May Day, moonshine and exploding bar games
Today was a fun day all around. Great march, big numbers, no police violence and barbeque and moonshine at the end.
We got out to the street around 9:30 - I had called KPFK to do a live call-in but we never got a call to the cell phone. Could be a bad connection. The delegate leader Alison gave her cell phone number but international cell phone calls are iffy. Even domestic cell phone calls from a "foreign" phone are pretty iffy.
As for the march - the numbers were huge. Hundreds of thousands - one guy said up to a million but we{ll see. There is so much oppression of various kinds people are pissed. There were anarchist, communist and trade unionists as well as people who had lost relatives to police and state violence. A new campaign specifically against riot police was lauched today because it{s the anniversary of a young student being beaten to death by police last May Day.
When everyone got to the main plaza - Plaza Boliver there were a few speeches and then the sky opened up and dumped a few hours worth of rain on us in a coupla minutes. Both good and bad because it may have prevented any build-up of tension between the cops and the people.
Then some electrical workers took us to this barbeque place where they feed us hunks of chicken and this strange vinegary tasting corn alchohol called.....oh, don´t remember. Thats how good it was. But the best part was the exploding bar game called TEJO - see, that I remember - thats how good IT was.}
Somebody called it exploding horse shoes and thats about right. You get a weight from say 2-5lbs and you toss it underhand toward this target. The target is a box filled with clay andset up at an angle. Before you toss they set up these little triangles of pink paper filled with gunpowder at four point along this metal hoop in the center of the box. That s so when the metal puck hits against the metal ring it explodes the little gunpowder packets. And you re throwing from like, at least 15ft away. So the drunker people get the poorer their aim gets until.....let s just say there was a big, gaping hole in the ceiling.
I m building one in my backyard when I get home.....
So we are off to Medellin in about 15 minutes. I write from their as I m able . forgive weird mistakes in punctuation - Colombian internet cafe keyboards can be hard to navigate.
We got out to the street around 9:30 - I had called KPFK to do a live call-in but we never got a call to the cell phone. Could be a bad connection. The delegate leader Alison gave her cell phone number but international cell phone calls are iffy. Even domestic cell phone calls from a "foreign" phone are pretty iffy.
As for the march - the numbers were huge. Hundreds of thousands - one guy said up to a million but we{ll see. There is so much oppression of various kinds people are pissed. There were anarchist, communist and trade unionists as well as people who had lost relatives to police and state violence. A new campaign specifically against riot police was lauched today because it{s the anniversary of a young student being beaten to death by police last May Day.
When everyone got to the main plaza - Plaza Boliver there were a few speeches and then the sky opened up and dumped a few hours worth of rain on us in a coupla minutes. Both good and bad because it may have prevented any build-up of tension between the cops and the people.
Then some electrical workers took us to this barbeque place where they feed us hunks of chicken and this strange vinegary tasting corn alchohol called.....oh, don´t remember. Thats how good it was. But the best part was the exploding bar game called TEJO - see, that I remember - thats how good IT was.}
Somebody called it exploding horse shoes and thats about right. You get a weight from say 2-5lbs and you toss it underhand toward this target. The target is a box filled with clay andset up at an angle. Before you toss they set up these little triangles of pink paper filled with gunpowder at four point along this metal hoop in the center of the box. That s so when the metal puck hits against the metal ring it explodes the little gunpowder packets. And you re throwing from like, at least 15ft away. So the drunker people get the poorer their aim gets until.....let s just say there was a big, gaping hole in the ceiling.
I m building one in my backyard when I get home.....
So we are off to Medellin in about 15 minutes. I write from their as I m able . forgive weird mistakes in punctuation - Colombian internet cafe keyboards can be hard to navigate.
posted by Droogy* at
12:55 PM
2 Comments:
brave people deserve good parties. are you scared of possible violence?
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johny radio, at 11:57 PM
not really international are usually not targets and we are in the big cities where the danger is more street crime than political violence
By
Droogy*, at 1:31 PM
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