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Amanda Palmer
73 days ago | Comments Off
Amanda Palmer, lead singer and composer of the Dresden Dolls duo, has been visiting protest camps around the world. We asked about her experiences with Occupy. OCCUPIED TIMES: Amanda, you have been playing quite a few Occupy camps – [...]
Sam Duckworth
93 days ago | Comments Off
Just before Christmas a special kind of GA was held at St Paul’s with musical interludes between discussion points. Sam Duckworth of ‘Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly’ was one of the headlining acts. We caught up with him to get his thoughts on [...]
Preoccupying: Salil Shetty
131 days ago | Comments Off
On International Human Rights Day, the Occupied Times speaks to Salil Shetty, general secretary of Amnesty International. Mr. Shetty came to St. Paul’s last Saturday to speak on the criminalisation of protest by Western democracies and [...]
Preoccupying: Mark Serwotka
144 days ago | Comments Off
Mark Serwotka is General Secretary of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS), the trade union for British civil servants. Occupied Times: Union membership is shrinking. What is the role of trade unions today? Mark Serwotka: While [...]