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1. mA aT a gt ua ee L ane a PA Clapton alternative The modern football industry can very effectively disillusion fans Those who enjoy playing or watching the game can hardly be impressed by the professional side of the sport the amount of money that circulates in and around the game is just mad The source of this money is of ten dubious whether it comes from Middle Eastern oil Russian oligarchs businesses or from American tycoons The wages of players and agents are inflated to exorbi tant amounts and the TV rights to show the game are counted in billlons of pounds scandals bribes or money laundering are business as usual This also trickles down to the fans as prices of match tickets are unaffordable to those on an average wage Does this mean that you are resigned to meeting up with friends and kick the old ball around a park to get your football fix Luckily there is an alternative provided by a certain team in East London That club is Clapton FC ynqaqiq based in Forest Gate and it competes in the Essex Senior League It is a foot ball club with history and it certainly is an amazing history too Founded in 1878 Clapton uses The Old spotted Dog ground which is said to be the oldest sporting venue in London in continuous use Clapton was the first Brit ish team to play abroad in continental Eu rope that happened in 1890 in Belgium and ended with a2. 6 Select the location and the name 7 Use the default Algorithm or any of the others They are all sufficient but AES is the standard for a reason 8 Choose the size of the outer volume This will have to be larger than the hidden den volume What this means is that one password will open a dummy encrypted container full of things we don t really want to hide and a second password will open Our proper encrypted container full of all our sensitive data This gives us plausible deniability If we are forced to we can can give up the password to decrypt the dum my file while keeping the hidden volume secret It is a good idea to put mundane per sonal data in the dummy container Think payslios bank statements an embarrass ing diary your shitty poetry dick pics that sort of thing Anything you wouldn t really give a crap about someone seeing but which is plausible Use an obvious password for this container if someone is cracking your encrypted file you want them to rumble this container first and stop looking Maybe use the same one as your email or Facebook or something since any serious adversary trying to crack this file probably has those passwords already Important note You can t copy remove or edit any of the files in the dummy vol ume once you have made it without risking damaging the hidden volume so choose the contents of the dummy volume wisely You may want to make new dummy con tainers from time to
3. User Manual is pretty good and there are a lot of guides to creating hidden volumes on the internet Important Disclaimer If you are travelling abroad check the le gality of encrypted files in advance There are many countries where you need a li cence to import encrypted files or they are outright banned This site is a good refer ence www cryptolaw org S mE a a At the beginning of the year a small group of us decided we wanted to hold a TAA in Cardiff and started trying to work out how we could make it happen The quote If you really want to do something you ll find a way if you don t you ll find an excuse was scribbled on our walls and kept us going None of us had ever been to a Temporary Autonomous Art event be fore but we were keen to see a more radi cal art event in our city and thought the TAA idea we d heard about was perfect In our minds it makes complete sense to re claim unused space by squatting and then invite people in to create an art exhibition in the space Cardiff is a small city with around 350 000 people living here It is definitely not a city where there is a lack of art but sometimes the art scene feels a bit too safe with most artists curators doing stuff with a nice bit of funding from the Arts Council behind them We have great con temporary galleries and a National Muse um full of art that is free to visit but it s alla bit clean perfect measured and curated
4. not using violence the police were forced to retreat by the large crowd standing up to them saw coppers close to tears at what they were doing spurred on by their superiors from behind but clearly unsure of what they were supposed to be doing in the face of such a large crowd and when questioned by ravers of why they were do ing it The crowd followed as they retreat ed forcing them back into their vans and cheering as they drove off For the rest of the day that appeared to be that Knowing full well the scale of the police operation that was waiting for us on the way out of site the party continued on all day with one unified linkup a huge crowd and beautiful weather Slots were cleared for DJs and producers from the other generator less rigs and the variety of O CEEE music made a fair attempt at representing the diversity and difference across the UK rave scene It wasn t until around 8pm that the cops returned They had already issued a Sec tion 63 notice at the other end of the huge airfield where pretty much no one was there to hear the decree of only twenty minutes to leave the site and a police heli copter observed the crowd thinning out as evening set in It was now that an absolute ly huge police force moved in to clear the airfield reinforced by cops from across the East Midlands and their new private polic ing partners G4S Forcing everyone off the site on foot no one was allowed to
5. should be at least 32 characters long 16 will do but you should really have more no lower than 16 Do not use a password you have used anywhere else Remember this container is only as secure as its password Serious attack ers can try at least 200 000 passwords a minute Government funded organisa tions have a lot of resources for this sort of thing The good news is a password over 16 characters that isn t obvious should take somewhere between a thousand and a few million years to crack So a 32 char acter password is probably secure for your lifetime or until computers are built from something other than matter and occupy something other than space 2 A CRYPTO NERD S IMAGINATION HIS LAPTOP S ENCRYPTED LETS BUILD A MILLION DOLLAR CLUSTER To CRACK IT No coop ITs 4096 BIT RSA BLAST OUR EVIL PLAN S FOWED S _ Note that the quality of the password is also important Obvious passwords are obvious It doesn t matter how long they are A good method for a long and memo rable password is to choose a few random words or a phrase and put a symbol or number between each word and spice it up with a random capital letter or two see Link 2 for an article with advice on choosing really good but a bit harder to remember passwords So now for the clever bit Sure your encrypted file may not be crackable but when someone with intent cant break the password they will try to break the human This is ma
