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15-10-2011 12:55

http://bambuser.com/channel/bc_tmh/broadcast/2046018

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At 12 O'clock around 1000 people have gathered on the steps outside St Pauls Cathedral, with a mobile sound system keeping the atmosphere going. An aray of anti-cuts plackards and banners are on show with the capitals media clicking away. Mounted police are in the area outside the Stock Exchange. At Paternoster square there are posters up in the advertising mounts stating that the square is private property and that the square is closed. There are also copies of a high court injunction taped around the area prohibiting anyone from occupying. #occupylondon

[12.30] The soundsystem has been pushed towards Paternoster Square where the police have re-enforced their line preventing any occupation of the square. Mounted police are being brought in along this line and the media are going crazy as some pushing and shoving starts on the front line. The crowd is chanting "We are the 99% - let us in", and "Fuck Fox News". Tension is starting to mount.

[12.45] Bust cards are being handed out and there are legal observers in the area.
Green and Black Cross Legal Support: 07946 541511
Solicitors: Bindmans 020 7833 4433
HJA: 020 7837 3456

[13.00] The crowd have now moved from this front entrance to Paternoster Sq around the side streets to other enterances, each time blocked by the police lines. They have gone past the front of the Stock Exchange, shouting "let us in", each time attempting to push through police lines. Police dogs have been brought out, and the crowd is spcontinuing to spread around the square increasing in numbers.

[13.10] A large group started to march off towards Bank but were again blocked by a line of police across the road, who started to funnel them back to St Pauls. With Paternoster Square and London Stock Exchange surrounded by protesters (at least symbolically) and the police preventing any entrance. There is now a pause while a general Assembly meeting is taking place outside St Pauls in the sunshine.

[13.15] Messages around the world of other occupations taking place: Brisbaine, New Jersy, South Africa. A large banner is being unfurled on St Paul's steps saying "We are the 99%"

[13.20] Another group to the North of the Sqaure are being prevented from leaving the pedestrian area by police cordons, not quite a 'kettle' but restrictions on the crowds movement.

[13.35] Most people arriving all the time, nice day out in London. Road blocks are being reported around St Paul's station. Fustration is mounting at how the police are restricting peoples movement. A fit team is reported around St Paul's Alley.

[13.45] A group of 100 have taken over the roads outside St Paul's chanting "who's streets - our streets" making sure the poilice dont kettle everyone tighter and tighter on the steps.

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First pics in from #OccupyLondon

15-10-2011 12:55

People are starting to arrive in the City of London at St Paul's, ready to occupy the place. They have come with sleeping bags tents and food, in for the long haul. Police helecopters are overhead and the Patanoster Square has signs up claiming it to be private property, which says it all about capitalism and the general public; If you are rich you are OK, if you are not we will keep you out and you will probably get the bill for it!

We are here in solidarity with all the people round the world that are occupying today, we have to fight back and challenge the city and all it stands for. Come on down!

More to come as it happens...

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Pics from first part of #occupylsx #occupylondon

15-10-2011 12:55

Up to one thousand people at Occupy London as part of 15Oct global day of action

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The Sheffield Free School is underway!

15-10-2011 11:36

Get yourselves down here!

Daytime Venue: CADS (Creative Arts Development Space) Snow Lane Entrance, Shalesmoor, S3 7AL (5 mins from city centre, next to “Kit Locker”). See the image below for the latest timetable.

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#occupy London gets underway #ows

15-10-2011 11:16

Photo from Occupy London, live stream at

http://livestream.com/occupyLSX

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Occupy London, Global Day of Action #15Oct

15-10-2011 10:55

Protestors from Occupy London Stock Exchange are set to occupy an area in the City of London as part of the October15 Global day of Action, which sees protests in over 950 places across the world - inspired by OccupyWallStreet and the wave of prior occupations seen across the world (more)

See previous Occupy London Assembly report

Occupy London
http://occupylondon.org.uk

#15Oct
http://15october.net

15th October. What’s the plan? #15oct
http://takethesquare.net/2011/09/24/15th-october-whats-the-plan-15oct/

London Audio Call out
http://soundcloud.com/occupylsx/october-15th-call-out

Interview with Naomi Colvin, an activist and organiser with Occupy London
http://www.newleftproject.org/index.php/site/article_comments/occupy_london_creating_an_alternative

Why we Should all be Occupying The London Stock Exchange
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/jolyon-rubinstein/why-i-will-be-occupying-t_b_1008580.html

15th October 2011: Birth of a Global Anti-Capitalist Movement?
http://infantile-disorder.blogspot.com/2011/10/15th-october-2011-birth-of-global-anti.html

Counterfire live blog
http://storify.com/counterfireorg/occupy-london-stock-exchange

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Memo about direct democracy to: Occupy Wall Street and Friends

15-10-2011 10:28

The Occupy movement, currently active in hundreds of places across the world, must find ways to maintain energy and momentum. One strategy should be to establish our right to citizen-led governance, so that we can propose, change and veto public including economic policy.

