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Vodafone closed down in Oxford for refusing to pay taxes.

Player of Games & others | 30.01.2011 13:24 | Public sector cuts | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | Oxford

Six protesters from UK Uncut closed down the Vodafone store in Cornmarket today in opposition to the company's dodging £6bn in taxes.




Shortly after 12 noon, the six protesters took out signs with the Vodafone logo and the words "tax dodgers" and sat down by the shop doors. The shop was closed - customers where allowed out, but no new customers were allowed in.

Several other protesters were outside the shop with a megaphone and a banner reading "£155 million cuts in Oxfordshire, £6 billion taxes dodged by Vodafone."

Chants of "you pay, we'll go" and "if you try and dodge your tax, we'll shut you down" were heard inside and outside the shop.

At 12.25 the police told the protesters inside the shop to go. They refused. Eventually, half an hour later, four cops and the store manager read a statement telling the protesters they would be arrested for trespass if they didn't leave. After a brief discussion, the protesters decided to leave.

At the time of writing, several of the protesters remain outside the shop discouraging customers from going in.

Player of Games & others

Additions

Audio interview and more photos from Sunday's protest

01.02.2011 09:46

I tried to post this as a separate newswire article, and it eventually worked, but didn't get categorised as Oxford:

 http://indymedia.org.uk/en/2011/01/473144.html

adelayde


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