6. Sy We wanted to show that art can be more exciting dangerous spontaneous and participatory than that In the month leading up to the TAA we put on a couple of fundraising events at The Wells Hotel not just to raise some cash but also to raise awareness of the project A lot of random people we d never met before came to these events people from all around the world who are living in Cardiff and who wanted to help or contrib ute It was pretty cool in such a small city to meet new people and get a dialogue going about why more free and autono mous spaces are needed in Cardiff We squatted a building at the end of April an old office block in the heart of Canton not far from the City Centre It was quite a small space and suited us perfect ly for our first TAA which only had a tiny crew behind it There were two staircases which gave the exhibition a nice natural flow and encouraged people to explore the whole building We occupied the space for around 10 days in total and throughout the week the building was transformed from Gull D Me rss 29 April May 2015 empty white soulless offices into a colour ful playground of different art and expres sion from Cardiff residents think the idea of challenging the tradi tional passive audience model is one of the most important parts of TAA for me first Came across this idea at Nowhere Festival in Spain a Burning Man Regional Event and it
7. airfield in Pembrokesh ire in May 2010 Although a brilliant rave it ended as some of the largest do with mass seizures of equipment and prosecu tions of the organisers pretty much just the drivers of the rig vehicles In Novem ber 2010 ten people pleaded guilty to the obscure and almost never used charge of holding an event without a suitable licence They received Community Service Orders although the charges against those six who pleaded not guilty were dropped SO we all knew what we letting ourselves in for as generally speaking the open in vite nature huge crowds and total chaos that accompany raves on the scale of a Teknival both in the UK and Europe have always invited large scale police ac tion repression and investigations At very least the containment and roadblock tac tics developed by UK police forces in deal ing with raves have been fairly effective in controlling the size of many parties if not actively shutting them down But fuck it the UK rave scene while enjoying a fair renaissance in the last few years at least outside of London has been lately growing in a fairly splintered fashion with different areas of the country keep ing fairly separate and rarely linking up A whole new generation of rigs and crews has sprung up encouraged by the older generation of soundsystems and coming into their own with the usual mix of free par ties club nights and festivals Thi
8. enough consid ering it had only been open for four days It was an amazing accomplishment in such a short time The building itself was a maze of rooms and corridors that seemed to stretch out endlessly and round every corner was another face with another story to offer The people in this building were amaz ing diverse and full of life All had differ ent stories and experiences every one of them determined for something better felt ashamed of the apathy had come to ac cept felt had betrayed myself and these people for taking a step back from activ ism There was discussion on what the space should be used for what could be done about the graffiti inside and outside a fire safety register cleaning and key holding rotas Not a stone was left unturned it ap peared The most interesting contribution was from a man named Peter who looked very out of place in an expensive suit Es pecially considering he couldn t sit down In it Peter explained he was a lawyer who worked for a firm in the next street over He had walked past the building and sympa thised with the cause Peter was an activist himself since the age of thirteen and had been involved in the Occupy Movement He explained to us that there were home less people who slept in the doorway of his office and that he had spent the day debat ing with almost everyone who worked there the good we were doing for these people and the difference it was making P
9. of Misguided Views on Immigration NERVES OF TIME VOL 3 New compilation from Kaometry the Berlin based IDM electronica breakcore label is out for free download on 01 06 15 WWW KAOMETRY COM Greetings from Reality 40 years of ASS The Advisory Service for Squatters is celebrating 40 years of existence this year Happy Birthday to us We win A steep decline in any feasible level of possible hope Awesome But never the less our cheeks have wobbled their way across 4 decades and we have been guffing out legal and practical advice to poor unsus pecting squatters for just as long We are also celebrating the long term survival 20 years and counting of the cynical excel lence of one particular member of the of fice pack who need not be shamed here but who does demonstrate a level of te nacity or insanity that we could all prob ably use a slice of In true ASS style it all began in the February of 1975 and after just one more beer we finally opened our doors a mere 8 months later in the October We have existed without ever squatting a single building ourselves for purposes of the office at least over those 40 years hooray for us But thankfully lots of much cooler folks than us are still squatting in the face of all that tries to stop them law changes constant fucking devel opment skyrocket ing property prices lardiords and their assorted goons wayward policing overly amped POU dingbats a
