Over three Election Meltdown Mobilisation gatherings, our numbers, reach and plans have grown from strength to strength. From co-creating a May Day Carnival in Parliament Square, fed by four convergent Carnival Parades, to taking up the call from the Climate Justice International to convene participatory direct democracy People’s Assemblies in the Square and elsewhere, these are exciting times for those who would actively create a popular, truly democratic, and ecologically harmonious future for humanity and our biosphere. We’re an Open Network collective, open to individuals and groups who’d like to collaborate face-to-face and online, to build a better world for all life on Earth – so YOU are invited, to help broaden out these initiatives, add in your own to the mix, and spread the word before the UK general election: there IS a ‘System Change not Climate Change‘ alternative to the mainstream party’s planet-wrecking austerity measures – because We Weave Our Destiny With Our Own Hands!
• Election Meltdown Mobilisation gathering #4
• EMM#4.1 – Saturday 13 March 2010, 15:00-18:00
• EMM#4.2 – Sunday 14 March 2010, 15:00-19:00
• Downstairs at The Foundry, Old Street tube (exit 3), 80 Great Eastern Street, London, EC2A 3JL
» Location: Map / Street View – Google Maps
» Phone Contact: 07 854 390 408
» Queries: email – election.meltdown@gmail.com
» Election Meltdown Mobilisation #4: Facebook Event – Log In | Facebook – click on ‘Attending‘, then ‘Invite people to come‘ and invite your friends to join us
“The English people believes itself to be free; it is gravely mistaken; it is free only during election of members of parliament; as soon as the members are elected, the people is enslaved; it is nothing. In the brief moment of its freedom, the English people makes such a use of that freedom that it deserves to lose it.” ~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau (French philosopher and writer whose novels inspired the leaders of the French Revolution, 1712-1778)
• May Day Carnival & People’s Assembly
• Saturday 01 – Thursday 06 May 2010
• Facebook Events:
» 1. May Day Carnival & People’s Assembly – Log In | Facebook – click on ‘Attending‘, then ‘Invite people to come‘ and invite your friends to join us, and finally choose a Horsefolk-of-the-Apocalypse-led Carnival Parade, and do the same:
» 2a. Red Horse Carnival Parade – Log In | Facebook
» 2b. Silver Horse Carnival Parade – Log In | Facebook
» 2c. Green Horse Carnival Parade – Log In | Facebook
» 2d. Black Horse Carnival Parade – Log In | Facebook
» ‘A Mayday Tatlin Tower Hometree in Parliament Square (Banshees Remix)‘ – 3D animated visualisation of a space hijacking icon for a directly democratic People’s Assembly; video, 1:20 – YouTube – A Mayday Tatlin Tower Hometree in Parliament Square – Banshees Remix
“Real change comes about not because we vote for it, but because we fight for it, shout for it, work for it. Placing hopes and fears on who holds power, or who will gain power through voting, is wasting time which might be spent in creating alternatives, both for ourselves and for our communities.” ~ Chumbawamba, 1987
• Election Meltdown on t’InterWebs
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