Category Archives: Occupation

The Occupied Times

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Occupy London Stock Exchange movement protestors in London have just produced the first edition of The Occupied Times a free newspaper documenting and putting the case for the protest camp. The launch, held on the steps of St Paul’s, saw the first copy handed over to the Museum of London who will frame and hold [...]

Occupy Wall Street

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A message from our friends at Adbusters: Alright you redeemers, rebels, radicals and utopian dreamers out there, A worldwide shift in revolutionary tactics is underway right now that bodes well for the future. The spirit of this fresh tactic, a fusion of Tahrir with the acampadas of Spain, is captured in this quote: The antiglobalization [...]

The Devil’s Money

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As part of the ongoing campaign to get Oil money out of Arts Sponsorship in the UK which involves Platform, Liberate Tate and the Campaign against Tar Sands among others as it’s promoters, the wonderful Reverend Billy and the Church of Earthalujah stopped by London to attempt to exorcise the demon that is BP’s sponsorship [...]

Bee-have! Arts Againsts Cuts Occupies The National Gallery

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During the tumultous day of protest as Parliament voted to enslave a generation as the cost of getting an education, and end Public funding for the Art and Humanities in Higher Education, artists, art school students, lecturers and workers gathered to occupy room 43 of the National Gallery to protest. At 5pm around 250 sat [...]