10. retrieve any belongings from their vehicles no money phones clothes anything and were funnelled out of the entrance through a huge stop and search operation several of us plunged into the forest to retrieve our money and possessions from a car at the other end of site by working our way round police lines eventually slickly emerging smack bang into the middle of a huge police presence we casually told the cops we had authority from their senior officers to grab our bags As nonchalantly and calmly as possible we walked out the back route from site past the biggest line of riot vans dog units and operational ve hicles we d ever seen with the cops inside looking at us in puzzlement as we tried to hold it down and not laugh at the absurdity of it all Having cleared the site the police made what must have been one of the largest number of vehicle impounds ever with by their own estimates as many as 140 vehi cles seized and all the sound systems im pounded Any car or van with as much as a bag of records or laptop was hauled off to impound with their passengers from all over the country left stranded The party was well and truly over SO as we all deal with the after math with the possibility Oooo E of arrests and charges with impound fees and seizures was it worth it The answer from all involved judging by both internet and personal discussions seems to be a resounding YES It was one of t
11. time to keep things plausible Dr Colossus volume since the hidden volume will be contained in the outer volume 9 Choose your password and follow the onscreen instructions 10 Your outer volume has now been created You will find it where you would normally find an external drive like a USB stick 11 Copy the dummy files to the outer vol ume 12 Follow the on screen instructions to create the hidden volume It is almost identical to creating the outer volume Use your longass password on this one 13 You should now have created your plausibly deniable encrypted file Test it out with both passwords 14 Mount the hidden volume and copy what you want into it Remember you can take out and put things in the hidden volume at any time It is only the outer dummy volume you should not alter 15 Conceal the file Rename it and give it another extension type It will mount fine with TrueCrypt whatever name and ex tension you give it Use your imagination here If itis a 10mb file maybe give it a random name and disguise it to look like an mp3 by giving it the extension mp3 If it is really big maybe use an extension related to video Maybe store it with some broken incomplete rar files in your down load folder It can be a bit tricky and confusing making these sort of encrypted files the first time would recommend you do a few practice runs before you work with important files If you run into problems the TrueCrypt
12. victory over a Belgian XI In the 1920s the team featured three English and one Welsh internationals Wal ter Tull the first black professional outfield player in English football played for the team too The club has won five FA Ama teur Cups However during its more recent history Clapton has been hanging around non league football s Essex Senior League without much success or attendance That is until 2012 when a group of local fans __ws disengaged with decaying modern foot ball started to attend Adopting the name of Clapton Ultras the fans show resent ment to the culture of discrimination and far right politics present at so many other Base Blah dee Yo E d e h dee we likes to party SPRING 2015 bla football grounds At these games everyone is welcome barring the intolerant racist or fascist Here you can see antifascists punks left ists feminists London based fans of FC st Pauli Rayo Vallecano or Livorno As well as those who simply want to watch the game in a non discriminatory and tol erant atmosphere This year the record attendance amount ed to over five hundred For an affordable price of six quid you can enjoy the atmos phere of a real football match joining in the vocal support of the team and sing your heart out while sipping a beer The support is being appreciated by the play ers as well who often join in a tune or two at the end of the game Amo
13. wash clothes The more read the more that little soark was fed until burning with curiosity arrived on their doorstep It was a beautiful old Grade listed build ing with huge pillars and ornate balconies Activists and residents smiled and waved from the open windows as bemused busi nessmen and women peered up from the streets below The sunshine was glorious and the omen felt good Huge banners swayed gently in the warm breeze WE NEED SANCTUARY As rounded the building wondered who might meet at the door and what it would take for me to get inside It had been a long time since Knocked on the door of a squat but as it happened it opened as got to it and the familiar Vendetta mask peered out from behind the door was beckoned inside and as the bolts and bars slid into place behind me felt that old familiar itch to explore was shown around the building by one guy who had just come out of prison two weeks before He was staying in a hostel and had to report there as part of his li cense conditions but he had thrown his heart and soul into the project and was a huge inspiration to me He had been clean of heroin for sixteen months and was deter mined to keep fighting shared with him the tragic story of my amazing friend Gray who fought the same demons but sadly lost his struggle had been told the utilities had been reg istered so with running water the building was rolling along smoothly
14. 1659688730 BASSFACE WEEKENDER 28 30 August 5 Stages of electronic music and plenty of underground scene on the lineup and sup plying the rigs Tickets must be bought in advance The Plough Ramsey Road Farcet Fen Peterborough PE7 3DR www bassface weekender co uk HACKNEY DOWNS FREE FESTIVAL Sat 29 August 120m 8pm Hackney Downs near Cricket field Road London E5 CLERKENWELL FREE MUSIC FESTIVAL Sun 30 August 1pm 6pm Spa Fields Park Skinner St London EC1 PARTY IN THE PARK Sat 5 September The continued revival of the festival at Fordham Park in New Cross South London Reknaw and Siren amongst those providing the sounds pitonxd co uk MISCHIEF FESTIVAL 11 13 September Up and coming independent festival in Sussex with 10 stages of music arts and performance www mischieffestival com c8 com www residentadvisor net www partyviberadio com forums FURTHER LINKS News and events www rabble org uk Anarchist news and bookshop www freedomnews org uk E15 mums www focuse15 org radicalhousingnetwork org ELEPHANT HI FI Fri 18 September 10pm 4am 5 entry Bar a Bar 133 135 Stoke Newington Road London N16 8BT www facebook com elephanthifi MUSIC DAY EQUINOX FUNDRAISER Fri 25 September London venue TBC www musicday org uk nightlife CRUX Sat 3 October Due to be an evening event followed by allnight party with Hekate sound system and incorporating a launch of the Ears to the Future digi
