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text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Courier">hey up, </span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Courier">Cuts Cafe is
happening in Leeds from the 31st of January to the 6th of February, it would be
great if people from london wanted to come up. There will be places to crash if
you need to, let me know</span></p>

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text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Courier"> </span></p>

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text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Courier">Also, there
is still space for people to organise workshops or to contribute to
anyway.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">   </span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Courier">Cuts cafe is
a week long occupation where we will be exploring the changing values that
determine how space, buildings and resources are used – beginning in the city
we live in. We will be occupying a city centre space that has major plans for
redevelopment, promoting profit over people. We want to create an alternative
Leeds where the diverse needs and desires of residents, not corporate interest,
determine the way space is used.</span></p>

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text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Courier">Workshops on
privatisation, housing,education, redevelopment and the NHS.</span></p>

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text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Courier">There is a
facebook event -
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=143071402416936&ref=ts">http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=143071402416936&ref=ts</a></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Courier">But if you
dont use facefuck and want for information, let me know and i can pass it
on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span></span></p>

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text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Courier"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Courier">Cuts Cafe
statement</span></p>

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text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Courier"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Courier">We’re</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Courier"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>here because the cuts are yet more of
the same. More government making </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Courier">it easier for
companies to make even bigger profits by handing them the </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Courier">public
sector, removing regulations that protect us, forcing us into </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Courier">flexible,
low-paid jobs and gentrifying the city.These cuts are targeted at the most</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Courier">vulnerable,
they’re going to make life a lot worse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> 
</span></span></p>

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text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Courier"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Courier">...but not
defending the state nor its taxes</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Courier"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>we’re not here because we thought life
before the cuts was a bed of </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Courier">roses. Far
from it. The state that provides services that we rely on, </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Courier">like the NHS,
is the same state that polices every aspect of our lives, </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Courier">takes us into
wars at its pleasure and defends big corporations at all </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Courier">costs. And
while we might need welfare, perfect it’s not. We’re treated </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Courier">like dole
scum for collecting barely enough to live on when there’s no </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Courier">good jobs
about . We’re told that education is all about passing exams. And </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Courier">nor are we
fighting for higher taxes to “fund the deficit”. While it’s </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Courier">telling that
the rich pay the least taxes, we’re not calling for more </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Courier">money to
bolster a system we can’t stand. Nor do we think that increased</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Courier"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>spending to “boost long-term economic
growth” will benefit anyone but </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Courier">big business.</span></p>

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text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Courier"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Courier"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Courier">Fighting for
a real alternative</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Courier">We’re</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Courier"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>here because we know that if we don’t
push back, we’ll be pushed over. </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Courier">But we’re not
fighting for the past. We’re fighting for a future where </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Courier">we’re in
control of our lives, where we’re able to look after each other</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Courier"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>without relying on the state. We’re here
for a world based on </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Courier">cooperation
not competition, a world that’s not somewhere off in the </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Courier">future but
that we’re creating in the present. And that’s what we’re </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Courier">fighting for
when we fight the cuts.</span></p>

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text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Courier"> </span></p>

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text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Courier">please pass
on to other lists...</span></p>

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