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jean lievens
May 7, 2015 3:21 PM
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Overlooking The Acropolis in Athens is a hillside. On the side of the hill, is a natural amphitheatre with a large stone. Orators would stand on the stone and address the crowd. That is what democr...
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jean lievens
November 30, 2014 12:15 PM
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This week, stalwarts of the Occupy Democracy campaign in Britain are continuing to stand their ground in Parliament Square. The heavy-handed police crackdown and evictions may have scuppered much of the plans for peaceful and creative demonstrations, but the re-emergence of the Occupy movement is a welcome sight in an increasingly unequal, stressed and disaffected city of London.
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jean lievens
November 18, 2014 4:59 PM
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#occupydemocracy protesters have called on supporters of democracy to join them as they re-occupy Parliament Square from 6pm this Friday at 6pm (21 November) for a long weekend. [1] In advance of the re-occupation, many #occupydemocracy supporters will be in attendance at the 24-hour Big NHS Sleepout / Vigil in the Square, which starts on Thursday at 7pm. [2]
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jean lievens
November 12, 2014 4:19 AM
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David Graeber: Sleeping outside for an iPhone is OK, but do it in furtherance of democratic expression and you’re in trouble
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jean lievens
October 28, 2014 3:30 PM
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From last Tuesday, Parliament Square was wrapped in wire mesh. In one of the more surreal scenes in recent British political history, officers with trained German shepherds stand sentinel each day, at calculated distances across the lawn, surrounded by a giant box of fences, three metres high – all to ensure that no citizen enters to illegally practice democracy. Yet few major news outlets feel this is much of a story.
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jean lievens
October 24, 2014 1:48 PM
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The Return of Occupy London
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jean lievens
October 24, 2014 6:04 AM
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Occupy is back in London, UK, with a renewed focus on politics and an ambitious vision: to galvanise a mass movement for real democracy and establish a huge People's Assembly to debate a list of specific demands for radical political reform.
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jean lievens
March 15, 2015 4:36 AM
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People gather during last year’s Occupy Hong Kong protests.
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jean lievens
November 25, 2014 12:49 PM
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Activists from the Occupy movement held their latest protest in London this weekend. What impact has the global movement had?
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jean lievens
November 12, 2014 6:16 AM
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The farcical police brutality towards Occupy Democracy is a sign the authorities are running scared, argues Hannah Martin.
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jean lievens
October 30, 2014 3:18 PM
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David Graeber: Sleeping outside for an iPhone is OK, but do it in furtherance of democratic expression and you’re in trouble
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jean lievens
October 24, 2014 3:08 PM
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If a progressive movement can gauge the effect it’s having from the response of the State, then the Unions should be ashamed of themselves, and the Occupy movement should be cheering loudly.
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jean lievens
October 24, 2014 6:10 AM
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At the weekend activists occupied Parliament Square to show solidarity with the activists in Hong Kong.
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