Kiwi Anarchists in London // Death // The Economy

Posted on April 2, 2009 by @ndy

Police have confirmed a man has died during anti-capitalist demonstrations in London.

Yesterday evening, a protester died during demonstrations against the G20 outside the Bank of England in London. The circumstances are currently unclear, but he died inside a police cordon (or kettle) where police had crushed and baton charged protesters. The case has been referred to the Independent Police Complaints Commission. A solidarity demonstration will be held today, assembling at 1pm at the Bank.

Anyone with information they believe may help clarify the circumstances surrounding his death should, as soon as possible, write a full statement and contact the legal team at Bindmans Solicitors on 020 7833 4433 and the Legal Monitoring groups present at the demonstrations. Information can also be sent to Indymedia London: imc-london[at]indymedia[dot]org (this is a private email address).

The left should offer no comfort to these crazies. We should do whatever we can to isolate them. They are wreckers.

Bristle’s Blog from the BunKRS on G20 | Media lies, anarchists, and the G20, Last Hours, March 29, 2009 | Indymedia London has good coverage.

A man is dead after collapsing while imprisoned within a police cordon. His death will be greeted with sadness by his family and friends, but what will be the effects upon The Economy? On this front, there is good news and bad news.

The good news is that dead bodies must be buried, and so a demand for funeral services has successfully been generated. Further, mourners can be expected to obtain death and funeral notices in the press, purchase flowers, and have to travel to and from the service. Assuming the man was employed, replacement labour will have to be obtained, and so further advertising must take place. Indirect demands upon The Economy may also be occasioned. For example, upon hearing of the news of the man’s death, Summit leaders may experience some indigestion (although this may also be a result of the rather rich menus), and therefore require the use of antacids.*

The bad news is that his death may effect productivity. That is, for some period after news of the man’s death has reached them, family and friends may be less productive at their labour. This is unfortunate, but every cloud has a silver lining, and emotional distress may place additional demands upon the health services. To the extent these are provided by private facilities, so much the better.

*JAMIE OLIVER AND YOUNG CHEFS FROM FIFTEEN LONDON TO SERVE THE “BEST OF BRITISH” FOR G-20 LEADERS

Jamie Oliver has created a special menu for today’s (Wednesday 1st April 2009) Downing Street dinner, attended by the leaders of the G-20 group of nations, which shows [off] the best of British seasonal produce as well as the skills of the young chefs – graduates or apprentices of Fifteen London – who will be helping prepare the meal.

Oliver and his team have gone to great lengths to find the best ingredients available. “I’m very, very proud of my country and its food traditions,” says Oliver, “and I know that the guests at Downing Street will be in for a real treat.”

The starter includes fresh organic farmed salmon from Shetland served with foraged samphire and sea kale and a selection of early vegetables from Secrett’s Farm in Sussex, wild garlic from Elwy Valley in Wales and home-made Irish soda bread freshly baked on the day using Gloucestershire-based Shipton Mill organic flour.

For the main course, Oliver has chosen shoulder of lamb from the Elwy Valley in North Wales, the earliest delicious Jersey Royal potatoes, fresh asparagus from the Wye valley and foraged wild St. George mushrooms. Mint sauce and gravy will be freshly made on the day using British herbs and vegetables.

Dessert is a traditional British favourite, Bakewell Tart which Jamie’s team will make on the day using a mixture of home-made jams and Grasmere ginger shortbread. Fresh custard is being made with free-range eggs from the Duchy of Cornwall farms.

There will also be a selection of fresh breads baked by The Flour Station and home-made butter “made with our own fair hands”, freshly churned at Fifteen London using organic cream from Ivy Farm in Somerset and smoked sea salt from Halen Mon in Wales.

