The Squatters Network of Brighton held a march in Brighton yesterday. They didn’t seem to be demanding rights or protesting injustice. The only placard I saw proclaimed “Kill The Bill”. The Bill seemed unfazed and followed them in a van along Western Road. My hypocrisy sensors buzzing as I note that some Welshy can get jailed for tweeting racist comments yet a bunch of squatters can march through the street threatening to kill policeman without comment.
Squatters Network Brighton
While meandering around Brighton this afternoon I came across Games Workshop in Meeting House Lane. There was a bit of a stur inside so I went in to take a look. It seems that they have been running a war games campaign for the last month or so and one of the final games was taking place. A large table stood in the center of the shop laden with various science fiction themed war game paraphernalia. It seemed to me that there were around three people on each side. They discussed tactics, referred to thick manuals and measured blast radii. I hadn’t realised there was so much to it.
Games Workshop
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Occupy Brighton
An Occupy protest has sprung up in Victoria Gardens Brighton oposite the King & Queen pub. A bunch of tents and some friendly people open for a chat. They had some good slogans. “Chose love over fear” and “All money is a matter of belief”.
I guess the latter has been true since governments came off the gold standard. Since then it is possible that, if the politicians and bankers screw up enough, people will lose all faith in money. They will see it for what it is: mere paper and numbers in computers. The problems is that millions of us, necessarily, have stakes in money in the form of investments, savings and pensions. However, these being hit by the current crisis the danger is that people do lose belief in the system. Like God, money requires faith. Without faith, it is nothing.
Occupy Brighton
Occupy Brighton
hove station
City Books in Western Road have arranged for Alistair Darling to speak at The Old Market in Hove at 7pm on Wednesday 13th October.
Darling speaking at The Old Market in Hove on Wednesday October 13th at 7pm
Brighton State of the City report
Brighton & Hove council have a Flickr site and, along with pictures of our city, have published some interesting snippets of information in easy to digests tablet form. Good work! B&H C.
An accompanying report is available here.
Cascade by Stephane Cauchy at Fabrica, Brighton
There is an interesting piece of installation art on display at Fabrica at the moment. Cascade by Stephane Cauchy is a series of buckets suspended on pulleys over a tank of water. Pipes run down into the buckets and they fill at different rates. Now and then one bucket will become so fill of water that it will pivot on an axel and empty the water into the tank at which point the bucket becomes light and is pulled up by the other buckets which are filling up. OK, OK…. you probably have to see it.
Also good to see that a band was playing on the bird cage band stand and they’ve laid out deck chairs for people to sit an enjoy the music.
Deck Chairs by the Birdcage Bandstand in Hove
dog with trainers
dog trainer
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I saw this dog with little trainers on the bus today in Brighton. It’s occurred to me before that dogs that run around on tarmac and concrete must get sore paws so maybe it’s a good idea. A quick look around the net reveals that dog shoes and other clothing are readily available. Checkout neopaws.com and doggiestylestore.com
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