{"id":41,"date":"2011-10-18T22:01:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-18T21:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paganfreak.net\/MonkeyBlog\/?p=41"},"modified":"2012-03-04T17:52:56","modified_gmt":"2012-03-04T17:52:56","slug":"occupy-london-stock-exchange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paganfreak.org\/MonkeyBlog\/?p=41","title":{"rendered":">Occupy London Stock Exchange"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>>I ment to update this blog at the weekend, but sadly didn&#8217;t have time. Oh<br \/>well better late than never. My friend &#038; I didn&#8217;t get to St Pauls till quite late<br \/>in the day, so no didn&#8217;t aee Julian Assange or hear him speak. On arrival<br \/>found that the police were blocking the road. However, a nice chap told us<br \/>to nip round a back street to where we could get through police lines &#038;<br \/>into the Demo. Wasn&#8217;t that many Tents erected at the time, though that<br \/>had changed before we left later on that evening. Overall the atmosphere<br \/>was good, only a couple of scuffles when the police lines started to begin<br \/>their kettling manovers, moving in &#038; enclosing people into a smaller &#038;<br \/>smaller space. However, people sitting down row upon row, seemed to<br \/>stop them from making the enclosure very small. The Police tactic of the<br \/>day was to spend a couple of hours not letting anyone in or out, then a<br \/>couple of hours letting people in &#038; out. So it wasn&#8217;t just a case of trapping<br \/>people for hours on end. Contrary to many of the rightwing comments I<br \/>have seen flying about the internet stating that the protesters are all<br \/>unwashed workshy spongers. The protesters we met are people that have<br \/>come together, from all spectrums of society, who have had enough of a<br \/>failing global economic system. A System that does not work to give<br \/>security or a decent standard of living for the majority of humanity. Neo<br \/>Liberal Capitalism has continually shown itself to be a system that works<br \/>for the few at the cost of the many. It is evolving in such a ways as to begin<br \/>the creation of a Global Feudal Society. A system that privatises profit &#038;<br \/>power (for the few) &#038; socialises debt &#038; poverty (too the many). My friend &#038; I cannot stay at the occupation site, however we intend to keep on on<br \/>visiting the occupation whenever we can for as long as we can. My hope<br \/>is that others will do the same,in regards to all the occupation sites across the UK &#038; where they are taking place around the world, as this will keep numbers up &#038; will not let the impact of this important Global protest fade away.<\/p>\n<p>Finally a Big Shout Out to those people who are on the <a href=\"http:\/\/jarrowmarch11.com\/\">Jarrow to London March<\/a>(another social protest not seen or heard much in the mainstream press. This march began 75 years after the original march of October 1936. It is a march for jobs &#038; will be arriving In London on November the 5th ending in a rally at Trafalgar Square.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>>I ment to update this blog at the weekend, but sadly didn&#8217;t have time. Ohwell better late than never. My friend &#038; I didn&#8217;t get to St Pauls till quite latein the day, so no didn&#8217;t aee Julian Assange or hear him speak. On arrivalfound that the police were blocking the road. However, a nice &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/paganfreak.org\/MonkeyBlog\/?p=41\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;>Occupy London Stock Exchange&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uk-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganfreak.org\/MonkeyBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganfreak.org\/MonkeyBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganfreak.org\/MonkeyBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganfreak.org\/MonkeyBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganfreak.org\/MonkeyBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/paganfreak.org\/MonkeyBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44,"href":"https:\/\/paganfreak.org\/MonkeyBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions\/44"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganfreak.org\/MonkeyBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganfreak.org\/MonkeyBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganfreak.org\/MonkeyBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}