The Big Rip Off Day – October 13th

The Big Rip Off Day was a direct action event I tried to coordinate to commemorate the nationalisation of RBS three years ago on 13th Oct 2008.

Here’s the movie…

You can still download the cool, cool logo

Joel

5 responses to The Big Rip Off Day – October 13th

Alex MacDonald said on October 7, 2011

I am a Student Journalist from City University and I have been tasked
on my course with creating a 90 second video piece on news story on
Tuesday 11th of October.

I and my partner have decided to do a story regarding your Day of
Action on Thursday “Big Rip Off Day”:

http://www.ukuncut.org.uk/actions/697

We will place the story in the broader context of the financial crisis,
banking reform and government intervention lincluding QE. We may also
bring in the issue of activism and campaigning in an economic context.

We were hoping you could maybe provide us with someone from your
organisation who would be willing to film a short interview between the
hours of 12:30 and 4:00 on Tuesday 11th October. The interview should
take no more than 15-20 minutes.

If you think someone would be available during that time, could you
please let me know as soon as possible? If you want, I can send a
further email with the questions we would be likely to ask you?

Look forward to hearing from you – your input would be fantastic!

Yours sincerely,

Alex

P.S.

Here’s my phone no. if you need to contact me:

7890514451

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Chris Mallett said on October 12, 2011

Hello,

My name is Chris Mallett and I’m a reporter for the Derby Telegraph. We would like to do a story on your protest tomorrow but I need to speak to you this evening or before 10am tomorrow morning in order to make it possible to place a story in tomorrow’s paper. Please could you call me as soon as you are able on 01332 253053. I am in the office until 10pm this evening.

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- Laura said on October 13, 2011
  
  I’m in Derby, Mr Derby Telegraph Writer, but unfortunately did not get your message until this afternoon. Did you manage to contact any of us? I was also involved in the Derby Uncut protest last Saturday which involved the brief occupation of Barclays Bank.
  
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no name said on October 12, 2011

Hi, please can you clarify the meeting time? is it 11am or 1pm? because facebook says 1pm but here it says 11am……… cheers

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- Joel said on October 13, 2011
  
  Laura
  
  Sorry for the confusion. I did change the time to 1. In the end there were 5 people! 3 protesters and 2 reporters, bizarrely from a Norwegian newspaper!
  
  I did a small little stunt. It’ll be on youtube very soon.
  
  The idea was a good one, but it didn’t quite come off.
  Most important is that it’s not about me. It’s about a social movement and that’s developing.
  
  Thanks for your support and interest. Let’s meet at the next one. Will try to get down for the Occupy London stuff this weekend
  
  Joel
  
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