Posts Tagged ‘cuts’
Tories Did This
Tories Did This, graffiti, East London.
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Headteachers Protest
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FBU Pensions Strike
FBU 4 hour strike over firefighters pensions and retirement age. East Ham and Poplar Fire Stations, East London.
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Save Legal Aid
Protest outside the Ministry of Justice to defend legal aid. Westminster, London.
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We Are Not Inbreds!
City Clean workers in Brighton march on a council meeting calling for the Green Party council leader, Jason Kitcat to be sacked, in an unofficial dispute over a proposed £4,000 pay cut for some staff. GMB workers were also angered by the comments of Cllr Anita Kitcat, the wife of the council leader, also Green Party, who allegedly called the locals “inbreds”. Workers occupied their canteen at the city’s Hollingdean refuse depot in a dispute with the only Green-led council in the UK. Brighton.
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Brighton & Hove Green Party speak out against Jason Kitcat’s pay negotiation strategy.
Atos – Blood On Their Hands
Disabled protesters from DPAC and UK Uncut against the cuts to disabled benefits through the Paralympic sponsor Atos, outside Atos HQ and later occupy the Department of Work and Pensions. London.
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Atos Paralympics
Disabled People Against Cuts protesters lay a coffin outside Atos HQ to represent the people who have died or committed suicide after having their benefits cut following an Atos assessment saying they were fit to work. Opening day of the Paralympics where Atos is a sponsor. Euston, London.
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Spanish Miners Mountain Battle
Miners win running battles with police in Cinera after they have blocked the mountain road. The miners have been on strike since the government announced cuts to mining subsidies due to austerity cuts which will mean an end to mining. Leon, Northern Spain.
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Spanish Miners – Asturias
Miners march past Pozo de Soton coal mine after fighting between police and miners to keep control of the pit. The miners have been on strike since the government announced cuts to mining subsidies due to austerity cuts which will mean an end to mining. Asturias. Northern Spain.
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Clegg’s Street Party
Fuck Clegg Victoria Sponge cake. UK Uncut Great London Street Party outside Nick Clegg MP’s London home. Putney.
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Disabled Protest blocks Trafalgar Sq
DPAC action against benefit cuts, care funding and Loss of Remploy jobs.
Disabled activists block Trafalgar Square against benefit cuts and the Welfare Reform Bill. London.
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Greek Revolution
Demonstrators with a hangman’s noose outside the Greek Parliament. Against IMF imposed austerity measures. Syntagma Square, Athens, Greece.
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Greek General Strike
Man stands in front of graffiti on the Eurobank as running battles between police and protesters take place outside the Greek parliament. Trade unions hold a general strike against IMF imposed austerity measures. Syntagma Square, Athens, Greece.
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The Indignant movement planned to circle the parliament in a huge show of public opinion against the savage IMF austerity measures. Thousand began gathering early Wednesday morning in Athens, many who had never previously joined demonstrations. Carrying banners with “Traitors” and waving Greek flags.
Around the polytechnic those involved in the general strike were also massing and planning to march to Syntagma Square.
It wasn’t long before battle ensued. Early attempts to pull down a fence guarding the parliament building were fought back with volleys of tear gas from the the Greek police. Fights broke out between right-wing opposition supporters, who were also in large numbers outside the parliament and those intent on fighting the police and who planned to occupy parliament. Street fighting between left and right gave way to intensified police attacks from all corners of Syntagma Square which drew the protesters away from the parliament building and into the side streets.
Running battles ensued, barricades were built, buildings spray painted, banks attacked and marble was chipped from any available surface for use as ammunition. The police were brutal, tear gas grenades, high powered pepper spray, concussion grenades and violent arrests.
It looked like a war zone, the police repeatedly saturated Syntagma Square with gas, which had become a permanent tented protest camp, leaving many chocking and blinded, ambulances arrived to collect the wounded.
By early evening word was spreading about the proposed changes to parliament, the reshuffle was met with distain, “it’s still the same people” said one man working near the square. More protests are planned tonight.
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March for the Alternative
March for the alternative. Jobs, Growth and Justice. Organised by the TUC.
With images from Piccadilly and Trafalgar Square later in the evening.
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Firefighters March on Downing St
The Siege of Millbank
The Siege of Millbank – UCU/NUS National Demonstration for Education occupies Conservative Party HQ. London.
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No Austerity
Mervyn King protest
POA and PCS delegates protest against the ConDem cuts as Mervyn King, Govenor of the Bank of England speaks at TUC, Manchester 2010.
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