Occupy the London Stock Exchange Occupy Wall Street | NYC Protest for World Revolution Welfare in the City – an update from Occupy London Stock Exchange In light of recent sensationalist stories in the media sparked by the publication of the City of London Corporation’s legal bundle detailing a naturally one sided picture of the camp at St Paul’s Churchyard, Occupy London wanted to take this opportunity to provide an update on its welfare initiative. Occupy London welcomes volunteers, particularly those with expertise and professional training, to get involved in its welfare initiative and is also currently looking to upgrade its facilities. To get involved, email: welfareolsx@gmail.com or leave a message for Welfare at the Information Tent or attend the Welfare working group meetings: 6pm every Monday evening, downstairs at Ye Olde London, Ludgate Hill. A comprehensive update is detailed below. “It comes as no surprise that the media will engage in a smear campaign against the Occupy London camp at St Paul’s. It also outlined some needs of the camp: In the call out Occupy London stated:
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Global protests: Occupy the London Stock Exchange takes over the City Occupy London follows occupation movements from across the worldPolice ask Julian Assange 'to remove mask' he was wearingProtesters had wanted to 'take' Paternoster Square - but it has been closedTents now being put up in the Square MileProtests contained within City area and currently not spreadingTwo arrests made for 'assaults on police officers' By Lee Moran Updated: 18:04 GMT, 15 October 2011 Protesters inspired by the growing 'Occupy Wall Street' movement in the U.S have today taken over the City of London. Thousands have descended on the area known as the Square Mile - under the banner 'Occupy the Stock Exchange' - for a 'peaceful protest' against the global financial system. They had planned to take Paternoster Square, where the Stock Exchange is located, but police cordoned off the area prior to the protest. A notice was put up stating the square is private property and access would be restricted. Scroll down for video... Unite! Pitched battle? Anger has also spread to Hong Kong
OcupaMéxico / OccupyMexico | Epicentro de lxs ocupas de México. Occupy Portland: Port of Portland targeted by demonstrators this morning View full sizeRandy Rasmussen/The OregonianOccupy Portland demonstrators march toward the Port of Portland this morning. Protesters say they're targeting Wall Street on the Waterfront, and that the ports are an engine of wealth for country's richest 1 percent. View full sizeRandy Rasmussen/The OregonianOccupy Portland demonstrators march toward the Port of Portland this morning. A couple hundred Occupy Portland protesters are rallying this morning at the entrances to terminals 5 and 6 of the Port of Portland in what appears to be a largely peaceful demonstration. Demonstrators marched from North Portland's Kelly Point Park to the marine terminals, split into two groups and rallied at the entrances to terminals 5 and 6. Port spokesman Josh Thomas said longshore workers at terminals 5 and 6 were told to stay home today. Portland police Lt. "We do have officers behind the gate in case there is a problem but right now there is not," he said. -- The Oregonian
"Occupy Bat Signal" Artist Returns With "Occupy Batmobile," Codenamed "The Illuminator" On Nomember 17, 2011, during a major national day of action for the Occupy Wall Street movement, protestors marching across the Brooklyn Bridge looked back at the Manhattan skyline and were greeted with what quickly became an iconic image: the characters "99%" projected onto the monolithic façade of a famously ugly Verizon building in Lower Manhattan. It was dubbed by some the "Occupy Bat Signal." Following the tremendous attention received by that guerilla light-projection work — ARTINFO's own editor Ben Davis deemed it one of the most important artworks of 2011 — one of the two artists behind that intervention, Mark Read, will unveil its next phase at Zuccotti Park on Saturday, a mobile cinema and library dubbed the Illuminator, soon to be followed by a second vehicle, dubbed the Changemaker, if all goes according to plan. ARTINFO talked to Read about the logistical (and legal) challenges of such a project, and its art-historical precedents. There are a lot of logistics. Not much.
Occupy London: eviction notices attached to tents outside St Paul's | UK news An eviction notice hangs on a tent outside St Paul's Cathedral. Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images The City of London Corporation has attached eviction notices to tents outside St Paul's Cathedral, telling activists to move them from the public highways by 6pm on Thursday or face legal action. It is the latest development in a month-long saga that has pitted the protest movement Occupy London against the corporation, the local authority for the Square Mile, and St Paul's. The notice is addressed to "each and every person taking part in and/or having erected tents or other structures at St Paul's Churchyard EC4". It reads: "Through the erection of tents and other structures, you and others involved in the Protest Camp have taken possession and control of the Red Land from the City of London Corporation without its consent. "The Protest Camp is therefore a trespass. "Not in a sense of going in there and causing a riot. The protest has now entered its fifth week outside St Paul's.
Occupy Oakland Palace: Protesters merely copying Occupy Wall Street movement Secretary Edwin Lacierda INQUIRER FILE PHOTO Apparently, Malacañang thinks they are just copycats. A Palace official on Sunday said the government had been tolerant of the militant groups that had tried but failed to occupy Mendiola in an effort to reprise the Occupy protests in the United States and other parts of the world. Presidential spokesperson Edwin Lacierda said the groups were merely causing trouble and provoking the police, who had “exercised a wide berth of tolerance” for them the past week. Over government radio dzRB, Lacierda said a number of policemen were hurt during the dispersal of the protesters. A number of protesters were hurt, too, as gleaned from reports and television footage. “Admittedly, they are raising issues that are not what the Occupy Wall Street protesters (are pushing for). The Occupy Wall Street movement in New York was started by young people in protest of the greed of major banks and multinational corporations.