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SPIRAL TRIBE SOUNDSYSTEM

"You might stop the party but you can't stop the future."

SPIRAL TRIBE ARE HITTING ENGLAND AND THE WORLD BY STORM. THE GROWTH OF THE SPIRAL TRIBE HAS BEEN ASTONISHING. THEY ARE THE LARGEST AND MOST INFLUENTIAL OF ALL THE TECHNO SOUNDSYSTEMS.

THEY ARE A COLLECTIVE OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN HOLDING MOSTLY FREE PARTY`S OUTDOORS, IN DERELICT BUILDINGS AND WAREHOUSES ALMOST EVERY WEEKEND FOR THE PAST 5 YEARS. PARTY`S HAVE BEEN HELD ALL OVER ENGLAND, HOLLAND, FRANCE, SPAIN, BERLIN, CACH REP, VIENNA AND ARE COURENTLY TOURING ITALY. INSPIRING MANY PEOPLE TO CONTINUE WHERE THEY LEFT OFF.

A tekno history lesson.

From 1990 until 1992, Spiral Tribe were responsible for numerous parties, raves and festivals in indoor and outdoor locations. These mainly occurred in the south of England. The largest and most famous party the group organised was the Castlemorton Common Festival free party in May 1992. Thirteen members of the group were arrested immediately after the Castlemorton event and were subsequently charged with public order offences. Their trial became one of the longest running and most expensive cases in British legal history, lasting four months and costing the UK tax payer £4 million. (1999:373) Regarding Castlemorton, Nigel South states that "the adverse publicity attending the event laid the groundwork for the Criminal Justice Act 1994". Low and Burnett opine in Spaces of Democracy that "Spiral Tribe, with their free and inclusive parties, succeeded in constituting an alternative public space, rather than just a secret one. Though no one could say how many lives were touched in their three year tour of duty". (2004:217)

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Parties

Date	Location	Comments
October 1990	The school house, north west London.	First real party organised by Spiral Tribe
July 1991	Longstock	The displaced Stonehenge Summer Solstice free festival
July 6-7	mirage winchester devils punch bowl	free party all weekend long no problems from the police
July 1991	Bala, Wales.
9-12 August 1991	Liphook, Hampshire	Torpedo Town smiling policemen everywhere no trouble at all
August 1991	Chelmsford	Original site in an open mine (natural auditorium) was compromised by police whilst setting up. Thousands of ravers wait patiently for hours until a new site is found - permission given for a field on private land.
August 1991	The Cisbury Ring festival, held on a picnic area near Arundel Castle
August Bank holiday 1991	The White Goddess festival for 2 weeks on Bodmin Moor, Cornwall	Combined their sound system with Circus Normal (to achieve a sound system of over 25,000 watts RMS) receiving complaints from over 14 miles away. Despite police pressure they partied on until all of the partygoers went home. The event was attended along with a number of other sound systems including Circus Warp and DIY.
September 1991	The Arches, Deptford
October 1991	North west London	The green house party
October 1991	Kent	The Village Idiots festival
November 1991	Brewery Road
Christmas and New Year's Eve 1991	The Camden Round House, North London.	The power was stolen from a light socket owned by British Rail at the back of the building and the system went off at 6:30 in the morning when they turned the lights off. Someone then found an alternative power source.
January 1992	Blackwall tunnel
February 1992	York Road, King's Cross
February 1992	Numbers Farm, Kings Langley, Hertfordshire.
March 1992	Tubney woods	Done with the Bedlam sound system
March 1992	Swindon
April 1992	Chobham Common
April 30 – March 3 1992	Lechlade	25,000 people
May 1992	Castlemorton Common Festival
June 4 1992	Canada Square, next to Canary Wharf, London.	About 1,000 people manage to dance for a little over an hour before 300 police seal off roads and move in to make arrests.
August 1992	The Cisbury Ring festival	The police allowed it to go on over three different sites. The system was supplied by Big Life Records, it also got split up, and at the end of the parties it was misplaced by a number of different tribe members to re-surface in Europe and around London.

 

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Europe

In March 1993, after being acquitted of all charges relating to Castlemorton, the group moved to Europe, doing parties in cities such as Rotterdam, Paris and Berlin. Over the next few years, the collective organised parties and teknivals throughout Europe, then it slowly dispersed with some members taking up residence in Germany and Holland and releasing work on Labworks and many other techno labels. Individual members of the collective joined other sound systems, did squat art events or pursued other interests.

