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Battersea Park Adventure Playground Occupied

06-01-2013 21:09

With the expected demolition of Battersea Park Adventure Playground due to begin early tomorrow morning (Monday 7 January), local anti-cuts activists Wandsworth Against Cuts and Occupy London supporters have occupied the playground in protest at Wandsworth Council’s decision to destroy the unique children’s facility and replace it with a staff less ‘safe’ facility.

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Tower Hamlets Community for a new Council

06-01-2013 20:54

This week sees new central Govt measures in Tower Hamlets. Why so? Isn't there an elecetd mayor in place there already?

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Communities won't take the closure of nurseries and childrens centres.

25-12-2012 19:00

Around 100 parents and children under 5 arrived from Tinsley Green children's centre. Another 50 joined the protest from Darnall Community Nursery.

In total at least 250 protested outside Sheffield Town Hall against the Labour council's planned slashing of Sure Start children's centres and nurseries.

The council is aiming to cut £3.5m from these centres. Currently there are 36 centres, all Ofsted registered and providing childcare, health, education and family support. All would be downgraded.

Instead the aim is to have 17 children's centre 'areas', with each area having only one nursery. The council calls its proposals a 'redesign' and incredibly has claimed that the service will improve, reaching more children.

Yet, at the same time, it blames the government for forcing the cuts on it - thereby implying that the service will suffer.

19 of the 36 centres have been earmarked for closure. Five of the seven centres that received an 'outstanding' grade from Ofsted last year are amongst those under threat.

Many nursery workers and parents have been told that their centres will be closed by March 2013 at the latest.

Yet the council is saying that there will be no closures. What it means is that it will use all the sites for something - it's just that 19 of them won't have childcare services!

sharon milson

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Christmas Cancelled!

25-12-2012 12:23

thats just 2 bad

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The Westcountry Mutineer #3 Out Now!

24-12-2012 17:45

Ho! Ho! Ho! The Westcountry Mutineer issue 3 is out now - better late than never! A new-ish radical tabloid, definitely not in the same style as The Bath Bomb, but for all the westcountry

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Abolish the Armed Forces

21-12-2012 13:27

I just created a new petition and I hope you can sign -- it's called: Abolish the Armed Forces

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Starbucks Xmas PR Fail

17-12-2012 14:22

Starbucks Festive PR Fail

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Occupied Friern Barnet Library in court Monday

16-12-2012 16:20

Supporters of Friern Barnet People’s Library in Barnet, North London, are to return to court at 09:30 on Monday 17 December as Barnet council seeks possession of the building and the surrounding green land.

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earth cabaret at occupied friern barnet library

16-12-2012 13:36

last night, more than a hundred locals and other visitors filled the occupied library in friern barnet for an evening of 'save the library' cabaret. the occupiers face court on monday and tuesday as the council tries to evict them and close down the library.

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Starbucks action in Cambridge by UK Uncut

11-12-2012 18:41

Last Saturday (08/12/2012) a small collective of people turned up outside the Cambridge Market Square branch of Starbucks in protest at the chain not fully paying up it's taxes for the last ten years.

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Boycott Workfare Video

11-12-2012 13:47

Video of the day of action on Saturday 8th December. After handing leaflets outside Poundland the demonstration moves onto Argos where protesters occupy the store and handout over a thousand leaflets and only leave once the busy Christmas queues have completely disappeared. This is followed by a brief visit to Superdrug before finishing the demonstration outside McDonalds where Food not Bombs gave away free vegan burgers

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Boycott Workfare day of action

10-12-2012 18:28

Saturday 8th December was the start of a week of action against Workfare, in Birmingham protesters from Boycott Workfare, Birmingham Against the Cuts, Disabled People Against the Cuts, Anonymous Birmingham and Birmingham Food not Bombs gathered outside Poundland, a local company using Workfare. The groups we’re also joined by protesters coming from the nearby UK Uncut Starbucks action where Starbucks were targeted for not paying tax.[1]

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Starbucks and Amazon - and the Boycott Starts to Bite!!!

09-12-2012 22:22

INCREASE THE PRESSURE

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islington starbucks ukuncut actions yesterday - report & pics 2 of 2

09-12-2012 13:53

two starbucks branches were closed down by ukuncut activists in islington yesterday afternoon as part of nationwide tax-avoidance protests against the company. this is a report on the second action.

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islington starbucks ukuncut actions yesterday - report & pics 1 of 2

09-12-2012 12:57

two starbucks branches were closed down by ukuncut activists in islington yesterday afternoon as part of nationwide tax-avoidance protests against the company. this is a report on the first action.

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small determined workfare demo in holloway, london yesterday

09-12-2012 12:17

london activists targeted businesses in holloway yesterday, handing out employment rights and solidarity information leaflets to workers exploited under the government 'workfare' scheme.

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Anti-Austerity Protest, Manchester Report and Pics

09-12-2012 00:02

Over 350 demonstrators marched through Manchester city centre today,
Sat 8th Dec, in opposition to the continuing Government Austerity measures.

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UK Uncut protest against tax dodgers Starbucks

08-12-2012 23:39

Today, on the 8th of December 2012, UK Uncut protesters successfully occupied and shut down two Starbucks branches in Birmingham city centre.

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100 people at #Sheffield @ukuncut #Starbucks Action

08-12-2012 22:41

Thanks to everyone who joined our Refuge for The Cuts. At one point, including those people who joined to talk and listen from the amazing parade of humanity that is Fargate, we had between 80 and 100 people. What struck us as most significant about this action was the amazing interaction with our fellow public in Sheffield; people seem genuinely interested to find out what they can do fight companies like Starbucks in their tax dodging. We had well over 1000 leaflets and flyers that all went to eager eyes. Thanks to all you amazing musicians that entertained and the people who made the coffee stall what may possibly have been the busiest coffee joint in town. And the only free one... There's no way we would have expected such an action to happen even a year ago; our message is making more and minds yield to and understand the anti-austerity message.

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Workfare’s Christmas Bonus For The Bosses

08-12-2012 21:55

Saturday 8th December marks the start of a week of action against workfare [1] and shops that profit from the free labour supplied by the taxpayer. The national day of action is focusing on charities, however as there aren't many charity shops in the city centre and since a protest last month outside British Heart Foundation who announced they were stepping back from workfare[2] it was decided to take action over companies that profit from free Christmas temps at our expense. In Birmingham anti-workfare protesters gathered outside Poundland, a local company using workfare. As the protest began to grow with people joining after coming from the nearby Starbucks tax dodging action the group decided to move off in search of other shops using workfare. They didn't have to walk far when round the corner they arrived at Argos, a particularly unpopular shop amongst Birmingham Workfare activists. In Birmingham last year, Boycott Workfare was told by someone who applied for a temp job at Argos, but didn’t get it and then subsequently got sent there on workfare that they had more people on workfare than paid temps. In light of this the group made the decision to occupy the shop. The occupation was more successful than expected, security - the same people who a week earlier had assaulted a protester by punching them in the face at the occupation of the Adidas shop[3] – had obviously been told to back off and not go round punching people, let the occupation carry on as long as the occupiers wanted. After the queues at Argos had become visibly shorter the group decided that there were other shops who needed to be targeted and so ended the occupation. The next stop on the Workfare tour was Superdrug where flyers were handed out before moving on to the last stop on the tour McDonald’s. Here the protesters were joined by Birmingham Food not Bombs activists who set up a stall outside McDonald’s and began handing out free vegan burgers.