May Day Festival in Lancaster: come join in!

Lancaster IMC | 30.03.2004 19:20 | May Day 2004

Spectacles come and go; some things never change, some do. They may shift, they may hibernate or migrate, but Mayday is here to stay, ehh?

!Lancaster Mayday festival: CALL FOR ACTION!

Bored on Mayday? No need. Have a look here:

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/actions/2004/mayday/
( and -

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/03/287590.html)

...........or come to Lancaster for a Festival...........

Preliminary programme:

*There'll be music Fri and Sat night, a picnic on Sat after the Mayday March, an afternoon of workshops, displays, food, films etc in the Gregson Sunday afternoon.

*Some flyers are already floating about town.

*Lancaster Anarchist Group have set all this in motion but would really like more people to get involved in organising/helping out during the weekend.

*Some ideas that came out of yesterdays meeting was:

*Food not Bombs on Saturday in town and/or during the picnic

*banner drops

*display boards in town centre on Sat about stuff such as the history of mayday, worker self-organisation, direct action, anti-fascism (whatever people want really)

*radical bookstall in town/at picnic/in the greggie on Sunday

*swapshop stall with interesting books/pamphlets

*radical(-ising) videos on Sunday in Greggie (Argentina film, make film with bits from recent Menwith Hill, GM & Blackwood actions)

*anything else people want to do.

All this needs people to get involved. If you're up for anything/have any other ideas, please get in touch:

http://www.eco-action.org/lancaster/

Looking for inspiration?

Mayday Archive:

Mayday 2003

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2003/05/66056.html
Mayday 2002

http://uk.indymedia.org/index.php3?resist=3Dreports&stance=3Dmayday02
Mayday 2001

http://uk.indymedia.org/index.php3?resist=3Dreports&stance=3Dmayday
Mayday 2000

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/newsite/index2.php3

and more of this sort of thing please:

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/sheffield/2004/03/288070.html
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Lancaster IMC
Homepage: http://www.eco-action.org/lancaster/

Comments

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mayday archive links

30.03.2004 19:55

following links are busted:

Mayday 2002

http://uk.indymedia.org/index.php3?resist=3Dreports&stance=3Dmayday02
Mayday 2001

http://uk.indymedia.org/index.php3?resist=3Dreports&stance=3Dmayday

Due to the indymedia server / codebase move last year. The indy pixies are working now to pull all the old stuff together and re-archive.

imc'ista

Suspicious

30.03.2004 21:23

This is very suspicious, first we had a bogus posting claiming the London Mayday event was being cancelled with the BBC picking it up VERY quickly and now we have a posting attempting to pull pepole away from London to a city some distance away.

The London May Day event is ON ! Arrangements are being made , Reclaim the Streets is helping to co-ordinate and the Wombles are once again with us (thanks guys). We have kept a low profile with the website not being activatd until just a few days beforehand (details to follw on Indy Media and other trusted sources very soon.

Don't get drawn away from the Capital, be suspicious of those trying to get you to do so.

This year London will ROCK !!!

London Mayday Alliance

Liberty 4 All

30.03.2004 22:28

Is it not better to have others having their own mayday anarcho bash in other cities (if they wish to) rather than just the one centralised celebration in London? which you have to admit has been a bit of a damp squib the last couple of years.

Not meaning to diss London (there's a hell of a lot more MayDay people in London than in Lancaster) .. but if effective actions etc can be carried out elsewhere isn't that where we should be supporting this?

It ain't suspicious, it's just people trying to escalate and evolve.

Debate ..

Not-a-Lancastrian-honest-guv

act locally...!

31.03.2004 09:32

Just to clarify, this is a local May day celebration, organised by people from Lancaster, Burnley and Preston, with and for people living here. We want to reclaim Mayday locally from the tedium of the usual marches and speeches organised by Labour and trades unions. Wouldn't it be great if people everywhere organised in their communities for that day and spread the message that we can do it ourselves, without bosses and politicians, focussing on local issues and through that helping people see the larger picture, reaching out to folks we don't really reach, opening up alternatives etc blah blah.

And also in all honesty, London is a long long way from here and most of us could not afford the time and money to travel that far...

PS: there will also be stuff happening in Preston, for any folks interested there.

Will soon post detailed programme on

www.eco-action.org/lancaster

If you live locally and want to help out organising or just more info, email

thebasement@webtribe.net

In solidarity!

x

Northerner

Come to London

31.03.2004 10:00

If people want to go to small fringe meetings on Mayday that is of course up to them but London is where it's at and this year will be something special.

