'Boys on the Balcony'

Following the wind turbine manufacturers, Vestas, decision to make their 600 staff on the IOW redundant, the workforce decided to take power back into their own hands. They occupied the factory in Newport and climate camp activists took the roof of the other factory in East Cowes. 'Boys on the Balcony' is the song of the campaign written and recorded by Seize the Day, Vestas workers and their families. It is a powerful and inspiring account of the first month of the campaign, occupations, evictions and the continued determination to fight for a 'world where the turbines spin'.

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Music

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• Boys
• on
• the
• Balcony
• Vestas
• occupation
• Seize
• Day
• wind
• turbine
• factory
• political
• song
• protest
• radical

[musesuseus]

the occupation before the Occupation

[steelcityred]

Get it on Facebook ,on to the charts ,lets make it number 1 for the General election.

[0olong]

Very nice! Lovely song, beautifully produced here.

[undercurrentspaulo]

Brilliant video..up the windy workers!

[rochud]

Close the factory down reset up in the US just like Rolls Royce did up in Liverpool. Fight the good fight. no more pushing us on the scrap heap.

[RMTtelevision]

Great vid. Great song.

Victory to the Vestas workers!

[sleepingpurpleotter]

Not much to ask is it? An England where the workers matter.

Ye again we're indebted to Seize the Day.