Week end 11th December

“More tranquil at the camp when AMURT cooks the food!”
London Unit AMURT team distributed approximately 250 meals to homeless people and activists on Wednesday 7th December at the 3 Occupy sites: St Pauls, Finsbury Square and the Occupied Bank of Ideas building near Moorgate in Central London. A brother who works on the Night Watch “Tranquility” team expressed that when AMURT, the Sikhs and Hare Krsna cook and distribute the food there is more peace and tranquility in the camp on those nights.

Other good news:

    • Our PROUT gazeebo survived 85 mile an hour winds – just!!
    • Two hour PROUT presentation at Tent City University attended by approx. 50 people
    • Finish Television crew filmed our kiirtan programme
    • an interview with documentary film makers from London on the Economic Crisis
    • filming of a PROUTist activist song with film crew from Venezuela
    • daily informal PROUT talks with the public at our PROUT tent * Daily meditation and kiirtan
    • Liaison with religious ministers from Catholic Church and Church of England
    • Liaison with legal adviser on current Court case
    • meeting with researcher on Cooperatives
    • meeting with member of a City of London Financial Services Cooperative
    • two 2 hour RAWA performances with Indranath and musicians from Occupy LSX
A banner with the title Economic Democracy

Economic Democracy banner

  • Economic Democracy banner made for our PROUT tent by artist from Brighton, attracting much public interest
  • Attendance at the 2 Economic Working Group meetings; PROUT ideas presented
  • meeting with a couple working in area of the Spiritual IQ of children

This Weeks Activities
PROUT presentations at Tent City University
These are booked in for Monday, Tuesday and Thursday 6-7pm

Economics Working Group Anyone interested in attending this meeting on Monday 6-8pm, Nero Cafe, St Pauls tube station

Tour of Canary Wharf, Tuesday 6pm, meet outside Canary Wharf tube station There will be a guided tour of Canary Wharves that exposes the Transnational Corporations located there and their unethical business activities around the world. It is the second such tour and well worth attending.

AMURT mass feeding Wednesday

RAWA performance: Thursday 6-8pm, PROUT tent, all welcome, bring songs, poetry, theatre or readings!

Daily activities include kiirtan, meditation and public liaison.

We may have only two weeks remaining before eviction so be sure to get involved.

 

Events from week beginning 12th December

PROUT Class
Monday 12th December
Tuesday 13th December
and Thursday 15th December

Each 6-7pm PROUT class at Tent City University
Progressive Utilisation Theory
A new socio-economic model to replace capitalism and communism.

Wednesday 14th December
7pm Food distribution in the food tent
A vegetarian meal prepared for the public including the homeless.

Thursday 15th December
6-8pm Music at our PROUT tent.
All welcome, bring songs, poetry, theatre or readings.

Food distribution Wednesday 7th December

For our third week running we served food to the public at the food tent at St Paul’s Tent City, followed by visiting and serving at Finsbury Square and the Bank Of Ideas.
Again we chanted inside the food tent at St Paul’s to uplift the atmosphere and bring positivity to the place and the food.

Overall we served over 150 people with rice, vegetables and pitta bread.

Thank you all who were involved. There were many happy faces and compliments from the public.

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Feel the atmosphere as we shared kiirtan and served food, in this video:

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PROUT class Monday 5th December

We had our first PROUT introductory talk today at the University City tent, we introduced PROUT by giving details of when and where it was founded and by who.

Then we explained the economic democracy, finishing with the cycle of social evolution, during each age before it’s succeeded by another age (shudras: labourers class, ksatriyas:  warriors class, vipras: intellectuals class and vaeshya: merchants class).

There were around 50 people who asked very interesting questions. Once the talk was finished, the audience clapped hands for a while, which gave an impression that PROUT’s ideology was well understood and received.

We plan to have another talk on PROUT (by a different speaker) next week at the camp:
Monday 12th December 6-7pm
Tuesday 13th December 6-7pm
Thursday 15th December 6-7pm

Weekend 4th December

PROUT presentation at Tent City University
We have a class On Monday 5th December 3-5pm at the university tent about PROUT – PROgressive Utilisation theory.

BBC World Service PROUT interview & Moscow TV
Latest Good news from Occupy London SX includes a 25 minute Radio interview with the BBC World Service. They are doing a programme on inequality. The second part of the interview focused on PROUT, as the interviewer turned to our display and asked how this related to solving inequality. Of course how much they use after the editing process is unclear. The programme will air on 17th January. That interview was followed 20 minutes later with a short video interview from Moscow Television. The angle of that
interview was more on the threat of police violence towards protesters once the eviction order is finally issued.

The weather these past days has been challenging here – very strong winds for 4 days – many tents were broken and if the people weren’t present to fix them the tents were literally thrown out!! Our tent was also battered but survived!

Nagar Kiirtan, Video evening
On Wednesday Rohit led a blissful kiirtan in the front of the steps of St. Pauls to several hundred onlookers, supported by Sister Ruth – a 71 year old Catholic Nun who gets people up dancing!
On Thursday our Economic Democracy team – a Sub-group of the official Economics Working Group, screened the video “The Take” – about “thirty unemployed auto-parts workers in suburban Buenos Aires, who walk into their idle factory, roll out sleeping mats and refuse to leave. All they want is to re-start the silent machines.” This is one way in which worker cooperatives may get created once capitalist industries collapse…

Kiirtan RAWA Performance
We had a programme of kiirtan and “Songs of the Revolution” from our Tent. The programme lasted over an hour and was well received and appreciated. Afterwards an open talking circle was held with 15 people participating, talking about social change in Britain.

30 November Mass Strike
The mass demonstration / Nov 30 Strike was interesting – tens of thousands of people marching through central London. Most were Public Sector Workers affiliated to the various trade unions. These are the middle class soon to become Viksubda Shudras – in Prout analysis these disgruntled workers are the key to shifting beyond capitalism.
Others well present were the Socialist groups – very visible and organised with banners, leaflets and stalls along route! They look like good people – middle class, intelligent.
The Occupy London SX were also well present and seemed to me to be the most radical of them all! Of course, living rough for 6 weeks and in a tight community gave them a whole other aspect and spirit together.

Food distribution
As mentioned before we collected, prepared and served food to over 120 people for their meal one evening. Which was gratefully received.

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Events from week beginning 5th December

Monday 5th December
3-5pm PROUT class at Tent City University
Progressive Utilisation Theory
A new socio-economic model to replace capitalism and communism.

Tuesday 6th December
3-5pm Music at The steps of St Paul’s
Spiritual songs, bhajans and kiirtan (chanting a mantra)

Wednesday 7th December
7pm Food distribution in the food tent
A vegetarian meal prepared for the public including the homeless.

Thursday 8th December
6-7:30pm kiirtan walk at the camp followed by meditation
Starting at our tent.

Meditation class
Monday 7pm
Tues-Fri 6pm
Introduction to Meditation at our tent

Food Distribution with kiirtan

Since 23rd November each Wednesday evening we have provided many homeless and members of the public with a sattvik* vegetarian meal in the food tent at Occupy London’s St Paul’s site.

On Wednesday 30 November we brought 5 pots full of food. As we served to over 100 people many of us and the public joined in singing and chanting a mantra (kiirtan) along to a guitar and drum.

Afterwards we walked around the site and sang the mantra together. This brought a positive change to the nearby environment and people as we were concentrating on the positive meaning.

* sattvik food is good for the body and mind

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