I’ve been a mac user since 1992. I don’t even know how to use a p.c. But since the ipod came out the customer service has gone down the drain. Last friday I went to the Brent Cross apple mac shop to buy my daughter a laptop for xmas. My card was declined. They put…
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Gormenghast
went to a Sans-titres meeting last weekend at La Valette, a medieval squatted village near Ales. They’ve been squatting it for 14 years. It’s up a hillside, in an abandoned mining village. They have renovated the houses very creatively; it looks like Ghormenghast, with carved stones of gargoyles, turrets, bizarrely stained glass windows, forged iron…
Longo Mai- preparatory meeting for PGA France 2006
re:pga France 2006 Went to the PGA meeting which was held in an annexe of Longo Mai. Longo Mai is a community that’s been going since 1973 and is building Eco houses, from straw bale for instance. There are many families there. They try to be self-sufficient which is why they eat meat. As the…
France is on fire!
It’s beautiful here; I’m up at dawn to drop my daughter off for school bus. At that time it’s cold but the light is amazing, red hillsides, ochre farmsteads and golden vineyards. You can see why Cezanne et al were inspired to paint here. Then I go to the local tabac/bar and down an expresso…
Anti G8 camp in Stirling, Scotland.
Another of my newsletter emails to the samba list. hi was gonna use this morning to give y’all an update but then bombing news (7/7) from London came out during a mass camp meeting and everybody dispersed to find out if their loved ones were OK. We are currently under siege by the riot police…
Torino 2
Ciao tutti! Yesterday was a productive day in Torino. Despite an optimistic call-out from one young frisky German punk to be up at the crack of dawn and then go and exercise in a local park, we managed to rouse ourselves from our coloured sleeping bag pods at about eleven. Some people did do some…
Samba in Torino
Again these posts on Torino are part of a newsletter email that I sent to the Rhythms of Resistance list at the time. We all arrived safely apart from John and Izzy who had a 3 1/2 day London to Torino marathon journey by bus, train, ferry, all in the name of eco-worthiness. They only…
The journey home from Belgrade
Did you know that Serbian hairdressers are called ‘frizzy’? Did I say that there weren’t enough general meetings? Well they made up for that with a marathon last day General Meeting that lasted a bum-stiffening six hours. We formed into spokes, that is, affinity groups who each chose a spokesperson. I guess that was to…
Belgrade missive
More news from cock-up central… Val arrived on the train early but remained asleep. She then realised the train was moving to Athens and had to hurl herself and her luggage off the moving train and possibly cracked a rib. Jim the accordion player was fined 1000 (about a tenner) on the local bus because…
Peoples Global Action conference, Belgrade, 2004
This series of posts was originally written as a newsletter email to Rhythms of Resistance, the samba band, who went as a group to give workshops at the anarchist political meeting, People’s Global Action or P.G.A., which this particular year was held in Belgrade, Serbia. Well, it was an eventful start to the trip: after…