Anarchy In The West Midlands Tour

um, freedom have hundreds and hundreds, possibbly thousands of books, so i don't think one of everything is a good idea unless you want to open up a shop. also, things tend to seel better when you have a lot of a few rather than a few of loads. it would also cost a few thousand quid, and i don't fancy paying that much... if you ever go to london, pay a freedom a visit, it's great.

well someone needs to say a weekend and i'm busy for the next two, so either do it without me in which case someone needs to collect the stuff or do it in three weeks time. brum brum was meant to be just two sides of a4 for the moment. when we have as many anarchists as thessaloniki, we can make it a newspaper with seperate sections for every area...

do we have contacts in all those places then? also, does anyone have a car or van, because that would be very handy indeed. normally i'd probably be able to get the animal rights guy to get stuff there, but it's the hunt season now so on saturdays he tends to be otherwise engaged. friday afternoons are good for me too though, and i think sundays were for most people.

um, right, to make sure we do this, lets pick a date now. how about two weeks on ofriday, saturday or sunday in birmingham?

right, let's get this started in the new year then. here's my suggestion for dates and locations, with wilkos and brighthouses nearest to the centres as possible listed so we can picket them on the same day, if those who know the towns could check the stores out and nearby area to see if it is suitable for a stall then that would help. the stall doesn't have to be right next to them, but i think it would be quite good if people saw a stall with our general anarchist info stuff on, then somewhere else saw us picketing slave labour users and loan shark scumbags, it would at least show that we're serious and don't just like breaking stuff.

i think saturdays would be best as that is when the most people are out and about shopping, but it depends on how many people can be available when, i guess a friday afternoon would be pretty busy too. for just a stall on it's own we only really need about four people (max, could do it with two), two to do the stall for an hour or two, then the other two take over so no one gets too bored. where there is a brighthouse or wilkos we'd need an two people for each store and two for the stall as a minimum.

16-17 January - Birmingham City Centre

BrightHouse, 18 Bull Street, Birmingham B4 7LB

(we may as well have our stall near here, there's an over hang for if it rains and it's near the cheaper shitter shops)

30-31 January - Coventry City Centre

wilkos, CATHEDRAL LANE, SHOPPING CENTRE BROADGATE, COVENTRY CV1 1LL

brighthouse, 36 Broadgate, Coventry, West Midlands CV1 1NF

13-14 February - Dudley

wilkos, 39-41 HIGH STREET, DUDLEY, WEST MIDLANDS DY1 1PN

brighthouse, 19 Churchill Shopping Centre, Dudley, West Midlands DY2 7BJ

27-28 Febraury - Leamington Spa

doesn't appear to be either of our two targets in leamington, so this can be a nice little break

12-13 March - Derby

wilkos, UNIT 6/14, MAIN CENTRE, CASTLEFIELDS, DERBY DE1 2PE

brighthouse, Unit 6 Osnabruck Square, Albert Street, Derby, Derbyshire DE1 2DS

26-27 March - Mansfield

wilkos, UNIT 1, CLUMBER STREET,MANSFIELD NG18 1NU

brighthouse, Unit 35 Four Seasons Centre, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire NG18 1SU

8-9 April - Nottingham

wilkos, 20/20A TANNER WALK, BROADMARSH CENTRE, NOTTINGHAM NG1 7LF

brighthouse, Unit 30/31 Broad Marsh Centre, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire NG1 7LH

nottingham has quite alot of libertarian types, so hopefully we could have a load more stuff on the stall, more people to do the pickets with.

if people can say what dates are ok for them, what dates are rubbish for really obvious reasons (i can never remember dates so there could be important things happening on some of these dates), what dates would be better for reasons like if there's some local events that'll bring more people to one particular place, that sort of thing. it would be good to get this sorted in the next week or two so we can publicise on the website and that sort of thing.

also, what do we have to go on it? so far i have:

class war

class war 2004 miners strike anniversary callenders

2 really crap aussie class war punk cds

a load of class war t-shirts and tops

possibly some 21st century class war intro pamphlets (i need to check)

500 brighthouse leaflets

some copies of counter info, but these are probably out of date.

kidda, do what do we have from solfed? do have anything from afed? if not ask i'll get in touch and get them to send resistance to my current address, in case they're still sending it to my old one. we should also get some copies of earth first! action update. we should by then have some copies of brum brum and i can do another load of wilko leaflets if we can't get hold of yon mancunian who i gave the last lot to and has apparently disappeared of the face of the earth, or at least the bit occupied by us.

i know there were other suggestions for places to go, but we can always add new places if we think we can fit them in after doing a few stalls. and when we've finished this lot of stalls we can always continue the tour in may.

GET THIS SORTED PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i forgot to say i'll get some stuff from freedom sent up, including intro to anarchism books. how many copies of freedom the paper shall i ask for each fortnight? they're on sale or return normally. also, kidda, could you PLEASE type up this mythical leaflet you claim to have written? that would be great.