[Imc-birmingham] Leads for the Spotted Dog and moaning yuppies

Shiar shiar at riseup.net
Wed Jul 25 17:23:03 PDT 2007


It all depends on how you do it ;)

-- 
Shiar

On Wed, July 25, 2007 11:48 am, dougbrum at tiscali.co.uk wrote:
> I do agree that Birmingham City council are the shadyist bunch of
> fuckers going. They would sell their own souls for any kind of corporate
> investment in the City. They have a whole scale redevelopment plan for the
> city and the local community is at the bottom of the list. With that said,
> we do have to be careful backing certain campaigns or else it'll be us
> defending small capitalist over big big capitalist when in reality they
> are both full of shit. The Epic skate park is a great example. I don't
> know the details but the management at Epic helped put a stop to a council
> funded park being built by the Aston Uni fly-over in town. People involved
> in the consultation process (Rob from Ideal skate shop was one) basically
> said that Epic were against it because it was competion for them. Now the
> business has folded, I have little sympathy. I think housing/gentrification
> will be a major issue in Brum over the next few years (it is now really).
> But we need to be careful where we
> put our time and efforts. D
>




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