{"id":5879,"date":"2012-02-10T11:00:15","date_gmt":"2012-02-10T11:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=5879"},"modified":"2012-02-09T22:32:18","modified_gmt":"2012-02-09T22:32:18","slug":"occupy-thanet-mini-protest-camp-braves-the-freezing-margate-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/occupy-thanet-mini-protest-camp-braves-the-freezing-margate-snow\/","title":{"rendered":"Occupy Thanet! Mini protest camp braves the freezing Margate snow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/occupy-thanet-margate-feb-2012-01.jpg\" alt=\"Occupy Thanet! Mini protest camp braves the freezing Margate snow\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Huddled up next to Margate&#8217;s shiny new Turner Contemporary Gallery for warmth against the February snow is an &#8216;Occupy Thanet&#8217; protest camp.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/occupy-thanet-margate-feb-2012-02.jpg\" alt=\"Occupy Thanet! Mini protest camp braves the freezing Margate snow\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Following the lead taken by Occupy protests across the globe &#8211; including the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/photos-from-the-occupy-london-protest-at-st-pauls-central-london\/\" target=\"_blank\">long running camp at St Pauls in London<\/a> &#8211; Margate protesters explained their action to the local <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kentonline.co.uk\/kentonline\/news\/2012\/january\/30\/occupy_thanet_in_protest.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">local paper<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Occupy Thanet was set up in response to the many Occupy movements that are taking place across the world.<\/p>\n<p>This Occupation is a chance for people in Thanet to make their voices heard and to make a stand against the cuts and injustices both globally and locally.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/occupy-thanet-margate-feb-2012-03.jpg\" alt=\"Occupy Thanet! Mini protest camp braves the freezing Margate snow\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Visitors to the camp so far have included the mayor of Margate, Iris Johnson, \u00a0local Tory MP Roger Gale and\u00a0\u00a0Channel Four news presenter\u00a0Jon Snow.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/occupy-thanet-margate-feb-2012-04.jpg\" alt=\"Occupy Thanet! Mini protest camp braves the freezing Margate snow\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been reported that \u00a0local traders have given the protesters food, with many passersby expressing their support.<\/p>\n<p>Seeing as the nearby\u00a0beach\u00a0was covered in snow and temperatures were well below zero when I was there, they have my respect too. Good work fellas!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/occupy-thanet-margate-feb-2012-05.jpg\" alt=\"Occupy Thanet! Mini protest camp braves the freezing Margate snow\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/occupy-thanet-margate-feb-2012-06.jpg\" alt=\"Occupy Thanet! Mini protest camp braves the freezing Margate snow\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Huddled up next to Margate&#8217;s shiny new Turner Contemporary Gallery for warmth against the February snow is an &#8216;Occupy Thanet&#8217; protest camp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7344,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,193],"tags":[29,429,19],"class_list":["post-5879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photos","category-places","tag-kent","tag-margate","tag-protest"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/occupy-thanet-margate-feb-2012-01.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-1wP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5879"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5881,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5879\/revisions\/5881"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}