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<blockquote data-quote="rickyb" data-source="post: 3716088" data-attributes="member: 56035">We can look to Iceland for an example of how to handle the next crisis. In <a href="https://popularresistance.org/iceland-rises-from-the-ashes-of-banking-collapse/" target="_blank">2008</a>, they jailed the bankers, let the banks fail without taking on their debt and put controls in place to protect the economy. They recovered more quickly than other countries and with less pain.How did they do it? In part, through protest. They held sustained and noisy protests, banging pots and pans outside their parliament building for five months. The number of people participating in the protests grew over time. They created democratized platforms for gathering public input and sharing information widely. And they created new political parties, the Pirate Party and the Best Party, which offered agendas informed by that popular input.<a href="https://www.nationofchange.org/2018/09/04/tenth-anniversary-of-financial-collapse-preparing-for-the-next-crash/" target="_blank">Tenth anniversary of financial collapse, preparing for the next crash - NationofChange</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="rickyb, post: 3716088, member: 56035"] We can look to Iceland for an example of how to handle the next crisis.[B] In [URL='https://popularresistance.org/iceland-rises-from-the-ashes-of-banking-collapse/']2008[/URL], they jailed the bankers, let the banks fail without taking on their debt and put controls in place to protect the economy.[/B] They recovered more quickly than other countries and with less pain. How did they do it? In part, through protest. They held sustained and noisy protests, [B]banging pots and pans outside their parliament building for five months. [/B]The number of people participating in the protests grew over time. They created democratized platforms for gathering public input and sharing information widely. And they created new political parties, [B]the Pirate Party and the Best Party, which offered agendas informed by that popular input.[/B] [URL="https://www.nationofchange.org/2018/09/04/tenth-anniversary-of-financial-collapse-preparing-for-the-next-crash/"]Tenth anniversary of financial collapse, preparing for the next crash - NationofChange[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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