Sean @ PagAnarchy

This weekend I spent in training at the army - the Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army or CIRCA to be precise.

Some very cool people, with some great ideas on how to use humour, games and NVDA to transform our world into a better place. Poking fun and playing games with a very definite goal looks like it could really work well for me as I am quite in tune with my jester energy already. I'm already looking forward to getting my uniform sorted and I'll upload some pics when I get a chance to.

CIRCA is a part of the Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination, a "new network of socially engaged artists and activists whose work falls in between resistance and creativity, culture and politics, art and life." It's obviously better to engage in creative and imaginative action rather than go all confrontational... Remember, we can't really transform the world into our playground using militant confrontation. The militancy simply spirals ever onward and out of control... It continues to amaze me that some folk continue to think that fighting the powers-that-be using force rather than fun will actually achieve anything. Instead of militancy, there is a great surrealist bent to CIRCA and the way it operates. If it provokes people into thinking for themselves then I'm all for it! And using the jester vibe to poke fun and the status quo is always important otherwise some things will never change.

Oh of course CIRCA is fully non-hierarchical and fully anarchistic as all enlightened political and organisational groups should be.

At the G8 Dissent summit I will probably hook up with the clown army rather than work primarily with pagans as I usually do. The pagan cluster doesn't seem to be forming a very cohesive unit and I feel it will be interesting to to transfer my pagan work across and play with the magick in a clown army uniform!

I look forward to 'socking', playing 'teeheehe', saying 'yeah but' and 'fishing' with several hundred other clowns who are making the journey to Scotland to protest the G8.

Remember, I'm not an activist dressed as a clown, I'm a clown going to a protest.

[ update June 21st ]

Well I'm still really keen on the clowns but the pagans do seem to be forming a cohesive cluster which is fantastic! Maybe I'll drift between the groups. Who knows? Watch this space and send good vibes...