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1st April: All Together for the NHS Day

After 26 March, the next big date in the campaign calendar is 1st April. NHS supporters around the country will be lobbying their MPs, at local events and individually for All Together for the NHS Day.

The NHS as we know it is under threat from drastic changes contained in Andrew Lansley’s Health and Social Care Bill. The bill has now cleared the committee stage, and will soon be going on to its third reading in the Commons.

It’s vitally important that we engage with MPs now, to make them aware their constituents are worried about the bill.

Placard amnesty this Saturday

Goldsmiths art students were out in force on the March for the Alternative, in a partnership project with the Museum of London. Students handed out placards with historical protest imagery at the start of the march, and organised collections of placards and props at the rally, hoping to gather a record of creativity in popular protest, to use at the Museum.

The team had loads of placards donated on the day, but are still after more of people’s creative protest art. If you’ve got a placard you’d like to donate, they’ll be holding another collection at the Museum of London on Saturday 2nd April.

Photos from the March for the Alternative


Thanks to flickr user Steve McInnery for setting up a flickr group for march photos – which now has over 1,000 pictures uploaded to it. Check out how people who were there saw it by scrolling the photo wall above.

VIDEOS: Why we’re marching today

Here are a series of videos we’ve had made for the March for the Alternative, showing the effects that the government’s plans for fast and deep spending cuts are having on people around the country.

Benefits cuts

VIDEO: Cuts are not the cure

Here’s a video on the case for an alternative to cuts that we’ve made specially to show at the rally in Hyde Park.