While Ed Miliband yabbered on about hard choices and the facts of life and some cuts being unavoidable (we could hear him in the background)…protestors from Disabled People Against Cuts chained their wheelchairs together and shut down Park Lane at the Marble Arch end at today’s TUC march.
I’ll upload more video later today and tomorrow. This one shows the blockade and also the stopped traffic. A protestor argues the case for the action with a copper at the end. After a while, the police worked out that the protestors weren’t going to move and were forced to make all the vehicles on Park Lane – buses included – turn around.
If only Miliband had encouraged the rest of the march to join DPAC and Boycott Workfare in shutting streets and shops across London down. Too hard a choice, perhaps.
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I was fortunate to hear Rb speak yesterday both in the opening speeches and a workshop at the Liverpool Againat the Cuts and Mnachester Coalition against the cuts – i’ve also managed to view your footage of a action. I’m not good at IT etc but I’m hopint to be able to view the BCC footage of an action Rob told us of on the 20 Oct (was this local news or national?
I would very much like to join your organisation and lend my support, if there’s a more local group you know of in the Liverpool area even better. Please pass on my thanks to Rob for such and inspiring speach and contributions to the workshop.
I’mn a member of a subgrop of Liverpool against the cuts re Social Care – “Does Liverpool Care!