March for the Alternative
March 26, 2011 11:00
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January 31, 2011 10:22
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fyi
The march will begin forming up at 11am, on Embankment, between Temple Place and Blackfriars. Details are still subject to change, but as it is currently planned, it will pass Parliament and Trafalgar Square and Piccadilly Circus, before entering Hyde Park at Hyde Park Corner.
Places: hyde_park victoria_embankment
March for the Alternative
Government spending cuts will damage public services and put more than a million out of work. They will hit the vulnerable, damage communities and undermine much of what holds us together as a society.
Ministers say there is no alternative.
But both of the government’s two key decisions are political choices, not economic necessity.
- Eliminating the deficit in just four years is a savage timetable that does not give economic growth the opportunity to raise the nation’s tax take. Indeed the deep cuts promised will depress the economy making deeper cuts necessary to meet this timetable.
- Raising four pounds through cuts for every pound raised through tax – and doing most of this through a rise in VAT that hits the poor and those on middle income the most – is deeply unfair. The recession was made in the finance sector, yet banks and those now enjoying gigantic bonuses once again, are not being asked to make a fair contribution.
Yet none of these policies were put to the British people at the election, indeed we were told that there was no need for cuts in front-line services.
People round the country are already campaigning against these deep, rapid cuts. Students have shown their opposition to cuts, the ends of EMAs and increases in fees. Parents and teachers have opposed cuts in school building. School sport, libraries and public woodlands all now have strong defenders. Few towns now don’t have their own campaign group.
The TUC’s March for the Alternative has two key aims.
- First we want to give a national voice to all those affected by the cuts.
This will be a huge event that in its breadth and support shows just how much opposition there is to the government’s programme. It will bring together public service workers and those who depend on good public services. Those involved in national campaigns, and those defending what is special in their own community. - Second we want to show that people reject the argument that there is no alternative.
Of course the recession did damage to our economy. But these deep rapid cuts are not the best way to solve our problems, and may well make them worse.
That is why it is the March for the Alternative – an alternative in which rich individuals and big companies have to pay all their tax, that the banks pay a Robin Hood tax and on in which we strain every sinew to create jobs and boost the sustainable economic growth that will generate the prosperity which is the only long term way to close the deficit and reduce the nation’s debt.
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links for march 26th
Published: February 17, 2011 15:19
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linx
http://marchforthealternative.org.uk
http://twitter.com/march26march
Hastags : #26March #mar26 #demo2011
Resist26!
Organising resistance against the state on March 26th. Direct action for our communities!
http://www.resist26.org
http://twitter.com/resist26
Hastags : #resist26 #stay41
BATTLE OF BRITAIN: LONDON, MARCH 26 2011
http://www.battleofbritainmarch26.org
Feeder Marches and Blocs
http://www.freedompress.org.uk/news/2011/03/14/march-26th-meet-the-anarchists/
Occupy Trafalgar Square
http://march26tahrir.wordpress.com
UK Uncut - Occupy for the Alternative! 2pm / 3.30pm
http://ukuncut.org.uk/blog/how-to-occupy-oxford-street
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=170802509637606
Operation Dual Power
http://meltdown.uk.net/election/Dual_Power.html
March for the Alternative: Jobs, Growth, Justice
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=176812472328977
Buggy Bloc march against the cuts
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=198225986862286
See also http://woodcraft.org.uk/news/woodcraft-folk-tuc-march
March 26, 02.11pm Starting gun to Occupy London
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=170333149681323
STAY 4 ONE DAY! - Turn Hyde Park into Tahrir Square for 24 hours!
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=196454957048306
March 26 - DON'T GO HOME
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=201613626522894
Support People’s Assemblies on March 26
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=190886207611806
Pink & Black bloc @ the March for the Alternative
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=181582421881050
TO CREATE A BLACK BLOC TACTIC
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=138472949550648
March against the cuts - Puppets For Protest
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=190690847625041
SHUT DOWN LONDON ROUND TWO
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=151717928217535
Earth Hour 2011 will take place on Saturday 26 March at 8.30pm
http://earthhour.wwf.org.uk/about_earth_hour/aboutearthhour/
http://www.earthhour.org/
DPAC Demo
Published: February 17, 2011 15:41
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fyi
Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC) have organised a march to protest against government proposals to cut Disability Living Allowance (DLA).
