On the eve of the anniversary of the beginninng of the Occupy London Stock Exchange camp by St Paul’s Cathedral, supporters of Occupy London, in collaboration with Christianity Uncut, today staged a dramatic intervention to highlight their call for the leadership of St Paul’s Cathedral to stop sitting on the fence and join the fight[...]
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The first anniversary of Occupy going global falls this Monday, 15 October. On that day last year, demonstrations and occupations took place in more than 950 cities around the world.
In the heart of the City of London, a tented village was pitched outside St Paul’s Cathedral, near the intended target – the London Stock[...]
By October 12, 2012 Tags: anniversary, birthday, global, Globalnoise, St Paul's Cathedral. :London Stock Exchange
Category: News, Newswire, Press, Press releases, Upcoming Action 10 Comments 
Five Occupy London supporters viewed as a threat to the reputation of the UK economy have had the cases against them thrown out of court – with every single arrest deemed unlawful by the presiding judge.
District Judge Lachhar at Hammersmith Magistrates’ Court in West London dismissed the case this week (19 September) against the[...]
After seven months on bail and an intensive five days taken in two sittings of Westminster Magistrate’s Court, the ‘Xstrata 16′ were yesterday found not guilty of behaviour likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress by disrupting work activity of global mining giant Xstrata in their London offices last November 30th.
The activists were arrested[...]
Statement from Occupy London Press Team on events in East London tonight:
We’ll be honest: we hadn’t expected an awful lot. The run-up promised little more than an advert to help sanitise the image of some of the Olympics’ grand sponsors. We saw bread and circuses for an austerity-wrought city that feels like it doesn’t[...]
By July 28, 2012 Tags: #openingceremony, Counter Olympic Network, Critical Mass, Danny Boyle, David Beckham, IOC, LOCOG, Mile End Park, Olympics, Opening Ceremony, twitter, Whose Games? Whose City?
Category: News, Press, Statement, Upcoming Action 13 Comments
Campaigners condemn heavy-handed policing of Greenwash Gold Award ceremony.
A mock awards ceremony at the Olympic Clock in Trafalgar Square descended into farce on Friday 20 July after police arrested seven people taking part. Three people pretending to be corporate representatives from BP, Dow and Rio Tinto were awarded gold medals for being the worst[...]
By July 25, 2012 Tags: Bhopal. BP, custard, Dow, LOCOG, Lord Coe, Olympics, protestors, Rio Tinto, sponsors, trafalgar square, you couldn't make it up
Category: Blog, Guest blog No Comments
Occupy London will this Saturday 28 July join more than 40 groups protesting against the Olympics for the ‘Whose Games? Whose City?’ demonstration, organised by the Counter Olympics Network.
“The Olympics are meant to be a celebration of human endeavour. However the ‘people’s games’ in London are subject to the whims of global corporations and[...]
By July 25, 2012 Tags: ArcelorMittal, BP, Bread and Circuses, Counter Olympics Network, Dow Chemical, Drop Dow Now, GamesMonitor, Greenwash Gold, HMRC, Lloyds, LOCOG, marketing, Mile End, No to G4S, Olympics, Our Olympics, Rio Tinto, Save Leyton Marshes, Space Hijackers, Stop the Olympic Missile Campaign, ticket availability, War on Want
Category: News, Press, Press releases, Upcoming Action 1 Comment
Commenting today on the postponement of the fuel tax hike that will now apparently be delayed until January, Tom Moriarty of Occupy London’s Economic Working Group said:
“It is further confirmation of the Chancellor’s misguided approach to tackling the current economic crisis and a tacit admission that austerity is not working. It is clear[...]
By June 27, 2012 Tags: Chancellor, Economics, EWG, fuel tax hike, Tom Moriarty
Category: Blog, Economics, Statement, Working Groups No Comments
