Occupy LSX The end in sight - no just the beginning.

Today (or is it yesterday) marks the 100th day of the occupation at St Pauls Cathedral. The LSX means London Stock Exchange in the neighbouring Paternoster Square. However like a disturbingly large amount of the City that space is private land so the owners managed to get an injunction and strong security presence to prevent the protest from locating in its planned spot. Paternoster square is at present a solid sea of metal railings, tons in fact, to discourage anyone from thinking of camping there.

The sight of all that metal and the patrolling security  guards 24 hours a day hardly makes it  a nice working environment for the people that work there over the past 3 months. With worries about a renewed occupation once the injunction runs out the metal and the security guards will probably have to stay for many months to come.

I was not there at the start on the 15th of October but have visited the camp several times since and I share with you here some of the pictures and films that I took on my various visits.

1st November 2011

  Early days, CRAWLING with press still, really exciting buzz!

And some of the art on the walls that day:

Wow that's a lot of pics. I had better end this post now. More later.