- Reclaim
The Archetypes! - "And
she likened the atmosphere to one of those Goblin
Fairs of Fairy-stories: a place where anything
can happen..."
- Festival
Stories - The following are from a series
of taped interviews I did with various people for
my latest Big Issue piece, about the early free festivals.
- NOAM
ALONE
Self-appointed
American dissident Noam Chomsky has ploughed a lonely furrow
of socialist thought for a generation. CJ Stone went to
hear him talk about the erosion of rights in the West,
US foreign policy and the treatment meted out to the developing
world - and fell in love.
Big Issue, New Year 2003
- "SAVING
ONE LIFE WILL MAKE IT WORTHWHILE"
Would you break the law and go
to prison to protest against the war
in Iraq. CJ Stone met a woman who has...
Big Issue, March 31st-April 6th 2003
- SOWING
THE SEEDS
Permaculture is a radical way of living in harmony
with the environment but, as CJ Stone found, planning laws
can spoil the view.
Big Issue, Jan 27-Feb 2nd 2003.
- DANCING
WITH THE DEMONS
Some people never reach rehab. CJ Stone lost his
friend to an overdose. He describes how a kind and witty
man was destroyed by the romance of heroin.
Big Issue, March 17-23 2003
- MONKEY
BUSINESS
Bush wants the same thing as
Ronald Reagan did back in the 1980s,
writer and commentator Noam Chomsky
tells CJ Stone. He wants to control
the world's energy, and keep his own
people in check in the process...
Big Issue Feb 3-9 2003.
- THE
MOST UNPOPULAR WAR IN HISTORY
In the second part of our interview, US intellectual
Noam Chomsky tells CJ Stone why war with Iraq will be met
with greater opposition than any previous conflict, and
why Tony Blair has to do all of Bush's difficult PR...
Big Issue Feb 10th-16th
- NOAM ALONE
Self-appointed
American dissident Noam Chomsky has ploughed a lonely furrow
of socialist thought fot a generation. CJ Stone went to
hear him talk about the erosion of rights in the West, US
foreign policy and the treatment meted out to the developing
world - and fell in love.
Big Issue, New Year 2003
- "SAVING
ONE LIFE WILL MAKE IT WORTHWHILE"
Would you break the law and go to prison to
protest against the war in Iraq. CJ Stone met a woman
who has...
Big Issue, March 31st-April 6th 2003
-
SOWING THE SEEDS
Permaculture is a radical way of living in harmony
with the environment but, as CJ Stone found, planning
laws can spoil the view.
Big Issue, Jan 27-Feb 2nd 2003.
-
DANCING
WITH THE DEMONS
Some people never reach rehab. CJ Stone lost his friend
to an overdose. He describes how a kind and witty man
was destroyed by the romance of heroin.
Big Issue, March 17-23 2003
-
MONKEY BUSINESS
Bush wants the same thing as Ronald Reagan did
back in the 1980s, writer and commentator Noam Chomsky
tells CJ Stone. He wants to control the world's energy,
and keep his own people in check in the process...
Big Issue Feb 3-9 2003,
- THE MOST UNPOPULAR WAR IN HISTORY
In the second part of our interview, US intellectual Noam
Chomsky tells CJ Stone why war with Iraq will be met with
greater opposition than any previous conflict, and why
Tony Blair has to do all of Bush's difficult PR...
Big Issue Feb 10th-16th
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From
ACT UP to the WTO - Edited by Benjamin
Shepard and Ronald Hayduk. Published
by Verso, price £15.
Everybody
likes to think that they were THERE: that
they were at the beginning of something, the
first to engage in some activity which later
became of cultural significance.
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The
Battle Of Orgreave - History
cannot be reduced to particular events. There are
always complex forces at work. Nevertheless certain
moments can seem to carry a resonance, representing
a point of change in the life of the nation and defining,
in a symbolic way, what went before and what came
after.
- Meet
Steve - Meet Steve. 6'2", balding, with a sort
of Egyptian headdress of dreadlocks dangling round his ears.
He's an alien.
- Meet
Sally Forth - "Sally forth", as in, "venture
onward, journey forward, step on out and see the world."
I don't think it's her real name. She lives in a handcart.
- Meet
Griff - Well you can't actually. He's dead. But
he was one of my favourite people when he was alive.
- Meet
Miss Polly Pot - Meet Miss Polly Pot, Fashion Director.
Now who on Earth would want to claim a name like that? Think
about it. She's the most dangerous woman on the planet.
- Reflections
on a Christmas Bauble - "Well, the Winterval
starts in November and goes on till January," she said.
Just like Christmas.
The reason this has got into the news is that the Bishop
of Birmingham has objected to this. In his message to the
parish magazine, he recalled the "Winterval" of
last year, and wondered what madness the Council had in
store for the good citizens of Birmingham this year.
-
Trees
- There's
three maple trees in a line near where I live. I've always
loved them.
- Second
Meat - I was a vegetarian for a number of years.
- Fame
is Like Money - Fame is like money. It has its pitfalls.
- A
Rainy Day In Herne Bay - I'm walking past the Co-op, holding my coat to against the
wind, gazing forlornly into its neon-lit interior. No one
is shopping.
- Birthday Git
-
I want to tell you about the worst birthday I ever
had.
- Drug Raid on Camden Lock - How can cigarettes, which
kill hundreds of thousands of people every year, at the
cost of millions to the National Health Service, be freely
available to sixteen year olds, while cannabis, which hasn't
killed a single person in the 2,000 years of its recorded
history, remains illegal?
- Euphemism
- I love the English Language. This strange mixture of Old
French and Old German with a bit of Viking thrown in. It's
a rich, complex, sometimes subtle language.
- Age
- I always felt older than my parents. There were things
I knew at fifteen that they would never know. I read. I
observed. And when they made silly statements I would argue
with them.
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The
Big Issue
All I'm asking is a ton - "Pssst!" he said again as I walked straight
into him. And now I was stuck, listening to his sales-pitch.
It was watches he was selling. Ostentatious, heavy
gold watches like the one he had dangling from his
wrist. And I had to admit that he was a good salesman.
Three Trees -
The
first tree to be cut has grown back into luxuriant
foliage. It is bursting with an exuberence of new
life, so that you cannot now see the cut branches
at all. Every part of it is covered in fresh, new
shoots, even this late in the year.
Fame is like Money - There was one there for Alan Davies, the up-and-coming young
comedian, who was appearing that night. The poster
stated that he'd done his first ever gig at the Whitstable
Labour Club.
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A Sad Tale
"No, let him do it. It's what he's paid for." the checkout
girl said, and gave me this look. You could see the
weariness and impatience in her eyes.
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“It's a common problem on the
Righteous Left. People become so caught up in what they
like to think is the Big Picture, that they stop noticing
the details.”
Trout
Fishing in the UK
"What do you think you're doing?" the woman says. The
man just stands in the background with his arms folded,
looking displeased. She has long hair and a woolly jumper,
and he has sandals and a beard. John looks at them bemused.
"You're not allowed to catch fish in here, you know,"
she adds, indignantly.
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Strange
Days
He was gesticulating at the lines of traffic forming
behind him, as if to say, "I don't care what you think."
I began to develop an instinctive hatred of bicycles
and their owners.
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