Following a call from London NoBorders, a second 'Life Is Too Short To Be Controlled' demonstration started in Piccadilly Circus this afternoon. Around fifty people gathered under the constant sight of hundreds of CCTV cameras to "connect two locations in London which are symbolic places of both the border regime and surveillance". After a cuple of speeches, people started marching through central London streets all the way to Kings Cross' Eurostar terminal. The sound-sytem kept playing tunes for the while journey and the crowd sticked together throughout, even though several cars - specially taxi-drivers - tried to drive through the demonstration several times. Police weren't on sight for the whole time.

The demonstration eventually made it to Kings Cross, and it quickly moved into the Eurostar terminal. It kept moving around the terminal until it eventually made its way to the check-in desks and border control. A group of people managed to go throgh the check in and into the border area, which provoked a quick, and quite freaked-out, response from the security personnel. After a while people decided to leave the terminal in a group, at which point the Transport Police turned up. One protestor got arrested. Here there are some pics ...

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• Piccadilly Circus: CCTV controlling your life
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