They owe us / shift the debt

ACTION UPDATE:

We condemn the heavy handed policing at the Stop G8 action on Tuesday 11 June, and maintain our intention to gather at Canary Wharf on Friday 14th.

This Friday we will assemble in front of Canary Wharf tube at 12.30pm. We will then have approximately three hours of workshops, speakers and entertainment, as well as a creative art area. The action will end with an assembly facilitated by Occupy London and then a game of Capture the Flag.

This action aims to be accessible to all, and we expect a wide range of people including children and elderly activists to participate.

We stand in solidarity with those who were arrested on Tuesday. We continue to assert our right to assemble on our streets in public and show that other worlds are possible.

They owe us! Shift the debt!

Come by tube, DLR (Canary Wharf or Heron Quays), bus (D3, D7, D8, 277), bike or foot.


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Why

In response to the combined crises of cuts and climate chaos, and the call for a week of action against the G8, we have come together to organise a gathering of those who want to stop the assault on people and planet. In the penthouse suite of global capitalism, in front of the eyes of the financial elite we will demand that They Owe Us.


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  • Because THEY owe US the public money that’s been used to bail them out.
    14.06.13
  • They owe us for the services this government is cutting in the name of ‘austerity’, the NHS, the education system and the welfare system.
    14.06.13
  • They owe us the homes we’ve lost and our pensions.
    14.06.13
  • They owe us the wealth we make at work, but they claim to ‘create’.
    14.06.13
  • They owe us back our planet, the one they are destroying through financing fossil fuels.
    14.06.13
  • And they owe us the power they’ve taken, distorting and destroying democracy.
    14.06.13
  • They claim that we’re in debt to them, but – THEY OWE US
    14.06.13

Programme


  • A Space to
    RESIST

    speakers, poetry and music from the resistance street band & others

    13:00: Reclaim the Power & No Dash for Gas, Greater London Pensioners Association

    13:30: David Graeber, Kat Brogan,
    Food Liberation Front

    14:00: UK Uncut, Danny Chivers,
    Robin Grey (songs)

    14:30: Disabled People Against the Cuts,
    Pete the Temp

    15:00: Women's Library Occupation, Round up


  • A space to
    CREATE





    A MOUNTAIN OF DEBT!



    guerilla gardening



  • A space to
    IMAGINE

    workshops

    13:00: Disabled People Against the Cuts - How disabled people caused the crisis and why bankers are paying the price

    13:30: Haringey Solidarity Group - Community organising vs large scale action?

    14:00: Jubilee Debt Campaign - History of debt and austerity

    14:30: Food Liberation Front - Stop GM entering the food chain

    15:00: Fuel Poverty Action - Fuel poverty: the cold front of capitalism


15:30: Occupy Assembly - Another World Now!



Key legal advice from Green Black Cross

More info on arrests

  • Because THEY owe US the public money that’s been used to bail them out.
    14.06.13
  • They owe us for the services this government is cutting in the name of ‘austerity’, the NHS, the education system and the welfare system.
    14.06.13
  • They owe us the homes we’ve lost and our pensions.
    14.06.13
  • They owe us the wealth we make at work, but they claim to ‘create’.
    14.06.13
  • They owe us back our planet, the one they are destroying through financing fossil fuels.
    14.06.13
  • And they owe us the power they’ve taken, distorting and destroying democracy.
    14.06.13
  • They claim that we’re in debt to them, but – THEY OWE US
    14.06.13

in the press

The Guardian: Campaigners plan 'creative civil disobedience' in Canary Wharf

Red Pepper: Celebrating the summer of resistance

WDM: Why we need to take the climate crisis to the heart of global finance