[Campaignforrealdemocracy] [EM-activists] Re: dates + So We Stand

Fri Aug 20 14:33:32 UTC 2010

yeah what about the Waterstones Piccadilly Sept 8 for Blair's booksigning,
out in force for citizen's arrest (we wimmin plus men who want to dress as
wimmin want to do a Hells' Granny actiion -- seeing as it is dark moon)

On 18 August 2010 16:08, Mark Barrett <marknbarrett at googlemail.com> wrote:

>  Hi comrades
>>
>
> In response to Joty's calendar, see my colour text, inc a few comments
> (sorry if a bit wordy) at the bottom.
>
> Also, pls note the Westminster DV PAs are a weekly affair, with different
> topics covered each week. Also, in time do you think others might set
> up similar meetings o/s local Town Halls?
>
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>>    - *1pm Saturday August 21st **Peoples Assembly on the Future of
>>    Democracy **Victoria Tower Gardens - **Westminster / St James Park
>>    Tube*
>>    *Map ref:  **
>>    http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/place?cid=242875860457998317&q=victoria+tower+gardens&gl=uk
>>    *<http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/place?cid=242875860457998317&q=victoria+tower+gardens&gl=uk>
>>    *Please bring food to share (unless you're fasting)** *
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>    - *7pm Thurs 2 **September** **VENUE alteration: *7pm in University of
>    London Union, Malet St, London WC1E 7HY.* Coalition of Resistance
>    planning meeting **Next steps for coalition against cuts and
>    privatisation*<http://www.counterfire.org/index.php/blogs/66-luna17-activist/6248-next-steps-for-coalition-against-cuts-and-privatisation>
>    http://www.counterfire.org/index.php/blogs/66-luna17-activist/6248-next-steps-for-coalition-against-cuts-and-privatisation
>
>
>>    - *Saturday 11th September** **From Melt-Down to Upheaval - Assembly-*
>>    http://thecommune.wordpress.com/2010/07/31/from-meltdown-to-upheaval-11th-september-assembly/#more-5590
>>    <uncaptiveminds at gmail.com> <uncaptiveminds at gmail.com><uncaptiveminds at gmail.com><uncaptiveminds at gmail.com>
>>    uncaptiveminds at gmail.com *
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>    - 18th September Protest the Pope http://www.protest-the-pope.org.uk/
>
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>>    - *Sat 2nd October Oxford TBC David Kelly meeting*
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>    - Sunday 3rd October Birmingham Right to Work National Demo against
>    Tory Party Conference with Wobblies and anarchists also calling for mass
>    protests  http://sites.google.com/site/righttoworkconference/
>    - *Saturday 9th October **DEMOCRACY RALLY** trafalgar square *
>    - Wed 20th October Spending Review - demos in Westminster / elsewhere
>    - *27 November in central London: **Coalition of Resistance conference<http://coalitionofresistance.wordpress.com/about/>
>    **,*
>
> Following my recent meetings with Paul Brandon of Right to Work, Corinna
> and Paul of A World to Win and Alessio of http://iww.org.uk/ I'd also
> argue that to really make the most of the situation, and help link up the
> struggles into the right trajectory we need to ensure a sensible presence at
> the planning meeting on 2nd Sept.
>
> And there to essentially call for the coalition not to make the same
> mistakes of the StW coalition, ie to actualy win by making the movement
> genuinely democratic and to not be afraid to be more militant eg occupy town
> halls etc and - equally impotant - to ensure the fight is placed firmly
> within the ideological context of the fight to remake the world, for a new
> society, real democracy etc. To use a language, speak a vision, seek out a
> political economy and adopt an iconography that completely avoids the usual
> leftist trappings.
>
> Why not turn the Big Society on its head? More volunteers and/or private
> provision will not sort out our social problems - only PAs or something
> similar everywhere, and a campaign of positive resistance alongside can
> manage this. To win we need to create a visible movement for a world in
> which everyone and everything gets taken care of, via a new political
> economy, a completely different, community centred way of life with a
> democratic political economy in support.
>
> Maybe the idea vis a via the press and public should be nationalise and
> decentralise public services (ie to PAs) and link it all to a new
> constitutional settlement with DVs as the key political unit of the future.
> So, for example new community councils at the neighbourhood level, properly
> constituted could circumvent the higher state bureacracy and be give the
> right to disburse social security in exchange for work agreed, by non
> coercive consensus between the claimant and the whole community - ie to do
> work he or she actually wants to do in exchange for payments - say 15 pounds
> p/a - so that welfare is used to empower people through well paid community
> work, while at the same time build community and ensure diversity across all
> the neighbourhoods of the land(s). Councils would need sovereignty over
> decisions of what goes on in each area, so that health and safety,
> bureacrats "local authorities" capitalists etc are all cut out of the
> programme  and what really matters becomes just what people agree together
> in regards how to spend their money and apply their labour in the area. And
> if they don't like the community in question, they go to the next one so the
> communities compete for labour, and presenting a nice culture to work in and
> not the other way around.
>
> Isn't this kind of thinking, o/s the hackneyed leftist (essentially statist
> rather than genuinely democratic, people powered community centred) box with
> a movement of positive resistance alongside the only way that we can turn
> the crisis into a liberation? Then when  mainstream people will be able
> to come on board as the cuts kick in and as they will be looking for
> credible positive alternatives, with none forthcoming from Labour. And it
> will also make it difficult for the press to caricature us.
>
> Positive  resistance will mean demos, media campaigning, occupations but
> also, essentially actual practical support for people within real
> communities who are suffering threats whether that be welfare cuts,
> evictions, racism, whatever.
>
> Finally I think we should try and organise some kind of presence at the
> Protest the Pope demo, to advertise our secular democracy project (after all
> they are secularists and PAs must be free of any one religious or political
> dogma, other than we make of them what we can and everyone, including
> animals and the natural world is to be treated with equality and respect)
> and also the anti-Tory Conference demo) and I wondered if we might be able
> to have a really fun session that day with a "blank block" ie blank placard
> block that would get everyone's attention.
>
> Hell we might aswell enlist the power of God (via secularism) in our
> endeavour, right??!! lol
>
> See you soon
> X
>
>
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