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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Verdana><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:blue'>Hello People,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Verdana><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:blue'>I was wondering if anyone has a really
radical idea, you know so blinking out there that no one has ever thought of
it. In fact words don’t exist that can describe this idea it is so
blinking genius. NO? Oh dear. We’re shafted. Again.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Verdana><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Verdana><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:blue'>The Cooling Towers. It’s another
inevitable outcome. It’s another stitch up. A done deal. Just like the
Leadmill. Just like the E-Campus. Just like the Pop Centre. Just like Matilda. It’s
a fix I say. You see the establishment loves to see the little men and women
get excited about something, only to take it away and smash it up. Death by
slow bleeding. Except you don’t know your bleeding until your dead.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Verdana><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Verdana><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:blue'>What should we do? We should revel in
our position of weakness. Our inability to do anything expect watch and gasp.
Talk about it in romantic terms of endearment, you know like when you think of
old friends, and days gone by. Reminisce about how great they were, how
wonderful those cooling towers were, how great it would have been, if only….<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Verdana><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Verdana><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:blue'>Don’t you see?! They can take away
the towers, but they can’t take away the idea of the towers…. Once
they have struck them down, they will become more stronger than they ever were.
You know like Obi-Wan Kenobi, only real.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Verdana><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Verdana><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:blue'>What should we do? We should leave <st1:place
w:st="on">Sheffield</st1:place>. Escape like rats from a sinking ship. One mans
heaven is another man’s hell, and this time the balance is tipping the wrong
way. Even if they kept the towers, turned them into <st1:place w:st="on">Sheffield</st1:place>’s
“Angel of the North”, what would be the outcome –
gentrification, city living dickheads, rising costs, crime, drugs, prostitution,
seafront penthouses…<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Verdana><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Verdana><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:blue'>Don’t you see?! The best thing
that could ever happen is about to happen. They’ll take away the towers,
and we’ll be left with nothing… and everything… Wallowing,
stricken, smashed on the rocks - and out of the ashes a phoenix will rise. We don’t
need your poxy f-ing towers. Keep ‘em. Grind ‘em to dust. See if we
really care.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Verdana><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Verdana><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:blue'>Even if the towers stayed, and they were
made into something wonderful, magical even, imaginations unbound, words cannot
explain… those corporate f***ers would come along and claim them as their
own. Sheffield’s on the map again, Sheffield’s the UK’s most
innovative city, the most creative city – fine, great, wonderful, but you
ask yourself – and you know who you are, you Town Hall dwelling suits –
what is it exactly that makes Sheffield all that and so much more? Not the
buildings, not the posh water features, or the fancy dancy MDF high rise slums
of the future wank that excuses itself for architecture these days – no none
of that. It’s one thing, and one thing alone - the people.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Verdana><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Verdana><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:blue'>So people. Are you listening? The question
is this - do you fight to win, or fight to lose… And in this particular case
what exactly is a win?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Verdana><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Verdana><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:blue'>Come you c**ts. Let’s have it.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>
Go [mailto:go.sheffield@gmail.com] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> 27 September 2006 16:49<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> adam@detailrecordings.co.uk;
band@smokersdieyounger.com; ben.richardson@sheffield.ac.uk;
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Dunlop; Chris Mabbs; Christiane Meckseper; Colin Havard; Dan Sumption; Daryl
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carter; edwin rostron; Elaine Stuart; G E Chalfont; george Hill; Gosse Ann;
Graeme Stonehouse; Graham Duncan; Grayshon, Liz; Helen.Batt@groundwork.org.uk;
Humphreys Jon; Ian Anderson; Ian Liptrot; Info From Thee SPC;
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Sandman; jenny wilkinson; Jillian Creasy; Joe; Joe; john chapman; Julian
Dobson; JustineGaubert@theworkshop.co.uk; K A Alexander; Kate Russell; Keith;
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worldwarfree@riseup.net<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Cooling the Towers is in
peril.</span></font><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Hello everyone,<br>
<br>
This is Go bothering you again for your support and attention for just a few
minutes. Nearly a year ago we were going full whack to try and get the <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Cooling</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Towers</st1:PlaceType>
in Tinsley, <st1:place w:st="on">Sheffield</st1:place>, to be part of Channel
4' s Big Art Project. Thanks to you lot, we managed to get down to the final 6
winning sites and had the chance to make the Cooling towers project a reality.
There was only one problem...Eon (the company that own Powergen). They own the
towers, and the land around them, and were not interested in supporting any
kind of artwork on the site. They announced that they were going to demolish
the towers as they were unsafe. <br>
<br>
That was then. Now, after several months of site surveys, negotiation and
political goings on way above our heads, Eon have come to their final decision.
And surprise bloody surprise, they haven't budged an inch. The towers are still
meant to be coming down by the end of this year. <br>
<br>
Eon, clearly, are idiots. They have listed all the reasons why the towers have
to come down, but have failed to choose very valid ones. They claim that the
majority of <st1:place w:st="on">Sheffield</st1:place> is in favour of the
towers being demolished. What they have overlooked, is that their survey is of
500 people, with only half of that (250) favouring demolition. If their maths
is as good as ours, then they have forgotten the fact that nearly 500 of you,
including local councillors and Antony Gormley, nominated the towers for the
Big Art Project. In my book, that's a few more. <br>
<br>
They also claim that their plan will bring more jobs to the area. Oh dear,
they're wrong again. Will they never learn? Building a massive Toys R Us or
whatever they go for, will not usher <st1:place w:st="on">Sheffield</st1:place>
into a Golden Age of economic happiness. Whereas, potentially, an
internationally acclaimed artwork, and new icon for the city, might just
attract a bit of attention and investment. <br>
<br>
Clearly, I should be mayor.<br>
<br>
We wanted to tell you all this because you are the ones who helped us get this
far, and we couldn't have done it without you. You deserve to find out like
this rather than reading it in the papers. <br>
<br>
But we may need to call upon your good nature again at some point soon. We're
not willing to let some goon from an electricity company tell us that <st1:place
w:st="on">Sheffield</st1:place> is not worth it. We're not willing to let
someone without even the tiniest bit of vision stop us after we've come this
far. Without meaning to get all OTT and melodramatic, this is war. <br>
<br>
It's The People versus. Eon will wish they'd never started on us. We're double
hard and all that. The thing is, who determines what our landmarks should be?
Who chooses the way we want our city to be? Who decides what to do with our
icons? <br>
<br>
We don't think it should be some suit who doesn't get it.<br>
<br>
This city is yours.<br>
<br>
We'll be in touch.<br>
<br>
Go x<br>
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GO <st1:place w:st="on">Sheffield</st1:place><br>
<br>
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Post-industrial</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">City</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> Lovers <br>
<br>
>>>> <a href="http://www.dontgo.co.uk/" target="_blank">www.dontgo.co.uk</a>
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<br>
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We're sending you this email because we think you'll be interested, and because
you're extremely patient and good-natured. If you don't want to receive emails
from us, let us know. Big love. DON'T SLEEP ON <st1:place w:st="on">SOUTH YORKS</st1:place>
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