<nettime> Spoof Melbourne MayDay Paper

[The Paper <info {AT} thepaper.org.au>]

Hi,

If peoples have some spare bandwidth, we just uploaded the PDF for the
MayDay that has been published in Melbourne for MayDay. It's a spoof of
our daily free Murdoch tabloid called MX.

Check out
http://www.print.indymedia.org/local/webcast/uploads/metafiles/mdpapermelb.pdf
to download the actual PDF (its 10MB)

>WHAT DO YOU GET WHEN YOU CROSS MX with M1?
>
>After a flurry of editing, layout, and general independent media mayhem, the
>may day paper collective is pleased to announce:
>
>M1X  May Day Edition, 2001   ...supported by The Paper
>
>That's right, a free, colour spoof of Melbourne's most invasive and trite
>tabloid, MX.  Complete with many a cultural reference and biting wit, it
>packs 12 pages of activist info and grassroots news with highlights of
>international may day actions, movement views, and pictures of people you
>might even know!
>
>DISCONTENTS: A sneak preview, reveals…
>
>* Our most offensive shoes: Nike charges itself with wilful damage
>* Violence of globalization: women fed up with men boys playing with toys
>* Carnival against capitalism: London activists play Monopoly in the streets
>* Out of the frying pan and into… Iraqis starve under sanctions, flee
>persecution, then locked up in Australia.
>* May Queen and Robin Goodfellow make mayhem on May Day, roots in fertility
>festival
>* Kids say "We want to play ball, not manufacture shoes"
>* Jedi knights take on Death Star.  Yoda says "May the First be with you!"
>
>Says one faceless editor, "We have serious content, made digestible with
>some fun and genius.  There's:  schedule of May Day actions, background on
>S11, articles on Iraq, refugees, climate justice, the Beverley uranium mine,
>the FTAA protests in Quebec City, and more.  Its not everything - time and
>money kept our pages tight, but we think M1X will achieve its goal.  We've
>packaged radical news in a way that will resonate with everyday
>Melbournites.  It'll be a healthy antidote to corporate disinformation and
>rhetorical activist literature.  Well, we hope. "






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