<div>Rally of the 99%</div>
<div>21st January Sheffield</div>
<div>.. please see message below from Dawn</div>
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<div>Mark <br></div>
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Date: 28 December 2011 19:45<br>Subject: RE: [OccupySheffield] I think this warrants serious consideration<br><br><br>Hi Mark,<br>Could you pls send to the list - this keeps happening, where I think I'm<br>replying to your/other's thread on the list, but a visually impaired<br>
computer user, and don't always know which address is where etc.<br><br>Hope to meet you if you make it up here for the occupy gathering and the<br>rally.<br><br>Dawn<br>
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<div class="h5">Sent: 28 December 2011 18:12<br>To: <a href="mailto:barriers2bridges@virginmedia.com">barriers2bridges@virginmedia.com</a>; Anna Harris<br>Subject: Re: [OccupySheffield] I think this warrants serious consideration<br>
<br>Hi Dawn -- thanks for this, sounds great but, like your earlier message you<br>only sent it to me, maybe you should be writing to the wider community on<br>this? I've cc'd Anna Harris as she's expressed a strong interest in the idea<br>
also, to maybe chat some more here but I do think you should also mail the<br>whole Sheffield list which I understand is a national one ( I am based in<br>London btw). Very keen to help with this further, just not sure how best to<br>
yet! Grr about losing your post, that's such an annoying experience. Mark<br>Sent from phone<br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: <<a href="mailto:barriers2bridges@virginmedia.com">barriers2bridges@virginmedia.com</a>><br>
Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2011 18:04:21<br>To: 'Mark Barrett'<<a href="mailto:marknbarrett@googlemail.com">marknbarrett@googlemail.com</a>><br>Subject: RE: [OccupySheffield] I think this warrants serious consideration<br>
<br>Hi,<br>I hit something the other night in the middle of my thread re an<br>unemployed/diverse workers group and the rest went out the window.<br><br>Basically, it has been suggested 'several times' during the course of me<br>
attending SACA meetings (Sheffield Anti-Cuts Alliance) which on the whole I<br>don't tend to do anymore; the upshot was, from the "hardest hit" demo last<br>may, was the DPU, instead of a more sensibly driven combined effort between<br>
both those of us who are unemployed and/or have additional needs.<br>Unfortunately too, SACA is an agenda-driven umbrella grouping, with a lot of<br>left-wing sectarian tug-of-warring, with an executive, who's members are too<br>
tied to union affiliation (in my humble opinion).<br><br>Whatta shame, because Sheffield, with its long industrial history, has<br>become disempowered if your long term unemployed.<br><br>And, that is just what 'the Rally of the 99%: the Voice of the Voiceless<br>
will be promoting on 21 January.<br>It will now be in conjunction with the occupy conference here in Sheffield,<br>but I have been organising it for a month now and almost have all the<br>speakers we need to represent the unrepresented i.e. those without union...!<br>
I have, a speaker from Occupy Sheffield, a well-known representative of<br>Chesterfield Unemployed workers, myself (to speak on behalf of 'people' with<br>additional needs) A visually impaired entrepreneur (to further promote a<br>
more 'can do' aspect of having additional needs/challenges) a speaker from<br>SACA and a speaker to promote a socialist alternative to the current Cystem!<br>I still need some one to speak on behalf of people with mental health<br>
conditions, homelessness, an ethnic minority group and maybe a tenancy<br>association, that will all be in the bag along with the comference hoasted<br>here in Sheffield.<br><br>Occupy is the perfect nonhierarchical organised community to set up an<br>
unemployed/diverse workers union (or whatever we decide to call it), but as<br>I say, I'm personally not involved in the DPU, because having additional<br>needs equates to more than just being on benefits; some people still have<br>
jobs whatever their additional needs and, despite the bringing in of the DDA<br>('dis-ability Discrimination Act) there is still precious little advocating<br>for an equal playing field among paid employment (and in my experience) even<br>
volunteer work is discriminatory - a SLAP-IN-THE-FACE when you are offering<br>skills free of charge, rather than assuming a "needy" position in the<br>pecking order.<br><br>End of rant, but I hope people will think on these points and come to the<br>
rally on the 21st - I'm hoping to have it at town hall in Sheffield (as not<br>to just preach to the converted, within the space of the occupy camp) and<br>haven't done the flyers yet.<br><br>In solidarity to you all and lets step up the resistance against a nasty<br>
ailing capitalist Cystem!<br><br>Dawn<br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: Mark Barrett [mailto:<a href="mailto:marknbarrett@googlemail.com">marknbarrett@googlemail.com</a>]<br>Sent: 27 December 2011 08:39<br>To: <a href="mailto:barriers2bridges@virginmedia.com">barriers2bridges@virginmedia.com</a><br>
Subject: Re: [OccupySheffield] I think this warrants serious consideration<br><br>Thanks for the thanks and yes, you're right, exactly! Do promote this<br>idea further on the list, would be great if it could be featured at<br>
the next national occupy gathering. i will post about it again now..<br><br>On 25 December 2011 01:58, <<a href="mailto:barriers2bridges@virginmedia.com">barriers2bridges@virginmedia.com</a>> wrote:<br>> Thanks for this uplifting contribution! Yes, a lot of us who are long<br>
term<br>> unemployed, the fact that some of us have additional needs/challenges<br>should<br>> be beside the point...<br>> The thing that puts me personally right off, is groups such as the DPU<br>focus<br>> almost solly on the fact that: 'dis-abled people are having their benefits<br>
> cuts, rather than, portraying us as able<br>><br>> -----Original Message-----<br>> From: <a href="mailto:marknbarrett@googlemail.com">marknbarrett@googlemail.com</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:marknbarrett@googlemail.com">marknbarrett@googlemail.com</a>]<br>
> Sent: 24 December 2011 19:26<br>> To: Mike Evison; Occupy Sheffield Mailing; occupylondon<br>> Subject: Re: [OccupySheffield] I think this warrants serious consideration<br>><br>> Hey Rick B and Mike - I agree 100% with this. It's exactly what Occupy UK<br>
> should be focusing on imo. The right to decent, liberating and well paid<br>> work for everyone goes to the very heart of what will one day make a<br>great,<br>> productive and enlightened society. I know there was an unemployed workers<br>
> union of some kind (possibly of SWP origin) coming out of Salford and<br>> Manchester a while back but what's needed now is something high profile,<br>> ambitious and r'evolutionary - just the kind of thing Occupy should be<br>
> generating on a national level. Personally I would happily flier at my<br>local<br>> job centre and do other local activities on this front. Also the universal<br>> benefit initiative of IDS will need a collective response. Mark B PS I<br>
> wrote a short piece on the future of work ( in a real democracy ) earlier<br>> this year, here:<br>> <a href="http://righttowork.org.uk/2011/07/real-democracy-and-the-future-of-work/" target="_blank">http://righttowork.org.uk/2011/07/real-democracy-and-the-future-of-work/</a><br>
> which people may or may not agree with! ;-)<br>> Sent from phone<br>><br>> -----Original Message-----<br>> From: Mike Evison <<a href="mailto:sunset74@btinternet.com">sunset74@btinternet.com</a>><br>
> Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2011 18:35:49<br>> To: Occupy Sheffield Mailing<<a href="mailto:occupysheffield@email-lists.org">occupysheffield@email-lists.org</a>><br>> Subject: [OccupySheffield] I think this warrants serious consideration<br>
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