On April 15th, to mark the six month anniversary of the beginning of Occupy London, occupiers from Finsbury Square and the Nomadic Occupy camps reunited with those who camped for four long winter months in the shadow of St Paul’s. With chalk and tape, as dusk fell, occupiers marked the […]
Now Including a Retort by the Whitechapel Anarchist Group/Black Rose While the hype is all for a Global Spring resurgence of Occupy and allied movements in May, a few hardy refugees from the St Paul’s camp have been quietly occupying in East London for the past month. Nomadic Occupy broke […]
Yesterday the Telegraph linked graffiti daubed on the artist Damien Hirst’s sculpture, ‘Hymn‘, to an article published in The Occupied Times. The 20-foot tall, painted bronze sculpture of a human anatomy model is currently on display outside the Tate Modern as part of Hirst’s retrospective exhibition. It was sprayed with the word ‘Occupy’ on the left leg. The Telegraph described the graffiti as “lazy.” “It is the […]
Today in the royal Courts of Justice there have been some very fishy shenanigans going on. Save Leyton Marsh Campaign group and members of the Community Support Camp received two injunctions that were served around nine o’clock on Monday evening at the building site on Leyton Marsh when most of […]
News has emerged over the last few days of a shake-up in the City of London. The Occupied Times of London has learned that there have been ‘advanced discussions’ within the upper echelons of the City of London Corporation about moving towards independent statehood. The City of London already holds city status, but […]
Last week more than seven hundred students demonstrated in defiance against Universities Minister David Willetts and his plans to further privatise the University sector. The march called by the Education Activist Network, ULU and various Students’ Unions across London coincided with the day of walkouts called by the National Union […]
In spite of widespread public outrage, nearly every Royal College opposing it and a coalition ranging from the Conservative Home blog on the right to Leftist activists at the opposite end of the political spectrum who have demanded that the government drop the Health and Social Care Bill, the coalition […]
NHS staff were joined last Saturday by members of the public and activists including contingents from Occupy London and Anonymous UK in a demonstration over the government’s proposed health service reforms. Around 200 people gathered outside the Department of Health building in Whitehall, where speakers addressed the crowd. As the […]
As the St. Paul’s encampment chapter of Occupy London closes, Finsbury’s blossoming eco-village is preparing to accommodate some of the occupiers forced by eviction to relocate their passion, politics and possessions. Public spending cuts have left the square’s owners, the Borough of Islington, with an overstretched legal team. Although officially […]
In a derelict school on Featherstone Street in Islington, radical ideas took root. On 11 February the School of Ideas opened it’s doors after free-thinking squatters took possession of the previously abandoned building. Open-plan, primary-coloured classrooms, a gym, an assembly hall and overgrown playgrounds were transformed into workshop and meeting […]