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Occupy protesters break into UK office

2011-12-01 1 Dailymotion

RESENDING STORY TO CORRECT THUMBNAIL IMAGE<br/> Led by a samba band, protesters from the "Occupy" movement marched down streets in London.<br/> Demonstrators then broke into an office building used by mining company Xstrata protesting at the pay of the company's chief executive.<br/> Police threw a cordon along the Haymarket, effectively sealing off the area before arresting some of the protesters.<br/> Karen Lincoln of Occupy London said in a statement, "in this time when the government enforces austerity on the 99 percent, these executives are profiting."<br/> Their protest is part of a global movement of social and economic change.<br/> They say economic and political power lies in the hands of just 1 percent of the population.<br/> Scuffles broke out between Occupy protesters and police as they tried to clear the streets.<br/> This took place on the same day as hundreds of thousands of public sector workers went on strike across Britain to protest over pension reform.<br/> Marie-Claire Fennessy, Reuters

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