| Issue 6 references. |
[Dec. 2nd, 2006|01:43 am] |
Intro
“Swampy”: See wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swampy
Media quote and Swampy dissatisfaction: Whatever happened to Swampy? He's gone underground. Steven Morris, July 9, 2003, http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,994224,00.html, The Guardian.
Face quote taken from Mask Factory, FTAA Actions 2001, Quebec City, http://www.cactusnetwork.org.uk/masks.htm
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| Issue 6, November 2006. |
[Nov. 25th, 2006|11:52 am] |
@nti-copyright The Book of Swamp, 2006. You cannot own a combination of words.
Thinking locally, acting locally, thinking globally and acting globally
The Book of Swamp
Hello and good day to you. You may find it hard to believe, but this issue marks half a year of this propaganda tool you’re reading. I’m not quite sure how it made it. It’s gone through some subtle growing pains since then, with graphics and layouts and working out how much damn space you need to leave so the photocopier doesn’t do away with the top line of everything you do. Now that it would finally seem to be settled, I’m contemplating going and making a huge change – the name. Coming up with the name Book of Swamp seemed so funny at the time that it actually spurred me into starting this thing, so it has it’s definite upside. “Swampy” took part in a tunnel protest intended to prevent the building of a second runway at Manchester International Airport. What I didn’t consider at the time though, were two points: 1) That Daniel “Swampy” Hooper, would, if I distributed the sheet properly, eventually come across it, and what an embarrassing night in the pub that would be. 2) That it would limit the kind of people who might be interested in it, by instantly associating everything in it with their previous perception of someone the media found and displayed to be a novelty. "They [the media] want to know more about where we shit than about what we are protesting about." Nobody, Daniel included, wants to claim they represent this movement. So I am going to change the name to something similar, but not change the layout, so it’s not so confusing. From next month this newsletter will be called The Book of Stomp, unless someone throws me a better suggestion (as in, Stomp out injustice – not those people crashing around with binlids. I’ll give it an obvious graphic). I won’t be the first person to shed myself of the name Swamp (see over). Thanks y’all.
"We will remain faceless because we refuse the spectacle of celebrity, because we are everyone, because the carnival beckons, because the world is upside down, because we are everywhere. By wearing masks we show that who we are is not as important as what we want, and what we want is everything for everyone."
( Grotesco )
( Thomas Cooking the Planet )
( None of Your Business )
( Action for Sustainable Quizzing )
BACK PAGE
( Draining the Swamp for ‘Gators )
( Write-off )
( Manc Cards )
( G8 All The Pies )
( The Lone Asylum State )
It’s Christmas soon, and you know what that means – Buy more crap! Look out for next months Yuletide “celebrations” issue. The website will remain the same for now: http://thebookofswamp.livejournal.com. |
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| Issue 5 references. |
[Nov. 1st, 2006|03:46 pm] |
FACK
Sam Adams: http://www.hazardscampaign.org.uk/fack/news/samadams.htm
Labour’s record on manslaughter legislation: George Monbiot, Too Soft on Crime: The government is letting the corporate killers walk free. The Guardian, 5th October 2004, http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2004/10/05/too-soft-on-crime/
Simon Jones: see http://www.simonjones.org.uk
1997 death figure: SchNEWS 182, September 4th 1998, http://www.schnews.org.uk/archive/news182.htm
About Fack: families against corporate killers (fack) launched http://www.hazardscampaign.org.uk/fack/news/facklaunch.htm, 14th July 2006, Press Release.
Facks response to the Corporate Manslaughter Bill: Families against corporate killers, launched last weekend, are utterly disappointed in the government’s Corporate Manslaughter Bill published today. http://www.hazardscampaign.org.uk/fack/news/corporatemanslaughterbill.htm, 21st July 2006, Press Release.
Protest: North West tonight, BBC1, 10th October 2006. Also see: http://www.hazardscampaign.org.uk/fack/news/protestoct06.htm
Shop workers: Retail crime falls but Usdaw reaffirms that abuse is not part of the job, 12th October 2006, http://www.usdaw.org.uk/politics/news/1160641299_32289.html
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| Issue 4 references. |
[Sep. 30th, 2006|11:09 pm] |
Moss Side Shooting
Mark Thomas, Amnesty Magazine, September/October 2006 issue, page 38.
About the killing: Killing surprises few in Moss Side, 11th September 2006, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/5334510.stm
Police liaison, mothers quote: News of the World website, September 17th 2006. Link no longer active.
Supt quote: Extra police after teenager shot, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/5331892.stm
Number of light weapons. Control Arms, http://www.controlarms.org/the_issues/
Biggest arms dealers: Lord of War, a film by Lions Gate Entertainment, 2005, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0399295
Aid and Arms: Parts of Bombs, Matthew Good, http://matthewgood.org/parts-of-bombs
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| Issue 3, August 2006. |
[Aug. 18th, 2006|01:38 am] |
@nti-copyright The Book of Swamp, 2006. You cannot own a combination of words.
Thinking locally, acting locally, thinking globally and acting globally
The Book of Swamp
If we’re honest, one of the main reasons for starting one of these newsletters is the opportunity to come up with incredibly corny headlines. So it was regretful that most of last month’s paper copies had the headlines of the “Super”market special on the back chopped off the top. Allow me to relay them to you: The carrier bag piece carried the name “That’s Asda waste”, and the Waitroes story was entitled… “Waitblows”. Now that that’s out of the way – yes that’s right, paper copy, suggesting another kind of copy. There’s now an online home for the newsletter that will make it a lot easier to nick the content, and read if you can’t get out to find one. It is at http://thebookofswamp.livejournal.com. And whilst we’re on the subject, if you weren’t aware, MySpace is owned by Rupert “spoof news of the world” Murdoch, so boycott the bastard place and all its stupid photos.
( Mancs Against Tanks )
( Extreme Trainspotting )
( Big Bucks to be made )
( No Jobs in the North West )
( Northern Monkey Wrenching )
( Under The Radar )
BACK PAGE
( Rocketing Prices )
( Youth Brigade )
( Intermission )
( I haven’t got the Energy )
( Thanks and No Thanks ) |
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| Issue 2 references. |
[Jul. 22nd, 2006|08:07 pm] |
Climate Camp
www.climatecamp.org.uk, http://www.climatecamp.org.uk/thecamp.htm, http://www.climatecamp.org.uk/whoweare.htm, The gig - http://climcamp.x21.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=205
Public Transport
Metrolink: ‘Congestion charge to pay for Metrolink’- http://www.southmanchesterreporter.co.uk/news/s/214/214922_congestion_charge_to_pay_for_metrolink.html – 6th July 2006, South Manchester Reporter.
Metrolink extension gets go-ahead - but not quite a 'big bang' - http://www.southmanchesterreporter.co.uk/news/s/214/214986_metrolink_extension_gets_goahead__but_not_quite_a_big_bang.html - 6th July 2006, South Manchester Reporter
Manchester Airport: Up, Up and Away, http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/217/217302_airport_set_for_huge_expansion.html, front page, July 5th 2006, Manchester Evening News.
Expansion of Airport Blasted as “Lunacy”, 7th July 2006, front page, Manchester Metro News.
A Flight to Hong Kong for only £75, July 5th 2006, front page, Metro paper (free).
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