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The Great COP-15 Cop-Out in December 2009 showed how The Powers That Be cannot even be prevailed upon to meet their own woefully low expectations in co-operating to halt the Catastrophic Climate Chaos Crisis into which they are plunging humanity and our ecosphere. So it’s time to begin making ourselves ungovernable by their discredited and bakrupt Parliamentary representative democracy, by developing our own dynamic and blossoming Participatory direct democracy – through the People’s Assemblies called for by the emergent Climate Justice International.
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DIY Banner Making, outside the House of Conmens
Over four 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 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 human civilisation 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 #5
• EMM#5.1 – Saturday 27 March 2010, 15:00-19:00
• EMM#5.2 – Sunday 28 March 2010, 15:00-19:00
• Downstairs at The Foundry, Old Street tube (exit 3), 86 Great Eastern Street, London, EC2A 3JL
» Phone Contact: 07 854 390 408
» Queries: email – election.meltdown@gmail.com
» Location: Map / Street View – Google Maps
» Election Meltdown Mobilisation #5: Facebook Event – Log In | Facebook – click on ‘Attending’, then ‘Invite people to come’ and invite your friends to join in
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Three Fingers for Corrupt Swindlers – protesters outside Westminster Magistrates Court when four corrupt Parliamentarians first appeared on false accounting charges
On Tueday 30 March 2010, at Southwark Crown Court, three Labour MPs and a Tory Lord will be put on trail for Theft and Embezzlement. Eliot Morley MP, David Chaytor MP, Jim Devine MP and Baron Hanningfield are being used as scapegoats to vent public outrage at the corrupt politicians without the real criminals having to change their ways. The courts cannot provide the justice we need. The system must be put on trial, not just these four corrupt scapegoats. Election Meltdown therefore calls for a PEOPLE’S COURT to put the whole system on trial. People from all over the country will come to Southwark to add their voices to the clamour for REAL CHANGE, not just false reforms!
• People’s Court – Putting the System on Trial!
• outside Southwark Crown Court
• Date: 10:00-17:00, Tuesday 30 March 2010
• Location: 1 English Grounds, London, SE1 2HU (right behind the HMS Belfast)
» Street View / Interactive Map – SE1 2HU – Google Maps
• To bring: picnic nick-nacks and food to share; DIY placards and banners
• Public Transport: London Bridge rail and tube station (Jubilee and Northern lines) – 3 mins walk, 300 m
• Journey Planners:
» TfL – [URL]http://journeyplanner.tfl.gov.uk*[/URL]
» Nationa Rail – [URL]http://ojp.nationalrail.co.uk*[/URL]
» Transport Direct – Route Planner, Online Journey Planner & Travel News | Transport Direct
• Facebook Events – click on ‘Attending’, then ‘Invite people to come’ and invite your friends to join in:
» PEOPLE’S COURT at Southwark Crown Court – Log In | Facebook
» Peoples’ Court Picnic – Log In | Facebook
“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)
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The Four Horsemen of the Anti-Capitalist Apocalypse ride out – Communist, EcoWarrior, Anarchist, Revoultionary
• 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 in, 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
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@dalinian 377838 wrote:
The Great COP-15 Cop-Out in December 2009 showed how The Powers That Be cannot even be prevailed upon to meet their own woefully low expectations in co-operating to halt the Catastrophic Climate Chaos Crisis into which they are plunging humanity and our ecosphere. So it’s time to begin making ourselves ungovernable by their discredited and bakrupt Parliamentary representative democracy, by developing our own dynamic and blossoming Participatory direct democracy – through the People’s Assemblies
ask a old hippy or your parents if you don’t get the joke :laugh_at:
OK I see all the stuff about the protest etc but I don’t live in Londonistan any more, and bunking the train (as much as I loathe privatisation and funding the National Express) is just theft rather than anarchy.
so where is the discussion about useful alternatives? Lots of stuff about protests, good idea to share info specially telling people how to deal with feds/being kettled / gased etc) but folk have been protesting about this system for my entire lifetimes and a lot of us know its shit, but if there were genuine alternatives people would go for them!
I can’t even convince youths round here to crack a squat for a arts centre/infoshop :you_crazy
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