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Published in: openDemocracyUKWelcome to ‘Bitter Britain’: repression of student demo is a sign of the timesThe London student demonstration on 9 Nov showed how the movement has transformed since the tuition fees protests...
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Published in: 50.50Citizen action and the perverse confluence of opposing agendasWhen opposing political interests are using the same terms and tactics in diametrically opposed agendas, Lisa...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKBatman in Wall Street
The sub-Hollywood spectacle of the new Batman film - being shot in Wall Street - provides a striking contrast to the...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK#Occupy - What do they want?
Last week's discussion at the Frontline Club - with OurKingdom associate editor Aaron Peters and others - looking at...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKNo deadlines: Occupy London activists won't be co-opted
The City of London Corporation has dropped its threat to evict 'tent city' at St Paul's Cathedral. Negotiations are...
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Published in: HomeOccupy Wall Street and the Tea Party: bedfellows?
The Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street are expressions of pain from differing points of view of the same social...
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Published in: HomeA call for the rally, ‘Plebiscite Now! Let the Majority Decide’
This is the latest communiqué from the Occupy movements to add to our collection. Democracia para Chile is preparing...
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Published in: HomeSo goes California, so goes the nation?The city of Oakland in California has become the militant heart of the occupations movement in the US following a...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKChurch, city, media: how the message of #OccupyLondon is being disrupted
OccupyLondon's encampment is facing eviction from outside St Paul's cathedral. The Church of England and City of...
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Published in: HomeAfter St Paul's: the smoke this time
An encampment around St Paul’s cathedral in London casts a new light on this icon of British wartime defiance. But...
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Published in: HomeInterpreting the ‘Occupy Movement’: stewardship lost and found
As the latest movement of the 99% take to the streets, one important underlying concept we need to grasp about the...
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Published in: HomeRessentiment: how sniping at OWS feeds a dangerous populism
The right criticises OWS because it lacks order ... or surreptitiously injects hierarchy; because it respects...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKLacking transparency? Can #OccupyLondon live up to its own demands
The Occupy protest site at St Paul's Cathedral has become a thriving community. But errors of judgment have left it...
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Published in: HomeOccupy Wall Street: where are the migrants?The lack of demographic diversity amongst the protestors and uncertainty about their demands make Occupy Wall Street...
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Published in: HomeSolidarity letter from Cairo
A letter of solidarity to those in the United States currently participating in the 'occupy' protests. Citing a...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK“I demand to know what you’re demanding!”: remarks on programme at #OccupyLondon
The political class want the London occupation to make demands of them - but the protestors aren't accepting this...
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Published in: HomeMarkets, media, the occupiers and the next stepIn Occupy Wall Street old forms of protest and new forms of media are bringing in new players and new political...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKOccupy: Catalepsy/Multitude/Consensus/CrisisWhen is a square 'occupied' and when is it 'seized'? Is the Occupy movement on behalf of the 'multitude' or the...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKA plea to St Paul's: follow Christ's teachings and support #OccupyLondon
London's tent city is on sacred land - the skirts of St Paul's Cathedral. The Cathedral's position on the occupation...
