Meet 20:30
Friday 19th June
The Globe Pub
199 Moorgate
Dress in Cricket Whites, and then at closing time,
challenge the capitalists to a match for the city.
The Space Hijackers teamed up with a various
other troublemakers in order to lead a funeral procession
through the East End marking the spread of Starbucks and other
unwelcome multinationals.
Culminating in the closing down of the
Starbucks In Whitechapel, this was a day for protecting our
local community from the beasts of global unfair-trade.
Mayday
09 - GUILTY A
CELEBRATION OF THE POLICE STATE
THERE IS NO PLACE FOR FREEDOM IN AN AGE
OF TERROR! GIVE UP THE FIGHT AND CELEBRATE OUR STATUS AS HAPPY
PRISONERS. HOW MANY MORE MUST DIE BEFORE WE LEARN TO DO AS
WE'RE TOLD?
In response to the massive over-zealous
police operation around the G20 which saw peaceful protestors
beaten, an innocent man killed and thousands put under illegal
detention in a kettle, the hijackers decided to return to
the scene of the crime and highlight our police state. Around
400 people turned up to revel and critique our state with
the street party going on until night.
full report coming soon...
In
the light of the police's conduct at the G20 demonstrations,
where arbitrary detention, assault and eventually murder seemed
to be not simply the actions of a few 'bad apples', but rather
institutional policy. We were glad to see that someone had
decided to make their recruitment adverts rather more honest.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
During the G20 protests in the city 11 of the Space Hijackers
were arrested whilst taking part in one of our actions. They
have now all been freed on bail.
Until this matter is sorted out, our solicitors have advised
us to make a "NO COMMENT" report on this action...
MISS
UNIVERSITY LONDON
"VOTING BOOTH"
The Miss University
London competition has been coming under flak ever since the
two men who came up with the idea launched it. Billed as "empowering"
and "educational" the competition asks female university
students to parade around infront of a panel before being
judged on who has the best genes. Gender and Social stereotypes
are re-affirmed, one lucky girl gets to live the dream for
the night the rest go home in tears. This is then called entertainment.
Agent Koshka decided she
had had enough and suggested the Hijackers get busy coming
up with a plan to compliment the feminist protest and variety
of other actions going on. In true Hijacker style we came
up with a tongue in cheek exaggeration of the contest, sending
a group of mainly male agents to go down and offend everyone.
The
Great Whitechapel Starbucks Who Dunnit Mystery?
Starbucks
in Whitechapel had been a centre of protest and anger since
it first announced it was going to open it nippleless mermaid
clad doors in the East End. The Hijackers ourselves had held
many actions at the store. However on January 13th all of
our anger at the store had been outdone when mystery assailants
smashed through the front doors and threw a firebomb in.
We
took it on ourselves to try and solve the mystery, oh and
perhaps accidentally remind everyone that Starbucks has such
a list of enemies, that the mystery bombers could have come
from all walks of life.
NYE
Underwater Pirate Party
erm, we were veeeeery drunk. report coming soon once we remember...
Buy Nothing Day this year saw the Hijackers
calling for a TopShop SwapShop.
In the light of the governments
calls for people to spend our way out of a recession with
rampant consumerism, we thought it might be better to look
at what we're spending all our hard earnt cash on. Our highstreets
promote fast changing fashion produced in sweatshop conditions,
poisoning cotton farmers and creating endless landfill, all
this aside from the depression caused by the blanket advertising
asking people to max out their credit and fit to airbrushed
examples of humanity.
The TopShop SwapShop was
an attempt to create a space of free exchange within one of
the cathedrals of consumption, a place were people could trade
unwanted goods for new ones without the baggage of big business.
Unfortunately the boss's of TopShop and the Metropolitan Police
had other ideas..
30-40 swappers turned up and traded clothes,
TopShop filled up with an army of Police, Security, PCSO's
and undercover goons, the doors of the shop were closed, and
stacks of ant-corporate literature was handed out. Once eventually
ejected, the swapping continued on the streets before turning
into a roving street party.
Since Clarion events bought the Dsei arms
fair, that delightful cornucopia of torture equipment and
corporate cash flow, The
Space Hijackers have been keen to help their marketing team
inform the existing customer base of the new shopping opportunites
this expansion will yield.
This time we decided to take our travelling
arms fair marketing team along to their (not at all hypocritical)
Spirit Of Christmas Fair.
Sometimes it baffles even the warped
minds of the Space Hijackers to see what the people we battle
against decide to do. It really is true that life is stranger
than fiction.
Clarion Events, the largest independent
exhibition organisers in the country, have obviously lost
track of their common sense and moral compass. In a move which
can only be described as totally bizarre, the company have
decided that their other shows such as "The Baby Show"
and "The Spirit Of Christmas" would be beautifully
complimented with an Arms Fair. In May this year, Clarion
aquired DSEi, the bi-annual arms show held in the Docklands.
