Vandalism.

       Saturday November 6th, global day of action saw protests, rallies and direct action against this insane system of capitalism across the world. Glasgow, host to the jamboree that goes under the name of Cop-Out-26 Carnival of Illusions, was certainly no exception, with estimates of up to 100,000 marching through the streets of the city voicing the anger at the insanity of the system and the phoney promises made by the privileged pampered few.
       However important as it is, climate protests were not the only gripe from the citizens of Glasgow. There is real anger at the vandalism of the Glasgow City Council, as it closes libraries, swimming pools, community centres, and sits on its hands as one of the city's gems slowly rots. Glasgow's Peoples Palace and Winter Gardens has been a well loved and well used facility on Glasgow green since the late 1800's. Now its much loved Winter Gardens is lying derelict, trashed by the city council. The people of Glasgow are angry as they watch this treasured facility slowly rot and fall into ruin. The council can spend millions making way for cafes, bars and restaurants to take over pavements and increase the profits to the owners, but can't find the money to save and protect this loved precious gem on the Green. It was their duty to care for, maintain and protect this type of facility for the people, they have failed miserably. This is nothing short of vandalism and dereliction of duty.

                       How the Glasgow City Council takes care of the people's assets.

        So if you were on the Green on Saturday you would have seen the magnificent protest action built round the theme of "Tie A Yellow Ribbon" Friends of the Peoples Palace, Winter  Gardens and Glasgow Green did in fact tie a yellow ribbon round the entire building with some home truths printed on the banner. Today, more than ever there is so much to be angry about, the trashing of the planet and trashing of the people's facilities. There should be 100,000 people on our streets on a daily basis, it's the only way to make our anger heard and for us to set the agenda.

         Some photos to give you a flavour of what the protest was all about.

 

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Storms.

      Another bulletin, magazine, serial, call it what you will, but the more the merrier. Our literature should be on ever street corner, every workplace, it should be read, discussed and ideas put into practice. The only way to get people to pick up your ideas is to make them easily available. When people start to really want to change society and they look around for ideas, and they will, if our ideas aren't on the table, then they will not be pick up. Our literature is our message of hope, a well of ideas for that better world for all.

This one one is Storm Warnings, issue 45 (September 15, 2021) :

          “Reality has never taken the imagination hostage to such an extent as it has in these last days. Our desires and our wildest dreams are dominated by an invisible catastrophe that threatens and confines us, tying our hands and feet to the shackle of fear. Something critical is being played out right now around the unfolding catastrophe. Ignoring the few Cassandras who have been issuing warnings for decades, we have now moved from abstract ideas to concrete facts. As the current emergency with all its prohibitions demonstrates, what is at stake is not only the possibility of survival, but something much more important: the possibility of living. This means that the catastrophe that affects us today is not so much imminent human extinction – to be avoided, we are reassured from above and below, thanks to an absolute obedience to the experts of social reproduction – but rather the invasive artificiality of an existence whose omnipresence prevents us from imagining the end of the present.”

For reading

 For printing (A4)

For printing (Letter)

Previous issues HERE: 

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Septic Isle.

 

          I couldn't help re-posting this comment left by Loam on my article on the Cop-Out-26 Carnival of Illusions. Thanks Loam.

THIS SEPTIC ISLE – by Mike Cashman, inspired by the work of William Shakespeare

This sorry state of things, this septic isle,
This den of crony works, this dreadful mess,
This other pigsty, this great fest’ring pile,
This coven of the knaves that won’t confess.

I speak not of the land and people fine,
But government that’s in place by deceit
That’s had so many reasons to resign
But sent integrity into retreat.

This open flouting of all moral rules
For profit and backhanders they call fees,
This treatment of us as so many fools
They think won’t see the wickedness and sleaze,
Or else will brush it off as “All act thus”,
And tolerate wrongdoing with no qualms,
As p’litical manoeuvres on a bus,
Ignoring all the consequential harms.

This focus just on how much cash they hoard,
With ethical good standards in the bin;
That Ministerial code that’s just ignored,
With blind eye simply turned on any sin.

Determination that there’ll be no lessons learned;
This attitude that rules are not for them,
That if you break the rules they’re overturned,
That no wrongdoing will they e’er condemn.

This land with better past, this much loved land,
That had good reputation far and wide,
Is now leased out, by dirty oft bribed hand,
Like to a criminal that does not hide.

Britain, bound in with the triumphant sea,
Is falling fast and left its soul behind
Contaminated now; as PPE
Has dodgy deals and crony contract signed.

That Britain, with ambitions global claimed,
Hath made a shameful conquest of itself.
And never will the Government be blamed
For damage they have done to wealth and health;
Integrity’s another empty shelf.

….with thanks and apologies to William Shakespeare.

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Angry Youth.

         What a heart warming sight it was in Glasgow today, to see thousands of young people take to the streets to voice their anger and disgust at the powers that be for the way they are plunging the planet into extinction.They are alive to the lies and the illusions that are being spun around their phoney, going green. The kids are wise to you lot and they are angry and prepared to take to the streets to vent their righteous anger and change the direction in which the present system is dragging them. They are the ones who will pick up the price tag for this plundering and pillage of the Earths resources for the personal gain of the few pampered privileged parasites. George Square was a microcosm of the planet's people, there were young people from all over the world, letting the powers that be, that they have had enough. Join them tomorrow, November 6th. no matter where you are, tomorrow is world day of action by the young and the old, and those who wish the kids and grand kids to have a planet they can live on with safety, comfort and a future.

