{"id":26219,"date":"2014-09-30T06:57:32","date_gmt":"2014-09-30T05:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=26219"},"modified":"2014-09-30T06:57:32","modified_gmt":"2014-09-30T05:57:32","slug":"the-fts-rewriting-the-history-of-the-occupy-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2014\/09\/30\/the-fts-rewriting-the-history-of-the-occupy-movement\/","title":{"rendered":"The FT&#8217;s rewriting the history of the Occupy movement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gideon Rachman <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/e1f7562a-4593-11e4-9b71-00144feabdc0.html#ixzz3Em90RSiv\" target=\"_blank\">has written in the FT this morning<\/a>, saying:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Chinese authorities will also be hoping that the current demonstrations in Hong Kong, which started under the banner of the \u201cOccupy Central\u201d movement, will have more in common with \u201cOccupy Wall Street\u201d \u2014 which fizzled out \u2014 than with the student movement in China in 1989.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mr\u00a0Rachman clearly has a very selective short term memory. I recall Occupy on both sides of the Atlantic ending in oppressive state and police activity and anything but fizzling out.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps he thinks he was the victor and so has the right to re-write history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gideon Rachman has written in the FT this morning, saying: The Chinese authorities will also be hoping that the current demonstrations in Hong Kong, which<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2014\/09\/30\/the-fts-rewriting-the-history-of-the-occupy-movement\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}