The site of the Bike Bloc construction, called the Candy Factory, was just raided by the police. I was peacefully chopping up bikes when they stormed in.
Danish people are generally big, the police are some of their biggest physical examples, add to that cold weather puffy unibody suits and body armor, and they are fucking terrifying. After “processing” and expelling us, they’ve got all our equipment hostage. This includes the Sound Swarm gear: bikes, loudspeakers, my computer and sound files. Let’s hope it’s not collected as evidence. Conspiracy to make noise?
They blocked the whole street with riot vans and even brought along a HazMat team and some other important looking crime-scene style specialists. What an honor! Or a waste!
Basta with the puto cops. There are important issues at stake & I’m tired of being hounded from place to place by a bunch of gorillas with guns.
December 16th, 2009 at 3:05 am - Edit
Hope it will be better tomorow for you and your stuff.. !
December 16th, 2009 at 12:27 pm - Edit
vaya tela. pues a lo basico. marchando en la calle y cantando. el ruido hacen las caserolas. si puedes dirigir los bicis, puedes dirigir un choral anti-cop15 tambien. de lo que differentes partes cantan differentes estrofas, ya saps, “que en los mitines no se decide nada”, ” que solo se enriquezen mas”… para eso no hace falta ni bici ni compu. puños a lo mejor.
December 18th, 2009 at 11:53 am - Edit
Hey Hope you managed to get through the blizzard and play some sounds wednesday. Would have loved to hear the setup in action. Best Tom