The Bigger Picture… just to reinforce the message, the Photos section of KYPP online now has even more on it, including (in the Punk Lives section) a report written by Penny Rimbaud on the first Stop the City demo. Embarassing to admit, but totally missed this when it came out.
What I can add is that the idea for Stop the City came from Dave Morris – of McLibel trial fame, longest trial in English legal history – and London Greenpeace. It was organised from a house on Ickburgh Road, Upper Clapton, Hackney. Dave and others (including my future wife Pinki) had been given the house by the GLC so they could organise an anti-nuclear march from Faslane in Scotland to Greenham in Wiltshire.
About 16 years later, a conversation between Dave and Reclaim the Streets ( who emerged out of anti M11 campaign of 1993/4) inspired a similar protest – ‘Reclaim the City ‘ 1st May 1999 [actually think it was 18 June – J18, Ist may was 2000 one], which was one of the first ‘anti-globalisation’ protests.
There was a webpage with this info on it, but last time I looked it had vanished into cyberspace. I think found the link from John Eden’s web site. Will check again and edit this to include if found.
Penguin
January 23, 2008 at 7:44 pmAlso a picture of everybody’s favorite scrumpy punks the mighty DISORDER on page 4!
Nic
January 24, 2008 at 11:09 amYeah, hehehe…
An ‘iconic’ picture of Mower (singer for Chaos UK) being grabbed in a chokehold by a nasty policeman appeared as the front cover for the 2nd LP by Chaos UK…
sg
January 27, 2008 at 12:00 amThe policeman that was choking people in STC that was used on the Chaos UK LP cover was Seargant D108 of the City of London police (seered on my memory as he hit me really hard when we were trapped on STC 83). Just looked it up on the interweb, yep thats Sergeant D108 alright, what a ****. Didn’t Conflict use that pic as well?