From the summer of 1994 a number of free parties were organised by Spiral Tribe members throughout Europe. When the parties were large festivals with an open invitation to other sound systems and artists to participate, they came to be known as teknivals. In tribute to this collective, the type of music predominantly played at early teknivals came to be known as spiral tekno. Parties included the following: 

• Hellfire, Dublin. early 1993
• Montpellier, France. May 1, 1993.
• Paris, France. June 19, 1993.
• Berlin, German. June 26, 1993.
• Berlin, Germany. December 31, 1993 at the Tacheles squat.
• Hostomice, Czech Republic. July 28, 1994. First year of festival later known as CzechTek.
• Vienna, Austria. August 27, 1994.
• Vienna, Austria. December 31, 1994.
• Vienna, Austria. March 4-6, 1995.
• CzechTek, Czech Republic. July 26, 1995.
• Rome, Italy. December 31, 1995.
• Milan, Italy. May 11, 1996.
• CzechTek, Czech Republic. July 26, 1996.
• Vienna, Austria. September 14, 1996.
• Prague, Czech Republic. November 30, 1996 at the Cibulka squat.
• Vienna, Austria. April 11, 1998.
 

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L'HOMME RÉVOLTÉ

The original title of the work in French is "L'Homme révolté." While English translations typically use the title The Rebel, it is possible that the title, once translated, forms an elaborate pun. Quite simply, the title can also be translated as "The Revolted Man." In this sense, the title is itself a means of justifying the rebellion against the Absurd which forms the essay's central theme.

The Rebel is a 1951 book-length essay by Albert Camus, which treats both the metaphysical and the historical development of rebellion and revolution in societies, especially Western Europe. Camus relates writers and artists as diverse as Epicurus and Lucretius, the Marquis de Sade, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Friedrich Nietzsche, and André Breton in an integrated, historical portrait of man in revolt. Examining both rebellion and revolt, which may be seen as the same phenomenon in personal and social frames, Camus examines several 'countercultural' figures and movements from the history of western thought and art, noting the importance of each in the overall development of revolutionary thought and philosophy.

Albert Camus (7 November 1913 – 4 January 1960) was a French author, philosopher, and journalist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. He is often cited as a proponent of existentialism (the philosophy that he was associated with during his own lifetime), but Camus himself refused this particular label. Specifically, his views contributed to the rise of the more current philosophy known as absurdism. He wrote in his essay The Rebel that his whole life was devoted to opposing the philosophy of nihilism while still delving deeply into individual freedom.

In 1949, Camus founded the Group for International Liaisons within the Revolutionary Union Movement, which (according to the book Albert Camus, une vie by Olivier Todd) was a group opposed to some tendencies of the surrealistic movement of André Breton. Camus was the second-youngest recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature (after Rudyard Kipling) when he became the first Africa-born writer to receive the award, in 1957. He is also the shortest-lived of any literature laureate to date, having died in an automobile accident just over two years after receiving the award.

In an interview in 1945, Camus rejected any ideological associations: "No, I am not an existentialist. Sartre and I are always surprised to see our names linked..."

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DAYS OF WAR - NIGHTS OF LOVE

"Your ticket to a world free of charge."

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Think about your direct
bodily experience of life.

No one can lie to you about that. How many hours a day do you spend in front of a television screen? A computer screen? Behind an automobile windscreen? All three screens combined?

What are you being screened from? 

How much of your life comes at you through a screen, vicariously? (Is watching things as exciting as doing things? Do you ever have enough time to do all the things that you want to do? Do you have enough energy to?)

And how many hours a day do you sleep? How are you effected by standardized time, designed solely to synchronize your movements with those of millions of other people? How long do you ever go without knowing what time it is? Who or what controls your minutes and hours?

The minutes and hours that add up to your life?

Can you put a value on a beautiful day, when the birds are singing and the people are walking around together? How many dollars an hour does it take to pay you to stay inside and sell things or file papers? What will you get later that could make up for this day of your life?

How are you affected by being in crowds, by being surrounded by anonymous masses? Do you find yourself blocking your emotional responses to other human beings?

And who prepares your meals? Do you ever eat by yourself? Do you ever eat standing up? How much do you know about what you eat and where it comes from? How much do you trust it?

