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Occupy London

Contents
Mic Check for November 30th Strike – Occupy London
Occupy London UBS
Occupy London One Month Briefing
Occupy London initial statement from #OccupyLSX

Mic Check for November 30th Strike – Occupy London

Posted on November 29, 2011 by admin

Occupy London Mic Check for November 30th Strike

Liverpool Street Station London, November 28th 2011

Mic Check

This Wednesday 3 million workers wil strike. Workplaces wil close, schools will shut, and transport will halt.

This strike is a message

We won’t pay for the Banks’ crisis.

This is the largest strike in 75 years

People are standing together to fight together.

We have been sold a lie.

The banks got bailed out, the people  got sold out.

We support every striker, every family in every city, in every town

to defend against these cuts.

Our libraries did not crash the economy

Our teachers did not gamble with derivatives.

The unemployed did not demand bonuses

If we act together we can reclaim society for the benefit of the people

On Wednesday, join the strikers, support the pickets.

Shut down the City, shut down the country.

We have the power

We are the 99%

Join the General Strike, November 30th

Meet Occupy at Liverpool Street Station 7am

 

 

 

 

 

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Occupy London UBS

Posted on November 18, 2011 by admin

Occupy London group have taken over a building owned by Swiss bank UBS.

Occupy London UBS

Bank of Ideas

Activists are hoping to make a legal claim on the building, under the UK’s squatter’s rights law, and plan to open a “bank of ideas”.

The building at Crown Place is owned by UBS but not occupied by them.

#OCCUPYLSX

http://www.realdemocracynow.co.uk/

Occupy London UBS – a disused UBS Bank building in the city of London is occupied by Occupy London protestors

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Activists from Occupy made ‘legal claim’ to the property by gaining access to the building and securing it, saying that it was only right that this kind of action is taken against banks who leave premises empty.
Occupy London supporter Jack Holburn said: ‘Whilst over 9,000 families were kicked out of their homes in the last three months for failing to keep up mortgage payments – mostly due to the recession caused by the banks – UBS and other financial giants are sitting on massive abandoned properties.
‘As banks repossess families’ homes, empty bank property needs to be repossessed by the public.’
Occupy has vowed that the east London building will re-open on Saturday morning as a ‘Bank of Ideas’, which will ‘trade in creativity rather than cash’.
‘We will also make space available for those that have lost their nurseries, community centres and youth clubs to savage government spending cuts,’ added Sarah Layler of Occupy London.
Events already lined up for the space include talks from Palestinian activists, comedy from Josie Long and a seminar led by controversial trader Alessio Rastani, who recently claimed in a television interview that he goes to bed dreaming of another recession.

Occupy London group have taken over a building owned by Swiss bank UBS.

The activists are hoping to make a legal claim on the building, presumably under the UK’s squatter’s rights law, and plan to open a “bank of ideas” there.
The building at Crown Place is owned by UBS but not occupied by them.

http://www.bankofideas.org.uk/

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Occupy London One Month Briefing

Posted on November 14, 2011 by admin

Tomorrow (Tuesday) 15th November, Occupy London will be one month old!

You are invited to an informal briefing where Occupy London will give an update on what has been happening over the past month and our plans going forward.

There will be contributions from working groups and an opportunity for one to one interviews. You will also get the chance to hear details of our anniversary plans.

When: 10am Tuesday 15th November
Where: Tent City University, Occupy London Stock Exchange site at St Paul’s

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Occupy London initial statement from #OccupyLSX

Posted on October 16, 2011 by admin

#OccupyLSX initial statement

Posted on October 16, 2011 by occupylsx

At today’s assembly on the steps of St Paul’s, #occupylsx agreed the initial statement below. Please note, it’s a draft statement at this stage and it will always be a work in progress.

1 The current system is unsustainable. It is undemocratic and unjust. We need alternatives; this is where we work towards them.

2 We are of all ethnicities, backgrounds, genders, generations, sexualities dis/abilities and faiths. We stand together with occupations all over the world.

3 We refuse to pay for the banks’ crisis.

4 We do not accept the cuts as either necessary or inevitable. We demand an end to global tax injustice and our democracy representing corporations instead of the people.

5 We want regulators to be genuinely independent of the industries they regulate.

6 We support the strike on the 30th November and the student action on the 9th November, and actions to defend our health services, welfare, education and employment and to stop wars and arms dealing.

7 We want structural change towards authentic global equality. The world’s resources must go towards caring for people and the planet, not the military, corporate profits or the rich.

8 We stand in solidarity with the global oppressed and we call for an end to the actions of our government and others in causing this oppression.

9 This is what democracy looks like. Come and join us!

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