Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Protests at G20 meeting in London

At the G20 meeting today in London, leaders of the world's largest market economies met to try to figure out how to save the capitalist economic system from further meltdown.  Thousands of demonstrators converged on the Bank of England (pictured above), as well as the Royal Bank of Scotland.
(Below- A protester climbs columns in an attempt to hang his banner.)
(Below- Another demonstrator near a line of police.)

1 comment:

Unknown said...

This looks like the opening pose of a large musical number

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