What are we deprived of by labor-saving devices? By thought-saving devices? How are you affected by the requirements of efficiency, which place value on the product rather than the process, on the future rather than the present, the present moment that is getting shorter and shorter as we speed faster and faster into the future? What are we speeding towards?

Are we saving time? Saving it up for what?

How are you affected by being moved around in prescribed paths, in elevators, buses, subways, escalators, on highways and sidewalks? By moving, working, and living in two- and three-dimensional grids? How are you affected by being organized, immobilized, and scheduled... instead of wandering, roaming freely and spontaneously? Scavenging? (Shoplifting?)

How much freedom of movement do you have—freedom to move through space, to move as far as you want, in new and unexplored directions?

And how are you affected by waiting? Waiting in line, waiting in traffic, waiting to eat, waiting for the bus, waiting for the bathroom—learning to punish and ignore your spontaneous urges?

How are you affected by holding back your desires?

By sexual repression, by the delay or denial of pleasure, starting in childhood, along with the suppress of everything in you that is spontaneous, everything that evidences your wild nature, your membership in the animal kingdom?

Is pleasure dangerous?

could danger be joyous?

Do you ever need to see the sky? (Can you see stars in it any more?) Do you ever need to see water, leaves, foliage, animals? Glinting, glimmering, moving?

Is that why you have a pet, an aquarium, houseplants?

Or are television and video your glinting, glimmering, moving?

How much of your life comes at you through a screen, vicariously?

Do videotapes of yourself and your friends fascinate you, as if you are more real in image than in life?

If your life was made into a movie, would it be worth watching? And how do you feel in situations of enforced passivity? How are you affected by a non-stop assault of symbolic communication—audio, visual, print, billboard, computer, video, radio, robotic voices—as you wander through the forest of signs? What are they urging upon you?

Do you ever need solitude, quiet, contemplation? Do you remember it? Thinking on your own, rather than reacting to stimuli? Is it hard to look away?

Is looking away the very thing that is not permitted?

Where can you go to find silence and solitude? Not white noise, but pure silence? Not loneliness, but gentle solitude?

How often have you stopped to ask yourself questions like these?

Do you find yourself committing acts of symbolic violence?

Do you ever feel lonely in a way that words cannot even express?

Do you ever feel ready to LOSE CONTROL?

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Size: 5.5" x 8.5" x .75"
Weight: .9 pounds
Pages: 292 + cover

Ink: Full-color on cover and black w/ full bleeds throughout.

Words: 68,361
Illustrations: 127
Photographs: 52
Index: Yes

Reviews

 "At 292 heavily illustrated pages, the flagship book of crimethink is the perfect size for any knapsack and the perfect reference manual for anyone seeking a life of passion and revolt. AK Press calls it "an underground bestseller," but, as it says in the preface:

"This book isn't designed to be used in the way a 'normal' book is. Rather than reading it from one cover to the other, casting perfunctory votes of dissapproval or agreement along the way, and then putting it on the shelf as another inert posession, we hope you will use this as a tool in your own efforts—not just to think about the world, but also to change it. This books is composed of ideas and images we've remorselessly stolen and adjusted to our purposes, and we hope you'll do exactly the same with its contents.

"As for the contents themselves: we've limited ourselves for the most part to criticism of the established order, because we trust you to do the rest. Heaven is a different place for everyone; hell, at least this particular one, we inhabbit in common. This book is supposed to help you analyze and disassemble this world—what you build for yourself in it's place is in your hands, although we've offered some general ideas of where to start. Remember: the destructive impulse is also a creative one . . . happy smashing! "  

Your ticket to a world free of charge.

“The books vehement insistence that living is more important than art carries the argument beyond the typical debate. When you make it to the end, the personal testimonials about not working and the closing art pieces become an aria of voices urging you to close the book and live. Glorious, even for the most cynical reader. What more can we ask from a book? Whether or not you buy it probably depends on what you thought of the last Refused LP—revolutionary cannibals or well-dressed poseurs? Well-read former straight-edge kids or new messiahs? Don't think too hard about it—the book warns from page one,  
'This book will not save your life; that my friend is up to you.'”

“Less of a novel and more of an exploded manifesto, Days of War, Nights of Love might be just what we need. It is the type of book you'd thumb through in the store and actually want to buy (or steal). Avoiding the "thin gruel of narrative," the book instead gleefully mashed appropriated art pieces with personal testimony—reconfigured Frank Miller comic panels shout, "Face it, your politics are boring as fuck!" Whether you agree or not, there's a refreshing quality to a book that offers the same amount of information to both the serious reader and casual browser, because despite steady sales of The Revolution of Everday Life and Nation of Ulysses CDs, most of us are still living lives that are frustratingly incomplete."

