WE SUPPORT:
Street trade
Small business
Farmers
Butchers
Bakers
Greengrocers
Cobblers
Newsagents
Pubs, Inns, Taverns
Professionals: including but not limited to lawyers, doctors, dentists who have community practices
Independent musicians
Artists
Writers
Poets
Academics
Astrologers
Healers and alternative medecine practicioners
Clairvoyants and mediums
Painters & decorators
TAILORS - lets bring tailors back
Upholsterers
Plumbers
Builders
Independent Record Shops
Amateur specialists in any field
Hand - Made Produce
Organic Produce
Crafts
Market Stalls
Farmers' Markets
Pride in one's work
Personal accountability for shoddy produce / services
Individuality in people
Individuality in products - one offs
Creative expression through work
Talent
Ethnic diversity on a national scale
Ethnically diverse communities
Religious diversity
Roma, Irish Travellers and nomadic peoples of all descriptions
Nature and environmental causes
Criminal justice which is not based on surveillance of the population at large
Policing which is not based on surveillance of the population at large
Community policing projects
Community spirit
FREEDOM
We are called Lazy Revolution. We are about working against globalization and the surveillance society in much the same spirit as we allowed it to spread in the first place, passivity and complacence. We are not radical activists, all we ask of our adherents is therefore that they do what is manageable for them to help us achieve our goals.
We simply ask supporters to STOP BUYING IN to this machine. It RELIES on our apathy, our preference of COMFORT, CONVENIENCE and percieved security over FREEDOM. We don't want our supporters to go all out - we know that this is not possible, so far ingrained into our culture has it become to choose the path of least resistance. We simply ask that if you agree with us you make the conscious decision to become a DEFECTIVE COG in the machine.
HERE ARE SOME RIDICULOUSLY SIMPLE STARTER IDEAS:
(1) If you have viable alternatives near you: grocery shops, markets, chemists, butchers, bakeries etc. even if there is less variety and it is a bit more expensive / less convenient, do not shop at your local supermarket.
(2) If you want to go out for a meal or a coffee simply choose to go to a small family owned restaurant/cafe rather than a chain.
(3) If you have them nearby, take advantage of clothing markets, vintage clothing shops, second hand shops and street traders rather than buying from chain retailers.
(4) Promote these small but effective gestures to friends, the only way this can work is if enough people get on board and start making these minor lifestyle changes.
WE ALSO WANT TO ACTIVELY SUPPORT SOME OF THE PEOPLE WHO PROVIDE ALTERNATIVE SERVICES TO THE ONES PROVIDED BY BIG BUSINESS - WE HOPE TO HELP PROMOTE THESE SERVICES SO THAT PEOPLE WILL START USING THEM MORE OFTEN SO THAT WE START SEEING SUPERMARKETS CLOSING DOWN TO MAKE WAY FOR YET ANOTHER SMALL ENTERPRISE RATHER THAN THE OTHER WAY ROUND. PLEASE SEE OUR INTEREST LIST FOR A LIST OF TYPES OF SERVICE WE SUPPORT.
This is the beginning for us and we are still trying to work on ways to combat these trends which we object to. The matter of surveillance is still more difficult to work on because any small scale action against it will inevitably be ineffective or illegal or both. We don't want people to feel unsafe but we do want people to take responsibility for their own communities and start CREATING the kind of safety that a camera could never supply. Synthetic eyes are not nearly so effective as REAL eyes and moreover, they are an imposition on the freedom and RIGHT TO PRIVACY of the normal law abiding majority. Lets take things back a pace and replace PERCEIVED security with ACTUAL security.