Interviews from the first day of Occupy London
On the 15th October I went in early afternoon to see the gathering of protesters who had tried to occupy the London Stock Exchange. The city of London had obtained a court injunction overnight which meant that the square of the exchange (Paternoster Square – which is private property) had been sealed off by police in the early morning. Hence the ‘occupiers’ settled on the steps of St Paul’s. These were the scenes as I arrived, and I interviewed a Dutch tourist and a Spanish protester. In the 2nd part the woman I interviewed was very well informed and managed to convey succinctly many of the issues at the root of the discontents. Listen carefully…