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Big Green charges protest site

steve & wookie | 01.08.2005 20:03 | Sheffield

The Big Green Gathering have charged Nine Ladies Protest site £200 to exhibit their info stall at this years BGG.

In the past protest sites have been allowed at the gathering for no fee and those running the stall have been allowed in for free. This year the two people running the stall have been charged the full entrance fee of £95 per person plus an additional £10.

Protest sites are obviously completely non profit organisations and rely on funds from donations and people raising money from benefit gigs.

Those living on protest sites make a choice to live outside all year to defend the natural environment. Some people have lived at Nine Ladies for over 5 years.

Even though protest sites benefit from publicity gained at the Green Gathering we think that the BGG could afford to welcome them without charge as they have done in the past.

This policy has already put some people off from attending this years event which will already have cost the organisers more than they will gain from charging the site.

steve & wookie

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pull the other one

01.08.2005 22:11

The nine ladies 'stall' at festies is never more than a drinking den full of munters. everyone knows it and I'm sure you won't seriously deny it. Further more, the big green sub devides the site and organising into fields and each field has a ticket allocation. assuming you were trying to blag the campaigns field I can only imagine that the person who has been given a limited number of free tickets from groups contributing to the space has decided on past experience not to bother wasting them on you. it's not like nine ladies is even a campaign, the site hasn't been under any serious risk for ages.

swumpi


BGG = CAPITALIST HIPPIES

02.08.2005 10:54

THE ONLY GREEN THING ON THE MINDS OF THE BIG GREEN GATHERING IS THE COLOUR OF THE MONEY THEY WANT TO RAKE IN !

WHERE DOES THE MONEY GO ??

DEATH TO CAPITALISM !

STATE HATER


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02.08.2005 11:14

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I agree with both sides

02.08.2005 15:25

1./They ( the organisers )were calling it the blaggers field...
2./ There are campaigns that have worked in this field that will probably not be going back as they cannot afford the charges.
3./ There are loads of hippie capitalist wankers their e.g crystal field - about as eco friendly as the portaloos ( or the tractors that were deliberately driving around in circles churning up the field )
4./ Yep - The 9 ladies cliquie semed less about campaigning than Brew, pills and K and fucking arseholes.
5./ it's all got very bourgouis like glasto-shite and all its leeching apologists and all the other shite. It always fucking was ( except for a blip in the late 80s - early 90s when the factories had just finished ejecting people ( pikey-chavs u may fink ) like a fucking conveyor belt straight onto the rock and troll queues. Yes we were fucking angry.
6./ Jihad all the way you pathetic hippy, trot, and ( pretend )anarcho scum.
7./ Liberals are just nazis with better table manners. e.g your avergae property investor and Waitrose customer. Here's to the Oxfam mamger who thinks sweatshops are Ok as it stops the kids from starving. And the social housing landlord ( who isn't raeally jusatifying his ridiculously huge paycheque, shit-overpriced, poorly built 'social' housing. A curse and holdall to you all.


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tosh

03.08.2005 00:00

The Big Green Gathering doesn't claim to be non-capitalist does it? Were does the money go? Well... apart from paying the farmer for the site and paying masses to insurance companies, tens or thousands go to the cops for 'policing' - a modern day protection racket, no money, no festival.

As for campaigns paying to be there, yeah that sucks, but I don't many of many groups who serious wanting to go in order to represent and present a campaign that have fail to secure a free pitch. Perhaps somebody has got pissed off with pissed up (or K'd up) nine ladies crew in previous years. I seem to remember an incident involving the Fairford Peacce Camp stall getting somewhat trashed a couple of years back for example.

minimal


Fantastic

05.08.2005 09:51

This is great! The spirit of Dave Spart lives on! Nothing like a mass bitch against each other - Divide and Rule all the way!

Laugh-a-minute