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Undercover Cop Faces at N9

10-11-2011 18:34

This footage proves secret police ARE dressing in black-bloc gear and hoodies etc to attack and arrest protestors. Print-put spotter sheets with their faces on and if you see them at future demos keep shouting out to everyone who they are, follow them like a hawk, and film their every move.

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Callout for a Solidarity Action – International Day to Defend the Egyptian Revol

10-11-2011 12:51

Saturday 12/11/11, 3pm St Paul’s
Occupy London is calling for ‘A tour of shame’ on the 12th of November, starting at St Pauls at 3pm, as it is the International Day to defend the Egyptian Revolution. We will be touring central London, visiting 3 of the 6 Arms Dealers who accompanied Cameron to Cairo in February, in order to strike an arms deal with the Egyptian Army.

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Cops Hide ID Numbers at N9 Demo

09-11-2011 20:23

During today's Nov 9 protest by electricians, students and taxi drivers in central London, at least 2 mounted cops hid ID numbers by pulling metal numerals off their shoulders or by wearing yellow hi-vis webbing over their epaulettes to cover-up the numbers on their epaulettes -

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Occupy London - Solidarity with Census Refuser Judith Sambrook

09-11-2011 19:30

I spent yesterday afternoon and evening at Occupy London talking with people about Judith Sambrook who appears in court in Wrexham on Friday on a charge of failing to complete the 2011 Census. Those census resisters targeted for prosecution in the coming months need our support and solidarity, starting with Judith in Wrexham on 11/11/11.

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Black Bloc: the culture of coercion and poor strategy at mass actions needs an overhaul

08-11-2011 09:14

As someone who has often defended black bloc tactics since I first encountered it at the Seattle WTO in 1999, I find myself searching for a greater critique, discussion and engagement around strategy and what really is the best approach to contributing to an effective movement that brings significant social, economic, and environmental change to this world. I have come to the conclusion that the typical narrative of the black bloc that has prevailed at mass actions in the U.S. has proven to be counter productive.

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Help needed at Occupy Sheffield!

08-11-2011 00:54

More bodies are needed at the Occupation outside Sheffield Cathedral. Lots of things need organising like the kitchen, covering the camp at night, see

http://www.occupysheffield.org.uk/2011/11/08/we-need-your-help/

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Q and A following UK Premiere of The Crisis Of Civilization

07-11-2011 21:38

The Crisis Of Civilization was screened for the first time on Leeds on 16th November 2011, attached is a recording of the questions and answers session afterwards with Nafeez Ahmed, Dean Puckett and Lucca Benney.

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10-min film that'll persuade others why they should support the Occupy movement

07-11-2011 02:45

Crisis of Capitalism explained, by David Harvey
How to explain to your friends and family members why it is important to support the Occupy movement for the 99% in a town or city near you? Get them to watch this 10-minute video of a lecture by David Harvey (with excellent accompanying snapshot annotation with cartoon illustration)

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The Wind in the Trees

06-11-2011 16:25

This is a message to the revolutionaries on Tahrir Square from a rainbow warrior in Europe. You might doubt whether there is something useful to say from that position, but so did I before I found myself in the middle of the struggle for the freedom of our hearts and minds. You might also question whether there is anything worth to be squeezed through the prisoner dilemma that is between all of us, but so did we before we took up our last battle against the regimes we had found in our lives. Please take the time to listen to a few words from the deep woods – because as the old poem goes, after the oppressors have spoken the oppressed are going to speak.

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Sheffield Occupied!

05-11-2011 16:40

Occupy Sheffield is getting established in front of Sheffield Cathedral — come down and join us!

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Occupy history: Luddite uprising began in Nottingham 200 years ago last night

05-11-2011 13:00

BCfm’s weekly politics show
At five: discussing the big stories in Bristol, Britain and around the world
After six: straight talking and investigative reports with Martin Summers

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Protest Against Royal Bank of Scotland

05-11-2011 10:15

Time
Saturday, November 5 · 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Location
RBS
(meet at the camp earlier, or at the bank by 12)
Birmingham, United Kingdom

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To my friends: on #OccupyLSX

04-11-2011 14:24

To my friends:

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Occupy LSX – We are the 99% rally & march to Parliament

04-11-2011 00:55

We are the 99% – come and show your support for the occupation of the London Stock Exchange and find out more about our cause.

5th November: No Gunpowder. No Treason. No Hidden Plot.

Rally at 2pm on the steps of St Paul’s followed by a peaceful March to Parliament. We will be distributing thousands of leaflets with our 8 point statement in central London.

We stand for progressive alternatives to making the majority pay for a crisis they did not create.

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Pragmatic suggestions for improving security at Occupy protests

03-11-2011 22:35

Pragmatic suggestions for improving security at Occupy protests, and a common-sense response to feminist critique/s of Occupy protests

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Resisting the lure of the Freeman movement

03-11-2011 16:55

The last few years have seen a significant growth in the Freeman of the Land movement. Increasingly, its voice is being heard at environmental and other anarchist based protests and events, from the various UK climate camps to Rossport Solidarity Camp.

Nebulous in its nature, its promise of ways of claiming back power from the state is clearly seductive. Indeed, on a superficial level, it even looks quite like anarchism in action. The aims of the Freemen movement is to use a particular interpretation of the legal system against the government in the name of gaining back freedoms and advantages.

Its mixture of family, moral conservatism and individualism has given it the appearance of an apolitical movement that can easily hook up with both the left and right. So while you can find the Freemen at protests camps, where its apparent anti-government stance will fall on fertile ground, you can just as easily find them being supported by right-wing groups with racist agendas, whose critique of government is more it does not represent their own jaundiced views.

As I will hopefully show, the Freemen agenda is already falling into the sort of bastardized political thinking that gave rise to the likes of anarcho-nationalism. If anything, what it is, is individualist libertarianism, and as such acceptance of this movement needs to be challenged by anarchists.

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Occupied Times #2 from #OccupyLondon

03-11-2011 16:30

Attached is the 12 page PDF.

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Fascists Attack Occupy Newcastle

03-11-2011 14:26

On Saturday 29 October Occupy Newcastle came under attack, first verbally during the day, from a combined mobilisation of several fascist organisations, and later that night physically, from an unidentified group of racists

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Occupy Birmingham vacates Victoria Square

03-11-2011 13:18

Around the 27th October, occupiers were handed a notice to vacate the Victoria Square site by Council officials. Birmingham City Council claimed they were preventing members of the public using and enjoying the square. They also claimed their presence would adversely impact on the switching on of the Christmas lights and the German Market. See

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2011/10/487554.html

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Vandalism and the Protesters’ Response at Occupy Oakland (+ PICS)

03-11-2011 10:15

Get thousands of people out in protest and you can pretty much guarantee that some of them will cause trouble. This was the case at Occupy Oakland today as some protesters broke the windows of big banks and threw rocks. But, the majority of the protesters seem to have gotten the picture that peaceful protest is the way and have made a point to steer the Occupy Oakland events in the right direction and make sure the acts of a few are not seen as the style of the protest as a whole.