Ecotopia Biketour 2019

Dear Michal & Katja,

I read your email, as forwarded onto the 'Esperanto in Britain' email 
group, which I administer.

Esperanto and multilinguality has been a key activity of mine from the 
age of 16 to 60, and an Esperanto contingent would be I think a good 
idea. There's a problem though. The Esperanto movement in Britain has 
been essentially killed off by infiltration, and I was set upon by a 
group headed by the President, who had for his working life worked as a 
language professor with the British Council in the promotion of English. 
The British Council is a fake charity, registered with the Charity 
Commission, but is in fact working on government business very much as 
if it were a government department. Their objective is the elimination 
of all languages other than English as was made clear when their 
philosophy was discussed at a conference in Cambridge in 1960. That is 
highly political, and is related to English-language propaganda, which 
since 9/11 has been in full swing in creating wars across the Middle 
East, as part of the expansion of the former British Empire, now known 
as the Anglo-American Establishment, or the New World Order.

That is the issue I have been dedicating my efforts to since 2006, when 
the gang set upon me at the AGM of Esperanto Association of Britain. I 
carried out detailed research of the documents of the association and 
found that members were being marginalised, ideas and suggestions were 
being ignored, and that their claimed 'financial crisis' was based on an 
untrue claim that the association's capital was being used up; I 
provided the figures to prove that it was dramatically rising, and the 
treasurer finally accepted that my figures were correct.

I am meetings co-ordinator of a discussion and investigative group which 
meets monthly in central London (though I live in Halifax). The language 
issue is very much tied up with the issues of war and peace (Tolstoy and 
various other leading peace activists were Esperantists).

I wonder whether you would consider supporting such a cause. I think in 
the circumstances it would be appropriate for all those taking part to 
wear Yellow Vests.

I'd be interested in your reactions to this idea.

Best wishes,

Ian Fantom

Keep Talking




On 07/01/2019 18:45, [email protected] [esper-brit] wrote:
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> -------- Oorspronkelijke bericht --------
> Onderwerp: [Biketour] Call out for projects and local coordinators for
> EBT 2019-UK-Ireland
> Datum: 07-01-2019 14:57
> Afzender: [email protected]
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> *CALL OUT*
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> *Ecotopia Biketour 2019 will start in Edinburgh and pass through
> Scotland, Northern Ireland, Republic of Ireland and possibly Wales,
> starting approximately in the middle of June and finishing in the end of
> August/beginning of September around Cardiff. We are looking for
> projects and events that could host us and for local coordinators to
> help with planning the tour.*
>
> Ecotopia Biketour is a self-organized political bicycle tour that has
> been cycling through different parts of Europe each summer since 1990.
> The tour visits different projects and groups which share our group
> values: ecological sustainability, anti-oppression, veganism,
> skill-sharing, multi-linguality and consensus-based decision making. It
> is one of our core values to create a non-discriminatory environment.
> For example we have stayed at alternative social centers, cooperative
> farms, bike kitchens, anti-discrimination groups, self-sustainable
> communities, action-camps and environmental campaigns.
>
> A diverse, international group of around 20 to 40 people cycle with the
> biketour each day.  Our group usually sleep in our tents and are happy
> to use outdoor spaces. We need access to water and electricity whilst
> visiting projects which we can give a small donation for.  We cook meals
> every day (with our own cooking equipment) which we are always happy to
> share with our hosts. We offer to help in the projects we visit by doing
> some work in return. Because we're a mixed group of people, we have a
> wide range of skills and activities that we are happy to share with you.
> Whilst we are visiting projects we are interested in learning about
> them, helping out, sharing activities together and resting.
>
> If you know of any projects or events that you think would fit our needs
> and could potentially host 20-40 people from the biketour in summer 2019
> please let us know. If you want to be a local coordinator or help
> contacting projects locally or just to propose a project for the
> biketour to stay at please write us an email at:
> [email protected]
>
> Michal & Katja from the Ecotopia Biketour collective
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