Quaker presence at financial protests

Quakers participate in the London protests

by Symon Hill 21st October 2011

Quakers held a Meeting for Worship near the London Stock Exchange on Saturday as nonviolent protests began at financial centres around the world. The police refused to allow demonstrators to approach the exchange, confining thousands of them outside St Paul’s Cathedral.  Several other Friends turned up on Sunday or later in the week to join in the ongoing protests. Hundreds of people are now camped in the area. The demonstrators are protesting with the slogan ‘We are the ninety-nine percent’, a reference to the power and wealth of the richest one percent of the population.