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<div class="gmail_quote">Hey Everyone at Occupy in the UK, Ireland and Elsewhere !</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">Two messages here :)</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">(1) About March European Strike and May World Days of Action </div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">(2) About the Move Your Money Campaign</div></div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">We need your support ! Let's self-organise the March Spring !</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote"><strong>(1) Call for Spring Days of Action - Please distribute widely <br> <br></strong>- The OLSX General Assembly has recently endorsed the call for UK and wider European day(s) of action in March <br>
- There are call from the wider Occupy movement for a world strike in May</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">Some of the thinking behind the March call at this stage is as follows:<br> <br>- We are calling for informal meetings between members of Occupy and local Union leaders and rank-and-file to explore ways of taking either or both of these forward together <br>
- We are looking to find ways of working constructively in partnership with unions, student campaigners, faith, environmental and other local community groups</div>
<div class="gmail_quote"> <br>- Individuals from a number of London Occupy working-groups are proposing a March pan-European strike, ideally to be called and organised by a partnership of Occupy, unions and others ( and this day of action could also work on the national UK level) <br>
- It is provisionally proposed the call would be for an unprecedented national and international mobilisation 'against cuts / austerity and job losses' and 'for new models of democracy in the uk / a social europe' involving unions and Occupy and other local movements together from the start<br>
<br>- The need to strategically nationalise and internationalise the struggle against the global forces of capital (eg debt/bond market) has never been more urgent<br>- Europe and the UK with their increasingly technocratic / neo-liberal governance and crippling levels of debt are now shaping up to be key global battlegrounds in the fight for real democracy <br>
- If unions, student campaigners, faith and local community groups and Occupy UK joined forces what we could achieve in terms of social change would be phenomenal <br> <br>- The days of action currently being proposed are for Friday 23rd March, followed by a new wave of newly purposeful camps and occupations being set up on Saturday March 24th and 25th ( all out against the cuts, for a 3 day weekend and a new model of democracy...)<br>
<br>- Our hope is that with a big day of action immediately after budget day, to unite unions, student and other community groups around a common agenda we can effectively begin the process of re-founding the UK and Europe around a common agenda for workers, the precarious and unemployed, and provide a springboard to the global strike in May.<br>
<br>- The lead up to the days of action could perhaps involve 'thematic' assemblies across the country in workplaces, neighbourhoods and educational establishments ( co facilitated by Occupy, unions and others) in order to speak and listen together about the real issues and to discover alternatives. As Giles Fraser's article puts it today on the need for a widespread conversation on the issues: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/dec/12/occupy-starfish-regenerate-protest?newsfeed=true" target="_blank">http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/dec/12/occupy-starfish-regenerate-protest?newsfeed=true</a> <br>
<br>[March 21st is budget day, March 26th is exactly one year on from 'March for the Alternative' and March 25th is both the Anniversary of the Treaty of Rome which founded modern Europe and of the British Parliamentary abolition of the slave trade. The week March 21st-March 28th also has Christian significance (the Annunciation) and marks the beginning of the year in the northern hemisphere (Spring Solstice).]</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">To communicate more with the WG developing this call in London, email <a href="mailto:crdlondon@gmail.com">crdlondon@gmail.com</a> or text 0785439 0408 </div>
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<div class="gmail_quote"><strong>(2) Move Your Money Campaign</strong></div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">If you want to reach Danni about this great idea ( attached in more detail and below) and which could presumably link with March 23-25 ..) please email her direct at <a href="mailto:danielle.paffard@gmail.com" target="_blank">danielle.paffard@gmail.com</a> </div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">Dear all, </div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">I've been on the edges of the occupy stuff, but great work.</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">I'm in the process of setting up a 'Move Your Money' campaign. It's not an 'occupy' campaign as such (as the bristol MYM is - I'm talking to them about this), but is part of working towards the same goals, and I think a useful way to engage the wider community (those who care but aren't at the camp) in some positive direct action. </div>
<div class="gmail_quote">Anyway - the website with all the info will launch early Jan, building towards a 'Move Your Money Month' in March (right after the bonuses are announced!). </div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">I just wanted to let you all know in case anyone else was thinking along the same lines and to pool resources rather than duplicate! </div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">Anyway - if anyone is interested/has any questions please contact me on <a href="mailto:danielle.paffard@gmail.com" target="_blank">danielle.paffard@gmail.com</a>. I'll go through working groups from now on. </div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">All my love and strength and peace to you all. </div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">x xDanni</div></div>
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