Cambridge Marches Against Further Cuts
Cameraboy | 13.02.2011 13:36 | Public sector cuts | Social Struggles | Cambridge
Clowning is a serious business!
Big Society..? Wassat?
Walking like an Egyptian...
East Road progress.
Burleigh Street progress.
A momentary pause in front of The Grafton Centre.
Motivational Music!
Pulling no punches.
Another brief pause...
Well red!
It sure does.
...And toilets, schools etc.
The flip side of the baby placard - erm, no further comment.
I believe in Dog!
No Umbrella bans here...
Speaker's corner...
Artwork being made in situ...
Is Huppert a Muppet?
Even the happy couple themselves showed up... in spirit.
Geurilla installation!
As well as the usual mass produced placards, there was plenty of home made artwork in evidence too, from portable sculptures to painted Umbrellas, along with many placards, some of which were stencilled in situ.
I've tried to represent the full spectrum of this artwork in my pictures here.
There was also an anarchic but mute Clown present, whose antics all the children seemed to appreciate.
The Police presence was very low key, with only about half a dozen officers present, who were mostly redirecting traffic en route during the march around town.
The march started on Parkers Piece right in the middle of town (no proposals to privatise this Common Land yet, but there's still time...), progressing up East Road, turning into Burleigh Street, up King Street, and and ending at The Market Square, in front of The Guildhall, where a few speakers commented upon the cuts.
After a week of grim, grey rainy days here in East Anglia, fortunately the weather held out for the march and nobody got wet!
This march is in the context of announcements during week of further cuts to public funds, the most bizarre being an announcement by Manchester City Council to close down all but one of their public toilets in an attempt to save money.
I geuss they don't mind hiring extra street cleaners then, do they?
A parting message was left on the doors of The Guildhall itself, in the form of a placard that said "What Parlaiment does the streets can undo".
Yep, in the light of events in Egypt this week, it's fair to say that people power does work.
Change is possible!
Cameraboy
Homepage:
http://www.cambridgeshireagainstthecuts.org.uk/
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