The 'Occupy' camps in London are basically there to achieve publicity / awareness-raising, and secondarily to promote networking between people who are concerned about these issues. It's likely that no particular intellectual advances will happen on site - but a lot of people are being brought up to speed on the various organisations, movements and theories that are out there, and the attention is (hopefully!) getting more people bumped out of complacency and thinking about the issues.
They're at St Paul's because it is about fifty meters from the London Stock Exchange, and anywhere nearer is private land which the police have barricaded off to prevent them occupying. The idea was to direct attention to the problems surrounding the financial sector, but that backfired rather when the church decided to showcase its problems instead...
(Other Occupy / 15M camps in other countries are doing slightly different things - in the US it is mostly publicity-raising again, as far as I can tell, but in the European countries with a much more advanced state of economic collapse, they are actually attempting to feed and house people and produce a secondary source of healthcare / production apart from the collapsed national economy.)
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Date: 2011-10-29 11:57 pm (UTC)From:They're at St Paul's because it is about fifty meters from the London Stock Exchange, and anywhere nearer is private land which the police have barricaded off to prevent them occupying. The idea was to direct attention to the problems surrounding the financial sector, but that backfired rather when the church decided to showcase its problems instead...
(Other Occupy / 15M camps in other countries are doing slightly different things - in the US it is mostly publicity-raising again, as far as I can tell, but in the European countries with a much more advanced state of economic collapse, they are actually attempting to feed and house people and produce a secondary source of healthcare / production apart from the collapsed national economy.)