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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