UK: Philip Green to be target of corporate tax avoidance protest

[Joanne98]

Source: Guardian

• UK Uncut challenge billionaire Cameron efficiency adviser
• 'Tax avoidance' protest focuses on Green's Arcadia's stores

Sir Philip Green, the retail billionaire and efficiency adviser to the government, is to become the target of a nationwide campaign by protesters opposed to government cuts and alleged tax avoidance.

High street stores belonging to the businessman's group, including Topshop, Dorothy Perkins and Miss Selfridge, will be among those that protesters focus on in the run-up to Christmas.

Plans to disrupt Arcadia Group stores were devised by UK Uncut, a fast-expanding group of activists who have closed down more than 30 Vodafone shops in the past six weeks by mobilising through social networks.



Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/nov/29/philip-green-protest-alleged-tax-avoidance

[jerseyjack]

1. This is the kind of stuff that needs to happen here.

We need people with imagination...(I wish I had such imagination) to find ways to reduce corporate bottom lines.