12 September 2013
With the announcement that the government is about to sell-off the Royal Mail as well as all the other attacks on incomes, welfare benefits, health and other services, there is no better time than now to get together in opposition to austerity.
Subsidised coaches from south London on 29 Sept can take you to demonstrate alongside tens of thousands of others, outside the Tory party Conference.
- Details of coaches are at http://www.nhsdemotransport.org/
- Email us at southwarksos@gmail.com if you want a ticket.
Don’t forget to tweet this listing, post it on your Facebook page, or help us with leafleting for these events. Thank you.
EVENTS LIST
Saturday 14 September
11am to 12.30pm. Rally for Education. Queen Elizabeth Conference Centre, Westminster SW1P 3EE. Speakers include: Christine Blower (General Secretary, NUT), Patrick Roach (Deputy General Secretary, NASUWT). Teachers, parents, support staff and governors all invited.
Saturday 14 September
2pm. Leafleting to advertise the national demonstration outside the Tory Party conference. Rye Lane, Peckham (outside Boots). Organised by local People’s Assembly supporters. Contact 07939 090 667 or email southwarksos@gmail.com if you can help on Saturday, or at other times or locations. More information about the demonstration below and also at http://www.tuc.org.uk/industrial/tuc-22405-f0.cfm
Tuesday 17 September
7pm. South London People's Assembly planning meeting at The Bread and Roses, 68 Clapham Manor Street, SW4 6DZ. All welcome. See more at https://www.facebook.com/South London People's Assembly
Tuesday 17 September
8pm. Film & social night - The NHS: A Difficult Beginning. Showing of a BBC documentary telling the story of the struggle to create the NHS in 1948. Doors open at 7pm. Venue: The Side Room, The Sun of Camberwell, Coldharbour Lane, SE5 9QW. Supported by King’s Unite branch. Open to clinical and non-clinical hospital workers. Enquiries/contact: healthworkersocial@hotmail.com
Thursday 19 September
7.15pm. Organising meeting of Lambeth Keep Our NHS Public campaign in the Duke of Cambridge pub, 74 Lansdowne Way, Stockwell. SW8 2DQ.
Saturday 21 September
12pm-1pm. Benefit Justice stall to petition and leaflet against the Bedroom Tax. Rye Lane, Peckham outside Boots. To help the campaign or get petition forms for your estate contact southwarkbenefitjustice@gmail.com or see their Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/southwarkbenefitjustice
Saturday 21 September
2pm. Leafleting to advertise the national demonstration outside the Tory Party conference. Organised by local People’s Assembly supporters. Contact 07939 090 667 or email southwarksos@gmail.com if you can help at a local shopping centre, or at other times or locations this week. More information about the demonstration below and also at http://www.tuc.org.uk/industrial/tuc-22405-f0.cfm
Monday 23 September
6pm. South London Unite the Resistance organising meeting. Agenda includes plans for solidarity action with teachers’ strikes, CWU action against the sell-off of Royal Mail, Firefighters dispute, etc. Venue: Rear Bar, Effra Hall Tavern, Kellett Road, Brixton, SW2. For more information and an agenda, phone 07956579466. For information about the national UtR organisation go to http://uniteresist.org/
Thursday 26 September
10.30am – 12.30pm. Meeting on ‘The Council’s Budget Challenge’. Speaker: Ambrose Omoma (Southwark Council) at InSpire, St Peter’s Crypt, Liverpool Grove SE17 5HH. Organised by Southwark Pensioners Forum. More information from mail@southwarkpensioners.org.uk or phone 020 7708 4556.
Sunday 29 September
All Day. Save Our NHS – national demonstration outside the Tory Party conference, Manchester.
Supported by UNITE, GMB, UNISON and other organisations. Ask your campaign group/trade union branch to support this protest. Southwark Trade Union Council is coordinating local transport arrangements. Coaches leave Peckham High Street at 7am and London Road Elephant & Castle at 7.30am. For tickets, phone 07939090667 or email to southwarksos@gmail.com. Assemble 11am Liverpool Road, Manchester M3 4FP, marching to a rally in Whitworth Park. For trains chartered by UNITE the Union and People’s Assembly see their websites. For transport from Lewisham, Lambeth and elsewhere see www.nhsdemotransport.org Here's a video saying why you should go: http://youtu.be/hEPuiIDg4Tc
Advance notice
Thursday 17 October
London teaching unions NUT & NASUWT will be on strike for one day. More info at http://www.teachers.org.uk/node/19075 . To request parents leaflet to give out at your local school, or to send messages of support, contact secretary@southwarknut.org.uk or mwdavern@hotmail.co.uk, and teacher union reps at your local school.
Saturday 19 October
12 noon – 5pm. ‘Organising to Win’ conference Workshops for those new to organising in the workplace and their communities as well as those who have experience in the trade unions and campaigns. Bloomsbury Baptist Church, 235 Shaftsbury Avenue, WC2H 8EP. Organised by Unite the Resistance. For more information or to book your place, go to http://uniteresist.org/2013/07/unite-the-resistance-conference-19-october-organising-to-win/
Saturday 2 November
Times tbc. Lambeth People’s Assembly, Lambeth Town Hall. More details at http://lambethsaveourservices.org/
Tuesday 5 November
Day of civil disobedience called by the People’s Assembly Against Austerity. More details to be announced. See http://thepeoplesassembly.org.uk/
OTHER LOCAL CAMPAIGNS:
Royal Mail campaign against privatisation
Background information and petition sheet from the Communication Workers Union at the website, http://www.cwu.org/save-our-royal-mail.html
Fire stations closures
Southwark campaign information and their action plans are to be found at http://www.saveourstations.org.uk/southwark and London action at http://www.london.fbu.org.uk/?page_id=527
Southwark Disabled People Against Cuts meet at Southwark Independent Living Centre, 10 Bradenham Close, SE17 2QB. Details from southwarkdpac@mail.com
Southwark Pensioners Action Group
Meets bi-monthly. Campaign information at http://www.spag.btck.co.uk/
Friday, 13 September 2013
Thursday, 5 September 2013
COACH TICKETS for the demonstration outside the Tory Conference, 29 Sept.
I hope you will be joining the tens of thousands at the ‘No to Austerity. Save the NHS’ demonstration in Manchester. It is backed by several national unions as well as the TUC. We have a coach leaving Peckham and picking up at Elephant & Castle, returning the same day. Tickets are £20 waged / £10 Concessions. Although there are special trains, bear in mind the total journey time is very similar whether you go by coach or train.
UNISON has brought ten coach tickets. Contact Sue Plain UNISON Branch Secretary on 020 7525 6034 or at sue.plain@southwark.gov.uk .
Ring Chris on 07939 090 667 to buy tickets or to get tickets to sell to others.
Can your trade union help to sponsor a coach?
We expect to fill one coach and possibly two, but we rely on further trade union branches to donate. (King’s Hospital UNITE has already given £500)
· Please raise support in your campaign group, TRA or trade union branch. Union donations are urgently needed. You may have to contact your branch secretary very soon if it is to get on the agenda of the first meeting in September. I can provide you with details of where donations should be sent.
SSOS UPDATES
Tuesday 10th September
SLaM Annual public meeting 5.30pm at Maudsley Hospital. Contact Frank Wood UNITE (07798 531734 ) for further info.
The next SSOS meeting
We didn’t have a meeting in August but with an Autumn beginning with a week of action by DPAC and then the possibility of strikes by teachers, firefighters, post office workers and others, there is a lot for anti-cuts activists to do. We have a meeting pencilled in for either Wednesday 18th or 25th September but attendance at recent meetings has been small so we want to have organising meetings that represent the local active groups of campaigners and trade unions if these meetings are to be useful. Can you attend? Please tell me which date (18th or 25th) you prefer.
Some members of the SSOS organising group have been attending the South London organising meetings of the People’s Assembly and it seem sensible to coordinate our SSOS activities with theirs, where we can. If you want to receive details of local PA meetings contact Lia Korn at lilimarauk@hotmail.co.uk to go on the mailing list.
UNISON has brought ten coach tickets. Contact Sue Plain UNISON Branch Secretary on 020 7525 6034 or at sue.plain@southwark.gov.uk .
Ring Chris on 07939 090 667 to buy tickets or to get tickets to sell to others.
Can your trade union help to sponsor a coach?
We expect to fill one coach and possibly two, but we rely on further trade union branches to donate. (King’s Hospital UNITE has already given £500)
· Please raise support in your campaign group, TRA or trade union branch. Union donations are urgently needed. You may have to contact your branch secretary very soon if it is to get on the agenda of the first meeting in September. I can provide you with details of where donations should be sent.
SSOS UPDATES
Tuesday 10th September
SLaM Annual public meeting 5.30pm at Maudsley Hospital. Contact Frank Wood UNITE (07798 531734 ) for further info.
The next SSOS meeting
We didn’t have a meeting in August but with an Autumn beginning with a week of action by DPAC and then the possibility of strikes by teachers, firefighters, post office workers and others, there is a lot for anti-cuts activists to do. We have a meeting pencilled in for either Wednesday 18th or 25th September but attendance at recent meetings has been small so we want to have organising meetings that represent the local active groups of campaigners and trade unions if these meetings are to be useful. Can you attend? Please tell me which date (18th or 25th) you prefer.
Some members of the SSOS organising group have been attending the South London organising meetings of the People’s Assembly and it seem sensible to coordinate our SSOS activities with theirs, where we can. If you want to receive details of local PA meetings contact Lia Korn at lilimarauk@hotmail.co.uk to go on the mailing list.
Thursday, 15 August 2013
Southwark Action Alert Wednesday 14 August 2013
Planning
meetings during the next three weeks will be discussing how to mobilise the
largest possible numbers for protests and demonstrations over cuts to health,
disability and welfare benefits, fire stations and more. Please come along to
help organise and spread the word about these protests.
Don’t forget
to tweet this listing (link to our website ), post on your Facebook page, or
help us with leafleting for these events. Thank you.
EVENTS LIST
Thursday 15
August
8pm. A short
film about the 1986 Victoria Nurses Federation strike in Australia & a talk
with David Esterson, former NHS nurse and activist in the 1988 NHS strikes.
Doors open at 7pm. Venue: The Side Room, The Sun of Camberwell, Coldharbour
Lane, SE5 9QW. Supported by King’s Unite branch. Open to clinical and
non-clinical hospital workers. Enquiries/contact:
healthworkersocial@hotmail.com
Tuesday 20
August
7pm. South
London People's Assembly planning meeting at The Bread and Roses, 68 Clapham
Manor Street, SW4 6DZ. All welcome. See more on Facebook.
Friday
30 August
Times tbc.
Local Protests as part of week of action to protest against austerity,
organised by Disabled People Against the Cuts. See below and http://dpac.uk.net/ for other events in the
week of action.
Saturday 31
August
1pm. March
for jobs and Justice. Assemble Kennington Park. March to 10 Downing Street.
Organised by BARAC (Black Activists Rising Against Cuts). More details at the
BARAC website , on Facebook or write to barac.info@gmail.com
Monday 2nd
September
Times and
venue tbc. Day of Direct Action as part of week of action to protest against
austerity, organised by Disabled People Against the Cuts. See
http://dpac.uk.net/
Monday 2
September
6pm. South London Unite the Resistance Organising
meeting. Agenda includes plans for solidarity action with teachers’ strikes,
CWU action, and other disputes, demonstration at Tory conference. Effra Hill
Tavern, Kellett Road, Brixton, SW2. For more information and an agenda, phone
07956579466. For information about the national UtR organisation go to
http://uniteresist.org/
Wednesday 4
September
Freedom
Drive: March and rally at Parliament organised by. Four themed 'blocks' will
meet at four Government departments, central to the lives of disabled people,
then move to Parliament for a rally. Following the march there will be a lobby
(TBC) of Parliament. This is the last event in a week of action to protest
against austerity. See http://dpac.uk.net/
Saturday 7
September
11.30am –
5.30pm. Leafleting for the 29 September National NHS demonstration, at the
Stockwell Festival in their 'community action zone' at Larkhall Park, Courland
Grove, Stockwell, SW8 2PX. Stall
organised by Lambeth Keep Our NHS Public.
Sunday 8 September
12.30pm.
