Georgism is Nice
miscellaneous helpmeets
No Comment booklet (c/o BM Automatic, London, WC1N 3XX, A6/saddle stitched, 16pp/Free for stamps). www.ldmg.org.uk
No Comment - the defendant's guide to arrest: "Unless you enjoy cells, courtrooms, prisons, you owe it to yourself to wise up." Updated and reprinted by former members of the Anarchist Black Cross (ABC) in conjunction with the Legal Defence & Monitoring Group (LDMG), this edition was funded by the proceeds of a damages award from the Metropolitan Police, who were sued for false arrest and imprisonment and breach of human rights. No Comment clarifies the grey areas of being arrested. After 1994, when the right to silence disappeared, anyone arrested by the police were left wondering what to do for the best. The advice given here is stay silent until you have had legal advice. This is a very well written guide, it gives clear and concise notes to the 1994 Criminal Justice Act and the Terrorism Act 2000. It also covers the 'appropriate adult' rules for under 18s. Mainly it outlines the standard police procedures and tactics of arrest. This is the kind of information that anyone could find themselves in need of. Caught then Court - the defendants guide to the Criminal Justice System is on it's way. These guides are available as free downloads from www.ldmg.org.uk.
Stonehenge Campaign newsletter (c/o 99 Toriano Avenue, London, NW5 2RX, A4/folded sheets, 8pp/Free for stamps).
"The Stonehenge campaign exists to lobby… for the reinstatement of the Stonehenge Peoples' Free Festival… and to protect the Stonehenge landscape and environment. The campaign hosts monthly meetings in London from September to May (except January) to which all are welcome." The newsletter contains information about meetings and parties/protests to do with the once and future festival and the planned Stonehenge visitor's centre, road widening, etc. There is also a calendar of other counter cultural events with contact details, web addresses and the like. From the McDonalds Campaign to the Pride Parade, Critical Mass bike rides to grouse shoot sabbing, they got all sorts here…
Land & Liberty The magazine of the Henry George Foundation, issue 1203 (427 The London Fruit and Wool Exchange, Brushfield Street, London, E1 6EL, 22pp/A4, £4). www.henrygeorge.org.uk
Land and Liberty - in which the HGF makes the case for the Land Value Tax (LVT) - "aims to explore how our common wealth should be used - and to demonstrate that this is the key to building the bridge of sustainability between private life, the public sector and our resources - between the individual, the community and the environment." From a perspective defined by the ideas of Henry George, Land & liberty looks at the contemporary situation, with news stories and articles that reflect the social, economic and environmental effects of unsocialised private resource ownership. What I like about Land & Liberty is that it examines issues of social justice and environmental sustainability in terms of the laws and other systems that mediate economics. There's no Utopianism. Georgism is an approach to the Nature/Labour/Capital triangle that might fill the concept vacuum at the heart of anti-globalisation protests. It could provide the protestors with something to say they wanted. Just tell them Georgism is nice.
Mail Art Menace the Babynous Cult (110½ State Avenue, Bremertowne, WA, 98337-1241, USA, assorted items/it just appears).
I've had two Babynous mailings and both of them arrived in redecorated envelopes featuring the Babynous Cult Face richly orbited by the Babynous Cult Baby, plus some screws, shells, insects, fish and ice cream cones. The contents of the big envelope include a home-made book (10.5 x 28 cm, 28pp) called Guess What I've Got In My Pocket which is a phallo-dadaist competition or 'another purge zine of scraps'. The back cover sports an advert against mail art, alleging that it causes schizophrenia, masturbation and doodling. The scourge of mail art ruins communities. Also in the envelope there is a Purge of Crap pouch containing lots of soft core porn images, plus a redeveloped corporate leaflet and a return slip which shows how important good customer services are to Babynous. The smaller envelope contains a tiny booklet (6.5 x 5 cm, 32pp) called Parovarium (a Babynous Cult Fiasco) described as 'a collection of chaotic preconscious thoughts which reflect the consternation of ears' - these are a mixture of paste-up and doodling designed to make you happy. Amongst other odd things the envelope also contains a booklet (5 x 14 cm, 16pp) called Bewildering Love (another confusing Babynous Cult project). It's about a fly bewildered by its love for a woman ("she never swats at / gentle metaphors). At the end of this tale there is a eulogy to flies, in it the assertion is made that flies are more intelligent than bees. Not all mailart makes you think about things like that and I think it should.
Spiral Tribe/United Systems leaflet (c/o 54 High Street, CO5 8JE, A4/Free for stamps). www.cropcircleconnector.com
Not sure what is happening with the UFO/MDMA inspired antics of these global party organisers. I think they have turned large areas of the emptiness under the ground into a brightly lit underworld/cannabis factory. This leaflet is about a crop circle made out of "the symbol for the God Horus linked to the star Sirius, where orbits another human world… The crop circle makers are here urging us to make money to spread their message of world change." The party will happen but they are still not coming up with a date. In lieu of this they explain the virtues of MDMA, the use of which is one way for people to prepare for a tba top party event to be shared with our intergalactic and techno-spiritually advanced cousins. You could also build your own space vehicle and go meet the mile wide UFOs halfway which would be nice, they have advanced thong capabilities and antigravity bras that I think could be marketed here.
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