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<div><strong>Campaign for Real Democracy - </strong><strong>Call Out</strong></div>
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<div>In the context of the wonderful revolutionary village currently camped in the Square, people from A World to Win plus also Matt Scott and myself from the Campaign for Real Democracy (CRD) have been discussing doing a new constitution workshop at Democracy Village. </div>
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<div>This follows up work done by AWTW, myself and others in 2006 on the Constitution (which you can read about here: <a href="http://www.aworldtowin.net/frontline/C421interimstatement.html" target="_blank">http://www.aworldtowin.net/frontline/C421interimstatement.html</a> ) </div>
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<div>"The constitution" meaning, in our view the superstructure and system of laws and law making by which ordinary people are presently excluded from power, while local community and environmental relationships get denigrated worldwide. The present constitution is imperial, both internally (through state centralisation and the power of the global corporate hegemon) and externally (via ongoing war state imperialism and economic policy) and therefore (among many other unfortunate things) illegal foreign wars of occupation flow from this <em>undemocratic state of affairs</em>. </div>
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<div>Our work in 2006 (the Campaign for a 21st Century Constitution or 'C421') was an early attempt to point out the real and democratic antidote, and to encourage a strategic mobilisation towards the end of a new constitution to be written by the very acts and imaginative ideas of the people, via Peoples' Assemblies. And with your help we would very much like to resurrect the campaign idea in Democracy Village. </div>
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<div>We are hoping to hold our workshop one evening this week so if you'd like to be involved in planning or participating in the workshop and you're coming to the Gaza march tomorrow (see below) then <strong>please come and meet with me and AWTW at 1pm at the Methodist Central Hall</strong> and we can talk through it and make a plan over the course of the afternoon. Our group will be holding banners with "A World to Win" and "One State Solution" or something similar. </div>
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<div><strong>Location Map for MC Hall</strong> <a href="http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=529902&y=179581&z=0&sv=SW1H+9NH&st=2&pc=SW1H+9NH&mapp=newmap.srf&searchp=newsearch.srf">http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=529902&y=179581&z=0&sv=SW1H+9NH&st=2&pc=SW1H+9NH&mapp=newmap.srf&searchp=newsearch.srf</a> </div>
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<div>Because the Holy Land is Everywhere (and it Takes A Village to Bring up a Child)</div>
<div>Mark </div>
<div>For Democracy Village </div>
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<div>PS in case you missed, see Picnicker Alison Banville's great article on the Village, here: <a href="http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the-staggers/2010/06/democracy-protest-freedom">http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the-staggers/2010/06/democracy-protest-freedom</a> </div>
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<div><strong>GAZA FLOTILLA NATIONAL DEMONSTRATION</strong></div>
<div><strong>SATURDAY 5th JUNE </strong></div>
<div><strong>ASSEMBLE 1.30pm DOWNING STREET, LONDON</strong></div>
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<div>More details: <a href="http://bit.ly/aEMHws" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/aEMHws</a></div>
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<div>The aid ship MV Rachel Corrie, carrying medical equipment, </div>
<div>wheelchairs, school supplies and cement, is due to reach Gaza</div>
<div>within days. Another Free aid flotilla is being prepared for </div>
<div>sailing to Gaza next month.</div>
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<div>Will Israel perpetrate more acts of murderous piracy to stop </div>
<div>these humanitarian missions?</div>
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<div>Governments across the world are virtually unanimous: Israel's</div>
<div>illegal and inhumane siege of Gaza must be lifted now. They are </div>
<div>doing no more than express the UN Security Council resolution</div>
<div>passed in January 2009, which unequivocally "calls for the </div>
<div>unimpeded provision and distribution throughout Gaza of </div>
<div>humanitarian assistance, including food, fuel and medical </div>
<div>treatment."</div>
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<div>But words come easy to politicians who have habitually ignored</div>
<div>Israel's countless violations of international law. It is action </div>
<div>that is needed now, with the threat of sanctions and the breaking </div>
<div>of diplomatic links, if Israel does not abide with the demand to </div>
<div>lift the siege.</div>
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<div>For that to happen, we need to build on last Monday's spontaneous </div>
<div>wave of outrage, expressed in large protests in dozens of </div>
<div>countries, which forced governments to demand publicly that </div>
<div>Israel ends its blockade, and not least in Egypt, where a regime </div>
<div>which has slavishly followed US dictates, felt compelled to open </div>
<div>its border with Gaza.</div>
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<div>As we witness the obscene spectacle of Benjamin Netanyahu </div>
<div>claiming that Israel -- the world's fourth most powerful military </div>
<div>-- is the victim when it slaughters nine peace activists on a</div>
<div>humanitarian mission, Saturday's national demonstration will add </div>
<div>our voice to that of the peace campaigners on the MV Rachel </div>
<div>Corrie, who say that only by breaking the siege of Gaza will we </div>
<div>show that those killed by Israel on Monday did not die in vain.</div>
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<div>David Cameron and Nick Clegg need to get the message: Israel's</div>
<div>crimes against humanity must stop now. Please join Saturday's</div>
<div>demonstration if you can and encourage everyone you know to be</div>
<div>there too.</div>
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<div>If you would like to distribute leaflets in your area to help</div>
<div>publicise the demonstration, you can download the pdf for </div>
<div>printing here: <a href="http://stopwar.org.uk/images/flotilla.pdf" target="_blank">http://stopwar.org.uk/images/flotilla.pdf</a></div>
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<div>The demonstration is called by Stop the War Coalition, Palestine </div>
<div>Solidarity Campaign, British Muslim Initiative, CND and Viva </div>
<div>Palestina.</div>
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<div>MUST SEE VIDEOS, MUST READ ARTICLES</div>
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<div>These are some of the videos and articles in the last week </div>
<div>following the attack on the Gaza flotilla which we think are not </div>
<div>to be missed.</div>
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<div>* Video of the day thousands occupied Downing Street and marched </div>
<div>to the Israeli embassy: <a href="http://bit.ly/9A4u4b" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/9A4u4b</a></div>
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<div>* Democracy Now video which is the best account we have seen of </div>
<div>the Israeli attack and its aftermath; it includes coverage of the </div>
<div>world wide demonstrations and an excellent discussion with </div>
<div>leading commentators: <a href="http://bit.ly/c4ZWIV" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/c4ZWIV</a></div>
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<div>* Seumas Milne's Guardian article, "If Gaza's relief is a step</div>
<div>closer they won't have died in vain": <a href="http://bit.ly/bI60XA" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/bI60XA</a></div>
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<div>* Mark Steel's article, "They were asking for it", is a scathing </div>
<div>demolition of the lies which Israeli spokespeople, such as the</div>
<div>abominable lie-master in chief Mark Regev, have been given free </div>
<div>rein to peddle in much of the media: <a href="http://bit.ly/97BtiI" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/97BtiI</a></div>
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<div>* We are also remembering Rachel Corrie this week, who along with </div>
<div>other humanitarian peace activists such as, Thomas Hurndall, and </div>
<div>James Miller, gave her life in solidarity with Palestinians, when </div>
<div>she was crushed to death by an Israeli army bulldozer, as she</div>
<div>tried to protect a Palestinian doctor's home facing demolition: </div>
<div><a href="http://bit.ly/cg5HK4" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/cg5HK4</a></div>