News just coming in now... George W. Bush has achieved a land slide victory, winning the vote for the president most lampooned and most hated around the world.
To celebrate this victory, Fox News has teamed up with the rampARtT cinema chain to bring you an evening of free films. Just cut out the coupon below and present it at your nearest rampART cinema (in your case that would be 15 Rampart Street in London) and you will be admitted for free to watch 'Outfoxed' and 'The World According To Bush' plus various satirical shorts. Starts 8pm
+ Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism (2004)
Documentary on pro-bush / neo-con bias of the Rupert Murdoch-owned
Fox News Channel, which promotes itself as "Fair and Balanced".
+ The World According to Bush (Le Monde Selon Bush), described as the
french Fahrenheit 9/11, avoids the polemic of Michael Moore's own. Was
scheduled to screen at the Cannes Film Festival in May, but pulled because
organisers didn't want Cannes to appear too anti-American.
On Thursday night I hear romours that there will be some kind of post
elections celebration and/or end of the world party. Look out for details on
the website www.rampart.co.nr
Our Friday night open mic / jam sessions are clashing with another open
mic night that some of our friends are now doing up in North London so we
thought we'd cancel or move the rampART one. This friday we aim to get the
hord of rampART radio DJ's and local MCs to do their thing in the hall so
we can all have a dance. Simultanious live broadcast via rampART radio of
course!
+ Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism (2004)
Documentary on pro-bush / neo-con bias of the Rupert Murdoch-owned
Fox News Channel, which promotes itself as "Fair and Balanced".
+ The World According to Bush (Le Monde Selon Bush), described as the
french Fahrenheit 9/11, avoids the polemic of Michael Moore's own. Was
scheduled to screen at the Cannes Film Festival in May, but pulled because
organisers didn't want Cannes to appear too anti-American.
On Thursday night I hear romours that there will be some kind of post
elections celebration and/or end of the world party. Look out for details on
the website www.rampart.co.nr
Our Friday night open mic / jam sessions are clashing with another open
mic night that some of our friends are now doing up in North London so we
thought we'd cancel or move the rampART one. This friday we aim to get the
hord of rampART radio DJ's and local MCs to do their thing in the hall so
we can all have a dance. Simultanious live broadcast via rampART radio of
course!
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03.11.2004 09:56
steve
Bush Does Not Win Landslide
03.11.2004 15:21
- Bush is not my president.
Mike
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03.11.2004 17:42
OK, so it would have been nice for the rampant march of US imperialism to have been downgraded to ImperialismLite for a few years, under Kerry, but to be honest, Kerry's election would have changed nothing, and would maybe even have legitimised and consolidated some of the moves the Bush administration has made. The occupation of Iraq may have seemed more legitimate because 'It was the last guys that did it'.
Kerry would have changed nothing. He could well have been worse. Bush is so unbalanced and incompetent that there is really the chance that he will bring the empire crashing down. By him remaining in power, the worldwide resistance to the policies that BOTH candidates stood for will grow stronger and stronger. Bush can mobilise a resistance to his policies in a way Kerry simply can't, because Kerry is slightly less offensive to watch and listen to.
Also, over the years, we have made plenty of posters, TShirts, mugs, magazines, books of Bushisms, etc, and if Bush was gone we'd have to make a whole new set of stuff. So in fact Bush's reelection has saved us money.
So don't be glum. Let's celebrate in the knowledge that when Rome is burning, it will be Bush playing the fiddle in the White House.
Hermes
make it worse to make it better? sorry, doesn't work
04.11.2004 17:13
Look at history. In practice defeats may make people angry but they also depress and demoralise, maing people less likely to keep trying for change and also less likely to mobilise, so ending up isolated and even more demoralised; a vicious circle. This happened for twenty years under Thatcher/Reagan/Major/Bush Sr.
Whereas small victories buoy (sp?) people up for further efforts and bigger victories.
The relevance here is that the anti-war movement shouldn't take this as a cue to give up on mass protest and go off on our own (nor to give up altogether) but to keep on and in fact to reach out further than before. Our power doesn't rest on electoralism so we should keep on the streets!
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