Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 22:48:14 -0500
From: ARON KAY* <pieman-AT-pieman.org>
Subject: Re: Pie-throwers target Head of WTO in London; Communique From the


i hereby endorse the latest piehits by those defenders of justice....on
both sides of the atlantic!!!in fact , this is the 21st anniversary of
the international week of pies!!!
Hopefully i may have been a spiritual inspiration to the biotic baking
brigade!!!!Let 1,000 pies fly in the face of all fascist imperialist
pigs!!!!!


Robert Cherwink wrote:
> 
> Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 15:56:24 -0800
> From: Agit-prop <decker-AT-asis.com> (by way of whispered media)
> 
> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
> tel. 0171 281 4621
> Phantom Pie-throwers target Head of WTO at London conference
> Press Release 30/10/98
> from the UK arm of the Biotic Baking Brigade
> 
> One of the most powerful men in the world, Renato Ruggiero, Director
> General of
> the World Trade Organisation, had egg all over his face this morning as he was
> awarded the prestigious VIP 'Pie in the Sky' award for services to global
> exploitation and destruction.
> 
> Ruggiero, in London to deliver a keynote address to a 'Trade, Investment, and
> the Environment' conference, received a pie in the face outside Chatham House,
> to the cry, 'This is a present from the dispossessed!'
> 
> A Biotic Baking Brigade (UK) spokesperson said "Ruggiero has been singled out
> by our crack team of pie throwers armed with the latest in low-intensity
> lemon-custard device technology."  Former recipients of this prestigious award
> include Bill Gates, Monsanto's CEO, Robert Shapiro and the monetarist
> economist Milton Friedman.
> "In the face of the most profound financial crisis in recent
> history, I am angry," Pattiserista said. "The World Trade Organisation has
> insisted on speeding up the imposition of its neoliberal economic policies
> which have led to the suffering of millions around the world who are the
> expendable members of the global economy."
> 
> Biotic Bakers cite David Korten, Director of the People Centred Development
> Forum, who said in a recent talk, "The WTO is a powerful, but illegitimate and
> democratically unaccountable institution put in place through largely secret
> negotiations with little or no public debate to serve purposes largely
> contrary to the public interest.  The 99 per cent of the world's people
> whose interests it does not serve have every right to eliminate it."
> 
> Pattiserista added, "The conference Ruggiero addressed was designed to defang
> the concerns of environmental and social justice movements by bringing them on
> board the WTO gravy train.  That train is out of control, riding rough-shod
> over the interests of the people and ecology of the planet...  No token
> amendments to international investment frameworks that give all rights to
> corporations and no rights to people are acceptable: they must be scrapped.
> Today we send a sticky message to Ruggiero and the global elite: 'To those who
> wish to dominate the world, the world replies, Let them eat humble pie!' "
> 
> Video footage of the Pie being Awarded is available : tel 0966 137 925
> Photos are also available by calling: 0171 281 4621
> *****************************************************************************
> 
> Communique From the General Command/BBB--Ecotopia Cell (GC/BBB--EC)
> 
> To the governments, corporations, armies, chefs, bakers, and civil
> societies of the earth,
> 
> In response to the heroic actions of our colleagues in London, the
> GC/BBB--EC met in emergency session today, and decided to announce two new
> global campaigns in opposition to neoliberalism, corporate crime, and
> industrial technocracy.
> 
> The first offensive is called the "Pie Snowball," which is a call to arms
> for revolutionary bakers and pie-slingers across the Western World.
> Modelled after anti-nuke and anti-genetix campaigns in Europe, the plan
> calls for an autonomous, diffuse, and widespread pastry uprising (so to
> speak). As the Zapatistas have made clear, in a global economy, we all live
> in Chiapas. The BBB would like to make the analogy that under
> neoliberalism, we all can throw a pie in the face of fascism. No bosses,
> offices, foundation grants, never-ending consensus meetings, or CFLA's
> (Confusing Four Letter Acronyms) are needed: Just Do It! We are, after all,
> pie-throwing anarchists. There's an oven on every street, and cooking
> materials in every watershed. The idea is for at least one flan-er (or
> "l'entarteur," as Belgian pieman Noel Godin of the Patisserie Brigade
> Internationale is known) in a bioregion to make that first fateful throw,
> and then inspire others to do the same. May the proverbial snowball roll
> down the hill of struggle until an avalanche of 'cream psychosis' (Godin,
> op. cit.) buries the global corporate elite.
> 
> The second offensive, developed by a joint task force of disaffected
> computer geeks and GC/BBB--EC military advisors, has been code-named
> "Pie2K." Operations will target computer industry executive and
> consultants, who are responsible for the Year 2000 computer bug (Y2K) mess.
> The people have judged them guilty of gross (disgusting, really) neglience
> over the course of several decades. In perhaps one of the most striking
> examples of the inherent flaws in capitalism, the industry has known about
> the problem since day one, but it has never behooved workers to fix it
> because it would be unprofitable for their bosses to spend the extra time
> and labor needed to put the problem right. In addition, Y2K reveals the
> inherent vulnerability of technology itself, as well as the hubris and
> short-sightedness of the technocrats who have computerized everything they
> possibly could in the short time computers have been in existence. The
> proper response, truly, is a shower of pies across the nightime sky upon
> Silicon Valley. Let's kick it off mates, freaky-styley!
> 
> There's a pie in the sky when you die--that's a lie!
> 
> Merry Samhain (Halloween), the GC/BBB--EC
> Decoded and Relayed by Agent Apple
> 
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> Peace!
> 
> Rob,             Sector Air Raid Warden at Rob's Place
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