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Haltemprice Convergence ?

Batty Man | 15.06.2008 09:41 | Climate Camp 2008 | Social Struggles

Call for Civil Liberties / Camp for Climate Action Coalition, in Haltemprice

What do people think about the idea that the Camp for Climate Action, Green Party or, better still a grassroots Civil Libertarian coalition involving anti-war, climate change, civil lib, anti-fascist and ideally anti-immigration controls people run a campaign in or alongside the Haltemprice by-election..?

Is there not room for Green / Civil Liberties / Peace and Justice convergence in Yorkshire, either to shut the whole thing down, or more positively to support a triangulating candidate who takes a genuinely libertarian position? Something to paint David Davis as what he is: an inappropriate defender of sacred civil liberties? Him being, basically a right wing Thatcherite/free market libertarian nationalist with authoritarian tendencies. Disgusting!

Surely this is a big opportunity for the Greens, or someone else( a name: Mark Thomas, Peter Tatchell, Maya Evans, Milan Rai..?) to air a real 'civil libertarian' agenda, green/radical politics - a way of joining all the dots (between immigration, global economics, terror, the path to grassroots democracy, social change from below, justice and therefore peace) in the public eye ..?

Hey we could all camp out up there and develop a manifesto together through participatory processes! To set an example and ensure the wider issues get an airing. Could the camp for climate action not get involved a this point...? Surely this is a totally golden opportunity to air the Zapatistan/global justice cause. A window of opportunity for a politically serious spontaneous summer of love

The Foundation of Civil Liberty - Liberty under the Law

People will become truly free (and therefore secure) ONLY when empowered to take their full part in all vital decision making processes relating to the governance of this land. This is the fundamental rule that we must recognise if we are to build a genuinely democratic constitution.

In other words: Good Governance, from Below

Comrades, can we not start this process of generatring public realisation about this, in Haltemprice??

And if you say no: what are the consequences? If we - or someone like us does not take a stand here, don't we run the riskof the whole debate being set in context of David Davis and everything to the right of him? It was the Sun wot won it? Am I alone in finding that disgusting? An insult to our political ancestors who died for the struggle.

Surely the movement should be camping out in Haltemprice, making a festival happen there, developing a manifesto for change together in the Yorkshire sun, triangulating the right wingers with a genuine left right libertarian agenda, written by the grassroots!

Urgent Call to Action..

Batty Man

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