A couple of posters from the
A couple of posters from the colonnade at St Paul’s yesterday:One for us to adopt, I think?There really is a Wall Street in London, in Islington.There were ten of us yesterday, including two contacts. Which meant that we had more discussions, ran out of leaflets and disposed of more Socialist Standards and pamphlets.One troubling thing was a City of London policeman going around making notes about all the stalls. Apparently the police are thinking of cracking down on “hawkers”, probably as part of a plan of petty harrassment of the Occupation. Police have tried this on us in the past to try to stop us selling the Socialist Standard in the streets. There were in fact hawkers there selling souvenir posters and badges of the Occupation and there is a possibility that the Occupiers (who are pursuing the intelligent policy of strictly following the law so as not to give the authorities any excuse to intervene) might go along with banning them. Hopefully this will only be a remote possibility as for them to agree to others who have set up stalls without permission being moved on would be the height of irony (or would it be hypocrisy?).Anyway we are not hawkers. We are just there to discuss and hand out leaflets and other publications.