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SEND STUFF TO [email protected] I’M NOT SEXIST, I SHAG BERDS! – APRIL 2007 perform or install work. We’ll also be glad to accept any collaborations you Free4Alternatives might propose. We are also in contact with alternative artists from other scenes Free4Alternatives is an activist group Autonomous Spaces! (rock, rap etc.) and are trying to arrange originating from the Free Spaces scene Our aim is to offer people a place concerts as well. (Free Parties, Teknivals, Squats, Traveller to stay, rest and fi nd new energy to go We have done our polite bit and asked sites, TAZ...) who stand together to fi ght back to the barricades with. We want for a building but still haven’t received any against the growing restrictions on our to mobilise all the people that normally answers yet. Even if they don’t give us a liberties and to fi ght for autonomy and wouldn’t come to the G8 protests place we will take one for our event. As we the right to live an alternative existence. without there being something else in it said, we are experienced in that area and We will attempt to assemble our scene for them. Don’t laugh – it’s true, a lot of will be ready to defend our camp. Honestly at the blockades and protests against the people would defi nitely make it if they though, we don’t think they will give a fuck G8 2007 summit, which will be held from could also fi nd a festival there. about people dancing when they will have 2nd – 8th June in Heiligendamm (Rostock, Our message is in our art (music, video, thousands of people trying to break down Germany) and plan to organise a Free juggling, painting...) and we certainly their fence at the same time! Artistic Space there. intend to make ourselves heard! We want We pulled off an illegal Teknival with 5000 people to come back from the barricades people in Germany (Baden-Baden) last year HELLO ARTIVISTS and fi nd a place to free their minds and just after the demonstration we organised moods from all aggressiveness and hope in front of the European Parliament in FROM ALL OVER to re-motivate them with the positive and Strasbourg on April 15th 2006. Some of creative infl uence of our art. our group staged other events all over THE WORLD! Moreover, the 8-Big-Bastards will speak Europe last year and have also organised about copyright and the distribution numerous illegal protests in Berlin (and The press have said that the RAF networks of art (DRMs, licences, legal ones too) – so we are quite aware of might come back for G8… it’s true! peer2peer, copy protections etc.) so we how it goes down in Germany. It’s the Resistance Art Festival!! cannot let them do that without showing We will be organising an artistic them that Free Art is a reality and is If anyone is interested in working with Temporary Autonomous Zone near steadily on the rise; that we can and will us in this project (whether you have Heiligendamm during the G8 summit in make autonomous spaces for free, and equipment or not is not an issue) please June from the evening of the 2nd till the offer more than ‘just’ art to the people; contact us: [email protected] (french end of the protest. We are comprised and that we refuse their standardisation and english) or [email protected] of several tekno sound systems and of art and the capitalist way of seeing art (german and english) demonstration organisers from across in general. Our art is not for sale!! To subscribe to the Free4Alternatives Europe and we will be bringing our We will bring our own hardware mailing list send a blank message to: rigs to Heiligendamm; after all, we are (speakers, amplifi ers, trucks, video [email protected] already used to creating our own Free projectors...) so any artist can come and WWW.FREE4ALTER.ORG If You Go Down to the Woods Today... (You’ll be Section 63’d!) Reports have come in that a large rave in which most rigs complied and began to pack being charged to have the law look after their Wentwood Forest near Caldicot in Wales, down. However, apparently one rig bucked vehicles and equipment will be an extra sting in with 3000+ ravers in attendance and a dozen the trend and proceeded to kick out the jams the tail. It’s a double (triple?) sting if you hired or so sound systems which started on Easter again – much to the disgruntlement of the the vehicle in the fi rst place! Saturday, got heavily pigged on the Sunday Filth. This time they sent all their boys in and The local media report 5 people also being evening, presumably to stop it carrying on things got a little heated. To show them who’s arrested and the main discussion points they’re until Monday. A Section 63 dispersal order The Man the pigs seized most of the rigs and presenting are yet again over the litter left was issued by one of two police helicopters, vehicles as they left and so far it doesn’t seem on the site. Of course, most raver’s response and whether ignored or simply not heard, the like they’ll be returned for quite some time. to this is ‘how do you expect us to clean up rave continued unabated. The Plod retorted by Whether they reckon they can nip further big properly when we’re being kicked off site?’. sending in only a handful of the few hundred gatherings in the bud by keeping hold of the Fair point, but as the debate in the pages of offi cers they had present onto the site. This kit for the next few months does remain to be Rupture last year pointed out – the answer is fi rst bunch told the rigs to shut off ‘or else’ to seen. However, the £12 per day which they are ‘as you go along!’. Reader’s Digest by Tom De Plume I’d done this before, a number of times with alternating rates of lightly printed on thin crisp sheets of translucent paper with a success. delicate gilt edge that pealed off like a chocolate coin. Others At the previous election I had accumulated all the varying were written with a quill on flaky parchment, or a biro on lined manifestoes. paper ripped from a spiral pad. I had them all amassed in front of I carefully cut out each separate statement. me and they had been prepared. From the bland taste of their words The jackets were removed, a small incision and the spine was I could not distinguish one from the other torn off leaving only the stitching and glue to be cut away before However their synthesis did make some kind of sense the real work could start. I could tell which candidates would win. Each paragraph was separated from the body of the text. This This skill of mine happened to be fortunate for some people and was dissected further; a few sentences or words making up each lucrative for myself. bite-sized piece. Then I set to work with the sauces, pickles and chutneys… I wasn’t prepared for this kind of request though. This, to mix my metaphors, was a whole different kettle of worms. That night I think I slept comfortably. The process began easily enough; I visited a number of The client phoned first thing in the morning, I said I’d phone him bookshops and easily procured the sacred texts. back once I had what he wanted, I’m not sure if I hung up before I wondered if the type of translation mattered? I passed out… If the type of typeface used would affect the outcome? These questions would remain unanswered until I had produced It was hours until I next awoke, this time a persistent growling the results. sound pulled me away from the searing heat of the desert that filled my dreams. The various qualities of paper and ink felt different from each It was my stomach, it wasn’t happy. other. I staggered to the toilet grabbing my phone as I kicked open the Some manuscripts were deeply printed on thick paper with door. indelible inks created from the carcasses of beetles; others were I hit redial and my client got their results. RECLAIM THE FUTURE 4 For me these questions are a side date record bag. issue; the ambitious efforts of the people It would be easy to criticise the After Reclaim the Streets can we involved in Reclaim the Future who location or the bravado of trying to ever get away with using the name managed to provide a cheap vegan cafe, amalgamate a party and a political show reclaim? Did the police arrive with a workshops on loads of things from party of defiance but as raves are strangled CCTV van and finish with police in security to bike fixing, a cinema, concerts by muggers and property merchants riot gear because of the the location and a (half)party was a roaring success. and manifestation is ever more closely (Holloway road is a main london Events like these, unlike simple raves, controlled, we need to look to a new thoroughfare)? Could the party have are open to everyone and provide a future for our alternative society, Reclaim gone on if the ravers and rigs would have solution to the commercialisation of showed us the way, can you help, or have been more hardcore? (It dwindled when community space.

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