[OccupySheffield] [Occupy London] Re: [INT] Fwd: [Squares] MAYDAY! MAYDAY!

[Em Weirdigan]

YES!!!

I've been trying to encourage people to do this for years... ;)

... many people will be fearful. But if those of us with courage and/or
little to lose get on with it, perhaps we can create a nice big bouncy
castle of alternatives for the fearful to jump onto...?

Em x

On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 12:27 PM, OLSX Indymedia
<olsx.indymedia at gmail.com>wrote:

> @George
>
> If you had a large-scale withdrawal of labour from the 1% means of
> production, those alternatives become realities. I don't have time to go
> into this in depth now, but the overriding point is that they are one and
> the same, not two separate factors.
>
>
>
> On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 11:25 AM, marknbarrett at googlemail.com <
> marknbarrett at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>> you raise an important point George!
>> Sent from phone
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>> *From: * "George Por" <george at community-intelligence.com>
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>> *Subject: *Re: [Occupy London] Re: [INT] Fwd: [Squares] MAYDAY! MAYDAY!
>>
>> Hmm... continuous strike? how will the 99% make a living without the
>> alternative, non-exploitative modes of value-creation being in place?
>>
>> Call outs are easy; building an economic reality alternative to the
>> dominant system is challenging! Yet what is challenging appeals me more
>> than what is easy...
>>
>> george
>>
>>
>> Wow
>>
>> I am with that Mayday call out 100%.
>>
>> "a continuous strike, a permanent
>> withdrawal from the current system, a signal for all those who feel
>> their work to be meaningless and unsatisfying, to switch to
>> alternative means which are beneficial to the whole community, to
>> support themselves and their families"
>>
>> To me, this is the profound escalation that the movement needs. Brilliant.
>>
>> Between now and May, there is enough time to make this happen as long as
>> it becomes the focus globally very soon. Definitely something for Sheffield?
>>
>> Best
>>
>> Jamie
>>
>> On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 10:32 AM, Mark Barrett <
>> marknbarrett at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> MAYDAY! MAYDAY!
>> It is obvious we are headed for disaster unless we change course
>> drastically, and we don't have a lot of time. A project is being
>> discussed internationally in the Occupy movement - Global Strike May
>> 2012. What we are proposing is a continuous strike, a permanent
>> withdrawal from the current system, a signal for all those who feel
>> their work to be meaningless and unsatisfying, to switch to
>> alternative means which are beneficial to the whole community, to
>> support themselves and their families. In order to make this feasible
>> this alternative system needs to be up and running by May 2012.
>> Outrageous! Impossible! I agree with you. Nevertheless it has to
>> happen if we are serious about moving from this morally bankrupt and
>> physically damaging path we are on, to a sustainable system that puts
>> people before profit. Join us on Take the Squares Network
>> https://n-1.cc/pg/groups/1010883/15m-global-strike/ <
>> https://n-1.cc/pg/groups/1010883/15m-global-strike/> . and please pass
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>> and colleagues.
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Em Weirdigan
Hebden Bridge Hostel
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