Other demonstrators said there was no political will to tackle issues around racism and inequality.
Yet public spending does not make up for this inequality, since Whitehall's Barnett formula gives more per head to Scotland than to Wales.
Lyons notes that globalisation has helped reduce inequality between countries, but is "adding to inequality within countries, as highly skilled workers benefit from new markets, while low- and medium-skilled workers in the west compete with cheaper workers in emerging countries, or with immigrants at home".
The latest protest is one of a series aimed at fueling a national debate on income inequality and comes after a report from the Demos thinktank showed that fast-food companies had the largest gap between the pay of CEOs and workers of any industry.
By attacking poverty and pay, we'll address the inequality that blights lives - and stimulate the economy at the same time.
But if they don't back up their words with action and continue to deploy the filibuster and retreat of the old politics in the face of social inequality then they too will reap a bitter harvest.
In the New York Times earlier this year, Paul Krugman wrote of an economic effect called "The Great Gatsby curve," a graph that measures fiscal inequality against social mobility and shows that America's marked economic inequality means it has correlatively low social mobility.
Guatemala needs to recognize on a national level the socio-economic inequality that sees it stumble at the very first of the UN Millennium Development Goals: to end extreme poverty and hunger.
As we confront growing inequality today, it's a speech I often find myself rereading.
We're in the most extraordinarily gigantic building boom that we've seen Rachel Schuett, town planner in San Francisco That picture is an apt symbol for the city's widening inequality.
PR leads to higher economic growth, less inequality and a better environment.
