As the Occupations go Global, nine are ongoing in the UK

22nd Octo­ber 2011

 

On 15th Octo­ber 2011 the Occu­py Wall Street protests went glob­al with over 1,000 protests around the plan­et. In the UK a num­ber of towns and cities saw occu­py actions which are ongo­ing.

22nd Octo­ber 2011

 

On 15th Octo­ber 2011 the Occu­py Wall Street protests went glob­al with over 1,000 protests around the plan­et. In the UK a num­ber of towns and cities saw occu­py actions which are ongo­ing.

Birm­ing­ham pro­tes­tors met at Vic­to­ria Square, [ 1 | 2 ] and start­ed their on-going occu­pa­tion. A small protest took place in Sheffield and Cardiff. Sev­er­al thou­sand attend­ed a ral­ly in Lon­don, where despite a show of force by the Met, a Gen­er­al Assem­bly was held and tents pitched in front of St. Paul’s Cathe­dral. In Scot­land, tents were pitched in Glas­gow’s George Square and Edin­burgh’s St. Andrew’s Square. Ongo­ing occu­pa­tions also start­ed in, Nor­wich, Not­ting­ham, New­cas­tle and Bris­tol [ 1 | 2 ]. These occu­pa­tions joined Man­ches­ter which had already been in Occu­pa­tion since Octo­ber 3rd, when a camp was start­ed in Albert Square, which lat­er moved to the Peace Gar­dens after nego­ti­a­tions with the coun­cil and police. Future occu­pa­tions are being dis­cussed in many oth­er places.