15. ad Link 1 found on the back page The purpose of this tutorial is to show you how to make encrypted files so 3rd parties Cannot access your data This is useful in itself and is also an important foundation lesson that will be built on in later tutorials all you will need is a computer an internet connection and maybe a USB stick or two Space is a limitation so we cannot go through all the caveats These methods are solid but do not rely on them blindly without doing your own research If securi ty and privacy are important to you or if you are at great risk if they are compromised then highly recommend you research everything here thoroughly have tried to keep everything as non technical as possible but these are technical matters The links and refs for this article are on the back page How to make an encrypted container with a hidden volume An encrypted container is a volume that is locked with a password Think of it as something like a folder or a removable hard drive unless this container is de crypted by someone entering the correct password its contents are inaccessible When unlocked you can work out of an encrypted container much like you would use a USB stick When locked this volume will appear to be random data If done properly this should keep your data very secure With a long password it would take thousands of years at least for anyone to break into the file would recommend your password
16. at 1500 2000 the unity and buzz it created in the scene and eve ryone there will be felt for a long time In the face of another five years of Tory rule with the impact on all of us of an ever more right wing direction in politics and society it s important that rave counterculture and the values it embodies sticks together and shows unity when it matters Til the next time IRRITANTALIFE IRRITANT AND FRIENDS EUROPEAN TOUR 2015 2 9 19 OUTER OUTLOOK PIRATE BEACH PARTY PULA CR 12 9 19 IRRITANT ELEKTROORGANIZM FRIENDS TOSCANA ITALIA 19 9 19 IRRITANT MEGATRON TOSCANA ITALIA 3 10 15 IRRITANT TRACKERZ TOULOUSE FR ALL DATES MORE TBC KEEP YOUR EARS TO THE UNDERGROUND FOR MORE DETAILS I thought I would never squat again Leaving the smoke the tube the grit and determination behind had happily slipped back behind the veil of compla cency and bowed my head immersed in the daily grind and transfixed with the eve ryday Stressed out with bills family issues and frustration with the absolute futility of it all those were secret memories cher ished memories nobody here in this life could understand Held close to my heart they slipped out softly in my quiet moments and enveloped me slowly in their warmth like a midsummer dawn Or a big fart remember the sheer insanity of squat ting in London s East End the infamous Tower Hamlets the feeling of freedom so sweet t
17. cabrely referred to as rubber hose decryption ie decrypting a file by beating the password holder with a rub ber hose until they give up the password It is not that likely you will be beaten with a rubber hose or equivalent implement in the UK but it is a criminal offence not to decrypt a file when asked to by govern ment representatives with a court order punishable by put to 2 years in jail This has been used against animal rights activ ists in the past 3 If you live in another jurisdiction than the UK it may not be a criminal offence but it will certainly not look good For this reason we are going to make Our proper encrypted container a hid WHAT WOULD ACTUALLY HAPPEN HIS LAPTOP S ENCRYPTED DRUG HIM AND HIT HIM WITH THIS 5 WRENCH UNTIL HE TEUS US THE PASSWORD GoT Ir Right so we have explained the rea soning behind this Here is the recipe Before we begin you should prepare the files you want to put in the dummy volume outer volume 1 Start by downloading TrueCrypt v7 1a from Link 3 it is near the bottom of that page NB Do not use any version of True Crypt but version 7 1a have had some reports of some virus scanners flagging TrueCrypt as malware If this happens and you are downloading from the link above ignore it 2 Install TrueCrypt 3 Click on Create volume 4 Select Create an encrypted file con tainer 5 Select Hidden TrueCrypt volume
18. d old boys in fluorescent yellow Obviously they d got bored of being stood round a bank in the freezing cold and had decided to give themselves something to do A reporter from the Echo scurried round popping un der and over the raucous like a ferret snap ping shots as he went cheered on for one particularly good angle of a poor woman who was arrested seemingly for dropping some books And so the notice came through 10 20 officers Surrounded the bank and the siege began don t use that word lightly because there did come a point when a concerted effort was made to starve them out by re fusing them access to fresh water or food Every now and then a flurry of activity the call would go out for a show of support in the face of an imminent eviction would do my best to reassure people that with no High Court warrant the police wouldn t be entering the building and it was highly unlikely to happen there and then But it pissed me off that when first arrived had said to people have done this before can help you and had been shrugged off had spoken to people about the Advisory service for Squatters and they assured me it was still running why STILL had nobody contacted them for advice It ended finally as they all do with more of a fizzle than a bang The black flag waved from the balcony the banners now limp and weathered the Love Activists flag atop the mast looked tired and weak The eviction went ahead w
19. d repeat but the bulk moved on and believe the reason is excitement It is excit ing to fight for what you believe is right it makes you feel that something that sense of meaning that remember so well But when you just jump from fix to fix what sort of trail are you leaving behind lt is time to be realistic would say to every activist meet go home Go home and knock on your neighbours doors Find what you need together go out into your streets and take it because It is yours You don t have to have a flare and a face mask you work hard day in and day out for the right to life and so many in this country are starving and dying under this corrupt agen da Help yourself helo each other One day will walk down my street and the place will feel alive again instead of this haunting spectre of poverty and depriva tion We have nothing to lose my neigh bours and me nothing they can take from us now they have our future in a vice We must save ourselves and each other That won t happen in the Bank of England on the steps of City Hall It will happen at home in our communities because that s what we should be strengthening and protecting LISTINGS THE HIVE Ongoing events The Hive is an evolution of the free social centre intelligently reusing empty build ings and wasted resources to create an independent environmental and cultural social space They have regular ongoing events includ ing jam
