Stop StopG20! Stop the Stagemanagement of Dissent

Always willing to join in and be constructive, the stopstopg20 affinity group has launched a new project: Hock Your Rubbish! We have extensively promoted the Hock Your Rubbish! events on the ‘official’ stopg20 site i.e. not ours, in the spirit of a diversity of tactics. TEXT HERE and CALENDAR HERE

However, because of the past removal of our other contributions (as a result of a serious dibber-dobber incident), we suspect that those running the site may shortly remove the Hock Your Rubbish! material from its places in the “G20 Alternative and Creating Community forum”, in the “Campaign Ideas Forum”, and listed for every single day of the month in which the Hock Your Rubbish! festival is intended to run in the “calendar of events”. Anticipating this act of policing, we have formulated the following complaint in advance, the text of which has been included in this post as well as the original text of the advertisement for our constructive contribution.

To the site foreman (’the red pencil of political correctness’),

We are shocked to find that you have removed our ‘Hock Your Rubbish’ event information from your website.

We admit that by ‘planning’ to hold this event every day for a month, We have in effect made grandiose claims on behalf of a stupid idea. But this is not at all a deviation from what is in fact the norm of affinity groups – and the stopG20 ‘movement’ itself. Further, given the commitment to a ’diversity of tactics’ in the search for alternatives we don’t understand why our ‘Hock Your Rubbish’ event has been singled out. All we wanted to do was celebrate alternatives by helping everyone to hock their rubbish all day, every day.

What makes this removal even more baffling is the fact that you have not removed the material of the other ‘creative’ and ‘diverse’ parody affinity groups including at your site:
• The Clown Army (“disseminating negative energy” indeed!)
• The Really, Really Free Market (enough said)
• Lollipops to stop the G20 (activists luring preschoolers to a ‘protest’ with candy?)
• and of course A Space Outside (a parody of the testicular cancer affinity group Remaining Men Together)
In the interest of your own consistency we request that this material be removed along with our ‘Hock Your Rubbish’ event. But, if you could leave the t-shirt cooperative material up, this would be good as it looks like it will be a good money-spinner.
Thank-You

Yours Sincerely

StopStopG20

…Now the advertisment…

Do you want to make a real difference? Do you want real alternatives? NOW? This is DIY revolution.

Heres how it works:
1. Take your household rubbish bin, with your household rubbish inside it.
2. Empty rubbish onto the street and inform the neighbours of your contribution to building an alternative world - a world beyond capitalism.
3. Now see the growing community spirit!

At the G20 convergence we, the ‘gifters’, will assemble in order to set up the first ever ‘Hock your rubbish’ carnival. To join in:
1. Go to your local fastfood restaurant and re-claim their rubbish from capital.
- Now you are half way to freedom! -
2. Pour your reclaimed rubbish onto the ground at the G20 ‘hock your rubbish’ market
3. Now watch others browse and take from your rubbish, or enjoy the time browsing and taking some rubbish for YOURSELF!
4. Now you and all of humanity are free thanks to this simple - non-reactionary - counter economy.

For more tips on hocking your rubbish everyday see our simple guide

Brought to you by…

the stopstopG20 affinity group.

Upon realisation that work and oppression under capitalism is only going to increase as a result of the ‘killing of the planet’ Melbournians have decried the lies of environmentalists. For years Meblournians have clung in hope to the message on the old Spencer Street power station, “no jobs on a dead planet”; it was a symbol of hope, but now it is only a constant reminder of the deception of the environmentalists. It is now clear that the promised life beneath the waves without work is not real. In fact, the very environmentalists that had promised this glorious time are now the front line of capital in the expansion of markets and the enforcement of the relations of capital. The ‘dead planet’ claim is now simply the excuse for capital, lead by environmentalist, to further make impositions upon the lives of Melbournians and the rest of humanity. Work camps far worse than have been experienced before have already been created and the environmentalists, who promised so much with the slogan “no jobs on a dead planet” are the front line in the effort to herd people into them. At present all that Melbournians can do in the face of this is cry out ‘thanks a bunch… enviro-tards’!

The Mytleford Tobacco Cooperative has today announced the launch of their fairtrade certified ‘Cigarrillo para Liberata’ brand cigerette. An initiative of the anarchist Victoria Tobacco Farmers faction of the cooperative. The cigarettes come in response to big tobacco’s (dominated by British American Tobacco) constant buying pressure that have finally pushed the farmers off the land. In a press release the anarchist farmers stated "we got the idea from our zapatista comrades and their café rebelde brand coffee, hopefully we too can continue labouring day and night". The co-op’s brand hopes to match the success of other fairtrade products in keeping people toiling at the land for the sake of tradition and a barely subsitance level of income (in the continuance of wage slavery). But with these farmers being far less photogenic than their fair trade colleagues in South American and Africa will these farmers be as successful? Only time will tell.

A copy of the advertisment can be found here