Prosecution of a F&M145 arrestee falls apart
Today my trial for a two hour sit-in at Fortnum and Mason ended far faster than anyone estimated. The trial was scheduled to end on the November 30th, however a…
Fortnum and Mason 145 Trial: Day 2
Report from the courtroom from an anonymous ‘Spartacus’, first published at the FM145 website here. To begin with the court was adjourned until 11, DJ snow was at a meeting…
Scottish Green Party Conference Review 2011
Scottish Green Party conference 2011 was a pretty subdued affair as might be expected after the poor election result in May. There were some real highlights, though. The speakers gave…
A Despatch from OccupyLSX
I’ve wanted to drop in on the OccupyLSX camp outside St Paul’s Cathedral ever since it was set up and on Tuesday I finally got there. I wandered down with…
Day One of the Fortnum and Mason 145 Trial
Report from the court room by an anonymous defendant originally posted at the FM145 site. Nerve racking morning, early start, with all the anticipation of an 8 months wait since…
Occupy LSX, Monopoly and Mindless Materialism
Growing up, did you ever play Monopoly or Risk? Did you ever get to a point where you simply picked up the board, chucked the pieces in the air and…
Technology, self-organisation & some dreams for the #Occupy movement…
This post is by Liam Barrington-Bush, and first appeared at Concrete Solutions On my first day hanging around Finsbury Square, the 2nd London manifestation of the #Occupy movement, I met…
Northern Ireland Green Party Conference 2011
The Green Party in Northern Ireland’s conference took place in the Ramada Encore Hotel in Belfast’s trendy Cathedral Quarter last weekend – five minutes’ walk away is Writer’s Square, where…
Some thoughts on LSX
By Daniel Fisher "My mistake - a terrible mistake for a radical - was in thinking too small. You do not win because of your rhetoric. You do not win…
Policing politics?
This is a slightly longer version of an article which appeared yesterday in Edinburgh University’s Student newspaper. It hopefully has some utility for others who are working towards social change…