Your cause is just, Jackson tells protest camp

Your cause is just, Jackson tells protest camp

St Paul's Cathedral should provide more support to the Occupy London demonstrators who have been camped outside for more than two months, a leading civil rights campaigner and former aide to Dr Martin Luther King has said.

The Rev Jesse Jackson said the Cathedral "inside and outside, should be the headquarters for the Occupy movement". Addressing around 200 demonstrators at their campsite in the city on Thursday evening, Rev. Jackson added: "so much of the work of the church is not inside the walls."

He urged them to "stand up and fight back", adding: "If Dr King was here, today, he would be an occupier, his last action on Earth was to be an occupier.