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OCCUPY 18/11/2011 Issue 23

Stay COSY this winter

WINTER WARMER CLOTHING

The search Engine this winter?

I Have been hearing about occupy protests cropping up all over the globe, from America to the UK, and when I heard there would be one starting up in Leeds, I decided I had to check it out for myself.

I wasn’t quite sure what they were all about, I knew they were representing the 99%, whatever that meant, but most of my information had come from an episode of south park, so my knowledge wasn’t the greatest.

Upon arriving I found a few tents and around

10 people, not quite what I was expecting when the label 99% percent had been used.

I talked to what looked like the man running things about what they were trying to achieve.

He talked about how they were sick of the rich and powerful 1% running the country for their own benefit, not really looking out for the average person, running every country into the ground for their own gains.

He spoke with a certain knowledge and thoughtfulness that had me gripped to his words, he talked stats

and percentages and seemed to know what he was talking about.

But all this aside, I couldn’t help but wondering what a few tents camped around a huge Christmas tree were going to do to help his fight.

After taking a few photos I set off home to look into how the other Occupy groups around Britain were doing. I found the Nottingham group had been out there for a month, and had grown in size with each week now having a mini settlement with marquees and communal areas,