Thursday, 24 November 2011

Occupy London - Wonderful Community or Just Plain Awful

Occupy London - Wonderful Community or Just Plain Awful

Occupy London protesters talk about feeling "powerless" and the need for "real democracy," the "wonderful" life in the tents pitched on land possibly worth $156 million and how an obsession with money has "put the wrong things in our heart." One passerby laments that activists tend not to vote and others call the camp "a disgrace." Msnbc.com's Ian Johnston reports.

Psychoanalyst Janet Haney, 52, said she was staffing Occupy London's welfare tent to help some of the more vulnerable people who have gathered at the camp, enabling the protesters to continue drawing attention to the need for change and thinking about what that change should be.

"How can you expect this bunch of people to solve this problem in two weeks? What this is good for is to create the conversation in the most important places in our society," Haney said.

Many interviews with the people living and supporting Occupy London.

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