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The Backward Intelligence Team (Bit) estimate that seven Clowns were arrested at Faslane during the Big Bollockade on 1st October. Three Madchester Clowns locked on and were carried away by Police in the morning because they did not want to stay and play all day (silies!). Clowns from Glasgow Kiss, Byddin Boncars Clowniad Cymru (BBC Cymru, the Clown Army of Wales) and others carried on regardless. Trwper Twp got her photo in the Scotsman, posing with a policeman because she is flirty (p8 on 2/10/07). Later 3 Clowns from BBC Cymru was arrested canoeing on Gare Loch by MoD Police in high powered boats for trying to replace Trident with 4 rubber ducks. The Clowns explained it was a ‘loch on’ and they didn'’t ‘give a flying duck’, but the Police were unmoved. At the end of the day Clown ‘P’ was so tired he simply lay down by the North gate of the base and Police hauled him off to bed. We missed the Sheffield Gaggle lots. Yours in peas, Capten Ollie Cyboli

Today in Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, the Ceridwen Commando of the Real Clown Army carried out Operation “London Banker,” declaring RBS and their subsidiary Gnat West “Out of Order” and marked all of their cash machines in the town as such.  Later on, activists from the Mid-Wales Climate Action Group “helped” Natwest to advertise its services as part of the “Energy” and “Aviation” bank by setting up their stall (complete with a lovely chalked information display on the adjacent pavement) outside the Gnatwest branch in the town centre, attracting a veritable horde of climate refugees from around the world (whose pleas for home loans and other assistance to rebuild their climate-change blighted lives were naturally greeted with a polite but firm refusal) and representatives of the local energy and construction sectors (whose requests for a slice of the climate action were, naturally, greeted with an invitation to discuss the matter at greater length over lunch!)  The group ended the action with a helium propelled banner lift inside the branch, with a banner reading “Sponsoring Climate Change” hanging from the ceiling for nearly an hour!)  Salud, Sgnt Sideshow Bob.

‘Clowning is a state of being rather than a technique. At its root, clowning is about letting go, learning to approach every situation with an openness and vulnerability that we all once had as children. It is a state where we begin to value the power of surrendering to experience and living without fixed expectation. It is a state of being that we all grew up with, and the one that society stamped on and imprisoned in fairgrounds, theatres and circuses. It is the state that learns about the world through play and knows that the difference between imagination and reality is only a matter of opinion’ (John Jordan. For the rest of the article http://eipcp.net/transversal/1007)

Hi all - many clowns have been involved with campaigning for the right to protest around parliament - you may be interested in this posted on indymedia: http://indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/10/384584.html - the governtment has a new consultation launched today (Monday 29th October 2007) to take a closer look at laws regarding protests in Parliament Square. SOCPA was particularly unworkable legislation and it seems they are now doing what they can to tighten their powers under the guise of a public consultation. I suppose the more people who respond to this the better. hugs from sean