Anti-Capitalist

We shared chanting a mantra with all at the food tent. A few people inside joined in with singing and playing along. Plus we had a welcome visit from Sister Ruth who enjoyed dancing along.

As we served sattvik vegan food to the public.

Wednesday 22nd February
Food distribution at St Paul’s camp food tent in the evening. Delicious vegetarian food for the public.

Plus we hear the appeal decision from the court

Wednesday 15th February
Food distribution at St Paul’s camp food tent in the evening. Delicious vegetarian food for the public.

Plus 4th Month of Occupy London SX

We enjoyed chanting and playing instruments, and improvising with boxes while:
we served vegan food to the public at St Paul’s tent city food tent.

Wednesday 7th February
Food distribution at St Paul’s camp food tent in the evening. Delicious vegetarian food for the public.

Monday 13th February
Appeal Decision at the court.

Sunday 15th January 2012 @ Bank Of Ideas Sun Street London
Introduction to PROUT – Progressive Utilisation Theory
Presented by Dada Ravishekharananda

This is only a tip of the iceberg of what PROUT is, look at the following websites for more information.

www.prout.org
www.proutglobe.org
www.prout.org.uk

1 17 min introduction video:

Followed by 2 further videos, with answers from audience member queries:

Wednesday 1st February
serving vegetarian food in the evening at the food tent in st Paul’s churchyard.

We served vegetarian food to over 60 on the public on Wednesday 11th and over 100 on 18th January 2012.
Accompanied by music, improvised drums (card board boxes), guitars and vocals.

Many enjoyed the food and music, some provided improvised dancing.

I had the chance to listen to Mark, he discussed various aspects of PROUT during his talk at the Bank Of Ideas Saturday 7th January:
Helping others for no rewards – don’t need to be paid for everything. You can be happy helping each other. In fact happier than when working for a paid job.
Some paid jobs can be boring, have you ever thought how many people got involved? By buying the product you’re supporting that persons menial work.
Resource sharing – no need to be greedy and selfish with your food/equipment, you can share
Maximum utilisation of food and resources – if you grow your own food you will be more careful not to waste it
Caring of our local environment – how come you send your personal waste into the sewage system. Do you understand what happens? Would you want to mix waste and fresh water if you had to maintain your own water?
Democracy – If you aren’t happy with the government/supermarkets/oil industry as long as you’re still shopping and supporting them, they will continue in their unethical ways.

Mark also mentioned an easy option of life is to remain part of the system and conveniently shop for produce, there are many questions you have to ask yourself:

• where does the produce come from?
• what happens to the money?
• how much fossil fuels were used for transport of the goods?
• what will happen if the food can’t be transported in the future? – growing local has cost and environmental advantages than flying food from around the world

Ideas were mentioned from Mark, the audience and Nick Rosen:
Urban Harvest http://www.urbanharvest.org.uk to find and share food – which could have been wasted
Land Share http://www.landshare.net Landshare brings together people who have a passion for home-grown food, connecting those who have land to share with those who need land for cultivating food.
Land Buddy http://www.off-grid.net/landbuddy want to meet similar minded people who want to live off grid
Money reform http://www.moneyreformparty.org.uk/
http://prosperityuk.com/ Information about what is the current money system about, and alternatives/ideas for the issues.
http://www.fmotl.com/ freeman on the land
http://peoplespublictrust.com/ People’s public trust
freetheplanet.net
http://www.justfortheloveofit.org/ – alternative economy
http://www.off-grid.net/ – how to detach from the system

Wednesday 25th January
Food distribution at St Paul’s camp food tent in the evening. Delicious vegetarian food for the public.

Friday 27th January
Final day at St Paul’s?
Lets hope we can stay longer to spread a new movement to more people.

• AMURT will provide Food distribution in the evening at St Paul’s food tent, with delicious vegetarian food.

6pm-7pm Flash mob meditation in British Museum

• High court judges decision for the St Paul’s camp and Bank Of Ideas cases.>/li>
• AMURT will provide Food distribution in the evening at St Paul’s food tent, with delicious vegetarian food.

On Friday 6th January 2012 our PROUT tent was dismantled and packed away. We haven’t forgotten or will ignore the Occupy London movement.

What’s the next stage of Occupy London? On at least Wednesday 11th January the high court judge will give their decision on the case for eviction of tent city camp on St Paul’s Churchyard and the Bank Of Ideas.

Will there will be a momentum to keep the movement going?

Lets keep our eyes open, see what part we can play in Occupy.

This Wednesday we prepare food, then we served to over 80 people at the food tent in St Paul’s churchyard.

We will be preparing  food and serving this coming Wednesday 11th January.

Prout classes to be confirmed at the meeting tent, next to University tent.

Wednesday 4th January
Food distribution at St Paul’s food tent in the evening.

If you want to help you can contact us on the contact us page.

Happy New year all for 2012.
Lets see what society brings us in 2012.
After all the Occupy Movement has got many talking and interested in what’s going on in society, it has opened people’s eyes to what’s going on.

I’m hopeful that there are many of us who won’t stand back and let society dictate to us, we have to be able to show courage. Together we can form a better collective and become a bigger force!

New Years celebration at PROUT tent
For new years celebrations, we had a music evening with various musicians performing at the PROUT tent.

Followed by chanting a mantra for an hours build up from 11 until midnight.
We were joined by many members of the public who were passing by on their walk to the fireworks by the river.

This Wednesday we prepared a vegetarian meal and served to over 150 people at the food tent at St Paul’s tent city food tent and Finsbury Square. We accompanied this with chanting a mantra first inside the tent, then around the camp including on the steps of St Paul’s.

We were joined by a few who enjoyed the music, singing, guitar and drums.

We had many happy faces both from the food and music.

If you wish to help us get food, prepare the food (off site in Stoke Newington) or serve the food at St Paul’s or Finsbury Square you can get in touch on our contact page.

Good news that the high court judge has delayed a decision until 11th January 2012.

Wednesday 28th December
food distribution at food tent St Paul’s accompanied by chanting.

followed by chanting and meditation at the PROUT.

This Wednesday we prepared vegetables and rice to serve to the public at the food tent at Tent City next to St Paul’s cathedral.

We provided a meal to nearly 200 people who were grateful for the food.
Accompanying us we had various guitarists, drummers, innovative percussion players using pan lids, bowls, jars and cutlery, whilst we chanted a mantra to bring a positive vibration and atmosphere to the people and local environment. Many people enjoyed the music and danced along including the kitchen volunteers. It was a lively event at the food tent!

Donations for food/equipment welcome:
http://virginmoneygiving.com/team/feedinglondonhomeless

Economic Democracy, PROUT class
Tuesday 20th December and Friday 23rd December 6-7pm
at Tent city University
(provisional)

Food distribution
Wednesday 21st December from 6:30pm
at Tent City food tent
and later at tent city university during general assembly