Friday Meeting 10 June 2011

Yo chaps,

Just a brief summary of what has been discussed Friday night during our lovely evening at the Egg Cafe (thanks Sandra for the hospitality).
The 19th of June all over Europe there would be political demonstration against the new Euro Pact (here for more info). Therefore initially we’ve discussed the best way for our growing group to attend this. We could go to the Manchester event or organizing something here in Liverpool. Going to Manchester would be nice to meet their group and coordinate our actions. On the other hand organizing something here it would be cool considering the number of people we could reach. Possibly we could do both and perhaps some of us could join the Manchester protest and surely we can contact them using FB.
Regarding the event in Liverpool, one idea that was circulating around the table was to focus on three main topics and use them as themes for our event on Sunday the 19th. The three topics would be:

- Real democracy (electoral laws, corruption, popular participation)

- Euro pact (what it is, effect on everyday life, can it be stopped?)

- Financial crisis and origin (neo-liberalism, inequality, profits of companies)

Two or three people each topic should collect information and facts in order to be ready to discuss it during the event. Choose freely which topic you prefer to take care of and if you have time start to collect info please do it. Tuesday we can debate together on how to organize the event.

A proposal could be to organize three discussion groups, one each topic and at the end of the event we could collect the best/most common opinions for each topic and further discuss them in a general assembly.

Another thing that we should plan carefully would be the logistic of the event. I think that the following elements would be essential:

Music (does anyone has a portable stereo or sound system?)

Leaflets (Marco: editing and photocopy)

Other forms of entertainment

Banners (some banners should still around from last time)

Flags (Marco: 1 Italian, 1 Spanish)

Feel free to add and suggest other things and/or modify this plan. Please use this e-mail list to further discuss the event and related issues.

We are going to meet up on Tuesday at 19:45 at the Clove Hitch in Hope Street (here the link for the event on FB)

Hasta la vista, baby

Marco