Occupy Wall Street: what is to be done next? What to do in the aftermath of the Occupy Wall Street movement, when the protests that started far away – in the Middle East, Greece, Spain, UK – reached the centre, and are now reinforced and rolling out all around the world?
In a San Francisco echo of the OWS movement on 16 October 2011, a guy addressed the crowd with an invitation to participate in it as if it were a happening in the hippy style of the 1960s: "They are asking us what is our program. We have no program. We are here to have a good time. " American professors attend Occupy Wall Street Conference in Tehran. Occupy Wall Street protest, sleep-out at New York Stock Exchange. Eric Thayer / Reuters A man walks past demonstrators with Occupy Wall Street sleeping on Wall Street near the New York Stock Exchange on April 17.
The Occupied Times of London. Why There Cannot be Stakeholders in Occupy. Email Share 29 Email Share Modern politics, as well as development discourse, have grown increasingly fond of the word ‘stakeholders’ in recent years. This, I will argue, is a tactic that serves to divorce people and consequence, as it singles out small groups who are the only considered victims in a situation – and hence makes the larger Society Inc., or Nature Inc., into bodies that have neither stakes nor responsibilities for what happens to this particular group. Consider the following scenario in Dnalgne. Dnalgne is not a country, but a name I have invented for the purposes of this piece. It is a developing country in South-East Asia, a recipient of foreign aid, and in dire need of foreign investment. The third group is a bigger problem, which presents two choices: to relocate them, or to leave them be. The deal is signed.
They make some progress. Police arrest six at east London Olympics facility protest camp. Six people have been arrested in east London as police and bailiffs broke up a protest camp backed by the Occupy movement which opposed the construction of a temporary Olympic facility on a green space.
Local people, supported by some of those formerly based at the main Occupy camp next to St Paul's Cathedral, which was broken up six weeks ago, spent a fortnight camping on Leyton Marsh in an attempt to block the building of a basketball practice centre, which would be used for Olympic athletes preparing for matches which will take place at another venue inside the Olympic park in nearby Stratford. With construction of the training facility held up, the owners of the land, Lee Valley Regional Authority, were granted a possession order in the high court last week. Activists did not mount a defence, saying they feared being held responsible for costs if they were named as individual defendants. Scotland Yard said six people had been arrested for alleged public order offences.
Spring Awakening: Occupy London prepares for second wave. Occupy London announces an Open Day on Tuesday 10 April as gets ready for Occupy May. Occupy London Stock Exchange was just the beginning. Calls you to help make May the beginning of a summer the one per cent will not forget. Occupy London is set to strike back this May as people around the world take to the streets to mark one year since the indignados reclaimed their squares in Spain and Greece, and six months since the Occupy movement went global. Occupy London bailiff charged with assault. A bailiff has been charged with assaulting two people and damaging a photographer's camera during the eviction of an Occupy London site earlier this year.
Keith Beams, from Croydon, is due to appear at Thames magistrates court on 13 April charged with two counts of common assault and one count of criminal damage, a Metropolitan police spokesperson said. The enforcement officer was arrested on 30 January shortly after bailiffs and police moved to evict the Occupy movement's educational hub, the so-called Bank of Ideas, from a disused office in the City of London. About 50 activists were evicted peacefully, but protesters claimed tensions had risen during a subsequent eviction when police and bailiffs moved to clear a squat unrelated to Occupy but located in the same UBS-owned office complex.
One of the people who Beams, 45, is alleged to have assaulted was a photographer, Jules Mattsson, whose camera was allegedly damaged. US protesters mark tax day with protest at Ann Romney's birthday party. A team of make-believe baseball players descended on Trump Tower in New York on Tuesday afternoon, using tax day to highlight corporate unaccountability as Ann Romney, wife of Republican presidential frontrunner Mitt Romney, celebrated her birthday at an exclusive party inside.
Occupy Wall Street: 'It has to go further to really make a difference' The Guardian spoke to a number of Occupy participants and observers about the movement's trajectory and significance over the last six months.
Excerpts from interviews with five of those interviews are included here. Sandy Nurse, José Martín and Malik Rhasaan are longtime Occupy Wall Street participants. Nurse and Martín can often be found at Occupy actions throughout New York City. Occupy promises upsurge as activists prepare for 'summer of discontent' Zuccotti Park was busy last week.
Basking in bright sunshine, construction workers from the nearby Ground Zero building site ate sandwiches on its benches, tourists snapped photos and people in suits strode through on the way to Wall Street.