Saturday 5th March

After the rally & protests against City Council cuts, held earlier in the Market Square, folks went on the now well troden route round to the Vodafone store in Clumber Street. 

After the rally & protests against City Council cuts, held earlier in the Market Square, folks went on the now well troden route round to the Vodafone store in Clumber Street. 

It seems this time that they weren't expected and many walked into the shop with banners and much chanting.  Store staff obviously rang the police but it was a full 15-20 mins bafore they arrived.  I was quite amazed since a couple of wardens wandered past within 5 mins of their occupation there and then a few minutes later a couple of policemen.  None of them seem to twig what was going on. Then a while later, another couple of policemen were passing and it took a member of the shop staff to go out to tell them what was going off in person.  Only then did they go and get more policeman and returned to try and clear the shop. Invovlving a bit of pushing and shoving before they could get the shutters down.

After some explaination to the passers-by ... folks continued to Boots x2, BHS in the Broadmarsh, another Vodafone shop and Topshop, part of the Phillip Green empire. Oh, and people dropped by Nat West bank again [after the occupation last saturday].

UK Uncut

http://www.ukuncut.org.uk

Notts SOS

http://www.nottssos.org.uk

Unison anti-cuts protest

http://nottingham.indymedia.org/articles/978

Notts County Council Strike: 1 The March

http://nottingham.indymedia.org/articles/987

Notts County Council Strike: 2 Rally & Speeches

http://nottingham.indymedia.org/articles/988

Notts County Council workers strike against cuts [Feature]

http://nottingham.indymedia.org/articles/990

Natwest Bank shut by anti-cuts protesters 

http://nottingham.indymedia.org/articles/995

Vodafone visited [yet again] by anti-cuts protest

http://nottingham.indymedia.org/articles/997

Notts Uncut campaigners shut Natwest Bank [Feature]

http://nottingham.indymedia.org/articles/1005

Council poster asking what to cut? What about silly posters?

http://nottingham.indymedia.org/tumbles/989

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ALAN LODGE 

Photographer - Media: One Eye on the Road. Nottingham.  UK

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