neutralisation

• Occupy: a civil disobedience campaign to change the world or just a camp site?
  Posted on February 29, 2012 by Louise Restell
  On Monday night, just after midnight, the police and bailiffs moved in to evict the anti-capitalist protestors from the Occupy London camp outside St Paul’s Cathedral. The protestors stressed their action wasn’t over but most did not resist the arm of the law. And so, the steps of the cathedral are once again the province of tourists, lunching city workers and the occasional worshipper. It may look a bit tidier, but have we lost something in insisting our landmarks are protest free?
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  Tagged: Canary Wharf, civil disobedience, John Rawls, Letter from Birmingham Jail, Martin Luther King, neutralisation, Occupy, Occupy London, St Paul's, Sykes and Matza, unjust laws