Our city has lost its pride. It’s been stolen. Our politicians, regulators and those who were meant to be looking after things sold us out. Who is benefiting?
‘We are all in this together’ never rang so hollow. There is no ‘together’ and they are not part of ‘we’. They want us to pay for their crisis … and we think we should. So let’s pay them a visit, one by one.
On 12 May people around the world will rise up again responding to the global call for action that marks the birth of the indignados movement.
It’s time to meet the 1 per cent. And guess what? They are right here in London!
Let’s visit those who gambled with our pensions and savings, created financial nonsense to make money out of thin air, paid hundreds of thousands to wine and dine with our ‘elected’ representatives, were bailed out, evaded billions in taxes and secured 40% of the world’s wealth for themselves.
They are doing everything they can to keep the status quo. But it’s time for an economy that puts people’s well-being and the environment we live in before corporate profits. And they are in our way.
On Saturday 12 May, we’ll deliver our very own personal messages to them. Be creative: come dressed as your least favorite banker, tax evader, corporate tycoon, politician, vampire squid, and company CEO. Bring stickers, monopoly money, caution tape, placards, faux awards, pots, pans, bullhorns, conches, tents, stereos, war horns or any other “random acts of kindness” you like.
More details to be announced. Location, timings and a map will be made available before 12 May.
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Good for you!! Go for it!! Wish I would be here to join you.
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“David Cameron’s father set up offshore
investment funds which explicitly boasted of
their ability to remain outside UK tax
jurisdiction.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/apr/20/cameron-family-tax-havens
It is time to stand up to these parasites I only live in a small town there are no jobs and if you do have a job the wages are so low you may aswell be on the dole most people have no idea that in the next few years interest rate will sky rocket this is were the money is going to come to pay the debt back while are health service is privatized and everything thing will go up in price while the people who have manipulated this the politician and the bankers get away with it it is time for a revolution