John Ranson, one of the arrestees from November 30, gives an account of his experience of the case. Eight months after being spuriously charged with burglary, imprisoned overnight and deprived of our clothes and shoes before being released to find our way home in the small hours, the sixteen of […]
On July 21st 2012, residents of the Carpenters Estate in Stratford, East London, were denied access to their home by BBC security personnel and police, who refused to explain their actions. After an hour of obfuscation, the police admitted that they had no legal powers to prevent families entering their own […]
The first Occupy Research Collective (ORC) Convergence recently took place in London. Around 50 people participated, and dozens more watched online. The theme of the day was “ethics and activist research”. In the spirit of Occupy, however, the final agenda was decided collectively on the day of the event. Discussion topics included […]
According to bailiffs, private property developers at Runnymede campus are attempting to take out a new injunction against the ‘Diggers 2012’, a collective of would-be eco villagers who have been camping on the site for more than a month. The injunction sought would criminalise trespass, combining an eviction order with powers […]
The ‘Occupy Eleven’, arrested and charged with “obstruction of a bailiff enacting a high court writ” during the eviction of the Occupy camp at St Paul’s Cathedral, have been found guilty but were released this afternoon with conditional discharges. The judge handed out the lowest sentence possible, despite the prosecution’s […]
Every morning this week, Occupy activists have been up early, quietly placing stickers on the panels of the ‘Boris bikes’, which are sponsored by Barclays. The London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) rate fixing scandal is being described as possibly the biggest fraud in history, affecting hundreds of trillions of dollars […]
The UN Rio+20 Earth Summit is underway. It has been two decades since the first Rio Summit in 1992 when the UN first began to talk about sustainable development and environmentalism. However, this time around, the commitments are political rather than legal, and the sense of momentum and ambition that’s […]
A new branch of Occupy emerged this summer, outside a luxury hotel conference centre not far from Washington DC. Occupy London was there… The black limos glide past the placards, the fingers pointing, the furious bullhorns, past the lines of security, and into the calm and leafy interior of the […]
A protester involved in the ‘Save Leyton Marsh’ campaign has been issued with an Anti-Social Behaviour Order (ASBO) by Westminster Magistrates’ Court. The two-year order handed to Simon Moore on June 18th was granted “to prevent conduct leading to the disruption of the Olympic Games events 2012”. Mr Moore’s offences […]
In early June Occupy activists joined festival enthusiasts and campaign groups in Somerset to collaborate in the creation of a ‘Tin Village’ at the Sunrise festival site. Over the summer Solstice weekend, Tin Village existed as a temporary, self-sufficient, co-operative community within the festival – a community based on a […]