We’ll certainly need new systems to replace the skewed, corrupted ones we have and we’ll need representatives too; though properly and continously accountable ones that are not paid or otherwise renumerated any more to represent us than those they represent are paid – am a big fan of MPs or their replacement being paid the average wage or something like that, politics and representation of others should be a calling, not a career.

I live on a small island with a population of under two thousand, we have no formal police and you can basically do what you like as long as you don’t harm or harry others, I don’t lock my front door despite this laptop being inside but this idyll doesn’t work when there are 5+ figure populations in tight knots – there are just too many of us humans to have a stable society through an almost total de-regulation of everything but I think it’s wise not to try to define the shape of things to come until somewhere near 99% of the 99% are on board – I believe that until that time it’s enough to define the aim as simply ‘we need a huge sea-change in how the world is run, firmly along the lines of people before profit’.

In the meantime, as you say, there is a need to have some regulations / understandings about how the occupations should deal with day to day site necessities and issues but that’s seperate to what is to be done to the structure and management of society and you’re right of coursre, much of it is generally common sense, decency and respect for others.

As for the cathedral and the camp, hopefully in not too long there’ll be another occupation elsewhere to make 3, then 4 and so on, as this happens the first camp at St Pauls will become less of a focus than it is now, which has got to help – I was of the opinion that they should move on, having established camp #2 but on reflection, think the implicit challenge to the church in being there is important, whether I like it or not, the church is a major player in the power game and the people need to know where they stand, and ideally, who it is that decides what stand they take (see list of trustees elsewhere, pretty much a straight sample of the 1% I’d say)

And well done to Giles Fraser (?), a proper cleric by the sound of it, good to hear some in the faith are still up for upsetting the conceptual tables of the marketeers in the church.

>Nobody seems to put there finger
>on what it is that is making it a success.
I think we owe a lot to the Arab Spring, it’s awfully sobering to read that folk are still being gunned down by the dozen in the streets of Syria, their resolve must be an inspiration to the folk in ows and olsx and the hundreds of other occupations.

>I think I was defending the Zombie Run
>because …. it comes from the right place.
Absolutely, I’ve no doubt as to the positive purpose of it and don’t think the zombie thing was decided because it’d be a good chuckle, as a poster elsewhere said, many themed events like this attract a better response than a drier, more factaul protest – I’d be more than happy to be proved wrong by the press emphasising the message rather than the outfits but fear otherwise, as we all know, the 1% have the media that most of middle england consult daily pretty well sewn up and acting as their megaphone.

>I can’t believe how much progress
>has been made when I see the livestream
I wish I could watch that, comms here is lousy, good enough for browsing but not much more – I download stuff to watch later when I go to the mainland but cant do that very often.

>Carry on being inspired
You bet, I mentioned before that I left the UK as it had become a nightmare / nascent police state. I do feel some guilt at jumping ship raher than staying to add to the numbers opposing the elite so am most heartened to hear that things may be changing for the better – even just feading about it from afar the whole movement verges on the eye-moistening at times, something pretty damn wonderful seems to be happening and I can barely believe it – if only the folk that are beavering so hard for their families just to stand still or even go backwards slowly and perhaps dont even have time to keep abreast of it could see what the movement is aiming for I’m sure vast tracts of the 99% would be swayed if they weren’t so necessarily focussed on just staying afloat.