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Occupy movement

August 2015

  • London's Thames Path.

    London's public and private spaces – can you spot the difference? Quiz

    Just because it has benches and fountains doesn’t mean it’s public space. As land in the UK capital is transferred into private hands, can you tell which is which?

July 2015

  • A person with an iPad takes a photograph of a large flag as demonstrators with 'Occupy Wall Street' occupy Zuccotti Park on September 30, 2011 in New York. The demonstrators are protesting bank bailouts, foreclosures and high unemployment from their encampment in the financial district of New York City. AFP PHOTO/Stan HONDA (Photo credit should read STAN HONDA/AFP/Getty Images)

    New York City settles Occupy Wall Street pepper spray lawsuit for $50,001

    Protester Kelly Schomburg filed suit after NYPD officer Anthony Bologna pepper-sprayed a group of protesters in 2011, when Schomburg was 18
  • Karissa McKelvey plays the trumpet as Strike Debt members march through New Orleans

    Strike Debt: Occupy offshoot fights for students at New Orleans parade

    One of the movement’s last offshoots is grappling with the financial burden of college, making their views heard at financial aid advisers’ ‘private Mardi Gras’
  • Occupy London protester

    City of London police put Occupy London on counter-terrorism presentation with al-Qaida

    Anti-capitalist campaigners described as ‘domestic extremism’ and put on slide with pictures of 2005 London bombing and the 1996 IRA bombing

June 2015

  • El Celler de Can Roca, in Girona, Spain, which was chosen as No 1 on the 50 Best Restaurants list.

    Shortcuts
    Occupy Fine Dining! How the 99% is taking on gastronomy

    The collective Occupy 50 Best has launched a campaign challenging the methods and transparency of the World’s 50 Best Restaurants list

May 2015

  • occupy london camp st pauls london banner capitalism is crisis

    Giles Fraser: my hopes for the Occupy St Paul's drama that puts me on the stage

    When anti-capitalist protesters set up camp on the steps of St Paul’s in London, its canon chancellor found himself at the heart of a crisis that shook the church even more than the City. As a new play, Temple, explores the affair, he questions the very existence of the cathedral itself

April 2015

  • Pro-Beijing demonstrators stage a rally outside the government building in Hong Kong on Wednesday.

    Hong Kong's draft election law gives little ground to protesters' demands

    Dissenting lawmakers walk out of legislative council as proposed reform to how city chooses its leader is denounced as fake democracy
  • 14 Apr 2015, Boston, Massachusetts, USA --- Union members from Service Employees International Union, SEIU march through the streets of Boston as part of the "Fight for 15" protests on April 14th, 2015. "Fight for 15" is a protest by unions to have wages for fast food workers, home care workers, airport workers, Walmart employees and adjunct professors to be paid $15.00 per hours. Protesters leave a McDonalds after briefly occupying the restaurant in Kenmore Square in Boston.

    What a $15 minimum wage means for US small businesses

    Small business owners, managers and employees around the country tell us how a $15 wage would affect them

    • The Hand That Feeds: how undocumented workers at a New York bakery chain won higher wages

    • University of the Arts London wins injunction against students over protest

    • Is the left in Britain still alive and well?

March 2015

  • Protestors

    Leadership
    The fossil fuel divestment campaign is inherently flawed

    Gerrit Heyns
    There is no winning scenario for the planet in an institutional divestment strategy, says Gerrit Heyns
  • Activists march in a demonstration organised by the Blockupy movement to protest against the policies of the European Central Bank in Frankfurt

    Blockupy: anti-ECB protest in Frankfurt – in pictures

    A demonstration organised by the Blockupy movement to protest against the policies of the European Central Bank began after it officially inaugurated its new headquarters on Wednesday morning in Frankfurt, Germany. Thousands of protesters took part while riot police equipped with water cannon established a wide security perimeter around the ECB site
  • Homeless camp in Tucson, Arizona

    Arizona homeless camp protesters ordered to move out by Friday night

    ‘Safe Park’ occupants must remove sleeping pods after judge tells city attorneys injunction he issued did not prohibit them from clearing out the pods

February 2015

  • chicago black site postcard

    #Gitmo2Chicago: protests target police 'black site'

    Homan Square abuse allegations encircle mayor Rahm Emanuel as Anonymous, Occupy and Black Lives Matter take to social media and Chicago streets
  • The golf course for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games in the Barra da Tijuca neighbourhood, pictured this week.

    Rio 2016: Occupy takes swing at Olympic golf course

    Demonstrators unhappy at building of site in environmental reserve and question officials’ relationship with property developers

    • Police made valid arrests during Occupy protest on Brooklyn bridge, court rules

    • Hong Kong pro-democracy protests – in pictures

    • Hong Kong democracy protesters return to the streets

January 2015

  • Public outrage at the failures of the finance system were at their height during the Occupy protests.

    Rethinking prosperity
    Civil society urges politicians to transform the finance system

    Manifesto backed by 11 organisations calls on next government to create a finance system that serves society, the environment and the wider economy
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