G20: Hardcore of anarchists clad in black behind the violence
Nick Allen, Mick Armstrong and Caroline Gammell
The Daily Telegraph
April 2, 2009

Amid the thousands of protesters who descended on the Bank of England yesterday a hard core of European anarchists, clad head to toe in black and their faces obscured by scarves, were behind the intermittent outbursts of violence.

They were co-ordinated and could be clearly seen communicating by mobile phone, identifying weak points in police lines and surging towards them.

As one avenue was closed off by police they quickly retreated, vanishing into the crowd before regrouping and trying another angle.

Some spoke English but Italian, French, German and Polish voices could also be heard in the melee as they shouted abuse at police.

Others spoke with thick New Zealand accents.

It was clearly not the first time they had taken part in a riot and it was they who broke windows at the Royal Bank of Scotland before crawling inside.

One of their number, wearing a black mask, smashed the glass with a metal bar and another sprayed “Scum” and “Burn” on the side of the bank.

An anarchist behind a black balaclava said he was Polish, while another used broken English as he forced his way through peaceful protesters urging his followers to attack the police. Others carried Italian and French flags.

Some of the European anarchists who flooded into London for the protests are believed to have planned their tactics in a meeting at a squat in Whitechapel, east London.

They are believed to have scouted out the area ahead of the protests before deciding to operate in small groups rather than as one large block that could be surrounded by police.

Security sources believe they included members of notorious groups from across Europe, some of whom had already taken part in a week of anarchist strikes in Italy.

The groups with members in London for the G20 are thought to have included Italy’s Guerrigilieri Anomali (Anomalous Warriors), the French Anarch-Autonomist group and the New Zealand All Black & Reds.

There are also thought to have been protesters associated with Germany’s ANTIFA, an anti-fascist umbrella group whose members clashed with police at the G8 riots, and Attac, a left-wing group with ties to anti-globalisation protesters across Europe.

Groups who attended the meeting at the east London squat also included the home-based Whitechapel Anarchist Group, Class War and the Wombles.

Police believe members of another anarchist group calling itself the Convergence Crew, were also at the protests after they took over a disused east London pub as a headquarters.

Detectives think groups associated with the Poll Tax riots of 1990 may also have reunited for the G20.

However, when some of those involved removed their black masks for a breath of fresh air, it was clear that they were still in their teens. As police in riot gear, backed up by horses, charged once again one young anarchist shouted to another: “Has there ever been anything like this in London before?” The older hand replied: “Not for years.”

See also : April Fools (April 1, 2009) | News From Nowhere // News From Neverland (March 31, 2009) | March 25: The day the world changed (March 27, 2009) | G20 : Inner City Pressure + Global Economic Crisis = Anarchy in London (March 25, 2009) | G20 : London’s Burning! (March 18, 2009) | 40 New Zealand anarchists still at large; London and Berlin tremble (March 1, 2009) | Davos 2009 : Capitalism in Crisis (February 1, 2009) | Meanwhile, in Europe, ¡anarcholocos! (December 12, 2008)

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[For Damian] Moar April Fools

Posted on April 1, 2009 by @ndy

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April Fools

Posted on April 1, 2009 by @ndy

Professional chatterer and former Revolutionary Communist Frank Furedi whines ‘Stop this banker bashing’, The Australian, April 1, 2009.

British PM Gordon Brown has called for banks and financial markets to adopt “family values” as world leaders gather in London for Thursday’s G20 summit, Markets need ‘family values’ – PM, BBC, March 31, 2009.

The German government has proscribed bizarro nutzi yoof group the Homeland-Faithful German Youth (HDJ) / Heimattreue Deutsche Jugend / German Youth Faithful to the Homeland.

But honestly.

Why do yoof need to be indoctrinated in neo-Nazism? As one B&H member put it in her signature: “One does not become a National Socialist. One only discovers, sooner or later, that one has always been one — that, by nature, one could not possibly be anything else”.

RaHoWa!

