UK Occupy Everywhere Newswire Archive
Occupy Glasgow! continues
18-10-2011 13:55
As of 2pm today the Glasgow occupation is continuing with up to 15 tents on the grassy verge at the side of St Georges Square. They also have four gazeebos and bigger tents with a living space, info point and hopefully a kitchen area. Plenty of discussion and activity going on at the site with biggest threat so far coming from 4 am drunks and Scottish weather.
Support your local occupation!
18-10-2011 12:55
Occupy Nottingham is still going strong in the Market Square. More tents arrived last night and they are getting together more materials for a field kitchen. There is a huge amount of interest from local people and loads of support being shown. If you can, get down there and hang out with the occupiers. If you can't, check out the wish list and see if you can support by giving something. Support your local occupiers! They're doing it for all of us.
Occupy Nottingham
Part of a global movement in solidarity with other occupations across the globe.
We aim to occupy the Market Square Area of Nottingham from Saturday 15th October 2011 as part of an ongoing non-violent/peaceful demonstration.
- Broadly speaking, we aim to show that we will no longer tolerate the corporate greed and Government corruption that threatens our way of life and everything we work for.
- Currently our government strips away our civil liberties and public services, all in the name of greater profit for banks & corporations who exert far too much influence and control over our supposed leaders.
- We want to encourage and inspire people to work together towards a fairer society for all, rather than the current system where the rich few get richer and the rest of us get left behind.
Ways you can help
- Join us in our occupation
- Tell friends and family about the movement
- Donate food, water, clothing, blankets, tents, anything that will make our stay more comfortable - winter is coming! [See wishlist below]
- Film us, take photos, question us - share the info with the world (the media certainly won't)
Follow us on Twitter and Facebook: @OccupyNotts & OCCUPY Nottingham for Global Change
Email: occupynottingham[at]hotmail[dot]co[dot]uk
Wishlist for donations
Blankets / sleeping bags / camping mats
Sand bags for holding gazebos down
Rope / tarps
Lights - 12V / LED / Lamps
Food
Tents
Batteries - Car / Solar / Rechargeable
Clothes - thermals
More exposure - tell your friends
Pans (large)
Calor gas bottles / regulators
Chairs / cushions
Pens / pencils
Cardboard / laminating plastic
PEOPLE
#OccupyLSX - Day Three Report + 53 QuikPix
18-10-2011 10:55
#OccupyLSX - Day Three Report + 53 QuikPix
Dateline: The London Occupation, West Courtyard, St Paul's Cathedral, London, UK, Mon 17 Oct 2011, 17:00-18:30 - Since even the mainstream media have been full of reports all weekend about the global ubiquity and huge scale of the #OccupyTogether uprisings, I really didn't need much of a push to carry me back to the site of Saturday's successful #OccupyLondon General Assembly (see '#OccupyLSX - Day One Report + 75 QuikPix'). So when the call came in for some serious speech amplification, I charged up, labelled up, and delivered my 70Wrms street sound system to the newly erected Media/Tech hub in their Big Blue Tunnel, the better to facilitate communication and consensus decision-making during General Assemblies (which role it fulfilled so well on during Saturday's Occupation creation events). From an amorphous and homogenous sea of citizens two days ago, the London Occupation has transformed itself into a well-structured intentional community encampment, as you can see for yourself in the following photographs.
WITH “GOD” ON OUR SIDE
As a militant atheist (and part-time worshipper of the One True Trinity of the Aten, Ceiling Cat, and the Flying Spaghetti Monster ;-), I fully failed to anticipate how fortuitously world-changing events can gain the benefit of having God on our side. Since the panicked revocation of public access to the pubic space of Paternoster Square, where resides the much loathed London Stock Exchange (target of the London Occupation), we citizens choose instead to hold our General Assembly next door, on the steps of St Paul's Cathedral. One of twelve the working groups our people's assembly decided to create was tasked with liaison with the folk of the Cathedral, and boy has that paid off big time: on Sunday morning, the Canon Chancellor of St Paul's Cathedral, Dr Giles Fraser, spoke to the citizens of the London Occupation.
