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Friday 18 November 2011

occupy london or occupy st. paul?


Occupy London gets into problem due to the deadline of using the land next to St. Paul. Two people from City of London ‘visited’ Occupy London’s house and gently post final notification to ask them move away and clean up all tents and living goods in St. Paul.
It happened very suddenly; when I interviewed one of member from occupy London, a lady shouted to everyone, “go outside, police with two strange men are coming.” Then, I went outside of tent together, and saw several policemen with two old men who were from City of London are taking an action to inform people move away.
It looks quite silence, without any fighting. But some people screaming to those two men and asked them who they were. Two men keep silence and to stick notice paper to each tent, during pasting papers they still kept smiling with the public even occupy London members shouted to them.
No fighting as NY, just like one member said, “we are legal citizen, and we do not use violence.” But Do they really ‘legal’? The guardian wrote that, one of occupied land belongs to another company, yet when I asked them, “don’t you think your action is also infringing others.”” They spoke that this land belongs to St. Paul but not city of London. And another young man said, “we need someone stands up even if we might face to go the jail.”
Occupy London does not like Occupy Wall Street, they are trying to use a peaceful way to protest. Tent University, AIDS office, café and food shops are set-up around occupy London’s tents. At night, somebody dancing, playing ball and chatting, it looks like another nation in London. After police informed them to move away, they still say, “we won't move away, we will celebrate xmas, new year and next year we will still be here.”

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