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Supporters of Friern Barnet People’s Library in Barnet, North London, are to return to court at 09:30 on Monday 17 December as Barnet council seeks possession of the building and the surrounding green land. [1]
“Join us in Barnet and show Barnet council that libraries and communities matter more than profits for big business.“[...]
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December 16, 2012 Tags: Friern Barnet, Library, occupy, occupy london, One Barnet, People's Library, press release
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If this is not Capitalism’s last Christmas it might be the National Health Service’s last one…
Come and join anti-capitalist Carol singing on the 18th of December – a Europe-wide action happening in Madrid, Berlin and London on that day.
Austerity is threatening futures around the globe, and united the resistance is stronger. In the[...]
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December 14, 2012 Tags: Caplitalism's Last Christmas Carol
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17 DECEMBER: Meet at 9:30am
In September residents of Barnet in North London took action against the local council and occupied their local library which had been closed down as a consequence of the government’s austerity measures despite overwhelming local opposition.
The council is now trying to evict the occupiers and hand over the premises[...]
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December 14, 2012 Tags: Friern Barnet, Library, occupy
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The Occupy London General Assembly shows solidarity to Earthian with the following letter.
Read more about his mission here.
The full story of this peace mission can be found on Earthian’s own blog, where you can leave comments and messages of support for him and follow his journey as it unfolds.[...]
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December 12, 2012 Category: News No Comments
Pictures at https://twitter.com/OccupyLondon
Barnet Starbucks turned into library by Barnet residents, UK Uncut & Occupy London supporters
Barnet residents, anti-cuts campaigners and Occupy London supporters have just transformed a Starbucks in Barnet (811 High Road N12) into a library to highlight the impact of cuts upon women’s services, as part of UK Uncut’s national day[...]
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December 8, 2012 Tags: Barnet, occupy london, Starbucks, ukuncut
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Residents to turn Starbucks Barnet into a refuge from the cuts – a library and crèche - as part of UK Uncut’s national day of action against corporate tax avoidance this Saturday
Follows Occupy London supporters, Barnet residents and Barnet Alliance for Public Services (BAPS) taking over Barnet Council Cabinet last night in protest at[...]
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December 7, 2012 Tags: Capita, Friern Barnet, One Barnet, uk uncut
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Below are a variety of the responses coming in from Occupy London supporters to the Chancellor George Osborne’s Autumn Budget Statement.
Occupy London’s Economics Working Group: Minor restructuring of deckchairs on the Titanic – in favour of 1st class passengers
As usual the predicted onset of ‘recovery’ is kicked further down the road, bolstered by[...]
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December 5, 2012 Tags: #autumnstatement
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Richard D. Wolff is Professor of Economics Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Amherst where he taught economics from 1973 to 2008.
He is currently a Visiting Professor in the Graduate Program in International Affairs of the New School University, New York City. He also teaches classes regularly at the Brecht Forum in Manhattan.
In this Skype[...]
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December 5, 2012 Category: News No Comments
WHAT
The World Social Forum 2013 will take place in Tunis, Tunisia from the 26th to the 30th March (http://www.fsm2013.org/en/node/170).
This Forum will provide a strategic location for discussion of the issues of most concern to us. Tunisia has become a symbolic center for the global movement, as the ArabSpring was born there. March would[...]
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December 5, 2012 Category: International working group, News No Comments