 

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AUTHORITY?

If we don't take action now

We settle for nothing later

don't let them scare you

trade "security" for freedom

SPREAD YOUR WINGS AND FLY

WOULD YOU?

"It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life."

- Elizabeth Kenny (20/09/1880 – 30/11/1952)

Well.. is it?

Ofcourse!


But it is not for me to decide what your answer will be..

So..

Would you rather have the right to create alternatives of choice?

.. or let the oppressor choose for you?

Would you rather die young and have many accomplishments?

.. or rather fade away into obscurity at an old age?

Would you die for something you believe in?

.. or watch it change on its own?

Would you protect your freedom?

.. or sacrifice it?

I KNOW I WOULD!

I choose to live as a lion,

I will not betray freedom by sacrificing it.

The secret of happiness is freedom.

The secret of freedom is courage.

Being a coward is not a choice for me,

therefor I would rather live as a lion.

STEAL SOMETHING DAY

STEAL SOMETHING DAY

a shameless 24-hour stealing spree!

"Because life ain't something to throw away at 7$/hour."

Participate by participating!

(Press release from http://tao.ca/~lombrenoire)

For the past eight years, a few self-described "culture jammers" from Adbusters Magazine have dubbed the last Friday in November "Buy Nothing Day."

From their stylish home base in Vancouver's upscale suburb of Kitsilano, the Adbusters' brain trust has encouraged conscientious citizens worldwide to "relish [their] power as a consumer to change the economic environment." In their words, Buy Nothing Day "proves how empowering it is to step out of the consumption stream for even a day."

The geniuses at Adbusters have managed to create the perfect feel-good, liberal, middle-class activist non-happening. A day when the more money you make, the more influence you have (like every other day). A day which, by definition, is insulting to the millions of people worldwide who are too poor or marginalized to be considered "consumers."

It's supposed to be a 24-hour moratorium on spending, but ends up being a moralistic false-debate about whether or not you should really buy that loaf of bread today or ... wait for it ... tomorrow!

Well, this year, while the Adbusters cult enjoys yet another Buy Nothing Day, accompanied by their fancy posters, stickers, TV and radio advertisements and slick webpages, a few self-described anarcho-situationists from Montreal's East End are inaugurating Steal Something Day.

Unlike Buy Nothing Day, when people are asked to "participate by not participating," Steal Something Day demands that we "participate by participating." Instead of downplaying or ignoring the capitalists, CEOs, landlords, small business tyrants, bosses, PR hacks, yuppies, media lapdogs, corporate bureaucrats, politicians and cops who are primarily responsible for misery and exploitation in this world, Steal Something Day demands that we steal from them, without discrimination. 

The Adbusters' intellegentsia tell us that they're neither "left nor right," and have proclaimed a non-ideological crusade against overconsumption. Steal Something Day, on the other hand, identifies with the historic and contemporary resistance against the causes of capitalist exploitation, not its symptoms. If you think overconsumption is scary, wait until you hear about capitalism and imperialism.

Unlike the misplaced Buy Nothing Day notion of consumer empowerment, Steal Something Day promotes empowerment by urging us to collectively identify the greedy bastards who are actually responsible for promoting misery and boredom in this world. Instead of ignoring them, Steal Something Day encourages us to make their lives as uncomfortable as possible.

As we like to say in Montreal: diranger les riches dans leurs niches!

And remember, we're talking about stealing, not theft. Stealing is just. Theft is exploitative. Stealing is when you take a yuppie's BMW for a joyride, and crash into a parked Mercedes just for the hell of it. Theft is when you take candy from a baby's mouth.

Stealing is the re-distribution of wealth from rich to poor. Theft is making profits at the expense of the disadvantaged and the natural environment. Stealing is an unwritten a tax on the rich. Theft is taxing the poor to subsidize the rich. Stealing is nothing more than a tax on the rich. There is solidarity in stealing, but property is nothing but theft.

 Get some friends together and go on a "shoplifting "spree at the local chain supermarket or upscale mall. With an even larger mob, get together and steal from the local chain book or record store. Pilfer purses and wallets from easily identified yuppies and business persons. Skip out on rent. Get a credit card under a fake name and don't pay. Keep what you can use, and give away everything else in the spirit of mutual aid that is the hallmark of Steal Something Day.

