Yesterday, I went to the NUJ (National Union of Journalists) Edinburgh freelance meeting, which included a talk of Napier University’s Journalism senior lecturer Rob Brown. The NUJ always supported Indymedia UK, when we got into trouble, so I looked forward to meet some of the individuals behind it, and had probably high expectations. At the end of the evening I left quite disappointed, and wondering if the progressive libertarian lefty forces of the NUJ are all accumulated in London. Rob Brown’s talk was quite good, if you like his style. I always have a bit of problem with his style and find it a bit boring and structured like a rant, and yesterday, I suddenly realised why: he actually seems to talk like a written feature.

The whole North Edinburgh community seems to be keen to discover the secret behind the anonymity of the “Piltonsucks.com” webmaster. At the last Muirhouse Community Council meeting on Tuesday, even I was suggested, which is a bit of a bummer, but because of not wanting to destroy my reputation, I just answered “Haeh ?”. But now I got curious, too, and so had a bit of a look at the website, and it seems to be registered pretty anonymously at an address in New York in the Whois records. Half of the people slagged off on the website I don’t even know, and sometimes I do feel it is an unnecessarily harsh critique, but then I actually don’t seem to have a clue what the guy is talking about half of the time.

Wildhunt may like the pictures of Rosslyn Chapel I just uploaded, a mix between pagan green men and Christian religion stonemasonry. It is situated south of Edinburgh near Bilston Woods Protest Camp, and is the most beautifull and unique church I have ever come across, I would predict even world-wide. I try and get most of my previous protest and other pictures of Scotland and similar now online, but will try to stick to the best one. It also dependes on how I can access the old Windows partition. I am absolutely tired today and the last days. My friend has gone to see his little nieces, so I have dropped him at the airport early this morning.

Because of the Red Alert, following the event in Atenco on the 3rd of May, foreign internationals are not allowed to enter Zapatista areas. Most of the 200 + civilians are still said to be detained, beatings and (sexual) abuse of the arrestees has been reported, too, as well as raids of homes and a boy of 14 has been killed by gun wounds. Because of the Red Alert human rights observers and other sympathetic visitors are stuck from going and visiting or helping out. The Edinburgh Chiapas Solidarity Campaign, one of the most active and practical groups in Edinburgh’s libertarian Left, is running a stall next weekend at a fair, and also organises a social get together with a report and a screening of a self-made video about the twinned community.

David Graeber, anarchist former lecturer at Yale Uni in the US, came to Edinburgh yesterday to talk about the G8. Well, that was the plan. In the end it was just Q&A and an extensive break. AK Press hosted the event, which was a good get together, but a bit disappointing as David hadn’t prepared a talk, and is in my opinion not a particularly good speaker as he did not manage to keep the attention of people. He did answer the questions very generally and seemed to be more keen to have a general discussion and hang out with people, which is fair enough.