PRESS RELEASE:
Frances responds to Greater Manchester Police.
I have today been asked to respond to a press release made by the Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police and published in the Manchester Confidential on Friday. (http://www.manchesterconfidential.co.uk/News/Chief-Constable-Expresses-Annoyance-At-Anti-Frackers)
This was my submission made today 9th February 2014:
Thank you for inviting me to comment on this[…]
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By February 10, 2014 Category: Fracking News No Comments 
I’ve made my choice in life and that is to fight I know people disagree with my life choices sometimes and I understand why but for me there is no way back.. It’s in my blood and I would rather die trying than walking away I’m rich in many other ways and to me money[…]
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By February 10, 2014 Category: An Occupier's Perspective, Fracking News No Comments
Saturday, the 8th of February, 2014 marked the opening day of the Free Education Space at 238 Gray’s Inn Road, London, WC1X 8HB. A commercial space in Camden that has been derelict for almost a decade. The Bank of IDEAS has liberated the place for the education of the public.
Earthian: One man’s Global Peace[…]
By February 9, 2014 Category: News No Comments
Poem written today on the morning walk-down of the trucks at Barton Moss Protection Camp, by Linwë Ar-Feiniel
Give way, allow time
Thought riddles unravel rhymes
Seasons change, the river winds
Around the bend, the ivy climbs.
Whose voice cries strangled in the vines?
Whose wrath impels tectonic lines?
Whose face though weary, with wisdom[…]
By February 7, 2014 Category: An Occupier's Perspective No Comments
“What have you got to hide” from the MI5/6?
I am an LSE Alumni, a devoted mother and social/political activist. I also happen to be a woman who almost lost her life mainlining heroin and /or cocaine, that is (for any of you that may not know) directly into my veins. So when I heard[…]
By February 6, 2014 Category: An Occupier's Perspective No Comments
Today was an extraordinary day at Barton Moss. It took over 6 hours for the trucks to get in. We had a lock-together by the Fantastic Four, and a visit from the head of the Green Party who walked in line with us. Although there were 6 arrests, to me there was the sense that[…]
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By February 6, 2014 Category: Fracking News No Comments
Dying for Heat 24 Hour Vigil, by Dan Ashman. Occupy London and Leicester.
Some lovely people who sleep rough join the Dying for Heat 24 Hour Vigil, a short report. At 8 am we donned our bermuda shorts and walking sticks outside Leicester Town Hall.
Big Society my Arse. The Big Betrayal more like.
The[…]
By February 4, 2014 Category: Guest blog No Comments
Graveyard Shift at Barton Moss by Tammy Samede, Occupier and Fractivist.
Morning
Me and Guinevere doing the graveyard shift sitting round campfire keeping an eye out whilst the rest of the tribe is sleeping
I wasn’t online yesterday as I was having a chilled Sunday with Kate,Marie and Diane. Etc
We had a lovely dinner[…]
By February 4, 2014 Category: An Occupier's Perspective No Comments
Should Occupy use Westminster? by Dave Dewhurst (Economics WG)
On Jan 27th 2014 Occupy joined a platform at Westminster on the theme of ‘Economic Democracy’. Speakers up front were Peter Tatchell, Janet Williamson – Senior Policy Officer of the TUC, Prof Colin Crouch – who wrote ‘The Strange non-death of Neoliberalism’ and myself, Dave Dewhurst[…]
By February 4, 2014 Category: Economics, Working Groups No Comments
