Projects
Formed in 1999, their first major action was the Circle Line Party - a party on London Underground's Circle Line which attracted around 150 people armed with sound systems, disco lights and bars all disguised as luggage.
We're a bunch of fuck-wits, really. So if we can do this, then you can.
–Agent Robin, quoted in Red Pepper, May 2004 edition.If you don't look like your average protester, there's less of a barrier to break down.
–Agent Bristly Pioneer, quoted in The Observer, Jan 2008 edition.Projects of the Space Hijackers have included the following:
- Becoming the Official Protestors of the London 2012 Olympics
- Zapatista Army of National Liberation protests
- Spoof Planning Permission Applications
- A Second and Third Circle Line Party
- Inner-City Midnight Cricket
- Mayday Anarchists vs Members of Parliament Cricket
- "arms dealing" at the DSEI arms fair
- Using a parking meter space as a rented office
- 'Supporting' Nike with banners including "Sweatshops ROCK!" at their sponsored events
- 'Auctioning' a tank outside the DSEi weapons exhibition in 2007
- Running a 'professional protest stall' on the London Police march for more pay, with advice for the police on their rights as protesters
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Famous quotes containing the word projects:
“But look what we have built ... low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace.... Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums.... Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.”
—Jane Jacobs (b. 1916)
“One of the things that is most striking about the young generation is that they never talk about their own futures, there are no futures for this generation, not any of them and so naturally they never think of them. It is very striking, they do not live in the present they just live, as well as they can, and they do not plan. It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for a future, none at all.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)