In the US, OnE wHo TeRrIfIeS is Randal Krager. In 2006, the SPLC done a profile on Randal:

VOLKSFRONT

At 6-foot, 2-inches and 240 pounds, with “FEAR” tattooed across the knuckles of his right hand and a large swastika stamped on his thick neck, Volksfront founder Randal Krager is an imposing figure whose continuing, heavy influence on boneheads in the Pacific Northwest has deep roots.

Krager has been involved in the bonehead subculture since at least 1989. That year, when he was 15, Krager was arrested along with several other boneheads and charged with racial intimidation for allegedly assaulting three teenagers near a park in Portland, Ore. During the attack, assailants pummeled a Hispanic girl in the face while shouting, “Why aren’t you white?”

Krager was sent to a juvenile detention center…

Volksfront is a weird mob: and by ‘weird’, I mean violent.

Volksfront’s Washington state chapter leader, Kurtis William Monschke, joined three other boneheads in 2003 in beating to death a homeless man in Tacoma using baseball bats and rocks. But this mindless violence hardly destroyed Volksfront. By 2004, Krager’s gang has chapters in seven states.

5 years later, Randal is still fighting the good fight, only now — after being chased out of Portland, Oregon — he’s based in Lakeland, Florida. And Volksfront now has an Australian chapter, led by Douglas Schott and Welf Herfurth.

Huzzah!

In the capital city of the place what gave birth to the US, they’re still talkin’ turkey about ‘alternatives’. As an alternative to University authorities telling the riff raff to fuck off, Alternative G20 has issued a press release stating the conference will be going ahead regardless.

Alternative London Summit Press Release

Despite management efforts to shut down the Alternative London Summit on Wednesday 1st April organisers and speakers are committed to making sure the event goes ahead at the University of East London as planned.

At 6pm there will be a press conference held at University of East London in the East Building, room 1.12.

Organisers are appealing to the public to join academics, union representatives and students in the occupation of the university in order to ensure that prominent political, scientific, academic and activist speakers who have remained committed to the event will be free and able to speak as planned.

It is vital at this pivotal moment in British and world history that we, the people have a public platform to understand and act on alternative ideas and strategies for our political, environmental and economic future.

The inconvenient truth that the authorities are so anxious to suppress is the simple fact that another world is possible!

Despite New Labour’s best efforts to establish corporate control over our education system, like many other universities across the country the University of East London is proud of its diversity of ideas, its intellectual autonomy and freedom of expression.

Free speech still exists in our university and it is our duty to protect this.

The crucial battleground on April 1st is the Docklands Campus of the University of East London. Either we lose control to the corporate state or we defend our sovereignty and therefore defend our traditions of freedom and democracy across England and Beyond. This is a battle between language and violence. If armed police are permitted to break the sacred circle of academic and scientific autonomy England will be a police state.

You may not have been thinking of coming. Please think again.

We are the people. We are the power.

I hope the academics in London take a leaf outta the book written by lawyers in Pakistan.

Bonus!

Finally, an independent anarchist scholar responds to the economistic babble at the G20 Summit:

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Why “boneheads”?

Posted on April 1, 2009 by @ndy

Silly old boneheads!

Following on from news that some cheeky monkey hacked bloodandhonour.org and made available to the world the private messages of hundreds of boneheads around the world — including scores from Australia and New Zealand/Aotearoa — comes news of Bonehead Vs. Bonehead in the US in April. Thus Anti-Racist Action in North America rudely queries the abilities of the Aryan Master Race to organise fellow “Patriots”:

White Unity? It’s Bonehead Against Bonehead in the “White Pride” Scene

On April 11, 2009, the white supremacist group “East Coast White Unity” (ECWU) plans to host a neo-nazi gathering in Boston, MA named “Patriot Action 2009”. The co-sponsor of this event is Volksfront International, a racist skinhead organization founded in 1994, which has a presence in several US states as well as chapters in Canada, Australia and Europe. Although the Boston event is intended as a display of unity between fascist groups, anti-fascists have discovered plotting and betrayal behind the scenes of the white power movement, the extent of which many event organizers and scheduled attendees might not be aware…

