On Fri, 22 Jul 2005 11:57:18 -0700, Steve Wallis wrote:
> The initial line-up for my revolutionary socialist band Galaxia -
> just myself on vocals and Adam from the Cutting Rooms recording studio
> (Abraham Moss Centre, City College, Manchester) on acoustic guitar
> accompanying me on two tracks - performed and recorded three tracks
> ("Do They Know It's G8 Time?", "The Revolution Starts Now!"
> and "L'internaçionale") on Thursday the 30th of June. [I'd
> like people playing other instruments and Adam does not want to be
> involved with the band in the future anyway, so I will continue looking
> for band members.]
>
> I had had to go AWOL on the previous Monday from the psychiatric ward
> on which I was a political prisoner, and the police recaptured me on
> the Friday before I had a chance to put the tracks on the internet.
> Despite escaping on the Saturday, I did not have access to my flat, so
> I could not put the tracks on my website before the G8 summit.
>
> I travelled to Edinburgh on the Saturday, too late for the Make Poverty
> History demonstration, but I did attend the G8 Alternatives Summit on
> the Sunday (at which I spoke in the debate on Africa), an anti-war demo
> later that day and the Carnival for Full Enjoyment on the Monday.
> Meanwhile, I came up with some improvements to the lyrics of "Do They
> Know It's G8 Time?" (correcting some minor errors and explaining
> some things more clearly) and posted them on various discussion groups
> at Google and Yahoo! If you missed those improved lyrics and want to
> read them, go to
> http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/galaxiamusic/message/33.
>
> Unfortunately, serious strike action did not take place anywhere in the
> world during this G8 summit (to the best of my knowledge). This was
> probably mainly because my call wasn't backed up by any sizeable
> organisation (although School Students Against War were trying to get
> school students to strike in Scotland). This lack of action could also
> have been influenced by the violence that occurred at the Carnival for
> Full Enjoyment and/or the terrorist attacks on Thursday the 7th of July
> in London. In my opinion, both were instigated by people on the side of
> big business (whether in the police force, agent provocateurs among the
> Edinburgh protesters or terrorists) to divert the world's attention
> at such an im****tant time from doing something constructive to defeat
> the G8. [Along with members of the Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown
> Army (anarchists wearing brightly coloured clothes and having painted
> faces), I did my best to diffuse the situation, but with the
> provocative actions of the police and enough of the 1,000 anarchists
> around wanting violence, it was inevitable. I witnessed wanton
> destruction by the anarchist Black Bloc of property during clashes with
> police at the anti-G8 protests in Genoa in 2001, and it later emerged
> that 50 fascists had infiltrated the Black Bloc.]
>
> Nevertheless, in my opinion, a G8 summit is the best op****tunity for
> coordinated action around the world to try to overthrow big business,
> and (with far more time to organise) I am setting my sights on the 2006
> summit in St Petersburg in Russia. I would like Galaxia to record
> improved and updated versions of the songs, as well as others, in time
> for that summit. A European conference of Peoples' Global Action
> called for a "Global Day of Action" on the first day of the G8
> summit, and hopefully that organisation (which is holding an
> intercontinental conference in India in October - see
> http://www.agp.org)
will sup****t the call next time.
>
> I was picked up by the police at the Carnival, and am finally back in
> Manchester with some leave, so I can update my websites. I have now put
> high and low quality versions of each track, as MP3 files, on the
> Galaxia website. Go to http://www.galaxiamusic.org/downloads.html,
or
> click on one of the following links for specific downloads:
>
> Do They Know It's G8 Time?
> http://www.galaxiamusic.org/g8-hi.mp3
(2548KB)
> http://www.galaxiamusic.org/g8-lo.mp3
(531KB)
>
> The Revolution Starts Now!
> http://www.galaxiamusic.org/revolution-hi.mp3
(8586KB)
> http://www.galaxiamusic.org/revolution-lo.mp3
(1789KB)
>
> L'internaçionale
> http://www.galaxiamusic.org/internacionale-hi.mp3
(506KB)
> http://www.galaxiamusic.org/internacionale-lo.mp3
(106KB)
>
>
> --
> Steve Wallis (http://www.socialiststeve.me.uk).
> My mailing list (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/manchesterism).
> My revolutionary socialist band Galaxia (http://www.galaxiamusic.org;
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/galaxiamusic).
> Launch a general strike at the time of the G8 summit in July
> (http://www.g8summitworldwidegeneralstrike.org).
>
> Initiator of Revolutionary Platform of Respect
> (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/revolutionaryplatformofrespect.org).
> Member of Glasgow Shettleston branch of the Scottish Socialist Party
> (http://www.scottishsocialistparty.org)
and initiator of the
> Revolutionary Platform of the SSP
> (http://www.revolutionaryplatformofthessp.org).
>
> Initiator of the Campaign for Democracy in the UK
> (http://www.democracycampaign.org.uk)
and Campaign for Sanity in the
> NHS (http://www.health-service-sanity.org).
Looks like this site has been hacked....
--
Regards
Ted Wager
Using BLAG Linux
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