Mocking Banking
Hildy Johnson | 22.03.2011 12:19
The UK Uncut movement´s tactics of occupying banks and converting them into social spaces is a powerful gesture in that it makes a mockery of banker´s claims to seriousness and levity. A similar example from last December in Sevilla, Spain offers more food for thought.
The occupation of banks by protesters from UK Uncut and their subsequent conversion to temporary libraries and nurseries has attracted a significant amout of attention from both the press and the public.
Given the immense diversity of social activities that could be undertaken in such premises there is I think real scope for continuing these actions.
Below is a link to a similar protest in Sevilla which turned a Banco Santander branch into a space for flamenco
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wv5dh8v7mDs
The hegemony of international banking elites can perhaps only be broken by ridiculing their claims to seriousness and levity and by showing them that we can get by fine without them.
HSBC is threatening to move it´s headquarters from the UK. How about organizing send-off parties in their branches to hasten their exit.
Given the immense diversity of social activities that could be undertaken in such premises there is I think real scope for continuing these actions.
Below is a link to a similar protest in Sevilla which turned a Banco Santander branch into a space for flamenco
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wv5dh8v7mDs The hegemony of international banking elites can perhaps only be broken by ridiculing their claims to seriousness and levity and by showing them that we can get by fine without them.
HSBC is threatening to move it´s headquarters from the UK. How about organizing send-off parties in their branches to hasten their exit.
Hildy Johnson
