Archive: Working groups blog
Charter of the Forest 800th year Anniversary
Dear Occupiers,
The Charter of the Forest 1217 was the first environmental charter in history, and enshrined the right of everyone to subsistence on the commons. The importance of this younger sister of the Magna Carta is deliberately overlooked by the establishment due to its radical implications.[…]
Read more →
By
November 7, 2017 Category: Livestream, Putney Debates No Comments 
The community food movement and migrant solidarity by Melanie Strickland.
The Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) launched the campaign, Against the Walls of Capital, earlier this year. The group, whose coffee we sell at Organiclea to support their liberation struggle, called on supporters all over the world to “organize with autonomy, to resist[…]
Read more →
By
October 26, 2017 Category: Energy, Equity & Environment, News No Comments
Calais – Under Attack and Fighting Back!
30% of the camp is being cleared by force. Successful solidarity is being met by naked state power. But resistance is fertile![…]
Read more →
By
January 15, 2016 Category: An Occupier’s Perspective, Blog, Guest blog, News, podcast No Comments
Hedge funds helped wreck Puerto Rico by Aengus mac Og.
It’s another symptom of the way things are within this corrupt and untethered political and economic system.
Puerto Rico as we know is not one of the wealthiest places in the world and is slowly but surely going bankrupt. I hear today that US hedge[…]
Read more →
By
December 30, 2015 Category: An Occupier’s Perspective, Banking and Money, Economics WG, Free Market and Globalisation, Markets, Securities and Derivatives, News, Policies No Comments
I was once once a Refugee by Nina Moniri.
I was once a refugee
I am the child of refugees.
Two hard working people who left a hazardous existence in the hope that one day I would have the security and safety they didn’t have.
What would’ve happened to us if we hadn’t left I[…]
Read more →
By
December 28, 2015 Category: An Occupier’s Perspective, Democracy Action Working Group, News No Comments
Years ago, my then-therapist, who knew I’d been deeply involved in drug policy reform, suggested I contact Russell Brand as he was also speaking out against unhelpful drug legislation. I had stopped watching TV, so barely knew who he was.
Fast forward to early 2014, and he is suddenly an acquaintance: fellow ex-drug[…]
Read more →
By
December 18, 2015 Category: An Occupier’s Perspective, News, Occupy Law No Comments
There’s also the part that these fracking holes can then be used to store nuclear waste. Wonder what that would do to the environment and the house prices of Tory voters?[…] Read more →
By
December 16, 2015 Category: An Occupier’s Perspective, Energy, Equity & Environment, Fracking News, News No Comments
Italy added to the railway gravy train.
First the Germans and the French, now the Italians are joining the privatised Railway gravy train.
Both Jeremy Corbyn of Labour and Caroline Lucas of the Greens, along with 66% voters, including 52% of Conservative voters, want Railways back in public hands.
As pointed out by Jeremy Corbyn,[…]
Read more →
By
December 16, 2015 Category: An Occupier’s Perspective, Cartels, Economics WG, Free Market and Globalisation No Comments
