(fwd) > >The director of the World Bank, James D. Wolfensohn, was pied March >29 in Finland by the Arctic Baking Brigade (BBB), the first such >attack in the country. Wolfensohn was starting his press conference >when 2 soya-cream pies attacked him. They landed on his face. He >seemed a bit surprised, but then said: "Mmm. Tastes good but I'm on a >diet. " >/.../ >"Cakes are the best way of communicating with these totally >undemocratic organizations, like the World Bank," the group said in >their press release. >When Wolfensohn chose not press any charges, the group proclaimed, >"So the case is closed as far as the police are concerned. But for >us, this is just a beginning...." >/.../ >A classic pie action shot is online at: >http://www.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=30879 > >@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ > >During a ceremonial procession through the streets of Stockholm on >April 6 to present the Swedish state budget, the finance minister >Bosse Ringholm was attacked by two members of the Stockholms >T�rtbrigade (Stockholm Pie Brigade). The activists managed to throw >not one, but two pies in the surprised minister's face. "It was a >vicious attack," the finance minister said to one of Sweden's tabloid >newspapers, before continuing his walk." >/.../ >According to the group, the attack was part of the international >initiative "Operation Dessert Storm." The initiative comes from >activists that strongly sympathize with the international >pie-throwing network Biotic Baking Brigade. They have pronounced that >April is to be an international pie-throwing month. > >Photo at: http://www.dessertstorm.org/news.php3?id=18&start=0 > >@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ > >Three EU-friendly Swedish federal politicians were attacked with >cream pies on March 6 at the beginning of a debate about Sweden's EU >policies in the university town of Lund in southern Sweden. The >Syndicalist Youth Federation, SUF, in Lund have taken responsibility >for the action. The politicians have complained about their >dry-cleaning bills! > > "Someone had to do something to get a debate started. EU is a deeply >undemocratic organisation and all of us who are critical to the heart >of the project, capitalism, have almost no platform at all in the >debate that is only about small changes to the system," said one of >the entarteurs. > >More info: http://www.motkraft.net/gbg2001 > >@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ > >Clare Short, Britain's International Development Secretary, was >custard-pied on March 5 in recognition of her disservice to the >world's poor. > >/.../ > >@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ > >/.../ >Here is the recipe that was handed down to us by revolutionaries of years >gone by: > >10 kg of flour >1 kg of sugar >water to make it sticky >yellow food colouring >vanilla essence (optional) >Mix it alltogether, stick it on a paper plate and throw. Serves 50. > >@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ > >"Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's >original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been >made, through disobedience and through rebellion." --Oscar Wilde > >The Biotic Baking Brigade http://www.asis.com/~bbb/ > -------------- >Dessert Storm - an international month of pie-ing now has >open publishing news section - indymedia style - for your >photos, text, video of piesploits!! > >((( globalise the pie! ))) http://www.dessertstorm.org > >
