Christmas presents for and from Luddites ;-)

[Ned Ludd]

Dear Friends,

Our music compilation CD is looking very 
exciting, we have added some new artists: take a 
look at the full list at 
<http://luddites200blog.org.uk/luddite-music-cd-and-poetry/>http://luddites200blog.org.uk/luddite-music-cd-and-poetry/, 
where you can now buy the CD and book online. We 
are well on the way to breaking even, we just 
need a little more help from you, so please 
follow your impulses, solve your Christmas 
present problems and order some copies of the CD 
and poetry anthology now! If you would like to 
have your name printed as a supporting subscriber 
in the CD booklet or anthology, please send £20 for either or £30 for both.

If you prefer to send a cheque, rather than 
paying online, please make the cheque payable to 
Human Genetics Alert, to 22b St Kilda's Road, London, N16 5BZ.

Luddite Music CD and Poetry Book
Chanukah and Christmas are coming and we have the 
perfect Luddite presents for your friends and 
family!  You can order them below.
Words in Praise of Ned Ludd includes a selection 
of poems from our competition earlier this 
year.   Provoking, entertaining, moving and 
heartening, it is a rich and varied selection of 
funny, angry, polemical, satirical poems and 
songs. Some are sad and some are wise. Some are 
meditations on historical change and some are 
calls to action.  In the words of competition 
judge, Andy Croft, paraphrasing E.P. Thompson, 
they ‘successfully rescue the poor stockinger, 
the Luddite cropper, the obsolete hand-loom 
weaver and the ‘Utopian’ artisan from the 
enormous condescension of poetry’.  These were, 
as Theo Ayres writes in ‘William Thorpe’, the 
‘ordinary’ people who attempted something 
‘extraordinary’.  Finally, it is a book about 
continuing industrial and political resistance, 
two hundred years later. Like Robin Hood, Captain 
Swing, Spartacus and V, General Ludd is the 
leader of the dispossessed everywhere.
General Ludd’s Triumph, our compilation CD of 
traditional and modern Luddite music, has a great 
line-up of artists.  It includes existing 
recordings, songs from the musical shows that 
have been touring this year and other new 
compositions inspired by the 200th anniversary. 
If the results are anything like the session at 
our Huddersfield festival in April, you will be 
singing along and generally causing a 
ruckus.  Like the poetry book, it is the only 
collection of such Luddite material ever 
assembled and is no doubt destined to become a 
collector’s item. Artists include: Chumbawamba, 
Seize the Day, New Model Army, Robert Calvert (ex 
Hawkwind), Steeleye Span, Martin Davis, Ark B, 
Eric Angus Whyte, The Hammer and Shears Theatre 
Company, Annie Dearman and Steve Harrison, Gary 
Kaye, Mikron Theatre Company, Bill Price, Ruth and Sadie Price.
If there are problems with this system, contact luddites200 at yahoo.co.uk.
Please note: Luddites200 are using the Paypal 
account of Human Genetics Alert, a friendly 
organisation, for technical reasons. Your payment 
will go to Luddites200. Prices include £1.50 UK 
post & packing.  Please email us if you want delivery outside the UK.



Best wishes

Ned




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