Following a call from London NoBorders, a second 'Life Is Too Short To Be Controlled' [pics 1 | 2 | 3 | vids 1 | 2 | 3] demonstration started in Piccadilly Circus this afternoon. Around sixty people gathered to "connect two locations in London which are symbolic places of both the border regime and surveillance". After a couple of speeches, people started marching through central London streets all the way to St Pancras Station. The march entered the station and eventually made its way to the Eurostar check-in desks and internal border control. A group of people managed to go throgh the check in, which provoked a quick, and quite freaked-out, response from the security personnel. See all reports...

After a while people decided to leave the terminal in a group, at which point the Transport Police turned up. One protestor got arrested. Also the cops tried to go after the person with the sound system, but a legally clued up cyclist made them stick to their own laws.

The sound-sytem kept playing tunes for the whole journey and the crowd stuck 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.