The financial crisis so far seems to primarily have affected the average citizens within each country. With the main affect being felt by the poor, in cuts to services and benefits, while the elites in each country (especially the bankers) are doing very nicely thank you.

We have seen how people power has worked in the Arab world, on a country wide basis, using the power of modern communications. Modern communications, especially the internet, now allow a more global approach. It needs to be understood that the governments of individual countries are being manipulated by global corporations and banks with the threat of leaving one country for another if there is any heavier taxation / regulation.

The populace of the Western world (those most affected by the financial crisis) need to rise up together to tell their governments they must work together to deal with the threats posed by the global banking industry (the people of the Western World are paying the price of the golbal finacial industries greed). As in the initial Arab up-risings, student power needs to start the ball rolling. If enough countries in the West can be seen to be protesting together, then the banks and global corporations will have nowhere to hide. The young and disillusioned are not confined to the Arab world and in most Western countries today the prospects for the young are pretty grim, with mass resentment towards the greed of the new elites and the harsh realities of the world they have created.

People can work globally, even if governments can’t. Governments can be forced to work together if they are faced with the certain knowledge they will not be re-elected unless they do.

Keith