Students Defy Police to Take Streets

Thousands of students and austerity cuts protestors took to the streets of London on DayX2 in another national day of action [uk reports]. Refusing to be stopped by hundreds of police officers [1,2] they took their protest mobile, marching miles across the capital city chanting slogans, chased by a police force playing catch up [report + pics]. Later having returned to Trafalgar Square clashes saw one woman knocked unconscious. Mass arrests followed with around 140 people arrested for breach of the peace in an apparent new policing tactic [report + pics].

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Why we are on the streets

Second Lecture - University For Strategic Optimism

Upcoming Demos + Actions

Wednesday 1st December
Camden Town Hall Cuts Protest
Trade unionists and local residents will gather outside Camden Town Hall from 6pm as the Council's Labour cabinet considers proposals to slash more than £82.5 million from council spending over the next three years.
Nearly 1,000 council jobs are under threat, with rents on council properties due to jump by more than 7 per cent.
The protest has been called by Camden Trades Council with the backing of Camden Unison, the NUT and Holborn & St Pancras Constituency Labour Party.

Saturday 4th December
UK Uncut: Latest wave of national protests this time targeting tax dodging Philip Green's Arcadia Group (Topshop, Topman, Dorothy Perkins, Burton, Miss Selfridge and British Home Stores) as well as good old Vodafone, Lloyds TSB, Boots and Barclays. Actions already planned in Birmingham, Edinburgh, London, Leeds, Liverpool, Reading, Oxford, Nottingham and Manchester
http://www.ukuncut.org.uk/
http://www.ukuncut.org.uk/targets

Saturday 4th December
Stop the Fees Demo at Lib Dem London Conference (facebook link)
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=148974651817209

Saturday 4th December
March on Parliament for a Zero Carbon Britain
12 noon: Assemble at Speakers Corner, Hyde Park. Building a Zero Carbon Britain means Climate Jobs Now: we have a positive vision not only for addresing the global threat of climate catastrophe but also for the economic crisis.
http://www.campaigncc.org

Sunday 5th December
Student protests being planned in towns and cities (facebook link - requires logon)
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=172969552731286

Wednesday 8th December
Tower Hamlets Protest at Full Council Meeting - £70M CUTS
Tower Hamlets HOOPS (Hands Off our Public Services) Lobby 6pm, against £70m+ cuts to jobs and services. Mulberry Place, 5 Clove Crescent, London E14 2BG.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Hoops-Tower-Hamlets/100001509794712#!/profile.php?id=100001509794712&v=wall

Thursday 9th December
NCAF National Day of Student Action
http://anticuts.org.uk

Saturday 11th December
NCAF National Day of Action
"Workers, students, pensioners: All To The Street!"
http://anticuts.org.uk

PLUS:

(depending which day the fees vote in parliament is... mid-December maybe 14th Dec)

NUS/UCU National Protests on the Day before Fees Vote
NUS/UCU National Mass Lobby of Parliament Day of Fees Vote, followed by rally + candle demo
http://www.ucu.org.uk/index.cfm?articleid=5141