A protest at St Paul's Cathedral in London is entering its sixth day, as anti-capitalist activists continue to occupy the surrounding area. Inspired by last month's Occupy Wall Street movement in New York, Londoners started their own Occupy London Stock Exchange movement on Saturday, mirroring similar protests in cities around the world.
Protesting against the global financial system and corporate greed in the City, activists had hoped to occupy Paternoster Square, where the London Stock Exchange is based. However, after police blocked their way, they fell back to the nearby St. Paul's Cathedral square where they pitched around 100 tents.
Their plans soon received a boost on the Sunday morning when the cathedral's canon, Reverend Giles Fraser, announced that he supported their right to protest and that he would not ask for their removal for trespassing. More than that, he even revealed:
"There was a line of police who were kindly trying to protect the cathedral, but I thought that was unnecessary, so we brought them down."
