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| <nettime> Pastry (and mayonnaise) Attacks in Brazil, USA, Canada, and Russia |
On August 28, an anti-FTAA activist pied American Embassador Peter Allgeier, co-president of the FTAA, during a press conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The activist, a member of Bakers Without Borders, released a note protesting the negotiations of the FTAA. The FTAA will concentrate wealth, increase poverty, and destroy labor, consumer and enviromental rights, said the note. The protest also focused attention on the disregard Brazil's government has shown for a September 2002 unofficial plebiscite in which over 10 million people voted "No" to the FTAA. Last month, President Inacio Lula da Silva said at a meeting with George Bush that negotiations will proceed and should finish by 2005. Brazilian social movements and NGOs protest the continuation of negotiations. The pieing comes just two weeks ahead of a WTO meeting in Cancun, which will be met with massive protest. Editor's note: check out the incredible pie action photos at: http://www.midiaindependente.org/pt/blue/2003/08/262167.shtml ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Former Presidential Candidate Gets 'Pied' At Event 3:16 p.m. PDT August 12, 2003 [AP] LOS ANGELES -- Ralph Nader got a pie in the face at an event Tuesday with one of the people running for California governor. The former Green Party presidential candidate was in San Francisco to endorse Peter Camejo, who's one of six declared Greens running in the recall election. At the end of a news conference, a man ran into the room, shoved a pie in Nader's face, and ran out. Nader threw some of the pie at the unidentified man as he took off -- but the police didn't catch him. Later, Camejo said he thought the Democrats were behind the pie throwing. The Green Party will announce on Thursday which candidate it will endorse. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Monday morning, in the beautiful (yet corporate headquarter ridden) city of Calgary, Alberta's premier was busy flipping flapjacks and beef sausages (because he can't sell them to his friends in the USA anymore) when a team of dedicated pie-throwers delivered him the long awaited dessert that he deserved! July 9 2003 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE KLEIN "STAMPIED" BY THE BANANA-CREAM THREE Monday morning, in the beautiful (yet corporate headquarter ridden) city of Calgary, Alberta's premier was busy flipping flapjacks and beef sausages (because he can't sell them to his friends in the USA anymore) when a team of dedicated pie-throwers delivered him the long awaited dessert that he deserved: a succulent banana-cream pie, that Ralph Klein himself qualified as "good tasting", unlike his politics (which leave a bad taste too often in many people's mouths). Obviously, the Banana-Cream three, who were from Calgary, did not include a married gay couple. Ralph would not permit that in his province, even though the rest of Canada's governments will stop harassing gay citizens and finally treat same-sex couples equally by letting them marry. They find it utterly funny that Mister Klein would try to give the pie-throwers lessons in democracy. They suggest he opens a dictionary, looks up the word "plutocracy", and then tells them how much it costs to become Premier of a province like Alberta. Is it surprising to see Ralph Klein opposing the Kyoto Accord for the right of big corporations to pollute, the same corporations that finance his campaigns? Talk about democracy in action! He even threatened to separate from Canada for his friends' right to pollute. Even if you do separate, Mister Klein, your pollution will not stay over Alberta, and all the provinces are concerned. This pie will not fill the hole in the ozone layer, but it feels good to our environment, because, for once, the joke is not at our expense. Remember when King Ralph went in a homeless shelter on a winter night, completely drunk, to yell at the people there and throw money in their faces before leaving in a rage? Afterwards, he confessed he had an alcohol problem; the three were happy to hear it, because, for a while, they thought he had a problem with the poor The stampede breakfast marked the first time that Ralph Klein's face was red in public and it was not due to drinking. They hope the pie have finally cured him. Pie High! P.S. Now, Mister Klein does not only have the threat of separation in common with Quebec, both provinces have pied their Premier. There are only 8 more to go! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dressing down for election chief text: Artyom Vernidoub Photo by I. Ponomaryov [1]http://www.gazeta.ru/2003/08/28/Dressingdown.shtml The campaign to clean up electioneering by Russia's top electoral official, Alexander Veshnyakov, has got off to a bad start. As he closed a five-day conference involving 27 political parties at the Manezh exhibition centre in Moscow, the mud-slinging, or rather the mayonnaise-slinging, began. A radical activist from the National Bolshevik Party was detained after squirting a packet of salad dressing at the Electoral Commission's chief and shouting: ''Maniac Veshnyakov! Stop enacting this farce!'' Veshnyako, his suit splattered with mayonnaise, retorted by calling the young activists ''Scumbags''. Taking part in the closing ceremony of the Elections-2003 forum held at the Manezh exhibition centre in Moscow were the Communist leader Gennady Zyuganov, the LDPR leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky, and secretary of the general council of United Russia among others. They were listening to a keynote speech by Chairman of the Central Election Commission Alexander Veshnaykov when the attack took place. It was at his initiative that the party leaders had got together and signed a joint declaration pledging to behave ethically during the election campaign, to refrain from using false information to discredit opponents and insulting each other. Ironically, as Veshnyakov was speaking of the importance of honesty in the processing of results, he himself came under attack. ''For no-one to doubt the outcome of the voting, and for the voters to conceive a desire to take part in elections'' the CEC chief was saying, when a young man holding a small plastic bag ran up to him and squirted mayonnaise over his suit jacket while his comrades began scattering leaflets and reciting: ''There will be no honest elections!'' and ''Maniac Veshnyakov, stop enacting this farce, this is no theatre.'' @@ @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ "O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, That I am meek and gentle with these butchers. Cry 'Havoc,' and let slip the pies of war." -William Shakespeare ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Biotic Baking Brigade.....coming soon to a pie-o-region near you. Look for "Let Slip the Pies of War: The BBB Cookbook," to be published by AK Press <akpress.org > in early 2004. PLEASE NOTE: the BBB has a new email address and website... [email protected] bioticbakingbrigade.org Friends of the BBB: c/o POB 40130, San Francisco, CA 94140, Amerika @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ References 1. http://www.gazeta.ru/2003/08/28/Dressingdown.shtml # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [email protected] and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected]