Support junior doctors’ strike, leading the defence of the NHS

Action alert                                                      18th April 2016

The junior doctors’ campaign is in defence of the NHS and it coincides with the government’s plans to academise i.e. privatise every school in the country, and its plan to deny access to, if not destroy, social housing through the new Housing Bill. So it is vital that we all support the BMA’s strike action on 26/27 April in practical ways: come to Thursday’s Community meeting, and encourage everyone you can to come to the picket line, especially for 1.30pm, on 26^th.  The various organising meetings below are places you can get involved in this action.

 

EVENTS LIST

Thursday 21 April

7 – 9pm. Meet the King’s Doctors – a community meeting to hear about why junior doctors are taking further strike action, and how we can support them, defending the NHS. Speakers include striking doctors, NUT teachers union & Anti Academies Alliance. Venue: Crawford Estate Tenants Hall, Denmark Road, SE5 9EW. Called by the King’s College Hospital BMA Committee.

 

Thursday 21 April

 7 - 9pm Keep Our NHS Public organising meeting at Stockwell Centre, 1 Studley Rd (behind Stockwell Tube) SW4 6RA. This is a meeting of the Lambeth group – If you want to help set up a Southwark KONP group, reply to this email or contact the organisers at lambethkonp@gmail.com. Facebook here.

 

Saturday 23 April

1-4pm. Parents Defending Education Rally against the Government’s plans to privatise and de-regulate state education. Speakers: author Michael Rosen, Kevin Courtney (NUT deputy gen sec), Mary Bousted (gen sec ATL teachers union). Venue: UCL Institute of Education (IoE), 20 Bedford Way, London WC1H 0AL (nearest tube: Euston). To reserve a free place, click on the ‘Register’ button here. Called by the Anti-Academies Alliance, supported by the NUT and ATL unions. Southwark Save Our Services is supporting a joint campaign in Southwark of parents and teachers against the attacks on education and local democracy. If you want to help, please email back or phone 07939090667.

 

Saturday 23 April and Monday 25 April

12.30pm. Leafleting to advertise a hustings on the subject of housing for the candidates standing in the Newington ward by-election. Meet up at McDonalds, Walworth Road. Contact Tanya on 07792 786 192 if you can help.

 

Tuesday 26 & Wednesday 27 April

• 8am-5pm. Support junior doctors’ picket lines. Industrial action escalated to a full withdrawal of labour between 8am & 5pm. Other doctors and staff will continue to provide care during this time. Information at BMA Website here. Download a selfie poster here for yourself and workmates/ students/neighbours. Tweet or share it on Facebook with the hashtags: #JuniorDoctors #JuniorContract #NotSafeNotFair. To arrange for a doctor to speak to TU members at your place of work or union branch meeting, or to send messages of support contact christopher.james@doctors.org.uk

• 1pm for 1.30pm on Tuesday. Solidarity protest at Junction of Bessemer Road/Denmark Hill SE5. Junior doctors are calling for trade unionists, residents and campaigners to attend this solidarity event and to maximise media coverage. Bring banners and everyone you know!

• 5pm on Tuesday. London solidarity demonstration with junior doctors, marching from St Thomas’s Hospital to the Dept of Health. Called by London BMA, supported by London Region National Union of Teachers. FB event here. All welcome.

Tuesday 26 April

7pm. Defend Council Housing  - organising 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. More information from southwarkdch@gmail.com

 

Thursday 28 April

6:30pm, Housing Hustings for the candidates standing in the Newington ward by-election in May. Venue: Draper Hall, 66 Hampton Street, junction of Newington Butts, London SE1. Leaflet and map here.

 

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Doctors on strike, teachers ballot for a strike – support action on health, education, homes & jobs this month

Action alert  - Southwark Save Our Services campaign   3rd April 2016

 

Since the Government’s humiliating retreat over disability cuts and the launch of full-scale privatisation of education, a number of campaigns have taken off - doctors have escalating their strike action; teachers have agreed to ballot for a national strike and anti-cuts campaigns in south London have taken important initiatives that you can support: Faced with closure by Lambeth Council, campaigners have occupied Carnegie Library in Herne Hill, and on the Alton Estate in Wandsworth, parents occupied the children’s Activity centre. Many Southwark people will be also attending the national demonstration, the March for Health, Homes, Jobs and Education on Sat 16 April. All details are below. If you want to meet-up with fellow-campaigners to attend any of these, email back or phone 07939090667 and we will tell you of meet-up arrangements.

