9 June 2011
Dear Manchester anticuts coalition team
We are a group of Spanish, Greek, English and other European citizens living in Manchester, who have got together in the wake of the spontaneous collective movement which, inspired by the Egyptian and Tunisian uprisings, started in Spain on the 15th May 2011 and soon spread to many cities both in Spain and abroad.
We have created a group called ‘Real Democracy Manchester’, and have organised several gatherings in Piccadilly gardens in the last weeks. We are seeking to try and gather people living in Manchester, and who, like us are “outraged” at the cuts and at the ideological agenda underpinning them, here and in the rest of Europe, and at the way in which the outcomes of two centuries of social, cultural and political struggle are being given away through policies targeting all sectors of welfare, education and culture, one after the other.
Our fear is that each of the groups and communities targeted may fight only against the cuts that concern them. This is why we find it very interesting that you organise a protest against the cuts across the board in Manchester next Saturday in Chorlton and that you are planning to take part in the mobilisations of 30/6. We will too.
We are keen to contribute, on our very modest scale, to a European movement of rejection of the ongoing savage attack on our social and cultural patrimony. Actually this attack is now being co-ordinated at the European level, with an austerity package about to be voted by the European Parliament (http://www.oureurope.org/9483.html?&L=0). We think it is time for all peoples of Europe to become as ‘outraged’ as the thousands of Spaniards and Greeks occupying their public squares, and to demand an end to this punitive economic regime as well as the affirmation of our common will to recuperate politics by the people and for the people.
As a first step towards more united protest, we would like to invite you to take part with us in the European protest day, on the 19th of June. We will rally in Piccadilly Gardens (Queen Victoria statue) at 12 to creatively and forcefully show those who govern us our ‘outrage’ and determination to resist.
In the meantime, we will see you on the 11th in Chorlton!
Please do not hesitate to forward this message to all the groups you think might be interested in taking part in the 19/6 European day of protest against the surrender of the UK and Europe to the markets and to reclaim politics.
To find out more about us: http://realdemocracymanchester.blogspot.com/p/about-us.html
Real Democracy Manchester
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