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<h2 style="font-size:1.5em;line-height:1.3em;margin-top:0.667em;margin-bottom:0.667em;color:#60a09f">Event Coming Up - Occupy At The Trades Club</h2>
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<h2 style="font-size:1.5em;line-height:1.3em;margin-top:0.667em;margin-bottom:0.667em;color:#60a09f">Come And Be Heard. Have your say in the occupy movement - Tuesday 20th
December - Trades Club - From 6pm</h2>
<p style="margin:0010px;text-align:left">Article by Anna Harris about forthcoming Occupy Hebden Bridge event On
Tuesday 20th December</p>
<p style="margin:0010px;text-align:left">People from Occupy Hebden and HebdenTransition will be meeting at the
Trades Club to explore whether and how we can work together to achieve our
common aims. Having been part of both movements I can see many similarities,
but there are also differences which need to be respected. Both groups are
aware that the path we are on globally is endangering our very existence as a
human society, but whereas Transitioners are not given to delving into the
reasons, for they want to concentrate on the solutions, Occupiers often
criticise the system as a whole and tend to feel that nothing less than total
refurbishment will do. Transitioners are in the main happy to work with what
we have, and see that much can be done by empowering local communities to
develop alternative systems side by side with what is already existing. They
have done much to open people's eyes to the loss of community and what can be
achieved by re- investing in it. </p>
<p style="margin:0010px;text-align:left">Occupiers challenge the status quo with protest marches, camping out in
city centres, supporting workers' strikes, even challenging the law in the
courts, and focus attention particularly on financial institutions which bend
the law to suit themselves. The vast division between those who benefit from
the influence that corporations have on government policy, and those who
suffer from it, is expressed in the slogan of 'we are the 99%'. The advantage
of the Occupy movement is in combining this array of different interests
under one umbrella. Both movements see the possibility of a society where joy
in working together and sharing resources replaces the competitive system of
industrial growth which is destroying the planet. While Occupy is envisaging
the possibility of at some point changing the system, Transition is building
an alternative system run by local people for the people. Together we can
work to make this happen. Come to the Trades Club on Tuesday 20th. If you
want to add your voice to those being heard around the world or just want to
find out more you will be most welcome. <b style="color:#639f9a;font-size:17px;padding:0">There will be delicious food
available between 6 and 8pm, and the event starts at
7pm</b></p>
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