[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.

Okay, I'm back from the meeting 45+ parents/sakters showed up. We must become an organinzation first, but basically they said "IN time". Hoorah.

Well, I went to a "No Coal Plant" protest/informational meeting last night. Learned some stuff, knew some stuff already, but it was quite a good meeting. They had lots of people from the Clean Air Coalition, allergists, hippies, all sorts of people. Very well organized. Got a free sign and some bumper stickers too.

I went to the massive protest in DC a few months back. It was incredible; there were like 300,000 people there, and there were maybe another 100,000 who were unable to get to the city because the metro "had a schedualed maintainence." I even saw a few street punx scattered throughout the crowd, and a hardcore/hippie girl. That was weird. But after the protest, there was the Operation Ceasefire concert. I showed up about half an hour early, and there was no one there, so I was in the front row when JELLO BIAFRA started hosting the whole thing. It was great; me and my friend were 20 feet away from him. Then some psuedo-punk bands came on, and a few acoustic people, and there were some speakers in between, like Cindy Sheehan. There was also this Hip-Hop band there called the Coup. I usually shy away from anything even related to the genre, but they were actually really good. Really. I was just starting to get really happy because Ian MacKaye's new band was going to be on next, but then my friend's mom got bitchy and made us leave. That sucked alot of anus. So anyway, thats about the only real protest I've ever been to, and actually the only time I've ever seen any big name Punk people.

[QUOTE=WorldWideTakeover]I went to the massive protest in DC a few months back. It was incredible; there were like 300,000 people there, and there were maybe another 100,000 who were unable to get to the city because the metro "had a schedualed maintainence." I even saw a few street punx scattered throughout the crowd, and a hardcore/hippie girl. That was weird. But after the protest, there was the Operation Ceasefire concert. I showed up about half an hour early, and there was no one there, so I was in the front row when JELLO BIAFRA started hosting the whole thing. It was great; me and my friend were 20 feet away from him. Then some psuedo-punk bands came on, and a few acoustic people, and there were some speakers in between, like Cindy Sheehan. There was also this Hip-Hop band there called the Coup. I usually shy away from anything even related to the genre, but they were actually really good. Really. I was just starting to get really happy because Ian MacKaye's new band was going to be on next, but then my friend's mom got bitchy and made us leave. That sucked alot of anus. So anyway, thats about the only real protest I've ever been to, and actually the only time I've ever seen any big name Punk people.[/QUOTE]

Hopefully you weren't one of those kids 'moshing' for that.

Ian is lame

[QUOTE=TheNowhereman42]Ian is lame[/QUOTE]
wheres th love, man?

Well no, I wasn't one of the three or four kids who were sort of dancing, but I could see them from where I was. They just kindof had a circle going for a little while, but no one else was into it so they stopped pretty quickly. And I actually have no idea what the new Ian is like, but I figure it would still be good to see him, just to say that I have.

[QUOTE=WorldWideTakeover]I went to the massive protest in DC a few months back. It was incredible; there were like 300,000 people there, and there were maybe another 100,000 who were unable to get to the city because the metro "had a schedualed maintainence." I even saw a few street punx scattered throughout the crowd, and a hardcore/hippie girl. That was weird. But after the protest, there was the Operation Ceasefire concert. I showed up about half an hour early, and there was no one there, so I was in the front row when JELLO BIAFRA started hosting the whole thing. It was great; me and my friend were 20 feet away from him. Then some psuedo-punk bands came on, and a few acoustic people, and there were some speakers in between, like Cindy Sheehan. There was also this Hip-Hop band there called the Coup. I usually shy away from anything even related to the genre, but they were actually really good. Really. I was just starting to get really happy because Ian MacKaye's new band was going to be on next, but then my friend's mom got bitchy and made us leave. That sucked alot of anus. So anyway, thats about the only real protest I've ever been to, and actually the only time I've ever seen any big name Punk people.[/QUOTE]

Sounds pretty awesome, shame about your friend's mum though. Word to the wise, always go after punk/hippie chicks you see in protests/demonstrations/meetings/concerts. They are really nice (I know I'm generalising, but still) and there are very few posers among them, mostly because they look too silly to be considered cool enough to pose as. And some of them are very sexually open-minded (ie. they will shag you even if you is a minger, or if they have a boyfriend:thumb:).