The march will take place on 26 March 2011 in London.
There will also be a main TUC march at 11am. The TUC protest will assemble at Victoria Embankment, to march to a rally in Hyde Park.
DPAC are still finalising arrangements of where everyone can meet before this TUC march.
There are also plans to arrange a static protest for those unable to march to Hyde Park. In announcing this protest, DPAC writes:
'Disabled people are facing continuing attacks against their lives, living standards and basic human rights to live independently from almost every conceivable quarter and it is time for us to fight back against these cuts.
These savage spending cuts damage not only our lives, but our public services, and threaten economic recovery. They're dangerous, unfair and unnecessary.
Disabled people are going to march to tell the government we demand “Rights not Charity” and to show we are not easy victims of their cuts even though they may think we are.'
For information about transport to the march go to http://www.righttowork.org
To keep up to date with details of the march that is taking place on 26 March 2011 join the DPAC events page at:
http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=122497767819841&index=1
Alternatively, for more information please email mail[at]dpac.uk.net
We look forward to seeing you there!
Education Bloc Feeder
Published: March 04, 2011 13:55
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bloc
Join the Education Bloc: Assemble 10am at ULU, Malet St — for a feeder march via LSE and KCL.
http://studentassembly.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/march26_edublock.pdf
It has been over two years since the near collapse of the entire financial system. And yet the world economy shows no real sign of recovery. Gloomy talk of a ‘double-dip’ recession abounds. To the extent that they can agree at all, our rulers only have one ‘solution’: cuts, cuts and more cuts.
This crisis - the first truly global one since the 1930s - exposes the lunacy of the capitalist system. In order for enormous amounts of wealth to be created, people in ‘peripheral’ countries must starve. And the living standards of those in the ‘advanced’ countries now risk being cut back into the nineteenth century.
Whilst the financial magnates and tax-avoiders continue to party through the crisis, whilst millions are spent on the pomp and circumstance of the royal wedding, their parliamentary puppets insist that we must pay for a crisis that we did not cause. All the bluster about being ‘in it together’ cannot disguise what is really going on - the attempt to offload the costs of bailing out the banks onto the most vulnerable in society: the youth, the unemployed, the disabled, pensioners and so on.
We have come to take for granted many of the historic gains of previous struggles - free access to higher education, decent healthcare, reliable public services, some sort of job prospects following graduation and many other things. But in order to protect their entrenched interests, this government of the super rich is now looking to roll back all of these gains. We are potentially witnessing the ‘legal’ robbery of a whole generation. And we cannot let it happen.
But people from Wisconsin and Tunis to Tahrir square and Benghazi have shown that we can fight back and win. Their example of imaginative self-organisation in the streets, in popular assemblies and in the workplace shows the way. We want to bring this radical spirit to the the Trades Union Congress demonstration on March 26. We want to bring Tahrir to Trafalgar. Our struggle is international or it is nothing.
The parliamentary votes on the scrapping of the Education Maintenance Allowance and the tripling of HE tuition fees may have passed. Yet we have called this bloc because we want to show that we have not gone away. The militancy, energy and dynamism of our protests last Winter proved an inspiration to tens of thousands up and down the country. We now want to link up with the workers’ movement more generally and unite to resist. We must create bodies like the London Student Assembly to link the struggles up and down the country to fight every cut.
They may have come for education first, but now they are coming for everybody. An injury to one is an injury to all, and we must respond in kind. Join us on March 26 so that we can step up the fight. We not only want to defeat this millionaires’ government of privilege, but to march for a credible alternative to it: a society in which the madness of the market, profit and growth for growth’s sake are consigned to the dustbin of history.
South London Feeder for March 26
Published: March 04, 2011 14:15
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South United
South London campaign groups have joined together to build a massive feeder march to the TUC Protest. Anti-Cuts protesters from Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham have linked up to Rally in Kennington Park at 11am (tbc) to march united to join the protest.
We hope to be joined by an ever increasing number of organisations to show the depth of anger against what the Tories are doing. The Herne Hill Society should be marching alongside the Pensioners and University student occupiers.
