An Occupiers’ perspective on 2014…
2014, these have been very strange times. There have been glimmers of hope but, if we think of the era of enlightenment, then this surely is a time where it seems forces are conspiring to do the opposite. Highlights include….
The bankers have of course got away with murder again[…]
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By January 1, 2015 Category: An Occupier's Perspective, News No Comments 
BREAKING ~~ the hearing this morning at the Royal Courts of Justice concerning the Possession Order for 2a Charing Cross Road on behalf of Greencap has been ADJOURNED until 9th February 2015
~ by Dan Ashman.
The Love Activists action continues outside the former Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) building. A building that is registered[…]
By December 29, 2014 Category: An Occupier's Perspective, News No Comments
Xmas Street Kitchen with the Love Activists, by Norbert Lawrie
Good Morning Comrades and Friends All…
For me this Christmas has been the most amazing one ever experienced – I must say that, comrades.
To have participated in taking over and putting into use, albeit for a short time, the former bank on Charing Cross[…]
By December 28, 2014 Category: An Occupier's Perspective, News No Comments
What is the meaning of Christmas when so many are left out in the cold? by Norbert Lawrie
In this final part to my update I shall endeavour to reveal a few things and aspects that up till now have not been exposed to the light of day, so as to give the reader a[…]
By December 28, 2014 Category: An Occupier's Perspective, News No Comments
Love HQ 2A Charing Cross Road. 26th Dec 2014. Homes not Banks by Norbert Lawrie
Part One
Good morning comrades and friends all…
Homes not Bank’s
This last week has been jam packed full of unforgettable activism for me comrades, and when at last I am able and manage to sit down and start to[…]
By December 28, 2014 Category: An Occupier's Perspective No Comments
#OccupyDemocracy returned to Parliament Square as planned this mid-winter weekend, with a focus on housing and homelessness.
The turnout wasn’t huge – it was cold, it was just a few days before Christmas – but the quality of debate, entertainment, knowledge-sharing, solidarity-building and the sense of an emerging community of creative and determined change-makers was…[…]
By December 22, 2014 Category: An Occupier's Perspective, News No Comments
Barnet Greens Talk: The Prostitute State by Donnachadh McCarthy.
This video explains the Prostitute State and what happened to the mainstream neo-liberal parties. How they were bought by the corporations. It also points to the problems faced by the Green Party, especially when they get closer to the seat of power.
LINKS:
The Prostitute State[…]
By December 9, 2014 Category: An Occupier's Perspective, Livestream No Comments
Haldane Society lecture and questions 03/12/2014
Here’s a link to my talk about why the anti fracking campaign matters at Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers last night, and Tom Wainwright spoke about the legal cases against community protectors. ~Melanie Strickland.
On another note:
VICE did a great job with their fracking documentary now out, with[…]
By December 5, 2014 Category: An Occupier's Perspective, Fracking News No Comments
This morning at 11am I have to report to Charing Cross Police Station to be interviewed.
Why?
There is the police answer and there is my answer.
The Police Answer:
is that I have been arrested for firstly having been in possession of a folded sheet of tarpaulin whilst peacefully protesting about the[…]
By December 4, 2014 Category: An Occupier's Perspective, Democracy Action Working Group No Comments
