London to Follow New York as Thousands Plan to Occupy The City

October 14, 2011

Saturday’s Occupy LSX protest is to centre on Paternoster Square, near the UK HQs of iconic financial institutions including Bank of America and Goldman Sachs. Participants are asked to assemble in front of St Paul’s Cathedral at 12 noon tomorrow, Saturday 15 October. “The Wall Street protests sort of inspired everything,” said Kai Wargalla, one of the organisers of Saturday’s protest. “It was just time to start here. We need people to step up and speak out. The movement aims to unite the United Kingdom’s far-flung activist communities in addressing ‘the inequality of the financial system.”

Continue reading →

Continue reading →

Continue reading →

Continue reading →

Continue reading →

Continue reading →

NYPD Reportedly Targeting Photographers At Occupation Of Wall Street

Photographs and especially videos of the NYPD’s actions during the occupation of Wall Street have sparked outrage and media attention regarding the protests, which have now spanned ten days. Accordingly, witnesses, including our own photographer, tell us that the NYPD has been specifically targeting photographers and videographers for arrest. Two protestors who were maintaining the live video feed of the protests were arrested on Saturday, the first claiming that she was detained solely because she was holding a camera. “Those are the first people the police go after,” protest organizer Patrick Bruner tells us. “They’re always the first to get held up.”

Continue reading →

The Government is soon to vote on passing a bill in the House of Lords which will mean the sell off of our NHS. An NHS that brings envy to most countries around the world. An NHS that is here to serve and protect the People. An NHS that does this not for profit or greed but exists in order to bring medical care to every part of society no matter if you can afford to pay for it or not.

On October 9, 2011, please come to Westminster Bridge, London at 1pm and show your support for our NHS. We the People intend to block the bridge and remind the Government that they are here to serve us the People. Its time to show the Government that we will never give in. The NHS is not for sell!!

“Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never–in nothing, great or small, large or petty–never give in, except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.”

Continue reading →

by Alison Banville 19 Sept 2011

The deaths of four miners at the Gleision Colliery in the Swansea Valley are a tragic reminder that even in our high-speed, high-tech society it is still possible for men to lose their lives doing dangerous manual labour. And it doesn’t come more dangerous than mining, which is why, in Britain in 2011, four men have died in a dark tunnel underground, hewing coal from the bowels of the earth. Garry Jenkins, 39, Philip Hill, 45, David Powell, 50, and Charles Breslin, 62, have joined the roll of honour of the hundreds killed in mine disasters in Wales since the green valleys were first torn open in the search for the black stuff. These catastrophes have successively rocked close-knit communities, devastating families and causing unimaginable grief. Who can conceive of what the wives and children, as well as all the other family members and friends, of these men are suffering? And this after the agony of waiting for news. The story of Wales is a story of such loss:

 The worst disaster in not just Welsh, but British, coal-mining history was the Senghenydd tragedy of 1913 in which 439 miners were killed in an explosion and fire, and this barely a decade after a previous disaster in the same mine in 1901 which buried 78 men alive after three early morning explosions shattered the pit-head. Into the 20th century the horror continued: 1934 was the year 266 men were killed in an explosion at the Gresford Colliery, Wrexham, an event which gave us, ‘Gresford: The Miner’s Hymn’:

CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE READING