[IMC-UK-Features] proposal - banking feature

[ben gringo]

I proposal a UK feature drawing together recent actions and analysis  
around the economic crisis.

(do we need an economic crisis topic? I always thought we needed a  
capitalism one but globalisation kinda did the trick in most cases but  
it's not really right for much of the stuff happening now)

The feature will be hung off the rush on the RBS which should be  
taking place this lunch time and also the government of the dead stuff  
etc plus the build up to the G20 / summer of rage. The feature will  
specifically concentrate on the links being made by campaigners  
connecting the economic crisis to the climate crisis but it can be  
wider than that.

Here's some text I nicked that could help to form the feature...

As the g20 leaders arrive in London to put a sticking plaster on the  
shattered economy, Climate Camp will be exposing how the same  
discredited market systems that brought about the financial crisis are  
being sold as a solution to the threat of runaway climate change in  
the shape of carbon trading. The government would like us to be able  
to buy our way out of the responsibility for CO2 emissions in the  
Carbon Market, but ultimately we all pay and nature doesn't do bailouts.

Any help on putting this together would be appreciated.

... There are plenty of newswire links to be found but without an  
existing category they are a little tricky to locate once they are off  
the front page.

Climate Rush to target RBS on 5 March
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/03/423247.html
March of the Corporate Undead, Oxford St
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/02/423133.html
We Are An Image From The Future
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/03/423443.html
Bristol Dissent g20 Call Out
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/03/423381.html
Ex-boss of failed RBS bank awarded £25 million pension
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/03/423455.html
The Arrogance of Capitalism
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/03/423230.html
Environmental silver lining in economic crisis as energy demand plummets
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/03/423403.html,
Reminder: Bash a Billionaire TONIGHT 7pm Park Lane
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/03/423382.html
Doubt of global financial crisis?
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/03/423371.html
New Course - Origins of the Credit Crunch, Newcastle, March 11th 2009
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/03/423346.html
Summer of rage? It's a figment of febrile imaginations
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/03/423345.html
Demand for energy falling as recession deepens
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/03/423342.html
Climate Crimes Delayed
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/03/423283.html

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