[OccupySheffield] Fwd: Attn: Dean Peter Bradley

[Chris]

Hi

On Sat 24-Dec-2011 at 09:10:36PM +0000, Mike Evison wrote:
> Hi Chris, its a good letter but i fear that Dean peter
> Bradley has nailed his colours to the corporate mast.
> The same goes for Toby Foster who I believe is playing
> dangerous games with you and is only intent in harming
> your cause. I would refuse going on his show if it is
> possible and stick to Rony Robinson where you will get a
> fair hearing.
>
> Mike

I totally agree with Mike on this.

All the best

Chris

> ----- Forwarded message from Occupy Sheffield <info at occupysheffield.org.uk> -----
> 
> To: <peter.bradley at sheffield-cathedral.org.uk>,
>     <carl.hutton at sheffield-cathedral.org.uk>,
>     <Fran.Joel at sheffield-cathedral.org.uk>,
>     <Tim.Renshaw at sheffield-cathedral.org.uk>,
>     <Clergy_Mail at sheffield-cathedral.org.uk>
> Subject: Attn: Dean Peter Bradley
> 
> Season Greetings.
> 
> We are writing to you in a spirit of goodwill and - from
> many in our campaign - Christian fellowship, to wish for
> you and your family and congregation a peaceful
> Christmas. We hope that you are able to find, in between
> the wrappings and trappings, some moments to reflect on
> the meaning of Christmas away from the Bacchanalian
> feast it can resemble.
> 
> Occupy Sheffield will brave the elements, and while some
> will celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, others will
> warm themselves in the light of each other and our
> fellowship. As ever, you are welcome to join us in the
> camp to be part of this. If not in the next few days,
> then at a time of your choosing thereafter.
> 
> In the New Year we will return to our efforts to engage
> with you through the Ecumenical meetings. We will seek
> to convince you that the only way to create proposals
> that can become part of the national conversation is via
> an ongoing and very visible public presence - however
> uncomfortable this may be for The Establishment. We will
> reiterate that we do not contest the work of the Church,
> or the Archer Project - we are not here to occupy
> Sheffield Cathedral. We will continue to discuss and
> debate the ideas that will become our proposals for a
> world run in the interests of the 99%, not the 1%, as is
> currently manifest. These discussions and their output
> will be in concert with other Occupations throughout the
> UK and the world.
> 
> There is a great deal of hope in the camp that we will
> be allowed to focus on developing these proposals, and
> that our efforts will not be assailed by mammon. If they
> are, we will only be encouraged in our efforts. There
> was some discussion in the camp about movements of the
> past, and how they were initially scorned, disrupted,
> smeared and attacked - but in the end proven to be
> right. Among these, the right to democracy, the
> abolition of slavery, the right to universal suffrage,
> the end of the Vietnam war, the protests against the war
> on Iraq.
> 
> We believe that the Occupation movement is one such
> movement - namely, that it is right that the country and
> the world should be run in the interest of the many, not
> the few, and that this should not be hand-waving
> aspiration, but built into the fabric of the legal and
> financial frameworks that underpin our societies.
> 
> It is our hope this Christmas that on reflection, our
> ideas will find a natural constituency with those who
> adjuge humble beginnings and great ideas to be a more
> true vessel for what is right and good than with those
> aspirants of over-consumption and acquisition.
> 
> With peace in our hearts, we wish you a Merry Christmas.
> 
> Occupy Sheffield
> 
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