Leafleting starts in earnest this week to publicise Southwark’s March for Homes that takes place next month. The aim is to bring as many campaigns as possible together on one demonstration, putting the housing crisis at the centre of the political debate and giving confidence to all those fighting for housing justice. Details of how to help are shown below.
It may be near Christmas but organising meetings are still taking place each week to discuss and plan resistance to cuts and austerity. Full details below.
***Please put in your diary the events not just happening this week but the dates for big events next month, shown below.***
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EVENTS LIST
Thursday 4 December
7am onwards. Support the strike at Lambeth College. Following the 83% Yes for strike action over new contracts, Lambeth College UCU will be taking the first day of strike action. Visit a picket line at one of the sites (Brixton, Clapham or Vauxhall) Download a collection sheet here.
Saturday 6 December
12 noon – 1.30pm. ‘March For Homes’ Stall & leafleting outside Boots, Rye Lane, Peckham. See 31 January below for details of the demonstration. If you can help, contact southwarkdch@gmail.com. More information can be found at https://www.facebook.com/Southwark-Defend-Council-Housing.
Monday 8 November
9.45am. Petitioning and leafleting against benefit cuts and sanctions. For details of the venue and offers of help, contact southwarkbenefitjustice@gmail.com
Tuesday 9 December
Firefighters 24 hour strike as part of the ongoing pension dispute. Background info here. Please send messages of support initially to southwarktuc@gmail.com and southwarksos@gmail.com for delivery to one of the Southwark fire stations.
Tuesday 9 & Wednesday 10 December
8am onwards. Picket lines at Lambeth College. Lambeth College UCU are due to be taking further strike action over attacks to their contracts. Visit a picket line at one of the sites (Brixton, Clapham or Vauxhall) Download a collection sheet here.
Thursday 11 December
12noon - 2pm. Leafleting about The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) and the privatisation of pathology services by Viapath meet outside St Thomas' Hospital on Lambeth Bridge. Organised by Lambeth KONP. Email: lambethkonp@gmail.com and facebook.com/LambethKONP
Saturday 13 December
12 noon – 1.30pm. ‘March For Homes’ Stall & leafleting outside Boots, Rye Lane, Peckham. See 31 January below for details of the demonstration. If you can help, contact southwarkdch@gmail.com. More information can be found at https://www.facebook.com/Southwark-Defend-Council-Housing.
Thursday 18 December
7pm onwards. South London People’s Assembly organising meeting and social at Bread & Roses pub, 68 Clapham Manor St, London SW4 6DZ.
Thursday 18 December
7pm onwards. Christmas social for Lambeth ‘Keep Our NHS Public’ campaign (in place of the Dec monthly KONP meeting). Venue and more details from lambethkonp@gmail.com
Saturday 20-21 December
11am onwards for two days. Many Happy Returns! Occupy Democracy will be returning to Parliament Square to remind Westminster and the people of Britain that none of us voted for poverty, hunger, homelessness and unemployment. Facebook event here.
ADVANCE NOTICE
Tuesday 5 January
7pm. March For Homes organising meeting at UNITE L&E, 33 Moreland St, EC1V 8BB. Called by Defend Council Housing campaign. Contact: southwarkdch@gmail.com
Saturday 31 January 2015
12noon. London-wide MARCH FOR HOMES. Assemble St Mary’s Churchyard, Newington Butts, SE1 6SQ (Elephant and Castle tube/rail). Called by Defend Council Housing and the People’s Assembly and supported by many other campaigns and trade union branches. If you can help, contact southwarkdch@gmail.com. More information can be found at https://www.facebook.com/Southwark-Defend-Council-Housing.
OTHER LOCAL CAMPAIGNS not listed above:
Keep Our NHS Public. There is no Southwark KONP group so Southwark activists please make contact with the Lambeth group to find out about local activity. The group have a new Facebook page at www.facebook.com/LambethKONP. Lambeth KONP meet monthly in Phoenix Pub, 348 Clapham Road, Stockwell, SW9 9AR (between Clapham North and Stockwell stations).
London Unemployed Strategies (LUS) is a new campaign to give a voice to unemployed people to counteract the abuses and attacks made upon them by the government, the mass media and others. Southwark training sessions will take place in November/December. For more information and to get involved, contact Nick on: 020 7467 1283 or 07530 001653, or email nickplus007@gmail.com. Facebook page here.
SolidariTEA, a weekly drop-in between 2pm and 4pm for those affected by work capability, benefits & housing problems etc. Mutual support & planning direct action, at 97 Dawes House, Orb St, Walworth, London, SE17 1RD. For information, email to solidariteasouthwark@gmail.com or phone 07966180429 on Mondays pm.
Southwark Defend Council Housing campaign meet in the Parish Office at St John’s Church, Larcom Street, SE17 1NQ. Map. They are building for a London-wide demonstration in January (see above). More information at https://www.facebook.com/Southwark-Defend-Council-Housing.
South London Unite the Resistance. For news updates and action alerts on trade union and anti-austerity events in south London, join the email list by writing to southlondonunitetheresistance@gmail.com or phone 07956579466.
Southwark Pensioners Action Group
Meets bi-monthly. Campaign information at http://www.spag.btck.co.uk/
Southwark Disabled People Against Cuts meet at Southwark Independent Living Centre, 10 Bradenham Close, SE17 2QB. Details from southwarkdpac@mail.com
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