It's midsummer in Nottingham and rising from the haze of warm sunshine voices of indignation can be heard: "Education is a right, they say cut back, we say fight back!"

This is the latest demonstration at Nottingham University of Nottingham Students against Fees and Cuts. We're debating what sort of direct action to take, but I'm tired. I was awake until 3am the morning before, organising and coordinating the UK assembly movement for Real Democracy Now, a campaign to overhaul the electoral system inspired by the Spanish 15M movement. I may look like any other 14-year-old but unlike my friends I'm a political animal.

My passion for politics and direct action began in 2003, when I was six and wrote a letter to Tony Blair about the Iraq war. I remember the gunshots, the bombs and the screams echoing through my conscience. Even at such a young age this atrocity taught me that my liberty is useless should I not use it. I learnt that if I disagreed with authority I should not be subdued but should scream, shout and protest until I could yell no more.

On Thursday I will join more than 750,000 workers in calling for an end to the government's relentless, vicious, ideological attacks on our public services and its employees. They claim that these massive cuts are the only way to curb the budget deficit, that there is no alternative and that the spike in the deficit was the result of the previous government's economic incompetence.
However both of these statements are false - the increase in the budget deficit was mainly the inevitable result of the worldwide recession and there are real alternatives and ones that do not punish the poorest who did nothing to cause the crisis.

So on Thursday, if your school is shut for the rally, I invite you join us to say "enough!"

On the soft green grass back in Nottingham, amongst talk of indignation, occupation and oppression, with the winds rustling the trees, I drift into a blissful dream.

I dream of a land not too dissimilar from our own but one where we respected our planet and our fellow beings, a land of progress, culture, sustainability, development, welfare and people's happiness, community, fraternity, equality, peace, democracy and freedom.

You may think it's wishful thinking. But as John Lennon said "A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality"