Despite heavy snow:

Here’s how you do it:

Activists have staged protests at more than 40 bank branches across the country in protest at executive bonuses and cuts in public services.

UK Uncut said demonstrators set up creches, laundries, school classrooms, libraries, homeless shelters, drama clubs, walk-in clinics, youth centres, job centres and leisure centres at branches of RBS, NatWest and Lloyds across the country.

In other words, all the services that are being cut under the new austerity plan.

At midday in Islington, north London, 50 activists set up a laundry in an RBS branch in reaction to alleged council moves to cut services to the elderly, including a much-needed laundry service.

They set up washing lines, clothes horses, buckets for handwashing and a team of window cleaners on the outside. The protest was attended by over 15 pensioners and local Labour MP Jeremy Corbyn.

On Democratic Underground:

I had a patient cry yesterday.

A tough-guy.
Young guy with several kids.
Working-class. Uninsured. No sick time.
Will need hospitalization for a week.
Will not make rent.

We collected to make his rent.

What the fuck have we come to, folks?

Go, unions. Make these bastards who have created this fiasco come to their knees.

Do it for the rest of us.

Is that somewhere upwards of 700 people turned out for the Philadelphia union solidarity rally today — and only four or five people turned out for the Comcast USUncut action. Oh well!

I was standing out on the street with a bunch of teachers holding signs that said “No cuts” and I quickly got bored with that. So I flipped mine over and wrote “Eat the rich” and made a point of getting it in front of every Beemer, Lexus, Escalade and Benz driver who passed by. I enjoyed watching them pretend not to see it.