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'We want to build a slum city' say Occupy Bristol (UK) protesters (Hut Sweet Hut)
This Is Bristol ^ | 11/17/11

Posted on 11/17/2011 3:27:03 AM PST by Libloather

'We want to build a slum city' say Occupy Bristol protesters
Thursday, November 17, 2011 Bristol Evening Post

WOODEN shacks have sprung up on College Green, where anti-capitalist protesters say they want to create a "slum city".

Some shacks already have proper front doors, four walls and even makeshift wardrobes.

Campaigners have told the Evening Post they eventually want to replace all tents with shacks and even hope that some will become three storeys high.

Occupy Bristol, the UK's biggest tent protest outside London, began 34 days ago when around 200 people turned out to raise concerns about corporate greed and the current political system.

It has now tripled in size, with around 60 tents set up on the public green space.

Protesters have hammered together wooden pallets that cover a large part of the camp and provide a walkway off the wet mud, which has now replaced grass where the tents stand.

Wooden shacks have been built on top of some of the pallets, some already with four walls and roofs planned.

When asked if they were building "huts", protesters insisted they were "more like houses".

Robert William Kennard showed the Post around his shack, which includes a wood-burning stove, a make-shift wardrobe, a sofa and a wooden kitchen table and chairs.

He hopes his shack will eventually be three storeys high to enable him to watch over the camp at night to keep it safe.

(Excerpt) Read more at thisisbristol.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bristol; occupy; protest; slum
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Since all of their infections and diseases are covered by free health care - why not?

WOODEN shacks, wooden pallets, wood-burning stove, wooden kitchen table and chairs, wooden frame of a single bed, installed a paper counter, drunken students who have tried to set fire to tents.

Killing the planet slowly?

1 posted on 11/17/2011 3:27:06 AM PST by Libloather
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To: Libloather

Just themselves.


2 posted on 11/17/2011 3:30:42 AM PST by Jonty30
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To: Libloather

Hooverville == Obamaville


3 posted on 11/17/2011 3:33:28 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (I won't vote for Romney. I won't vote for Perry.)
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To: Libloather
Robert William Kennard showed the Post around his shack, which includes a wood-burning stove

. Hopefully, he will build his 3 story shack, others will do the same close by and soon history will repeat the great London fire.

4 posted on 11/17/2011 3:41:30 AM PST by tbpiper
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To: Libloather

If not for welfare food assistance, something like 30% of the child population of Bristol would immediately be in food insecurity and destitute poverty within a week.

Creating a “street theater” village of ramshackle huts is pretty appropriate under the circumstances.

At the moment, households in Bristol are under the most economic stress since the Depression (or series of moderate recessions for the semantics) of the 1860’s-1870’s, much worse than at any time during the Great Depression.

Outside of Londonistan, the UK has created a permanent underclass excluded from public life... ANY action by the remaining portion of the population that maintain civic pride is to be cheered, no matter what the ideology or means and ends, because huge swathes of the UK are coming close to civic collapse that will take generations to restore. Bristol has 30% child poverty, of which 75% live in single parent households. This is beyond the tipping point of long-term societal collapse...

http://www.hrmagazine.co.uk/hro/news/1020446/britain-creating-permanent-underclass-excluded-prospect-employment-adecco

Britain is creating a ‘permanent underclass’ excluded from the prospect of employment, Adecco finds
David Woods, 17 Nov 2011

http://bristolchildren.wordpress.com/2011/01/17/child-poverty-in-bristol/

Child poverty in Bristol

Posted on January 17, 2011 by davidsinden

Child poverty in Bristol has a significant impact on outcomes for children and young people. Availability of data to measure this indicator is sparse and still being developed nationally, so we resort here to providing a range of different data sources, each of which can shed some light on the impacts of poverty on Bristol’s children today. This selection of data is by no means exhaustive, and comments are welcomed on how we can improve and refine these measures.

