[Cc-webedit] [Fwd: climate camp text]

[Richard Braude]

I think something like this would work well as a blog post, but it has
too much contraversial language to be unilaterally made website text
by this group I feel.

Garry, please write a blog post; if you could put some context to this
piece that would be ace.

r.

On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 8:16 PM,  <website at climatecamp.org.uk> wrote:
> ---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
> Subject: climate camp text
> From:    "Garry Glass" <garry.glass at gmail.com>
> Date:    Wed, August 11, 2010 7:08 pm
> To:      website at climatecamp.org.uk
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> It would be just lovely if this were on the website...
>
> gx
>
>
> *In October 2008 the ruling class condemned us to a generation of debt
> slavery by stealing billions of pounds of public money to bail-out the
> collapsing banks.  The public finances were robbed in what many are now
> beginning to realise was the greatest bank job in history. Covering up this
> crises is being paid for by a new age of austerity that means people are
> facing increasing economic oppression such as unemployment and massive cuts
> to public services. As corporate elites struggle to maintain their system of
> endless growth, they are becoming evermore ruthless in exploiting the earth
> and its people in pursuit of short term profit, condemning us to immanent
> ecological catastrophe. And all this has been built with wealth they have
> been stealing from us in the first place!
>
> Capitalism is a catastrophe for life on earth. Climate change, the
> bio-crisis and the energy, food and water crises are some of the many
> symptoms of the inherent contradictions of this global system of
> exploitation. Predatory economics has no future, and will bring down life on
> earth in order to maintain its domination and social control. People are
> fighting back and finding ways out of this crisis and there is still a
> remote chance that human life on earth could have a future but this is fast
> running out. It is only by confronting this catastrophe that we can envisage
> any meaningful possibility for social transformation.  Action must be swift
> to initiate this ecological revolution that transforms how we relate to each
> other and the earth itself. The only way to ensure survival is by building
> community resilience, in part through acts of solidarity to resist the banks
> and the fossil fuel industries. We invite you to become part of this radical
> social transformation, to reclaim all of what is rightly ours, most
> importantly that very ability to dream of a future. * *
>
> Act now in defiance of capitalism, in defence of life.* *
> *
>
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