We hope the TUC protest will be a launch pad to a bigger national campaign against every cuts. If hundreds of thousands can march together the we can strike together as well. Lets bring down this rotten government.
http://www.lambethunited.org/index.php/2011/03/south-london-feeder-for-march-26/
Camden / North Feeder March
Published: March 07, 2011 19:09
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fyi
Camden has a feeder march starting at Lincolns inn Field at 11am on March 26th
Resist26 Promo Vid
Published: March 08, 2011 15:31
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vids
Resist26! JOIN US ON MARCH 26TH IN LONDON!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaBvKE-gILM
RADICAL WORKERS' BLOC
Published: March 09, 2011 16:11
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bloc
On Saturday 26th March the Trades Union Congress has called for a march against the cuts, and there is going to be a South London feeder march starting at Kennington Park which we will be joining.
South London is one of the areas to be hardest hit by the cuts and has seen some of the most inspiring resistance to their implementation with the storming and occupying of town halls, the occupying of libraries and university buildings along with large demonstrations and regular small actions. Anarchists have played a key role in these struggles arguing that we fight the cuts based on the principles of solidarity, direct action, and self-organisation. We are calling on anarchists, libertarian communists and militant workers from across the country who agree with these principles to join us on the demonstration to provide a visible presence and a revolutionary alternative to the reformism of the TUC.
With sufficient rank-and-file anger, the trade unions may be pushed into calling a general strike – only the second in British history. However, it’s us, not the union bosses who can stop the cuts. All reformist unions can offer us is sellouts like Aaron Porter from the NUS. We can’t put our faith in anything other than our own solidarity and ability to organise. We must take a lead in organising action ourselves rather than waiting on the TUC or anyone else to do it for us.
We also intend to argue that it is capitalism that has caused the crisis that has led to these cuts and that in response to their class war we need to reciprocate: meeting cuts with direct action - strikes, occupations and civil disobedience - whilst fighting for a different world which puts human needs first.
Bring red and black flags, banners and propaganda. The workers movement needs anarchist ideas and methods more than ever if we're to beat the cuts.
Meet at 11am Kennington Park, South London.
Called by South London Solidarity Federation and the Anarchist Federation
STATEMENT ON CALL OUTS FOR A RADICAL WORKERS’ BLOCK ON 26 March
Published: March 09, 2011 16:14
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AF
As part the working class fight back against the ConDem government and local authority cuts, the Anarchist Federation supports all anarchist and libertarian communist call-outs for a radical workers’ block on the TUC demo in London on March 26th. We should all be visible as a distinctive and critical part of a labour movement, as a counter movement to the tried, tested and discredited strategy of the trades unions to bargain with the state in our interests. This bankrupt approach is exemplified by the TUC’s summoning of a ‘March for the Alternative: Jobs, Growth, Justice’, misses the points about what is wrong with capitalism. It cannot be fixed by the state; it is caused by the collaboration of the state and capitalism that the trades unions do nothing to undermine.
This will be the largest workers’ demonstration in years. As well as opposing the present government it is vital that we show other workers that there is a coherent movement opposed to trade union leaders that sold us out to the Labour government. Calls for workers’ unity with the Labour Party are a slap in the face for those people. We need to define ourselves against such political opportunism and be able to draw towards us workers interested in social anarchism/libertarian communism. Disillusionment and discontent with the system has never had so much potential, so being visible is vital.
We need to expect attacks by police and to be targeted by demonstration stewards. Private security hired by the TUC will be collaborating with the police in containing anger in the crowd.
But many anarchists are finding our ideas having more and more resonance in our communities and workplaces/places of study and many are involved in a process of organising with non-anarchists locally. Because our colleagues, friends and families, our class-mates, our fellow-claimants and also our local anti-cuts groups are attending and also want to be visible and coherent. So some class-struggle anarchists will want to march with the people we work, live and organise locally with, to build solidarity with the people we are experiencing the cuts alongside.
So this makes it all the more important that we have excellent propaganda that goes beyond rhetoric and relates the experiences we are sharing with people around us to a clear analysis of why this is happening and what has to be done in our home towns.
http://afed.org.uk/blog/workplace/217-radical-worker-bloc-on-26th-march-2011.html
UKuncut on 26th march
Published: March 14, 2011 12:58
by
fyi
On March 26th, just after the huge march has reached its final destination, we're going to be holding Occupy For the Alternative, a massive simultaneous shut down of banks and tax dodgers on London's Oxford Street.
From 2pm flash mobs, bail-ins and occupations will shut down the dozens of banks and tax dodgers along the length of Europe's biggest shopping street.
And at 3.30pm, after the dispersed actions, there will be a massive final convergence, ready for a spectacular mass occupation of a secret target.
March 26th is not the end of the battle against the cuts. It is the beginning. Join us on Oxford Street and let's help kick things off in style.
After you've marched, why not occupy? See you on the streets.
Original full callout at http://www.ukuncut.org.uk/blog/occupy-for-the-alternative
Women's Bloc + Action M26
Published: March 14, 2011 19:07
by
fightback
We are calling on all women to stand in solidarity together against the cuts that will affect the most vulnerable in our society the most.
Come dressed in purple and green with pots and pans or anything else to make a lot of noise!
There will be a direct action following the march, with more details to be announced soon. Until then, tell everyone you know, get mobilising! Let's make this as big as it should be.
The women's bloc and action is supported by:
Women Against the Cuts
http://womenagainstthecuts.org
Southall Black Sisters
http://www.southallblacksisters.org.uk
Million Women Rise
http://www.millionwomenrise.com
Eaves Housing for Women
http://www.eaves4women.co.uk
Haringey
Published: March 14, 2011 20:28
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North
I know that there is some cynicism amongst the public about single set piece demonstrations after the massive anti-war march in 2003 was pretty much ignored by the Labour government, but a low turn-out will be easily dismissed as a ‘vested interest’ protest by public sector employees. Communities (service users) need to show solidarity with the unions on this, and to be quite frank, to encourage the often ‘conservative’ minded union leaders to escalate the battle and call coordinated strikes which they can do legally, over things like the proposed changes to occupational pensions.
I also expect this protest to be a bit different from other large scale marches, in that I expect there will be perhaps hundreds of smaller direct action type protests surrounding the main demonstration, where organisations like UKUncut have led the way with sit ins at high street banks. It is important that large numbers attend the main protest to make the smaller flash mobs more difficult for the authorities to contain. There are hundreds of legitimate targets for protest in London which given a large main demonstration, will be impossible to police.
Activists from Haringey Alliance for Public Services are meeting at 10am on 26th March at both Turnpike Lane and Seven Sisters tube stations to travel to the protest.
http://haringeygreens.blogspot.com/2011/03/support-tuc-demonstration-26th-march.html
Anti-cuts campaigners plan 'carnival of civil disobedience'
Published: March 14, 2011 20:54
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Guardian article
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/mar/14/anti-cuts-campaigners-26-march
2.11pm Occupy London
Published: March 15, 2011 12:20
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fyi
At 02.11 pm, as the giant TUC march surges down Whitehall, we predict the Starting Gun will be fired to OCCUPY LONDON!
Strike! Occupy! Take over everything for everyone!
Sit down or stand up where you are!
Set up the People's Assemblies!
Take autonomous direct action!
WE COULD BE ANYTHING NOW!
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=170333149681323
http://www.resist26.org/post/3565117593/the-plan-take-london-1-occupy-hyde-park-in
A chance to speak | To all officers who will be policcing anti-cuts demonstrations
Published: March 16, 2011 04:44
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Ms Haddow
Dear all, As you may be aware there is The March on March 26th. Against the cuts. All cuts. Here in london. Please could you read this link and pass on where you think appropriate. Thank you for your time reading this.
Blessed Be. :)
http://achancetospeak.wordpress.com/
anonymous call for another bloc
Published: March 17, 2011 16:57
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fyi
Departing East of City 11am Saturday 26 March 2011
Locations tbc on day follow us @riseupeast
http://riseupeast.wordpress.com
South Coast Uncut Occupying for the Alternative
Published: March 17, 2011 17:15
by
uncutter
So the coaches have been booked and people are coming from all around the country. This is going to be BIG.
Brighton Uncut have teamed up with the wonderful people at Tunbridge Wells Uncut and the excellent people of Lewes Uncut to create SOUTH COAST UNCUT, London won’t know what hit it.
The problem is though, we’re bored of marching, we’ve marched and marched and marched but look where it got us. The politicians just keep on helping out their super rich tax dodging friends, just keep on killing our planet, just keep on squeezing the last bit of “profit” out of every last one of us.
So here’s the plan – we’re going to pick a target near the march route and cause some mischief.
We will have some large puppet-mask characters and a gold throne to carry the Lord of corporate greed and create theatre of oppression with. (wait and see!) There will also be some colourful flags, and instrumentalists to join the train with at Brighton.
Brighton and Lewes Uncut will meet at 8.30am Brighton Station and travel up to London to meet Tunbridge Wells Uncut at Kennington Park for 11am.
Dress code is “smart funeral black” but with some more colourful outer layers, for the power of transformation… And unity with the clowns…
Nothing can stop us!
Facebook Group – http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=202192039810627&ref=ts
http://brightonuncut.wordpress.com/2011/03/16/south-coast-uncut-occupying-for-the-alternative/
Hackney meetup points
Published: March 18, 2011 11:15
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North London
Hackney meeting points for March26
09.30 Homerton Hospital
10.00 Town Hall Mare St
Another action map
Published: March 18, 2011 11:16
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fyi
http://www.freedompress.org.uk/news/wp-content/uploads/Freedom-March-26-Action-Map.jpg
Belfast rally
Published: March 18, 2011 12:02
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ICTU
There will also be a rally in Belfast organised by the Irish Congress of Trade Unions. The Belfast march begins at the Art College in Donegal Street at 12.30 pm on Saturday March 26, with a rally at City Hall.
coaches and trains
Published: March 18, 2011 12:13
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massive
Over 630 coaches and 10 trains now coming
Book bloc
Published: March 19, 2011 10:20
by
reader
meet up point tbc
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=135547746514537
BIKE BLOC EAST
Published: March 19, 2011 10:24
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wheels
Critical Mass ride from Hackney Town Hall to join demo
Hackney Town Hall
10am
bikebloceast [at] gmail.com
Turn Trafalgar into Tahrir Square
Published: March 19, 2011 20:01
by
stay in town
26 March at 17:30
http://march26tahrir.wordpress.com
All eyes are now upon the TUC demonstration on March 26th. Hundreds of
thousands of trade unionists, pensioners, welfare recipients, disabled
people and students will be marching together against the ConDem cuts.
...These cuts are not only about savaging our services. They are about
transforming British society in the interests of the few - the rich
and the powerful. Our message is simple: we the many will stand
together to defeat these cuts.
Over the last few months, a new dawn of resistance has swept the globe
with huge crowds occupying Tahrir square in Egypt and the State
Capitol in Madison, Wisconsin. This has inspired millions, as the same
shock doctrines and neo-liberal attacks threaten to devastate the
lives of ordinary people the world over. Here, our own government has
no mandate to cut and is also weak as its policy u turns have shown.
On March 26 we are inviting everyone to join us to stay in Trafalgar
square for 24 hours to discuss how we can beat this government and to
send a message across the globe that we stand with the people of
Egypt, Libya, Wisconsin and with all those fighting for equality,
freedom and justice. We want to turn Trafalgar square into a place of
people’s power where we assert our alternative to cuts and austerity
and make it a day that this Government won't forget.
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=198808963474182
http://twitter.com/march26tahrir
John McDonnell MP
Jeremy Corbyn MP
George Galloway
Mark Bergfeld - Education Activist Network
Michael Chessum - National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts
Charlie Kimber - National Secretary Socialist Workers Party
Resist26 - Stay for 1 Day
Paul Brandon Chair Right to Work
Laurie Penny journalist
Professor Chris Knight - Battle for Britain
Jody McIntyre - journalist
Lowkey - Rapper
Nhs Direct Action
Barnaby Raine, School and FE students against the Cuts
Nina Power - writer
Ashok Kumar - LSE Education Officer
James Haywood - Goldsmiths College President-elect
Clare Solomon - ULU President
Kanja Sesay - Black Students Officer NUS
Alan Bailey - LGBT Officer NUS (open-place)
Vicki Baars - LGBT Officer NUS (women's place
Robyn Minogue - University of Arts London SU Education Officer
Louis Hartnoll - University of Arts London President
Sean Rillo Raczka - Chair of Birkbeck SU
Claire Locke - Campaigns Officer London Met SU
Prince Johnson - President Institute of Education
Nicole Lukas - London South Bank SU Education Officer-elect
Daniel Cooper - President-elect Royal Holloway SU
Nathan Bolton - Essex Uni SU Campaigns Officer
Chris Bambery - Secretary Right To WorkSee more
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InspectorGadget on low cop numbers volunteering
Published: March 20, 2011 13:47
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interesting
"The Force Duty Planners are having real trouble getting volunteers for March 26th in London. This could be where ministers learn the hard way just how much good-will is used up in the public sector. If our overtime is cut, why should we give up our spare time to deploy for public order duty? I have seen at least two begging emails now, and I know that the places are still not filled. This could be the first time I can remember where they have to order officers to deploy to London from the Counties. You won’t read that in the media."
MILITANT WORKERS BLOC: RELOADED! EVERYONE TO THE STREETS // 26.03.11
Published: March 21, 2011 07:09
by
anarchists of london
MILITANT WORKERS BLOC: RELOADED! EVERYONE TO THE STREETS // 26.03.11
On March 28th, 2009 over a thousand of us came together in a bloc on the streets of London calling for direct action, occupations and all out resistance to the cuts. As a precursor to the mass demonstrations in the heart of the city at the G20 - we looked towards an opening after years of what many saw as capitalisms most stable period, into one which has gone from crisis to crisis and now has intensified its attacks on the only barrier left for its own survival - our passive compliance.
As odds become conveniently stacked against us, we aim at producing a moment of inspiration with the many thousands of angry, radical and militant voices that will make themselves heard during March 26th. Come and join us, look out for the sound systems and the "militant workers bloc" banner. Bring your sound systems, bring your anger, bring flags*, bring your friends and lets march
together!
This day belongs to all of us - we will dance, revolt, occupy!
Meet 11am ULU Malet Street // Saturday March 26th 2011 // Join us on the Education Bloc FOLLOW THE SOUNDSYSTEMS // AVOID THE KETTLE // OCCUPY OXFORD STREET 2pm //
NEVER GIVE UP
*We will have over 150 red/black flags to hand out, donations welcomed!
In addition to this bloc we act in solidarity with our sister blocs coming from the South and East! For more info on other contingents see http://www.freedompress.org.uk/news/2011/03/17/march-26th-action-map/
UKuncut update
Published: March 21, 2011 09:33
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from the website
11.30am Meet outside the National Theatre on the South Bank to march with the UK Uncut bloc
2.00pm Simultaneous occupations of tax dodgers and banks the length of Oxford Street
Muster at Oxford Circus at 3.30pm and look for the UK Uncut flags. Tell all your friends who are marching to come along too. When the flags move, you should too.
Be prepared to occupy the target for as long as possible.
http://www.ukuncut.org.uk/blog/how-to-occupy-oxford-street
http://www.ukuncut.org.uk/actions/list
4,300 police to be on duty for demo
Published: March 21, 2011 16:25
by
fyi
According to the briefing given at congress house.
Latin American Bloc
Published: March 22, 2011 03:40
by
La Chola Chaskañawi
https://london.indymedia.org/events/7933
The Latin American Coalition Against the Cuts (COLACOR) is joining the South London regional feeder march on the 26th.
We oppose the cuts being imposed to the working class and want to raise our voice together with other migrant communities and with the native working class.
The meeting point is Kennington Park at 11:00 am. We will have COLACOR guides throughout the park. We will be wearing an item with the SCISSORS AND THE FIST IMAGE.
Once you see a member of our network, please come to us and register so that we can:
1) Hand out necessary material for the march: Sheet with slogans, Bust card (key emergency info), route map, whistles and fliers to be used
2) Gather a large contingent of people behind the massive COLACOR banner
3) We will do sing and dance alongs. If you want to join this, with us you can practice
4) If your children want to put on costumes, when you come to the group you will be able to get that.
