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Take the square!!! Take the streets!!! #Globalrevolution 19th June 2011

takethesquare.net | 13.06.2011 12:05 | Globalisation | Public sector cuts | Social Struggles | Sheffield | World

We are the outraged, the anonymous, the voiceless. We were there, silent but alert, watching. Not gazing upward at the powers that be, but looking from side to side for the right time to unite with each other.

No political party, association or trade union represents us. Nor do we want them to, because each and every one of us speaks for her or himself. Together, we want to design and create a world where people and nature come first, before economic interests. We want to design and build the best possible world. Together we can and we will. Unafraid

The first sparks started to fly in the Arabic countries, where thousands of people took over streets and squares, reminding their governments where the real power lies. The Icelanders followed, taking to the streets to speak their mind and decide their future. And it wasn’t long before Spaniards occupied squares in neighborhoods, towns and cities. Now the flame is swiftly spreading through France, Greece, Portugal, Italy and Turkey, and the cries of peaceful demonstrators echo across America and Asia, where new movements are cropping up everywhere. Only a global revolution can confront global problems. The time has come for the woman and man in the street to take back their public spaces to debate and build a new future together.

This is a call to the #Globalrevolution on 19 June. We're calling on people everywhere to peacefully occupy public squares and create spaces for debate, assembly and reflection. It's our duty to reclaim the public arena and together forge the kind of world we want to live in.

Take the square!!! Take the streets!!! #Globalrevolution

People of the World, rise up!!!

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Solidarity

13.06.2011 13:58

Why do organisers insist on calling prescribed peaceful events? Just let everyone get on with what they want to - if a rioter insisted you riot you'd be pretty angry, the situation is no different in reverse. We're all struggling together, I'm fed up of the constant message by just about every mass social movement out there that remaining nonviolent is more important than stopping the injustices of the world. Our collective nonviolence really helped the people of Iraq didn't it?

There's all kinds of work to be done in combating the staggering injustices of this world. Some is nonviolent, and some is violent. Let's remember that as we try to build a movement of genuine solidarity.

Looking forward to the event :)

jim


The state

13.06.2011 14:14

relies on nonviolence.

xman