Newcastle Lyon Sonvillier Dresden Berlin Petersburg Chita Moscow Helsinki Amsterdam Newcastle

In progress.

Monday 11 January 2010

A couple of maps

http://www.us-passport-service-guide.com/image-files/trans_siberian_railway_route.jpg
This defunct map is nice for showing Harbin's location, which is a tempter. It isn't quite the same route in the west these days, though...
http://onthelevelblog.files.wordpress.com/2007/09/trans-siberian-map.jpg
Here's one with the UK, but missing the northern loop thru finland/sweden via st.petrosgradburg.

http://www.vagabondish.com/wp-content/uploads/trans-siberian-railway-map.jpg
And 3 because 3 is the magic number.
(alchemico-philosophically, 1 is everything, all, unity, which you have to divide/ demarcate/ separate in order to define/ determine/ talk about anything, but by creating 2 (subjectobject, lightdark, herethere etc..) you have inevitably created a 3, the most interesting bit, the relationship between the two.

Saturday 2 January 2010

Films I've watched on TV this weekend are exactly how I imagine this trip will turn out.

http://andrewsidea.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/vlcsnap-7701550.png
Getting on the train at St.Petersburg.

https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWHY5oRUJaFVSBvfL6W1fp7BTZVUyCjwxOp9WR1gBqyVQKCVFteebm3oc3jpoZ3C9qctDEEOC1WPnICZOPjzCPID448yktSkHHUJ4xxIdgTwrLQaj0nmwVWQRfTara5sXlghyphenhyphenmr4BJcjKd/s400/500SomeLikeItHot10.jpg
Hanging out with the Russians.

http://nakama-britannica.animeuknews.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/ben.jpg
Changing trains at Lake Baikal.

http://pax-romana.net/spirited/train2.jpg
Approaching Chita

http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs30/f/2008/058/7/8/a_Silent_Train_ride_by_lastscionz.jpg
And beyond.

Friday 1 January 2010

No.3 Possible page one text


I am part of a loose collective who make a diary each year, called Wor Diary, which is dedicated to remembering rebellious men and women, protests and riots and fights done by the ordinary folk (folk like us), who don't usually feature on the official record. The people, in fact, whose names are forgotten, whose voices are silenced and whose ideas of a different, better future, are denied.

Each year about fifty people take part in drawing the pages and making Wor Diary, we print a few hundred copies and then sell it around Tyneside for cost price. It's a fundamentally amateur project, with no big marketing or famous names being splashed about. There's a reason for this, connected to the idea that real history is not handed down by a few famous characters - the story of the 'official' history books. Rather, history is created day-by-day in every nook & cranny of the world, in the most diverse way possible, and it is THIS world of struggle & sociability that we want to celebrate in Wor Diary. The neighbours helping each other out, the people saying 'no' to abuse, to control and to selling-out.

There are some other reasons why this project needs a few disclaimers.

Unlike Marxism, anarchism does not have an originator or a primary theorist, and unlike a movement such as Chartism, anarchism is still alive and still relevant to people's struggles today. The place to find it is amongst the people trying to live free, to increase theirs & others' freedom, to reduce oppression, remove injustice in their own way. So there's no point going searching for the person who 'invented' anarchism, and it is against anarchist principles to say that one person is more important than any other. We're all in it together.