20. eatricality of the space feels like it lends itself to our purpose The screen the stage allow us to be whatever we want to be in the smudgy laser lit darkness Watch us dance This is the payback how we make good the swirl of the lights the rhythm s insistence the laden bass We are frequency vibration itself the light at the end of the long dark tunnel of the week We are arsonists lighting a fire that can be seen from space Perhaps this fire is only within ourselves but come the morning one of us whoever will drag pallets into the yard rip them apart put them ablaze to warm us until we re ready to hit it again We can t wait to be back in the centre of the maelstrom swirling twirling Sunlight comes up through the holes in the building the echo of bass off the walls seeming different with the morning Some of us begin to couple up drift apart start new alliances find new ways of having it I m stood in the centre of the swirling twirl when from within the crowd someone comes and stands in front of me catches my eye then walks past so follow The Tories are in power Were basi cally fucked mean its not all bad you ll be fine if you aren t poor or ill or o o MKOl am lal a0 0 0 1210 Fae ame IRTc 10 210 ME IES bit like the 90s again Everybody loved the 90s right We had Adidas poppers and Ace of Base and Paul Gascoigne and Keenan amp Kel and that advert where the Tango man slapped pe
21. er seen before peo ple are already asking how they could do something similar and when the next one is really hope the idea will grow here in Wales and that we can build on this first pjan ea a A i s X i EAN i y kt ah Fy i i Mf oa ee it Y hip fA f d TE ia i r i i t3 Y Can Li sot hay x ay mm N ie Ki UA X meer i sW event find more people to work on the next one and hopefully visit other TAAs to learn more skills and get other ideas and inspiration Thanks to absolutely everyone who contributed to the event as it wouldn t have been amazing without you A wE weg N AS gt hes TA C S Ni MN Vin i Ki i aa WY The TAA in Cardiff was largely due to the Afiach collective www afiach co uk You can also check here for other events at The Wells Hotel www facebook com pages The Wells Hotel 326430 187464835 Q lt X Oo v S gt We need to keep the momentum of this recent TAA going There will be a TAA in London from 3 14 November 2015 This is in a legal social centre space which will provide a great opportunity to re generate and involve new crew Fresh blood get involved via info randomartists org ALIVE AND KICKING OFF UK TEKNIVAL 20195 It had been a while The last proper UK teknival an attempt at a truly national free party was on Dale
22. eter told us that although he was initially met with a lot of resistance and still got some the majority had softened to his argument and his company now wanted to represent our case in court for free as a Show of support Peters enthusiasm was undeniable and it was exciting to be taken seriously by some body who knew the legal system and the challenges we faced but was still prepared to put his time and effort into the struggle It made him one of us and loved him for it Shortly after the larger meeting we held another smaller upstairs with just Peter his friend Anna and the activists We discussed a press release witness statements and the importance of health and safety in the build ing as the three biggest immediate factors for the court hearing in five days time Roles were assigned though didn t volunteer as wasn t yet sure what sort of time would be able to commit with the baby and a new job but was looking forward to being in volved and hoped there was a way could really make myself useful It ended as soon as it began was work ing over the next three nights and had the baby for the three after that and by the time had chance to go down and make my self useful they had been to court and had been served a 24hr eviction notice All of the homeless people had left the building some hung around outside where a soup kitchen soldiered on for a few nights before being roughly dismantled by the goo
23. had put up combined with Ronin s projections and Kassandra Tigg s geometrical floor paint ing and Lembo s massive sticker combo in the main room created a massive amaz ing collaboration between everyone who d taken part We were really happy with how it had turned out Although it was pretty stressful during the event especially after the landlord turned out to be a bit of a psycho busi Space imagining real hallucinatory t a platform beyond commercial interests and conifals lt gt in e Ag 4 oa Bei i i X AE Featuring A Ea _ Stories Illustrations Writings Images Drawings Photographs hee Click ont host weblink gt badsekta com fearcontrol lt for i sad on electronic devices To print out in hard copy Our preceeding publication The Complete Story of Assassination Versions to a THE COMPLETE io TIMETABLE OF MISSED BUSES mo hosted on badsekta com fearcontrol eee complete23project gmall comt a ADIY pr duction magazine to convey and inspire creativity to celebrate and unify diverse ttistic activity ane expressions from the time travelling Dace inderground to provide a much needed a Poems and Posters and ineluiding Star Spores The Book of Layers Please email us to connect for hardcopies Network 20p Cosmo Am ebas Hell s Pigeons Standard amp Co yy nessman and attacked us this was some thing Cardiff had nev
24. he first times in the UK that any of us had seen a riot po lice force having to beat such a hasty re treat from such a unified crowd even in the face of such extensive police brutality and violence The joy of doing that resounds even now despite the potential legal con sequences for many Ultimately though its not just about the rejection of authoritarian ism not about defining ourselves just in op position to the cops but the unification the crowd felt in standing up for our rights and values legal or not Links were made and strengthened between people and crews from hugely different parts of the country music was played from across the scene different tactics in defending ourselves ex plored from failed early negotiations with senior cops to the outright self defence tactics that raves have been forced to use in some parts of the country for decades Maybe the event didn t turn out quite like we d planned with perhaps thousands of ravers and dozens of sound systems turned away from the borders of the huge exclusion zone but the experience was amazing for all involved Parties sprang up elsewhere in the country on the Saturday night organised by soundsystems unable to access the teknival area Ten days later and one in trepid Welsh crew is still camped out in Twyford Woods steadfastly refusing to go home without having their rig or van back A clean up organised by ravers of the site for the following weekend was
