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Dale Farm
Coordinates: Dale Farm is a plot of land on Oak Lane in Crays Hill, Essex, United Kingdom. In October 2011, a clearance order was executed at Dale Farm after ten years of legal contention. To give contracted bailiffs safe access, some residents and activists had to be removed by police from the Dale Farm site – this action gained international press coverage. At its height, Dale Farm, along with the adjacent Oak Lane site, housed over 1,000 people, the largest Traveller concentration in the UK.[3] Dale Farm[edit] Dale Farm is a six acre plot of land on Oak Lane, near the A127 Southend Arterial road. Dale Farm cottage was leased to Ray Bocking, a scrap metal dealer in the early 1960s. As a site for Travellers, Dale Farm was started in the 1980s when a planning appeal was won by two families against Basildon District Council on the southern end of the site, with the help of a professor of land management, Robert Home. At this time unplanned development started. The Dale Farm Travellers[edit]
Timeline of Occupy Wall Street
Protester on September 28, 2011 The following is a brief timeline of Occupy Wall Street (OWS), a protest which began on Saturday, September 17, 2011[1] on Wall Street, the financial district of New York City. Chronology of events[edit] Pre-Occupy Wall Street[edit] September 2011[edit] September 3, 2011: A planning session for Occupy Wall Street is held at night in Tompkins Square Park The crowd on September 18, 2011 (day 2). Protesters demonstrate outside NYPD headquarters on September 30, 2011 (day 14). September 17 – The first day of the OWS gathering. October 2011[edit] Protesters marching as corporate zombies on October 3 October 1 – Protesters set out to march across the Brooklyn Bridge. October 10 – NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg states that so long as protesters operate under the law, they will not be arrested. November 2011[edit] December 2011[edit] December 17 – On the three-month anniversary of the protests, organizers of the protest called for a "reoccupuation." January 2012[edit]
Bankers’ bonuses are ‘like penis extensions’ claims Ken Livingstone
My skyscraper is more obviously phallic than yours Bankers’ bonuses are the latest battleground on which Boris Johnson and Ken Livingstone have clashed with the latter describing them as being “like penis extensions”. Former London mayor Mr Livingstone explained: “In the time I was mayor, I used to do meetings with City bankers and I’d often open by saying, this isn’t the world I would have created. Bankers’ bonuses are like penis extensions, among a small league of men – mine is bigger than yours. “The world is run by monsters and you have to deal with them. London Mayor Mr Johnson hit back: “If you look at where we are now as a society, we are endlessly focused on the very narrow, newspaper-driven agenda of rage against anybody who creates wealth, and that sort of hatred of bankers and bonuses – which I perfectly understand emotionally – is just aimed at the wrong target. “It is why I think in the end he won’t be prime minister. “What is the point of that; how does that help Londoners?
The call to occupy Wall Street resonates around the world | Micah White and Kalle Lasn
People protest during the 'Occupy Wall Street' rally at Bowling Green Plaza on 17 September. Photograph: Steven Greaves/Demotix/Corbis On Saturday 17 September, many of us watched in awe as 5,000 Americans descended on to the financial district of lower Manhattan, waved signs, unfurled banners, beat drums, chanted slogans and proceeded to walk towards the "financial Gomorrah" of the nation. They vowed to "occupy Wall Street" and to "bring justice to the bankers", but the New York police thwarted their efforts temporarily, locking down the symbolic street with barricades and checkpoints. Undeterred, protesters walked laps around the area before holding a people's assembly and setting up a semi-permanent protest encampment in a park on Liberty Street, a stone's throw from Wall Street and a block from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. There is a shared feeling on the streets around the world that the global economy is a Ponzi scheme run by and for Big Finance. There is not just anger.
update from dale farm: a legal observer writes
On Saturday 29th October I returned to Dale Farm as one of a small team of legal observers, writes legal observer Susannah Mengesha. There’s an ever-growing list of required safety wear for observers – hard hats, high vis wear, steel toe capped boots which residents and guests don’t have to wear – as well as increasing demands upon them to provide personal information that we’re under absolutely no obligation to give. Anyhow, since the previous week much of the inside of the Dale Farm main site had become one giant unrecognisable demolition area with much of the site having been razed to the ground. Diggers were a constant presence throughout the day. Dug up hardstanding, rather than being removed, was slowly being dumped to form a large barrier stretching around the proximity of the site. Life appears to be becoming increasingly challenging for the remaining families of Dale Farm. Related
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EU: we'll make UK cut bank bonuses - Europe - World
The plans, which are likely to go further than those proposed so far in the UK, would meet significant opposition from the City of London, which claims that cutting benefit packages would result in an exodus of talent to Asia and America. But the new restrictions could not be blocked by the Government if a majority of other European countries vote in favour of them. The proposal by Michel Barnier – the EU Commissioner in charge of financial services – emerged as G20 leaders meeting in Cannes failed to produce concrete plans to tackle the eurozone's sovereign debt crisis. In a dramatic day, the key developments included: *The Greek Prime Minister, George Papandreou, last night survived a tense confidence vote in parliament, although subsequent demands for national elections from opposition parties put the next vital bailout instalment of €8bn in jeopardy. Speaking to The Independent in London, Mr Barnier described the situation facing Europe as "grave".
Mayor Michael Bloomberg warns of job riots in New York City - GlobalPost
Please support our site by enabling javascript to view ads. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Friday compared the jobs crisis in the United States to the circumstances that produced recent riots overseas. "You have a lot of kids graduating college, [who] can't find jobs," Bloomberg said during his weekly radio show. "That's what happened in Cairo. According to CNN, Bloomberg was responding to a question about the U.S. poverty rate, which rose to 15.1% in 2010, the highest level since 1993. "The public is not happy," Bloomberg said. According to The New York Daily News, Bloomberg, an independent, gave President Barack Obama credit for coming up with his recently proposed jobs bill. "At least he's got some ideas on the table, whether you like those or not," Bloomberg said. Bloomberg also warned that the jobs crisis will have consequences far into the future. "The damage to a generation that can't find jobs will go on for many, many years," he said.
