I am pleased to announce the first event of FREE - The Foundation for the Return of Equitable Economy.
FREE aims to explore workable ways of weaning ourselves away from complete dependence on the system. You could say that now we have seen the iceberg, we are trying to get off the Titanic and into a lifeboat.
We are inviting Tom Hodgkinson - Author of ‘How to be Idle’, and ‘How to be Free’. Tom also works as a journalist and is founder of the Idlers.
Joining Tom will be Saba Khalid of IFEES (Foundation for Ecology and Environment Sciences).
Event Title : THE BEGINNING OF THE END a practical guide for the coming collapse
Date : Friday 27th February 2009, 6.30pm
Venue : Square Centre Cafe, Methodist
Church, Nicholson Square -
EDINBURGH
Tariq
for more information contact Tariq Ghaznavi through the usual channels
“When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation, since the hand that gives is above the hand that takes. Money has no motherland; financiers are without patriotism and without decency; their sole object is gain.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
Chakan note: we can thank napoleon for his insight but would he recognize in the nineteenth century one should not cut off the hand which from we are all fed in the twenty first (apparently the age one becomes an adult), one only has to ask the many people looking for reasonably priced accommodation and long term jobs to see the complete irrelevance of his point
