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Occupy London protesters keen to regain focus on the City and bankers

Campaigners seek to move spotlight from St Paul's to unaccountability and the anomalous Corporation of London

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Less than an hour after the news that the Occupy London protest had, even indirectly, led to a second senior departure inside St Paul's Cathedral, and the activists were getting back to the matter in hand: targeting bankers, not clerics.
In another of the near-daily events at the camp intended as much for photographers and television crews as passers-by, a dozen or so protesters wearing tattered suits and white zombie makeup performed a clunkily choreographed mass dance routine to the tinny sound of Michael Jackson's Thriller, waving a huge, black banner saying: "Dancing on the grave of capitalism."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/oct/31/occupy-london-protest-city-bankers?newsfeed=true
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RE: Inside Out package, that video was incredibly balanced and informative, without sensationalism, do the BBC head honchos know its gone out!
 
So back to this....so far:


Any more suggestions to add below the points made below?​


Please quote and add to this list below:​


1. How about occupying libraries or other services under threat of closure?​
  • Both tempoary and permenant actions/occupations/blockades of selected buildings/organisations to draw attention to planned closures.

2. How can people how are not able to attend meetings/the camps have a greater say in where the protest/occupation is going in order to make it more representative of the 99%?

  • A meeting each week solely for watching/reading the suggestions/views of people off of site to reflect and discuss them.

3. Can the livestream be improved?


4. How does the occupation consider gaining union support?​


5. Does the occupation recognise that the struggle against cuts and job losses opposed by the unions are relevant to the cause of the 99?​


6. How do we engage and involve our street/homeless community on a level parity and use this campaign to highlight blatant poverty issues?​
  • Occupy London already has links with groups like Shelter. What more can they do?

7. How can the media attention on the camps be used to swing the focus on to the reasons for the protest rather than the protest itself?


8. Liberty want to end the confrontation caused by the occupation, but when you disagree with the people in power, confrontation is likely and probably useful. Ignore Liberty.​


9. The formal structures of the camp limit the ways people interact and take up a lot of energy. These will not be the long-term legacy of the occupation so try to reduce the amount of time spent on them. ​


10. Will it disband once the point has been made? Or is it there for as long as possible?​


11. The "We are the 99%" slogan was inclusive. It meant a wide range of people and opinions could join up to support occupation. Also what happened to the "we are the 99%"?​


12. Are the Occupations now moving to a green environmental solution to the economic crisis rather than keeping to the 99% slogan?​
 
So...it is important and interesting that the media are running stories and referring to the occupiers as 'squatters' now. Peaceful protest is okay but not turning a place into a squat is what Teresa May said this morning on the radio. Timing is everything...Just as the anti-sqautting discussions/laws are being amended.

!2 people arrested last night at the protest in Parliment Square also.
 
'St Paul’s Cross in the church yard of St Paul’s Cathedral is the ancient meeting point where the citizens of London would gather to decide matters of common concern. It was at the Cross that Saxons, Normans and others held a folkmoot in 1066 to decide how to respond to the invading army who were marching up from Hastings. They committed together to defending the city and eventually were able to negotiate a settlement with William the Conqueror, one which allowed them to maintain their rights and civic freedoms so that London was the only part of England that was not feudalised. So there is a certain irony that those who inherited the legacy of these civic institutions and freedoms, namely the Corporation of the City of London, are planning to evict the participants in the Occupy movement who are using the same location for a latter day folkmoot. But then the Corporation now represents those who benefitted from the biggest transfer of assets from poor to rich since the Norman Conquest.'

http://christianitycontemporarypoli...tle-of-st-paul-cathedral-occupy.html?spref=tw

The location of the occupation at S/P has a lot of significant historical resonance:
 
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