June, a demonstration and mass petition signing is being organized by MART (Manchester Against Road Tolls) against the proposals to trial in the city a road-pricing scheme.
The event starts at 10am in Market Street, Manchester.
"We call on the people of Manchester to demonstrate against the tax which poses a threat to jobs and freedom" is the rallying cry from the organisers.
The protest comes in the wake of the publication of the government's draft Local Transport Bill that would give local authorities the power to trial a road pricing scheme in their towns and cities.
Ten areas have received government money to investigate schemes: Greater Manchester; west Midlands, incorporating Birmingham, Wolverhampton and Coventry; east Midlands, in a joint bid by Leicester, Derby and Nottingham; Tyne and Wear; Durham; Bristol; Reading; Cambridgeshire; Shrewsbury and Norwich.
Manchester is the most advanced with such a plan, even if it does not expect to implement the pilot scheme until 2012 at the earliest.
Spokesmen for MART Sean Corker and Neil Cardwell said: "We are taking the anti toll tax campaign right to the centre of Manchester to meet as many members of the public as possible and to start the campaign against the anti democratic congestion tax."
ABD (Association of British Drivers) National Spokesman Nigel Humphries said: "The councils in Manchester have been promised money for Public Transport in exchange for railroading through a hugely unpopular road pricing scheme that would stand no chance of being supported in Birmingham or West Yorkshire. This will be hugely damaging to the interests of the people of Manchester - every penny of the charge will be passed on to local council tax payers in increased prices for goods and services or simply through increased council tax as council employees and vehicles will incur the charge too. We hope that sufficient spirit exists in this great city to see these proposals for what they are - a piece of arm twisting by central Government applied to the softest target - and to stop them in their tracks."