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)<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">In response to Joty's calendar, see my colour text, inc a few comments (sorry if a bit wordy) at the bottom. </div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">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? </div>
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<li><span style="BORDER-COLLAPSE: collapse"><b><i><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">1pm Saturday August 21st </font></i></b></span><span style="BORDER-COLLAPSE: collapse"><strong><i><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Peoples Assembly on the Future of Democracy </font></i></strong><i><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Victoria Tower Gardens - </font></i><i><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Westminster / St James Park Tube</font></i>
<div><i><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Map ref: </font></i><a href="http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/place?cid=242875860457998317&q=victoria+tower+gardens&gl=uk" target="_blank"><font color="#000000"><i><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/place?cid=242875860457998317&q=victoria+tower+gardens&gl=uk</font></i></font></a></div>
<i><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Please bring food to share (unless you're fasting)</font></i><i><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"> </font></i></span></li></ul></div></blockquote></div>
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<li><span style="BORDER-COLLAPSE: collapse"><b><i><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Saturday 11th September</font></i></b><i><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"> </font></i></span><span style="BORDER-COLLAPSE: collapse"><i><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">From Melt-Down to Upheaval - Assembly-*<a href="http://thecommune.wordpress.com/2010/07/31/from-meltdown-to-upheaval-11th-september-assembly/#more-5590" target="_blank"><font color="#000000"><i><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">http://thecommune.wordpress.com/2010/07/31/from-meltdown-to-upheaval-11th-september-assembly/#more-5590</font></i></font></a><i><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><br>
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<li><font color="#ff0000">18th September Protest the Pope <a href="http://www.protest-the-pope.org.uk/" target="_blank">http://www.protest-the-pope.org.uk/</a> </font></li></ul></div>
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<li><font color="#330099">Sunday 3rd October Birmingham Right to Work National Demo against Tory Party Conference with Wobblies and anarchists also calling for mass protests <a href="http://sites.google.com/site/righttoworkconference/" target="_blank">http://sites.google.com/site/righttoworkconference/</a> </font></li>
<li><span style="BORDER-COLLAPSE: collapse"><i><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><span style="COLOR: rgb(80,0,80); FONT-FAMILY: arial, sans-serif; BORDER-COLLAPSE: separate"><span style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); FONT-FAMILY: arial; BORDER-COLLAPSE: collapse"><b><i><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Saturday 9th October </font></i></b></span></span></font></i></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: arial, sans-serif; BORDER-COLLAPSE: collapse"><strong><i>DEMOCRACY RALLY</i></strong><i> trafalgar square </i></span></li>
<li><font color="#cc0000">Wed 20th October Spending Review - demos in Westminster / elsewhere</font> </li>
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<div><span style="BORDER-COLLAPSE: collapse"><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 18px; BORDER-COLLAPSE: separate"><font color="#006600">Following my recent meetings with Paul Brandon of Right to Work, Corinna and Paul of A World to Win and Alessio of <a href="http://iww.org.uk/" target="_blank">http://iww.org.uk/</a> 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. </font></span></span></div>
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<div><span style="BORDER-COLLAPSE: collapse"><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 18px; BORDER-COLLAPSE: separate"><font color="#006600">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. </font></span></span><span style="BORDER-COLLAPSE: collapse"><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 18px; BORDER-COLLAPSE: separate"><font color="#006600">To use a language, speak a vision, seek out a political economy and adopt an iconography that completely avoids the usual leftist trappings. </font></span></span></div>
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<div><span style="BORDER-COLLAPSE: collapse"><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 18px; BORDER-COLLAPSE: separate"><font color="#006600">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. </font></span></span></div>
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<div><span style="BORDER-COLLAPSE: collapse"><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 18px; BORDER-COLLAPSE: separate"><font color="#006600">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. </font></span></span></div>
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<div><span style="BORDER-COLLAPSE: collapse"><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 18px; BORDER-COLLAPSE: separate"><font color="#006600">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.</font></span></span></div>
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<div><span style="BORDER-COLLAPSE: collapse"><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 18px; BORDER-COLLAPSE: separate"><font color="#006600">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. </font></span></span></div>
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<div><span style="BORDER-COLLAPSE: collapse"><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 18px; BORDER-COLLAPSE: separate"><font color="#000066">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. </font></span></span></div>
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<div><span style="BORDER-COLLAPSE: collapse"><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 18px; BORDER-COLLAPSE: separate"><font color="#000066">Hell we might aswell enlist the power of God (via secularism) in our endeavour, right??!! lol</font></span></span></div>
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