Julian Assange speaking at Occupy London

Julian Assange arrived at the Occupy London protest today surrounded by an entourage and wearing a mask. He was then detained by police for 15 minutes and was made to remove his mask. He was then released and broke through the police kettle line into the protest. You can listen below to what he had to say.

15october - Occupy Protests

So, inspired by the Arab spring revolutions and being infuriated by massive government debts, softness towards to bank, and general econonomic gloom amongst other things; protesters around the world are stepping out to make their voices heard. Will 15october be to us as feb17 was to Libya? I think due to the apathy of the western world it will struggle to gain momentum. Unless people get up and speak out!

I'm behind this as I'm becoming less of a fan of capitalism every day and I think it's important that we, as a society, hold our governments to account. For too long they have got off scot free whilst throwing away £ billions on war, unecessary pocket lining and other suspicious deals. The guy in this YouTube video sums it up pretty well.

Only time will tell how popular this uprising will be; the west has more of a challenge though... the success of the protests rely on their visibility. I suspect that as many news agencies are 'in bed with' the government and high profile politicians, that there will be heavily supressed news coverage too.

Keep watching and start talking.... you can follow and add reports of protests around the world on this map >> 15october - Worldwide events map:

Fingers crossed, it's time for change

Here's some hashtags so you can keep up to date on Twitter;

#globalchange
#OccupyWallStreet
#OccupyTogether
#OccupyLSX
#OccupyFlorida

Just do a search on Twitter and you'll find plenty more...