The company can now say they cover both birth and death in
their portfolio.
Ever get the feeling that
all of life seems to now be controlled in a web of corporations,
social networking, government control and money? Why should
peoples social interactions be forced into the non-choice
between online networking sites, corporate sponsored events,
government regulated drinking establishments or pop culture
driven night clubs? We're fed up to the eyeballs with it.
If I want to play in my city, I don't want to be spoon fed
database targeted advertising campaigns, be monitored as a
focus group or be judged in comparison to this months glossy
style bibles.
The Greenwich foot tunnel
Pirate Party had been an idea brewing in our collective conscience
for some time. The government have now banned drinking on
the tube trains, and have been actively clamping down on any
non licensed events for years. In an age where Facebook is
seen as a social life something has to be done!
The powers
that be decided to make a big song and dance about the official
olympic torch being handed over from Beijing to London. Even
organising a 1948 themed street party in Hoxton to mark the
occassion. The Hijackers decided to roll up in our tank to
join in the celebrations, oh and to mark the official handover
from the Free Tibet campaign to the Free Hackney Campaign.
We managed
to make quite an entrance, crashing straight into a security
vehicle as we arrived, then pulling out our FREE HACKNEY banners.
The Anarchist Vs Capitalist Midnight Cricket
Matches are an opportunity for two opposing cultures and world
views to take to the crease and prove their worth like Ladies
and Gentlemen. Held in the prestigious grounds of the City
Of London the matches begin at the stroke of midnight, as
all magical things should.
The 6th test proved to be one of the most
fiercely battled and insanely co-ordinated yet, with traders
somersaulting on roof tops and play going on until daylight...
After being made aware last November
of the apparent Transport for London initiative to
remove advertising from the Tube, we were disappointed
not to have seen any further action since then. However,
another surprise encounter with the team carrying
out these improvements has now been reported!
CSG
(Citizens Supporting Government) are continually looking
at new strategies to enforce the SOCPA zone, to make
sure that London’s citizens understand the implications
of the Serious Organised Crime Prevention Act, and don’t
accidentally break these laws by expressing their political
opinions without prior permission from the police. Hundreds
of people everyday pack onto the underground, quite
possibly oblivious to the realities of the law, quite
possibly flagrantly contravening it, with what they
are reading, wearing, listening to, or thinking. CSG
were there to make sure the tube passengers don’t
break any rules.
Ten
tonnes of waste per week is generated by the free newspapers
in Westminster alone, which is not a problem that can be solved
just by recycling. The only solution to the problem is to
remove it - stop printing the papers.
In
an attempt to get this message out, a group of intrepid paper
boys and girls decided to use the tactics of The London Paper
and London Lite, putting their own pro-recycling anti-waste
propaganda into copies of the papers then aggressively and
relentlessly forcing them on the public.
When it was announced
that 15,000 Police men and women would be marching through
central London to protest for better
wages, we realised that it was an opportunity not to be missed.
Our years of experience of causing trouble have graced us
with a wealth of knowledge which we decided to pass on to
these fledgling protesters.
Following the success of the 2005 SOCPA
legislation, CSG return to help the government in their exciting
bid to extend the Act further, making it illegal to demonstrate
without permission not just in central London but the entire
country!
This ground breaking plan is currently
incubating within the chambers of Parliament so CSG took to
the streets, testing for subversive types and helping to deliver
legislation to dangerous individuals nationwide.
It was with both surprise and joy that we witnessed
what appeared to be a transport for London team removing all
of the advertising from their district line trains this buy
nothing day.
Could the annual campaign against consumer
culture have finally had an impact on our advert swamped transport
system?
Buy Nothing Day is an annual protest against
the consumer culture which grips many of our lives, a chance
to take a step back and look at what's important in life,
and whether shopping and advertising help or hinder societies
wellbeing.
We feel that there are more important
things to life than chasing empty promises of a better life
through the collection of capital consumer goods. So each
year on BND we enter into the chaos of the pre-christmas shopping
blitz to play within the cathedrals of consumption and spread
a healthy piece of chaos amongst the ringing of the cash tills.
Every two years the worlds largest arms
fair (DSEi) takes place in East London. Each time we go down
to try and disrupt proceedings, wind up the arms dealers and
raise awareness of the fact our government supports this corrupt
business.
Most of the time we are escorted out by
burly policemen and banned from the area
This year however we took things up a
notch or two, after months of fundraising, the Hijackers bought
a tank, a great big, heavy, noisy beast of a tank. We attempted
to drive it into the arms fair, through the mounting police
operation which was aiming to stop us.
I won't spoil the twists of the story
now, but suffice it to say:
