Saturday there is a protest rally at 11am at Holyhead Coastguard Station against its proposed closure by the cuts loving coalition, although now the House of Commons Transport Select Committee is to conduct a full inquiry into the consultation, another ignominious U-Turn by the feckless ConDems to be forced? God (and/or any sky pixies) help them if one of their swanky yachts gets into trouble in these waters, if the station is cut you will only have-
three 24-hour operational centres – at Aberdeen, in the Southampton/Portsmouth area and at Dover.
In addition, there will be five sub-centres open during daylight hours – at Swansea, at Falmouth in Cornwall, at Humber in Yorkshire and at either Belfast or Liverpool and at either Stornoway or Shetland in Scotland.
And in Bangor from 10am until 2 or so North Wales Against The Cuts Bangor will be holding a stall at the clock on the High Street, informing and leafleting ahead of a march on the 2nd of April, a week after the big London March to spread the momentum in the region. Tonight it has broken that Barclays bank paid barely 1% tax on £11.6bn of profits, that shit ain’t gonna fly my friends. So come along, join the resistance!
Austerity-economics is the policy of the powerful. It cannot be stopped by asking nicely. We cannot wait until the next election. If we want to win the fight against these cuts (and we can win) then we must make it impossible to ignore our arguments and impossible to resist our demands. This means building a powerful grassroots mass movement, able to resist the Government cuts at every turn.
UK Uncut hopes to play a small part in this movement. In only a few months, from a single action in London, UK Uncut has spread to up to fifty-five towns and cities. Everyone from pensioners to teenagers, veterans to newbies have already joined our actions in towns from Aberdeen to Aberystwyth. We have proved that there is anger at these cuts, that the idea of mass apathy is a myth and that people are willing to do more than just join a Facebook group to stand up and defend what they believe in.
Even if you have never been on a protest before, please join us. UK Uncut makes it easy to either join or organise an inspiring, effective protest wherever you are. Vodafone’s own slogan is ‘Power to You.’ It couldn’t be more appropriate.
Now is the time to get angry, to get organised and to build a resistance to austerity.
See you on the high streets.
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- UK Uncut targets banks as copycat group forms in America Anti-tax avoidance organisation aims to bring 30 Barclays branches to a standstill while US Uncut plans own demonstrations (inquiringminds.cc)
- UK Uncut: grassroots protests spread from Wales to Mississippi (guardian.co.uk)
