Excel protest 'less militant' than City demonstration

Many protest groups are represented however, including CND as well as anti-war and anti-capitalist organisations.

After dramatic scenes in the City yesterday, the demonstration at Excel has been low-key in comparison.

Mike Tate from protest group Revolution, which campaigns for workers' rights told Wharf reporter John Hill the demonstrators were not there to "shut the summit down".

He said: "There's a lot less militant spirit today. This demonstration is more of a show urging the leaders to make changes and to take decisive action.

"What brings us down here is our opposition to the G20 summit. We feel that as a body the G20 is not representative of the people, of the world or even of the countries which the leaders come from.

"The policies they have always made have always been to help the corporations at the expense of ordinary people.

"The leaders want them to get rid of the minimm wage and of healthcare and they want to make deals with the corporations and with each other.

"There will be job cuts and pay cuts.

"Through this protest, we want to show that if people are angry then they need to fight back by jojining the sort of peope that are here now and to get out on the streets in a mass movement."

Despite an increased security presence, there has been no sign of any protest at Canary Wharf so far.

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