Fight

In the world’s most beautiful city, February 21, 2011,

Stupidland – Family of the Year

In her little yellow format, Mathilde Serrell (two Rs, two Ls), journalist, reporter & presenter, no less, lists the many ways to fight in the 21st century.

My activist and subversive side of the imagination – quite rightly – revelled in it.

Bank of ideas (some of the most daring) :

• Help cannabic rescue

  “Just so you know, if you’ve got some extra “weed”, you can now help Cannabic Relief. A new system of assistance for patients who use cannabis for therapeutic purposes and find themselves deprived of their “medicine” after a police seizure.”

  http://bonnenouvelle.blog.lemonde.fr/2009/11/07/le-secours-vert-assistance-cannabique

  

  
  

• Barbez la France

  “… buy a batch of fake beards and, whether you’re a man or a woman, beard everything that symbolizes sexism around you.”

  www.labarbelabarbe.org

• Coresquillez

  “Between friends, students, the unemployed, activists or ordinary citizens, you can form a mutual free-riding association on public transport. Everyone contributes 5 to 7 euros a month, which is much cheaper than a monthly season ticket. The money in the mutual fund is used to pay fines.

  http://metro.samizdat.net

  

  Gare de l’Est, Paris, November 19, 2007

• Feed your baby

  “Islam forbids a person to be alone in a room with another person of the opposite sex, outside marriage or with no close family ties. And it’s obviously up to the female sex to solve the problem. Because in Cairo, two professors from Al-Azhar University, the world’s largest Sunni theological center, have decided that the only way to find yourself like this in the office with a colleague at work is to suckle her.”

• Record X for the blind

  “More and more activities are becoming accessible to the visually impaired… On the other hand, getting a little porn is a lot more complicated! But YOU can do something about it. The pornfortheblind.org website offers free audio descriptions of adult films. The principle: an mp3 that narrates what you see on the screen. The recordings are made by kind volunteers. That’s where you come in… ”

  http://pornfortheblind.org

  

  Among others…

  
  

• Picnic in a supermarket

  “For the past two years, this type of event has been multiplying, launched by groups sometimes linked to a political party. Don’t hesitate to get involved as an “independent”! Bring a few friends. Grab a tablecloth, fruit, cheese and cookies. The customers around you will support you: the crisis has exacerbated people’s discontent with rising prices. Count on the support of the elderly in particular. “It’s not going to make them poorer”, they’ll say, as they take a bite out of the merchandise…

So run out and treat yourself to a few opportunities to “say fuck all”.

to the functioning of our company,

because not only do you – learn – a lot,

and, above all, you’ll find yourself gaining in freedom(s).

Pretty cool.

Elisa Palmer

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