This will be a joyful event, for the whole family, come along with your friends, workmates, neighbours, parents, grandparents. EVERYONE is welcome, because TOGETHER WE ARE MORE.
In this march, we, as Latin American, want to raise our voices, to be listened. For us NO ONE IS ILLEGAL and WE are WORKERS, NOT criminals. This is why we want to become visible and to show our solidarity with all workers and people no matter where they come from.
BRITISH WORKERS, MIGRANT WORKERS: ONE CLASS, ONE FIGHT!
This is only the beginning of the fight. Our fighting spirit as Latin Americans wants to be a flame ready to ignite at the 26th March and beyond. We need to build a wide and inclusive movement that not only opposes the cuts, but STOPS them.
WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU THERE!!!
Autonomous rally hosted by IWW
Published: March 23, 2011 11:00
by
IWW
Autonomous rally hosted by IWW: for militancy, solidarity & direct action!
15:30 - 18:30
Hyde Park - at the fountain next to Park Lane
This rally is deliberately timed so that people can attend as many as possible of the various other actions going on during the anti-cuts protests on March 26th. Some things will clash, of course, but this just shows the diversity and strength of the growing movement :-)
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On March 26th 2011, thousands of people will be marching in Central London against the austerity cuts being imposed on us by the coalition government. The severity and swiftness of these cuts, and the glee with which the ruling classes have taken up this austerity agenda, calls for a powerful mass movement to overturn not only the cuts but also the political-economic system that has produced crisis after crisis throughout its history.
As it stands, the TUC and mainstream campaign groups – although central to the present struggle – have been found lacking in political imagination. Not only do they continue to divide and weaken the movement between 'good' and 'bad' protesters. They also fail to recognise the ways in which the present situation is not simply produced through turning a blind eye to a few greedy or misguided individuals, but as a systemic problem of capitalism and its lap-dogs in governments all over the world.
The IWW has a long tradition of free speech and we invite fellow travellers to join us for an unofficial rally after the demonstration on March 26th. We know that the official rally will inevitably be populated by the usual union and Labour Party bigwigs, pronouncing the usual staid and vacuous sentiments as they always have done.
Instead, we call for this rally as a means of bringing together like-minded groups, campaigns and individuals to advocate militancy in the present class war and a new future to be built on principles of solidarity, direct democracy and equality.
Place: At the fountain on the eastern edge of Hyde Park, close to Park Lane.
Map: http://tinyurl.com/5sx4kd6
Time: 3.30pm
We are happy for speakers to speak at the rally on an ad-hoc basis, but please do let us know in advance if you or your group plans to talk so we can make sure you have a chance to be heard.
Contact: London@iww.org.uk
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Update: Student and Youth Contingent
Published: March 23, 2011 11:02
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update
Update: Student and Youth Contingent marching from outside Westminster Kingsway College, Kings Cross Centre; meet 10am on Grays Inn Road...
Bustcard for 26/3/11
Published: March 23, 2011 22:50
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Legal Defence and Monitoring Group
Check the LDMG website for the bustcard to download
www.ldmg.org.uk
Green Party, 6 Billion Ways and other meet up points
Published: March 24, 2011 09:26
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Jasper
There are even more meet up point included the Green Party meet up (10.30 Temple) and the 6 Billion Ways meet up (11.30 Surrey Street) listed at Political Dymanite -
http://politicaldynamite.com/2011/03/26-march-whats-your-plan/
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coach parks out of central london
Coaches (currently numbering 500) will not be allowed to park in central london, as TUC says there are too many of them.
To make things 'easier' they will arrange coach parks from which people will have to tube it into central london.
Obviously this will also mean people leaving earlier after the march to hyde park in order to get back to their coaches.
http://marchforthealternative.org.uk/2011/02/07/coach-planning-update/
The first coach park we’ve been able to book so far is Wembley, which is used to organising large numbers of coaches and is at a tube line in to the start of the march. Other locations are currently being confirmed in South-Central London, the City and East London, and we’ll be announcing these soon, as well as making sure people know the best routes to and from their coach parks to the march.