See you next Steal Something Day which, unlike Buy Nothing, happens every day of the year. 

BREAK FREE

If you really wanna break free you better loose the tie.

THE ANCIENT SYMBOLISM OF THE DOG

"Total Indoctrination"

by: Aaron Franz
of Transalchemy.com
written for PUPAGANDA.com

Visual symbols represent a language of their own. The most powerful symbols are ironically the most common things in our daily lives, those things that we all too often take for granted. All of the basic things that we see on an everyday basis have the most influence over our lives, both physically and mentally. Images of the sun, moon, food, and water have always been potent symbols within the "ancient mysteries." Anyone who is wise enough to understand the importance of the basic elements of life can use them as symbols to influence the minds of other people. Life can be interpreted in any number of ways, and the most popular interpretation on any given day has everything to do with the deliberate use of symbols by an "intellectual elite." Throughout the ages this has been the case. Within "civilized" society there has always been a priest class who understands the power of symbols, and has used that power to guide the minds of the masses.

One very powerful symbol that we have taken for granted is that of the dog. Dogs have become another "normal" part of our everyday lives that we unfortunately take for granted. However, in the ancient language of symbolism dogs are very important symbols of duality. Their very nature is twofold: one part wild beast, and one part domesticated animal. By the hand of man the dog was taken out of the wild natural kingdom and brought into civilized society. The taming of nature is a very important aspect of the so called "great work" of secret societies. The domestication of wild animals is representative of the power to mold and shape nature according to the will.

As a symbol of duality the dog is said to have the power to walk within "two worlds." Because of this they are often depicted as guardians at the gates which stand between the world of the living and the world of the dead. Dogs are often shown accompanying souls traveling from life to afterlife. In ancient Egypt, Anubis was the dog-headed god of the dead. He played the role of guardian and caretaker of those who travelled from one world to the next. Anyone who is at all familiar with the "ancient mysteries" understands that death and rebirth rituals are extremely important. The philosophical ramifications of this process are far-reaching, and it is important to understand that dogs play an important symbolic role within this mystic rite of passage. Another dog from ancient mythology is Cerberus, the three headed dog which guards the entrance to Hades. He lets souls travel to the "underworld" freely, but does not allow them to come back out. Cerberus represents one of the more fearsome depictions of dogs as well as death itself. It is exactly this "dark" side to death which is again displayed in the Christian belief in Hell. As a high mystery which has forever captured the imagination of man, death is forever to be depicted through the powerful language of symbology. The prominent view on life and afterlife in any given age has everything to do with the specific use of symbols.

Life/death, day/night, light/dark, good/evil are all ways of expressing duality. The dual nature of man has been depicted over and over again through the use of many powerful symbols. The dog symbol, if it is to be understood completely, must be viewed in this context. The dog is actually a symbol of man himself. The dual nature of man can be understood by the classic struggle between good and evil that takes place within our own minds. This dual nature has been symbolized by the dog. The dog is one part wild beast, and one part domesticated animal. The unpredictable wild beast is symbolic of the "emotional body" within the soul of man. It is exactly this chaos which is to be tamed by civilized society. The "rational" aspect of man understands the need for "civilized" life, and can thus act appropriately. When he makes the choice to deny his "animal instincts" he rises above the state of natural chaos, and walks into the order of civilized society. To overcome the dark/ evil chaos of our natural emotions is equivalent to the triumph of good over evil. Our emotions are considered to be the base level function of our own minds. Anyone who is a "slave" to their emotional body is viewed with contempt by those high level initiates within the secret societies who have symbolically overcome their own base nature and "risen" into the light. This light is symbolic of the intellect itself. This is why there is an "intellectual elite" who is in control of the rest of society. They believe that the mass of the population is unable to rise above their most basic reactionary level of thinking, and therefore must be led by those who have been "raised." Because most people are unable to use their intellect, they must be trained like dogs by those who can use their "higher" brain functions. This is the meaning of "order out of chaos." The taming of nature by those who are wise.

