Combating the Cuts: Planning for Action

January 15, 2011 10:30

Date Published: December 13, 2010 16:21 by Notts Sos |

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Notts Save Our Services
Tagged as: austerity cuts local_communities meeting notts_sos planning

Dunkirk and Old Lenton Community Centre, Montpelier Road, Dunkirk, Nottingham, NG7 2JW

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Across the UK, groups have sprung up in opposition to the cuts being imposed by the Coalition Government – with students, protesting against the trebling of fees, taking the lead.

Locally Notts Save Our Services (Notts SOS) has organised a public meeting, a demonstration attracting more than 1,000 people and a number of smaller actions. Students have rallied at both local universities and occupied the Great Hall at University of Nottingham.

But it is not enough to simply protest against the cuts, even in vast numbers. This is one of the key lessons from the movement against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. If we want to win, we need a strategy.

Notts SOS have some ideas about what this might involve, but we don’t pretend to have all the answers. It is with this in mind that we are organising the Combating the Cuts event on Saturday, 15th. January 2011.

We hope to bring together as many people as possible to come up with ideas for campaigning around the different lines of attack on our communities and then try and build these into a coherent strategy.

For this to work, we need participation to be as wide as possible: activists, service users, public sector workers, trade unionists, the unemployed and others. We need your ideas to carry the fight-back forward.

So get in touch with us to let us know that you will be participating. Also tell people you know about this important event.

Find out further details by emailing: nottssos [at] gmail.com or by phoning 0115 837 7937.

Combating the Cuts: Together We Can Do It!

10.30-16.00 on Saturday 15th January 2011

Disabled access and facilities.

Food provided by Veggies.