Ever heard of guerrilla advertising! About the Mayday Flash mob plan!

Pissed off anarchist. | 01.05.2009 08:47

Hey have you people never heard of guerrilla advertising! The Mayday flash mob idea was an idea to maximise the numbers at the London Mayday event at Bank tube! We need to show the cops that we have not been scared off and to get people down to Bank in even greater numbers!

We need to say to the cops and the authorities "Your oppression will only increase our resistance!" The Mayday Flash mob post was just a ruse to get as many people as possible down to Bank this Friday. It was posted by "anarchists".

We need massive numbers if we are to avoid intimidation by the tooled up police who want to smash our movement. And we need to get big numbers at this and future anti-capitalist events by any means possible. Also we need to get as many people involved in these events as possible and stop being elitist.

Pissed off anarchist.

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some publicity is bad publicity

01.05.2009 09:38

ACAB

As sponsored by t-mobile

01.05.2009 10:04

To participants, your attendance today will be filmed for future T-Mobile advertising campaigns.

Sam Taylor, Head of Advertising
Homepage: http://www.t-mobile.co.uk

Bad publicity is better than no publicity!

01.05.2009 10:05

Hey how many people outside of the anarchist scene know that anything is happening in the City of London this afternoon? I bet not one! That is why we need to think of new imaginative ideas of getting more people to these sorts of events.

Unlike in the run up to the April 1st G20 action in the City the press have been totally silent about this event. If the press wont tell everyone about this event then we will have to tell people ourselves.

Whats more we need to get more ordinary people to come along to these events instead of the usual hardcore anarchists, middle class lefties and students who seem to make up 99 per cent of every demonstration in the capital.

Disillusioned anarchist

To the extras at the T-Mobile film shoot

01.05.2009 10:11

Just to clarify, by attending todays event you will be consenting to being filmed by T-Mobile for future advertising campaigns. Please do not interfere with the film crew.

Sam Taylor, Head of Advertsing, T-Mobile
Homepage: http://www.t-mobile.co.uk

Sleeping with the fishes

01.05.2009 10:32

disillusioned anarchist is actually an employee of Saatchi & Saatchi - the advertsing company behind the t-mobile 'life's for sharing' advert filmed at liverpool street station (as a flashmob dancing in the concourse).

For those old enough to remember saatchi & saatchi were thatcher's favourite ad men. Todays event will be part of a new t-mobile advertising campaign.

Space hijackers being out-witted and co-opted by a slicker media operation. Gullible just isn't the word.

See you all on tv.

Lysa Hardy. Head of bRand Communications

Not convinced.

01.05.2009 10:36

"Hey how many people outside of the anarchist scene know that anything is happening in the City of London this afternoon? I bet not one! That is why we need to think of new imaginative ideas of getting more people to these sorts of events.

Unlike in the run up to the April 1st G20 action in the City the press have been totally silent about this event. If the press wont tell everyone about this event then we will have to tell people ourselves.

Whats more we need to get more ordinary people to come along to these events instead of the usual hardcore anarchists, middle class lefties and students who seem to make up 99 per cent of every demonstration in the capital."

So how does posting on Indymedia (where there is already a page for it

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/04/427762.html) and saying it's a flashmob increase the publicity for this event? Especially with people who are not the usual protesters; who I imagine are the core readers/contributors of Indymedia. The press have been silent about the event because it doesn't involve world leaders and more importantly the Space Hijackers haven't gone round whoring themselves out for interviews. But just because it hasn't been in the papers or on the telly don't think for a minute that nobody knows about it. Why not try and arrange a flashmob convergence for the Clerkenwell Green rally today? That's had even less coverage, I only heard about it 2 days ago whereas I've known about the Hijacker event for a week or so.

Or, are you trying to make it easier to take the piss out of SH by pretending they're a bunch of t-mobile loving corporate wankers?

James Brown

More TV cameras the better, the Met will now have to behave!

01.05.2009 10:44

QUOTE: "Just to clarify, by attending todays event you will be consenting to being filmed by T-Mobile for future advertising campaigns. Please do not interfere with the film crew."

Fantastic then more cameras than ever will be able to catch the police in the act if they decide to assualt anyone at this event like they did at the G20 demo on April 1st! This will turn the tables on the FIT teams too!

Met police you can't get away with beating protesters any more!

Protester

Why would T-mobile sponser an anti-capitalist event?

01.05.2009 11:10

Why would T-mobile sponser an anti-capitalist event? It is just a clever ruse by anarchists to increase the numbers at the Mayday City event!

It seems the middle class counter-revolutionaries within the anti-capitalist movement want numbers at this event kept small so as not to rock the boat to much! These middle class part time hobby activists would shit themselves if a real anti-capitalist revolution took place in Britain!

anarchist

To Pissed off teenage angst "anarchist" (original poster and commenter)

01.05.2009 11:32

Hello anarchist.

You're perfectly welcome to set up and use your own tactics - diversity and all that - but can you do the Space Hijackers and everyone who might be interested in coming today a favour?

Please don't try to manipulate the media until you know what you're talking about. I'm not trying to be rude or elitist. You're obviously new to PsyOps, so might I suggest you take a backseat, see how the game is played, and then see if you can contribute something original, provocative, and worthwhile? I've no doubt that you can, but it looks like you need some pointers ;-)

Because by posting this silly Flashmob thingy up you've done nothing but damage to whatever cause we can agree to be working towards.

What would be really grand would be if if you can come up to some Space Hijackers this afternoon and introduce yourself. Your ideals are good - getting ordinary people involved, etc.
But your method needs a lot of work =)

Come along and say hello, and let's talk about some REALLY useful techniques that HELP a cause rather than hinder it!

To anarchist.

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Message from the owners of the flash mob

01.05.2009 12:38

http://www.flashmob.co.uk/mt/2009/05/no_flashmobs_on_mayday.php

EVIL INCARNATE

01.05.2009 19:56

Join Friends and be Filmed – Anarchists come prepared.

Now lets have some Psyops with T-Mobile – EVIL INCARNATE

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