Fight the #BedroomTax, Waltham Trade Unions Council.
See Waltham Forest Guardian piece on the meeting: http://www.guardian-series.co.uk/news/wfnews/10313287.Trade_unions_set_to_launch_campaign_against__bedroom_tax_/
Waltham Forest Trades Council launch campaign against ‘bedroom tax’ and the Benefit Cuts.
Apart from the panel, we could only point the camera on the floor to protect the identities of people who may have companies hostile to the[...]
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By April 10, 2013 Category: An Occupier's Perspective, Blog No Comments 
Saturday was interesting.
First was a small static Demo by the Counihan Campaign outside Downing Street. Unfortunately, a demo on a Saturday in Whitehall is not advisable, as there are mostly only tourists in the area. We did have one xenophobe declaiming that all British problems are due to too many immigrants in the country.[...]
By April 10, 2013 Tags: Housing4Counihans, Pillowgeddon
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We don’t know what happened to the two previous Event pages that were on Facebook and we are still awaiting details on whether Labour Party members had warned people not to attend the protest march, last Sunday. Details known is that London had about a thousand marching, as finally reported by the BBC, a small[...]
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By March 31, 2013 Category: An Occupier's Perspective, Blog No Comments
Livestream of the assembly can be found here.
Prelude
No one wanted this job. I didn’t either; there are pleasanter ways of spending an evening than trying to guide a group of disparate (and sometimes desperate) people around a minefield of poor outcomes.
My aim as facilitator of this assembly is to take a[...]
By March 29, 2013 Category: An Occupier's Perspective, Blog 2 Comments
We can’t do everything in one budget, but we can make a start. This is a start, by scrapping the austerity agenda, and starting a programme to reinvest in people and begin to reduce the criminal inequality that successive administrations have enabled. Some of these suggestions have been made by unions, campaigners, some by us.[...]
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By March 20, 2013 Category: An Occupier's Perspective, Austerity, Economics, Economics WG Blog, Finances, Housing, Land, Markets, Securities and Derivatives, News, Newsletter, Newswire, Press releases, Working Groups No Comments
The global economic system demands exponential growth to survive rather like a bicycle which falls over if forward momentum ceases. It is underpinned by the interest based money system which demands expanding debt to provide sufficient money to pay the interest on pre-existing debt.
Growth in the US, UK and other countries has, for the[...]
By February 16, 2013 Category: An Occupier's Perspective, Banking and Money, Economics, Economics WG Blog, Finances, Markets, Securities and Derivatives, News, Working Groups No Comments
Tom Moriarty, Occupier, contemplates the closure and now monetisation of the children’s adventure playground in Battersea Park
Well I really shouldn’t have to say too much about this but I would ask you to please contemplate the implications, for example, the turning of a children’s playground into a profit centre, the segregation of children[...]
By February 7, 2013 Category: An Occupier's Perspective, Blog No Comments
So in no particular order:
We all struggled through and continued to pay the price of banker failures
Government told examiners how to mark exam papers
Facebook went public and immediately lost millions for millions
The Queen was impressed by a hula hooping Grace Jones
Games makers all made us smile
Mitt Romney admitted[...]
By December 31, 2012 Category: An Occupier's Perspective, Blog No Comments
The Occupy Movement aims to be democratic. That means that everyone can participate in making decisions. So how can decisions be made in a way that facilitates diversity, participation and not to mention good decisions?
Some advocate consensus as the democratic gold standard and insist that all decisions must be made in this way. Some[...]
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By December 25, 2012 Category: An Occupier's Perspective, Blog No Comments
