Blogs:
Good stuff:
- Carrotworkers Collective / Precarious Workers Brigade
- University of Strategic Optimism
- London Coalition Against Poverty
Anti Cuts Groups:
- National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts
- Birmingham Students Against Cuts
- Plymouth Students Against Cuts
- Royal Holloway Anti Cuts Alliance
Occupations:
- Manchester Roscoe Occupation
slade?
A collected song for December 9th
after Gil Scott Heron’s “The revolution will not be televised”
You will be able to stray onto the streets, Sister
You will be able to plug in, turn on and tweet out
You will be able to lose yourself, on dream and fires
Skip into cashpoints, bars and drink
Because the revolution will be televised.
The revolution will be televised
As the News revolves and revolts in more
24 hour parts, fragmented interviews
The revolution will show us pictures of politicians,
CEO’s and Ministers blowing hot then cold
Chanting we’re, no, no, no, longer in control
The revolution will be televised
The revolution will be televised
The revolution will be brought to you by
The Royal Variety, and will star minor celebrities,
The dregs of oligarchical reality
The last place you want to go
Goody, gum jawed, Buy it, Sell it, Love it
The revolution will bring the taste of paradise
The revolution will not get rid of the real thing
The revolution will make you, just do it,
Think slim, because the revolution will be tweeted, Mother.
There will be pictures of you and Jay Jopling
Pushing that diamond encrusted skull into the boot of a Jag
Or trying to flog the latest hotshit Brit
Drive, no liquid engineering on the BBC at five
Just the best the man can get, on SKY
As the revolution will be televised.
There will be pictures of berk off, rest and play
Making the unmissable, utterly missable
There will be no pictures of jerks, connecting people
Or little liberated orange books, replayed
There will be pictures of Sir Paul being
Shut out of Peckham and loving it
There will be slo mos and zoomins, of J.J.
Rousseau walking through Oxford Circus in pantaloons
Crying everything is finished for me,
Reach out and touch someone, on this earth
Nottingham, Notting Hill and Notting Woods
Will no longer fit the best, and be stupid
Because you’re worth it, don’t care
A finger lickin Dick, has finally come to pass
That the future’s bright, the futures black because
We’ll be on the street looking for a brighter night
The revolution will be televised.
There will be highlights on tweeter
Feeds and pictures of hairy bearded women,
Guerilla markets and Prince (formerly an artist) singing
And the theme music will be written
On YouTube by sailors in drag, rip offs
Of Tom Jones, David and Goliath
The revolution will be re-televised
The revolution will be right back after this message
Every little helps, in the Social Mobility Scooter race
No worries ‘bout poverty, debt and democracy
Cause once you pop it, you just can’t stop it
The revolution will be revised
The revolution will fight the causes
of germs, When and if
The revolution is everywhere you want it to be
The revolution will not be faithfully recorded,
It will be tweeted,
Will be tweeted and texted and uploaded
The revolution will be re-run and re-run
For the revolution is, … live
Laughing Bear/s December 10, 2010
brilliant blog! whos organising this at the moment?
It’s a collective blog owned by no one and free for all to contribute their artistic actions. Please come along to our next meeting tomorrow if you can!
I think you will all find reading some postings on The Guardian blog ARTS CUTS ARE LIKE RIPPING UP THE MAGNA CARTA, 4th Jan very very interesting. Good luck!