sounds from a clowns perspective and new friends he meets in scotland, while opposing G8

international | anti-capitalism | news report

Monday July 04, 2005 00:17

by dunk - g8 radio, clown army, indymedia, dublin eco city group.......

fuspey at yahoo dot co dot uk

eco village @ stirling, scotland (presently)

things are great here in scotland, uploading from the imc-scotland media centre, which was the heart of the network where outside on the streets last night there was a fine fine street party happy days
5 audio reports:
http://radio.indymedia.org/news/2005/07/5684.php

clowns, g8 radio, changing the world
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=70090&condense_comments=false#comment113196

Clown Army, audio interview by crazy 4 life girl
http://radio.indymedia.org/news/2005/07/5708.php

the clowns are everywhere and everyone loves them and they love everyone

5 audio reports:

1-late night chat
feedback from the DISSENT eco village, after a halfs days traveling we arrived in the wonderful site and pitched homes in the SPAS SPROAI (play space in gaeilge) barrio (local area neighbourhood), ate and had a few beers, first audio report is a brief soundbite from the gang of hippies, punks, anarchists, clowns, about 2am ( i think)
http://radio.indymedia.org/uploads/feedback_night_1.wav

2-clowns, punks, cops chat
clowns and black bloc chat with local police outside train station
few hundred unusual looking types descend on the train station and meet the local police and ask them how things are going
http://radio.indymedia.org/uploads/outside_train.wav

3-trainchatting
we get on the train carriage and meet and talk with local girls on their way from stirling to edinburgh for the MPH (make poverty history) march and gig, then another lad who adds some views about anarchists as trouble makers, then we talk to an anarchist about violence from protestors and from the state
http://radio.indymedia.org/uploads/trainchatting.wav

irish CIRCA batallion/ flying column reporting for duty
(CIRCA = clandestine insurgent rebel clown army)

roofjumpers view of the world
popular extreme sport/ recreation pastime of jumping over roofs and buildings is very popular here in edinburgh, we talk with a group of young lads (@ 12- 14 years old?) about their past time and also about all this political stuff.
as one lad said time and time again "it has to be FUN"
http://radio.indymedia.org/uploads/roof_jumpers.wav