Several years ago, I heard of a group of internet pranksters who were annoying the Church of Scientology, 4 chan/Anonymous we're regularly picketing the church's bookshops in London, the stories of direct action I heard were hilarious, through connected friends... 'One bloke ran into a Scientology bookshop and rubbed his fresh seamen over several books before running off', abusive bizarre phone calls, pizza deliveries and demos which featured non stop Rick Ashley, on a set of speakers, a hoard of goth teens wearing anime cosplay outfits, when I said "why target Scientology?" One of them replied "cause it's a laugh..."
They're attitude was so out of this world, even myself a rowdy bastard found it hard to understand.

gradually in 2010 with the student movement in full swing anonymous took different direction towards government, backed with Charlie Veitch etc... I liked this as I was aware of the potential of Anonymous, and in my wrecking crew there were two lads we took on who were previously picketing Scientology.
Eventually Occupy sprung up, whilst most anarchos in the UK were lying low due to an attempted revolution in Tottenham that Summer, it was a perfect time to see a new generation spring up with they're own interpretation of the rules.

However not wanting to sound rude, I feel Occupy sucked the rowdiness out of the UK activist scene, Occupy London did little to shut the city down, it just made a joke out of a movement, why do we actually have to camp out in the city?
Democracy Village in parliament square in 2010 proved that all those camp sites do is make you dependant on the nearest Starbucks toilet.

Why waste all of your resources building a shanty town outside St. Paul's?
I won't talk about the media assault or undercover cops or complete lawless of the site. Or the naive attitude of the people...

Your surrounded by CCTV, any activist who set foot in there would of had they're photo taken, and any wifi signals would of been scrutinised, your basically painted a massive red target for Special Branch and you've said "come and get it"...

and I'm sure they have taken it.

Call me old fashioned, but we're is the spontaneous attitude?

What's wrong with building up a good 12 volt car battery sound system and playing some noisy music and inviting the youth of London to a 'careers day' in the city?

Like Vice magazine said, the mask you insist on wearing says your a group of graphic novel enthusiasts who don't trust the real world.

Every event you organise someone gets a lightbulb idea of camping out for 24 hours, YAWN.

Instead of 24 hours with a guaranteed warm police cell waiting, why not try to get the protest done in a shorter amount of time... Like 2 hours?

Make a good video, one which will go viral.
do you really have to use the Requiem for a Dream soundtrack for every video?
Why not drop a bit of UK Bass into the video, emphasise a few snippets of what Russel Brand said, and try to make the video look like something the kids are going to be interested in...
Or that 'fuck the Tories' song which was on Twitter last week...

On the morning of the day, a few small groups could visit the main media offices, like BskyB at Victoria, ItN at Southbank and do some small protests, then the main group meeting at Portland street.
We meet at Portland Street outside the BBC office, chuck a few paint bombs then move on, highly mobile, leaderless, come up with some sort of game, capture the flag...

 http://capturetheflaglondon.blogspot.com

Imagine 5000 masked up teenagers running around Oxford street, the media would be all over it, or a game of football in Oxford circus, no goal posts, 17 footballs, with a sound system in the background, the cops would be spread out allover the Westend as the mob pickets shops over Workfare/UK Uncut or an army recruitment office, and brakes up into smaller bands, maybe a few bin bags are dumped in the road to slow the flow of traffic? It's a Saturday, tourists, Londoners and pickpockets are the audience, make a real street theatre.
Bring traffic to a standstill all over the centre of London

Invite anti war groups, and even the Swp, and the unions who still have backbone.

My favourite demos in London are always ones away from Whitehall and the City, and in places where normal people are, Hackney, Brixton, the West-end, lots of sprinting down backstreets...


Of course if Anonymous published an official press release the news room editors would have a chance to decide if it's a story, tell them Russel Brand is coming...

One final idea for Anonymous, before the big event each day work out where the day's media scrum is in London, and go there and interrupt live news report, always a laugh, do that to the Sky News , BBC, ItN crews who cover events in London, and post your results online...

See you in the streets,

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