Dispite the rain over night the two camps in London are holding strong and continue to function well. Yesterday's Telegraph story about all the tents being empty is clearly untrue and can be seen by any quick visit to either sites, as the occupants get up and start eating breakfast in the camp kitchen. Keep reading ...

People are talking about the fact that St Paul's Cathedral is talking about taking legal action to evict the protesters that even though there is no grounds on Health and Safety or Fire Risk that they used as the reason that the Catherdral was closed down last week. As St Paul's is run by the City of London Corporation it would be them that take the action, which is likely to be a long process.

In the evening there was the first publication to come out of the camp called: Occupied Times, a twelve page A4 newssheet with interviews and comment from those around the occupation. 2000 copies were printed and handed out around St Paul's square to passing onlookers, creating a buzz, and some good copy. This was something that was really needed as there is an expectation that you must be on Twitter or other such corporate tools to hear what is actually going on, at last a genuine voice from the streets. People involved in the paper indicated that it would be a weekly publication with next weeks being bigger and better.

Banksy Apparently gave a gift to the Occupy London movement outside St Paul’s Cathedral to show support for their protest against the greed and corruption of the corporations. A Monopoly Board with Rich Uncle Pennybags looking for a handout.

Upcoming this week at the occupations:

Thursday 27th October: 7.30am – The Finsbury Square campus of Occupy’s Tent City University is planning a ‘teach out’ at a secret venue early Thursday morning, marking the 25th anniversary of Big Bang deregulation. Bring a book and a flask of tea. 

Thursday 27th October: 9.30am – Independent health and safety auditors invited by OccupyLSX will inspect the camp at Saint Paul’s

Friday 28th October: 2pm – Monopoly bike ride starting from St Paul’s.

In other occupations round the world:

Occupy Oakland evicted violently
On Tuesday 25th October; police violently raided the Occupy Oakland encampment in California. This first video shows a protester, an Iraq Veteran, getting hit in the face with a tear gas canister. When other protesters came to the aid of the victim, this video shows clearly an Oakland police officer throwing concussion grenades at the people who come to the aid of the person who was hit in the face with the hot, dangerous tear gas canister.

See: http://occupywallst.org/
Or if you dont mind being tracked: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZLyUK0t0vQ&feature=player_embedded