Tuesday, March 1, 2011

More banks unless the banks!

We should probably do it too in our poor Italy, only that other banks! Here we should blame unworthy companies, villas heads of state and the Vatican basilica. The British network Uk Uncut (a play on words that down "cut" that cuts in public spending and welfare) has launched a day of action against banks that have pocketed the money from the anti-crisis measures and against the fabulous salaries of manager.

Hundreds of people busy for a few hours and forty banks turned them ... in schools, kindergartens, laundries, libraries, clinics, youth centers. Uncut Us, the American sister network, has done the same in fifty banks. Look at the pictures. In Islington, a suburb of London, UK Uncut has assembled a laundry - to lay wires, pans, underwear out to dry - a subsidiary of RBS in there because the Government is cutting services for the elderly, including a laundry service very useful.

Not only do young poor, but also fifteen elderly residents and even (we hope that the Democratic Party is not reading) a Labour politician. In Liverpool and Redhill hospitals, two banks have become. In Brixton in winds have brought tents and sleeping bags in the seat of NatWest bank and have a makeshift homeless shelter.

It is known that the latter are always the first: to pay for the crisis, I mean. In other cities, parents have brought desks and blackboards in bank branches more vampire, where children have lessons, played and designed. More banks unless the banks. Uncut UK is a network of activists that involves dozens of local groups, organized thanks to a clever use of the Internet.

The days provide a mobilization meeting in each city. Anyone can submit, and then we start all together toward the goal. They are fun and creative forms of protest. But they also have another characteristic: bother seriously. First point directly to the guilty (or rather, the beneficiaries!) Of the crisis, those who have caused and then we got rich.

And then hurt them, blocking their activities. What we want to learn more welfare, more rights, in spite of their profits. Arnald Sticker - click to enlarge

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