Put The Fun Between Your Legs in Copenhagen

bristol | protests | news report Wednesday November 04, 2009 15:53 by friend of shibby - Lab of I I

Plus Action Medic Training

The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination and Climate Camp are plotting together to design and build a new tool of civil disobedience for the RECLAIM POWER mobilisations taking place in Copenhagen, during the UN climate summit in December. Made from hundreds of recycled bikes, The Bike Bloc will merge device of mass transportation and pedal powered resistance machine, postcapitalist bike gang and art bike carnival.

For those of you who would like to mend poeple rather than bikes, some action medic training is happening in London.

Everything we take for granted: the weekend, gay rights, contraception, women wearing trousers, the right to strike, to form a union, the abolition of slavery. Everything was won by disobedience, fought for by people who refused and resisted, claimed back from those in power. Their disobedience was a gift to our future.

Every form of rebellion we know, from protest marches to lock-ons, barricades to boycotts, factory occupations to street parties, super glue actions to climate camps was invented, dreamt up and designed. More often than not, by a small group of people huddled together, laughing and creatively conspiring with each other; engineering the art of resistance.

The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination and Climate Camp are plotting together to design and build a new tool of civil disobedience for the RECLAIM POWER mobilisations taking place in Copenhagen, during the UN climate summit in December. Made from hundreds of recycled bikes, The Bike Bloc will merge device of mass transportation and pedal powered resistance machine, postcapitalist bike gang and art bike carnival.

Bike hackers, welders, climate campers, artists and engineers will be working together to design and build The Bike Bloc across two cities: Bristol (Arnolfini Gallery 15th 30th Nov.) and Copenhagen (4th- 18th Dec.) Come and take part, either designing and building the prototype in Bristol, putting together the real thing in Copenhagen or swarming with us on the day of civil disobedience on the 16th of December.

*Put the fun between your legs, become the bike bloc.*

funbetweenyourlegs.info

bikebloc@climatecamp.org.uk

ACTION MEDIC TRAINING

20th-22nd Nov in London

This is a 20 hour course that will teach you the basics of general First
Aid, as well as skills to deal with medical situations specific to direct
action, such as dealing with chemical weapons and the police. The course
will involve scenarios and hands-on practice. Even if you already have
formal medical/first aid training this will greatly enhance your skills of
scene assesment and working in a conflict environment with poor resources.

The weekend training format is
friday evening 7-9
saturday 10-6
sunday 10-5

There will be first aid kits available at cost price at the end of the
training.

There will be food throughout the training and a place to stay if your
coming from out of town.
The london venue is tbc.
The cost will be roughly £10 sliding scale donation this is to cover
material costs.
There are only 20 places so please RSVP soon and if you cant come let us
know so we can fill your place.

contact maxmaxr@fastmail.net or manga_mog@hotmail.com to reserve a place

bike tank in construction