Voices from the Occupation
The Welfare Reform Bill – Tinmen, Search for your Hearts
This afternoon, the House of Commons voted overwhelmingly in favour of rejecting the compassionate amendments to the Welfare Reform Bill, put forward by the House of Lords in recent weeks. Today’s article discusses the Bill, the vote, the reaction, and why the tin men and women in the House of Commons, and the streets of Britain, should expedite the search for a heart.
One of the most common questions I get asked when people find out I am involved with the Occupy Movement, is ‘what is it like?’ The news may occasionally cover where Occupy is, but often not what, why or how Occupy is. So, today’s article gives you my ground eye view of the Occupy Movement last week – there are three days, featuring evictions, police lies, racism, love, a geodesic dome and lots, lots more.
Voices from the Occupation
The Case of OccupyLSX & The Cowardly Court
On Wednesday 18th December, OccupyLSX or Occupy London St Paul’s as it has become, lost its highcourt battle against eviction. The Judge – Sir Keith John Lindblom ruled in favour of the Corporation of the City of London on all counts and failed to grant an appeal. The City of London Corporation has granted a stay of eviction for 7 days whilst Occupy take their own appeal to the Court of Appeal. As the dust settles, and calls of ‘what next for Occupy?’ commence, today’s article looks at the trial, the verdict and the legacy of the Case of OccupyLSX and The Cowardly Court.
Yesterday would have been Martin Luther King Jr’s 83rd birthday, had he not been assassinated April 4th 1968. Speaking at Occupy London on December 15th last year, Reverand Jesse Jackson, who was with Martin Luther King as he died said: Gandhi was an occupier, he marched the sea protesting colonialism. Dr. King was an occupier, Mandela an occupier. They are all exalted as Martyrs now but rejected as occupiers, as protesters, as radicals; called terrorist by governments.
Voices from the Occupation
Britain’s NHS: Sold to the Highest Bidder
British tax payers would be forgiven for thinking that they have a National Health Service. However, this is a myth. Recent years have seen the government and private interests bankrupt the NHS then start selling it off to the same people who bankrupted it in the first place. Today’s article reveals the reality – that Britain’s public services are merely publicly funded private enterprises, and the devastating results on a sleeping population.