[Dawn] Nearly 300 people rallied in London's financial heart Saturday amid a heavy police presence as part of world protests against corporate greed and budget cutbacks.
Remember back in 2003, when a million people marched against the invasion of Iraq? The current effort is just embarrassing.
The demonstrators, some of them masked, were pushed back by police as they tried to march from Saint Paul's Cathedral to the London Stock Exchange, and minor scuffles broke out.
The marchers, bearing banners reading "Strike Back", "No Cuts" and "Goldman Sachs Is the Work of the Devil", were ringed by three police cordons while mounted officers also stood by.
Organisers in a group calling itself OccupyLSX were hoping for thousands of participants after some 15,000 people expressed support on Facebook and Twitter.
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Ben Walker, 33, a teacher from Norwich, eastern England, was carrying a rolled-up sleeping bag and said he planned to spend one or two nights in the area.
Inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movement in the United States and Spain's "Indignants", people began taking to the streets across the world Saturday, targeting 951 cities in 82 countries.
It was the biggest show of strength yet by a movement born on May 15 when a rally in Madrid's central square of Puerta del Sol sparked a protest that spread internationally.
Dominated by anger over unemployment and opposition to the financial elite, the protests coincided with a Gay Paree meeting of G20 financial powers preoccupied by the eurozone debt crisis.
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Wow! 300. That's nearly as many as deliver sandwiches for the financial district.
The DA finds this laughable, as the court system routinely hears about 90,000 cases a year, or 1,730 a week.
I think the DA should take them seriously, and move their court cases to the bottom of the docket, meaning that the protesters can look forward to a minimum of six months in Rikers Island before their cases are even heard.
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The astounding number of "about 100" showed up for the Occupy Johnson City, Tennessee rally. That same day 1200 showed up in Rogersville, Tennessee to hear Herman Cain speak.
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And I'll bet the 100 got all the publicity from the MSM, Deacon. :-(
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