Guardian Unlimited Politics | Special Reports | Rosie's mission "Then, on February 14 1997, the police arrived and I saw what the state could do," she says. "I saw 200 police officers and about 300 security guards telling nine women they couldn't be in a park. I was walking down the line with the security guards, crying, and I asked one of them how much he was getting. He said, '£3.20 an hour, and I've got a wife and kids and Christmas has just been.' I told him to call his wife and tell her he had stood up against a working-class woman for £3.20 an hour."
A few minutes later, the security guard, along with seven others, handed in his jacket and went and sat with Kane and her friends. "We were all greeting [crying] and I started to realise then that they were using working-class people in poverty to crush folk who were in the same boat," she says. Rosie Kane on the struggle against the M77 motorway.
