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MAYA , the Windsor Free Nation
Was an alternative newspaper that was circulated during and after the 1974 festival. This issue was created after the festival and is chock a block full of pictures covering the police action that evicted the remaining festival attendees .This issue was made available by the ubiquitous Roger Hutchinson , to whom -as usual- many thanks!.
THE BEGINNING OF THE BEGINNING
Avalon,
Crime of the Century, Laughing Sams Dice, The Mad Hatter, Rocks
Off, Night Angel, The Molecule, Reverend Mother, White as White and Twice
as dirty , Rough Silk, Tempus Fugit. August Daze, Underground Snowstorm,
Sister Fate and Sky Dog, Why Not Sneeze -from Yorkshire, ( an orgasm is
a cosmic sneeze) Xenolityh , Rocooco and Pearl. The Whole Earth Fire Brigade
Boogy Band, The Unknown Band and Hungry Joe, Mobius , Elysium , Voyage
and Everyone Involved. |
The
microphones were open to all who felt inspired to use them. Everyone was
in show business . Only there was no show, only revelation and no business
, only a divine occupation , a synchronous transistor tuned to public and
sparking with celestial rushes. I am Become WE ARE AHHHH And then the breath was caught . We asserted this state . Drug squad spies insinuated themselves into our company. " Got any drugs man Yeah look into my eyes , the sun is my drug and people my needle ". Then they upped the ante, came in with convincing cover stories and ripped off humans hinged to us. The Albion free state department of rough justice set up a peoples court on Wednesday , two clouded beings were accused by a man in a long grey blanket of having stolen his friend and taken him away. ''Theyre cops man I swear'' ''Were not. We dont like fuzz''. But the fuzz in their souls showed through all their gestures . Arms tightly folded on the chest. Sudden neurotic scratching. Two of them claimed they worked in computers for the Ciivl aviation Authority . Analogue computers ? DC5s they said. "We cant talk about our work. its covered by the official secrets act" . Were we not secret in the womb for nine months ? Isn't that enough, what do you believe in ? Uncrossing and crossing his legs one of them answered "well I dont believe in God for a start off...." |
"come
on man youre pigs . I'll never forget his face as long as I live
", said the man in the long grey blanket to a gutter Solomon .
We stared them out . Blow booby boys , and surrounded now by ten high spirits
, well capable of policing themselves , they crumbled and blew.
Behind the scenes a body known as the Crown States Commissioners . lackeys of the Battenburgs and administrators of their millions , were pressurising other people who had , for perverted and curious reasons , decided to flood their beings with authoritarian pustules of jive nihilism and to cove their bodies with dark blue serge, littered with declarations of faith in a dreary and tiresome woman , queen by the accident of a forbidden love match in the thirties , queen by no spiritual royalty but by a conspiracy of property freaks. We are all kings and better queens .
VISHNU CAPERS
Empowered by the strength of this poor cripples state, 600 hate beetles moved in , jealous of our joy forming up in long columns , determined to turn paradise into a wasps nest. We told them the Lore. Lore of the Sun. We printed leaflets for them and went up and down the lines circulating them: "Police Warning! Under the by laws you cannot move us unless you have reasonable grounds to do so. The bye-bye laws. All arms closed against us. One officer caught alone said: "I respect your faith in human nature but let me quote you the Good Book: 'sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof " .Out of context, and using it to convince himself we were evil creatures. "Let us quote you from our Good Book: 'Power is Love gone bad' "Go on, get out. The sword is mightier than the pen. Go on." Misquote. "We have a right to be here:. "You haven't a right to be anywhere mate . |
They
kicked over people in their sleeping bags , pushed people onto fires , tore
down tents. They smashed a small boy in the face when he was screaming because
his father was being arrested. Two pregnant women were injured by them. They
threatened the world with the loss of a child who was swimming happily in a
placenta and soaking up the rays of a sea of love.
KEEP THE FAITH
We re-erected tents. Mobility Is the greatest revolutionary tactic,second only to Love, and we swirled round and round the site which was a mile and a half long,and then they hit the stages. They threw the Public Address Systems off the boards and onto the ground. They tore the Hare Krishna drum away from the devotees and hurled It onto some scaffolding. People climbed up and tried to revivify our spirits by playing: they were dragged off and their guitars broken. We formed chains of people guarding the generator, but they drew their truncheons and burst through, turning over the generator at the last Stage ,the Last Redoubt, knocking women and children to the ground screaming and crying. Bottles flew and tins of free food. A pile of helmets was made on the stage by relays of snatchers from Fagin's Kitchen. "We are all BEST MATES~ Wally shouted from the stage, but they had undone their humanity. "See you in hell," said Justice,only we won't be able to see you for the smoke , sucking on a roach and spitting. Plants are pruned. Oh bet that it is better: that the body politic is a cut diamond not a wounded tarantula. |
Thirteen
brave men and true climbed up what was left of the stage and squatted there.
One had climbed along the thin branch of a tree close by and leapt across. We
threw them food and water. 300 police surrounded it and then, unable to loose
them pulled the scaffolding apart with spanners until they fell and crashed
into the hands of what was the enemy.
Rodin's 'Martyrs of Calais' was animated .It ls rumoured that one Red Cross
worker, refused permission to treat the injured, injected prostrate cops with
largactyl and transformed them into lambent drones.
IT IS
HERE NOW
We are the people our parents
warned us against we are Love Beasts doctor Killjoy tried to infect the Legion
of Joy, and so for five minutes we put ourselves in quarantine, but now we are
regrouping. We are Re-Loving. Fiery wheels in our heads. Stonehenge is Ours
and next year there will be 250,000 people at Windsor. Psychedelic Warlords
come Out of Your Holes! Love is the highest form of energy we are capable of
producing! There is only Your Self which is yourself to the power of infinity.
Their self is a Tumour and a Rumour!
We
are creating an enchanted world, where the mode of exchange is light,
music, laughter and energy...instead of money. Cuba has a research station
set up to discover the mechanics of a money free society. We are anticipating
their findings every day. You can move from campfire to campfire talking,
singing, playing, eating, fucking and drinking. We are all are flesh.
All high appetites are respected and cared for, not called into account. Sid
Rawle, a red haired mountain
goat with aquamarine eyes' dressed in tails and top-hat, a Good Times
Ringmaster, guiding lesser spirits through tortuous webs of bad vibes
in order that they flower. |
The minds of Owen, Godwin, Blake,Tyler
and Morris move us.
We shall not be moved! because we are always moving!
The Festival Goes On. The Feast of Love. A Ferment of Immortal Yeast.
The Charity of Marrow Bone Love Juice. We will shit in the streets and make
them clean! (where do the best tomatoes grow ? Near the sewer terminus at Barking
Creek)
- WE WILL LOVE AND BE LOVED.
WE WILL PIPE AND BE PIPED
GRACE DANCETH ON HIGH
. DANCE YE! ALL !
GOD IS OUR LOVE AND OUR ROMANCE IS THE REVOLUTION
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