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Occupy Britain - Join the 99% for positive change

Together we are the 99% | 06.10.2011 18:33 | Occupy Everywhere | Free Spaces | Public sector cuts | Social Struggles | World

For anyone who is not familiar with this movement or the events taking place all over the world, we would like to try and provide an introduction….

Here are a number of reasons why one might feel compelled to get involved in the Occupy Britain movement.

In 2008 the global recession was felt worldwide, and although the media reported ‘recovery’ there has not actually been one, in fact, what has held off the, what appears to be an inevitable global financial collapse thus far, is a process called ‘quantitive easing’ and the selling off of national institutions, such as the NHS, with job losses, redundancies, cuts to vital services, school closures, unreasonable welfare reforms, increase in the cost of living, banking institutions requiring bail outs, and the tax payer footing the bill and paying for the mistakes of others.

People are now recognising that there is a split in fairness and equality, we see bankers bonuses increasing, media tycoons controlling and withholding information that they should be reporting, in the public interest, systemic corruption of our police force, politicians and quite possibly our prime ministers, the introduction of, an ever increasing amount of legislation and statutes to further restrict our ability to speak out against them.



In addition to all of this, people are no longer prepared to accept our troops being sent to illegally occupy other countries under the guise of a so called ‘war on terror’ and ‘peacekeeping’ or ‘humanitarian missions’ we are aware that military spending on bombs and ammunition takes billions out of our annual budget, this does not only affect us, but affects whole populations with the loss of life in Iraq alone being over 1 million.

Since 2010 there have been popular uprisings, manifesting throughout the world, with regular people standing up against: greed, tyranny, injustice, corruption, and especially financial institutions and government.

On Sept. 17, 2011, a group of people converged on the financial district of Wall Street, New York to make a visual statement and to occupy for as long as it takes to let people know just how frustrated they are with living in a world made for someone else, what became clear in the wake of this occupation was the apparent lack of coverage by mainstream media, the occupation has been persistent and extremely successful due to the non-violent, leaderless approach taken by the people, not only have they had to independently report their own cause, they have been subject to a level of violence by the NYPD for asserting their right to protest, females have been kettled and pepper sprayed, even though they visibly posed no threat to anyone,(clear video evidence available on YouTube) independent journalists have been targeted and arrested for filming such appalling behaviour, and throughout the occupation the people have had various confiscations of personal items that they intended to use, such as tarpaulin and tents.

Due of the lack of attention by the mainstream media, until recently, and the logged incidents of violence at the hands of the police, people are now starting to realise just how corrupt and unfair the system is, and are choosing to join the movement which is sweeping across America,(66 occupations in different cities and towns in the USA at the time of writing) Trade unions have teamed up in support of the Occupy Wall Street campaign and the numbers of people taking to the streets and campaigning online is immeasurable, let’s just say, it is phenomenal!

Visit  http://www.occupybritain.co.uk/ to find out more.

Together we are the 99%
- e-mail: http://www.occupybritain.co.uk/

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Euro Skeptic.

07.10.2011 00:30

You are being used.

The current bout of protests have got state involvement written all over them.

The protests in Greece will achieve nothing. The protests in New York will achieve nothing. They are simply taking place for effect. They are also billed as leaderless protests which might sound cool and noble, but only because the true leaders are hidden from view.

The big giveaway is that the New York protests have been arranged in the autumn just a few weeks before the winter...why?

So they don't go on for TOO long!!!!! They have a pre-designed shelf-life.


Bill CASH.


How can direct democracy work in practice?

08.10.2011 16:41

How can the momentum of this movement be maintained? There is a widespread consensus that the people should be able to overrule their "representative" politicians if they choose to do so. This is an expression of direct democracy.

The town meeting is a very old and well-established form of collective debate and decision making. In future we could promote this sort of democracy, with citizen meetings in city districts, villages and towns. To cope with larger numbers we could use citizens' proposal (initiative), which can lead to a demand for legally binding referendum. This can also be used to block, veto unwanted government policy and also to sack MPs who perform badly.

More about citizen-led direct democracy can be found via  http://www.iniref.org/

iniref
mail e-mail: info@iniref.org
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12.10.2011 22:01

The website you are referring to has been blocked. Heil Cameron!

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