“People have a right to protest and it's been very good natured. Church went down well this morning. There were no problems. We had no problems getting people in. People were very helpful. I haven’t seen any trouble. I understood there might have been some, but I haven’t seen any trouble. The police were trying to protect the building for us, which was very good of them. Earlier this morning I asked them if they’d leave, because I didn’t feel that it needed that sort of protection. We'll see how it goes. We're taking one day at a time, and it's really good to see it's all worked out well for us today.”
~ Dr Giles Fraser, Canon Chancellor of St Paul's Cathedral
VOX POPULI
“The reverend came out this morning and asked the police to leave the steps of the cathedral, and said he didn't mind protesters being here, that he supported the democratic right to protest. He said there was no issue and that people were treating the site respectfully, and he was happy for it to carry on. He was asked if the services would still be carrying on and he said yes, they would carry on as if there was no problem happening. The response from protesters was very positive - everybody likes to feel that the community around us are helping out.”
~ Ben Doran, 21, music student from the Midlands
“I’m here today because I can’t see why you wouldn’t be, and I feel that this is one of the few moments in history where it’s not a protest, it’s an actual movement that’s taken root. We’re trying to challenge this myth that there are not enough resources to go around.”
~ Lorena Fentes, 27, charity worker, hailing from Vancouver, Canada
“We want as many occupations as possible, to spread the message that we can make a change. We’re peaceful and very organised.”
~ Tarek Von Bergmann, 36, German chef, Swindon
“I’m sick of talking about the state of the country, so I thought I’d do something about it.”
~ John Dean, 21, chef, Milton Keynes
“I was made redundant two months ago. I’ve come to show my anger at the Government about bank bailouts and not helping the people.”
~ Tristan Woodwards, 28, ex-IT support worker, Basingstoke, Hampshire
“Inflation is growing, prices are going up, but my income is not only frozen but going down. There’s a minority causing these problems for the majority.”
~ Virginia Lopez Calvo, 30, women’s rights worker, from Hackney, East London
“I lost my job in April because of the cuts. But now I’ve got the best view in England from my tent. I could stay here for ever.”
~ Carl Buckland, 51, social worker, Hastings, East Sussex
GRATITUDE DUE, FOR FRIENDLY FESTIVAL ATMOSPHERE
We're very grateful to Dr Giles Fraser and the folk of the Cathedral for their amicable pro-democracy intervention. By dismissing the intimidatory police presence as unnecessary, they’ve help to ensure that the atmosphere of the London Occupation is dramatically improved, now resembling that of joyful free festival of music, poetry, revolutionary ideas, and world-changing direct democracy. Now that we're no longer hemmed in by a gang of armed-&-armoured thugs in uniform, in the pay of the 1% plutocrats, interfering with our fundamental human right to Freedom of Assembly, we 99% citizens of the Occupation and our visitors can move around freely, free from the obstructive intimidation of the rozzers.
Do please come on down to the London Occupation, for just an hour, or a day, or a week, or as long as it takes. You can discover for yourself how powerful it feels to begin giving up illusions in bourgeois representative democracy, while starting to exercise your political power DIRECTLY, in concert with other citizens of the Occupation. Once we've re-discovered how to govern ourselves - through the direct democracy of our General Assemblies - we'll be able to withdraw our consent from the corrupt and corrupting Parliament, by which the 1% capitalist plutocrats lord it over us, and enjoy the spectacle of the Palace of Westminster collapsing like a house of cards in a direct democracy earthquake.
Before visiting or joining the London Occupation, please take a look at its collective needs and wants, and see if there are practical and material ways in which you could deliver your support too:
• Donations webpage at Occupy London
» http://occupylsx.org/?page_id=192
LINKS
• Occupy London
» Website - http://occupylondon.org.uk
» Facebook - http://facebook.com/occupylondon
» Twitter - http://twitter.com/occupylsx
• Hashtag - #occupylsx
• Occupy Together
» Website - http://www.occupytogether.org
• Hashtag - #occupytogether
• United for #globalchange
» Website - http://15october.net
• Hashtag - #occupytogether
• Occupy London, Global Day of Action #15Oct - further coverage
» Indymedia London Aggregate Article - http://london.indymedia.org/articles/10420
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Tim Dalinian Jones
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Occupy Birmingham: a camp has started
17-10-2011 23:29
Occupy London Stock Exchange 17.10.11
17-10-2011 22:56
I visited the St Pauls occupation site around 10am Monday morning for an hour or so with my daughter. The police were around of course, a few of them milling about being 'nice', while a number of identikit TV reporters were making banal commentaries about the goings on around them, Actually things were quite quiet - there were a couple of meetings going on here and there, and some discussions with a representative of the Cathedral about moving people temporarily to enable cleaning of the steps and areas around St Pauls. It did start getting a wee bit busier when I decided to leave for lunch.
