peace not war - pass it on

yes i will tell all my friends and i hope everyone else will as well
Its about time we all got together and planned some serious action for a change
Its nice to see the peace activists taking the lead in joining forces with environmental campaigners

why passing clouds. forefront of gentrification /yuppification of hackeny. full of white people dressed up like ethnics, dancing to world music thinking that they are changing the world. fuck off.

that's what peace-not-war are all about, @non, innit!

dance and pose to funky music whilst feeling self-righteous but actually doing fuck-all to end war in any real way.

one big pose.

peace-not-war and passing clouds seem like a perfect partnership to me...

I've got to say, i second what's been said about Passing Clouds, and all other so-called autonomous/alternative venues in London. Middle of Hackney and rarely a black or Asian face in sight! C'mon people!

I've hung about in plenty of squats by now, am usually one of only a handful of people there who aren't white. Much as i want to see some serious alternatives to capitalism developed in London, they have to be relevant to the majority of people in this city, who are not the white middle class.
There is a serious problem in the whole 'alternative scene' (if that means anything at all) with ignoring it's own class/racial composition. This has to be seriously addressed, or else most people will just completely ignore the whole thing. In this respect, we could learn a thing or two from the US, of all places, where there has historically been strong working class African-American and Latino social movements.

On the flip side, there's also a lack of radical ideas coming from within the black community. I live in South London, and you see a whole lot more evangelical churches in places like Peckham, Camberwell, Brixton etc than you do anarchist social centres.

What to do!

Anyway, rant over.