March against austerity
& racism on 16 July
4 July 2016
The Tories have been plunged into crisis by the result of the EU
referendum. Even though they are weaker and more divided than they have ever
been, they will use Brexit to whip up anti-immigrant racism and accelerate their
austerity policies and attacks on living standards. But it doesn't have to be
this way.
However people voted in the referendum, we now need to unite to demand
an end to austerity policies, to stand up to anti-immigrant racism and show our
solidarity with refugees and migrants. The demonstration, called by the
People’s Assembly and Stand Up to Racism on Saturday 16 July is the positive
and united response to the political earthquake on 23 June.
Schools are facing the biggest cuts in a generation, in Southwark it
will be 20%. Yet at the same time the Government is ploughing ahead with their
costly plans to make every school an academy, costing an estimated £1.3 billion,
privatising another huge sector of local authority services. Go to your nearest
school picket line on Tuesday, and join thousands of teachers marching for
education assembling in central London at 11 o’clock. Details of this and more
are shown below.
EVENTS LIST
Tuesday 5 July
National teachers’ strike called by the NUT against huge cuts to
school budgets (20% in Southwark) and threats to national pay & conditions.
7.30 onwards. Many schools will have picket lines Please
go along on your way to work and show your support. (Send messages of support
to betty.joseph@southwarknut.org.uk). Download a leaflet for parents here
to print and give to colleagues at work, parents, neighbours etc.
11am. Demonstration - Defend Education,
assembling outside BBC, Portland Place, W1A 1AA (map), march to Westminster, finishing at rally in
Parliament Square. For more information about the cuts and the campaign, see
the NUT website here.
Tuesday 5 July
7pm. Defend Council Housing - organising meeting to discuss the Old Kent Road Area Action
Plan, Axe the Housing Act and the Aylesbury Estate. Venue: 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. More
information from southwarkdch@gmail.com
Tuesday 5 July
Celebrating 68th birthday of the NHS. Get information about local and national
events being planned from lambethkonp@gmail.com or on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/LambethKONP.
Thursday 7 – Friday 15
July
Various times. Leafleting train and tube stations to publicise
the anti-austerity, anti-racism march on 16 July. (See below.) Times and
locations to suit you! Contact Sarah on 07773031215 if you can help.
Saturday 9 July
11am to 4pm. SDCH stall campaigning against the Housing
Bill (selling of social housing and creating insecure tenancies)at the
Rotherhithe Festival, St Georges Fields, Entrance via Moodkee Street (Between
Canada Water tube and Seven Islands Leisure Centre) SE16 7BL. There will be a
gazebo but please bring a garden chair
or blankets to sit on
Tuesday 12 July
7.30pm. Public meeting: After Brexit Vote No to
Austerity No to Racism. Speakers include Alf Dubs - Labour Peer and leading
campaigner for UK to accept child refugees, Tosh McDonald - ASLEF (Train
drivers union) National President and
Peoples Assembly, Rachel Heywood - Lambeth councillor, anti-austerity, Jacek
Szymański - Polish worker in London, Zak Crochrane - Stand Up to Racism. Organised
by Stand Up to Racism, supported by People’s Assembly Against Austerity. Venue:
Weare336, 336 Brixton Road, SW9 7AA. For more info - please ring or text 07956
579466. For map & directions see Facebook event https://www.facebook.com/events/1022467567788975/
Saturday 16 July
12noon. National demonstration – After the
Referendum: No to Austerity, No to Racism, Tories Must Go. Called jointly
by The People’s Assembly Against Austerity and Stand Up to Racism. Assemble
outside BBC, Portland Place, W1A 1AA (map). Please share and invite on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/events/997373007038180/
Saturday 16 &
Sunday 17 July
11am onwards. Stalls for many anti-cuts/anti-austerity
campaigns will be set up at the Lambeth Country Show in Brockwell Park.
Reply to southwarksos@gmail.com if
you want to help.
Thursday 21 July
7pm
- 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 https://www.facebook.com/LambethKONP
Other campaigns
Stand Up for your Rights – free training for
claimants. Further
info from 020 7467 1283 or email Nick at nickplus007@gmail.com
Axe the Housing Act campaign. Contact Southwark DCH on 07792 786 192. For further details, go to webpage here.
South London people’s Assembly Contact secretary@southlondonpa.org
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like to hear from you. Tell us what you’re doing and we can advertise your
anti-cuts campaign activities. Email us at southwarksos@gmail.com.
