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In the next week, a few Occupy London activists will be in Tunisia to participate in the World Social Forum (WSF). We will not be representing anyone but ourselves, but will be bringing with us our experiences of Occupy and the movements and groups we have been part of.
Initiated in Puerto Allegre in Brazil[...]
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March 24, 2013 Tags: 15m, assembly, Global Square, horizontalism, occupy, skillshare, social movements, Tunisia, World Social Forum, WSF
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The current financial crises (Eurozone, US and UK public and private sector debt, banks’ insolvency) were precipitated by the sub-prime mortgage crisis of 2008 which was the culmination of a housing fuelled, economic boom in the US, UK and Europe (particularly Spain and Ireland). Rising house prices fuelled an explosion in consumer credit and private[...]
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March 20, 2013 Category: Austerity, Banking and Money, Economics, Economics WG Blog, Finances, Housing, Land, Markets, Securities and Derivatives, News, Newsletter, Newswire, Policies, Press releases, Uncategorized, Working Groups No 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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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
By Andria E-Mordaunt, involved with Occupy since Oct 15 2011, largely – though not exclusively – as part of the Welfare Working Group (WWG). MSc in Social Policy & Planning from LSE. Former – recovering – drug user. Mother of the wonderful Millie.
On March 13 I went to a gathering at St Mary Abbot’s[...]
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March 15, 2013 Tags: Democracy 2015, Drug Policy
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Another two weeks,[...]
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March 15, 2013 Category: Newsletter, Outreach 2 Comments
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February 28, 2013 Category: Newsletter, Outreach 1 Comment
by Dan Iles, World Development Movement
Banks like Goldman Sachs are seriously addicted to gambling. But unlike the bloke in Ladbrokes betting on the football scores, the horses, or the arrival date of the royal baby, investment banks are gambling on hunger.
And while the Ladbrokes gambler is often the loser at his[...]
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February 26, 2013 Tags: banks, Food
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Save our Homes: Haringey has called for support in its campaign to stop the Metropolitan Police throwing a community of 21 homes onto the street. With austerity cuts, the Met faces a short-fall in funding from the government of £500 million. This is part of a wider assault of cuts, austerity and privatisation that the[...]
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February 23, 2013 Category: Uncategorized No Comments
