This podcast was recorded recently in Florence where activists gathered from all over the world. As overwhelming debt cripples countries and citizens, we speak to activists from The Debt Jubilee Campaign and The 15M movement about the new waves of debt resistance that are forming in Europe and the UK.
@ The European Social Forum[...]
Read more →Occupy London Tours has invited the new Lord Mayor to join their alternative walking tour of the City of London [1], after he used a newspaper interview to attack the protest as ‘dreadful’ [2].
On the day he was sworn-in at the secretive ‘Silent Ceremony’, Roger Gifford criticised the ‘terrible mess’ caused by last year’s[...]
When it comes to strategy and tactics, in spite of our firm principles, there is no one right way. A tactic that works excellently at one time can easily crash and burn at another time. Certain tactics have great appeal to one section of society and can easily alienate others. Tactical choices are based on[...]
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By November 15, 2012 Tags: diversity, strategy, Tactics
Category: An Occupier's Perspective, Blog, Guest blog, Occupy Radio, Uncategorized No Comments 
Saturday 10 November
Venue: Oasis Centre, 75 Westminster Bridge Road, SE1 7HS
https://www.facebook.com/events/114672452021499/
11-12.30pm – Food and democracy
how do we ensure people have access to nutritious, sustainable and good food?
with Helena Paul, Econexus; Dominika Jarosz, Head of Campaigns for Pig Business, and Biofuelwatch
1.30-3pm – Energy and democracy
with Jeremy Leggett, Solarcentury; Ruth[...]
Haldane echoes Occupy’s analysis by linking inequality to economic instability
In questioning from audience, notes that there is ‘no great ideological chasm’ to jump on a Financial Transaction Tax and the risk of banks moving abroad is “somewhat overblown“
Many of Occupy’s concerns remain to be tackled; panellist Mick McAteer, consumer advocate and Director of[...]
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By October 30, 2012 Tags: Andy Haldane, bank of england, inequality, systemic
Category: Economics, News, Newswire, Press, Press releases 21 Comments
In this interview one year into the Occupy movement I discuss with Michael Albert issues around organising for a better society, strategy, people and politics.
Michael Albert is an American activist, economist, speaker, and writer.
During the 1960s, he was a member of Students for a Democratic Society, and was active in the anti-Vietnam War[...]
From 27 October – 11 November, Occupy London celebrates the 365th year anniversary of the original Putney Debates in 1647, by holding a series of events looking at democracy in 2012. Inspired by the Levellers and Diggers demands for social justice, civil rights and equal access to the land from back then, Occupy London’s New[...]
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By October 25, 2012 Tags: #PutneyDebates, New Putney Debates
Category: News, Newswire, Press, Press releases, Upcoming Action No Comments
By Tom Moriarty, former City worker and part of Occupy London’s Economics working group who has contributed to Occupy London’s first book, The Little Book of Ideas, published yesterday on the anniversary of the Occupy London Stock Exchange camp by St Paul’s Cathedral:
Turns out that Starbucks generates £398m in sales in the UK and[...]
