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Alien Images | 09.04.2009 09:14 | G20 London Summit

Now the peoples eyes are opened

I raided my penny jar (literaly) and got a train ticket to London (from Norfolk) for the fools day demo.
this was the first one I've been on in a number of years (25) but as a working man (before the shit hit ) i needed to show my support / disgust at what has been happening.
I arrived at cannon street and things were good, even with the expected cattle herding.
when we arrived at the bank i was blown away by the diversity of people there.
Sitting on the bank of England steps and rolling a fag was surreal which added to the great atmosphere.
I then got mixed up in the Threadneedle street / Bartholomew lane stuff and as we all know what happened i won't go in to that.
After being evicted and finding my way back in (twice) i sat and chatted with people, listened to the reggae sound system and wondered what now
After five and a half hours i blagged my way out ( there were one or two decent cops ) and got a train home.
On the journey i felt angry, angry at the cops, angry at the goverment, angry at having to sitting on the train floor while first class was half empty.
This re-lit an energy in me that had been buried under everyday shit for so long.
full of this re-found fight i wanted more, i looked but nothing, was that it ?

Where do we go from here ?

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Whose Bank? OUR Bank!

09.04.2009 09:30

Set a date, get everyone around the country to peacefully occupy their local branch until the Government takes over the running of it, and uses it as a model for the kind of financial regulation that needs to be imposed on all the Banks if they won't do it voluntarily. Which they won't. Ethical investment, micro-credit, no speculation on ludicrous "futures" or "options" or all the other stupid stuff.

RBS


some local groups for you

09.04.2009 13:15

Norfolk and Waveney Earth First!
 norfolkNO@SPAMearthfirst.org.uk
earthfirst.org.uk
PO box 487, Norwich NR5 8WE

Norwich Anarchists
 http://www.norwichanarchists.org/

Rising Tide Norwich
07961 917535
 norwichNO@SPAMrisingtide.org.uk
www.risingtide.org.uk/norwich

try 'em out, or there may be more appropriate ones depending on what you're after, or set something going yourself...

info


hell yeah.

09.04.2009 13:40

i am up for it. one solution...

anon


more

09.04.2009 13:55

No, it is not enough to say 'go and organise your own thing'. There does need to be a follow up to the bank of england action, and perhaps us active anarchists should devote a bit of head space to think about it. After all, if we can get to the bank of england and trash RBS, then there is a lot else we can do..

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