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A comrade from the Midlands reports:Myself and a fellow party member visited the Occupy Birningham protest today. To be quite frank they nearly drove me mad with boredom. ‘Underwhelmed’ does not even get off the mark as a description of how I felt upon bidding them goodbye. There were three very nice prim and proper youngsters from the ‘Food not Bombs’ campaign who were dishing out ‘reclaimed food’ and a few confused types who seem to be groping at some solutions to the vagaries of capitalism. One guy quite earnestly told me in no uncertain terms we should all strive to be capitalist when I suggested a moneyless, stateless, leaderless world in common. He said – “Look Man, I am a capitalist, we should all have the chance to be capitalists.” Another woman told me she was simply ‘against everything’ and while we gave a free copy of Ron Cook’s Yes Utopia to another chap he said – “hey, I don’t dig politics, it’s the environment I care about!”
ALB wrote:Pity you couldn’t make it since it seems to have been a bit of currency cranks convention, with only one person saying anything sensible:Quote:Question: Banks’ money is balanced because each deposit is balanced by a debt?Confirmation of why we need to be there to take part in these discussions.
A member has emailed to say that he was the person who posed that question, adding
Quote:along with talking about the social relations that exist in capitalism which seem to have been conveniently ignored in his summing up.So, we were there after all.
A US comrade has sent in the declaration adopted by Occupy Atlanta:
Quote:We have envisioned a new world. One without foreclosures, bank bailouts, war, corporate personhood, and the state-mandated murder of human beings. A world where the many thousands of homeless men and women in Atlanta do not have to sleep on the cold sidewalks of locked, empty buildings. A world where 15 million children do not die from hunger each year while every plant, grocery store and bakery throw away countless tons of food every single night. We have envisioned a world where the profit incentive is not only void, it is taboo – and the compassion for fellow being and for planet is paramount. A world where everyone shares so that everyone has enough.A comrade from New Zealand writes:
Quote:It’s just the same here in New Zealand. Lots of people extremely dissatisfied with the Capitalist system, but not knowing how to get out of it. We have elections coming up. I went to talk to some of the people occupying Civic Square in Wellington. One of the guys asked me if I had any good ideas for slogans for their banners. Oh Boy! Did I have some ideas!
