Occupy Sheffield
A number of Sheffield WDM members are active in the Sheffield occupation. We are keen to run some workshops and debates. If you want to be involved in the WDM stuff, phone Ruth on 07800 666553, but there are many ways to be involved in the occupation – staying overnight, helping to coordinate the workshops program, cooking food, donating stuff, popping in to add a message to the visitors’ book and you can just turn up at the occupation to get involved woth these.
At Sheffield Cathedral, Church Street, Sheffield, S1 1HA : 24 hours a day
This is a peaceful occupation echoing the actions that have been taking place in London, New York, and around the world. We invite you to join us to express your dissatisfaction with the current system and explore alternatives. Our activities include workshops, debate, music, shared food, collective meetings everyday at 12 noon and 6.30pm and whatever you bring.
Our initial statement is adopted from Occupy London:
• The current system is unsustainable. It is undemocratic and unjust. We need alternatives; this is where we work towards them.
• We are of all ethnicities, backgrounds, genders, generations, sexualities dis/abilities and faiths. We stand together with occupations all over the world.
• We refuse to pay for the banks’ crisis.
• We do not accept the cuts as either necessary or inevitable. We demand an end to global tax injustice and our democracy representing corporations instead of the people.
• We want regulators to be genuinely independent of the industries they regulate.
• We support the strike on the 30th November and the student action on the 9th November, and actions to defend our health services, welfare, education and employment, and to stop wars and arms dealing
• We want structural change towards authentic global equality. The world’s resources must go towards caring for people and the planet, not the military, corporate profits or the rich.
• We stand in solidarity with the global oppressed and we call for an end to the actions of our government and others in causing this oppression.
• This is what democracy looks like. Come and join us!
We are the 99%
In the UK the richest 1% of the population own 21% of the wealth, each household possessing more than £2.6 million. Many people struggle to survive and worldwide the gap is much bigger. It doesn’t have to be this way. Join us!
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