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International Resistance - OCCUPY MONACO - Magda Hassan - 12-01-2011
International Resistance - OCCUPY MONACO
Dead King | 06.01.2011 12:43 | Free Spaces | Globalisation | Public sector cuts
We'll give Capital Flight a whole new meaning. 1st August 2011
1st August 2011
Monaco is 2.2 km sq - it has 33,000 inhabitants of whom 84% are foreign born tax exiles. There are around 500 police officers in Monaco - external security is provided by France. The only real standing army of which to speak are the 100 bodyguards provided for the royal household.
The facts are simple the Philip Greens of this world (or rather his wife) inhabit these places. We are told in Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Greece et...c that capital is mobile and that in a global political economy there is not much we can do about it. Hence the structures of reducing corporation tax, dividends tax etc in a 'race to the bottom' which means that large nation states (in which most of us live) find it increasingly hard to fund themselves as viable welfare states at the outset of the 21st century.
Most of the corporate oligarchs of Europe, be they Swedish, Italian etc maintain a presence in Monaco and the European peoples are told there is nothing they can do about it.
Except that is, use our constitutional rights as European citizesn as enshrined in the European Convention on Human Rights ( freedom of movement and freedom of association) to show our peaceful disdain for such individuals by occupying their spaces.
From the early modern period of the Peasants Revolt and Wat Tyler to the Jarrow Street marchers there have been dominated peoples march upon the forces of domination and capital (in Britain's case London).
In a global economy with a transnational capitalist class, this action is the exact same response, albeit to changed circumstances.
Instead of Newcastle to London like the Jarrow Workers we go from every nation state of Europe towards this 2.2 km sq. principality and show that the people's of Europe mean business.
Capital is highly mobile in a global economy, but so are people, why shouldn't protest be the same? Thousands of us from across Europe meeting in Monaco would be an intriguing prospect.
Bare in mind that while tax exiles love tax havens for their obvious merits - these places don't actually have standing armies.
Lets get organised and plan travel and strategy.
Facebook event
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http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=119808374756505 Dead King
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2011/01/471650.html?c=on
International Resistance - OCCUPY MONACO - Peter Lemkin - 12-01-2011
Magda Hassan Wrote: International Resistance - OCCUPY MONACO
Dead King | 06.01.2011 12:43 | Free Spaces | Globalisation | Public sector cuts
We'll give Capital Flight a whole new meaning. 1st August 2011
1st August 2011
Monaco is 2.2 km sq - it has 33,000 inhabitants of whom 84% are foreign born tax exiles. There are around 500 police officers in Monaco - external security is provided by France. The only real standing army of which to speak are the 100 bodyguards provided for the royal household.
The facts are simple the Philip Greens of this world (or rather his wife) inhabit these places. We are told in Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Greece et...c that capital is mobile and that in a global political economy there is not much we can do about it. Hence the structures of reducing corporation tax, dividends tax etc in a 'race to the bottom' which means that large nation states (in which most of us live) find it increasingly hard to fund themselves as viable welfare states at the outset of the 21st century.
Most of the corporate oligarchs of Europe, be they Swedish, Italian etc maintain a presence in Monaco and the European peoples are told there is nothing they can do about it.
Except that is, use our constitutional rights as European citizesn as enshrined in the European Convention on Human Rights ( freedom of movement and freedom of association) to show our peaceful disdain for such individuals by occupying their spaces.
From the early modern period of the Peasants Revolt and Wat Tyler to the Jarrow Street marchers there have been dominated peoples march upon the forces of domination and capital (in Britain's case London).
In a global economy with a transnational capitalist class, this action is the exact same response, albeit to changed circumstances.
Instead of Newcastle to London like the Jarrow Workers we go from every nation state of Europe towards this 2.2 km sq. principality and show that the people's of Europe mean business.
Capital is highly mobile in a global economy, but so are people, why shouldn't protest be the same? Thousands of us from across Europe meeting in Monaco would be an intriguing prospect.
Bare in mind that while tax exiles love tax havens for their obvious merits - these places don't actually have standing armies.
Lets get organised and plan travel and strategy.
Facebook event
Dead King
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2011/01/471650.html?c=on
Good idea, but there are no campgrounds, if I remember correctly and rooms at hotels are VERY pricey! I guess they plan to just occupy the streets and parks?! Problem is the rich there can and will hire rent-a-thugs from the likes of Xe et al. Or the French will send in their troops. I say we occupy the whole f'n Planet, as it has been taken over by aliens.
International Resistance - OCCUPY MONACO - David Guyatt - 12-01-2011
And the beaches are shit, too.
At least let's occupy somewhere where you can get a tan in comfort.
How about San Tropez?