Audioslave: surfing and servicing

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Sunday June 22, 2003 16:01

by paul cummins - trying to write independent media

chewy at redbrick dot dcu dot ie

When Audioslave (previous Rage Against The Machine + Chris Cornell) were at the point on Wednesday 18th of June they contacted Irish action groups to have stalls at their concert to promote peace.

Audioslave a website you could check out http://www.audioslave.com/(go to the activism link) RATM have a long history of political activism http://www.ratm.com/

With short notice the IAWM and Gluaiseacht prepared leaflets etc for two stalls at the show.
Unfortunately due to a sever case of last minute-itus and technical difficulties Indymedia could not set up a stall but the Gluaiseacht table had our indymedia flyers (ta:)) inviting people to join the working group and hundreds of flyers were handed out aswell as numerous young people coming up to sign up to Gluaiseacht or the IAWM mailing lists.The Gluasieacht table handed out lots of information about environmental issue particularily Esso.

It’s a great example of the power of positive action against war and use of music in politics.
Chris Cornell did not say anything during the show but on their last big song they unfurled a huge peace sign over their own logo, which received a cheer.

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by pc

Tue Jun 24, 2003 22:01

that was might have been a mistake to call it an iawm stall but im sure the piles of leaflets you see were iawm leaflets and there was just a handful of
papers, you know as well as anyone people are members of many groups theres nothing wrong with that... in itself

Why Dont IAWM

by Very Very Curious

Mon Jun 23, 2003 16:14

Tell us why there were copies of Socialist Worker on the IAWM stall. The main article says it was an IAWM stall.

Are you awake Aoife/Richie?

another jealous trot whinging about the popularity of 'Che' tshirts

by rage against fake lefties

Mon Jun 23, 2003 16:00

Of course there were people there wearing 'che' tshirts, Audioslave are political and many of their fans are too, although most would run a mile from the boring trotskyist losers who constantly bore the few people who bother to read Indymedia any more.

Was there

by Che

Mon Jun 23, 2003 03:40

Maybe because the audience was mainly middle class twats that visited Asha to buy the odd Che Guevara t-shirt call themselves anarchists because they do fuck all and then critisise socialists because they would do away with their private housing.

IAWM

by Ed - Gluaiseacht

Mon Jun 23, 2003 02:42

fight_back23 at hotmail dot com

The IAWM table was in fact an swp table....no suprise there.....but nearly all the flyers that went out from that table seemed to end up on the floor with no effort made to clear them up after!
good nite tho with alot of positive interest shown.

old coins

by goldfish - complete lack of

Mon Jun 23, 2003 00:08

goldfish at hotmail dot com

have you ever checked down the back of the sofa to find coins from far flungs parts of the world and you have no idea how they got there....well this is also how SWP publications find there way into your posession..... it is unexplainable. But think about it you'll never ever have any use for any of these items....

If It Was An IAWM Stall

by Potsdam

Sun Jun 22, 2003 16:43

Then why were copies of Socialist Worker on the table?

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