Will we do it? Le ferons nous?

 

Something is moving, it's like an earthquake which starts with little, unnoticed, insignificant signs and nobody pays attention and yet it's an ominous forerunner of  something big in the making: bang, it strikes hard, very hard. My hunch is that we are not paying attention, we don't notice, and dictators(yes I mean the sarko, the cameron, the obombama and the likes, all of them) don't pay attention too, they think it's ok, that the slaves are going to take another bashing and just shut it up as usual. Well maybe they are right, after all. This call to withdraw all our money from banks will show whether enough of us will fight to make a difference. Now let us be careful because everytime we are called into action and we do nothing they(the dictators and their stooges) get stronger, more daring...I guess that when we will be in "fema concentration, interment camps" it will be a little too late...and yes I think Eric Cantona is bloody right street demonstrations is  "so passé"

http://freedomfiles.org/war/fema.htm

http://www.bankrun2010.com/  and click on EN

 

Eric Cantona's call for bank protest sparks online campaign

Thousands of French protesters have taken up the former Man United footballer's call for a mass cash withdrawal

• Kim Willsher
• The Observer, Sunday 21 November 2010
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Eric Cantona is calling on protesters against cutbacks and pension reforms in France to start a real revolution by mass bank withdrawals. Photograph: MCP / Rex Features

As students and public sector workers across Europe prepare for a winter of protests, they have been offered advice from the archetypal football rebel Eric Cantona.

Cantona was once a famous exponent of direct action against adversaries on and off the pitch. In 1995 he was given a nine-month ban after launching a karate kick at a Crystal Palace fan who shouted racist abuse at the former Manchester United star after he was sent off. But while sympathising with the predicament of the protesters in France, the now retired Cantona is urging a more sophisti cated approach to dissent.

The 44-year-old former footballer recommended a run on the cash reserves of the world's banks during a newspaper interview that was also filmed. The interview has become a YouTube hit and has spawned a new political movement.

The regional newspaper Presse Océan in Nantes had asked Cantona about his work with the Abbé Pierre Foundation, which campaigns for housing for the destitute and for which he produced a book of photographs last year. But the discussion soon moved on to other issues, including the demonstrations in France and elsewhere against government cutbacks in the new era of austerity.

Cantona, wearing a bright red jumper, dismissed protesters who take to the streets with placards and banners as passé. Instead, he said, they should create a social and economic revolution by taking their money out of their bank.

He said: "I don't think we can be entirely happy seeing such misery around us. Unless you live in a pod. But then there is a chance... there is something to do. Nowadays what does it mean to be on the streets? To demonstrate? You swindle yourself. Anyway, that's not the way any more.

"We don't pick up weapons to kill people to start the revolution. The revolution is really easy to do these days. What's the system? The system is built on the power of the banks. So it must be destroyed through the banks.

"This means that the three million people with their placards on the streets, they go to the bank and they withdraw their money and the banks collapse. Three million, 10 million people, and the banks collapse and there is no real threat. A real revolution.

"We must go to the bank. In this case there would be a real revolution. It's not complicated; instead of going on the streets and driving kilometres by car you simply go to the bank in your country and withdraw your money, and if there are a lot of people withdrawing their money the system collapses. No weapons, no blood, or anything like that."

He concludes: "It's not complicated and in this case they will listen to us in a different way. Trade unions? Sometimes we should propose ideas to them."

Cantona's call appeared to touch a popular chord and generated an instant response. Nearly 40,000 people have clicked on the YouTube clip, and a French-based movement – StopBanque – has taken up the campaign for a massive coordinated withdrawal of money from banks on 7 December. It is claimed that more than 14,000 people are already committed to removing deposits. The movement is also gaining increasing attention in Britain.

The trio of French Facebook users now leading the campaign have appealed to people across Europe to provoke a bank crash. "It is we who control the banks, not vice versa," they write.

In a fuller statement on the website Bankrun2010.com, the organisers write: "Our call has been more successful than we dared think. Our action is a people's movement... we're not seeking to destroy anyone in particular, it's the corrupt, criminal and moribund system that we have decided to oppose using what means we can, with determination and within the law." The statement is signed by Géraldine Feuillien, 41, a Belgian filmmaker, and Yann Sarfati, 24, an actor and director from France.

Sarfati said he and his friends had simply wanted to pass on Cantona's video clip, but had found themselves caught up in a global "citizens' movement".

"We were surprised by the interest and the buzz it created on the internet. It has really spread; there are now Facebook events in Italy, Romania, Bulgaria and even Korea," Sarfati said.

"We're not anarchists, nor linked to any political party or trade union; we're not even an organisation. We just thought this was another way of protesting."

He added: "In between doing publicity campaigns for L'Oréal, Cantona has this revolutionary side. He earns a good living, but obviously he has a social conscience and I think he is sincere."

Valérie Ohannesian, of the French Banking Federation, said she thought that the appeal was "stupid in every sense" and a charter for thieves and money-launderers.

"My first reaction is to laugh. It is totally idiotic," she told the Observer. "One of the main roles of a bank is to keep money safe. This appeal will give great pleasure to thieves, I would have thought."

She also doubted the practicalities of the suggestion. "If Mr Cantona wants to take his money out of the bank, I imagine that he'll need quite a few suitcases," she said.

ERIC'S DIRECT ACTION

1987 Fined by Auxerre for punching his team's goalkeeper, Bruno Martini.

1989 Kicks ball into the crowd and hurls shirt at the referee on being substituted in a charity match, then throws his jersey at Marseille coach Gerard Gili. Playing for Montpellier, he hits team-mate Jean-Claude Lemoult with his boot.

1991 Now playing for Nîmes, he throws the ball at the referee and storms off. Later attacks an opponent.

1993 Spits at a Leeds fan in his first season for Manchester United.

1995 Kicks out at a Crystal Palace defender and is sent off. As Cantona leaves the pitch, Palace fan Matthew Simmons screams abuse at him and Cantona launches his now infamous kung-fu kick at Simmons.

• guardian.co.uk © Guardian News and Media Limited 2010

Ça bouge, c'est comme un tremblement de terre annoncé par des petits signes, qu'on ne remarque pas, insignifiants. personne ne prête attention alors que ce sont des signes annonciateurs de mauvaise augure, de quelque chose d'important qui se prépare: boum, ça frappe, ça frappe durement. Mon feeling c'est que personne n'en est conscient, personne ne remarque rien, et, les dictateurs(oui je parle des sarko, des cameron, des obombama, et leur semblables, tous quoi) aussi ne font pas attention non plus, ils pensent que c'est bon, que les esclaves vont en prendre plein la tronche et la fermer, comme d'habitude. Bon, ils ont peut-être raison après tout. Cet appel pour retirer tout notre argent des banques va montrer si nous serons assez nombreux à nous battre pour faire la difference. Alors soyons prudents car à chaque fois que nous sommes appelés à l'action et que nous ne faisons rien, ils(les dictateurs et leur larbins) en sortent plus forts, plus gonflés...je suppose que lorsqu'on se retrouvera dans des camps de concentration, d'internements "à la fema" http://freedomfiles.org/war/fema.htm on risque juste d'être un peu à la bourre. Et oui, je pense qu'Eric Cantona, putain, a raison, les manifs c'est trop dépassés...

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