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Occupy London Tours … Showing you another side of London – dates for upcoming tours

Bored with Big Ben? Tired of the Tower of London? Let us show you another side of the capital with our informative and entertaining tours. ‘Enlightening’ – the Independent

After the success of our first tours, we are holding additional tours on the dates listed below.
Mayfair 
The most expensive place on the Monopoly board,[...]

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GA Minutes – 31st January 2012

Location: TCU
Start time: 19:00
End time: 21:15
Facilitator: Vica
Minutes: Lilias, Tina
Livestream
Launched website. Contains how to livestream, can do it on smartphone, can show you how to protect yourself. OccupyLondonTV.co.uk For eviction, you can do livestreaming from a smartphone, 30 seconds to show you how to do it. Tactics, police, excessive violence.[...]

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5 Feb at OccupyLSX – How the global 1% is trashing the planet and stealing your future

SUNDAY 5 FEBRUARY 2012 

2 – 4 pm

Tent City University, Occupy London Stock Exchange, St Paul’s, London.

George Monbiot
Helena Paul, Econexus 
Claire Morris, Youth Climate Alliance
Shahrar Ali, Green Party
Suzanne Jeffery, Campaign against Climate Change Trade Union Group
Asad Rehman, Friends of the Earth

The 1% are carrying on with “business as[...]

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Bank of Ideas eviction, Occupy London protestors and media assaulted by bailiffs, Police fail to act and uphold duty of care

Early this morning a number of concerning incidents happened affecting Occupy London supporters and media which raise questions about the police’s duty of care and failure to act on it, as well as the actions of the bailiffs – Rossendales – who were employed by investment bank UBS to evict peaceful protesters.
These incidents, which[...]

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GA Minutes – Saturday 28th January 2012

Event: General Assembly
Location: Tent City University
Date: 28 January 2012
Weather: Cold, no wind. partly cloudy, low crescent moon, stars.
Facilitator: Mark W
Stack: Ben
Minutes: John
Starts: 7.15pm
[minutes for first few minutes of meeting to be inserted]
International Outreach: Want to send a call out for support for eviction. We wanted to[...]

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Saturday Noon – 6pm: Celebrate the Right to Protest @OccupyLSX

Occupy London will hold a celebration of the right to protest from noon – 6pm this Saturday 28 January by the steps of St Paul’s Cathedral with a host of bands, singers, poets and speakers. Expect surprise guests.
Occupy London intends to show the City of London Corporation and the government that we still fight[...]

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GA Minutes – Friday 27th January 2012

Event: General Assembly
Location: Steps of St Paul’s
Weather: Few degrees above freezing. No wind. Stars in the sky. Crescent moon.
Date: 27 January 2012
Facilitator: Saskia
Stack: Julie
Minutes: John
Starts: 7.29pm
Facilitator: Welcome to the general assembly. I know there is a lot of tension.
[explanation of hand signals]
Reads initial statement…
[disruption[...]

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GA WG Minutes – Wednesday 25th January 2012

Event: GA Working Group – (Issue Resolution and Process Improvement)
Location: Salvation Army Cafe
Date: 25th January 2012
Starts: 2.30pm
Present: Ben, Simon, Akila, Ruth, John
John: Let’s collect issues.
Ben: Get back to having GA forward planning meetings. Better communication. Better sight on what isn’t covered. Better understanding about what the process is.
Akila:[...]

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GA Minutes – Wednesday 25th January 2012

General Assembly 25th January 2012 – Tent City University
19:00
Facilitators – Ben & Arun
Minutes by Sara, Ruth, Jack
Relationships and Affiliations – Internal & External
E.g. Guardian Piece – When an occupier put forward personal opinions and the paper repeated them as representing the whole of Occupy.
We are supporters of Occupy movement[...]

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