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Cop-Out.

       Just a few home truths about the Cop-Out-26 Carnival of Illusions as you plan for Global day of ACTION November 6th..

        Our campaigners have labelled COP26 as the least accessible climate summit ever, amid chaotic queues and delegates being denied access due to severe capacity issues.
        “This climate summit isn’t just the least accessible ever and a chaotic shambles, it’s grossly unjust. When so many people from the world’s most impacted countries weren’t able to make it, and delegates are being told to ‘dial in’ from their hotel rooms – something is seriously wrong.” - Dorothy Guerrero, COP26 Coalition spokesperson.

Check out full program HERE:

w Photos and Videos from GlasgowView Photos and Videos from Glasgow

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DNA etc..

         As technology advances so does the state's use of that technology. Ever larger data bases are built with more and more of our details on file and the pandemic was a boost for this data gathering exercise. The state now has the ability to tag everybody through apps and vacs passports, and the ever increasing gathering of DNA, making it much easier to enforce any legislation they care to introduce. Freedom is the enemy of the state and it will do everything in its power to curtail any attempt by individuals who work towards freedom, and data bases are one of its weapons..

The following article from Act For Freedom Now:

          It is a fact that worldwide the system of monitoring and control using biometric data is growing with the creation of data banks for everyone with the cooperation of State, European and international organisations.
At the same time as the majority of society is subjected to the violence of the State and capital, the increasing impoverishment and the rising cost of living, the beating of strikers and students by the repressive forces, the murders by the cops, the killings in the sweatshops of wage slavery , the repatriations and murder of immigrants.
         At the same time they are also expanding their legal arsenal and sharpening their attack on anyone and everyone who raises their head and anyone and everyone who attempts to resist modern totalitarianism. The Greek State is seeking to use trumped-up charges to break the morale of those who are struggling. We, the fighters, the comrades, the comrades declare our presence, we do not retreat, we stand on the side of every exploited and oppressed person, on the side of the persecuted and imprisoned comrades. Anyway, in the beginning DNA identification comes for the fighters, then it will be established for all.
-OPPOSITION TO COMPULSORY DNA COLLECTION OF THE 14 STUDENTS
-IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF COMRADE HARRIS.M.
-NO PROSECUTION FOR COMRADE KOSTAS. Κ.

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Sleaze.

 

          Most ordinary people who have taken an interest in what our political ballerinas get up, have always accepted the they have at some point in their political career walked the corridors of corruption. Every politician leaves their parliamentary "career" much richer than they when they entered, and I mean MUCH richer. Can you and I say that? However since bumbling Boris, the dangerous buffoon engineered his power grab, it appears that the Tory party now wears sleazy, corruption and greed as badges of honour, openly pinning them to their lapels with pride. I suppose drunk with power they now display their disgust and disrespect for the peasants with open joviality. 

Ex-minister MP Owen Paterson found a nice little earner.

         The latest case of ex-minister MP Owen Paterson stuffing his pockets with fat fees from firms for which he was lobbying. This is blatantly breaking the rules so he was to be suspended. Being a buddy of Bumbling Boris and some of his pocket lining cronies, they decided that they couldn't allow sleaze to spoil their mate' career, so they simple changed the rules, hey presto, he is back in business, according to his two-faced friends, his character intact. When will we ever learn. 

Thanks Loam for the link:

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Our Agenda.

 

            So the pampered and the privileged have taken centre stage in this Cop-out-26, Carnival of Illusions, well according to the media, but the streets are alive with the alternative and real answers. The "plans" of the privileged and powerful will only lead to more consumption, great production, ever increasing growth and an an increase in the wealth for that pampered few. Meanwhile the world will roll merrily on to destruction, while they continue to worship at the alter of "the economy". It will take real change to have any chance of stopping this human suicide mission and that real change can only come from the united voices of the people. Letting the polluters, devout followers of the insanity of capitalism, make the plans to save the planet is like asking the foxes to look after the chickens while we go to sleep. Rather than working to get the great and the good deliver on their false promises, the people have to take control, set the agenda, and carry it through, any alternative reaps disaster.

 

 

        As the global climate summit COP26 begins in Glasgow, we're hearing another round of promises from world leaders to finally do something to tackle climate change.

But to get the elite to act on their pledges, we need to add a crucial missing ingredient: the voices of the people.

That's why Ripples is supporting the Global Day of Action for Climate Justice this Saturday, organised by the COP26 Coalition of campaign groups

Protest in Glasgow Assemble: Sat 6 Nov, 11.30am Kelvingrove Park, Stewart Memorial Fountain Rally: 3pm, Glasgow Green

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Protest in London Assemble: Sat 6 Nov, 12pm outside the Bank of England, Threadneedle Street, London, EC2R 8AH Rally: 3pm, Trafalgar Square

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Come to the People's Summit COP26 itself isn't open to the public – but the People's Summit will be open to all. It takes place from 7-10 Nov, around Glasgow and online.    Visit ann arky’s home at https://spiritofrevolt.info