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The one time I was asked to talk in public about organising a (DIY) space for music to happen in all I talked about was how the government doesn't care about you, wants you out of the way and effectively wants you dead. I wasn't over exaggerating then and still am not now.
I hope the latest sham can help motivate building more active resistance to the mismanagement of everything. Everyone is suffering and the destructive, aggressively disrespectful and dangerous running of the country remains.
The damage to the arts is one vivid example but the roots are entangled with the housing crisis, the institutional racism of Direct Provision, the state protection of the abuses of the catholic church and every other disgrace this country is responsible for.
I'd hope that the inherently critical eye of the arts as a whole can help build some solidified and unified challenge to the state we are constantly left in with current restrictions but also with the ongoing, pre-existing issues we're forced to live with.
Everyone deserves better, and everyone who's suffering at the mismanagement of this crisis and all the other intertwining crises is justified in their anger, and I'm amazed at everyone's composure, I guess you get used to it.
Also, I'm saying this from a v comfortable position also, so solidarity with everyone who's more directly and detrimentally affected.
Conservative governing is violence. Allowing a crisis to happen through inaction is violence. Mismanaging social welfare needed due to a crisis is violence. Mismanaging safely navigating the crisis is violence. Denying the problem is violence. Pick your crisis to apply this to.
