Tag: civil disobedience

Disabled people are fighting back for their lives

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,381 Thursday 24 March 2016. Dear Mr Cameron, One might be forgiven for thinking that the UK Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer might want to apologise for causing distress and fear to hundreds of thousands of people, at the very least, for proposed cuts to […]

Government has stolen effective protest but only if we continue to allow it to

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,339 Thursday 11 February 2016. Dear Mr Cameron, This is an issue that’s been bothering me for some time – What happened to protest that it is no longer effective in demanding and driving change? Thankfully a wiser head than mine has been looking at this and […]

The presumption of taking our consent for granted

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,297 Saturday 26 December 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, The words of Howard Zinn – “Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of leaders… and millions have been killed because of […]

Governments make wars and are war whores, but the people pay the price

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,224 Thursday 08 October 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, War is the sole province of governments. The people don’t make war, ever, we don’t have the resources, the ability or the power. The ability to commit mass murder on a global scale is exclusive to governments. In Britain […]

Civil disobedience should be taught as an art form

A letter a day to number 10. No 980 Tuesday 20 January 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, Oxfam reports that by next year 1% of the world’s population will own more wealth than the other 99%, that is 1% owning more than half of global wealth which in 2013 was given as $241 trillion, that’s $51,600 […]