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Tags: austerity, occupation, starbucks, uk uncut, united kingdom
Last weekend, anti-austerity activists including UK Uncut targeted
the U.S. corporation Starbucks for tax avoidance while making a point
about the disproportionate impact of austerity on women. Over 40 protests
occurred across the UK at Starbucks shops, UK Uncut's biggest day of
action yet. Protesters staged sit-in occupations and transformed Starbucks
cafes into refuges, crèches, libraries, and homeless shelters in protest
against the impact of the government's cutting of services ranging from
subsidies for single mothers to rape crisis centers. Occupy Wall Street
stands in solidarity with this brilliant action to attack austerity and
demonstrate the alternatives of mutual aid and resistance, while also
calling attention to the inherent hypocrisy of governments' allowing
multinational corporations to avoid taxes while cutting services to the
poor. This issue is by no means limited to the UK only; these actions stand
as an inspiration and one possible model for resistance movements
fighting austerity across the world.
via UK Uncut:
Growing public anger at Starbucks was clear today as over 40 of their
shops across the UK- including in Liverpool, Cardiff, Bristol and