Jump to content

Occupy Thanet

Add links
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by 5000jeffrey (talk | contribs) at 09:21, 3 March 2012 (adding link). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.


Occupy Thanet
Part of the Occupy movement
DateFrom 27 January 2011
Location
Thanet
Caused byEconomic inequality, corporate influence over government, Populism.
Methods
StatusOngoing

Occupy Thanet is part of the Occupy movement [1][2] which are against economic and social inequality, they are also focused on the local issues, these include the closure of Dreamland, and the shops in the Town. This protesting group is taking place at the Turner Contemporary Gallery in Margate. "since January 27th Occupy Thanet has been camped outside the Turner Gallery day and night - in deep snow and howling gales".

They have recently been getting a quite a bit of media attention, these include Occupy Thanet on facebook[3] on this page they have over 500 members and is growing. They have just started using Occupy Thanet on Twitter [4] and that has just started becoming quite busy. They have just produced a website called Occupy Thanet [5] it contains a lot of photo's about what they are about.

Background and Mission Statement

The original intent of Occupy Thanet, as with many of the other "Occupy" movements, which are protesting the role in which large corporations have taking away peoples human rights and have caused the financial crisis. The protesters in Thanet, as in other movements throughout the world, have described themselves as the "99 percent," a reflection of their belief that the financial system rewards the richest 1 percent at the expense of everyone else.

This movement is about creating a more fairer financial system than the one we currently have got. We demand that the government listen more to the needs of the 99% instead of the 1% which own corporations. This movement is interested in ending the massive corporations, like large banks which get bailed out with tax payers money. This movement is about economic security. This group is also focus on preventing banks and financial institutions from causing future economic crises. This movement is about corporate responsibility. The group want repercussions for corporations and institutions who cause serious financial damage to our country and its taxpayers. They are also interested in corporations and the wealthy pay their fair share in taxes.

Responses

They have received a lot of media attention recently, have been in the newspapers quite a bit, They have had VIP guests stopped to talk to the group including Channel 4 News anchor Jon Snow, Thanet North MP Sir Roger Gale and Margate mayor Iris Johnston. This was shown in the Thanet times, Thanet Gazzette, thisiskent [5][6] and kent online.[7] Their has been blogs produced which shows a lot of photos and some information about the protest [8][8][9] and a youtube video made from a supporter of the movement [10]

See also

References

  1. ^ Occupy movement Information on the Global Occupy Movement
  2. ^ List of Occupy movement protest locations A list of all the occupy movements that currently exist in the world
  3. ^ Occupy Thanet on facebook The facebook page which is being used by the Occupy Thanet
  4. ^ Occupy Thanet on Twitter The twitter page used by the Occupy Thanet
  5. ^ a b Occupy Thanet Website The occupy thanet website Cite error: The named reference "Just change the name here no5" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
  6. ^ http://www.thisiskent.co.uk/Occupy-Thanet-protest-Turner-Contemporary/story-15078409-detail/story.html A newspaper story written about occupy thanet
  7. ^ http://www.kentonline.co.uk/kentonline/news/2012/january/30/occupy_thanet_in_protest.aspx A newspaper story written about occupy thanet
  8. ^ a b http://www.urban75.org/blog/occupy-thanet-mini-protest-camp-braves-the-freezing-margate-snow/ A blog written about the occupy thanet Cite error: The named reference "Just change the name here no7" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
  9. ^ https://ianbone.wordpress.com/2012/02/12/occupy-thanet-in-margate-snow/ A wordpress article about occupy thanet
  10. ^ Occupy Thanet on Youtube A youtube clip showing occupy thanet
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Occupy_Thanet&oldid=479952777"