As near as we could get to the Excel centre, we certainly made our feelings plain as leaders drove away in their limosines escorted by police outriders just a few yards from us. I didn't bother taking photos of the leaders, it was the demonstrators I felt important such as the young girl who'd come all the way down from Liverpool on her own because she felt it to be important to protest.
The noisiest and most colourful groups were Ethiopians protesting the genocide in their country

Chanting

Listen to the crying mothers and children *

loudly they sang

but there were plenty of other groups like Tower Hamlets CND

more of the crowd

two activists, Marcus & Kelly, who'd been at the Climate Camp the day before (see previous album).
They told me of the savage night time police eviction

a Palestinian group

and protesters from Khalistan