 

EVENTS LIST

 

Monday 4 April

All day. Support the occupation of Carnegie Library in Herne Hill. Faced with closure by Lambeth Council, campaigners have occupied the library since Thursday. Get updates at http://defendthe10-lambeth.org.uk/

 

Wednesday 6 & Thursday 7 April

All day, 8am onwards. Protest in support of junior doctors. Junction of Bessemer Road/Denmark Hill SE5 (or go to your nearest hospital). Information at BMA Website at http://www.bma.org.uk/working-for-change/junior-and-consultant-contract-home/junior-doctor-contract-negotiations-home The BMA is escalating their strike action. Download a selfie poster at http://uniteresist.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Junior-Doctors-Solidarity-Selfie.jpg for yourself and workmates/ students/neighbours. Tweet or share it on Facebook with the hashtags: #JuniorDoctors #JuniorContract #NotSafeNotFair. To arrange for a doctor to speak to TU members at your place of work or union branch meeting, or to send messages of support contact christopher.james@doctors.org.uk 

 

Wednesday 6 April

7pm-11pm. Kick the Junior Doctors’ Contract social organised by @MaudsleyDocs. Open to all.. The event will include an art exhibition, live music, speakers, banner making, drinks and dancing. VENUE: DIY Space For London - 96-108 Ormside Street, SE15 1TF.

Saturday 9 April

11.30am. 'Don't steal our libraries - support the Carnegie occupation' demonstration. Assemble outside the library in Herne Hill Road. March via Minet Library to central Brixton. More details and a poster at http://defendthe10-lambeth.org.uk/

Tuesday 12 April

7pm.  'Junior Doctors: Let's Turn Sympathy into Solidarity. Solidarity meeting at Bloomsbury Baptist Church, 235 Shaftesbury Avenue, London WC2H 8EP. Nearest tube: Tottenham Court Road. Speakers include BMA junior doctors at Whipps Cross Hospital, East London, BMA JDC, Student nurses, Matt Wrack FBU firefighters’ union general secretary, Natalie Bennett Green Party leader, Kevin Courtney NUT teachers’ union deputy general secretary. Organised by Unite the Resistance. . Facebook event at https://www.facebook.com/events/939253256182239/

 

Friday 15 April

9pm onwards. Southwark Sleepout to highlight that the Housing Bill, if passed, will lead to homelessness. Assemble Outside Southwark Town Hall, 160 Tooley Street, SE1 2QH. Organised by The Kill the Housing Bill Campaign. Similar events being held nationwide. More details here at https://www.facebook.com/events/212636295758550/?active_tab=highlights.  Please share and invite others.

Saturday 16 April

1pm onwards. National People’s Assembly March for Homes, Health, Jobs, Education. End Austerity Now. Assemble: 1pm, Gower Street / Euston Road, London NW1.  See Facebook event https://www.facebook.com/events/1657115584538377/. If you want to meet-up with fellow-campaigners to attend any of these, email back or phone 07939090667 and we will tell you of meet-up arrangements.

 

Monday 18 April

7pm. Organising meeting of Southwark Trades Council. Agenda items include current campaigns against cuts in Southwark. Open to delegates and observers. Venue: 160 Tooley Street SE1. For more information, write to stucsec@gmail.com.

 

Saturday 23 April

1-4pm. Parents Defending Education Rally against the Government’s plans to privatise and de-regulate state education. Speakers: author Michael Rosen, Kevin Courtney (NUT deputy gen sec), Mary Bousted (gen sec ATL teachers union). Venue: UCL Institute of Education (IoE), 20 Bedford Way, London WC1H 0AL (nearest tube: Euston). To reserve a free place, click on the ‘Register’ button at https://www.facebook.com/events/1657115584538377/ . Called by the Anti-Academies Alliance, supported by the NUT and ATL unions. Southwark Save Our Services is supporting a joint campaign in Southwark of parents and teachers against the attacks on education and local democracy. If you want to help, please email back or phone 07939090667.

 

Tuesday 26 April

7pm. Defend Council Housing  - organising 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. More information from southwarkdch@gmail.com

 

 

 

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