"RED" Ken: Stay Away On May Day

[Daniel Davies]

--- Chuck0 <chuck at tao.ca> wrote: > May Day Monopoly game
pieces, more fun than any McDonalds
> promotion, can
> be found at:
> http://www.infoshop.org/octo/mayday2001.html
> 
> Stay away on May Day - Mayor
>  by Mayor Ken Livingstone
> 
> Ken Livingstone: 'Avoid the May Day Monopoly protest'
> ======================================

Which seems as good a pretext as any for my periodic plea.

I thought I was going to be taking Tuesday off, but it turns
out that I'm not.  I'm a fairly tall bloke with ginger hair,
and will be likely to be wearing a dark blue single-breasted
suit.  You'll be able to tell me apart from the rest of the
investment bankers because my shoes aren't shiny and polished. 
I've lost about thirty pounds since the last Mayday riots, so
I'm no longer really "overweight".  If you're rioting after
about 1730, I'll be in the pub with my old oppo and current
client Petchy, who's coming over to watch the show.

While I'm quite clearly part of the global capitalist system, I
don't actually own any of the means of production except those
located in my own head.  Furthermore, the distinction between
finance and industrial capital is on pretty thin theoretical
ground, so it seems a bit unfair to single me out.  I really
don't want to have bricks thrown at my head, and there will be
plenty of alternative targets.  Please note that after about
1900BST, I will be drunk, and therefore more likely to a)
respond to friendly anticapitalist advances with offers of free
booze and b) respond to any other kind with aggression.

I'd also like to point out that the Old Doctor Butler's Head is
a rather nice boozer, frequented by all sorts of people who
aren't capitalist pigs, and that Corney & Barrow next door,
being a glass-and-chrome wine bar amply stocked with champagne,
is likely to offer far more photo- and telegenic opportunities.
 Though the lighting in that alley is pretty bad in any case,
so on balance, I think the cause would be best served by
remaining in the sort of Liverpool Street area and giving some
of my competition a hard time.

Thanks and all that,

dd


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... in countries which do not enjoy Mediterranean sunshine idleness is more difficult, and a great public propaganda will be required to inaugurate it.  -- Bertrand Russell

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