LCAP occupies RBS - people power, not bankers' bonuses!
LCAP | 23.12.2008 19:02 | Social Struggles
On Monday 22nd December, members and sympathisers of London Coalition Against Poverty disrupted work at the headquarters of the Royal Bank of Scotland - protesting government money going to bankers' bonuses, not public welfare.
Dressed up as Santa Clauses, a group of people distracted the security guards while another group passed the security barrier and went upstairs to hand out flyers to RBS workers, including those on a trading floor. The flyers explained that, this year, city bankers will be getting large Christmas bonuses while four in ten children in London, and eight of ten in neighbouring borough of Tower Hamlets, live in poverty. With large cuts in funding to essential housing and welfare services, more and more poor folks are being turned to the streets and to charities for basic living supplies like food. The protesters were eventually pushed out to the street, where they handed out more flyers and held banners reading "Bonuses for the poor, not the rich". The demonstration ended peacefully.
BBC report: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7795801.stm
BBC report: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7795801.stm
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