Boat race Man
Michael St.Mark 2012
A one-man Easter crusade against the tide of Tory blue nastiness wrecking the nation.
Multi-phase photo manipulation artist-retouched signed edition Lightjet prints
Remembering the admirably- principled activist from down under, who literally risked his neck earlier this year to remind 30 million viewers worldwide of the nasty, pernicious Oxbridge-run class system still thriving ( running the government,the banks, the media and arts; extorting via unelected privilege and exerting gross inequality across the jobs and opportunities market ) in the “home of Democracy”; just a few days ago learning from some crusty old beak that a custodial sentence is on the cards for “creating a public nuisance”.
Whereas in fact “Trenton did a good deed, to be considered performance art in line with the moral protest spirit of Dada” – Michael St.Mark
Jailed for 6 months – the price of peaceful but effective direct action protest against obscene inequalty and inhumane policy in a de facto fascist-capitalist state.
Oldfield said he returned from Canada days before the race on 7 April annoyed by government plans to “sell-off” the NHS, “snoop” on electronic communications and by encouragement given to “dob in” people planning protests during the Olympics.
Saying that London “has the highest inequality in the western world”, Oldfield said the Boat Race was a symbol of elitism in government.
Asked what the boat race had to do with it, he said: “It’s a symbol of a lot of issues in Britain around class; 70% of government pushing through very significant cuts are Oxford or Cambridge graduates.
“It was a symbolic gesture to these kind of issues.”
Oldfield, who moved to the United Kingdom in 2001, said he had worked and volunteered for a decade working in jobs and projects aimed at increasing better prospects for people in impoverished areas.
With coalition public spending cuts implemented London was “kind of worse than in Dickens’ time”, he said.
“With these levels of cuts it became apparent to me that something needed to be done.
“I felt it was an important thing to do.”
Read the background story here
Extract from Trenton’s book ( available from Amazon )
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Oldfield may be a man of principle but he’s a principled twat who, like many foreigners, appears to have a 1950’s view of the class system. As someone who’s lived in the capital all my life and met a huge variety of people, I’d like him to explain to me why he thinks London is a hotbed of inequality.
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Can’t argue with your personal experience Stan, yet ..” Oldfield said he returned from Canada days before the race on 7 April annoyed by government plans to “sell-off” the NHS, “snoop” on electronic communications and by encouragement given to “dob in” people planning protests during the Olympics.”
.. is good enough for me.
The guy’s got real guts and heartfelt concern about the sinister direction this country’s heading, to put his life and liberty on the line to highlight the above – & it’s a rather sad reflection on a tame sheep nation that it took a foreigner to step up to the DA protest plate in such a highly effective high-profile way.
btw Interesting the way his waterline hairline’s remained the same..
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