Strike: All power to the 99%

Strikes and Pickets started early in the morning at their workplaces. In City of London there was a banner drop in Liverpool street station stating "All power to the 99%", accompanied by a band and the Electricians started picketing their work places. Dave Prentis of UNISON said earlier that it..."should be the richest people (bankers) not the poorest workers bailing out the economy" which sums up the anger felt today in schools, colleges, universities and all public workers across the country. The biggest strike held in the UK for decades meant that 2.5 million were on strike along with 200,000 workers in Northern Ireland and 300,000 in Scotland.

See the entire article for the full coverage of the day's pickets, demonstrations and actions as they happened in London.

The N30 day of stirke action in London included pickets, demonstrations, civil disobedience and direct action. From the early morning pickets all over London, the banner drops, and the 'Shut the City' and 'sparks' protests, to the late afternoon's direct action - when a crowd that marched from Piccadilly stormed the Xstrata's Panton House headquarters - and everything else in between - flying pickets, police kettles and mass arrests in Dalston and Haymarket, feeder marches, and the massive main unions demonstration - the day's events were being covered in Indymedia London as they happened. Reports and updates were being posted to the site direct from the streets:

See: London IMC Timeline of events | London IMC Tumblewire updates

Further written reports, photo reports, first hand accounts, videos and audios were also being posted to the IMC London newswires. Once again, Indymedia London would like to thank all of those that contributed with their reports, and below we present them in a thematical order:

Early morning pickets and actions:

• Pics & report: Shut the City + #Sparks #OccupyN30 Strike
• Video: Occupy N30 + Sparks Tour of London Strike Pickets
• All Power to 99% bridge banner drop pics #n30
• Morning pickets in Brixton
• Brixton Rally Nov 30 Public Sector Strike (Video)

Feeder marches towards the main march start point at Lincoln's Inn Fields:

• Pics #N30 march #OccupyLSX to Lincoln's Inn Fields
• #OccupyN30 feeder march – images

Main unions march:

• N30 Strike! MARCH
• Pics: #N30 London Strike March
• Pics: banners at #N30 demonstration
• #N30 Trafalgar Square Barrier Crazy Containment

The occupation of Panton House / Xstrata buidling:

• Pics & report: Storming of Panton house -Xstrata #OccupyN30
• Video: Occupying Panton House
• Arrests at end of #OccupyN30 Xstrata action
• Police Officer Punches Protestor in the Face - Hay
• Video: Pushed again - Haymarket
• Press release: Occupy London targets UK’s highest paid FTSE CEO

First hand accounts of the day and other reports:

• Pics and personal account: N30: My Day Out on Strike
• Audios and personal account: from south london pickets + main march
• Report: Royal Holloway Occupied
• Occupy London Report: N30, corporate greed, Xstrata and the right to protest
• Report: Police re-arrest Dalston 37 for affray
• Update: on Hackney 41 arrests
• On The Mass Arrests In Hackney, 30th November
• N30 Occupy London - A tribute vid

Live Streams archives: N30 Live Stream | OLC Live Stream
More info: VisionOnTV Grass Roots Timeline | LibCom Timeline
Further reading: Red Peppers' Mythbuster: The truth about the unions | Opendemocracy: Occupy London and the unions: brothers in arms or a marriage made in hell? | East London Lines