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<div>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 <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Peace-Village-Manchester/104383516283172?v=info#!/pages/Peace-Village-Manchester/104383516283172?v=wall" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/pages/Peace-Village-Manchester/104383516283172?v=info#!/pages/Peace-Village-Manchester/104383516283172?v=wall</a></div>
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<div>Ain't no power like the power of the people 'cos the power of the people don't stop..!</div>
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<div>Hi Mark,<br> <br>We are interested in setting up the second village somewhere here in West Africa<br> <br>what are the conditions and what support can be available for this action<br> <br>read u later<br> <br>best,<br>
<br>Sena ALOUKA<br>Director<br>Jeunes Volontaires pour l'Environnement-International<br>131, rue Ofé, Tokoin Casablanca<br>Box 8823, Lomé, Togo<br><a href="http://www.ong-jve.org/" target="_blank">www.ong-jve.org</a> <br>
<br>“Nothing else in the world...not all the armies...is so powerful<br>as an idea whose time has come.”<br>Victor Hugo</div>
<p><br>From: Mark Barrett <br>Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 12:36 PM<br>To: climateorg copenhagen ; Reclaiming Spaces <br>Subject: [climate09-int] Democracy Village</p>
<p><br>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</p>
<p><a href="http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the-staggers/2010/07/democracy-village-idea-power" target="_blank">http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the-staggers/2010/07/democracy-village-idea-power</a><br><br></p>
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<div>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</div>
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anywhere, where people could come anytime to keep in touch, network,<br>plan actions, would be the best thing. The once a week thing is probably<br>the best that can be done at the moment but if that is all, people will just<br>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>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!</div>
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