Within the mystery school itself, the dog is a symbol of the perfect disciple. The neophyte must be completely obedient to his master. By taking orders without question he is eventually brought into the "light." Total obedience is required to learn the ways of the order. It is very interesting to realize that the supposed "philosophical elect" only become enlightened by following strict orders. They aren't allowed to succumb to the base level behavior of natural humans. In truth, they are not allowed to think for themselves, at least not at first. Ever wonder why FRATernal BROTHERhoods are so wild about humiliating initiation rituals? To become a god among men, you must first become a dog. It is by this process that the death and rebirth ritual can be played out by those who are worthy. To overcome duality is the ultimate goal of the ancient mysteries.

The artwork of Nathan Janes depicts dogs in strangely appropriate situations. Pieces such as "Total Indoctrination" show the dog as a symbol of the mass mind of society. By way of propaganda tools such as the television, the modern priest class controls the mass mind of society as a whole. The media purposely exploits our "lower nature" through the use of "programs" that target our emotions, desires, and survival instincts. The fact that people are compelled to watch such trite material is proof that they are no better than animals. Because of this we are trained like dogs to obey the rules set forth by those intelligent few who have the apparent right to guide us. This is the prevailing mindset of those who control the airwaves. We are being degraded, kicked, and beaten by our "owners." Good people are enraged when they see someone abuse an animal. By analogy, these same people should be furious about the wide-scale abuse of the human population. The problem is that of perception itself. Because we do not recognize our own slavery, we are unable to do anything about it. We are living the lives of abused dogs, and we unfortunately feel powerless to do anything about it.

I commend Nathan Janes for recognizing this horrible abuse for what it is, and more importantly for making the decision to do something about it. By using the powerful symbol of the dog in a way which draws attention on our unfortunate situation he has taken us one step closer to actual freedom. The control of the mass mind of society is ancient, but so too is the desire to break free from the bonds of slavery. As good human beings we have the duty to recognize abuse for what it is, so that we may put an end to it. This is the true power of the mind. Please don't take your own nature for granted, because when you do, someone else is free to use it for their own gain.

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STAND UP - TURN OFF

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

You will not be able to stay home, brother.
You will not be able to plug in, turn on and cop out.
You will not be able to lose yourself on skag
and Skip out for beer during commercials,
Because the revolution will not be televised.


The revolution will not be televised.
The revolution will not be brought to you by Xerox
In 4 parts without commercial interruptions.
The revolution will not show you pictures of Nixon
blowing a bugle and leading a charge by John
Mitchell, General Abrams and Spiro Agnew to eat
hog maws confiscated from a Harlem sanctuary.


The revolution will not be televised.
The revolution will not be brought to you by the
Schaefer Award Theatre and will not star Natalie
Woods and Steve McQueen or Bullwinkle and Julia.
The revolution will not give your mouth sex appeal.
The revolution will not get rid of the nubs.
The revolution will not make you look five pounds
thinner, because the revolution will not be televised, Brother.


There will be no pictures of you and Willie May
pushing that shopping cart down the block on the dead run,
or trying to slide that color television into a stolen ambulance.
NBC will not be able predict the winner at 8:32
or report from 29 districts.
The revolution will not be televised.


There will be no pictures of pigs shooting down
brothers in the instant replay.
There will be no pictures of pigs shooting down
brothers in the instant replay.
There will be no pictures of Whitney Young being
run out of Harlem on a rail with a brand new process.
There will be no slow motion or still life of Roy
Wilkens strolling through Watts in a Red, Black and
Green liberation jumpsuit that he had been saving
For just the proper occasion.


Green Acres, The Beverly Hillbillies, and Hooterville
Junction will no longer be so damned relevant, and
women will not care if Dick finally gets down with
Jane on Search for Tomorrow because Black people
will be in the street looking for a brighter day.
The revolution will not be televised.


There will be no highlights on the eleven o'clock
news and no pictures of hairy armed women
liberationists and Jackie Onassis blowing her nose.
The theme song will not be written by Jim Webb,
Francis Scott Key, nor sung by Glen Campbell, Tom
Jones, Johnny Cash, Englebert Humperdink, or the Rare Earth.
The revolution will not be televised.


The revolution will not be right back
after a message about a white tornado, white lightning, or white people.
You will not have to worry about a dove in your
bedroom, the tiger in your tank, or the giant in your toilet bowl.
The revolution will not go better with Coke.
The revolution will not fight the germs that may cause bad breath.
The revolution will put you in the driver's seat.


