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...Foreign and Commonwealth Office that was designed at the height of Britain's colonial powers, plans were afoot to challenge a stage-managed G-20 consensus. Demonstrators took to the streets, and French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel sent out invitations to their own joint London press conference, to signal their determination to resist any Anglo-American pressure for additional fiscal stimulus and to highlight their demands for stricter financial regulation. They are not the only G-20 leaders to arrive in London with agendas that reflect divergent approaches to the economic crisis - and differing domestic pressures...
Protesters wanting to deliver a message to world leaders in London for this week's G-20 summit gathered outside the high walls of the Bank of England in the heart of London's financial quarter on Wednesday and demonstrated over everything from the meltdown in the financial system to the growing threat from climate change. Some people got a little too excited; after protesters broke windows at the nearby headquarters of the Royal Bank of Scotland - which recently needed a government bailout to avoid going under - one or two people looted the lender's computer equipment. A few dozen...
...financial storms may have only gathered recently, but noisy, tempestuous crowds like this one have been banding together on London's street for years - securing the freedom of prisoners in the 17th century, protesting the lack of rights for women in the early 1900s and railing against an unpopular tax just under two decades ago. As always, the mood today was mercurial. Organizers of the gathering, a movement calling itself G-20 Meltdown, had promised a "peaceful and fun street party." For much of the protest, that's what they got. While anarchists, many dressed from head...
...warm sunshine - so often the backdrop to bloody protests in London, from the anti-Catholic Gordon riots of the 18th century to the Notting Hill race riots in the 1950s - marchers set off for the bank from four of the capital's underground stations, each group led by a "horseman of the apocalypse." At London Bridge, protesters walked to the blast of a trombone with a medley of motives. "Can we overthrow the government?" bellowed Chris Knight, one of the event's organizers. "Yes we can!" Beside an effigy of Fred Goodwin, the former boss of the Royal Bank...
...positive" was the best way to get politicians to face up to the issue. But while he hoped that he and his friends would be allowed to camp out for a while, he "didn't want to cause much trouble." But trouble is what protesting is often about in London. And today's demonstrations may not be the last this year...