The eviction of Occupy

Symon Hill reflects on his experience at St Paul’s cathedral

‘The Great Creator… made the Earth to be a common treasury,’ wrote Gerrard Winstanley in 1649, shortly before his Digger community was evicted from common land. ‘Not one word was spoken in the beginning that one branch of mankind should rule over another.’

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