Occupy London: Eviction Notices Attached To Tents Outside St Paul's. British Land Seeks Injunction to Keep ‘Occupy’ Protests Away. (Updates with City of London statement in eight paragraph.)
Nov. 4 (Bloomberg) -- A unit of British Land Plc applied for a court order to stop Occupy London protesters camped outside St. Paul’s Cathedral from moving onto its property. The lawsuit was filed at a London court Nov. 2 by Broadgate Estates Ltd., a property-management firm that runs sites including Paternoster Square, where Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and the London Stock Exchange Group Plc have offices, and Broadgate Circle, which houses UBS AG operations. Occupy London protesters, inspired by a similar campaign in the U.S. targeting Wall Street, have pitched more than 200 tents outside the cathedral and set up camp in Finsbury Square in the city’s financial district. Occupy London meets city hall -this is worth watching! Occupy: London Stock Exchange. Occupy Wall Street: List and map of over 200 U.S. solidarity events and Facebook pages.
APPLE DESIGN. Occupy London at St Paul's - 360º Panoramic interactive. Home Secretary to OccupyLondon: you're scaring the tourists. UK Police contact Anonymous via Twitter. 1 November '11, 08:24pm Follow It seems that CO11, The Public Order Branch of the Metropolitan Police, is reaching out to the ‘PR arm’ of hacking collective Anonymous through Twitter if this tweet from earlier is anything to go by: The AnonymousPress Twitter account was set up in early August, and it has made some allusions to plans on the 5th of November, such as this tweet on 26th of October, as well as previous rumors that this date would be when Anonymous would target Facebook.
So the Metropolitan Police have had a sniff of something possibly happening outside of the Palace of Westminster, but it is surprising that they’d reach out directly to Anonymous and ask them what they have planned. OccupyLondon St Pauls Cathedral. @all government hyppocrits. A plea to St Paul's: follow Christ's teachings and support #OccupyLondon. London's tent city is on sacred land - the skirts of St Paul's Cathedral.
The Cathedral's position on the occupation will be crucial for its future. Will it remember Christ's mission to free the oppressed and bring good news to the poor? This article is part of a series on the #Occupy movements. The ‘occupy’ movement is, I think, here to stay. Of course I may be wrong, but it doesn’t feel that way. Some, including in the Guardian, have suggested St Paul’s has played a strong hand, especially when Rev Cano Giles Fraser told the police they were not needed to defend the cathedral - but I have strongly disagreed. Before I go on, I should declare three things. The first and most important of those issues is, as far as I am concerned, what faith demands in this situation.
Pre-Occupied. Members of Occupy London scored valuable publicity for their various causes Thursday when they crashed the mayor's town hall meeting.
But the burning question that will come up Friday at a meeting with city councillors is when will they pack up their 30 tents and leave Victoria Park? A day in the life of a protest 8:05 a.m. Sleepy occupiers in Victoria Park wake up on a chilly, damp Thursday morning. A small group of early risers huddle together over coffee and tea to discuss the plan for the day. 11:15 a.m. A dozen occupiers gather around a small electric heater in a tent to debate whether to march to the market. 11:55 a.m. Armed Police raid Kurds at St.Pauls camp 27-10-11. Occupy London protesters forced to leave. The Website of the OCCUPIED TIMES NEWSPAPER.
To the Occupy movement – the occupiers of Tahrir Square are with you. To all those across the world currently occupying parks, squares and other spaces, your comrades in Cairo are watching you in solidarity. Having received so much advice from you about transitioning to democracy, we thought it's our turn to pass on some advice. Indeed, we are now in many ways involved in the same struggle. What most pundits call "the Arab spring" has its roots in the demonstrations, riots, strikes and occupations taking place all around the world, its foundations lie in years-long struggles by people and popular movements. The moment that we find ourselves in is nothing new, as we in Egypt and others have been fighting against systems of repression, disenfranchisement and the unchecked ravages of global capitalism (yes, we said it, capitalism): a system that has made a world that is dangerous and cruel to its inhabitants. An entire generation across the globe has grown up realising, rationally and emotionally, that we have no future in the current order of things.
Reading4u RADIO LO_oKZ GO_oD. Open St Pauls Cathedral. Occupy LSX criticizes British media. Occupy London Stock Exchange. Occupy London: A street-level view - video. SAM EVANS. Second Occupy London camp forms at Finsbury Square. A second Occupy London protest camp has sprung up in a sign that campaigners are spreading from St Paul's Cathedral to locations across the capital.
A group of protesters with placards marched from St Paul's to the new site, where up to 30 tents had been discreetly pitched earlier. Within minutes, supporters of Occupy London had called a "general assembly" at the site in Finsbury Square, Moorgate, and declared that the square was a second occupation after the cathedral. Organisers insisted, however, that the second site would not replace St Paul's, but alleviate pressure at an increasingly crowded venue.
One protester said that a third and fourth occupation would follow. Occupy Wall Street (and Beyond) Video: How "Fox News UK" Covers the London Protests. It doesn’t take a Marxist to see that the St Paul's protesters have a point. Let’s name those who may have decided to move #occupylondon on from St Paul’s. Occupy London - Creating an Alternative. Occupy London - Creating an Alternative by Naomi Colvin, Jamie Stern-Weiner The Occupy movement that has spread with remarkable speed across the U.S. is coming to London tomorrow. New Left Project will be running a series of articles looking at issues of relevance to the protest, including the role of the financial system in the economic crisis, alternative ways of doing banking, and discussions of activist strategy. We begin with an interview with Naomi Colvin, an activist and organiser with Occupy London. How have you gone about preparing for this event?