The OccupyTW group will be in Tunbridge Wells from 11am on Saturday.
We will meet at 11am at the Millennium Clock in the town and hand out leaflets in the town.
Why not come down and help to leaflet and have a chat before the general assembly which will be held at the Millennium Clock at 1pm on Wednesday November 30th.
You can follow OccupyTW on Twitter: @occupytw
There is also a blog: http://occupytw.wordpress.com
Frank Owen
The OccupyTW group are holding a planning meeting tomorrow night (Tuesday) at 8pm at the Beau Nash pub in Tunbridge Wells
Please come along if you are interested in the Occupy movement and how this can be spread to Tunbridge Wells.
Follow OccupyTW on Twitter: @occupytw
Frank Owen
The open letter published and widely publicised today is surely a hoax.
No serious person could have the ignorance, audacity and sheer greed to suggest that those earning amounts beyond the imagination of most people, deserve to have to pay less tax, especially at a time when ‘We are all in it together!’
The idea that a tax cut will attract ‘entrepreneurs’ is laughable, not only do we have more than enough high earning people in this country, but what entrepreneurs need are people to buy products!
If you really want to attract entrepreneurs then cut the tax to the millions of families who are at breaking point.
A simple understanding of economics shows that the only way to boast the economy is to allow ‘normal’ people to spend money, and a cut in the 50p tax cut will not achieve this!
The arrogance is stunning!
We are seeing two ‘Banker led coups’ in Greece and Italy. The removal of democratically elected governments in favour of puppet governments created to ensure the agenda of the corporations, IMF and international capital is pushed through regardless of public opinion is a crime against the people of those countries, Europe and the World.
We are now faced with a stark choice, do we allow these few people to continue to control the lifes of people around the World, or do we stand up and say enough is enough!
Personally I am at the end of my tether!
Solidarity to all those fighting the 1% around the World.
@occupytw
Frank Owen
As the leaders of the European Union and the rest of the developed World desperately try to prop up a corrupt, inequitable, and collapsed system at the G20 meeting in Cannes the rest of us have news of more pain that we have to take to keep their system going.
The people of Greece have been denied the right to make a decision on whether they believe the austerity (This really is an understatement, with the depth and scale of cut backs in Greece) measures their government has agreed with the IMF are worth the price they are paying.
In Britain, the unemployed are being lined up to have their 5.5% rise, due next April, cancelled and millions of people are facing ever rising costs and the prospect of static if not shrinking pay packets.
Meanwhile, FTSE 100 bosses have seen their pay rise by 50% over the last year.
This is a class war, being waged by the ruling classes of the World, against the people of the World in order to keep the dead corpse that is Capitalism on life support.
In America, and across the World tens of thousands of people are opposing the corruption and greed of the ’1%’ in occupy protests.
In New York, and scores of town and cities across America and the World people are voicing their rejection of a system that benefits the few and leaves the many struggling just to survive.
The actions and decisions of those who benefit from the system’s continuation must be opposed, both on the streets of cities like London and New York and towns like Tunbridge Wells.
Until we have a system which benefits the ’99%’ then we will have no option but to continue the fight against the system.
It is time to fight back.
Solidarity to all those occupying across the World
@occupytw
Frank Owen
We will be holding a stall on the precinct in Tunbridge Wells from 11:30am on Saturday 17th September.
This Saturday from 11:30am
Frank Owen
We will be running a stall in Tunbridge Wells again on Saturday 10th September.
The stall we be at the Millennium Clock from 12 noon
Frank Owen
We will be running a stall in Tunbridge Wells again on Saturday 10th September.
The stall we be at the Millennium Clock from 12 noon
Frank Owen
The judicary of this country have long prided themselves on their independence from the legislature. They have reguarly gone against the wishes of the government of the day in the interests of independence.
This cannot be said of the recent riots. The judges and the other legal instruments of this country have been brought down upon anyone even vaguely connected to the events. The number of people being remanded in custody is far higher than the normal level. People are receiving much harsher sentences than normal and councils are instigating eviction procedures against families regardless of the effect on other members of the family who had nothing whatsoever to do with the disturbances.
This political reaction of the coursts must be challenged. One of the vital aspects of a free society is an independent judicary, without this politically motivated sentences become the norm, and dissent is much easier to control and silence.
Frank Owen
Listening to Rupert and James Murdoch, and afterwards Rebekah Brooks give evidence to the Select Committee hearing, you could be excused for believing that they had no responsibility for anything that happened within News International.
This is very strange as, with most businesses when the business is successful senior employees enjoy often large bonuses.
These bonuses are awarded to reward these people for how well they have run the business.
Of course when things go wrong, suddenly it was all down to someone else!
It is time that the ‘untouchables’ at the top of so many large businesses paid the price for failure as well as reap the benefits of success.
The people at the bottom are often sacked or disciplined when they make a mistake, they very rarely receive bonuses when the company is successful – There is nothing left after the top have skimmed off their ‘share’
Frank Owen
The events of this afternoon where Rupert Murdoch was ‘pied’ by a member of the public during the Select Committee hearing, has brought a horribly sympathetic reaction from the BBC.
The reporter following the events on the BBC News Channel was immediately sympathetic to Murdoch, and dismissed the events as the actions of someone looking for publicity.
Rupert Murdoch is the head of an organisation which hacked the phone of a murdered child, listened to the messages of people who’s children and family members had been killed in war.
This is not a person who deserves sympathy, he deserves all the public humiliation he receives.
Humiliation is nothing compared to the gross invasion of privacy that people suffered so that his grubby paper could make a profit.
Frank Owen