Finally. Video of Steve Rotheram’s Hillsborough speech. Part 2 is here.
There’s a turnaround for you.
Update: 5:35PM: “St Paul’s now confirmed they have NOT asked #OccupyLSX to move but they are concerned about the camp getting any bigger.” (via.)
“It did get quite heated and chaotic with police but the church have given us their blessing and apparently talked about a ‘co existence’. The mood today has been very high, it has all calmed down and progress is slowly being made.”
— John Robertson, protesting at OccupyLSX, answering my query as to what happened with the police and how things are.
London — via.
Going to try and figure what the noise was about a scuffle/the police inching in a bit.
London currently. One report of a fight on the steps — via. This after reports of a day-long carnival atmosphere.
“I stayed and listened to some of what they were saying, but it was difficult to hear over the music, so it wasn’t until I got home and looked it up that I found out what was going on. One man was speaking about how he’d not been out of work since he was 14, and yet he can’t get work now. There were quite a few police in the area, presumably in case anything kicked off. One man was going around and hugging random people in the crowd. I wasn’t there for long, but I knew about Occupy Wall Street and the things that have happened since then, and if I’d have known that this was what it was about I would have stayed.”
— brokeninthestreet — answering my question about what she saw in Liverpool earlier today.
The Guardian has video from today in London.
