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PACD Manifest General Strike 14N

Spanish Citizen Debt Audit Platform (PACD) joins the General Strike of November 14th and encourages all to take the streets shouting, loud and clear, to the political, financial and business elite in Spain and Europe that we do not believe their lies:

1. We know that the origin of this crisis is private debt you built up, not public debt spent on building the welfare state and a more just and egalitarian society.

2. We know that you have accumulated large profits for years with this debt, while real wages decreased and the price of  basic commodites, such as housing, increased.

3. Cuts, privatizations and reforms are a way of making people pay a debt that is not ours, but yours, so you can continue making profit at the expense of our rights and our planet.

4. We know the anti-democratic mechanisms you use to transform private debt into public debt: bank bailouts, constitutional reform, EU bailout to the banks and the signing of the ESM.

5. We will not stay quiet at home, we are not afraid and we will use all the tools at our disposal to not pay this illegitimate debt.

DON’T OWE! WON’T PAY!

Greece. November 14: to be counted en mass and not back down.

November 5th, 2012 @ →

by CHRISTOS GIOVANOPOULOS – Dikaioma, network of precarious and unemployed workers, Athens

http://www.connessioniprecarie.org/2012/11/05/november-14-to-be-counted-en-mass-and-not-back-down/

∫connessioni precarie asked Christos Giovanopoulos from the Dikaioma network in Athens for a contribution to the debate on the European situation towards November 14. This is not only a correspondence, but the beginning of a dialogue which hopefully will continue, and which aims to build up connections around the strike and against the crisis.

November 14 will be an important day. We are at the height of a crisis which, despite the uses and misuses related to the term governance, is unlikely to find a reliable government at all. Despite this, the measures adopted against the crisis purport to govern millions of people in view of a continuously postponed future. On November 14, thousands of men and women intend to strike in order to show that they don’t want to be treated as the current side effects of crisis.

For us, to get ready for this date means to reflect on the situation that makes it a pressing and almost indefeasible need. The urgency of the situation is enormous and by now almost unbearable. But it’s not enough. Sigue leyendo →

See you in Agora99 – Nov 1st to 4th, Madrid

From the Citizen Debt Audit Platform in Spain (PACD), we have worked on convergence with different groups in the Debt axis in order to be able to come up with common strategies, dynamics and calender (with Florence10+10 in mind) and the objective of building a united international resistance movement to face the neoliberal agenda.

Why we consider it important? European economic austerity policies are attacking our rights, draining our democracy and destroying what we knew as «welfare state», particularly affecting vulnerable groups (children and young people, women, immigrants, precarious workers…) and regardless of the environmental perspective, betting on dead economic growth.

This is why we consider strategic to directly attack the root of our problems. Austerity, cuts, loss of rights, the depletion of our imperfect democracy… are symptoms produced by the debt mechanism; a tool in hands of EU neoliberal policies. Africa, Latin America, Asia … have already been through this, now it’s our turn.  ¡No pasarán!

 

AGORA99 2nd-4th Nov, Madrid

http://99agora.net/2012/07/euro-mediterranean-meeting-debt-rights-democracy/ Sigue leyendo →

Thomas Sankara: an African leader with a message for Europe

By Nick Dearden, Jubilee Debt Campaign UK. Published at Red pepper, October 2012

15 October marks the 25th anniversary of the assassination of an African liberation hero. We need to remember him, to challenge the dominant view of Africa’s helplessness and to fight our own debt crisis in Europe. 

On 15 October 1987 a revolution was brought to an abrupt and bloody end by the murder of Thomas Sankara, President of the newly named state of Burkina Faso. In the years following Sankara’s assassination, by his once trusted friend Blaise Compaoré who runs Burkina Faso to this day, his revolution was overturned and the country became just another African fiefdom of the International Monetary Fund. But for a brief period of 4 years, Burkina Faso shone brightly, a stunning example of what can be achieved even in one of the world’s most impoverished countries.

Sankara was a junior officer in the army of Upper Volta, a former French colony which was run as a source of cheap labour for neighbouring Corte ‘d’Ivoire to benefit a tiny ruling class and their patrons in Paris. As a student in Madagascar, Sankara had been radicalised by waves of demonstrations and strikes taking place. In 1981, he was appointed to the military government in Upper Volta, but his outspoken support for the liberation of ordinary people in his country and outside eventually led to his arrest. In August 1983, a successful coup led by his friend Blaise Compaoré, brought him to power at the age of only 33. Sigue leyendo →

MANIFESTO #13O DON’T OWE, WON’T PAY, IT DEPENDS ON US!

Elaborated by «barrio» assemblies and different collectives from Barcelona.
Global Mobilisation, Saturday, October 13th at 18h, Catalunya square.
«We will throw back the debt to those who created it».
DON’T OWE, WON’T PAY, IT DEPENDS ON US!!!
In recent months, the impact on our lives of the so-called crisis has intensified and politicians show no will or capacity to act upon it. So, we are building our own politics, we are taking the initiative, revealing what is behind the debt mechanism that sustains this big  scam they call crisis.  We declare that: Sigue leyendo →