Horizons & Prospects
With each day now taking us further towards Spring and the warmth of the year ahead, the plans and blueprints drawn up in wintry months by Occupy London’s working groups are thawing to fruition. Multiplying. Gaining traction. Beneath [...]
It Ain’t Over Till It’s Over
With Occupy camps around the world threatened by eviction, it is easy to pack up and go home. But many of the issues that drove dissenters into the streets of Athens, Madrid, New York or London remain unsolved. ECONOMIC CHANGE While [...]
Occupy After The Camps
The occupations were brilliant. They created facts on the ground—many grounds. They pumped oxygen into the global atmosphere. They are, or were, not only symbols of a need (community, shelter, expression) but public spaces for contact, [...]
A Battle In Greece, A War For Us All
By the tens of thousands they descended on parliament in an intervention by the public against the politics of theft practiced by the Greek government and demanded by foreign creditors. They filled subway trains and side streets en route to [...]
Finsbury’s Budding Community
As the St. Paul’s encampment chapter of Occupy London closes, Finsbury’s blossoming eco-village is preparing to accommodate some of the occupiers forced by eviction to relocate their passion, politics and possessions. Public spending [...]
The School of Ideas
In a derelict school on Featherstone Street in Islington, radical ideas took root. On 11 February the School of Ideas opened it’s doors after free-thinking squatters took possession of the previously abandoned building. Open-plan, primary-coloured [...]
Issue Eleven – 1st March 2012
After four and a half months of peaceful, prolonged protest, the authorities finally called time on the St Paul’s occupation in the early hours of Tuesday morning. Riot police and bailiffs, enforcing the will of the 1%, were confronted [...]
St Paul’s Camp Cleared – Eviction Marks End of the Beginning for OccupyLSX
Bailiffs, assisted by police, launched the action to clear the long-standing Occupy London camp at St. Paul’s this week. Shortly before midnight on Monday, 27th February, bailiffs, officers in riot gear and police vans began to draw together [...]
Occupy Law: the Role of Law in Time of Protest
In keeping with its tradition of hosting eminent speakers in their field, Tent City University hosted panellists Professor Conor Gearty, David Wolfe, Sarah Sackman, David Allen Green and Occupy LSX Defendant George Barda as part of Occupy Law [...]
Steve
Occupier and OT reporter Emma Fordham speaks to another of Occupy London’s familiar faces EM: When did you arrive at OLSX? STEVE: At the end of October. Two weeks in. EM: What brought you here? STEVE: I wanted to visit London [...]
What is the Biggest Current Challenge to the Occupy Movement?
Julian, 36: “The eviction ruling. We have to make sure all of these structures are being safeguarded. We need to find a place to store the equipment, solar panels,generator, tents and shelves that we all worked so hard to build and maintain [...]
Time Crisis
The 1 per cent solution to the economic crisis includes the prescription to work harder. The 99 per cent caused the crisis by their insolent attitude to work and their debt-fuelled greed, now they need to recognise it’s payback time. Young [...]
Credit Default Swaps for Dummies: Part One
It pays not to stare too long at the Credit Default Swap system, in case your brain melts and your eyebrows fall off into your lap. This issue, the Occupied Times is going to dip a careful toe into the maelstrom; next issue we’ll look closer [...]
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