The revolution will not be televised, will not be televised,
will not be televised, will not be televised.
The revolution will be no re-run brothers;
The revolution will be live.

by Gil Scott-Heron

TRANSMETROPOLITAN

Transmetropolitan is a post-cyberpunk comic book series written by Warren Ellis with art by Darick Robertson and published by DC Comics. The series was originally part of the short-lived DC Comics imprint Helix, but upon the end of the book's first year the series was moved to the Vertigo imprint as DC Comics cancelled the Helix imprint. It chronicles the battles of Spider Jerusalem, infamous renegade gonzo journalist of the future, an homage to gonzo journalism founder Hunter S. Thompson.

Spider Jerusalem dedicates himself to fighting the corruption and abuse of power of two successive United States presidents; he and his ("filthy") assistants strive to keep their world from turning more dystopian than it already is while dealing with the struggles of fame and power, brought about due to the popularity of Spider via his articles.

"These are the streets of this city, where the New Scum try to live. You and me, and here in these streets are the things that we want: sex and birth, votes and traits, money and guilt, television and teddy bears. But all we've actually got is each other. You decide what that means."

“We live in a monoculture. What does that mean? Well, go out to your street corner. You’ll probably see a Long Pig stand, SPKF on a screen somewhere, an Angry Boy Dylan’s Gun Store. You’ll go into a record store and see new recordings by the usual suspects, maybe a special Space Culture display rack.

Go out onto a streetcorner in London and you’ll see the same thing. Same in Prague. Same in Sao Paulo. Same in Osaka, and Grozny, and Tehran, and Jo’burg, and Hobart. That’s what a monoculture is. It’s everywhere, and it’s all the same. And it takes up alien cultures and digests them and shits them out in a homogeneous building-block shape that fits seamlessly into the vast blank wall of the monoculture.

This is the future. This is what we built. This is what we wanted. It must have been. Because we all had a fucking choice, didn’t we? It is only our money that allows commercial culture to
flower. If we didn’t want to live like this, we could have changed it any time, by not fucking paying for it.

So let’s celebrate by all going out and buying the same burger.”

Quotes from Spider Jerusalem 

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"This book is for anyone who has gazed at the homogenized, brand-filled modern commercial landscape and wondered, 'Where did this all come from?' And, perhaps more importantly, 'How far will we let it go?'...Klein is a sharp cultural critic, and a flawless story-teller. Her analysis is thorough and thoroughly engaging." - Nicholas Corman

 NO SPACE, NO CHOICE, NO JOBS

by Naomi Klein 

The final section of 'No Logo' deals with various kinds of opposition and resistance to the superbrands and the kind of society they represent. This can range from the fun but ineffectual—such as parodying advertisements or throwing custard pies at Bill Gates—to the more substantive responses of Reclaim The Streets and the wider 'anti-capitalist' movement. Such activity Klein describes as 'laying the foundations for the first truly international people's movement'.

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DESERT STORM SOUND IN MIX MAG

This ain't no party - this ain't no disco

Would you travel thousands of miles in a beat-up truck to spin records to the victims of civil war?
Would you risk imprisonment, violence and poverty for the messages contained in dance music?

Click on pics for bigger image! Worth the read.

FULL CONTACT

THE SPIRAL TRIBE VIBE IS AN ABSOLUTE BELIEF.
A BASIC BELIEF.
A SYSTEM OS CONNECTED AND CONNECTING BELIEF,
A BELIEF IN LIFE ENERGY,
BY ITS VERY EXISTENCE
AND NATURE
IT CAN ONLY CONNECT AND GROW.
IT IS OF ORGANIC ORIGIN
IT IS A CELLULAR ORGANISM
CAPABLE OF MOVEMENT,
REGENERATION,
REASONING,
CREATIVITY
AND COMMUNICATION
IT USES ITS MANY ABILITIES TO ADAPT TO ITS ENVIRONMENT
AND ALSO TO ADAPT ITS ENVIRONMENT TO IT.
IT WORKS BOTH WAYS.
ITS ENERGY IS LIFE ENERGY.
THE ENERGY THAT DRIVES ALL EVOLUTION
ALL EVENTS
PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE
IT IS THE ENERGY THAT IS MANIFEST IN ALL THINGS
THE SUN, THE MOON,
THE EARTH, THE SKY,
THE FIRE
THE WATER,
THE PLANTS, THE ANIMALS
AND US, HUMANKIND.
THE ENERGY CONNECTS ALL THINGS.

