Sack the City- 23F
Katie | 11.02.2009 13:10 | Birmingham | Sheffield
It´s time to get medieval on their arses. In terms of stocks and rotten tomatoes that is. Monday 23 February is going to be the day that we sack the city. The bankers and their political lackeys do not know what they are doing- the system is out of control. It´s time to close down the system.
Or shall we just leave it to sort itself out cos all that financial stuff sounds a bit complicated and boring?
Well, a reason not to be quite so apathetic about the present situation is that there are many people throughout the country who are likely to be highly supportive of such action.
Everyone is just waiting around for someone else to do something. I mean is it the case that no one gives a fuck. A wave of actions against the attacks on Gaza sprang up. But so far nothing against the bankers, credit rating agencies etc that are dependent on things like government arms contracts and the perpetuation of armed conflict.
The bankers and their mates are not responsible for everything. We don´t have to start getting into a tangle with ideas that they exert direct control over everything we do. But they are incredibly influential. Even now with the financial system and real world economy going down the toilet they are running the show. Citibank are the ones telling the US government to buy up a trillion quids worth of paper that the bankers have assured them they will wipe their arses with before handing it over
If i´m wrong about this tell me. Explain to me why we should keep our heads buried in the sand. if its possible to have a heated debate about indymedia admin failings then it must be possible to comment on the crisis.
A promising start is that Climate Camp have promised to go to the city on April Fools Day. But thats in nearly 2 months time.
We managed to riot over the poll tax and this is 50 times bigger. The measures being taken by the government translate into the mortgaging of the health and education system. They are in the process of turning each and every one of us into a debt slave. The investors were dumb enough to lend the money want it back. They don´t want to take the hit. They recognise that the banks can´t pay it back so they want us to.
Just think about it for a moment. Every entity that we campaign against depends on finance capital. it depends on this system and it is this system that is in crisis.
In terms of where to start i say start with the credit rating agencies. They are a critical part of the jigsaw and have been widely cited as in part responsible for the debt bubble by giving good credit ratings to shit financial products
they also do nasty things to countries by threatening to cut their ratings if they don´t follow policies that are excessively deferential to fiscal discipline
http://www.turbulenceahead.com/2009/01/time-to-downgrade-ratings-agencies.html
Well, a reason not to be quite so apathetic about the present situation is that there are many people throughout the country who are likely to be highly supportive of such action.
Everyone is just waiting around for someone else to do something. I mean is it the case that no one gives a fuck. A wave of actions against the attacks on Gaza sprang up. But so far nothing against the bankers, credit rating agencies etc that are dependent on things like government arms contracts and the perpetuation of armed conflict.
The bankers and their mates are not responsible for everything. We don´t have to start getting into a tangle with ideas that they exert direct control over everything we do. But they are incredibly influential. Even now with the financial system and real world economy going down the toilet they are running the show. Citibank are the ones telling the US government to buy up a trillion quids worth of paper that the bankers have assured them they will wipe their arses with before handing it over
If i´m wrong about this tell me. Explain to me why we should keep our heads buried in the sand. if its possible to have a heated debate about indymedia admin failings then it must be possible to comment on the crisis.
A promising start is that Climate Camp have promised to go to the city on April Fools Day. But thats in nearly 2 months time.
We managed to riot over the poll tax and this is 50 times bigger. The measures being taken by the government translate into the mortgaging of the health and education system. They are in the process of turning each and every one of us into a debt slave. The investors were dumb enough to lend the money want it back. They don´t want to take the hit. They recognise that the banks can´t pay it back so they want us to.
Just think about it for a moment. Every entity that we campaign against depends on finance capital. it depends on this system and it is this system that is in crisis.
In terms of where to start i say start with the credit rating agencies. They are a critical part of the jigsaw and have been widely cited as in part responsible for the debt bubble by giving good credit ratings to shit financial products
they also do nasty things to countries by threatening to cut their ratings if they don´t follow policies that are excessively deferential to fiscal discipline
http://www.turbulenceahead.com/2009/01/time-to-downgrade-ratings-agencies.html
Katie
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