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 Monday October 13, 2008 11:36 by Sarah C sarah at sarahcreagh dot co dot uk
 Following the succesful protest against the governments bail out of failing financial institutions in Bristol last Friday local supporters of the People before Profit Charter will be hosting a public Forum about the Economic Crisis asking How bad will it get? and more importantly What can we do about it? We are currently experiencing economic turmoil on a scale not seen for generations yet this is just the tip of the iceburg. As the economic crisis begins to hit not just fat cat bankers but ordinary working people there is a danger we become paralysed, too frightened of losing our jobs, losing our homes or not being able to provide for our families to realise it doesn't have to be like this.
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5I'm presuming that the date of this meeting is Monday 20th October?? The 10th is in the past... and it wasn't a Monday :-)
It's a bit obscure but the date, Monday 20th October, is in that attached pdf file.
How was your protest judged a success?
As far as I can see, some people stood outside a retail branch of the Bradford and Bingley doing some protesting infront of low ranking Bank staff who are currently as confused and powerless as the next man as to what is really going on.
This protest in turn generated just one short byline in the Evening Post - hardly the world changing start of a new economic and social movement!!!!
Sorry yes it is Monday the 20th October. 7.30pm, Malcolm X Centre
The protest was a success in the sense that it happened! Somebody did something, which is a start. Though not an earth shattering event in itself the alternative would be just sitting around complaining. It got noticed by hundreds of commuters, was on bbc radio bristol and the student newspapers, and was part of a series of protests that have happened across the globe! It was also good publicity for the meeting on Monday when we can discuss what else we can do.
If we are genuinely going to discuss people before profit, then we also really need to discuss how we have all profited before people, during the last quarter century of purchasing goods produced by defacto slave labour from the far east.
Simply wanting to return to the business as usual, of going back to buying unreasonably cheap goods, most of which shamefully end up binned within a year it seems, would be more along the lines of Hitler's good old National Socialism, where as long as were ok, and can continue consuming, then the outside world is happily treated as the ongoing shithole we've come to treat it as in our quest for middle class lifestyles.
Middle class lifestyles which the working classes all aspire too, and actually do have compared to most Chinese (a middle class lifestyle there is roughly a working class lifestyle here), and despite the often hypocritical, and one-eyed class war rhetoric at home.
Are people really ready to own up to the dark duplicity of all this?
I know we're all locked into it. I can't afford not to buy these things, but unlike most people I've got clothes in my cupboard which I've carried on restitching for 15yrs, instead of decadently binning them because they've 'gone out of fashion' or because a button falls off.
If anyone should be occupying those flats maybe it should be chinese immigrants reclaiming what we've all stolen from them, working and middle class alike!?