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SchNEWS - Weekly direct action newsletter - crap arrest, protest, party, DIY, Brighton, political cartoons, Indymedia, animal rights, critical mass, asylum, permaculture, climate change, privatisation, neoliberal, anticopyright, copyleft, globalisation
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Yep. SchNEWS is ten years old as of last November. We can assure you we made the most of it and are still open to suggestions continue the birthday celebrations... We had a big slap-up party and book launch last October in London (click here for more information); helping with a counter conference as an alternative to the European Social Forum earlier in the day. We started celebrating earlier in the year too with the SchNEWS at Ten tour.
Then in February 1998 some of the crew went to Geneva to the first ever Peoples' Global Action conference. Here we met people involved in grassroots movements from across the world, swapped stories, made friendships and began to see the bigger picture, and with many others who had been involved in localised direct action campaigns, our attention now turned to also attacking the corporate carve-up of the entire planet while supporting the diverse small-scale alternatives. The first signs of this new shift was in May 1998 when mass demonstrations were held world-wide simultaneously against the G7 Summit in Birmingham, then again on June 18th 1999 (J18). But it was the mass protests against the WTO in Seattle in November 1999 that really brought this 'movement' to the world's attention.
SchNEWS is run on a voluntary basis - no one gets paid. Tho' we do manage to blag free into gigs and festivals (to spread the word of course) and when our treasurer's not looking, raid the petty cash tin for biscuit money. Our stories originate anywhere from anarchist literature to the dodgy Financial Times (no, really), from conversations in the pub to the internet. While we always try to be as accurate as possible and chase people up to verify the stories, the idea behind SchNEWS is not to believe the printed word, but to get up off yer arse
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