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ECB Frankfurt Occupy camp cleared

ECB Frankfurt Occupy camp cleared

The Occupy camp situated in Frankfurt's financial district, at the foot of the European Central Bank, was cleared this afternoon in a lightning raid, approved by the city's Administrative Court.  The police admitted they had chosen a moment when the majority of...

“Wendland am Main” – Blockupy to return

“Wendland am Main” – Blockupy to return

One week after the Blockupy protests the Blockupy Alliance has concluded that the event was on balance a success - despite the ban. So much so, that the activists have announced their return to Frankfurt, and to turn it into what the German left call a "Wendland",...

Blockupy and The Politics of Crisis

Blockupy and The Politics of Crisis

The politics of crisis speaks among other things to the inherent crisis within the capitalist process. Nonlinear studies of capitalism, for example, take a far more honest approach to their subject matter. One can read the theology that is neoclassical economics and...

Administrative Court upholds Blockupy-ban

Administrative Court upholds Blockupy-ban

The Administrative Court in Frankfurt has today (14 May) confirmed the general Blockupy-ban issued by Frankfurt's public order councillor Markus Frank. Likewise, the Occupy camp in Willy-Brandt Platz may also be 'temporarily' cleared away. The court did provide for...