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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail Yahoo! Search Search: Sign InNew User? Sign Up News Home - Help Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Secondary Navigation Search Search: Tens of thousands march in G20 protests AFP - Sunday, March 29 LONDON (AFP) - - Tens of thousands of people took to the streets of London ahead of next week's G20 summit to express their anger at the human cost of the financial crisis. ADVERTISEMENT Demonstrators also marched in other European capitals as politicians appealed for calm during Thursday's Group of 20 gathering in London, due to be attended by world leaders including US President Barack Obama. Police estimated the London crowd at up to 35,000 but there were no reports of any violence as the placard-waving crowd snaked along the six-kilometre (four-mile) route to Hyde Park. An alliance of more than 150 organisations including unions, charities, and environment groups joined the march to demand action to save jobs, create a low-carbon economy and impose stricter controls on the finance sector. US Vice President Joe Biden , meanwhile, called for protesters to give governments a chance to tackle the economic crisis at a conference of centre-left politicians in Chile. "I would hope that the protesters give us a chance, listen to what we have to say and hopefully we can make it clear to them that we're going to walk away from this G20 meeting with some concrete proposals," he said. Also in Chile, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who will host the G20 summit in east London, said: "The action that is happening in London today I understand, and we will respond to it at the G20." Organisers of the Put People First march for "jobs, justice and climate" in London had rejected as "smears" claims in police briefings that marches could be hijacked by anarchists bent on violence. Brendan Barber, general secretary of the Trades Union Congress, said the demonstration had a clear message for the presidents and prime ministers heading to London. "Never before has such a wide coalition come together with such a clear message for world leaders," he said. "The old ideas of unregulated free markets do not work, and have brought the world's economy to near-collapse, failed to fight poverty and have done far too little to move to a low-carbon economy." Oe protester, Chris Pounds, 45, a health worker from Northampton in central England, told AFP that the groups in the march were united in their belief that global leaders had "made a real mess" of the economy. "We have got to start again to find a new way of living because over the last year we've seen that our so-called leaders don't know what they are doing," he said. "I don't care what happens at the G20 summit -- we don't need their help." The protesters waved banners with slogans such as "We won't pay for the crisis," "Plan it with the planet in mind" and "Capitalism always leads to death." One anti-capitalism group marched behind the head of a devil plastered with dollar bills. More protests are planned in London in the days leading up to the summit, which will mark President Obama's first visit to Europe since taking office. In Rome, protesters threw red paint, egg and smoke bombs at banks, insurance companies and estate agencies in their protest. Students and left-wing activists were among those who took part in the march, which organisers said had drawn around 6,000 people. Thousands of people also marched through Berlin and Frankfurt on Saturday in protests ahead of the G20 summit. Organisers said they hoped for 40,000 participants but it was not immediately clear if the target was met. In Vienna, at least 6,500 people, according to the police, marched to protest about the effects of globalisation. Several hundred demonstrators turned out in Paris, where they erected and demolished a model of an island symbolising a tax haven. Hundreds also attended an anti-globalisation protest in Madrid. Email Story IM Story Printable View Blog This Recommend this article Average (2 votes) Sign in to recommend this article » Most Recommended Stories » Most Popular – Top Stories Viewed Hot tea linked with throat cancer Pope 'publicly distorted' condom science: Lancet Scientists see asteroid hurtle to Earth Soros sees risk of Britain needing IMF bailout UK economy hit by worst slide since 1980 View Complete List » Search: Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Copyright © 2009 Yahoo! Southeast Asia Pte Ltd. (Co. Reg. No. 199700735D). All Rights Reserved. Privacy Policy - Terms of Service - Community - Intellectual Property Rights Policy - Help

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