The Occupy movement has never really caught on in Europe in the same way that it has in America.
Possibly because Europe suffered a real occupation within living memory, including the Channel Islands. As a brand name (for that is what it is, whether acknowledged or not) "Occupy" raises images of the totalitarian imposition of a fanatical ideology. L'occupation (of France, Belgium, Netherlands, Norway, Denmark, Poland etc) for most people in Europe means a dark period of horror.
Just my thoughts for the faux-socialist dislocated holiday of May Day.
Possibly because Europe suffered a real occupation within living memory, including the Channel Islands. As a brand name (for that is what it is, whether acknowledged or not) "Occupy" raises images of the totalitarian imposition of a fanatical ideology. L'occupation (of France, Belgium, Netherlands, Norway, Denmark, Poland etc) for most people in Europe means a dark period of horror.
Just my thoughts for the faux-socialist dislocated holiday of May Day.
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