Its time to take it to the corporations that are freezing us out. Meet 12 noon Friday 27 January 2012 at the steps of St Paul’s. Bring hot water bottles, flasks, and your ideas for a better world.
One in every four people in the UK will struggle to heat their homes this winter. In[...]
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By January 26, 2012 Tags: energye equity and environment, fossil fuels, Fuel poverty action, occupy london, OccupyLSX
Category: News, Press, Press releases, Upcoming Action, Working Groups 1 Comment 
At 4pm Friday 27th January – the earliest date that any eviction of the Occupy London Stock Exchange site at St Paul’s could feasibly begin – the deadline for the Leave to Appeal for the Occupy London Stock Exchange occupation by St Paul’s will end. Marking this, Occupy London will host a number of events![...]
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By January 26, 2012 Tags: Beyonder and Benjamin Crellin. Global Witness, Big Sing Up Choir, Catherine Brogan, city of london corporation, Cynikal, David California, David Lee Morgan, Defend the Right to Protest, Ekklesia, Havva, John Sloman - Ex Uriah Heep, Kandice Holmes - Psalm Sessions, Leave to Appeal, LiA (Life imitates Art), Marcina Arnold, Max Pahlsson, Mike Faulkner, Monster Raving Looney Party Band - What’s Next, occupy london, OccupyLSX, One Love One Occupy, OneNess Sankara, Pete the Temp, Rowdy Superstar, st pauls
Category: News, Press, Press releases, Upcoming Action, Working Groups 1 Comment
Occupy London is greatly concerned by what appears to be the wholly disproportionate actions of the City of London Police in breaking and entering premises being legally occupied under Section 6 of the 1977 Criminal Law Act.
Early this morning supporters of Occupy London began legally occupying the abandoned Midland Bank at St Alphage Highwalk,[...]
By January 25, 2012 Category: News, Press, Press releases, Working Groups 22 Comments
Having yesterday occupied Roman House, owned by Berkeley Homes - in turn part-owned by Lloyds TSB and the Egerton Capital hedge fund – Occupy London was contacted by individual workers employed by Berkeley Homes who were concerned for their job security as it transpired they were recently employed to help renovate the building. [1]
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By January 22, 2012 Category: News, Press, Press releases, Statement, Upcoming Action, Working Groups 43 Comments
Occupy London this morning publicly repossessed Roman House, an abandoned nine-storey office building in the Barbican in the City of London which previously housed companies from the financial service industries. [1]
Check out the view! – http://www.28dayslaterr.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=63568
The Occupy London campaigners – part of the global movement for social and economic justice and real democracy[...]
By January 21, 2012 Tags: city of london corporation, Fore Street, occupy london, public repossession, Roman House, Wood Street
Category: News, Press, Press releases, Statement, Upcoming Action, Working Groups 23 Comments
The RBS trial at Occupy Justice will not be taking place tomorrow – Occupy London apologises for any inconvenience caused. There will be further news shortly regarding this case.
To compensate Occupy London’s very own guided tour service – Occupy Tours – will launch its first ever tour of Mayfair tomorrow, meeting at 2pm outside[...]
By January 20, 2012 Category: News, Press, Press releases, Statement, Upcoming Action, Working Groups 3 Comments
Occupy Tours to explore murky corners of Mayfair, home of Europe’s hedge funds, this Saturday
Occupy Justice’s court of public opinion stages second hearing tomorrow (Friday), warning what could happen if the Legal Aid Bill becomes law
Loss of a knighthood is the least of Fred Goodwin’s problems: Occupy Justice’s third hearing will be a[...]
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By January 19, 2012 Tags: canary wharf, Mayfair, occupy justice, occupy tours, RBS, squatting, war crimes
Category: News, Press, Press releases, Working Groups 3 Comments
Q&A with George Barda from this week’s issue of The Occupied Times. If any other occupiers would like to submit comment, do contact press@occupylsx.org.
Occupied Times: What was the legal substance of the case?
George: The legal position I advanced was that the alleged harms accompanying the presence of the camp were negligible compared with[...]
By January 19, 2012 Tags: George Barda, Litigant in Person, Noam chomsky, occupy london, OccupyLSX, Police Reform and Social Responsibility Bill
Category: An Occupier's Perspective, Press, Working Groups 1 Comment
Submitted by Dan Ashman, Litigant-in-Person in the case of City of London Corporation v Occupy London.
Part One
I felt compelled to stand as a litigant-in-person; it was not an intellectual decision. At first I felt no fear. Later, even the possibility of having debts of tens of thousands of pounds wasn’t enough to deter[...]
By January 19, 2012 Tags: An occupier's perspective, city of london corporation, Daniel Ashman, George, Litigant in Person, OccupyLSX, Tammy Samede
Category: An Occupier's Perspective, Press, Working Groups 15 Comments
