you see it, because it is so, SO Pink and
Silver. It's so Pink and Silver that anyone who has done it before begins to
smile just talking about it - and this is scientifically proven.


What exactly we will do is something that we can only decide together, on the
days before Mayday. Instead of idolising any form of action or sticking
to rigid (mis)conceptions of what things will or should be like, we can be
open-minded and flexible. We want to do this in a collective structure based
on affinity groups, one that cherishes decentralisation and autonomy
alongside solidarity and coordination. For our part we will make our
effort at Farmleigh, and whoever wants to come to the party is warmly invited.
Whatever our actions turn out to be, we want them to be something we will
never forget, and forever tell good stories about.

Bring your teddy bear and stinkybombs.

Oh yeah, one more thing:
We understand Pink and Silver as neither "pacifist" nor "violent", because we
think these concepts are useless and their dichotomy is absurd. We are tired
to death of falling, again and again, into this trap of words. We respect the
fact that among us there exist very different ideas about confrontation, and
we embrace this diversity. We therefore want to imagine and create, together,
a fluid and open space of creative and life-affirming protest/action. A space
where our beautiful gestures of liberation can coexist, where all of us are
in control of what is going on, and where each of us can choose, and change,
what they do and how.

If utopia is for walking, then revolution is for dancing! Come out and play!

in Love and Struggle,

Wilhelm Tell
Comandante Eva Goldman
Asterix
Robin Hood
Peter Pan
Princess Leia and the Ewoks
Osama ("Sasha") Bin-Leiden
The Hawaiian Bloc
Baron Munchausen
...and a bunch of real people who LOVE IT

http://www.geocities.com/eufortress
http://www.rhythmsofresistance.co.uk/
http://www.nadir.org/nadir/initiativ/agp/s26/praga/pictures/pink.htm
http://www.nadir.org/nadir/initiativ/agp/s26/praga/pinkrep.htm
http://www.ecoaction.org/dod/no9/prague_pink.htm
http://www.schnews.org.uk/sotw/rhythms-of-resistance.htm
http://www.nadir.org/nadir/initiativ/agp/free/genova/pinksilver.htm
http://www.pcworks.demon.co.uk/magazine/campaign/pinksilver.htm

by Neil Rubbert Sat May 01, 2004 21:08

Nice one. I am sure you'll have grand support from the nation that reaped the most from "Inclusionism". Ireland joins the EU, reduces taxes on (evil, oh so evil) corporations, and who benefits? Everyone. Everyone now lives in a wealthier society with better services and more opportunity. Oh, there's the rub, lazy anarchist... OPPORTUNITY. See, you need to do more than bang a pot to make 1) contribute to society, and 2) enjoy wealth that hard work affords. Half of the 400 (200?) "protesters" that I saw today were kids from local wealthy families. I am sure they had a nice time. On Tuesday they will get driven to school in their German automobiles whilst you take the ferry back to Hollyhead and sleep in a Welsh ditch. Enjoy.

by reclaim the rrrreeeeepppuuubbbllliiccaaannnn Sat May 01, 2004 21:22

just so they can buy prague up from the people who live there.

Lovely Ireland

CRH building aparthied wall

Lovely Ireland

by Counter Sat May 01, 2004 21:23

Neil, you really ought to learn to count.

by Peter Sat May 01, 2004 21:26

and many of the landlords exploiting the young people are members of the Gardai.

by Cabhog Sat May 01, 2004 22:57

Nice to see that you lot have confirmed everyones' expectation of ye, and broken you own rules.

the Guards ahve behaved admirably, avoided confrontation. Ye lot expected them to attack ye, but they didn't and you lot just couldn't contrtol yourselves and had to start trouble.

You lot are naught but thugs, and as the CC will prove on Tuesday, criminals.

by Neil Rubbert Sat May 01, 2004 23:25

Let's talk about "rackateering" for a moment. That's a great word. Here's what happens in society now and since the beginning of time: sell item for a premium to which you buy item, said item brings you a profit. See, that works with organic tofu hemp clothing, as well as Dublin property. The seller of said item gets wealtier after the transaction and can then purchase goods for him/herself, presumably from another "rackateer".

I must learn to count? Yes, let's count. I sell one organic tofu hemp rucksack for 2 yo-yos, yet it only cost me 1 to make it. Am I a "rackateer"? What then happens to my 1 yo-yo profit? I send 40% or so to the government. I keep the other 60% with which I feed my family and purchase goods and services from others. I would prefer to keep more for my family. I would prefer not to pay a bin tax. But, ya know, that's life. If rubbish collection was privatized it would still cost money. Just less. That's the efficiency of private companies. Now... someone bring up pollution so we can talk about how government is doing such a great job at controlling that... Why do you people keep beating the anti-corporation drum? Why don't you just create a company that can compete AND collect trash/recycle/save whales/stop child labour? Or is that too much work?

Count that.

by R. Isible Sat May 01, 2004 23:31

and if you spent less time posting angry, illiterate tripe and bit more reading and reflecting you'd know what he was talking about.

by Neil Rubbert Sun May 02, 2004 00:49

Rack-renting, not rackateering. My apologies. Yes, a far worse evil then rackateering, rack renting involves raising rents when leases expire, no? That is horrible. Just horrible. Unless prices come down. What? Oh, yeah, a little thing called SUPPLY AND DEMAND.

Work. Make money. Purchase property. Face reality.