Occupy Parliament Square 1-10 May

renegademaster

Occupy your streets :pac:
WHAT OCCUPY DEMOCRACY IS ABOUT

DEMAND REAL DEMOCRACY. OCCUPY PARLIAMENT SQUARE.
Occupy Democracy was formed as a working group of Occupy London following a resolution passed at the General Assembly on 1st March 2014. The mandate of the group was (and remains) to campaign for real democracy by organising a mass action in and around Parliament Square and Westminster.


Our mission is to campaign for a genuine democracy free from corporate influence. Our demand is for real democracy now! Sovereignty must rest with the people and not with Parliament.


In Scotland, 45% of people rejected Westminster rule. They know that a system that takes the power to make local decisions out of their hands is no democracy.


We know that democracy is not just about having a vote every four, now five years. It is about having the power to make your voice heard. We know that a government that answers to profit before people is no democracy.


In the UK today, record numbers of people are homeless, record numbers rely on food banks to feed their families, and record numbers face fuel poverty as energy prices rise eight times faster than wages.


At the same time, inequality is back on the rise, making us one of the most unequal countries in the developed world. The amount we ask businesses to contribute to our social services in tax is set to be the lowest of any of the G20 countries. Tax evasion and avoidance costs the UK £95bn a year, enough to fund the NHS in England.

Nobody voted to be made homeless, hungry or unemployed. It is clear whose voices are being heard.
We need to start a movement for real democracy. The voices of the majority have been ignored for too long. We need to give ourselves the tools to hold our politicians to account, and to end the corporate lobbying power that drowns our voices out.


To do it, we need a movement that cannot be ignored. That is why we will be occupying Parliament Square every month until the general election, to continue a fight for a real democracy (see the original call to action). There, in the shadow of Nelson Mandela’s statue, we will transform the Square into a civic space where we can re-envision what our society could be like, with talks, workshops, community assemblies, music and theatre.


There is one thing that every successful social justice movement has had to overcome: the prevalence of the belief that the status quo is how it has to be. That there is no alternative. All of us can feel weakened and ground down by that belief, but all of us must have the courage to overcome it. To imagine a different future for ourselves. To show each other that there is an alternative. Because the current system relies entirely on our believing that there isn’t.


The austerity measures imposed on us for the sake of economic growth, our continued reliance on dirty coal and oil, our hospitals closing, our transit systems worsening while fares rise, our children attending under-funded schools with exhausted underpaid teachers – we only accept these things because we let ourselves believe there is no other way of doing things.


But please, join us for the Occupation. Try imagining there is another way. Do it with people you love, people you trust, with experts and activists and people to be inspired by. If you’re reading this, you’re invited. Your friends, family, colleagues are invited. Now is the time to produce our vision of a sane, workable, inspiring alternative, together. Come to learn, discuss and participate. Dare to believe that there is an alternative.

We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.
Rise, like lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number!
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you:
Ye are many—they are few!


http://occupydemocracy.org.uk/about-occupy-democracy/

fedor.2.

it aint that bad here, bud. Try occupy Damascus or something

Peregrine

Er..no.

end of the road

i'm sure the city of london corporation vermin and westminster vermin and the riot police vermin will have these people brutalized out of there in no time. good luck to them though, they have a good message. they just need to be all fully clear on that message. that was the mistake with occupy originally

Oh great. The last thing we need is more of the Occupy crowd in Galway.

fedor.2.

end of the road wrote: »

i'm sure the city of london corporation vermin and westminster vermin and the riot police vermin will have these people brutalized out of there in no time. good luck to them though, they have a good message. they just need to be all fully clear on that message. that was the mistake with occupy originally

:rolleyes:

Stheno

Is the op about a protest in London?

BoJack Horseman

Stheno wrote: »

Is the op about a protest in London?

Thread worthy.

donvito99

Nobody voted to be made homeless, hungry or unemployed. It is clear whose voices are being heard

And yet there are homeless, hungry and unemployed.

kneemos

Lets grow cabbages and ride Dolphins to work.

Peregrine

Stheno wrote: »

Is the op about a protest in London?

Either that or Parliament Square in Trinity College. In which case, OP's anger is hugely misplaced.

pmasterson95

Is this what the bus drivers are doing now? Becoming occupiers?

Alexis Sanchez

Not paragraphed properly, not interested.

One eyed Jack

Alexis Sanchez wrote: »

Not paragraphed properly, not interested.

I'm hoping someone will provide a quick summary for that wall of text in the opening post. Something about more "occupy" protests, because they really worked the last time... :rolleyes:

whiskeyman

I'm not hungry for any copy pasta thanks...

VinLieger

renegademaster wrote: »

There, in the shadow of Nelson Mandela’s statue, we will transform the Square into a civic space where we can re-envision what our society could be like, with talks, workshops, community assemblies, music and theatre.

So your gonna get stoned?

For Forks Sake

VinLieger wrote: »

So your gonna get stoned?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGx4_cX27k0

VinLieger

For Forks Sake wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGx4_cX27k0

I was more thiking this http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/southpark/images/a/ac/Diehippie30.png/revision/latest?cb=20111118232413

biko

Which town OP?

InitiumNovum

Yay! Let's be angry at stuff!!

renegademaster

Anybody heading over to this? It's got the makins of a great week

kneemos

renegademaster wrote: »

Anybody heading over to this? It's got the makins of a great week

Still don't know where it is.

VinLieger

kneemos wrote: »

Still don't know where it is.

Follow the sound of bongos and smell of hemp

kneemos

VinLieger wrote: »

Follow the sound of bongos and smell of hemp

Ahh it's in the flat upstairs.

