While Southwark campaigners continue to organise to
stop the destruction of council homes and huge cuts to further education in the
borough (see below), thousands of south Londoners will be going to the national
demonstration against austerity in a week’s time. Please help us leafleting at
local shopping centres, rail/tube stations, colleges and workplaces. Reply to
this email if you want leaflets or come to one of the sessions listed below.
Full details below.
Please note we have a new Facebook link: Southwark SOS
***Please
put in your diary this month’s events, shown below***
Please tweet this
listing, link to our website or post on your own Facebook page. Thank
you.
EVENTS LIST
Friday 12 June
5.30pm
– 6.30pm. Leafleting for the People’s
Assembly demonstration. Meet at Elephant & Castle Northern Line Tube exit.
Contact John on 07519811657 if you can come.
Friday 12 June
6pm-7pm. Aylesbury Estate petitioning against
demolition and in favour of refurbishment. If you can help going door to
door to seek signatures, contact southwarkdch@gmail.com or phone 07792 786 192.
Website: www.defendcouncilhousing.org.uk/dch. Facebook page: click
here.
Friday 12 June
6.30
pm. Defend Lewisham Southwark College
campaign meeting in Room RHB138, Goldsmiths University. 312 jobs are at
risk. The Camberwell site is threatened with complete closure. This will
devastate South East London by almost demolishing FE in two boroughs where it
is a crucial second chance for many people. Come along, or contact savelscollege@gmail.com
for more info or to join the mailing list. Campaign Facebook page here.
Saturday 13 June
11am-4.30pm. Defend Council Housing Tenants and
Housing Summit
The summit will bring together housing campaigners to
share experiences. How do we build resistance after the after the brilliant
campaigns at Focus E15, New Era, Fred Wigg, Aylesbury and Cressingham and
Sweets Way, and the March for Homes. Venue: Bloomsbury Baptist Church Hall, 235
Shaftesbury Avenue, London WC2H 8EP. Near Tottenham Court Road & Holborn
underground. See www.defendcouncilhousing.org.uk or contact
info@defendcouncilhousing.org.uk
Sunday 14 June
11am
– 4pm. Leafleting for People's Assembly
demo on 20th June at Portugal Day Festival on Streatham Common. 70,000
people are expected. Meet at SE Region TUC tent.
Sunday 14 June
1pm.
Mega-stall for 20 June demo - leafleting
and other publicity. Outside the Whitgift Centre, Croydon Town Centre, a
few minutes’ walk from both East Croydon and West Croydon stations. Also buses
109 or 250 from Brixton. Facebook event here. Or phone 07957
780 532.
Monday-Friday 15-19 June
Leafleting for People's
Assembly demonstration. Times and locations are still being finalised. Email southwarksos@gmail.com or ring
07939090667 to get details.
Saturday 20 June
12noon. National Demonstration
and festival: END AUSTERITY NOW - the
message to the new Tory government. More than 70,000 people have already said via
Facebook they will be coming.
Assembly time
& place: 12pm, Bank of England (Queen Victoria St) City of London. Nearest tube:
Bank.
Southwark meeting
point: 12noon outside Metropolitan Tabernacle opp. Elephant & Castle Rail
Station. (Contact Tanya on the day on 07792 786 192)
See march route here
to Parliament Square.
Tuesday 23 June (date to be confirmed)
All day. Strike against education cuts and
redundancies at Lewisham Southwark College. 312 jobs are at risk. The
Camberwell site is threatened with complete closure. This will devastate South
East London by almost demolishing FE in two boroughs where it is a crucial
second chance for many people. Contact savelscollege@gmail.com for more info. or
to send messages of support.
Tuesday 30 June
7pm
Southwark Defend Council Housing meeting
at the Alvey Estate Tenants Hall, ground floor of Thomson House, Beckway
Street, off East Street, SE17 1TS. Beckway Street is close to the end of East
Street at its junction with the Old Kent Road. Map here. Agenda
includes the campaign against the demolition of the Aylesbury, the Old Kent
Road Opportunity Area (Council Estates will be in it), Southwark Plan, lobby of
the Council Assembly 8 July.
More
information from southwarkdch@gmail.com
ADVANCE
NOTICE
Thursday 2 July
6.30pm.
‘Fight the anti-union laws’ forum with
speakers include Mark Serwotka PCS gen sec, Michelle Stanistreet Gen Sec NUJ,
Candy Udwin sacked PCS National Gallery rep, John McDonnell MP, Chris Stephens
MP (SNP) and Ian Hodson National President BFAWU. Plus other strikers. Venue: Student
Central (previously ULU) Malet Street, London WC1E 7AY. Organised by London
Unite the Resistance. Facebook page here.
Saturday 4 July
11am
– 4.30pm. ‘Stop the union-busters’ conference,
in Conway Hall in London. Confirmed speakers include Mark Serwotka PCS General
Secretary, Ronnie Draper BFAWU General Secretary, Matt Wrack FBU General
Secretary & Dave Smith anti-blacklisting campaigner. Organised by the
National Shop Stewards Network. Leaflet with more details here.
Wednesday 8 July
6pm.
Lobby Southwark Council – stop destroying
council homes - Refurbishment not
demolition for the Aylesbury! Venue: notified by the council in early July
at http://moderngov.southwark.gov.uk/
Download
copy of leaflet at the Southwark DCH Facebook page here.
OTHER LOCAL
CAMPAIGNS not listed above:
Campaign to Save the Aylesbury. Campaigners are
supporting local tenants to oppose the demolition of council housing in
Southwark. Replacing social housing with private dwellings is denying thousands
of people decent, affordable housing. A petition
demanding that the Council respects the result of their ballot in 2001, or
gives them another vote to decide what happens to their homes is being
circulated. If you can help going door
to door to seek signatures, contact southwarkdch@gmail.com or phone 07792 786
192. Website: www.defendcouncilhousing.org.uk/dch. Facebook page: click here.
Keep Our NHS Public meet monthly in the
upstairs room at the Phoenix pub, 348 Clapham Road, SW9 9AR (between Clapham
North and Stockwell tube stations). There is no Southwark KONP group so
Southwark activists please make contact with this Lambeth group to find out
about local activity. The group have a new Facebook page at www.facebook.com/LambethKONP .
London Play and Youth Work
Campaign is
supported by Unite the Union. If you're a playworker, a child, a mum, a dad, a
cousin, a youth worker, or you’re just concerned about cuts to youth services,
please join. The campaign’s Facebook page is here.
Contact londonplaycampaign@gmail.com
London Unemployed Strategies (LUS) - a campaign to give a voice to unemployed people. 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. See the
Facebook page here.
South London People’s Assembly meet monthly at
Bread & Roses pub, 68 Clapham Manor St, London SW4 6DZ. More information
from secretary@southlondonpa.org
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 Trades Council meet on the second
Wednesday each month at 160 Tooley Street. The Trades Council or local TUC
group is a forum for local unions to meet and organise together. ALL Southwark
trade union members are welcome. Contact 07983475050 or southwarktuc@gmail.com
for more information.
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