[OccupySheffield] [Hebden Bridge Transition Town News] Events Coming Up - Occupy At The Trades Club, Health Group, Garage Construction

[Anna Harris]

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> Coming Up - Occupy At The Trades Club  Come And Be Heard. Have your say
> in the occupy movement - Tuesday 20th December - Trades Club - From 6pm
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> Article by Anna Harris about forthcoming Occupy Hebden Bridge event On
> Tuesday 20th December
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> People from Occupy Hebden and HebdenTransition will be meeting at the
> Trades Club to explore whether and how we can work together to achieve our
> common aims. Having been part of both movements I can see many
> similarities, but there are also differences which need to be respected.
> Both groups are aware that the path we are on globally is endangering our
> very existence as a human society, but whereas Transitioners are not given
> to delving into the reasons, for they want to concentrate on the solutions,
> Occupiers often criticise the system as a whole and tend to feel that
> nothing less than total refurbishment will do. Transitioners are in the
> main happy to work with what we have, and see that much can be done by
> empowering local communities to develop alternative systems side by side
> with what is already existing. They have done much to open people's eyes to
> the loss of community and what can be achieved by re- investing in it.
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> Occupiers challenge the status quo with protest marches, camping out in
> city centres, supporting workers' strikes, even challenging the law in the
> courts, and focus attention particularly on financial institutions which
> bend the law to suit themselves. The vast division between those who
> benefit from the influence that corporations have on government policy, and
> those who suffer from it, is expressed in the slogan of 'we are the 99%'.
> The advantage of the Occupy movement is in combining this array of
> different interests under one umbrella. Both movements see the possibility
> of a society where joy in working together and sharing resources replaces
> the competitive system of industrial growth which is destroying the planet.
> While Occupy is envisaging the possibility of at some point changing the
> system, Transition is building an alternative system run by local people
> for the people. Together we can work to make this happen. Come to the
> Trades Club on Tuesday 20th. If you want to add your voice to those being
> heard around the world or just want to find out more you will be most
> welcome. *There will be delicious food available between 6 and 8pm, and
> the event starts at 7pm*
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