{"id":68,"date":"2011-10-22T11:26:17","date_gmt":"2011-10-22T11:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.innerquests.netstorms.org\/?p=68"},"modified":"2011-10-22T11:26:17","modified_gmt":"2011-10-22T11:26:17","slug":"occupy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/2011\/10\/22\/occupy\/","title":{"rendered":"Occupy London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"410\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ygAdr6gzN6Q\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>On Thursday I took my Flip to Occupy London at St Paul&#8217;s and did this vid. I&#8217;ve heard radio pundits ask what it&#8217;s going to achieve. I think that people asking questions and establishing dialogue about what matters is not just a means to bring about change but is itself part of the change we want. <\/p>\n<p>Occupy is significant because it is a spontaneous thing that is happening all over the world. It connects us. The protests before the invasion of Iraq were somewhat similar but those were protests against a particular action of an unjust system; this is a challenge to and a questioning of the whole system of global injustice.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A study by the World Institute for Development Economics Research at United Nations University reports that the richest 1% of adults alone owned 40% of global assets in the year 2000, and that the richest 10% of adults accounted for 85% of the world total. The bottom half of the world adult population owned barely 1% of global wealth.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/International_inequality\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/International_inequality<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As someone who has been an educator all my life I know that the most significant part of being an educator is getting learners to question, because without that ability to question and a commitment to doing so there is only acceptance of received knowledge whether that received knowledge is true or not. Occupy is questioning the status quo and from what I saw it&#8217;s do that in a very creative way. It will be interesting to observe the developing relationship between this world wide movement and the mainstream media and mainstream politics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday I took my Flip to Occupy London at St Paul&#8217;s and did this vid. I&#8217;ve heard radio pundits ask what it&#8217;s going to achieve. I think that people asking questions and establishing dialogue about what matters is not just a means to bring about change but is itself part of the change&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/2011\/10\/22\/occupy\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102,36,40],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}