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EMA Demo Cancelled

10-01-2011 17:36

tomorrow...

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Jobs to go at Portsmouth City Council

09-01-2011 14:05

The scale of the cuts for the city has finally been announced with job loses to reach the 400 mark.

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Stroud Views & Burblings - new independent freesheet issue 1

08-01-2011 16:21

First launched earlier this week (Tuesday 4th Jan) to coincide with the rise in VAT, the newest freesheet in Stroud (following the 'Stroud Defector' back in the day and the 'Stroudie' circa 2001-2002) - Stroud Views & Burblings - a title based on local news rag Stroud News & Journal - got a proper airing today, as nearly 200 copies were handed out around town.

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Target the bosses who have ‘snouts deep in the trough’

06-01-2011 15:26

Time to escalate the anti-cuts protests

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International Resistance - OCCUPY MONACO

06-01-2011 12:43

We'll give Capital Flight a whole new meaning. 1st August 2011

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Protests as Clegg holds secret town hall meeting

06-01-2011 00:19

Clegg leaving Sheffield Town Hall
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg looked shaken leaving Sheffield Town Hall this evening, as an impromptu demonstration chanted and hurled abuse.

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Labour Left Back Down on Cuts in Preston

05-01-2011 22:09

5 Preston Labour councillors, who voted for a motion against cuts and privatisation at the Preston Trades Council and at Anti Cuts meetings spoke and voted against the same motion when it was put to full council

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Nick Clegg Sheffield Demo

05-01-2011 21:12

At short notice a spontaneous group demonstrated Nick Clegg's attendance at Sheffield Town Hall

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Students Against Cuts defends the HSBC 3

05-01-2011 18:46

On 30th December 2010, Students Against Cuts held a protest to defend the HSBC 3, three political activists who were unreasonably arrested for peacefully protesting outside a branch of HSBC bank at our last demonstration on 18th December.

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National Day of Protest Against Benefit Cuts: Day 2 - call for local actions

05-01-2011 13:33

Please contact us if you're organising an event in your area to be added to have it added to the website, fb page etc - notowelfarecuts (at) yahoo.co.uk

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Occupations Of Banks

05-01-2011 10:53

Greek Banks across the country have been occupied by their emploees.

Here's a crap translation via the internet - can someone who speaks Greek do a better job, please?

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Student demonstrations: Advice for those wanted by Police.

04-01-2011 23:42

There are reports of individuals who the police are searching for in order to make an arrest. Some people may believe they do not have much chance of escaping arrest due to the amount of details the police have on you (such as your name) and may not want to go underground and are therefore considering handing themselves in. The writers of this article (All Colours Are Beautiful) would like to share this advice:

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Sheffield Council chief execs resist calls for pay cut

04-01-2011 23:28

Council Chief Exec John Mothersole, who earns £184,500 per year.
Communities minister Eric Pickles is said to be furious that almost all top earning council bosses, including Sheffield council’s Chief Executive, have ignored his order to take a pay cut.

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Stroud UKuncut-style protest against VAT rise and TaxDodging 4th Jan

03-01-2011 21:14

Meet at 12noon outside Boots on the High Street, and be prepared to move to other locations.

January the 4th is the day VAT is raised from 17.5% to 20%. VAT is a regressive tax that hits the poorest hardest, and the government is increasing it as it plans to cut corporation tax from 28% to 24%, and fails to collect unpaid tax by various large corporations. Protest!

The day will also mark the launch of a new local newsheet - currently titled 'Stroud Views & Burblings' a la the local paper the 'Stroud News & Journal' - see attachments

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This Weekend London Sat+Sun Dual Power Meeting

03-01-2011 18:30

Callout for anyone interested in more than just marching round the
park on March 26. We want to draw up a map and a plan. Space invaders,
poets, musicians, climbers, trapeze artists, parachutists,
balloonists, hang glider pilots, tunnellers welcome!!

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2005: How Quebec Students Forced the Govt to Back Down

29-12-2010 23:16

Canada: Students blockade the Port of Montréal, 2005 - Article about blockade by students in Canada striking against cuts in education.

Lessons to be thought about and learned from for the 2011 student protests.

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National Health Service "could collapse"

29-12-2010 18:46

Senior figures in the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) have warned that the government proposals to reform health care, as laid out in the white paper, “Equity and excellence: Liberating the NHS”, could lead it to “implode” or face a “train crash”.

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Vigil to support the occupation of the Kent University Senate building!

29-12-2010 16:43

Information regarding a vigil in support of the occupation of the University of Kent Senate building.

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Preston Poverty: Figures

29-12-2010 14:32

New figures show the starkness of the growing inequality in Preston, Lancashire.

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Postmodernism in the Streets: the tactics of protest are changing

28-12-2010 13:05

Whilst MPs voted for the privatisation of Higher Education on December 9th, another British institution – the protest march – was undergoing a transformative moment.

Outside, protesters caught in a police “containment area” were experiencing, many for the first time, a political education: that property comes before people; the rights of the former supersede those of the latter. The extent to which the mainstream media has mourned for windows and car doors, for the monarchy and the mausoleums, is more than facile hypocrisy. It is an indictment of a society which has internalised the value systems of capital to the point that a young student being arbitrarily batoned into brain surgery is largely ignored, and outrage is reserved for property vandalism over police violence. Yet ultimately, that violence is also an argument that we must change tack.