Post Tagged with: "Occupy London Stock Exchange"

  • St Paul’s by day (pictures)

    A few pictures of how St Paul’s looks the day after the eviction of Occupy London Stock Exchange;

     

  • Farewell Occupy: an inspiration that was seen but not heard

    With today’s news that the Occupy London Stock Exchange (or Occupy LSX to its friends) is set to be evicted it’s a good moment to assess the impact this extraordinary movement has had on politics today. As with most British cultural movements it started in America where the Occupy Wall […]

     

  • Friday’s London Links

    There are some excellent pictures from HarpyMarx from the protest against the Welfare Reform Bill. Londonist is taking suggestions for the worst tube station. Bank. The Camden Granary turned art school has won a prize. London Councils. Also from Londonist Boris is taking control of Olympic parking. Hackney are discussing […]

     

  • Occupy London discusses scaling down

    The world-wide “Occupy” movement has had a deep impact on political debate, sparking a sustained scrutiny of capitalism, corporations and government compliance that we rarely experience. Taking on both the city and the institutions of the church the Occupy London Stock Exchange (LSX) encampment fought a tough battle for the […]

     

  • Predictions for London’s 2012

    Second only to the tradition of reviewing the year just gone by are the predictions of doom for the year ahead. 2012 has seen a bumper crop from predictions of global war, planetary climate collapse or economic meltdown. So many different dooms have been foreseen for humanity that the four horsemen have […]

     

  • Video: Occupy on relationship with St Paul’s

    Two spokespeople from Occupy LSX on the deterioration relationship with the Cathedral. h/t Scrapper Duncan

     

  • Sunday Sermon: With us or against us?

    In the first of a regular feature Big Smoke takes to the pulpit. This week Jim Jepps takes on tribalism in politics. With the Occupy Movement creating a unique fusion of camping and political philosophy (spawning the greatest political pun ever “This is the winter of our discount tents”) it’s […]

     

  • It’s time to democratise the city

    The Occupation protest puts the curious non-democratic status of the City under the spotlight, argues Natalie Bennett Green Party London Assembly candidate The Corporation of the City of London has withstood a lot. It withstood William the Conqueror, who agreed “to establish the citizens in all the rights and privileges […]

     

  • St Paul’s protest catch out media lies

    In this brilliant video the Occupy London Stock Exchange people prove that the journalists of the Telegraph et al who’d claimed no one was sleeping at the protest over night were… well… you judge for yourselves. It’s a sad fact of life that the press are not always 100% reliabnle […]