Anti-Cuts Campaigners Plan ‘Carnival of Civil Disobedience’
Student groups and tax avoidance protesters will stage occupations to coincide with TUC demonstration on 26 March
by Matthew Taylor
Anti-cuts campaigners are planning a wave of sit-ins, occupations and “people’s assemblies” to coincide with this month’s TUC demonstration, in a “carnival of civil disobedience” designed to highlight opposition to the government’s programme of cuts.
Anti-cuts protesters in Birmingham last year. (Dan Kitwood/Getty Images) Student activists, tax avoidance campaigners and anti-capitalist groups say they plan to occupy some of the capital’s “great buildings”, close down scores of high street stores and stage a 24-hour occupation of Hyde Park.
“This is going to be a really important day,” said Anna Walker of the campai
via Anti-Cuts Campaigners Plan ‘Carnival of Civil Disobedience’ | Common Dreams.