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If you are ever around the City of London, you would have noticed a number of pianos placed for the amusement of the visitors and city denizens.
We do wonder where the idea originated?
Below, you will find footage of the music found in the OccupyLSX camp, especially the sing songs. Saxophone and Bagpipes were[...]
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July 17, 2012 Tags: Music, OccupyLSX, st paul's cathedral
Category: An Occupier's Perspective 1 Comment 
Weeks June 30 – July 13
Index
1. Repression and police brutality
a) Coal miners’ protest harshly repressed by police in Spain
b) Amnesty International denounces Greek police brutality
c) Protesters in Durban, South Africa, facing increasingly violent repression
2. Democracy
a) Mexico: fraudulent elections and anti-fraud actions by YoSoy132 and other activist groups
3. [...]
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July 14, 2012 Category: International working group, News, Working Groups 2 Comments
Hazel (aka Em) occupied at St Paul’s and now helps out where she can with all things Occupy, most labour-intensively with The Occupied Times. Here she reports on her visit to the Occupy Nomads camp. You can follow her blog at hazelhedge.wordpress.com
The Nomadic Occupy group are currently camped in a corner of Haggerston Park,[...]
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July 14, 2012 Tags: Nomads
Category: An Occupier's Perspective, Blog 1 Comment
Every morning this week, Occupy activists have been up early, quietly placing stickers on the panels of the ‘Boris bikes’, which are sponsored by Barclays.
The London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) rate fixing scandal is being described as possibly the biggest fraud in history, affecting hundreds of trillions of dollars of financial transactions.
Despite[...]
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July 12, 2012 Category: News, Outreach, Upcoming Action, Working Groups 2 Comments
The Economics Working Group of OLSX/Occupy London have developed a Community Housingdocument to address the many relevant and associated issues. This activity has been supported by the GA of OLSX/OL and after final approval by GA, this petition was delivered by Tammy Samede, Dave Dewhurst and Chris FD to No 10 Downing Street on[...]
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July 11, 2012 Category: Economics, News, Statement, Working Groups No Comments
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in the US and the Financial Services Authority (FSA) in the UK have fined Barclays Bank a combined $450million for manipulating the LIBOR rate over a period of years.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/2a4479f8-c030-11e1-9867-00144feabdc0.html
Why isn’t a criminal investigation underway?
1. London InterBank Offered Rate (LIBOR) is used to reference $360trillion[...]
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July 6, 2012 Category: Blog, Economics No Comments
Newsletter with news about Education, Housing, Banking, Democracy and Environment around the world. Take a look, spread the news and give us feedback if something related is happening in your city!!! linking #revolution helps us understand the need for #globalchange
WEEK 22 – 29 June
INDEX
1. ENVIRONMENT
Police repression at Global day of[...]
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July 1, 2012 Tags: Democracy, direct action, Housing, solidarity, uprise
Category: International working group, News, Working Groups No Comments
The title says it all. More from the video.
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June 27, 2012 Tags: Leyton Marsh, Olympics
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Commenting today on the postponement of the fuel tax hike that will now apparently be delayed until January, Tom Moriarty of Occupy London’s Economic Working Group said:
“It is further confirmation of the Chancellor’s misguided approach to tackling the current economic crisis and a tacit admission that austerity is not working. It is clear[...]
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June 27, 2012 Tags: Chancellor, Economics, EWG, fuel tax hike, Tom Moriarty
Category: Blog, Economics, Statement, Working Groups No Comments
