The Occupy movement – or #Occupy if you follow it on Twitter – started as an
anti-banking protest in New York a month ago, and has since spread from Madrid to Tokyo to Sydney.
Today at noon, Occupy London Stock Exchange will kick off, though it’s doubtful if activists will actually, well, occupy the London Stock Exchange. Occupy LSX has a website, and an email address for press enquiries. So, in the interests of spectatorship, Coffee House got in touch with Naomi Colvin, who wants to be known as a “supporter”:
Coffee House: It seems really official now. Do you guys have an office or something?
Naomi Colvin: We don’t have an office. I don’t think it’s that unusual for activist organisations to have a fairly professional press presence. Everyone is genned-up on social media, you really can’t exist if you don’t have a good social media presence. Things can be misrepresented if you are not trying to handle the message – there was an attempt to conflate UK Uncut with Black Bloc, that kind of stuff.
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