Richard will these be separate protests, where you need to decide which one to join, or one big one?

One single one, with follow up protests in the next ten days. One I can tell you about is the Unison protest which is happening at 6 / 6:30pm on Thursday 9th December. It's not a Labour Party event, but as they are protesting against the closure of the five day centres, I'd like to think a decent number of our members will attend.

Can you post organiser details of this please, or PM me?

Unison at WBC Market Street office are doing the one on the ninth, can't remember the number off the top of my head but ring the council main number and ask for the unison office.

OK, I wrote a post last night and then removed it as it was supposed to be kept quiet!!! There was a protest this afternoon in Newbury Town Centre, over 100 people turning out according to the NWN to protest against tuition fees, EMA and cuts to day centres. All the students were well behaved, and was nice to see a couple of people from other parties there too. (No Tories there - obviously)

A secret protest ???

Apparently only 40 people turned up

http://www.facebook.com/?ref=logo#!/event.php?eid=109968362406940

and some of them were only to there see what was going on. What a failure.

NWN were at the start of the protest, and they also report over 100. 60 people also occupied WBC's Market Street offices for 45 minutes. All peacefull, and quite fun too. It wasn't secret, just not to be publicied to the media so there was an element of surprise. I'd say with the cold weather, snow and a little rain, over 100 people in the Market Street was a fairly good turnout. Only 300 said they would attend, 1 in 3 turn out isn't bad I'd say?

http://www.newburytoday.co.uk/News/Article.aspx?articleID=15249

http://www.heart.co.uk/berkshire/local/news/protesters-enter-county-hall/

http://newburysound.co.uk/students-protest-in-newbury-i-7909.php

Newbury Weekly News were there from the start, Newbury Sound arrived at 4:45 or so, after the paper had left, so maybe some people had left by then? I know the union members didn't attend Market Street as they have a protest planned there next week. Always so negative User23.

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http://www.newburytoday.co.uk/News/Article.aspx?articleID=15249

http://www.heart.co.uk/berkshire/local/news/protesters-enter-county-hall/

http://newburysound.co.uk/students-protest-in-newbury-i-7909.php

Newbury Weekly News were there from the start, Newbury Sound arrived at 4:45 or so, after the paper had left, so maybe some people had left by then? I know the union members didn't attend Market Street as they have a protest planned there next week. Always so negative User23.

Sounds like there were more reporters than protesters.

You would have seen that was not the case. Nice to see the whole building stopped working to come and take a look!!!

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You would have seen that was not the case. Nice to see the whole building stopped working to come and take a look!!!

I didn't see anything of the protests Richard, I'm just going on what's been reported, 40 people it says on the Facebook group.

It's not the way to get the public on side though, stopping them from accessing public services by staging a sit in in support of a mix-and-match protest about council staff free parking amongst other things.

I will help organise the next one. This isn't about party politics anyway, there were people from other parties there too.

Quoted from richard.garvie

NWN were at the start of the protest, and they also report over 100. 60 people also occupied WBC's Market Street offices for 45 minutes. All peacefull, and quite fun too. It wasn't secret, just not to be publicied to the media so there was an element of surprise. I'd say with the cold weather, snow and a little rain, over 100 people in the Market Street was a fairly good turnout. Only 300 said they would attend, 1 in 3 turn out isn't bad I'd say?

I would have thought that the best way to draw attention to the cause would have been to use the media ?

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I would have thought that the best way to draw attention to the cause would have been to use the media ?

I would have thought this it too. I suspect they knew about it though, as it was the worst kept secret in Newbury.