US UnCut Teach In Boston - they protest corporate tax dodging the source

On March 12th 2011, the Boston chapter of US Uncut staged a teach-in as a part of the larger national day of action. In protest of recent budget cuts to education and other social services, the protestors sat in a branch of Bank of America while local professors lectured on taxation in corporate America. US Uncut is a national movement that has risen in cities across the United States to fight against corporate tax dodging. The movement stems from the UK Uncut movement that experienced great success across the pond targeting corporations like Barclays and Vodafone. As budget cuts to public programs increase, US Uncut believes this lost tax revenue is more important than ever, because it can save thousands of jobs in the public sector. Their message is clear, "make corporations pay their taxes so we, the tax-paying Americans, don't have to."

Everyone Has a Stake in US Uncut's Fight
Allison Kilkenny
http://www.thenation.com/blog/159351/everyone-has-stake-us-uncuts-fight

his weekend, US Uncut chapters in Georgia, New York, Washington, Pennsylvania and California staged actions (a much larger nationwide protest is planned for March 26. Thus far, thirty cities have signed up). I spoke with Kevin Shields, the founder of US Uncut Philadelphia about the protest and also his wish to close the divides between three groups: members of the lower classes, US Uncut’s predominately white movement and minority communities and also domestic efforts and the anti-austerity resistances in other countries.

A senior in high school, Shields decided to start his own US Uncut chapter simply because the need to protest is in his DNA. “For me, protesting and getting involved in activism is just something you do. If you don’t do it, you’re really missing out, and you’re participating in your own exploitation. So when I saw this, I thought, okay, I’ll do that.”

He tells me what happened at Saturday’s protest. It’s a familiar story for the newer branches of US Uncut: a small, peaceful protest during which the activists staged a “teach-in.”

“We explained {to customers} that if you take half of the money the IRS paid in 2009 you’d be able to pay for every single cut Governor Corbett is proposing…. We just educated everyone there about what’s going on.”