It will be interesting to see how things progress in the coming days and weeks.
#occupylsx working group updates 17th oct
17-10-2011 20:56
Notes from the general assembly held this evening with updates from some of the working groups.
For note the wish list of supplies is currently sturdy folding tables, lighting + solar lighting, sand + sandbags, marker boards, tents, pavilions, power generation equipment, food, drinks, cutlery, butane gas, rings, saucepans cups, washing up stuff, kettles, buckets brooms, sanitaries, chairs, hammers and nails, wood, ropes, blankets, tarps, gazebos, rope, cushions, cardboard, sleeping mats, waterproofs, bin liners, tape, gaffa, stationary.
And people who can help transport kit with vehicles.
Report backs:
Kitchen: closing in 1 hr to relocate to big tent - location still tbc.
Recycling: Make sure you use the right bags to separate out different types of recycling and waste. Make sure to compact cans and so on. If you're going home please take a bag away with you to recycle.
Legal Update: Started more training to enlarge team for legal observing workshop at 9pm tonight.
From weekend there were 8 arrests, 6 charged and 2 bailed. Those charged are appearing at city of london magistrates court soon - Oct 21st if you want to show solidarity. If youwitnessed any arrests pls call / contact green black cross. 6-7pm every night is know your rights session - big marquee.
Media Update: Press feedback very positive. Want volunteer spokespeople. Media training scheduled. Volunteer reporters wanted - get in touch at media tent. Create Indymedia - create our own media so we don't have to rely on the mainstream press.
Extra: 420 people watching livestream now! New radio PA system in place. In process of getting solar panels brought in. Donations coming in fast.
People's health care update: We have an area for help, esp if you are cold - come and get blankets. Volunteers with skills welcome. Remember to wash your hands or use antibacterial gel :)
University committee starting lessons tomorrow (marquee hopefully going up tonight).
Meeting continues with breaking into smaller groups for discussions...
Rome 15 october Protest
17-10-2011 20:54
After years of protests against a corrupt and bungling Italian political system (whose Prime Minister makes laws for his own benefit) some of the protesters in Rome last Saturday apparently felt that walking through the capital with banners and slogans was a waste of time and energy.Edinburgh occupied, world revolution expected by Christmas
17-10-2011 18:55
On Sunday 15 October Edinburgh, and thousands of cities around the world, joined the occupy movement demanding a world where human needs are prioritised over private greed.
Occupy Norwich Attempt To Intimidate By Calling For Info And Personal Details On
17-10-2011 18:28
#Occupy FC looking for new signings at #OccupyLSX Get Involved!
17-10-2011 14:57
On Saturday the 15th of October, a new footballing phenomenon began in London. The power of football as a global language is well documented, but its power to occupy spaces for resistance and encourage unity in the face of global inequality is only now being realised. We decided to bring a football with us to the protest, and it soon became clear that many people agreed with us, with even police h...aving the occasional kick about! After talking to many other occupiers, we have decided to form a group based in the St. Pauls village that continues to use football both as a tool for entertainment and resistance, as well as for communication with police.College Green Occupied! Supplies Needed!
17-10-2011 10:55
Its happening HERE! Its happening NOW! We are the 99%, but no one ever said it would be easy! Inspired by the Wall Street occupation and the myriad of copycat actions blossoming all over the globe, Occupy Bristol has taken College Green! ‘The Green’ has currently been liberated back into the hands of the people.
Its happening HERE! Its happening NOW! We are the 99%, but no one ever said it would be easy! Inspired by the Wall Street occupation and the myriad of copycat actions blossoming all over the globe, Occupy Bristol has taken College Green! ‘The Green’ has currently been liberated back into the hands of the people.
We need as much help as possible to create the space. So come down and join us – the bigger the encampment becomes, the harder it will be for them to move us and the bigger the impact we will have! We are currently in desperate need of supplies. If you can help us out with any of the items listed here under the full article link then please, please do!
iContact Video have put together a short film showing events on Saturday as 150 people gathered at Collage Green in Bristol as part of the international protests against corporate greed.
We are currently in desperate need of supplies. If you can help us out with any of the items listed here then please, please do!
What we need:
Pallets!!!
Polyprop or other tatted rope and string.
Tools of all types, (hammers, saws etc. even gaffer tape!).
Nails!
Carpet (not foam backed please).
Tarps and similar.
Buckets (especially ones with lids like paint comes in).
Wood, be it firewood or construction wood, pallets etc.
Wheel barrows, hand carts, wheelie bins.
Water butts, oil drums, water tanks.
Pipe, house guttering.
Rubble bags/sacks.
Kitchen tat, large cooking pots, plates, bowls, mugs, spoons forks etc.
Big water containers (>10ltrs+).
Oil for bolts.
Screws, bolts, coach bolts.
Stationary: paper, pens, sticky tape, etc.
Banner making material/paints.
String and Rope.
Spades shovels and forks.
Hose.
Art supplies! (paints, brushes, anything really)
Emulsion paint
Bamboo Cane
If you can help us then thank you so much! Just bring whatever you can down to the Green and we’ll be sure to put them to good use!
For directions or any other information, please call: 07415139464
Thank you!
St Paul's protests - Who is fleecing us and how?
17-10-2011 09:57
Yesterday I went around the "village" hearing a lot and telling a lot with anyone that wanted to tell and hear.No doubt there is a lot of peaceful passion. But there's still enormous confusion around what exactly is the problem.
1. We know we are being fleeced big time.
2. We know from which direction we are being fleeced.
3. But we don't know exactly who is fleecing us, nor how.
This makes our case very poor in the eyes of the sleeping majority and the media.
Occupy! Glasgow!
17-10-2011 09:55
Occupy Movement has reached Glasgow.
Since Saturday, 16th of October, a number of activists have pitched their tents on the city's George Square to protest against capitalism and its political, economic and intellectual elites.
More news and pictures to follow soon! Come along and join in! Print flyers! Bring hot drinks!
Day 2 OccupyLSX Pictures
17-10-2011 02:55
Some pictures from the second day of occupation in london - very impressive with so many people there. Huge amount of support and donnations of food. More structures are needed, people with vehicles to help transport kit, leisure batteries and people to help volunteering with roles to keep the occupation running smoothly.
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#OccupyLSX - Day One Report + 75 QuikPix
16-10-2011 20:55
Dateline: LSX - London Stock Exchange, Paternoster Square, City of London, UK, 12:00-19:45 - #OccupyLondon, in common with at least 1,304 cities 82 countries, aims to emulate the courage and tenacity demonstrated by our sisters and brothers in the uprisings of the Arab Spring, Spanish Squares, and Occupy Wall Street (among many others) - by occupying the London Stock Exchange. On the #OccupyTogether Global Day of Mass Direct Actions, when people all around the world are acting United for #globalchange, here are some photos and a report of how the General Assembly of the London Occupation began to assert its will.
At our rendezvous point of St Paul's Cathedral at 12:00 noon, on a sunny Saturday afternoon, several hundred citizens had already assembled. After securing my Brompton loan bike to the railings around the Queen Victoria statute (shortly to become a circular bike park facility), I hefted my street sound system up the steps of the Cathedral's main entrance. Once set up for radio mic operation, I made a few well-received opening remarks about the global nature of todays uprisings, then invited anybody with something to say to step on up to the open mic.
We heard from an elder woman (who's name I missed, sorry to say) bringing solidarity greetings from a nearby Peace Camp, and from stalwart human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell, before the crowd exited stage right in the direction of the London Stock Exchange - our primary occupation target, just to the north in Paternoster Square, through the Temple Bar archway.
However, the cops were blocking all access to Paternoster Square at the Temple Bar archway, with a line of pigs on foot backed by a line of pigs on horses, with the London Stock Exchange building behind them. Scouting parties established that cops were blocking ALL access points to Paternoster Square, so we used my street sound system to reconvene the Occupy London General Assembly (from its original incarnation the previous Sunday, during the Block The Bridge mass direct action). Our first decision was to move back into the sunshine in the plaza in front of St Paul's Cathedral, and our second was to remain there for at least two hours, to give our decision-making process time to decide 'What are we going to do now?' (with a nod to the late great Spike Milligan).
My street sound system was not loud enough to reach the thousand or so people now taking part in the General Assembly, so we adopted the tactic of 'the People's Megaphone' - each speaker spoke c. half a sentence through the sound system, then everybody repeated what was said word-for-word, carrying and amplifying the speaker's speech to the farthest edges of the plaza. To help ensure everybody's opinion was heard, we divided into 10-15 strong small groups, and a nominated spokesperson from each group later used the People's Megaphone to share a summary of the opinions expressed in each group. I choose to keep my photovideojournalist hat on, and to continue to gather images of this historic occassion, rather than participate directly in the decision-making process of our people's assembley.
The Metropolitan Police have recently been ravaged by revelations related to their waaaay to cosy, corrupt and profitable relationship with the mainstream media corporations. So this was the second major direct action/democracy 'incident' under the watch of new Commissioner Bernard Hogan-Howe, who last week promised to "win big days of action".
Shortly before 14:00, cops in body armour, riot helmets and long batons slung from their belts, lined up shoulder to shoulder to kettle our General Assembly (see the yellow lines in A2. OccupyLSX Mass Direct Action Map above). Units from different forces were giving contradictory orders to citizens, with one Met line blocking Ludgate Hill threatening arrest for anybody who breached the riot cop cordon, and a City of London line blocking Dean's Court directing people to an 'exit point' from the kettle on Cannon Street. As usual, with citizens in our people's assembly dressed only in the soft fabrics of street clothes, surrounded by body-armour equipped and infantry-weapon-wielding uniformed thugs, it was blindingly obvious which gang came prepared to commit pre-meditated violent assaults - such is the way generations of peaceful protestors have come face-to-face with the capitalist state's monopoly of violence.
Around 14:30, the mainstream media hacks went into a feeding frenzy as WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and three burly minders managed to breach the kettling cordon inbound, and make their way to my sound system on the Cathedral steps. Julian arrived in a long black gown and 'V for Vendetta' Guy Fawkes mask, but was unmaked in crossing the kettling cordon. Since all the common people could see were a circle of the backs of hacks cameras held aloft around the 'Celebrity', mass angry chants of “Media, sit down!” eventually got through some thick skulls, so nearly everybody could at last see what all the ballyhoo was about.
After a heckle of “Can we have our meeting back?”, Julian sensibly kept his remarks short. He mentioned his difficulties in getting in to address our assembly through the cop kettling lines on Ludgate Hill, and his hopes that all the people currently being excluded by the cops would be able to join our assembly too.
“Like all of you, I have had difficulty getting in here today. It started with my signing on for bail in Norfolk - my 323rd day - and ended with getting through the kettling. But there's many people who haven't yet been able to get through these guys over here [pointing to the Met's Ludgate Hill kettling lines] - and I hope they will be able to, and you will NOT accept the kettling! [warm applause and cheers]
I have always wanted to say, “We are all individuals!” [me, an unreconstructed Monty Python fanboy: “I'm not!”; supportive cheers] And all of us are very naughty boys and girls. [laughter]
But to be serious, what is happening here today is a culmination of dreams that many people all over the world have worked towards, from Cairo to London. What we face today is the systematised destruction of the rule of law. People are being laundered through Guantanamo Bay to evade the rule of law, and money is being laundered through the Cayman Islands and London, to evade the rule of law. This movement is NOT about the destruction of law - it is about the CONSTRUCTION of law. [loud cheers]
Thank you! [louder cheers and applause]”
~ Julian Assange, address to the Occupy London General Assembly, Sat 15 Oct 2011
» video, 3:51 - http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=esnypOKpBgs
By mid afternoon, the General Assembly had identified a need for 12 working groups to consider and expedite its desires - everything from food, drink, and sanitation to media, communications, and liason with Cathedral authorities. These working groups met in distinct locations around the plaza and began addressing how the London Occupation Assembly can establish itself and exert its will. One practical and physical outcome showed up with the arrival of a set of Portaloos, for the general relief of the Assembly's bladders and bowels. Until then, there were permanent queues, several metres long, leading into the toilets of local cafes inside the kettled General Assembly zone.
Unfortunately, my attempt at filing scores of photos and an action report from the field via two Linux tablets didn't work out, more due to human error than technical failure. When I left with a fully-battery-depleted sound system at 19:45, the cops were moving in agressively to try to clear we citizens from the steps of the Cathedral (ie: trying to seize the high ground), while a pig repeatedly droned into an amplified police public address system:
“This is not a clearing. Police officers are securing the steps, in order to protect the integrity of the Cathedral.”
Bullshit! Of course, the “integrity of the Cathedral” hadn't been in jeopardy all day, so this was an especially stupid rozzer excuse for needlessly bullying folk to bend to the will of the Officer i/c Public Intimidation.
WHATEVER NEXT?
You are welcome and encouraged to join and/or support the Occupy Together uprisings, and if you're in reach of London, then please do support the London Occupation Assembly at St Paul's Cathedral: take a look at the Occupation's twitterfeed to see what the folks at the Occupation would like you to bring along:
» Twitter - http://twitter.com/occupylsx
...from which comes very positive news indeed from the Cathedral liason group:
“Made it through the first night, in the morning meeting making the occupation comfortable, come and join us! Its official we are occupying St Pauls! The vicar has given his blessing and asked the police to move :D”
So the filth can take their bogus concerns for the “integrity of the Cathedral” and just f*ck right off! The London Occupation needs the hostile interferance of cops like it needs chocolate fireguards. We're here to stay, and to shake up the people-&-planet screwing status quo, which pays the cops to defend it's intolerable business-as-usual with street violence.
UNITED FOR GLOBAL DEMOCRACY
The following text is a call for the Arab nations to join us as brothers and sisters on 15 October 2011. It was initially written for a protest against a G20 meeting, and signed by world reknowned public intellectuals Naomi Klein, Vandana Shiva and Noam Chomsky, plus mass direct action organizers.
“On 15 October 2011, united in our diversity, united for global change, we demand global democracy: global governance by the people, for the people. Inspired by our sisters and brothers in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Syria, Bahrain, Palestine-Israel, Spain and Greece, we too call for a regime change: a global regime change. In the words of Vandana Shiva, the Indian activist, today we demand replacing the G8 with the whole of humanity - the G 7,000,000,000.
Undemocratic international institutions are our global Mubarak, our global Assad, our global Gaddafi. These include: the IMF, the WTO, global markets, multinational banks, the G8, the G20, the European Central Bank and the UN Security Council. Like Mubarak and Assad, these institutions must not be allowed to run people’s lives without their consent. We are all born equal, rich or poor, woman or man. Every African and Asian is equal to every European and American. Our global institutions must reflect this, or be overturned.
Today, more than ever before, global forces shape people's lives. Our jobs, health, housing, education and pensions are controlled by global banks, markets, tax havens, corporations and financial crises. Our environment is destroyed by pollution in other continents. Our safety is determined by international wars and international trade in arms, drugs and natural resources. We are losing control over our lives. This must stop. This will stop. The citizens of the world must get control over the decisions that influence them in all levels - from global to local. That is global democracy. That is what we demand today.
Like the Mexican Zapatistas, we say "Ya basta! Aquí el pueblo manda y el gobierno obedece”. Enough! Here the people command and global institutions obey! Like the Spanish Tomalaplaza, we say "Democracia Real Ya": True global democracy now!" Today we call the citizens of the world: let us globalise Tahrir Square! Let us globalise Puerta del Sol!”