The primary organizer for East Coast White Unity is Scott Clarke, a Massachusetts resident who uses the handle of “Hedge” on several white nationalist internet sites. Before the founding of ECWU, Clarke was active in another white power organization named “North East White Pride” (NEWP). Clarke broke from NEWP for a large number of reasons–including questions about the use of finances, and alleged general mismanagement of NEWP by leader Rob O’Donovan–and moved on to form ECWU. NEWP continues to this day in a reduced form, still under the direction of O’Donovan. By all accounts, the split was acrimonious. As we will show, it wasn’t enough for Clarke to leave NEWP taking much of its membership with him; he also tried to sabotage his former “brothers.”

In August 2008, anti-fascists from DatenAntifa (“Data-Antifa”) hacked the fascist website bloodandhonour.com. The entire contents of this website were then uploaded to the web, so that anyone who wished to see its posts and user information could do so. While most of the original web links are no longer available, the hacked Blood and Honour forum may still be downloaded via torrent sites. Importantly, the DatenAntifa hackers removed password requirements from the bloodandhonour.com site, so that anyone who downloaded its contents could check the private messages of any Blood and Honour user. This is where things became interesting for us.

Looking at the private messages by “Hedge” (Scott Clarke) on the hacked bloodandhonour.com site, one may read the following exchange…

A few points.

First, Volksfront. An attempt to establish VF in Australia was originally made several years ago.

In 2004, a young racist named Stuart McBeth (1981–), then the leader of the now defunct ‘Patriotic Youth League’ (PYL) — a risible attempt by Dr James Saleam to extend Australia First Party membership to the under-40s — threw his tinfoil helmet into the ring as an Australian organiser for the United States People’s Front. McBeth resigned as PYL President shortly after being fired, in late January 2005, from his job as a case officer for the Salvation Army. McBeth was replaced by Lachlan Black, also a former ONP member and, like McBeth, a former ONP candidate.

Like the PYL, Volksfront Mk I collapsed in a heap.

According to BlueEyedBlonde (via bloodandhonour.org):

Last year [Volksfront] started a probationary chapter here, which pissed the Hammerskins off big time. Not because they wouldn’t support Volksfront, but because of how it was done. Doug [Schott] from Blood Red Eagle was the first probationary member, and he was allowed [to] start the chapter without having actually met any of the VF guys in the USA. A lot of the HSN guys can’t stand him and think he is a moron, so they were unimpressed with VF bending the prospect rules and letting him prospect sight unseen. Justin (AustMade) was in the scene years ago (I knew him back then), he also left and then has recently come back. He started off prospecting with VF, but then realised he had backed the wrong horse as HSN hated them, so he left and joined B&H Vic. And that’s pretty much where we are… try getting that group of egos to work together!

Teaming up with Doug is/was — second — Welf Herfurth.

Welf wears many tinfoil helmets: as a former member of the German NPD and the One Nation Party (Australia), a close collaborator of Dr James Saleam’s — helping to organise the fascist assembly known as the ‘Sydney Forum’ — and most recently as promoter of fascist groupuscule ‘New Right Australia’ (and er, New Zealand) and the bizarro fascist platform known as ‘national anarchism’.

Welf’s group is tiny, comprising himself and various refugees from Stormfront and other racist and fascist forums. In Melbourne — or should I say Geelong — Welf enjoys the support of a handful of teenyboppers. The most active of these is a boy by the name of Scott.

Funnily enough, Scott was also a member of the hacked B&H forum where, posting as ‘Tribalist’, he noted how much he enjoyed attending a neo-Nazi gig — apart from an unfortunate political disagreement which developed among the assembled drunken pea-brains. As for ‘national anarchism’…

“Wish in one hand and shit in the other and see which fills up first.”

