A message to a country on fire | anticutsspace. We offer unapologetic solidarity and support to those involved in the UK uprisings these past nights. This sentiment extends to both the rioters and to those communities affected by them. We also acknowledge that the unrest has ruined many people’s livelihoods, and homes have been burnt and agree that these will always be the wrong targets for attack.
But we know that this sort of looting and destruction are the last actions of the completely impoverished and disenfranchised. Once again, politicians, the media, and police chiefs tell us that ‘criminal elements’ have ‘hijacked’ legitimate grievances and that ‘thugs’ and ‘outsiders’ are responsible. If the media want to deny one thing, it is that these riots are popular. Theresa May tells us that ‘violence is never justified’ – yet the police killed Mark Duggan and our government bomb Libya every night.
We believe a state monopoly on violence will always destroy communities. Like this: Like Loading... BBC, ITN and Sky News give riot footage to police | Media. The BBC, ITN and Sky News have handed hundreds of hours of unbroadcast footage of the August riots to police after being served with court orders by Scotland Yard. The broadcasters were forced to hand over raw footage of the riots after the Metropolitan police obtained a production order earlier this month under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984. The Daily Telegraph is also understood to have disclosed material to the police after being served with a production order.
Scotland Yard has put sustained pressure on all media groups to reveal video and picture evidence of the riots since the disorder across England seven weeks ago. "It is very very rare that we are served with a court order to hand over footage like this," said a senior insider at one of the broadcasters. "We don't hand over material willy-nilly because it compromises the security of our journalists on the streets. Clearly we don't want them being seen as an evidence-gathering arm of the police. " June 30th Public Sector Strike Action. Manifestation sans précédent à Londres contre la cure d'austérité. La priorité pour le gouvernement britannique est de pouvoir économiser 90 milliards d'euros d'ici à 2015. La cure n’épargnera personne : des ménages les plus pauvres à la reine Élizabeth II en personne. Pour y arriver, le gouvernement a décidé de réduire les dotations aux collectivités locales, de geler les salaires des fonctionnaires et de supprimer plus de 300 milles emplois publics.
Car le temps presse : le pays a enregistré un déficit record de 10% du PIB en 2010. Face à l’impopularité croissante de la politique d'austérité, le Premier ministre David Cameron a lâché un peu du lest en faveur des classes moyennes. Le gouvernement a notamment rehaussé les seuils d'imposition sur le revenu et annoncé une baisse des taxes sur l'essence. Tax avoidance protesters turn their attention to Britain's banks | UK news. Britain's fastest-growing protest movement is to target scores of high street banks in the next stage of its campaign against government cuts and corporate tax avoidance.
Activists from UK Uncut have, over the past five months, caused the temporary closure of more than 100 branches of high street stores accused of avoiding millions of pounds in tax. The group will stage its first national day of action against UK banks on 19 February. "The idea this time is not to shut these places down but to open up high street banks, occupying them and using them for things that may be more useful for the community," said Daniel Garvin from the group. He and other protesters have mobilised thousands of activists using the Twitter hashtag #UKuncut since the group was formed in October. The protests, which come as banks reveal multimillion-pound bonus packages over the next few weeks, will involve a range of peaceful – and creative – direct actions.
"But when the 'what next? ' The London Riots – On Consumerism coming Home to Roost. UK Uncut. We all own this strike | Alex Long and Steve Walker. Since the storming of Millbank towers by thousands of students on 10 November last year and the school walkouts and university occupations that culminated in more than 500,000 trade unionists taking to the streets on 26 March – the much talked-about co-ordinated day of strike action promised by the trade unions has finally materialised. The 30 June strikes (or J30) may turn out to be the most important step forward in the fight against public sector cuts and the wider austerity measures planned by the coalition.
About 750,000 workers will be involved, from teachers to jobcentre staff to civil servants and other public sector employees. Some in government – most recently education secretary Michael Gove – have characterised the strike as an attack on "ordinary people", in particular "hardworking" parents who will be inconvenienced by school closures. Gove went as far as suggesting that parents act as strikebreakers, babysitting children in schools to keep them open. We march on the same day as are parents ,NO FEES , NO CUTS.