NOW WE KNOW THIS
WE ARE CONNECTED
NOW WE KNOW THIS
WE ARE ACTIVATED
WE ARE LIVING THE HOUSE TEKNIC

THIS IS SPIRAL TIME
THIS IS FULL CONTACT
NOW IS THE TIME
TIME TO...

 

FINDING THE RAVE :)

IS THERE ALWAYS HOPE?

I hope there is...

VERVOERING

Margot Vanderstraeten schreef in de krant "De morgen" van vandaag een stukje neer dat mijn gevoel bij de hedendaagse cultuur in België perfect weergeeft.

"De Iraanse taxichauffeur verteld dat hij vanochtend weer een passagier heeft vervoerd die hem vroeg of er in Iran ook aardappelen gegeten worden, en die gelijk polste of hij hier in België genoeg verdient.

Hij zucht.

Hoe is het mogelijk dat al die vrije Belgen kunnen denken dat hij en de zijnen naar hier zijn gekomen om geld te verdienen. Weten ze dan niets van de verdorven mechanismen van de buitenlandse politiek? Weten ze niet dat Iran duizend keer rijker en mooier is dan België. Dat er andere krachten spelen?

Hij begrijpt het niet. Zoveel onwetendheid in een staat waar bijna iedereen geletterd en geschoold is, waar veel informatie ongecensureerd verkrijgbaar is, en waar je in elk geval naar de waarheid mag zoeken.

In zijn land worden kritische geesten gefolterd of verwijderd. Hier zijn ze verdoofd.

De taxi schokt. Zijn stem ook.

Wat betekend vrije meningsuiting in een land waar elk vermogen tot een revolutie, waar elke drang tot verandering, in slaap is gesust. Waar staat vrijheid voor, als er geen politiek bewustzijn meer is, en als ideologie plaats heeft geruimd voor trivialiteit en materialisme.

De geesten zijn hier niet vrij, ze worden doodgeknepen door decadent materialisme.

België, concludeert mijn taxichauffeur, is een land zonder diepgang, en met alleen maar oppervlakte. En daarom is België volgens hem zo koud. Want ijs is ook niet meer dan een laag aan de oppervlakte, en een maatschappij die deciannalang onder ijs gebukt gaat, raakt verkleumd."

RECLAIM THE STREETS

Bonus features include a 4 minute musical documentary featuring images taken from the ’97 parties organized by Desert Storm in Sheffield, Bristol and Oxford. Musical and ecological activists, Reclaim The Streets (RTS) take the philosophy of the reappropriation of public space through cultural resistance to another level. They swept across the UK with street parties in Manchester, York and Oxford, and also appeared in cities like Tel-Aviv, Sydney, and Helsinki, among others.

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FREETHOUGHT

The word “free thought” is now commonly used to express the result of the revolt of the mind against the pressure of external authority in any department of life or speculation. It will be sufficient now to state, that the cognate term, free thinking, was appropriated by Collins early in the last century to express Deism.

It differs from the modern term free thought, both in being restricted to religion, and in conveying the idea rather of the method than of its result, the freedom of the mode of inquiry rather than the character of the conclusions attained; but the same fundamental idea of independence and freedom from authority is implied in the modern term. Quoted from History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion by Adam Storey Farrar.

Freethought is a philosophical viewpoint that holds that opinions should be formed on the basis of science, logic, and reason, and should not be influenced by authority, tradition, or any other dogma. The cognitive application of freethought is known as freethinking, and practitioners of freethought are known as freethinkers.

History of the term "freethinker"

WE ARE THE FREETHINKERS OF NOW! 

As it was written in our manifest,
we choose to be free,

so we think free

& 

WE LIVE FREE

AFRICAN EXPEDISOUND

African Expedisound follows three French sound-systems (Tomahawk, Teknokrates, and In/Out/True) as they set off for Africa in 5 converted French army lorries. A dozen people between the ages of 25 and 30 hit the road, with no institutional support, 15,000 km across Morocco, the Sahara desert, Senegal and Mali. Their mission is to find the initial rhythm, to understand the African myth, to live what they consider to be the ultimate quest for the ‘free’ generation brought up on BPM (?) The documentary begins in Senegal and the African Expedisound head toward Mali. Their experience take them through ramshackle routes, towering baobabs, and traditional villages under the baking sun. Local children announce the arrival of the “Whites” who have come to put on these “extraordinary, free parties.

Running time: 52 minutes

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