Why don't you guys just start solo mining MRCclassic to get the chain moving again if all the pools are down. Diff will obviously be very low so whoever starts mining even with a wimpy setup will be finding blocks. These are the kind of things that the MRC/Alcurex team should have already thought out in advance.
hit 8 blocks solo on wallet classic, i still need to get my 100 mil mrc to alcurex to exchange. need more people to get the block chain moving.