We’ve had a few requests to get the Daily Mail free zone stickers back in stock so here they are – stocks are limited so get them while they’re sticky!
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New show for 2017
Predictable
Few predicted the events of the past year.
Mark sets out to find what the future has in store for us by asking the audience what their predictions for the future are, creating a fantastical, hilarious and sometimes accurate vision of the world.
This show is all about gambling on the future.
Based along the lines of his 2011 show ‘Manifesto’ Mark takes suggestions from the audience to create a snapshot of the future.
The early “work in progress” version of the show is already booked in at the usual venues through July 2017 and all are already on the gigs page here.
Spring tour dates and “The Red Shed” script
Just in – new tour dates for spring 2017 including a week at Battersea Arts and dates around the UK including Scotland, Salford, Sheffield, Newcastle, Taunton and many more – the full listing are found on the gig list. Plus we have stocks of the programme/script for Mark’s latest show, “The Red Shed” in Mark’s online store. In the store you will also find Domestic Extremist tea towels and aprons and now you can get a matching T-shirt from our friends at Philosophy Football.
Back by popular demand – “Mind the Farage” Stickers
Farage stickers back in stock
We have some more (about 100, be quick!) lovely vinyl “Mind the Farage” stickers back in stock ready for your wheelie bins or any other creative use you can come up with for them. £2 a pop or £5 for a pack of three. Come and get’em!
As Farage “man of mystery” has stepped down (again) as UKIP party team captain but oddly hasn’t stepped down as an MEP even though he want’s nothing to do with Europe – maybe he needs the expenses, then he has more time on his hands, perhaps he could replace his second job with that of wheelie bin cleaner?
Also, Mark’s new show “Red Shed” is at the Edinburgh Fringe soon and dates are currently going up for an extended nationwide tour in the Autumn. All dates should be up by the end of this week.
To my Green Party friends: In the London Mayoral election your second preference counts.
To my Green Party friends: In the London Mayoral election your second preference counts.
As a supporter of the Green Party and Sian Berry I will obviously be voting for Sian as my first preference on Thursday but the question of second preference has become incredibly important in the outcome of this election.
I have publicly condemned New Labour for decades but I am voting Sadiq Khan as my second preference and I am asking my fellow Greens to do the same.
The reason for this seeming turnaround is simple: we can not allow Zac Goldsmith’s campaign that has played with race and bigotry to win.
Goldsmith’s campaigned has smeared Khan as linked with Muslim extremists and in doing so has not only pissed in the waters of public debate but has stoked fears and bigotry of the Muslim community.
Goldsmith’s article in the Mail on Sunday , yet again pointing the finger and shouting friend of the jihadist, was accompanied by a picture of the blown up bus from the 7/7 bombings as if claiming Khan was somehow in league with terrorists!
In Parliament Cameron claimed Khan to be linked to an Islamic State supporter Mr Gani, the fact that Gani turned out to be a Tory supporter shows Tory desperation but does not alter the focus of the race based smear campaign.
And not forgetting Goldsmith’s leaflets cak handedly targeting the Indian community claiming Khan was against them.
Time and time again Goldsmith dabbles with race and violence to paint Khan as ‘not like us’ , playing on prejudices about Muslims and fears of terrorism.
London is the most diverse city in the UK and if Goldsmith wins he will have won on a racist campaign.
We can not allow that to happen.
If the Green Party does not stand for social justice alongside the environment then it stands for nothing.
So I am asking friends and comrades to put Khan as their 2nd Preference.
See you out there Thursday and good luck to Sian!
Western Sahara
Of all the campaigns and issues I have been involved with over the years the Western Sahara Campaign has been one that has always dogged my activist heart, hanging around, sometimes slipping from memory but always popping back unheeded to prod away at me.
Western Sahara is one of the great forgotten causes of the world and for that fact alone it nips the heels of my conscience.
Western Sahara was occupied by Morocco from 1975 and for a short while became a cause celebre amongst the left but faded from favour as the struggle wore on to a stalemate.
There was a guerilla war to try to reclaim their land which was partially successful, Mauritania occupied the lower part of Western Sahara but were driven out – in part by Sahara fighters- only to be replaced by Morocco.
Between 1975-1976 some 250,000 Sahrawis fled to the Algerian desert where they have been living in exile for over 40 years in refugee camps, there remains approximately 165,000 refugees still there.
The more mathematical minded amongst you might well conclude that refugee camps should never be that old but they are.
A while ago I visited the camps, towns really in the middle of the desert, made of tents for the winter and mud brick huts for the summer. As is often the case it is the poor who are most hospitable and the care and kindness refugees showed to me was quite overwhelming.
So I am relieved to announce that this Monday’s show- Mayday- at the Tricycle is to be a benefit for the Western Sahara Campaign. The money will help the court case WSC are bringing, here are the details.
http://www.smalgangen.org/a146x1095
See you there.
Gigs and Badges
Is Mark appearing near you soon? The Trespass tour continues through to the 7th May including Wednesday 16th at the Dukes, Lancaster and a few others – tickets are selling out quickly so make sure you don’t miss this show before Mark starts on a new show in June – details coming soon.
Also new in the merchandise store we have DOMESTIC EXTREMIST Badges for when you feel silly wearing your DOMESTIC EXTREMIST apron whilst out and about.
Mark speaks at Space Probe Alpha event at More London
There’s a video of Mark speaking here: https://youtu.be/BLb_263lqyw
Thanks to Elliot Franks for the video.
Last posting dates for your Mark Thomas merchandise
If their present lists contain any of our books, CDs, stickers, badges, tea towels or aprons then make sure you family and friends are not disappointed!
Last postage dates for the UK are 19th December for 2nd class post and 21st December for first class post. Due to an imminent move of premises shortly before those dates we may have fun tracking down the stock but we are looking at alternative shipping arrangements to reduce any delays but please order earlier than the last posting dates if you can.
Cuckooed in New York
The God of Visas has smiled upon him and Mark is now in New York until 21st November performing Cuckooed at the 59e59 Theatre (near the south east corner of Central Park).
The show won the Amnesty International Freedom of Expression award 2014.
So tell your American friends and comrades, and anyone lucky enough to be on holiday in the area come and say hello.
There is a discount of 20% with the code THOMASNYC – details are on the attached flyer.
