Students across Britain protest tuition hikes

[Joanne98]

Source: CNN

London, England (CNN) -- A crowd of students marched through central London on Wednesday, disrupting traffic and shouting slogans in a protest against an increase in university tuition.

Students also protested in other cities across Britain, including Leeds, Cambridge and Birmingham. Police said there had been 59 arrests in London and one each in Oxford and Glasgow, Scotland.

Three of the arrests happened after students filled Whitehall, the street that runs from Trafalgar Square past the prime minister's residence toward Parliament. Police penned them in at either end to try to limit criminal damage, and a line of police in fluorescent yellow vests kept the students from reaching Parliament Square.

Students held signs saying "Stop Education Cuts," "Education not Segregation" and "Unite and Fight."



Read more: http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/11/24/uk.student.protests/?hpt=T2

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There is a crowd estimate of 50,000. If this was the Tea Party CNN would have called it in the millions with wall to wall coverage.

Of course that's the difference between corporate sponsored astroturf and REAL grassroots protests!