Time to take individual ownership of collective issues

It is well known that the rise of fascism is allowed when the left start to show unrest. This then permeates through into mainstream politics so that they can put the left back in to its box.

We are witnessing this very thing happen here in the UK, with groups such as the EDL springing up and the more recent example of the Ukip result in Eastleigh where they leapfrogged the Tory party into second place behind the Lib Dems in the recent by election there. Across
Europe too we see this occurring with Greece's Golden Dawn party, Le Pen's Front National and Italy's Northern League all taking prominent steps of influence in the political sphere.

The fragmentation of the left does not help the situation. The scenes across social networking sites last year regarding Julian Assange and the allegations of sexual assault proving a timely boost for the right. Add to this the damage done by a decade of spin, lies, war and the political positioning of the flag ship party in this country, Labour, of being centre left trying to win influence over the centre right, which Mo Ansar has recently described as being "ever further right" and it leaves us all with very real problems and should deeply concern us all.

The bush fires we are now seeing around the world, with recession and war, are no different to that of the situation pre-1914.

The perpetual fuelling of hatred and mistrust amongst the people by the media is allowing these policy makers to attack the very core values of freedom and democracy (or the illusion of it at least) that we believe in and leaves us all living in very dangerous times, which will affect this and future generations for decades to come.

If we are to face these issues as a society then we need to start taking individual ownership of the problem and work as a collective. We need to challenge the rhetoric of the establishment and media and not wait for the work to be done by a select minority of well intended people.

The Evolution Begins?

Power to the peaceful

October 15th 2011, the day people around the world united in sending a message to the one percenters telling them "this shits got to go". Demonstrations are taking place in 951 cities over 82 countries and Newell News International is at the heart of it in London....at St Pauls Cathedral.

Today we really are one planet.

This is the third demonstration in 12 months covered by us and as always it is good humoured amid a rather large police presence. We have of course been told before entering the lions den that we do so at our own risk and may face being detained if it all goes wrong tonight, probably in response to the kettling incidents of November. Once again however I am disappointed to find that the podium speaker is requesting representatives from each 'group' to speak....are we not all one group? The Human race group.

The people seem to be here for the duration on the steps, I have posed the question why we are not outside the Bank of England. Democracy, for what its worth, has spoken and they plan to stay here and have just been addressed by Julian Assange who requested that the banking corporations are made as transparent as the police have made him today.  The demonstrations are loud and relatively focused without the malice that has descended upon the Italian Occupy movement in Rome.  Let us hope that the peaceful movement continues, as a wise man once put it to me, if you lose your temper then you have lost the plot.