LINKS
• Occupy London
» Website - http://occupylondon.org.uk
» Facebook - http://facebook.com/occupylondon
» Twitter - http://twitter.com/occupylsx
• Hashtag - #occupylsx
• Occupy Together
» Website - http://www.occupytogether.org
• Hashtag - #occupytogether
• United for #globalchange
» Website - http://15october.net
• Hashtag - #occupytogether
• Occupy London, Global Day of Action #15Oct - further coverage
» Indymedia London Aggregate Article - http://london.indymedia.org/articles/10420
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Tim Dalinian Jones
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Occupy report in The Daily Mail
16-10-2011 19:05
Some context about the Occupy movement as reported in the right-wing newspaper The Daily Mail. The Daily Mail is a/ hard-right b/ virulently pro-capitalist c/ sells over 2 million copies, so reports like this are absolute gold-dust - all the more so for preaching to the UN-converted and through not originating in the radical press.Occupy Rome October 15 2011
16-10-2011 17:30
A summary of yesterday’s events would be useless, as I’m pretty sure by now you’ve all read the big headlines about riots and clashes with the police at the “Occupy Rome” demonstration. If you haven’t, a good starting point is this video (in Italian). For some info in English, check Al Jazeera’s reports. (Neither reports are completely unbiased, don’t ask too much…).Nottingham is occupied
16-10-2011 16:55
Nottingham’s Market Square was occupied yesterday by a gathering of people aiming to "people aiming “to show that we will no longer tolerate the corporate greed and Government corruption that threatens our way of life and everything we work for”. They camped overnight and are intending to stay as long as they can. The occupation is part of a worldwide movement of occupations that began on 15th Oct. The occupation showed solidarity with youths from the Jarrow March 2011 who rallied in Nottingham yesterday as part of their journey to London to demand decent employment.
Newswire: Occupation of Market Square continues ... All’s well | Indymedia contributer on the box | Occupy Nottingham | Jarrow March 2011 comes to Nottingham | Occupation of Market Sq, now underway in Nottingham | 24 hour occupation of Nottingham Market Square
Elsewhere: Birmingham | Bristol | London | Sheffield | World
Previous feature: Nottingham Solidarity with Spanish Revolution
Jarrow March
The Jarrow March 2011, which is marching from Jarrow in the North East to London to raise awareness of youth unemployment, arrived in Nottingham today. Marchers and supporters assembled on the Forest Rec at 12.30 and marched to the Market Square where a rally was held. It is the 75th anniversary of the original Jarrow Crusade, which an attempt to raise awareness of the intense poverty and unemployment in the North East. The marchers are demanding a number of major policy changes by the government to improve the lives of young people and give them a better future.
It was inspiring to see people so young speaking passionately and confidently about the changes they want to see in society and taking action to spread the word around the country. I spoke to 17-year old marcher Lizzie Graham from Gateshead, whose great-grandfather was one of the original Jarrow marchers in 1936. She said they’d had a really good response from people along the route of the march, including in Notts, adding “It just shows that this system of capitalism isn’t working”. “We want to do something from this”, she concluded, “We don’t want to just sit on the dole looking for a job.”
Occupy Nottingham
The good weather has meant that the atmosphere has been great – people have been happy sitting in the square, having a drink and socialising. A lot of families were there this afternoon and kids have been having fun playing in the ‘real media’ box and making placards. It’s strange to see the square being used for social rather than commercial purposes – something we need to change in my opinion.
The relaxed atmosphere masks a deeper sense of frustration with the global capitalist system though. Speakers expressed their disgust with the lack of opportunities they find in recession and austerity hit Nottingham. One woman talked about how the council can’t keep open homeless hostels, Sure Start and meals on wheels but they can find money for wicker statues for the shopping centre. One man who couldn’t find work said “We are sick and tired of having no jobs, no chance of actually doing anything with our lives”. Many people emphasised the need to take direct action to get what we need. “We’ve got a right to be here” said one man “because we’ve asserted our right to be here.”
One of the participants I spoke to about why he was there said that he was protesting against “the utter injustices going on in the world today on every level”. He said he hoped to “start building a community, democratic-based process… where everybody has a valid opinion that counts.” “The monetary system is a joke that makes us all slaves…” he said. “It’s run, controlled and owned by the business corporations and the huge bankers and we don’t really have a say”. In conclusion “Capitalism sucks. We want to get rid of it.”
