{"id":82,"date":"2011-10-21T16:24:45","date_gmt":"2011-10-21T16:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/criticalmassfilm.com\/blog\/?p=82"},"modified":"2011-10-21T16:56:31","modified_gmt":"2011-10-21T16:56:31","slug":"between-two-mirrors-occupy-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/criticalmassfilm.com\/blog\/between-two-mirrors-occupy-london\/","title":{"rendered":"Between Two Mirrors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been watching as the <a href=\"http:\/\/occupywallst.org\/\">Occupy Wall Street<\/a> movement in New York City gains momentum.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-us-canada-15320416\">Worldwide<\/a>, similar movements centred on similar flash points of discontent have been bubbling up.\u00a0 I attended the first day of the <a href=\"http:\/\/occupylondon.org.uk\/\">Occupy London<\/a> protest, and I filmed some footage I have compiled into a short film which is embedded below and also available <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/30848233\">here<\/a> to download for free under a Creative Commons license.\u00a0 If you find something of value in it, please feel free to download and share it as widely as you see fit, with attribution as appropriate.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/30848233?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"440\" height=\"248\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitAllowFullScreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nI have wanted to write something about this situation but I couldn&#8217;t come up with the right idea for how to approach this very important issue from an honest place.\u00a0 However, after seeing <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/N9HvJhilJzo\">this video of USMC Sgt. Shamar Thomas<\/a> berating the NYPD for their behaviour, and after seeing and speaking with the police and protesters here in London about why they are doing what they are doing, I feel the best way to address this from my perspective is as <a href=\"http:\/\/criticalmassfilm.com\/blog\/?p=93\">an open letter<\/a>.\u00a0 I hope that I have done justice to the principles of all the people involved in these recent events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been watching as the <a href=\"http:\/\/occupywallst.org\/\">Occupy Wall Street<\/a> movement in New York City gains momentum.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-us-canada-15320416\">Worldwide<\/a>, similar movements centred on similar flash points of discontent have been bubbling up.\u00a0 I attended the first day of the <a href=\"http:\/\/occupylondon.org.uk\/\">Occupy London<\/a> protest, and I filmed some footage I have compiled into a short film which [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,5,6,9,10],"tags":[102,308,305,306,291,309,331,333,311,19,314,264,313,315,269,270,330,11,245,75,36,322,37,39,38,317,26,281,258,316,18,319,266,265,22,21,23,329,328,60,76,324,321,15,17,320,303,301,307,304,302,292,310,318,325,327,326,334,339,340,335,62,61,96,323,336,337,20,312,338,332],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-people","category-politics","category-population","category-snafu","category-the-new-us","tag-criticalmassdoc","tag-occupyeverywhere","tag-occupylondon","tag-occupylsx","tag-occupywallst","tag-october15","tag-wearethe99","tag-99-percent","tag-anonymous","tag-bank-of-england","tag-bankers","tag-banking","tag-banks","tag-banksters","tag-central-bank","tag-central-banking","tag-corporations","tag-critical-mass","tag-critical-mass-documentary","tag-critical-mass-film","tag-doc","tag-docs","tag-docu","tag-documentaries","tag-documentary","tag-dollar","tag-economics-2","tag-economy","tag-euro","tag-fed-reserve","tag-federal-reserve","tag-fiat","tag-fiat-currency","tag-fiat-money","tag-fractional-reserve","tag-fractional-reserve-banking","tag-full-reserve","tag-go-pro","tag-gopro","tag-london-riots","tag-mike-freedman","tag-mini-doc","tag-monetary-system","tag-money","tag-money-creation","tag-money-system","tag-occupy-everywhere","tag-occupy-london","tag-occupy-lsx","tag-occupy-protests","tag-occupy-wall-st","tag-occupy-wall-street","tag-october-15","tag-pound","tag-pov","tag-pov-doc","tag-pov-film","tag-protest","tag-protesters","tag-protestors","tag-protests","tag-riot","tag-riots","tag-shopocalypse-now","tag-short-doc","tag-st-pauls","tag-st-pauls-cathedral","tag-the-fed","tag-v-for-vendetta","tag-vimeo","tag-we-are-the-99-percent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/criticalmassfilm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/criticalmassfilm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/criticalmassfilm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/criticalmassfilm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/criticalmassfilm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/criticalmassfilm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95,"href":"https:\/\/criticalmassfilm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions\/95"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/criticalmassfilm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/criticalmassfilm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/criticalmassfilm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}