25. he smog of London tasted like the sweetest fresh air The sun beamed hotter every day and the long nights stretched out forever The acid the parties the music the food but the purpose Most of all the pur pose That feeling that what you did mat tered That security of knowing you were ALIVE And not just alive but one of many who understood Who were also free All on the same page in the same boat striving for the same end fuelled by that same des operate desire to show others LOOK Life is here It s this It s community its love and sharing and understanding and teamwork Its not EastEnders and Council Tax and childcare and take out fucking coffee remember it remember it so well And yet here am well and truly buried in ex actly that life take my two year old on walks to the park where we feed the ducks cheerios and carry a Styrofoam cup with Bev scrawled on it because apparently be ing a barista requires fuck all listening skills whatsoever push a pram and obsess over how far my next lot of money will get me and whether to prioritise food or electricity if it really comes down to it remember so much and I ve forgotten everything Yesterday saw an article about a group calling themselves the Love Activists who had squatted the Old Bank of England on Castle Street in Liverpool right on the steps of the town hall They were housing homeless people feeding them and help ing them
26. ith police forcing the door and the activists were uncondi tionally bailed until August There was not much news was made of it at the time It just seemed to tail off One or two of the home less people believe were found new ac commodation but out of the sixty that once slept there most were back on the streets They had great stories and loved the ad venture but in the end it was just something else that promised help and failed them because they were not equipped or pre pared for the task walked home recognising the same sting of years ago the bubble pops real ity comes crashing into view The world has not been changed by your brief burst of anger walked down Stanley Road looked out past the tobacco warehouses and re cycling plants down onto the bleak Mersey where smoke stacks strewn through the industrial maze belched out the sour smell of factory waste and huge wind turbines lumbered slowly around as the sun sank low on the horizon The sun bounced off the railway the whole track glowed bronze in the soft dying of it walked past rows and rows of dis used shops and empty houses walked past closed community centres and care homes thought to myself why aren t they squatting here Why are they taking those people to the town hall where they are most vulnerable The activists left went back to their own cities or on to pastures new They left a new small group behind giving the old rinse an
27. ize the generators they wanted with little attempt at negotiation At one point facing a large crowd in front they all started to reverse back into each other crushing one raver s neck between two vans and breaking his collarbone before one after another revers ing into each other like dominos It would have been hilarious had they not managed to run someone over in doing so Unmiti gated brutality was happening all over site with heavy handed violence being dished out without discrimination to anyone in the Cop s way By the morning only one large soundsys tem remained the rest having had their generators taken and packed up al though still on site It was at this point that the tide turned The roving riot squad clearly made up from poorly trained offic ers inexperienced in dealing with public or der situations and with numbers nowhere near enough to tackle the size of the crowd in front of them again attempted a genera tor seizure from this final rig This time they did not find it so easy Over the mic on the soundsystem the cry went up to defend the generator stand up to the police and repel the cops as peacefully as possible Despite incredible brutality on their part the local news reports the gen erator that was behind the rig and where some of the worst police violence took place as being covered in blood with much use of batons and pepperspray in the face of a majority of people who were
28. label www crux events org DON T Sat 24 October Night for real techno heads 10pom 6am Tickets from 8 Bar 512 512 Kingsland Road London E8 4AE facebook com events 1597447280504503 TEMPORARY AUTONOMOUS ART LONDON 3 14 November 2015 The Hive 260 Kingsland Road E8 4DG Check randomartists org or the TAA Facebook group for programme and news HORRORSHOW Fri 13 November Hardcore and breakcore night in North London 8 advance more OTD Bar a Bar 133 135 Stoke Newington Road N16 8BT facebook com events 3667 16163514225 MUSIC DAY SOLSTICE FUNDRAISER Sat 19 December London venue TBC www musicday org uk nightlife Advisory Service for Squatters www squatter org uk Squatting News en squat net Fight for Aylesbury Estate Campaign fightfortheaylesbury wordpress com London Wide Eviction Resistence evictionresistance squat net 3 www theregister co uk 2007 11 14 ripa_encryption_key_notice Links 1 www torproject org docs verifying signatures html en 2 www schneier com blog archives 2014 03 choosing_secure_1 html 3 www grc com misc truecrypt truecrypt htm
29. ments after its spotlights silhouetting the set up against the runway before any of the rigs had man aged to turn on It was from this point that the chaos really began to unfold As more and more punt ers and rigs started to arrive in the area police started to set up a huge exclusion zone around the party Nevertheless with multipole entrances to the airfield for vehi cles and pedestrians numbers began to swell on the site Eventually the police went so far as to close the A1 the main artery up from London to the North East in an effort to limit numbers closing off entrances as they were created Dozens of vehicles were abandoned in laybys surrounding fields and even on the hard shoulder of the A1 Inside the party things were not going so well A roving column of ten police riot vans were going from linkup to linkup informing us that they planned to seize all the genera tors on site and then allow everyone to stay til Monday to sober up and leave with our equipment not that we believed them By setting up spread out across the site the different soundsystems had inadvertently left themselves open to being picked off one at atime The police operation under the supervi sion of one incredibly incompetent Chief Inspector was one of the most publically dangerous we ve ever witnessed The col umn of riot vans ragged it around the site in the dark all night and well into the morn ing emerging in full riot gear to se
