The Dean and Chapter of St Paul’s Cathedral appealed this week for cathedral life to “be allowed to operate as normally as possible”, after hundreds of activists, protesting against corporate greed and ecoÂnomic inequality, set up camp in St Paul’s Churchyard.
On Saturday, about 1000 protesters gathered outside the Cathedral, intending to occupy adjacent Paternoster Square, the site of the London Stock Exchange. The event was organised by the Occupy London movement, inspired by the Occupy Wall Street protests that have been taking place in New York over the past month.
After the protesters were prevented by police from entering Paternoster Square, they reconvened outside St Paul’s, where they were addressed from the cathedral steps by the founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange.
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(Church Times) Financial Crisis brings crowd to steps of St Paul’s
The Dean and Chapter of St Paul’s Cathedral appealed this week for cathedral life to “be allowed to operate as normally as possible”, after hundreds of activists, protesting against corporate greed and ecoÂnomic inequality, set up camp in St Paul’s Churchyard.
On Saturday, about 1000 protesters gathered outside the Cathedral, intending to occupy adjacent Paternoster Square, the site of the London Stock Exchange. The event was organised by the Occupy London movement, inspired by the Occupy Wall Street protests that have been taking place in New York over the past month.
After the protesters were prevented by police from entering Paternoster Square, they reconvened outside St Paul’s, where they were addressed from the cathedral steps by the founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange.
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