NI 116 – Child poverty 2008


5 posted on 11/17/2011 3:48:44 AM PST by JerseyHighlander
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To: Libloather

Isn’t it dangerous to allow 200 mentally ill people to gather together????????? Just sayin’


6 posted on 11/17/2011 3:53:30 AM PST by Doc Savage ("I've shot people I like a lot more,...for a lot less!" Raylan Givins)
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Ok, they’re bad off according to you. Number one. Stop drinking. Two, stop smoking. Three, stopping copulating. Four, start getting educated. Five, get the hell out of there. Now, any questions?


7 posted on 11/17/2011 3:56:23 AM PST by Doc Savage ("I've shot people I like a lot more,...for a lot less!" Raylan Givins)
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To: Libloather

Build a slum city....been to Detroit lately?


8 posted on 11/17/2011 4:06:27 AM PST by ontap
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To: JerseyHighlander

The only way to create a permanent under class is to have enough losers to participate.


9 posted on 11/17/2011 4:09:11 AM PST by ontap
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"Build a slum city....been to Detroit lately?"

What a lovely goal to aspire to. Don't we have enough slums for this dredge to go to already?

10 posted on 11/17/2011 4:14:32 AM PST by almost done by half
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To: almost done by half

Exactly...if one really wants a slum city just keep electing democrats!!!


11 posted on 11/17/2011 4:18:41 AM PST by ontap
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"Exactly...if one really wants a slum city just keep electing democrats!!!"

They can run on, "A new slum coming to a neighborhood near you!" ;-)

12 posted on 11/17/2011 4:35:17 AM PST by almost done by half
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To: Libloather

13 posted on 11/17/2011 4:36:51 AM PST by Bobalu (More rubble, less trouble)
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To: Libloather

With closely packed shacks and wood burning stoves, what could possibly go wrong?


14 posted on 11/17/2011 4:40:30 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
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To: tbpiper

In the late 60’s when large groups of post adolescents were building communes in the woods throughout New England one particular construction caught fire at night and killed 40 sleeping residents. Their bodies were never recovered. This particular assemblage was based on drugs and sex. It was “counter cultural” as were they all.
There is nothing new or unique about OWS. It is youngsters building micro cultures outside societal norms. Sometimes they are motivated by high sounding pronciples and become cults. More often they are simply enclaves off limits to surrounding cultural forces where inhabitants may indulge their varied lust.


15 posted on 11/17/2011 4:42:45 AM PST by Louis Foxwell (Government must be taken back from the thieves who have stolen it.)
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To: Bobalu
Great post - excellent visuals.
Showing the ends to which this ilk aspires.
16 posted on 11/17/2011 5:00:00 AM PST by Tainan (Cogito, ergo conservatus sum)
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To: Louis Foxwell

For a laugh, go to The Onion and search the word “Freakosystem”. They have an old article archived there that looks increasingly prophetic as time passes. The comparison of the “new” hippies with their mellower predecessors is particularly entertaining. We can’t post content here from that site, IIRC - but it’s worth the effort to go have a look.


17 posted on 11/17/2011 5:03:27 AM PST by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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To: Libloather

>>wood-burning stove,

It’d only be pollution if the “one percent” were burning the lifeless corpses of those poor dead trees.

Did they obtain the requisite credits from AL Gore’s Idiot bank before releasing all that carbon into the air? Tsk Tsk.


18 posted on 11/17/2011 5:17:11 AM PST by LomanBill (Animals! The DemocRats blew up the windmill with an Acorn!)
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To: Louis Foxwell
In the late 60’s...

Yes, I remember it well. Its when I learned to recognize 'stupid' which has kept me out of a lot of trouble since.

19 posted on 11/17/2011 5:36:10 AM PST by tbpiper
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To: Libloather

what no building plans, engineering, permits or inspections? Sorry, it all has to come down.


20 posted on 11/17/2011 6:20:22 AM PST by representativerepublic (...loose lips, sink ships)
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