30. nd everything and everyone in between Recently at ASS we have wit nessed a shift in attitude that has seen pigs councils courts and other authorities bend over backwards to facili tate the hyper gentrified social cleansing of any thing that breathes good ness within the M25 In the office we have noted that there are more IPOs over standard Posses sion claims attempts at using S144 though it rarely sticks the use of old writs or warrants illegiti mately or violence and we have apparently entered or re entered the era of the siege where councils imprison buildings or entire es tates and their residents squatters and tenants alike behind fences guarded by dogs and the Orcs of Mordor Generally the Courts aren t buying any thing much either even water tight de fences aren t working you know the ones where we prove they don t even own the building that they re evicting people from Cough cough Lambeth County Court may the flaps of the ASS beat down on you for all eternity We have also seen the mutation of bail ifs and assorted idiot security guards whom have apparently now morphed matrix style into pseudo paramilitary forces of occupation in marginalised com munities Violence and the threat of vio lence is also on the up and not the kind of state targeted violence we love and sea aX Joe Fur adore so much so that it has become run of the mill to anticipate or e
31. ng their many initiatives the Ultras organise food collections for Refugee and Migrant Project or donations for Food Not Bombs One of the games this year wit nessed a Football Against Homophobia action On another occasion the team of FC Romania was greeted with a Romani ans Welcome banner after that very team was subject to racist abuse in the press from a manager of another rival team in the league The Ultras participated in support of the E15 Mothers Centre a squatted so cial centre for single mothers in Newham and they took part in a Stop the EDL March in Walthamstow Whether it is to rediscover your love of the game of football or embrace a match atmosphere where there is no place for discriminatory intolerant and alienating behaviour you are very welcome to visit The Old Spotted Dog and meet the fans They are sometimes anti social always antifascist The system We are religious and once we start looking for the hand of God we see His work everywhere Our God is the recession the To Let signs appearing on buildings like a semaphore that signals here Here we can do what the fuck we like here we can turn the derelict into a paradise a sybaritic Shangri La The means of acquisition unlike lawyers surveyors and piles of money are the crowbar the car jack the window shattered to glittering pieces Alarms always a constant opposition That too familiar ring follows us as we creep back through window
32. ople in the ears guess on the bright side at least UKIP didn t win Like it was never actu ally going to happen although 4 million fucking morons still voted for them the kind of morons that start sentences with Im not racist but watch Top Gear and don t realise that Al Murray The Pub Landlord is a satirical character but their rise in popularity was genuine ly quite worrying UKIP s election cam paign was pretty LOLworthy at times A LOLocaust if you will But while Nigel Farage smiling too much and drinking the weight of John Terry and Jim Da vidson and Katie Hopkins in pale ale in order to make himself come across as a regular British bloke is pretty funny it doesn t come close to the news that UKIP s Bristol candidate John Langley works as a pornstar under the name Jonny Rockard suppose we should be refreshed to know that a politician term used very loosely here has been honest about the work he has done out side of politics decided would help the 59 year old racist out yes really 59 and come up with some names for his future smut flicks The House Of Cummons Erection Campaign Creleleliatem aercle Poling Station Erection Campaign 2 General Erection Number 10 Going Downing Street his gay porn debut Coming Out Of The Cabinet Hung Parliament British Babes Straight Up The Ballot Box British Babes 2 Labia Government British Babes 3 Young Dumb and Full
33. rumoured in the local media to be another rave being planned The national media as usual have repeated the po lice story verbatim with the couple mi nor injuries sus tained by their officers trumpeted one of whom was hit by a car and sustained a minor injury with no mention that a dozen riot cops in full body armour had surrounded and were smash ing it to pieces with people inside panick ing the driver with little mention of the brutal injuries dished out to dozens and dozens of ravers many of whom were being entirely non violent An IPCC claim is being looked into with the help of an established law firm and people are being asked to supply video evidence of police brutality for this Debate has raged online about the use of violence against the police but it was their totally unnecessarily heavy handed and brutal tactics that antagonised an otherwise peaceful crowd as the huge number of online videos clearly shows UI timately when a cop is punching you in the face not to mention the use of batons and pepperspray for having committed no crime it is not illegal to attend a rave then why shouldn t people defend themselves The police investigation is ongoing and charges inevitably will be brought against some people but it was worth it Though the event may not have gone to plan in size or number of soundsystems that got onto site although numbers at Twyford are still estimated at least