Stay tuned for full details very soon.

London Mayday Alliance

London London London

31.03.2004 12:17

always the bloody same Londoners think they are the centre of the bloody world..

So instead of travelling hundreds of miles (contributing to global warming) to be herded by/ fight with police why not organise sommat local.

Reigon

Maybe I missed something but

31.03.2004 14:05

May be I missed a posting, but this

http://diy.spc.org/ourmayday/
site is what the BBC referred to, and appears to be the May Day website used previously, is it a fake? Or is it not representative?

It does say May Day 2004 has been postponed.

Not postponed !!!!

31.03.2004 15:52

We are VERY concerned over sites claiming the event is off. They are fakes put up by those with a wish to see no protest on the capital on MayDay ( I wonder who ??).

London is on, its going to be great with more events than ever before, real protest and real change. Non Violent Direct Action at a number of places.

Stick with us but plan to be there. This year we are smarter than the cops

London Mayday Alliance

Fun for all

31.03.2004 17:55

Hey guys,

Whatever you are doing sound great.

Thumbs ups

green fish

On staying put

31.03.2004 18:30

How desperate are the London Mayday alliance that they have to compete with a provincial northern town doing it's own thing? What is this, new improved mayday washes whiter? You aint got a monopoly on the brand you know. Just get on with it yourselves, there's enough bloody people in London without annoying sorted people in the North West...

And just so you know, Lancaster's the sort of place you might move to if you weren't all afraid of the cold and in love with being chased about by the boneheaded Met....

We shall be amusing ourselves sacrificing southerners to the northern lights, in the spirit of autonomy, bio-regionalism and out of necessity to stay warm, so you best stay put in Oxford Circus then...

Warm greetings.

Lanky.

Lanky

Not just Lancaster

31.03.2004 20:15

I don't know who posted this news but I'd just like to point out that the original idea and planning came from Lancashire Solfed with LAG. Events will be happening in Preston and Burnley as well as Lancaster. If anyone wants more details from people who have been organising from the begining contact

lancashiresolfed@hotmail.com tel 07736013216

Steve
mail e-mail: lancashiresolfed@hotmail.com
Homepage: http://mysite.freeserve.com/LancashireSF/index.jhtml

London Mayday Alliance???

31.03.2004 20:31

So, um, who are the London MAyday Alliance? Why does no one have a clue who you are? Why have you not advertised your meetings etc... and why are you so excited about the WOMBLES? Sounds more suspicious than anyone saying that there is no major event planned, seeing as the Mayday meetings failed cz no one joined in, the Wombles are pushing for people going to Dublin???

elephant

I thought the whole point of anarchist resistance....

01.04.2004 14:54

Was for it to be decentralised, autonomous, community based, and spontaneous? So fuck off London Mayday Alliance with your londoncentric bullshit, if I wanted centrally organised protest thats going to be heavily policed with little effect I'd join the SWP.

But I'd rather do something positive to empower my own community and spread resistance in places where there often is little going on. I don't want a big day out in the big city wetting my pants over skirmishes with the police. If you truly believed in the power of protest you'd be happy that people are taking it upon themselves to try and create something radical and alternative, wherever it may be. You wouldn't be giving it all this "Our party is the proper one so don't go to anyone elses" attitude. Take a look at your motivations for oragnising the london events - I suspect it has more to do with feeling hard while walking round with a balaclava on than actually wanting to change society.

The Voice Of Reason

From the WOMBLES

01.04.2004 15:02

If the WOMBLES are so excited about London mayday whay is there no mention of it on their website?

http://www.wombles.org.uk/news/home.php

Why instead do they seem to be urging people to go to Dublin? Maybe beacause in Dublin there will be real protest against the EU summit that is happening there, rather than a bunch of teenagers in black masks thinking they're revolutionaries.

And anyway, what the fuck does it matter who the wombles are supporting? They are just one group among many doing similar things, don't create a fucking personality cult out of them.

We are as transnational as your capital.

Hey don't knock them

01.04.2004 17:09

Hey don't knock them, if the London Mayday Alliance want to do something then great let them.

Anything is a bonus. Go for it.

LMA

LMA.....

02.04.2004 08:52

The LOndonMayday Alliance can do what they want, but the point is they're not letting other people do what THEY want. Trying to tell people not to go to alternative local mayday events is fucking awful and they should be ashamed.

The Voice Of Reason