Mayday in London

Doug | 02.05.2009 06:33 | Repression

London Mayday does not draw the numbers it used to a few years back, when thousands roamed the streets. The spirit of Mayday was still there though at The Bank, with a Maypole and dancing and some familiar faces from the past.

Greenman

Drummers

Maypole

9/11 sign

Dancing

The FIT now have you on record for daring to dance

The theme this year was police repression and in keeping with its anti-authoritarian Mayday tradition the cops were derided by megaphone as they looked on from a distance, instead of trying to surround and contain everyone as they have done in the past. Maybe they held back because the gathering was on an island and not obstructing road traffic or maybe they have learned a valuable lesson from the recent G20 in London.

The dancing was led by three sound systems, two of them on cycle trailers. There was several fancy dresses with either a convict/police/arrestee theme or pagan style theme. One small group even brewed up tea over an open log fire!

Thanks to the Space Hijackers for organising the event and all who attended to make it so much fun.

http://www.spacehijackers.co.uk/html/welcome.html

Video to follow.

Doug

Additions

Ooops!

02.05.2009 06:51

Brew up

Forgot to include this pic of the open fire brew up.

Doug

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Which is the real Space Hijackers' website?

02.05.2009 10:23

http://www.spacehijackers.CO.UK/html/welcome.html
or

http://www.spacehijackers.ORG/html/welcome.html

Maybe they've just changed their url, but I wouldn't want to be caught out by a fake copy site set up by you know who...

concerned citizen

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well spotted, concerned citizen...

02.05.2009 13:31

spacehijackers.ORG is registered to:

Registrant Name Robin Priestley
Registrant Organization Robin Priestley
Registrant Street1 Limehouse Town Hall, 646 Commercial Rd
Registrant Street2:
Registrant City London
Registrant State/Province London
Registrant Postal Code E147HA
Registrant Country GB
Registrant Phone +44.8453633630

spacehijackers.CO.UK is registered to:

Registrant:
Mishmash

Registrant type:
Unknown

Registrant's address:
Unknown
Unknown
GB

Maybe someone can confirm that either or both are legitimate sites.....

anon

Surely...

02.05.2009 14:26

... posting the registration details of the registered domain owner isn't a bright thing to do?? (Mind you, you would have thought the owner would have opted out).

As far as I can see, both are domain names pointing to the same website and are legit spacejackers sites.

I must admit though, I've always felt uncomfortable with those that use .co.uk and .com domain names...

Steph

Like duuuur

02.05.2009 14:40

They are both official, they both point to the same server.

Now can someone please take my details down

Jesus what are you lot like?

Robin
Homepage: http://Both

web awareness

02.05.2009 14:49

anyone on the internet can check the details of a website by going to

http://ping.eu and do a "whois".

people should know both when they want to check out a website before they trust it, or make their own website that these details can be found by anyone, literally anyone!

and i agree .co and .com stand for "company". spacehijackers is not a company though!

without going of topic, nice photos. looks like it was a good atmosphere!

another anon

You can't opt out.

02.05.2009 16:18

I think you will find that you can't opt out from '.org' WHOIS but you can from '.org.uk'.

Doug

Is there a higher resolution picture of the FIT?

03.05.2009 17:13

It appears that one of the officers in the pciture does not have shoulder numbers. Now, this may not be the case. It may be failing eyesight. It is the officer on the right hand end standing off from the main group. It simply appears he has no numbers because his shoulderpieces look grey.

Might be fading eyesight, but it would be nice for him to step forwards and identify himself to the public. You know, calm the fears of a few skittish and vulnerable old coots who cannot really see too well.

Squinty

conspiraloons

04.05.2009 10:15

couldn't help but notice the 9/11 "truth" banner. why these idiots are tolerated is beyond me.

anonymous

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