Rooting for change

Another wet morning and, in a brief struggle between duvet & damp running gear, the duvet won.

After 3 weeks the Occupy Wall Street protests are continuing, and spreading, in the US. Not in huge numbers, and still heavily policed, they seem to be successfully tapping in to widespread dissatisfaction with the direction in which US society is being steered (ref).

Meanwhile in Europe, a group of 150 anti-capitalist Indignants have marched to Brussels from Spain, France and the Netherlands to set up an alternative parliament during the forthcoming EU summit on the debt crisis (ref). And in London 2,000 people gather to protest against the UK government's attacks on the National Health Service (ref).

Maybe it's too optimistic but, if anything is ever going to change for the better in this world driven by global capitalism, it will probably start with exactly this type of protest, quietly taking root and spreading - preferably without violence, so it can't be demonised as "terrorism". Of course we've been here before, but that was before the internet, and when all the movers & shakers were too stoned to follow it through !