hahaha we could make really convincing half price opening day flyers to give to people near by!

Can't make it but that idea about the discount vouchers would work a treat.

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woo hoo fancy dress, that'll show em. yet again a pointless protest for the public to laugh at. the protest is a good idea but wrong tactic IMO.

Why are you protesting against sainsbury opening a store on the meadows? you might get a better turn out if you were to explain the reasons for your protesting!!. Don't you think it would be better to protest against the two starbucks which have opened there about 200 metres apart and are obviously acting in direct competition to the "police box" vendor who has had his pitch there for sometime I bet you would get more solidarity from the average punter.

I imagine the protest is about some or all of the following:

supermarkets?

opening of yet another supermarket, encouraging industrial agriculture and destroying small farms world-wide, over-packaging and waste, over-use of terrible chemicals, terrible jobs, destruction of local economy, loss of jobs.

see the corporate watch guide: Whats wrong with supermarkets?

Gentrification?

about the neo-liberal gentrification of the quatermile: the colonisation of the city, by the wealthy, to profit the wealthy.

The shortage of affordable homes, but abundance of luxury flats and swanky offices;

The lack of public spaces, and our public spaces being 'enclosed', 'sanitised' and made private and exclusive;

and the on-going neo-liberal (business and profit motivated) city planning process that is plaguing our city, that increases the wealth and power of the already wealthy and powerful at the expense of the rest of us.

so why wait till now? where was everyone when the trees got cut down? only a few turned up. This looks like a few bored middle class students not happy with this happening in the meadows. other than the greedy supermarket issue. Whilst I do not agree with the development, I feel this is too little too late, and with the wrong intentions at heart.

I wondered how long it would be before someone came on here and called this "middle class" and criticise it without any viable alternative. How narrow minded. Anyway, the middle-class haven of Facebook informs me of this: "Development giants UNITE (worth £2.9 billion in private student accommodation) have been granted planning permission for a six story monstrosity where the Chalmers Street car park currently sits, and facing onto the meadows. This means cutting down trees over 100 years old, potential eviction threats to the student/HMO licensed population (see our wall post on this), blocking sunlight from existing tenement flats... and of course, chucking up yet another ugly building into beautiful surroundings. The company has not requested a Environmental Impact Survey, has not allowed time for an adequate bat survey (building on bats' nesting or habitation sites is illegal), and has not consulted with the community prior to gaining planning permission." Theres a meeting in the Forest Cafe this Monday at 7. All welcome.

Well I work at the new Sainburys lol, any of you who attended the protest may have seen me, i was on the right side holding the opening ribbon with Alec Morrison the duty manager, dont mean to cause an offence but the protest was more a joke than anything else lol, it actually atrracted attention, thus creating more sales in our store...fail?

Having US union folk arrested: http://www.union-network.org/Unisite/Sectors/Commerce/Multinationals/Sai... Two-tier pay in the UK: http://www.tgwu.org.uk/Templates/News.asp?NodeID=90690&int1stParentN... And a pay freeze: http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-357347/Unions-hit-out-over-Sains...