Stop the war demo - paper sell?
Feb 5 2008 12:14
There is yet another one of those STW things in March - a rally in Trafalgar Square ... I am actually gonna go to this one and wondered whether anyone else would be up for floggin some Freedoms (I'll also have some AF stuff)??
Be good to get back to doing some paper sales on demo's and save a few people from the SWP!!
Feb 5 2008 12:23
#2
I won't be about personally, dunno about other people but can do a shut out on the admin list, will add it to the minutes from last night.
Feb 5 2008 13:55
#3
Yea do it. I'll be happy to help you shift copies of it.
Feb 5 2008 16:24
#4
i'd be more than happy to.
I'm into the hard sell, tho i warn you 
Feb 8 2008 20:31
#5
well if people are up for it, suggest nearer the date we agree a meeting point and one person arranges to pick up some papers - be cool if there was an anti war story on the cover Saii and shout out will be good (BTW I will get back to you about that NHS story - have been a bit pushed with my PhD recently).
Battlescared - there should 4/5 EKAF members/supporters coming up who are happy to hand stuff out.
Feb 8 2008 22:06
#6
Sure, will have a think about finding an interesting angle.
Mar 11 2008 09:53
#7
Has anything been organised for this?
Will there be a freedom stall? Or do I have to go to Freedom and pick up issues by myself?
Also, does anyone want to flog some Black Flags as well?
Mar 11 2008 10:04
#8
sorry i'll be in dublin 
i have actually been flogging Freedom tho, its not that hard in the right place. Looks fucking boss too.
Mar 13 2008 19:13
#9
Hi - I'll be meeting up with comrades from Kent outside National Gallery around noon - if anyone's around - If I have time I'll try to pop into Freedom, although its a bit out of my way.
Given its a rally rather than a march - I think it would be really useful to have a Freedom stall - unless its pissing with rain.
Mar 14 2008 14:03
#10
Tacks wrote:
sorry i'll be in dublini have actually been flogging Freedom tho, its not that hard in the right place. Looks fucking boss too.
aye, you got a fair few suckers at IWW meetup last weekend. including yours truly. alas i won't be on the demo.
Mar 14 2008 22:57
#11
You mention its a rally. I initially thought so as well. But I phoned up the Stop the War people today and they tell me there is a march from Trafalgar sq to Parliament sq - more a stroll down the road really! The said rally is to take place in the latter sq - so a chirpy call centre sounding person told me - quite funny really, she answered the phone "Stop the War, can I help you"
Mar 15 2008 18:08
#12
It was dull...handed out a copies of 'resistance'...didn't seem to be many anarchists there - given how long everyone was in the Square (2 hours) before the march headed off reckon could've flogged a few books and papers. obviously the whole STW demo/stuff is crap but think we need to be present and these things
Mar 15 2008 19:21
#13
I attempted to do an anarchist head count - going by those with red and black flags and others I know and those mixing with the flags etc. To be honest i'd give a generous 50! However, along with Resistance, Class War, Black Flag and Now or Never (Norwich) was on sale. How come no Freedom's, despite offers to sell them from non Freedom people?
So much for the stroll down the road - was bloody knackered by the time we got to parliament square and busting to go to the toilet (just thought I'd share that) - shot straight up Victoria Street and used first pub as relief, then had a pint and still managed to miss the crush on the tube home.
Mar 16 2008 00:29
#14
whether it was 50 or less shame we didn't coordinate our presence. frankly i am pretty sure freedom bookshop would have sold a lot more books from a table at the march today than they did from the shop. i don't think it would have been too hard selling copies of the paper either - we really do need to get our shit together
Mar 17 2008 17:26
#15
I sold a load I have an amount of money now that I will sort out getting back to you via email.
Mar 18 2008 20:14
#16
David UK wrote:
I sold a load I have an amount of money now that I will sort out getting back to you via email.
ah good man.
RPG thats a shame about bad coordination, that wasn't meant to happen... There were a few ppl who knew to meet up from dif groups.
Mar 19 2008 09:45
#17
London AF had a stall at beginning and end of demo and sold £80 of lit ( mostly cheap pamphlets) and shedloads of Resistance. RPG you need to coordinate with London AF next time!!!
Mar 19 2008 09:50
#18
And we saw the march go by at the end and counted 20 red and black flags. A bit more coordination all round next time, I thinkl!
Mar 19 2008 11:34
#19
Battlescarred wrote:
And we saw the march go by at the end and counted 20 red and black flags. A bit more coordination all round next time, I thinkl!
by who...?
Mar 19 2008 12:59
#20
Everyone, chum
Mar 19 2008 13:04
#21
With Freedom in London it's mainly a matter of walking in, picking a few copies of the latest up and walking out again, they're generally up in the office on the second floor in boxes. Elsewhere is a bit more tricky, but usually doable.
Essentially it needs one person to be a co-ordinator and other people to sort them out with phone numbers!
Mar 19 2008 13:05
#22
dp
Mar 21 2008 10:40
#23
Some very fair points made I think.
1. We do need to coordinate better on demo's - sad to say like the SWP does - there were three of us up from Kent and other than a CWF comrade and a couple of balck and red flags in the distance we couldn't find see any other anarchists - up to us though to be better organised.
2. For those of us not in London (yet) it'll be good if a others did go into the bookshop and pick a bundle of papers up and then we arrange a where to meet.
3. I do think the Bookshop should have had a stall - you'd have sold loads.
4. EKAF and LondonAF mobile numbers now swapped!!!
Mar 21 2008 15:16
#24
Yeah I turned up expecting someone to have a stash of Freedom I could help sell and turns out I didnt see a copy in the whole two or so hours I was there. Disapointing really, and its a reflection of how weak we are when we cant even co-ordinate something this simple. I will ask next time another demo happens.
Mar 21 2008 21:21
#25
Is it just me, or does it not seem strange that EKAF and London AF (my geography isnt brilliant but does Kent not join on to London?) didnt liaise with each other(or even appear not even to know if either was at the demo) and seemingly didnt have each others mobile phone numbers? Do you even know each other, or are you autonomous cells who dont know anyone else apart from your immediate cell members? Very strange........
Mar 22 2008 20:13
#26
No not that strange really - new members, people who have moved recently and expecting to meet up at the AF stall but, for whatever reason we couldn't find it ... don't try to read too much into stuff often its the mundane ordinary things in life that explain what goes on 
Point remains though - we all need to take responsibility to make things happen and get more organised at events like this.
My son was at the demo (he's not an anarchist) and saw quite a few anarchists as it happens
Mar 22 2008 22:27
#27
Apologies RPG, I was a little facetious on that point. Organisation on the day was dreadful. We got there at 11.30 and knew EKAF was meeting in front of the museum at around 12. Hung around there for ages and saw no one. We also heard that LAF were holding a stall, searched and searched for it but couldn't find it. In the end headed for the Class War cluster in front of the stage. However did link up with the LAF at the front of the march once it got moving. Also met up with the anarchist contingent from Norwich and some comrades from Leeds. Next time eh......
Mar 23 2008 00:14
#28
ph, I think the CW cluster your refering to were the AF, Im also pretty sure I may have met you as it happens.
Mar 23 2008 10:40
#29
Maybe we did but the CW cluster were definitely a CW cluster cos they had a CW banner and I also had a brief chat with Mr. Bone who was with them.
Mar 23 2008 19:27
#30
Playinghob - its cool, we need to get more organised - people are interested in anarchist propaganda, whether we belong to a fed or not we need to link up and promote anarchism. BTW the CW person I met was deffo CW....here's to getting it right on the next demo.
London AF will of course be distributing Resistance plus having a lit. stall