Nottingham Uncut: First Birthday Tour

 

Saturday 12th November 2011

Meeting outside Boots on Upper Parliament Street, protestors and activist proceeded to Vodafone in Clumber Street, a regular on the Notts uncut tour route ... to remind them of the £8billion pounds that they owe in taxes.

 

 

Since this was the first birthday of events and actions on this cause, baloons, party whistles, and cake were produced. Staff invited to join in, but they declined.  We were also joined by a rather menacing-looking clown. Some children were a bit scared!

After quite a while police arrived and joined the party.

Onward then tothe other usuals including Topshop, Dorethy Perkins another Vodafone, BHS in Broadmarch and of course Boots.  By this time we got a few more followers including Bananaman, assored Guy Fawkes and Army cadet selling p[oppies [concerned about public service and army cutbacks!].

Eventually arriving back in the Market Square for more tea and cakes at the occupation camp.

Happy birthday Notts Uncut

 

Notts Uncut said:

"Notts Uncut will be coming together again to remind the tax avoiding banks and corporations based in Nottingham that we haven't gone away and we haven't forgotten what they're up to. 

While the Con-Dem government is getting increasingly cut-happy, telling us that there is no money for homeless shelters and women's refuges, that we can't afford to give charities government grants, that students must pay £9000 a year for degree courses, that people living on the breadline must survive on less and less there is a select group of people who are not suffering from the cuts - the bankers and corporate fat cats. While ordinary people are suffering these people are still paying multi million pounds worth of bonuses and avoiding billions of pounds worth of tax. Let's get out there and make sure the government and their super wealthy tax dodging mates know that we're onto them!!"

Notts Uncut

http://www.nottsuncut.co.uk

nottsuncutaction@gmail.com

Notts Save or Services

http://nottssos.org.uk

 

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earlier events:

 

Cuts Protest @ Vodafone, Boots, NatWest, TopShop.

http://nottingham.tachanka.org/articles/1106

 

Notts UK Uncut occupied Lloyds TSB Bank Nottingham

http://nottingham.tachanka.org/articles/1105

 

Cuts campaigners @ HSBC Vodafone Virgin & the rest

http://nottingham.tachanka.org/articles/1922

 

Street party against business, banks, service cuts

http://nottingham.tachanka.org/articles/1933

 

Notts Uncut: Tour of Tax Avoiders

http://nottingham.tachanka.org/articles/1995

 

Notts anti-cut protestors at Vodafone, TopShop etc

http://nottingham.tachanka.org/articles/2038

 

Nottingham Occupy 3 Uncut Tour

http://nottingham.tachanka.org/articles/2090

 

 ..... and many more! This is quite a regular gig.

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ALAN LODGE 

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

Email:                 tash@indymedia.org

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"It is not enough to curse the darkness.

                                   It is also necessary to light a lamp!!"

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