Dear Ole Fjord Larsen,
Thanks for this.
It is essential that people seeking a better world be as clear as possible
about what they (we!) want.
All previous 'revolutions' have failed because of a lack of prior definition
of aims.
I have such a list (below), but I do encourage others
to consider theirs.
Many hugs
j
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BTW - Anyone(s) (eg Sustainabilty Review) who want to publish/pass on
this Action List - please do !!
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Post-Seattle:
A Plan of Action
* Convert competitive activities into worker co-operative partnerships and
remodel monopoly activities as stakeholder co-operatives,
(see points two and five for the funding mechanism for this);
* Redistribute 'added-value' from these co-operatives, through
nationally-collected corporate taxation, distributed into local,
democratically-controlled Community Banks, thus making money available for
wealth creation and community development,
(and the conversions refered to above);
* Maximise necessary service provision (health, education, libraries,
transport (?) etc) on a free-at-the-point-of-use basis, retaining
(initially?) money as a mechanism for access to discretionary purchases.
* Introduce guaranteed income maxima and minima for all, and, so, abolish
personal taxation;
* Abolish money-lending for profit, operating banking and financial
services as a Public Service, 'National Wealth Service'
(see point two above);
* Reintroduce international exchange controls as necessary;
* Make capital grants (not loans) to developing countries.
In brief, transforming money - from master to servant - provides the way of
converting planet-trashing capitalism into locally-controlled, sustainable,
ethical co-operatives, each operating according to the 'Seven Co-operative
Principles' of The International Co-operative Alliance, all working
inter-dependently to deliver sustainable, 'responsible stewardship' of the
earth - for the long-lived well-being of all.
Dr John Courtneidge 13 North Road Hertford SG14 1LN
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>From: Ole Fjord Larsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: FUTURE PLANNING AFTER SEATTLE
>Date: Sun, Dec 12, 1999, 6:07 pm
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>The IDEAL prerequisites for the resistance movement's
>victory over corporate rule by means of demonstration
>are
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>- a completely peaceful, numerous demonstration with
>which all humanity outside the corporate headquarters
>can identify, and
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>- a fair worldwide media coverage of the event.
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>Basically, hooligans - whether paid by the corporations
>or subject to anarchist ideology - therefore are factual
>enemies of the people.
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>However, since 99 % of the media are controlled by the
>capital, we normally do NOT get a fair coverage of our
>efforts, to say the least !! Silence normally is their
>very efficient weapon to protect their masters.
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>To ensure that the event be covered at all, even in
>distorted version, some controlled degree of violence
>directed against precisely identified appropriate targets
>in some cases may be justified, in spite of the consequently
>reduced number of sympathizers.
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>In Seattle the previous long preparations and focus
>on the event made any further attention unnecessary.
>The violence of the police furthermore ensured the big
>headlines in the media.
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>The hooliganism in Seattle therefore must be strongly
>condemned, because it unnecessarily reduced the sympathy
>in the world population whom we represent, and
>considerably discouraged the vast majority of the
>demonstrators who up until then had been in great
>enthusiatic spirit.
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>Additionally, the casual smashing of windows was directed
>against small as well as big stores and made it completely
>meaningless from our point of view.
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>CONCLUSION
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>FLEXIBILITY must be a key word in the planning of the
>coming demonstrations.
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>The coordinating group of the participating organisations
>must to an even higher degree than this time prepare the
>demonstrators for knocking down and turning over to the
>police any anwanted hooligans.
>Even if a hooligan should be killed, it would be a very
>little loss as compared with the daily rate of 20.000
>dead children due to corporate rule.
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>The coordinating group must beforehand have arranged for
>contacts worldwide to report continually on the local
>media coverage.
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>Only in cases where the previous focus on the event or
>the police brutality is insufficient to make the media
>cover the story, is a minimum degree of violence
>justified, and only directed precisely at easily
>understandable targets.
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>Ole Fjord Larsen,
>member of United Peoples
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