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Smash School Privatisation: Wembley Sports Ground Re-Occupied - Support Needed

First report from the Wembley Sports Ground Anti-Academy Camp. Support Needed.
Save The Sports Ground. Save The Community Green Space. No To School Privatisation. No To Education For Profit.

Wembley Sports Ground - Re-Occupied

Trees And Hedgerows - Soon To Be Privatised

Site Entrance For Workers Next Week - Exposed!

Thousands Of Tyres Waiting To Be Used - Barricade?

Several tents have already been set up as another organisation under threat, the local church group, hold a food and fun afternoon. The church group worships here on a Sunday and with four businesses will lose access to the sports hall as soon as Ark, the Academy investor, moves in.

The construction of temporary accomodation or the refurbishment of the dilapidated sports hall is expected to begin next week, possibly as early as wednesday.

The camp needs your assistance. Either to stay on site, or just to visit and give few hours of your time. All are welcome. Banners are needed to be painted and hung from fences. More people are needed on site.

Save The Wembley Park Sports Ground. Save The Local Community Green Space. Smash School Privatisation. Hands Off Our Children.

Recent indymedia feature on the Tent City Occupation.

http://indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/07/404002.html

Recent Indeymedia Callout.

Smash School Privatisation: Wembley Sports Ground Re-Occupied, AGAIN!

http://indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/07/404743.html

Smash School Privatisation: Next Step In The Anti-Academy Campaign

http://indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/07/404701.html

More coverage.

http://jasonnparkinson.blogspot.com/
Several tents have already been set up as another organisation under threat, the local church group, hold a food and fun afternoon. The church group worships here on a Sunday and with four businesses will lose access to the sports hall as soon as Ark, the Academy investor, moves in.

The construction of temporary accomodation or the refurbishment of the dilapidated sports hall is expected to begin next week, possibly as early as wednesday.

The camp needs your assistance. Either to stay on site, or just to visit and give few hours of your time. All are welcome. Banners are needed to be painted and hung from fences. More people are needed on site.

Save The Wembley Park Sports Ground. Save The Local Community Green Space. Smash School Privatisation. Hands Off Our Children.

Recent indymedia feature on the Tent City Occupation.

http://indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/07/404002.html

Recent Indeymedia Callout.

Smash School Privatisation: Wembley Sports Ground Re-Occupied, AGAIN!

http://indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/07/404743.html

Smash School Privatisation: Next Step In The Anti-Academy Campaign

http://indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/07/404701.html

More recent coverage.

http://www.itvlocal.com/london/news/?player=LON_News_15&void=204972

http://jasonnparkinson.blogspot.com/

Wembley Park Sports Ground, Bridge road, Wembley, NW9
Nearest tube: Wembley Park (metropolitan and jubilee line)
Turn left out station, walk up to main junction of Bridge Road and Forty Lane, turn left, walk up to left-hand gate where car wash sign is and you’re there.

Buses
From Mill Hill or Kensal Rise - 302 (get off at Blackbird Hill)
From Golders Green - 83 (get off at Wembley Asda or Wembley Park tube)
From Brent Cross - 182 (get off at Wembley Asda or Wembley Park tube)

Smash School Privatisation

Additions

Photos

27.07.2008 18:26

http://jasonnparkinson.blogspot.com/

Sorry, forgot to add that.

Smashy

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Tent Cities

27.07.2008 15:18

What on earth do you think you are doing?

Tent cities are for the poor victims of america's credit crunch, homeless families etc, noone wants to live like this by choice, or do they?

oi yoi

I can't really offer more than a decent bramble jam idea & sentimentality

27.07.2008 16:02

I wholeheartedly support your aims and approve of your tactics too. I admit a sense of sentimental wistfulness came over me when I saw the "Legal Warning" sign which unique in the jurisdictions of the world offers the squatter of England & Wales a bit of "take notice - we hereby declare" and the wonderful codicile which I still remember "this notice doesn't need to be signed" or something to that effect. But I going all squishy sentimental over the primary joys of autonomous space which occur in true transient nature at the beginning just as the history of any such space is guaged by its end and eviction, won't get your barricades built or slogans painted or more people on your site.

What you lot need is bramble berry jam.

That's what I saw in your second photo just under the "Legal Warning" bit. Ye captioned it ominously as trees and hedgerows which were soon to be privatised. What a shocking capitalist usurption of what must surely amount to a valued green belt of Wembley. Is it perhaps thick and dense enough to shelter a badger? Could a recently liberated Mexican petshop trio of meeses find succour and a homestead within the shade of its boughs and cool dampness of its verdent foilage?

That is just the sort of thing the new values of privatised Education won't impart to any child, bairn, chaver or offspring. Nor I surmise will they pass on the ancient and noble art of Bramble berry jam or conserve making. But I will and it can be my contribution to your campaign.

Historically the roots of bramble berry jam making go back to at least the age of the Norman conquests and establishment of the feudal land-ownership system. Back then indiginous Britons had no concept of landownership and spent most of their time smoking mushrooms in teepees when not out hunting the buffalo which used to roam the dense forests of prehistoric United Kollective lands. But the evil and wicked (& possibly shapeshifting) Normans put an end to such general pleasantness by burning down the forests and leaving only hedgerows in their place. These proved excellent environments for the growth of sloe berries from which Gin was first extracted in the 17th century by Dutch military intelligence who then set about smuggling the stuff to the UK to keep mothers bad and Hogarth the painter outraged. (c/f

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Hogarth#Beer_Street_and_Gin_Lane ) Outraged society saw to it that the sloe berry was soon associated with poisons and one and a half centuries passed. Then a member of the liberal party campaigned in the mid Victorian age for the cultivation of blackberries in hedgerows throughout the empire as a source of Vitamin C for poor people. It really is a kicking good source of Vitamin C. Unlike a cold remedy which merely suppresses your symptoms so that you go to work or school and infect ever more people who in turn buy evermore cold remedies, Vitamin C has been proven by tippy toppy scientists to stop you getting colds in the first place.

* How to make Bramble Berry Jam.

1) Pick blackberries from blackberry bush in hedgerow - they are small and black.
2) Extract heavy metals.
3) Wash.
4) boil picked and washed berries in pot, give them a bit of a squish almost to pulp.
5) add pectin. (the great thing with pectin is that though it was only discovered in 1825 thus expanding the jam-makers repertoire, it is a naturally occuring component of many hedgerow berries - you don't need to add it and if you don't you just boil the mix longer)
6) add sugar or honey.
7) keep boiling till your mix isn't liquid but has gone viscous like. Viscosity is the key word when it comes to Jam.

Now this is very important before you sell your protest Jam.

You must wash and sterilise your jars - of course if you're going to eat your jam immediately from the pot you won't need jars - but if you're going to sell Wembley School protest jam - then you need jars.

Alternatively you could run down to the local LIDL at 4-14 Blackbird Hill, Wembley and buy a rake of their jam instead and repackage it with paper lids and elastic bands instead of the giveaway metal lids they use. Nobody will know the better.

Solidarity!

iosaf - barcelona

Oi yoi

27.07.2008 18:27

First it was accusing people of using science they don't understand on climate change (by implication I presume you do. Fnar!)

Then you're saying that people shouldn't camp in "tent cities" that's only for people living through the Great Depression.

Are you intending to be tiresome or is it just an accidental side effect of your writing?

Sim1

Sim1

29.07.2008 15:59

I read it as a poor attempt at humour - not malicious.

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