Occupy Wall Street-style protests spread to Britain

MSNBC.COM:  London – Inspired by the Occupy Wall Street protests on the other side of the Atlantic, demonstrators plan to establish a tent city in London’s City financial district next weekend…

This movement aims to unite the United Kingdom’s far-flung activist communities in addressing “the inequality of the financial system,” Wargalla said…

There’s something about the fact that 15,000 people are trying to march down Wall Street that is uniquely exciting,” said Naomi Colvin,  an activist who worked to get alleged Wikileaker Bradley Manning out of confinement “What’s happening in Wall Street is in a way a culmination of things that have gone on in southern Europe and the Middle East.” …  (more)

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