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We will have legal observers and a legal support hotline see number below. For a legal guide, see /legal-guide/. But don t be put off by the arrests that happened at previous protests if you are worried about getting arrested, then don t enter any stores and it ll be fine. We also have beautiful new banners, including yet another replacement for the cursed Edinburgh Uncut banner: Come and join us for a picnic at Princes Street let s hope it doesn t rain. We ll meet on Sunday, 12th June at 2pm next to the Wellington Statue East end of Princes Street and then move on to have a nice picnic at one or several of the tax dodgers on Princes Street. This time, feel free to be conspicuous bring banners, placards, and drums or other instruments. A picnic blanket and possibly some food could also be useful. And there ll be protest bingo Also, don t be put off by the arrests that happened at previous protests. If you are worried about getting arrested, then just don t enter any stores and it ll be fine. We will have legal observers and a legal support hotline. Video of Edinburgh Uncut s protest at Bhs on May 28, during which two women were arrested and both charged with Breach of the Peace, one also with Resisting Arrest. Four days after the protest, another activist was arrested at his home and also charged with Breach of the Peace. Breach of the Peace requires conduct severe enough to cause alarm to ordinary people and threaten serious disturbance to the community. It should be conduct that is genuinely alarming and disturbing, in its context, to any reasonable person. It is clear that something substantially greater than mere irritation is involved. However, members of the public were not alarmed or distressed by our presence inside the store, as can be seen in the video: Excuse me sir, would you like to know why we re here today? This was my mantra on Saturday the 28th as I took to the streets with the UK UnCut Edinbugh branch and other concerned citizens. Together we waged a war of information against corporate tax avoiders by peacefully protesting in/in front of stores such as Vodafone and BHS and organising some hilarious theatre viva la muerte arrabal Boots where Officers of Big Society Revenue and Customs arrested an activist, pretending to be the owner of Boots, for tax avoidance. As the owner of Boots was quick to point out to the arresting officers: I ve done nothing wrong! Well, it may be wrong, but it isn t illegal! The emphasis of the day was to raise public awareness of tax avoidance and the harm it causes not only to the country but to us all individually. This was done through banners, flyers and megaphones, but the most successful method by far was simply talking to people. We found that there is a huge amount of support, regardless of people s own political beliefs, for our message that companies should pay what they owe in tax just like everyone else. As indeed there should be. The tax burden on companies has fallen year on year for the past decade, whilst the tax burden on individuals has risen. We are literally paying for their tax avoidance. Over the course of the day I spoke to a large number of people from many different backgrounds and with many different views on the cuts. I spoke to some of those directly facing the cuts the disabled, nurses and even a doctor who were quick to give us their support, as viva la muerte arrabal they might knowing the true injustice of the ConDem cuts. However, it was even more interesting to speak to those on the other side of the debate, specifically a chartered accountant who I suspect may have had the words Atlas shrugged tattooed over his heart. While we disagreed over the cuts the public sector is facing, even he could get behind our message of eliminating corporate tax avoidance that uses backhanded loopholes and tax havens to defraud the public.