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<div>Why at Occupy London are we now focusing on a 'big bash' at Xmas. While i understand the desire to kick back I fear it will backfire. Do we really want to become a booze filled camp and just mirror the way everyone else in the country does Christmas ie as a big escape and consumption ?</div>
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<div>"I tell you, I will not drink of this fruit of the vine from now on until that day when I drink it anew with you in my Father's kingdom." Matthew 26:29 don't you think we Muslims are onto something with our disciplines? </div>
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<div>I believe Occupy/15M is fighting for the Kingdom. But are we there yet? No FFS therefore no drinking as the Spanish movement rightly insisted from the start. </div>
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<div>@Niel /Everyone</div>
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<div>(1) The international on-line meeting ( not a local / city Assembly ) last night agreed 12th, not 15th May as a global day. </div>
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<div>(2) Niel the Putney event is a London / national based idea, which is inspired by English history particularly 1647 when the Levellers were betrayed at the Constitution debates at St Marys'. It has been discussed very positively at 3 separate GAs and was given enthusiastic consensus. The strategy? Definitely if people wish to make it happen in Jan or Feb, dressing up in civil war regalia and so forth it and playing on the Giles Fraser / St Mary's church ( where original debates happened) connection, could help to wake many in the UK up. What is proposed is a historic re-enactment of the debates in the present 21st C context. It's a great idea and it deserves the support of DA and others, especially as it has been GA agreed. We failed to get consensus on the democracy statements but this idea passed easily and for good reason: it's a fab one and will probably be just the pick-me-up the UK/London movement will need in early 2012. Also we need to focus the movement on the political system in the UK, this has been sorely lacking so far </div>
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<div>See our work done in 2006 on the british constitution at <a href="http://www.peopleincommon.org/archive/C421.html">http://www.peopleincommon.org/archive/C421.html</a></div>
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<div>And more info on the Putney idea at <a href="http://www.peoplesassemblies.org/2011/10/river-march-to-putney/">http://www.peoplesassemblies.org/2011/10/river-march-to-putney/</a> </div>
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<div>(3) The March call for a European day was also consensed by the GA. Some more info / ideas at <a href="http://www.peoplesassemblies.org/2011/10/march-23rd-25th/ ">http://www.peoplesassemblies.org/2011/10/march-23rd-25th/ </a></div>
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<div>Again, strategy: we need a pan European action, for lots of reasons including: leading up to a global day as Occupy Wall Street did O15. </div>
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<div>(4) About my involvement in WGs I wish I could be more involved but really I can't, not without sacrificing my marriage and role as the father of three, which I won't on for obvious human reasons. </div>
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<div>(5) On that note, I feel I am no able to fulfil a decent active role in the UK Occupy movement, so rather than let people down I will now switch off, having inputted as much as I am able, hopefully usefully. Aside from an RMT meeting later this week ( will report back on that) I will no longer input directly here. That said, I will continue to try and develop the Peoples Assemblies site and the international assemblies list when I can and also will work hard to reach out to churches and other religious institutions to ask for their support inbuilding up new civil institutions. And, hopefully i will be able to support the movement in other ways too. </div>
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<div>I wish everyone the best of luck with Occupy for the rest of 2011 and 2012.</div>
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<div>Mark</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On 19 December 2011 06:43, <a href="mailto:niel@squat.net">niel@squat.net</a> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:niel@squat.net">niel@squat.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT:#ccc 1px solid;MARGIN:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;PADDING-LEFT:1ex" class="gmail_quote">And during this time we don't work on the real global day on 15M, what's<br>the strategy? It will be better to focus on proposals for the next<br>
concrete international meetings AgoraRoma, Bolonia hub meeting,<br>akropolis2012 in relation to the next concrete global day 15M Global<br>Strike and organize more platform to work on it if you know people working<br>on transnational meetings and communication networks.<br>
Please Mark, after the 11.11, 12.10, 01.07, 01.14, 03.24 calls which, for<br>the moment didn't work, try to focus on the 05.15 executing concrete<br>tasks, working on clear objectives to reach because the working groups is<br>
the key to do the things.
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<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT:#ccc 1px solid;MARGIN:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;PADDING-LEFT:1ex" class="gmail_quote"> Hey Everyone<br><br>I hope this finds you well<br><br>Maybe you heard about the 'right the wrongs of the Putney debates' idea<br>
for<br>Jan ? See attached from one of the democracy group (Steve, cc/d) and also<br>see <a href="http://www.peoplesassemblies.org/2011/10/river-march-to-putney/" target="_blank">http://www.peoplesassemblies.<u></u>org/2011/10/river-march-to-<u></u>putney/</a><br>
<br>Originally Jan 14th was put foward but there appear to be quite a few<br><br></blockquote>actions on Jan 15 ( Sunday ) around the world ( I can forward you links if<br>
<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT:#ccc 1px solid;MARGIN:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;PADDING-LEFT:1ex" class="gmail_quote">you want) so maybe that would be better.<br><br>Are you interested in helping cook this up, or otherwise supporting ?<br>
<br>Mark<br><br></blockquote><br><br><br></div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Apathy is Dead ! <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/solarider/5254770064/#/photos/solarider/5254770064/lightbox/" target="_blank">http://www.flickr.com/photos/solarider/5254770064/#/photos/solarider/5254770064/lightbox/</a><br>
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