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News From Nowhere // News From Neverland

Posted on March 31, 2009 by @ndy

On the eve of Financial Fools’ Day:

an idiotorial in The Australian argues that “Globalisation has done more to end poverty than socialism” (A Neverland protest, March 31, 2009);
‘G20 ‘terrorist plot’ uncovered by police’ (Duncan Gardham, and Richard Savill, Daily Telegraph, March 30, 2009);*
a suit has a message for wowdy webels: “Graham Williams, an insurance company director, has a warning for protesters planning to bring London’s financial district to a standstill this week: ‘We’re not all pansies’.” (Kevin Crowley, No ‘Pansies’ in London as City Boys Brace for G-20 Protesters, Bloomberg, March 30, 2009);
outspoken crackademic Brian Knight has been given the arse by his employer (The University of East London) and the University has apparently cancelled the Alternative G20 conference scheduled for this week;
the Financial Times has brought out a VERY special edition;
anarchists have rallied in London [video].

Finally:

    European anarchists ‘to invade London’ for G20 violence
    Mick Armstrong
    Metro
    March 30, 2009

    Thousands of hardcore anarchists and activists from across Europe are set to come together in London today it has been reported, as fears grow that protests over the G20 summit will erupt into violence.

    Security forces have identified notorious groups from France, Germany and Italy whose members are mobilising more supporters in a bid to create chaos on the streets of the capital as the world’s leaders meet.

    Many of the agitators are arriving today after a week of anarchist strikes in Italy, according to the Evening Standard.

    French police are warning their British counterparts that at least 1,000 activists are on their way to London, with members of the Anarch-Autonomist [sic] being particularly active in their preparations, according to reports.

    From Germany three groups are expected to make the journey, including ANTIFA [sic] – an anti-fascist group.

    And in Italy the Guerrigilieri Anomali (Anomalous Warriors) are planning to target symbols of wealth in London.

    The Met police was also warning that groups associated with the Poll Tax riots of 1990 were reforming to create a new wave of carnage.

    An anarchist group has already taken over a disused pub in East London as an HQ, according to the Standard.

    The Convergence Crew appear to have chosen the former pub in Shoreditch because of its proximity to the City, which is likely to be the focal point for demonstrations on Wednesday of this week.

    Buildings in London have already been boarded up and debris cleared from street works and building sites to minimise the potential for damage.

See also : March 25: The day the world changed (March 27, 2009) | G20 : Inner City Pressure + Global Economic Crisis = Anarchy in London (March 25, 2009) | G20 : London’s Burning! (March 18, 2009) | 40 New Zealand anarchists still at large; London and Berlin tremble (March 1, 2009) | Davos 2009 : Capitalism in Crisis (February 1, 2009) | Meanwhile, in Europe, ¡anarcholocos! (December 12, 2008)

*Terror probe uncovers ‘fake guns’, “An imitation Kalashnikov rifle and fireworks have been seized by police investigating alleged terrorism in connection with the G20 summit. Three men aged 25, 19 and 16 and two women of 20, from the Plymouth area in Devon, were held after the 25 year old was seen allegedly spraying graffiti. A number of imitation weapons were seized in searches of several premises. Assistant Chief Constable Paul Netherton said the weapons were “not major” and “probably not even lethal”… (BBC, March 30, 2009).

News From Nowhere
or An Epoch of Rest
Being Some Chapters From a Utopian Romance
by William Morris
(1890)

Bonus!

