Manchester Caravan of Courage put on an event and raised £300 to take unwaged and low waged brothers and sisters to Scotland.
The Caravan of Courage is a group organising a convoy of minibuses to go to Scotland to oppose the G8.
We leave on Friday 1 July, at 6pm, and will return on Thursday 8 July, arriving in Manchester by 6pm.
(We may also do one bus for the weekend only).
The cost for the whole week is £75 per person - including all food and transport - but now we have raised £300, and will be deciding later this week how to dish it out.
If you would like to come with us, please contact
g8manc@yahoo.co.uk asap, specifying whether you want to go for the whole week or just the weekend.
More info on the Caravan is available here:
summat.sakeos.net
We leave on Friday 1 July, at 6pm, and will return on Thursday 8 July, arriving in Manchester by 6pm.
(We may also do one bus for the weekend only).
The cost for the whole week is £75 per person - including all food and transport - but now we have raised £300, and will be deciding later this week how to dish it out.
If you would like to come with us, please contact
g8manc@yahoo.co.uk asap, specifying whether you want to go for the whole week or just the weekend. More info on the Caravan is available here:
summat.sakeos.net
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real dissent
21.06.2005 11:36
cheap B and B though(?) I do wonder about a lot of this fundraising and organisers expenses. You lot may not be like this but it is not a fucking holiday ir a spectacular to massage the egos of pro activist tosspots. Except this is what it has become. A revolution with you lot - you'd be ther first to be shot eh? How many more crap flyers, posters, andstickers can you make. Good for dissertations, movie careers etc. You fuckwit middle class parasites.
cynic
"Cheap B+B though"
21.06.2005 11:56
Happy Camper
bored of cynic
21.06.2005 12:02
Krop
still expensive?
21.06.2005 13:03
And cynic, ever tried putting your entire life on hold for months, a year, to help organise something that even the authorities admit they couldn't do, do it all in a way which reflects anti-authoritarian models of organisation, sleeping where you can, ditto eating, fighting off burn-out, and doing it all right up to the wire, then giving up the opportunity for 'ego-massage spectacular etc', as you're helping run the convergence centre along with others?
Thought not. I'm a little confused as to how one is 'middle class' when living such a life. Accent? A degree? Let me guess, "rich mummy and daddy to run home to when you want to give it all up and get a nice job as a bank manager"? Grow up, get out, meet people.
anarchoteapot
holiday in the countryside
21.06.2005 13:25
middle class tosser
What - again ?
21.06.2005 15:47
What the hell is this protest turning into ? London activist wannabees flying to Scotland, groups running coaches, Dissent workers coming by car and now a "convoy of minibuses"
Do you even understand why we are protesting. This is turning into a joke, its going to be the new Glastonberry
Think - please think
not going
21.06.2005 18:03
last straw
do the math
21.06.2005 22:03
60 pounds a day for hire of a 15-seater minibus (taking 12 people, however, because we need room for luggage etc.)
= 5 pounds a day per person for transport
+ 3 pounds a day per person for food (cooked communally)
+ 2 pounds a day per person for petrol etc.
= 10 pounds a day per person
x 7 days = 70 pounds
+ 5 pounds for petrol to get to scotland and back
= 75 pounds
no-one is planning to make any money, and we would love it to be cheaper, but that's what it costs.
we could, of course, walk to and around scotland, which is what "think - please think" seems to be suggesting. that would definitely be cheaper.......
seriously though, it will be cheaper than this cost price as a result of our fundraising. i.e. many people will pay less than this 75 pounds.
middle class tosser
Middle Class Tosser
22.06.2005 08:46
Has it occured to you as you swan off in your mini bus that it will be spewing out greenhouse gasses, carbon particulates and further poisons all so that you have a comfortable ride to your weeks holiday.
I never thought I would see the day when contributors to the newswire would be justifying planes, cars and minibuses to attend a demo on the grounds of an economic argument - what the fuck have we become ?
Fits
Praeclarissima sapientia
22.06.2005 10:41
That works out at £3.57 per day per person.
Assuming that all vehicles were full of people (i.e. no seats taken up by rucksacks etc.) this implies a 12-seater van costs £42.84 per day to hire, or a 15-seater £53.55.
In reality its more like £35 and £45 per day, because of taking various necessary tat.
If Anarchoteapot can direct us to a firm that will hire at that rate, we'll be glad to hear from him/her!
(btw, to Fits "this is all about money", if you step outside your door you'll notice we're still (like it or not) living under capitalism. I suspect you're not completely self-sufficient - or did you knit your own internet access from home made fibres?)
squatticus
squatticus
22.06.2005 11:42
that's why
that's why
22.06.2005 13:20
squatticus
That's why...
22.06.2005 14:47
Squatticus
It is called a mobilisation
22.06.2005 17:53
So come up with some suggestions as an alternative to the ideas being thrown around.
fredrico
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