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La Borsa o La Vida. | 07.06.2001 14:38

LA BORSA O LA VIDA, presents:...

On the 25th June..., LETS TRANSFORM BARCELONA'S STOCK EXCHANGE!

OPEN CONTEST:
SEND US YOUR IDEAS OF HOW TO TRANSFORM BARCELONA'S STOCK EXCHANGE INTO A USEFUL BUILDING FOR THE CITY.

Hello everyone:

As you probably already know, on Monday 25 June we are going to go to Barcelona's Stock Exchange. This is an institution through which, major transnational corporations make profits of more than 20 or 30% by exploiting workers, the environment and entire communities.

We need to prepare the "Guided Tour to the Stock Exchange", and the working group "La Borsa o La Vida" thought that the people of Barcelona at large should gain from our visit to this institution. That's why we have thought that once we are in the Stock Exchange's building, we should reconvert it into a useful and welcoming space, a "space for the people".

Please send us your proposals on how we could do this, or, even better, publish them directly into our website. From the "proposals" section of www.rosadefoc.org, you will be able to access Barcelona.Indymedia.org proposals page. Of course, you can also access this page by directly going to www.barcelona.indymedia.org. When sending your proposals, please put as a header CONCURSBORSA.

We have already had the idea below (see annex 1) and we hope there will be many more, because the city of Barcelona it's not short of necessities....

During the week of 18-22 June, we will decide on the final proposal in an assembly, taking into account all the proposals we receive. Through a consensus decision making process we will decide how we finally transform Barcelona's Stock Exchange.

RESISTANCE'S VALUE IS ON THE UP!!


ANNEX 1:

1st PROPOSAL:
To convert the Stock Exchange into a Popular Dining-room:

If the Stock Exchange is the headquarters of the non-real, of the virtual, of the ephemeral, and above all, of death.... If the financial markets are the little toys of the predator capitalism...
What better that transform it into a popular dining-room, full of vitality and useful for the community.

As you are well aware, every day there are more people who have no food to eat; many of them live in the Global South, but many others live just minutes away from the Stock Exchange's building; for example sleeping rough in the Plaça de Catalunya and Passeig de Gracia. Yes, in this up-market area of the city where many big corporations also live, there's no enough food at hand for all these who need it.
We are convinced that a free popular dining-room is very much needed in Barcelona, and we think that the space now occupied by the Stock Exchange would be the perfect one for this use.

The funds for a free dining-room would come from the abolition of economic speculation, which is, by the way, what we want to achieve with this action.

As for how we could practically go about doing this action, we think that:
-The cookers we already use in the "Free Money" campaign could be reconverted into a Free Food kitchen.
-The notice boards of the Stock Exchange could be used as Menus for the day.
-The Stock Exchanges' brokers and workers will be rehired to cook and serve the food. Let’s see if they are as good in the kitchen as they are making profit!
-The several halls of the building can be reconverted into the dining-rooms.
-The security guards, vigilantes, undercover police and special branches can be used to make sure the food we are going to eat it is in a perfect estate.
-All the technical equipment, computer and other electronic machines we find in the building, can be redistributed through different areas of Barcelona, so we make new technologies more accessible to the citizens.

and... last but not least!...

the walls of the building could be painted pink!....

Working Group "La Borsa o La Vida"
Campaign Barcelona-2001

La Borsa o La Vida.
- Homepage: www.rosadefoc.org

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