Results tagged “protests”
Arms fair opponents will try to reach runners registering for the London Marathon at Excel this weekend.
As reported by The Wharf earlier this month, East London Against The Arms Fair will stage a musical protest on Saturday against September's DSEi event in Docklands.
By Victoria Clayton
Fear of G20 protests has provoked a rash of denim on the Wharf for a second day, but bankers may as well have stuck to their suits in Docklands.
Aside from a increased security presence including a number of police patrols, Canary Wharf has remained untroubled by activists.
Click here for the Wharf's gallery of the Excel protests
The protests at Excel certainly don't match the drama of yesterday's clashes in the City, but police are taking no chances.
Those entering and leaving Canning Town station are being searched under Section 60 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act.
The City of London was cleaning up this morning after yesterday's mass demonstrations.
Protesters were thin on the ground, with teams of cleaners most in evidence as they scrubbed graffiti off landmarks like the Royal Exchange and Bank of England.
Live at the G20
Around 200 protesters have gathered outside the G20 summit at the Excel centre in Royal Docks.
Police set up metal fences some distance from the venue, with enough room for around 5,000 demonstrators. But so far, numbers have not lived up to expectations.
Click here to see The Wharf's pictures of the protests.
Protesters were penned in by riot police for more than eight hours as G20 protests were hit by spasms of violence.
Wine bottles were thrown and an effigy of a banker was burned from a lamppost as frustrations grew at the immovable cordon around Bank station.
I have not, in all honesty, been forced to ask this question much before but now it nags at my brain like a barbed wire bowler.
What should I wear? The talk is of nothing else. We press coat-hangered crustie-wear to our chests and size it up in full-length Oxfam mirrors.
Protesters, commuters, police and the world's press descended on the City as talk of the G20 summit dominated London.
Events began early on Wednesday outside Bank station, as thousands from around the country plan to make their voices heard.
