So long as the headlines of mainstream and corporate media remain the dominant billboards adorning the motorway of our media landscape, the prospects and achievements of Occupy London will remain stories untold to all than those who were here – venturing off-road. Rarely comprehended – and not often discussed – […]
“Don’t fall in love with yourselves, with the nice time we are having here. Carnivals come cheap-the true test of their worth is what remains the day after, how our normal daily life will be changed. Fall in love with hard and patient work – we are the beginning, not […]
All flourishing Christian organisations need to steer a careful course between mammon and morality. On the one hand there is the wealth, power and influence that flow out of such success, especially if it is millennia old (as with the Roman Catholic church) or backed by the state (as with […]
Occupy Sheffield hosted the third national Occupy UK Conference over the weekend 20-22 January. Around a hundred Occupiers from the north, south, east and west of Britain, plus visitors from Geneva and Australia, came together to share experiences and plan future strategies. The conference was, for many, a much needed […]
I was a little disconcerted on my first couple of visits to OccupyLSX by the number of people walking around with their faces entirely covered. There is a healthy contingent of Anonymous UK occupiers who wear the iconic Guy Fawkes mask from the V for Vendetta film but they can […]
Can you imagine a globalisation that would work for the 99%? Where need is put before greed? And institutions work to find global solutions to global problems? I’ll be honest, I can’t and that’s because of the globalisation we have right now. Let’s look at what has been globalised to […]
When the cosy physical and intellectual structures that we used to live in are reduced to matchwood debris strewn along the tideline, right about now might be a good time to give some thought to catastrophic wave dynamics. History proceeds in waves, as pointed out by futurologists Alvin and Heidi […]
Last November I accompanied Rage Against the Machine’s Tom Morello to OLSX for a music magazine feature about the movement. On the way down we talked about the role of music and the media’s hunger for an Occupy anthem. Morello, who is as much an activist as a musician, thought […]
I felt compelled to stand as a litigant-in-person; it was not an intellectual decision. At first I felt no fear. Later, even the possibility of having debts of tens of thousands of pounds wasn’t enough to deter me. I saw the court case as an opportunity to communicate and to […]
From Athens to Lisbon, Madrid to London, Frankfurt to New York, a much delayed popular response to the 2008 financial crash took shape in 2011. Assurances by politicians of a much promised recovery rang hollow, and a recovery in the stock markets left almost all of society behind, provoking enormous […]