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Operation Hope and Recovery
The dream is still alive.
There are times when an event takes place that seems at first glance to be modest, small in scale and not hugely significant. In retrospect, history has a way of restoring some perspective to these seemingly insignificant events.
It was a cold Sunday on January 15, the anniversary of the birthday of Dr Marin Luther King. We had stood for most of the day with the Occupy movement at the historic location of St Paul’s, London.
The theme was 'Occupy the Dream'. I think Dr King would have been proud as we celebrated his life through music song and poetry. At the end of his life leading the Poor Peoples Campaign, Dr King had led an occupation of the White House lawns to highlight the plight of America’s poor. As we stood there in the freezing cold imbued with the spirit of Dr King, Bishop Wayne Malcolm, Chair of Operation Hope & Recovery, reminded that Christ himself occupied the temple and threw out the money lenders.
Later that day, we had organised a small and discreet theological discussion on the life of Dr King with some respected theologians, ministers of the faith and a number of activists. We sat for two hours and heard presentations on Dr King’s life. We heard how he was initially rejected and vilified by his fellow church leaders, how he had moved to initially from focusing on Civil Rights to critiquing capitalism.
Then we heard a presentation on the state of racism in Britain today followed by a brilliant summary analysis of Government policy and a passionate and evocative contribution on the importance of voter registration.
People spoke with great insight, dignity and gravity. The atmosphere was solemn and the discussion from the invited attendees was simply outstanding. The quality of the debate, the insights shared and candid nature of the discussion were, for me, inspirational. I left with the overwhelming feeling that this meeting was a seminal moment. Others spoke of the importance of this seminar and the critical timing of the event.
It felt that a bridge had been crossed. We committed to meet again and working in partnership on a number of important issues. Everyone committed to continuing our discussions and exchange of ideas about the theology of social action and the role of the church.
As we left the seminar and stepped outside, the cold crisp air froze our breaths and as we made our way home I reflected that something in the atmosphere had changed.
I reflected on the discussions and brilliant contributions and concluded that maybe, just maybe, this quiet small meeting will be seen to have changed the course of Black British history. On that point only history and the people can judge. Watch this space…
Lee Jasper
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It is great to be informed by
It is great to be informed by Lee of his first-hand experience at event above at St Paul's. I am not suprised that he was impressed with the dignity and gravity of some of the occupy movement activists/supporters. That was my impression too when I heard some of them at a different event. Keep reporting please, Lee. We are watching this space.
The revolution has started. The wall is breached, the dam has bu
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/9053010/Fred-Goodwin-is-shredded-former-RBS-boss-stripped-of-knighthood.html
Fred Goodwin is shredded: former RBS boss stripped of knighthood
The revolution has started, it has begun. The wall is breached, the dam has busted. It will continue. Not just the Bankers, we will be going through all the greedy robbing CEOs, one by one, These CEO's greed will turn the company that employs them, into top hated Brands to be shunned. They will be named and shamed one by one, their names will be so well known internationally as the people who turned their company into a Pariah, they will become Pariah themselves that no company abroad will want to employ them either.
The society has given them what they have today. They have shown such contempt towards us by paying themselves such sickening amount of money. They are robbing us while blackmailing us that if we won’t let them, they will move their company abroad. We have called their bluff. What we gave them, we can take away.
We wait to see where they will move. Hong Kong, Dubai have been mentioned a few times, Well Dubai will be taken care of soon by the Arab Spring, Hong Kong is part of China, if the public mood change, Bankers may find themselves behind bar or even have the State putting a bullets through their head.
Occupiers are everywhere.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/feb/13/occupy-london-eviction-postponed
"After a five-day hearing in December, Mr Justice Lindblom granted the City of London Corporation possession of the site, ruling: "Withholding relief at this stage would plainly be wrong. The freedoms and rights of others, the interests of public health and public safety, and the prevention of disorder and crime, and the need to protect the environment of this part of the City of London, all demand the remedy which the court's orders will bring."
The eviction of the Occupy camp at the foot of St Paul's is likely to be postponed until next week, as some of England's most senior judges consider whether to hear an appeal which will decide its fate.
Three appeal court judges, including the master of the rolls, will reserve judgment until 22 February on whether to grant an appeal to the Occupy camp, whose lawyers argue that an initial court order permitting an eviction was "more draconian than was necessary"
Meewaan's comments:
Mr Justice Lindblom was wrong to think City of London's application was to protect "The freedoms and rights of others" . Whose interest does the City of London represent? It represents the Greedy thieving Bankers/Corporate, the 1%. They have no democratic legitimacy to speak for the “ freedom and rights of others” They are not in Court to represent the interest of "the people". The people are outside in the tents on the cold pavements. They are in Court to represent the interest of the Bankers / Greedy Corporate.
City of London has made the application to seek the judiciary’s help and blessing, for City of London to protect City of London's own "rights and freedom", its rights and freedom to continue to steal and to plunder from the people and to blackmail and threaten our democracy.
As City of London’s own rights and freedom has been greatly inconvenienced by the spot light shone on it by the presence of the Occupy London at St Paul’s, it is in the Court to remove that presence of the camp and to snuff out the protest against the City of London itself. Thus, the credit worthiness of its Statement of Truth and evidence presented regarding "The freedom and rights of others" needs to be weighed against the absolute impartiality of the City of London.
Sometimes, I wonder why Mubarak had not instructed the Mayor of Cairo to take their protestors to Court to have them evicted from Tahrir Square? Surely there are laws in Egypt about Health and Safety and prevention of disorder and crime and their Judges in Cairo must be as obliging as ours?
Currently, to the Bankers/ Greedy Corporate CEOs, we, the People are the public nuisance. They wants the Judiciary to rubber stamp their wishes to get rid of the people, to keep them out of sight, out of mind, so that The City of London can concentrate on their Crime against the People, the Biggest Robbery of the Century
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