Archive: Working groups blog
Air pollution, the car and public transport
The noxious fumes from both petrol and diesel cars are increasingly being accepted as part of modern life, especially in cities and towns. They are also being recognised for the part they play in shorteningpeople’s lives. Now, scientists are making more discoveries including that particles of air[…]
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October 13, 2018 Category: An Occupier's Perspective, Blog, Economics WG No Comments 
Remain or Ratify? by Steve Freeman
Last week the slogan “No second referendum, yes to a ratification referendum” was highlighted when London Mayor, Sadiq Khan, called for a “second EU referendum”. He predicted May would bring back a “bad deal” or an even worse “no deal”. Who will ratify or reject this deal – the[…]
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October 3, 2018 Category: An Occupier's Perspective, Blog, Real Democracy No Comments
10 Years On – Let’s #ChangeFinance
This September 15th marks ten years since Lehman Brothers collapsed, sparking the global financial crisis. After the crash, the government bailed the banks out with over £130bn of our money, promising they would #ChangeFinance by reforming the banks, but instead starved our public services, wages and economy of investment.[…]
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September 15, 2018 Category: Economics WG, Livestream, News No Comments
Charter of the Forest 800th year Anniversary
Dear Occupiers,
The Charter of the Forest 1217 was the first environmental charter in history, and enshrined the right of everyone to subsistence on the commons. The importance of this younger sister of the Magna Carta is deliberately overlooked by the establishment due to its radical implications.[…]
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November 7, 2017 Category: Livestream, Putney Debates No Comments
The community food movement and migrant solidarity by Melanie Strickland.
The Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) launched the campaign, Against the Walls of Capital, earlier this year. The group, whose coffee we sell at Organiclea to support their liberation struggle, called on supporters all over the world to “organize with autonomy, to resist[…]
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October 26, 2017 Category: Energy, Equity & Environment, News No Comments
Calais – Under Attack and Fighting Back!
30% of the camp is being cleared by force. Successful solidarity is being met by naked state power. But resistance is fertile![…]
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January 15, 2016 Category: An Occupier's Perspective, Blog, Guest blog, News, podcast No Comments
Hedge funds helped wreck Puerto Rico by Aengus mac Og.
It’s another symptom of the way things are within this corrupt and untethered political and economic system.
Puerto Rico as we know is not one of the wealthiest places in the world and is slowly but surely going bankrupt. I hear today that US hedge[…]
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December 30, 2015 Category: An Occupier's Perspective, Banking and Money, Economics WG, Free Market and Globalisation, Markets, Securities and Derivatives, News, Policies No Comments
I was once once a Refugee by Nina Moniri.
I was once a refugee
I am the child of refugees.
Two hard working people who left a hazardous existence in the hope that one day I would have the security and safety they didn’t have.
What would’ve happened to us if we hadn’t left I[…]
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December 28, 2015 Category: An Occupier's Perspective, Democracy Action Working Group, News No Comments
