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G20 Statement from Occupy London

anon@indymedia.org (Occupylsx) | 02.11.2011 14:55 | London

With the G20 starting today, Occupy London General Assembly has agreed on its proposal for a shared statement of the global occupy movement to the G20 counter-summit and worldwide occupations.This statement is a work in progress. It is therefore offered as a beginning of a dialogue. We want assemblies around the world to collaborate and develop a vision together.

• Our global system is unsustainable. It is undemocratic and unjust, driven by profit in the interest of the few.

• An economic system based on infinite growth, but which relies on finite resources, is leading humanity and the environment to destruction. As long as this system remains in place, people of the world continue to suffer from an increasingly unfair share of income and wealth.

• We seek a global system that is democratic, just and sustainable. The world’s resources must not go to the military or corporate profit, but instead go towards caring for people’s needs: water, food, housing, education, health, community.

• An international, global collaboration has started, and is working on a statement that will unite the occupy movements across the world in their struggle for an alternative that is focused on and originates from people and their environment.


anon@indymedia.org (Occupylsx)
- Original article on IMC London: http://london.indymedia.org/articles/10756

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Ideas ?

02.11.2011 15:20

So you've all been there for some time now, had lots of meetings and your ideas for fixing the current problems are ...........................

You've done nothing but complain

Any actual ideas ?

02.11.2011 17:20

This statement is a work in progress. It is therefore offered as a beginning of a dialogue. We want assemblies around the world to collaborate and develop a vision together.

=== Meaning that you haven't thought if anything so you are hoping somebody else will

• Our global system is unsustainable. It is undemocratic and unjust, driven by profit in the interest of the few.

=== And you alternative political structure is what ?


• An economic system based on infinite growth, but which relies on finite resources, is leading humanity and the environment to destruction. As long as this system remains in place, people of the world continue to suffer from an increasingly unfair share of income and wealth.

=== And you alternative financial structure is what ?

• We seek a global system that is democratic, just and sustainable. The world’s resources must not go to the military or corporate profit, but instead go towards caring for people’s needs: water, food, housing, education, health, community.

=== This will be achieved how ?

• An international, global collaboration has started, and is working on a statement that will unite the occupy movements across the world in their struggle for an alternative that is focused on and originates from people and their environment.

=== This will happen when ?

Allen

More talk

02.11.2011 17:23

Once again, more non specific crap. What's next a few bars of 'I'd like to teach the world to sing' ?

You are fine pontificating on about what you don't like but let's face it you have no ideas whatsoever on how to change or improve it beyond vague populist generalities.

Foxy

@ Allen

03.11.2011 08:20

It is not up to us to develop new ideas, that is what we elect a government for and they have done nothing. They are the ones at fault not us.


Speaking for myself I would do the following.

Nationalise all banks immediately

End all spending on defence and withdraw from the EU & NATO

Form a political union with progressive countries like Cuba and Venezuela.

Eliminate the current political system and replace it with locally elected peoples representatives

Refuse to pay any debts owed to foreign banks and spend the money on boosting wages for health workers and teachers

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