Jarvis Cocker Shows Support For The Occupy Movement

Pulp's Jarvis Cocker has shown his support for the Occupy movement in his new column.

The frontman said that he could of ''could have kissed" the festival organiser who told him about the Indignados in Spain who had been evicted from an Occupy camp.

In his column for the Big Issue, Jarvis wrote: ''That was my first encounter with the Occupy movement - a visionary movement because it recognises that it's the cult of the individual that got us here, and so to escape from this situation is going to require collective action.''

"Much is made of the fact the Occupy movement doesn't have leaders, and this is sometimes depicted as a failing. It is actually one of its main strengths."

He added: "We are over leaders. We are not interested in ideology anymore - we just want things to work properly and fairly... Occupy shows a new way. Whether you recognise it or not yet, it's what you want."

A number of musicians including Kanye West, Jay-Z, Rage Against The Machine's Tom Morello  and Russell Simmons

The Occupy London movement has announced that December 15  will be named Occupy Everywhere and has called for a UK national day of action.

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