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cory777 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-26-11 01:43 PM
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Protests held at UK bank branches
Source: UKPA

Activists have staged protests at more than 40 bank branches across the country in protest at executive bonuses and cuts in public services.

UK Uncut said demonstrators set up creches, laundries, school classrooms, libraries, homeless shelters, drama clubs, walk-in clinics, youth centres, job centres and leisure centres at branches of RBS, NatWest and Lloyds across the country.

At midday in Islington, north London, 50 activists set up a laundry in an RBS branch in reaction to alleged council moves to cut services to the elderly, including a much-needed laundry service.

They set up washing lines, clothes horses, buckets for handwashing and a team of window cleaners on the outside. The protest was attended by over 15 pensioners and local Labour MP Jeremy Corbyn.

Read more: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5h6PqPvzF5V83UOC_1MCLu4Jy5oLw?docId=N0179421298741463384A



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defendandprotect Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-26-11 01:58 PM
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1. As populations wake up after their slumber induced by right wing propaganda -- !!
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Citizen Worker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-26-11 02:39 PM
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2. It has begun! People around the world have been roused from their prolonged slumber and are
realizing that they are the victims, twice over and counting, in the largest bank heist ever.
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Amonester Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-26-11 06:38 PM
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3. May the 'neo' maRie-antoinettes finally get what they deserve. n/t
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