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UG#570 - The Fundamental Wrongness of 'Rights' (Law as Fiction)

15-10-2011 09:36

The show this week looks at the ideas of 'law' and 'rights'. As George Carlin says, if the government can take it away, it isn't a right, it's a privilege. A disturbing but important thought in these days in which governments worldwide are becoming more open about their subservience to expediency. We hear from a range of speakers, and our material ranges from the comic to the deadly serious.

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UG#569 - The Light Within (Can Technology Make The Handicapped Whole?)

15-10-2011 09:32

This week we introduce a new author, Jacques Lusseyran. As a teenager, although completely blind, he organised some of the most effective French resistance to the Nazi occupation. We begin with a reading of Steve Talbott's Can Technology Make The Handicapped Whole? about techno-fixing human beings, which focuses on Lusseyran. Next, we read one of Lusseyran's essays, The Blind in Society. Finally, an interview with Laura Fogg, author of "Travelling Blind -- life lessons from unexpected places", on her experience of helping the blind to navigate.

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Occupy Bristol 12:00 Sat 15th College Green

15-10-2011 08:55

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Autumn Action Day at Faslane Peace Camp 22nd October

15-10-2011 02:55

With the winter coming Faslane Peace Camp is having a creative day of workshops and action against the Trident missile system based at Faslane.

Brent-Kensal Rise library

15-10-2011 00:28

Brent SOS Libraries campaign was unsuccessful on thursday in the high court against closure. Local community resists full closure.

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London Anarchist Bookfair Programme now available

14-10-2011 20:55

The Programme for this year’s London Anarchist Bookfair is now out and can be collected from Freedom Bookshop and all the usual other places once we’ve got it there.

Freedom Bookshop
Angel Alley
84b Whitechapel High Street
London E1 7QX
Opening hours:
Monday to Saturday Midday till 6pm
Sunday Midday till 4pm
Phone: 020 7247 9249
Email: shop@freedompress.org.uk
Directions

Website: http://anarchistbookfair.org.uk/

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Autumn Action Day at Faslane Peace Camp 22nd October

14-10-2011 19:54

A day of wonderful workshops, events and direct action.

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Chile: demo for free education - anarchists clashes with police

14-10-2011 19:12

See too spanish anarchist sites:

http://culmine.noblogs.org/

http://www.ourwar.org/

http://www.hommodolars.org

http://www.liberaciontotal.lahaine.org/

http://accionanarquista.blogspot.com

http://vivalaanarquia.wordpress.com/

http://www.elfuegoesnuestro.blogspot.com/

http://materialanarquista.blogspot.com/

http://www.clajadep.lahaine.org/

http://www.klinamen.org/

http://www.saboteamos.info/

http://rojoscuro.blogspot.com/

http://accionpropaganda.org/

http://sinmiedoalasruinas.blogspot.com/

http://www.pazentrelospueblos.com.ar/

http://santiaskoanarquista.noblogs.org/

http://conflictividad.wordpress.com/

http://contratodadominacion.noblogs.org/

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Indignados in Brussels: real democracy under eurocrats’ noses

14-10-2011 18:12

They come mostly from Spain, but also from France, England, Germany, The Netherlands… Several hundreds of people are occupying for one week HUB University, in Brussels. A week of collective living, assemblies, political discussions and workshops – to end up with tomorrow’s big demonstration. On the eve of the October 15th, the indignados are everywhere – and came to Brussels in full strength.

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15th October 2011: Birth of a Global Anti-Capitalist Movement?

14-10-2011 16:59

In my opinion, it is very likely that the historians of the future will look upon tomorrow as the day a truly global anti-capitalist movement was born. Following the example of Occupy Wall Street, Los Angeles, Boston, and hundreds of US towns and cities, a huge number of small and large occupations will begin on every continent except Antarctica (see Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, South America).

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Dale Farm: The wider context

14-10-2011 16:14

The last time I wrote about Dale Farm I had been living there for four days and it had felt inspiring to be a part of Camp Constant and the Dale Farm Solidarity Campaign, trying to resist the eviction of the largest Traveller community of its kind in Britain. I am now writing this six weeks later and after an aborted eviction attempt and a short respite as another appeal has gone through the courts, eviction is once again imminent. It is not my intention to interrogate the facts around the council’s pretext for the eviction as I already laid down in my previous article my argument for why I believe it is unjust and based on prejudice. After having lived there for five weeks the following article represents just a small part of my personal experience of being at Dale Farm, the wider context of what I have discovered and why I think you should get your arse down there immediately.