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Brief and to the point

Posted on March 30, 2009 by @ndy

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The Originals : ‘Whip’

Posted on March 30, 2009 by @ndy

“Ooooooh… We’re gonna have fun!”
“Yeeeeees…”

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[For grimrkg] non-intentional lifeform : ‘6 o’clock headshot’

Posted on March 30, 2009 by @ndy

Which side do you find yourself face down on. Are you a victim / criminal. Criminals are just those of us who get caught. If you’re not beautiful wealthy young and white then I’m afraid to tell you, you’re a criminal by default. Swallow, everything they’ve ever given you, everything they’ve ever told you, every piece of information. You’ve only got yourself to blame. Have you noticed there are never any close ups? They are still slightly comatose? Suck the six o’clock headshot. This is not the negative. Let them do the killing let them do the taking find out how to feel from your morning paper. You never see the bodies torn apart on the street, sanitised and washed for you, it tastes so sweet. Look at all the pretty lights exploding in the air coca-cola edited dead bodies disappear. Lock them up and shut them up and burn them in the chair. Out of sight is out of mind as long as they’re not here.

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Dogs Are The Best People

Posted on March 30, 2009 by @ndy

No idea wtf the source for this possibly apocryphal story is — one news item concerning it is ‘PET CORNER: Greyhound mothers abandoned animals’, Laverne Hughey (Humane Society of Harrison County), The Marshall News Messenger, March 14, 2009 — but it is a truly disgusting example of inter-species co-operation.

In 2003, police in Warwickshire, England, opened a garden shed and found a whimpering, cowering dog. It had been locked in the shed and abandoned. It was dirty and malnourished, and had clearly been abused.

In an act of kindness, the police took the dog, which was a Greyhound female, to the nearby Nuneaton Warwickshire Wildlife Sanctuary, run by a man named Geoff Grewcock, and known as a willing haven for animals abandoned, orphaned or otherwise in need.

Geoff and the other sanctuary staff went to work with two aims: to restore the dog to full health, and to win her trust. It took several weeks, but eventually both goals were achieved.

They named her Jasmine, and they started to think about finding her an adoptive home.

But Jasmine had other ideas. No-one remembers now how it began, but she started welcoming all animal arrivals at the sanctuary. It wouldn’t matter if it was a puppy, a fox cub, a rabbit, or any other lost or hurting animal, Jasmine would peer into the box or cage and, where possible, deliver a welcoming lick.

Geoff relates one of the early incidents. “We had two puppies that had been abandoned by a nearby railway line. One was a Lakeland Terrier cross and another was a Jack Russell Doberman cross. They were tiny when they arrived at the centre and Jasmine approached them and grabbed one by the scruff of the neck in her mouth and put him on the settee. Then she fetched the other one and sat down with them, cuddling them.”

“But she is like that with all of our animals, even the rabbits. She takes all the stress out of them and it helps them to not only feel close to her but to settle into their new surroundings.

“She has done the same with the fox and badger cubs, she licks the rabbits and guinea pigs and even lets the birds perch on the bridge of her nose.”

Jasmine, the timid, abused, deserted waif, became the animal sanctuary’s resident surrogate mother, a role for which she might have been born. The list of orphaned and abandoned youngsters she has cared for comprises five fox cubs, four badger cubs, 15 chicks, eight guinea pigs, two stray puppies and 15 rabbits.

And one roe deer fawn. Tiny Bramble, 11 weeks old, was found semi-conscious in a field. Upon arrival at the sanctuary, Jasmine cuddled up to her to keep her warm, and then went into the full foster mum role. Jasmine the greyhound showers Bramble the Roe deer with affection and makes sure nothing is matted.

“They are inseparable,” says Geoff “Bramble walks between her legs and they keep kissing each other. They walk together round the sanctuary.

It’s a real treat to see them.”

Jasmine will continue to care for Bramble until she is old enough to be returned to woodland life. When that happens, Jasmine will not be lonely. She will be too busy showering love and affection on the next orphan or victim of abuse.

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Dezerter // Gary Clail // So Much Hate

Posted on March 30, 2009 by @ndy

Ah… the ’80s.

::: DezerteR (Poland) :::

::: Gary Clail (UK) :::

‘Privatise The Air’ aka Neo-liberalism For Idiots…

::: So Much Hate (Norway) :::

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