Bankrun2010.com -a French-based movement – StopBanque – campaign for a massive coordinated withdrawa

[Poboy]

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



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.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/nov/20/eric-cantona-bank-protest-campaign

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http://www.bankrun2010.com/

[DavidDvorkin]

1. Because, after all, it's only the wealthy bankers who will suffer

Wait, correction: the wealthy bankers won't suffer at all.

[WinkyDink]

3. Mustn't disrupt the status quo!

[drm604]

5. Duplicate

Ignore

[drm604]

6. That's my concern.

It'll be the common man who suffers, and to what end?

Is there some end goal to this? Is there a game plan, or do they simply intend to create financial chaos in the hope that something better will come out of it?

[jtrockville]

8. The wealthy never suffer. I don't think that's the point.

From what I gather, it seems the point is to make sure the system serves everyone, not just the wealthy.

[WinkyDink]

2. The banks merely need to close their doors and shut down the computers.

[DearAbby]

7. For how long?

Even if they do that, the protest has the Banker's attention.

[Poboy]

14. Correct. This is one action among many that shoud be taken. -nt

[AlabamaLibrul]

15. We don't need no water let the motherfucker burn..... Think about what would happen then n/t

[xchrom]

4. recommend

[bemildred]

9. An idea whose time has come. nt

[Poboy]

10. I concur. Attack on all fronts. -nt

[lunatica]

11. Since all the banks are connected doing this in one country will affect all countries

[girl gone mad]

12. And buy some silver while you're at it. n/t

[Poboy]

13. Crash JPMorgan Buy Silver campaign goes global

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1 – JP Morgan has a huge short position in Silver – estimated to be 3.3 billion ounces – tied to an enormous, extremely precarious $65 trillion derivatives position.

2 – Various exchanges around the world have been caught manipulating the price of Silver using ‘naked’ short sales i.e., counterfeiting.

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7 – Buying Silver is how the world is monetizing its anger at the banks who stole their wealth.

8 – Crash JP Morgan Buy Silver

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[Poboy]

16. Kick for Revolution.