The_Valeyard

Yoda: Confusion, this thread is.

renegademaster

Dubnobasswithmyheadman

K.Flyer

Yeah, up the Fūkin' Revolution. . :pac:

fleet_admiral

Give me an hour op, Im just waiting on just eat to deliver

renegademaster

fleet_admiral wrote: »

Give me an hour op, Im just waiting on just eat to deliver

I'll keep a space on the tarpaulin for ye comrades:)

WallyGUFC

Occupy was a joke in Galway and was, rightly, widely ridiculed. Now that we're all sailing the high seas of economic growth, captained by Enda, I think this would be a pretty pointless renaissance for this particular movement.

renegademaster

WallyGUFC wrote: »

Occupy was a joke in Galway and was, rightly, widely ridiculed. Now that we're all sailing the high seas of economic growth, captained by Enda, I think this would be a pretty pointless renaissance for this particular movement.

Someone's sailing on a high alright, captained by enda, enjoy that trip man, cos its so far removed from reality it doesn't sound like you'll be coming back

Bubbaclaus

Occupy is back?

Yay...time to stock up on more popcorn.

renegademaster

Bubbaclaus wrote: »

Occupy is back?

Yay...time to stock up on more popcorn.

Occupy never left

joe swanson

Yawwwwwwwwwwn........

Nodin

renegademaster wrote: »

Occupy your streets :pac:
WHAT OCCUPY DEMOCRACY IS ABOUT

DEMAND REAL DEMOCRACY. OCCUPY PARLIAMENT SQUARE.

.......In this case, we'd be occupying their streets, as its another jurisdiction...

Bubbaclaus

renegademaster wrote: »

Occupy never left

That's a shame.

Is there a relief effort we can contribute to to help prevent Occupy?

kneemos

Bubbaclaus wrote: »

That's a shame.

Is there a relief effort we can contribute to to help prevent Occupy?

"The Vacancy Movement".

renegademaster

Nodin wrote: »

.......In this case, we'd be occupying their streets, as its another jurisdiction...

Ya cos we've got nothing to be protesting about over here at all at all

renegademaster

Bubbaclaus wrote: »

That's a shame.

Is there a relief effort we can contribute to to help prevent Occupy?

Ah, so you're one of those who will claim to only get involved in preventing protest, yet never even do that lol

RobbingBandit

Is it just me or has anarchy really toned down that much. Burn something mutha ****ers.

Galwayguy35

If it comes here and is like the last ones in Dublin and Galway where a bunch of dirty looking hippies and anarchists made a mess of the place then no thanks.

Bubbaclaus

renegademaster wrote: »

Ah, so you're one of those who will claim to only get involved in preventing protest, yet never even do that lol

I have no issue with people protesting. I just find this movement in particular to be hilarious. The majority of people that participate in Occupy have no idea what they are trying to achieve.

If they started protesting something meaningful like USC or the ridiculous ly high 50+% marginal rate of tax this country has I'd nearly join them

Little CuChulainn

I am amused by the fact that they are demanding REAL DEMOCRACY which, in their world, means ignoring any vote that goes against them and dismissing any voter who doesn't agree. The op even mentions that 45% of Scottish people voted for independence. That means 55% voted against it, yet for some reason the 45% are correct.

PeteFalk78

Bubbaclaus wrote: »

If they started protesting something meaningful like USC or the ridiculous ly high 50+% marginal rate of tax this country has I'd nearly join them

100% agreed
Or the high variable rate imposed upon homeowners.
But I suppose the majority of them don't pay USC, PAYE nor have a mortgage.

mikemac1

Its ok, they'll move on when its time to collect their welfare

CINCLANTFLT

Little CuChulainn wrote: »

I am amused by the fact that they are demanding REAL DEMOCRACY which, in their world, means ignoring any vote that goes against them and dismissing any voter who doesn't agree. The op even mentions that 45% of Scottish people voted for independence. That means 55% voted against it, yet for some reason the 45% are correct.

Yep... This is the part that amuses me as well... I worked next to the Occupy Same Street crew... It all started lovely... They had a sing song and a commitee for who would wash the pots and pans... Then it seemed there was disagreement on what they were protesting and "leaders" were telling the rest what to say and think...

The most hilarious was the day the Troika staff walked by and the lads were too busy teaching each other to juggle (honestly!!!) that they didn't see their "enemy" walk by...

Nodin

renegademaster wrote: »

Ya cos we've got nothing to be protesting about over here at all at all

Then why didn't you add in a paragraph or two outlining the reasons for a similar gesture here, instead of the OP and the thread title "Occupy Parliament Square"?

suicide_circus

Thank god for the lads who occupied the central bank there a while back, the common man would have been fcuked without them.

Carlos Orange

Too busy working to go protest the lack of local democracy in someone else's country.

Guy:Incognito

Surely theres a much bigger lack of democracy in other countries? I'd have thought the UK was fairly far down the list of countries in desperate need of it?

Or is democracy only worth fighting for in countries that already have it? Why not protest some African warlords? I'm sure they'd be delighted to have a loads of lads over sitting in front of their HQ telling them what to do.

renegademaster

Galwayguy35 wrote: »

If it comes here and is like the last ones in Dublin and Galway where a bunch of dirty looking hippies and anarchists made a mess of the place then no thanks.

What mess? I suppose its the fault of those that were there in the camps that everyone else were "too busy" to join in. Most of what occupy were there to highlight has only gotten worse years later. What is wrong with some people that they cant admit we were right and you were wrong