[QUOTE=coheneran]If my american geography is correct, it probably isn't, northern cali is the part with most of the redwoods isn't it? because if it is you're surrounded by small camps of Forest Defenders from Earth First! and Green Peace Action and Friend Of The Earth. They're full of conscientous punks and other activists (well duh).[/QUOTE]
i went to soulfest a few weeks back, but you could hardly call that a protest. but i woudnt be suprised if there was many orgnizations around here, i just havent looked. im only 16 so my choices are limited by the parents.

No protests where i live, and i have to drive because im in a rural area. I would have gone to a anti-war protest in a city near me a couple years ago but i didnt have a ride.

Has anyone ever been to Burning Man Festival? I would love to go sometime. I think I'm going to the summer after I graduate high school if at all possible.

I saw a Malcolm in the Middle episode where they went to that and it looks like a big hippie partying fest

My local public transportation is on strike :upset:. It's going to suck getting to shows now

[QUOTE=ihatecelebrities]I saw a Malcolm in the Middle episode where they went to that and it looks like a big hippie partying fest[/QUOTE]

Yeah it also experiments with the concept of a gift economy. Little to no money is exchanged during the festival. There's also I lot of art displays which interest me. And when they torch the burning man sculpture, that must be something to behold.

[QUOTE=Skidmark Steve]My local public transportation is on strike :upset:. It's going to suck getting to shows now[/QUOTE]

JOIN THE PICKETS! FIGHT THE FATCATS! FASCIST PIGS, ON THE BEAT! FASCIST PIGS, IN THE STREETS!

I just came back from a Class War bonfire night party in Hackney. It was fun. Cool fireworks, a bonfire, general putting down of the police, burning effigies of Thatcher, Reagan, Blair and I made one of Sharon. Alcohol, ganja, you know how it goes. I got invited to a squat party in Manor House or Manor Park somewhere by a guy from Colorado.

I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it.

[QUOTE=Brain Toad]I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it.[/QUOTE]
Flyering!

[QUOTE=RudeBoyStompin]Yeah it also experiments with the concept of a gift economy. Little to no money is exchanged during the festival. There's also I lot of art displays which interest me. And when they torch the burning man sculpture, that must be something to behold.[/QUOTE]

Its all a bit pagan though.

[QUOTE=Brain Toad]I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it.[/QUOTE]

Why are you against picketing?

Did anyone go to the huge anti-war protest in Washington D.C.? I went, and it was a very emotional experience. It was cool to see all the Vietnam war veterans carrying the same flags they carried back then. Anyway, it was really awesome, and I was wondering if anyone else in the punk forum went.

[quote=coheneran]Why are you against picketing?[/quote]
Congratulations, you get jokes!

[quote=Anti-Prefix]Did anyone go to the huge anti-war protest in Washington D.C.? I went, and it was a very emotional experience. It was cool to see all the Vietnam war veterans carrying the same flags they carried back then. Anyway, it was really awesome, and I was wondering if anyone else in the punk forum went.[/quote]

Was that the World Can't Wait protest, or another one?

World Can't Wait was in SF (and across the country) last wednesday. 13 people got arrested, 2 for molotov cocktails, what morons.

[QUOTE=Brain Toad]I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it.[/QUOTE]Stop pawning Hedburg jokes off as your own.

[quote=shane italian]Stop pawning Hedburg jokes off as your own.[/quote]

I never said it was my own.

[Quote=Brain Toad]I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it.[/Quote]

I still don't get it...
Is picketing in the USA the same as it is in England?

[QUOTE=coheneran]I still don't get it...
Is picketing in the USA the same as it is in England?[/QUOTE]
hes AGAINST picketing, but he doesnt know how to show it (meaning he would be picketing AGAINST picketing to show it)

*rubs sweat off face* i hope that cleared it up for you, i said "picketing" to many times for one sentance.

The picketing joke was terrible, it made me unlaugh.

no it was very clever a well thought out joke. good work man really good work.

Today all the skateboaders in my town are going befroe the city council and requesting a skatepark because we're tired of being kicked out of everywhere. This is just the first in a series of meetings we will have and we are expecting a large turnout of folks.

[QUOTE=chairman_of_the_board]Today all the skateboaders in my town are going befroe the city council and requesting a skatepark because we're tired of being kicked out of everywhere. This is just the first in a series of meetings we will have and we are expecting a large turnout of folks.[/QUOTE]

Be prepared to protest in a few years or whenever they finish their half-assed park.

yeah, councils have no idea how to build skateparks, they never ask skaters what they actually want in there park. our local one has been falling apart for years.

yeah, councils have no idea how to build skateparks, they never ask skaters what they actually want in there park. our local one has been falling apart for years.

We would be satisfied with anything, honestly.

we have been trying to get a skatepark here 4 years but the council keeps claiming there was not enough support but there is quite a few skaters in town and thier parents too. lazy council ****s.

[QUOTE=chairman_of_the_board]We would be satisfied with anything, honestly.[/QUOTE]

Trust me, get involved in the planning or trash the whole idea. My borough council in London (Barnet) built a skatepark ON THE SIDE OF A HILL! I'm not kidding. It consists of 100s of metal rails going down the tarmacked hill and a slippery metal quarter pipe in the end that's too thin to do anything on it safely, apart from lip tricks.

When they were planning a skatepark around here they had a bunch of skaters work on the planning comittee. But they still haven't built the park. The town next time mine has one, which is behind a Taco Bell and just looks like a bunch of speed bumps.

[QUOTE=Brain Toad]When they were planning a skatepark around here they had a bunch of skaters work on the planning comittee. But they still haven't built the park. The town next time mine has one, which is behind a Taco Bell and just looks like a bunch of speed bumps.[/QUOTE]

That's because skaters are stupid and don't think of people like us bladers and the poor BMXers.

protests...i went on strike from work...but the strike was about pay debat...and how we wanted more...i didnt join the pickets...i'm as punX as charlie chaplin flucking hanika rice...that...i'd...pay...to...see

The skatepark in my town is a joke, everything's broken and the coping on the mini ramp is gone. There's a nice concrete one like 20 minutes away, and a pretty big indoor one. I don't skate anymore, I used to inline though.