Revolution 99 Updates: ‘an idea cannot be evicted’
An Occupy protester’s story: ‘an idea cannot be evicted’
Tammy Samede arrived at St Paul’s last October as the protests began. Angry at police treatment, she has been there ever since.
Flanked by a QC and a crowd of protesters, 33-year-old Tammy Samede strode from the Royal Courts of Justice last month and addressed a crowd of microphones and cameras. “An idea cannot be evicted,” said Samede. “This is not the end.”
A judge had just ordered the Occupy London activists to leave their camp outside St Paul’s Cathedral. But she was defiant: the occupation would launch an appeal.
Standing next to Samede, Matthew Varnham was close to tears. “She was speaking in front of the world’s press, and she was on fire,” said Varnham, 22, a recent law graduate and fellow occupier. “Knowing her backstory, it was incredible.”
Samede first arrived at St Paul’s one Saturday morning last October. There were few other people around, so she sat on the cathedral steps, and waited. What she was waiting for, she did not really know. She had been following Occupy Wall Street, then only a few weeks old. Through Facebook, she had heard something similar might happen that day in London. But there was little sign of anyone else, and for a while Samede thought she might have wasted the train ticket from Crawley, west Sussex. More…
Forget Chocolate Covered Strawberries, Join Feminists and Occupy Valentine’s Day
Occupy Wall Street, Occupy Mayor Bloomberg’s House, even Occu-pies (mm.mm…toasty). With so many people invading private spaces lately, maybe it’s time we stopped with all the forced residencies. But on a day best known for its intimacy, amour, and privacy, watch out. It’s Valentine’s Day’s turn.
That’s right, Occupy V-day is making it onto feminist blogs, LGBT sites, and minds of singles everywhere. The official tumblr created by writer Samhita Mukhopadhyay celebrates love and romance and shuns the love industrial complex: the superficial piles of chocolates, flowers, or dinners; the heteronormative codes of conduct; the orchestrated gifting. Instead, have a “sexy conversation by candlelight with your partner about structural inequity.”
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