[Campaignforrealdemocracy] It takes a village... Re: [EM-activists] Democracy Village at north end of Trafalgar Square from 12.30 PM - Saturday 31st July

[Mark Barrett]

 Here is a nice message of solidarity from Africa; in response to Alison and
Phoenix's article which I posted on the Copenhagen International list. Nice
one !! Please can people let me know any ideas / suggestions what to say in
immediate response to Sena and I'll gladly relay the info. Presumably we can
discuss ways to support our brothers and sisters at JVE (a youth
participation / enviro - NGO) at the PA this Saturday? Also I saw there is a
Manchester Peace Village  now being planned, see
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Peace-Village-Manchester/104383516283172?v=info#!/pages/Peace-Village-Manchester/104383516283172?v=wall

Ain't no power like the power of the people 'cos the power of the people
don't stop..!

X

Hi Mark,

We are interested in setting up the second village somewhere here in West
Africa

what are the conditions and what support can be available for this action

read u later

best,

Sena ALOUKA
Director
Jeunes Volontaires pour l'Environnement-International
131, rue Ofé, Tokoin Casablanca
Box 8823, Lomé, Togo
www.ong-jve.org

“Nothing else in the world...not all the armies...is so powerful
as an idea whose time has come.”
Victor Hugo


From: Mark Barrett
Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 12:36 PM
To: climateorg copenhagen ; Reclaiming Spaces
Subject: [climate09-int] Democracy Village


We heeded the calls at the Copenhagen Climate Summit in December 2009 to set
up people's assemblies worldwide in June 2010: we started early and set one
up on 1 May

http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the-staggers/2010/07/democracy-village-idea-power

On 29 July 2010 09:04, Elizabeth Power <power1931 at googlemail.com> wrote:

> agreed Ian.
>
> Saturday meeting (1pm Victoria Tower Gardens) definitely going ahead and we
> will march down under a banner from Trafalgar Square around 12.30...that in
> itself is defiant and unifying
>
>
>
> On 29 July 2010 06:49, the sky <home at skytortoise.vispa.com> wrote:
>
>> Personally, I think the main thing is to keep the people together and not
>> let
>> this action by Boris Johnson scatter them to the four winds. A site
>> anywhere, where people could come anytime to keep in touch, network,
>> plan actions, would be the best thing. The once a week thing is probably
>> the best that can be done at the moment but if that is all, people will
>> just
>> drift away. Now the immediate pressure of maintaining P Sq is gone, time
>> to think of building up the movement.
>>
>> Ian.
>>
>

>     *Democracy Village will gather on Saturday July 31, Victoria Tower
>> Gardens, from 1 pm*
>>
>>
>

>    People are going to meet up at Trafalgar Square (north side) 12.30 to
>> march down to Victoria Tower Gardens for 1 pm. Bring flags and banners for
>> redecoration of the Green Boris Berlin Wall!
>>
>>
>

>    In this week -- the 13th week of the village -- our message is more
>> necessary than ever. US military intelligence has been busted by wikileaks
>> to expose the true nature of the warfare against civilians in Afghanistan.
>> Everything we have been saying on the village, in the media, to show up the
>> hypocrisy of Parliament's illegal wars has been vindicated. We represent the
>> majority of people, in both the US and the this country, who want out of
>> this war.
>>
>>
>

>    The village, as a collection of tents on a square of grass, may have
>> been evicted, but a Village is more than that. It's a community, a network,
>> all the energy and the ideas connected into that network. It's US!
>>
>>
>

>    See you there Saturday!
>>
>
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