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35. s and gates to retire and wait But then at other times the buildings welcome us as if they will us inside Gates left unlocked windows swinging in the breeze Sometimes we just walk up and the door is set wide the heating already on Maybe Dionysus Teshub Soma or Nin kasi watches over our shoulders willing us to success wanting us to flourish Or are we like the gods Agwu Dian Cecht Keyeekalduk So where large warehouses stand agape like gangrenous wounds we become surgeons Operating on the patient fixing up stitching together making do Administering anaesthetic counting down from ten to not hear the one already under The body politic unconscious on the table spread eagle under the knife Sometimes killed Always cured The queues massive a squirming shunting mass of people willing their way inside Where else can you buy freedom and so cheap The call goes out like a howl and the pack converges descends on the corpse of another capitalist failure We sink our teeth in and rip away at the flesh of industry commerce and capital Where manufacturing flees we ride into as makers start production lines of our own Everyone employed turning the rusted hulks of previous business into a constant adventure Here we are rulers of a sub bass empire that stretches until sunrise an empire that flies its flag in intended tatters Here we can fashion things to be in our own image Old cinemas a favourite The th
36. s energy and the increased crowds at raves that have come with it made us think it was a good opportunity to take another shot at an open invite national teknival a chance to welcome in the Tory government unify the UK scene somewhat hold an absolutely massive rave and at the very least if it all went tits up cause absolute chaos UK Tek was publically announced as close to the 23rd May as we could get away with to minimise chat on a now heavily po lice monitored Facebook and social me dia while allowing us to build up enough hype across the country to make it as big as possible We chose Twyford Airfield for Our main site a Forestry Commission site in Lincolnshire a county with easy access from many different parts of the country and that although it has been heavily raved in the past maintains a fairly poorly funded police force across a large force area After much work and little sleep the night finally arrived Initially everything seemed to be going well with several of the largest linkups and dozens of vehicles converging on the site at Twyford airfield at the same time in a well timed if chaotic feat of lo gistics However once on site things sud denly started to move very quickly for the worse A local biker gathering had meant that a force of already mobilised cops with riot gear in tow was there hardly fif teen minutes after we got onto the site fol lowed by a police chopper mo
37. s pretty interesting to see the parallels between Nowhere amp TAA DIY ethics temporary element no spectators everyone participates etc really enjoyed seeing children and people who wouldn t call themselves artists interacting with the space alongside street artists site specif ic installations and paintings by more es tablished artists from Cardiff The day times were very quiet but the evenings picked up and we had lots of different music from Perkie s piano punk songs to local hip hop boys to live techno and weird experimental shit We also had a poetry night life drawing class laughter yoga workshop subverted adverts pro jected onto the bank opposite up cycling and more We also had three great talks on the Sat urday afternoon including one about the history and future plans of TAA from one of the London crew People really enjoyed hearing these insights to make sense of what was happening at the first Cardiff TAA and our interpretation of a temporary free and safe social space There was a really healthy creative vibe and although much smaller than TAAs in other cities the feedback we ve received has all been pos itive apart from the landlord obviously The space continuously changed and evolved unlike normal galleries which are usually pretty stagnant and quiet By the Saturday night the space was com pletely unrecognisable from the office it once was All the art that people
38. sessions life drawing Capoeira language classes workshops free films and Nerd Night Check online for more hivedalston wordpress com schedule Or visit the space from Tues Saturday 260 Kingsland Road London E8 4DG VJ LONDON MEETUP First Weds of evert month Juno 134 135 Shoreditch High Street London E1 6JE vjlondon com JUNGLE SYNDICATE Fri 31 July 9om 3am 5 entry The Silver Bullet 5 Sta tion Place London N4 2DH facebook com events 1435396960102579 RUPTURE vs DISTANT PLANET Sat 8 August Indoor and outdoor music spaces pub quiz BBQ kids welcome in the day Midday 4am entry is 5 7 10 Fox amp Firkin 316 Lewisham High Street SE13 6JZ rupturelondon com distantplanet dance EARTH FIRST SUMMER GATHERING 19 24 August Five days of skill sharing for grassroots eco FOR FURTHER LISTINGS For gigs search for T Chances on Facebook Eroding Empire Eroding org uk International free parties shockraver free fr infoparty23 htm Other events www squatjuice com FOR THE ENCRYPTION ARTICLE References 1 www theregister co uk 2014 07 03 nsa_xkeyscore_stasi_scandal 2 Schneier Bruce Applied Cryptography pp 157 8 John Wiley amp Sons 1994 logical direct action in the Peak District earthfirstgathering org FUK REDDIN 2015 28 30 August Annual Bank Holiday weekend punk festival at the best DIY venue in London T Chances 399 High Road London N17 6QN facebook com events 1 10337
39. xperience it amongst the squatting community But has this buried us No In the words of Sweets Way Resists and many before them They thought that they could bury us they didnt know we were seeds squatters like single mums tenants or any other inadequate description of those in housing crisis are not getting beaten into dank submission but are forming new types of mutually supportive communi ties continuing our vast history of solidar ity and have branched out and looked up together Squatters have proved in strumental in other housing struggles and tenant led occupations also becoming excellent co conspirators most infamous ly perhaps during the occupation of The Aylesbury Estate where squatters and ten ants came together and ripped Southwark Council s siege fences down The ASS has also been branching out recently to play a key role in the legal support of many occu pations including The Ayles bury and Sweets Way and this is how we like it this is how it works the many headed Hydra But now more than ever it has fire in its eyes a hungry tummy and its coming to bite the scrotum clean off of all the heinous bullshit that attempts to engulf it and for 40 more years we will j happily be its ASS Alone we can do so little together we can totally fuck shit up properly Fuck the Fucking Fuckers and everyone on Facebook Lots of Love Your friendly Asses Advisory Service for Squatter
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