This week, Ben Dyson of positivemoney.org.uk explains how high street banks create money they never even had in the first place… The Occupied Times: So Ben, let’s talk money. BEN DYSON: Money is at the root of all the social problems that we’re facing today: poverty is a lack of […]
Last week we weighed up the ‘for’ and ‘against’ arguments for being portrayed as anti-capitalist. This week, anarchism is our topic. As political philosophies go, anarchism is one of the most misunderstood, but could it contain the answers to the world’s problems? FOR – Donnacha DeLong Do you like being […]
“All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.” said one of Canon Chancellor Giles Fraser’s favourite authors – Friedrich Nietzsche. In the light of last week’s events, we can take this affirmation even further and say, at least in the case of Canon Fraser, that some great thoughts are embodied […]
Nawal El Saadawi is one of Egypt’s most prominent activists and feminists. She has been working for equality and an end to gender discrimination since the 1950s, and has been jailed and exiled for her writings and protests. She has been a presence in Cairo’s Tahrir Square since January 2011. […]
The Occupied Times gets the low down on the meltdown with former Wall Street broker, financial analyst and broadcaster, Max Keiser of www.maxkeiser.com The Occupied Times: So Max, what on earth is going on? Max Keiser: Well, the global problem of predatory banks has engendered a global response. But unlike […]
The big green anti-capitalist banner at our occupation at St Paul’s has kicked off a frenetic in-camp debate. Are we happy to be portrayed as anti-capitalist or not? We asked two writers to put their views across… Yes! – Anon Albert Einstein famously defined insanity as doing the same thing […]
It’s over a week since more than 3000 people first occupied St. Paul’s, and many of us are still here. The transformation of the site has been incredible. We have a kitchen serving food around the clock in accordance with health and safety regulations, an info tent, recycling centre, library, […]