Lobby of TUC conference in Bournemouth: Name the date for a 24 hour general
strike! ‘All out together in November!’ Hardy Suite, Hermitage Hotel, Exeter
Road, Bournemouth (opposite Bournemouth International Centre, TUC Congress
venue). Lobby called by NSSN. For transport details, email
info@shopstewards.net
Saturday 14
September
11am to
12.30pm. Rally for Education. Queen Elizabeth Conference Centre, Westminster
SW1P 3EE. Speakers include: Christine Blower (General Secretary, NUT), Patrick
Roach (Deputy General Secretary, NASUWT). Teachers, parents, support staff and
governors all invited.
Thursday 19
September
7pm.
Organising meeting of Lambeth Keep Our NHS Public campaign in the Duke of
Cambridge pub, 74 Lansdowne Way, Stockwell. SW8 2DQ. (nb. No meeting in
August.)
Thursday 26
September
10.30am –
12.30pm. Meeting on ‘The Council’s Budget Challenge’. Speaker: Ambrose Omoma
(Southwark Council) at InSpire, St Peter’s Crypt, Liverpool Grove SE17 5HH.
Organised by Southwark Pensioners Forum. More information from
mail@southwarkpensioners.org.uk or phone 020 7708 4556.
Sunday 29
September
All Day.
Save Our NHS – national demonstration outside the Tory Party conference,
Manchester. Supported by UNITE, GMB, UNISON and other organisations. Ask your
campaign group/trade union branch to support this protest. Southwark Trade
Union Council is coordinating local transport arrangements. Coaches leave
locations in Southwark 7am and 7.30am. For trains chartered by UNITE the Union
and People’s Assembly see their websites. More information from
southwarktuc@gmail.com. Here's a video saying why you should go:
http://youtu.be/hEPuiIDg4Tc
Advance
notice
Week
beginning 14 October
Date tbc.
London teaching unions NUT & NASUWT will be on strike for one day. More
info at http://www.teachers.org.uk/node/18841
Saturday 19
October
12 noon –
5pm. ‘Organising to Win’ conference Workshops for those new to organising in
the workplace and their communities as well as those who have experience in the
trade unions and campaigns. Bloomsbury
Baptist Church, 235 Shaftsbury Avenue, WC2H 8EP. Organised by Unite the
Resistance. Book your place here. More information at http://uniteresist.org/
Saturday 2
November
Times tbc.
Lambeth People’s Assembly, Lambeth Town Hall. More details at
http://lambethsaveourservices.org/
Tuesday 5
November
Day of civil
disobedience called by the People’s Assembly Against Austerity. More details to
be announced. See http://thepeoplesassembly.org.uk/
OTHER LOCAL
CAMPAIGNS:
Crown Post
Offices closures/franchising – Peckham & East Dulwich
Background
information and petition sheet from the Communication Workers Union here.
Fire
stations closures
Southwark
campaign information and their action plans are to be found at
http://www.saveourstations.org.uk/southwark
Southwark
Disabled People Against Cuts meet at Southwark Independent Living Centre, 10
Bradenham Close, SE17 2QB. Details from southwarkdpac@mail.com
Southwark
Pensioners Action Group
Meets
bi-monthly. Campaign information at http://www.spag.btck.co.uk/
Wednesday, 3 July 2013
Southwark Action Alert 2nd July 2013
Local organisations will be supporting the lobby of Southwark Council on 10th July, calling on councillors to oppose the Bedroom Tax and commit to not evicting tenants because of benefit cuts. Can you come along, and bring others with you? (See below).
In addition protests against wage-cuts, cuts to disability support, education and health are listed below.
Please help to spread the word by tweeting, or posting this listing on your Facebook page, or help us with leafleting for these events.
EVENTS LIST
Thursday 4 July 9am. Get Cameron - David Cameron will be visiting the Turner Centre Margate CT9 1HG. Thanet Benefit Justice is calling on anti-cuts groups, trade unions, students, disabled campaigners and others to bring whistles and banners and flags. Fb event www.facebook.com/events/412975298816453/
Thursday 4 July 8am onwards. Strike called by Lambeth College UCU against compulsory redundancies. Please visit picket lines at one of these sites: Brixton Centre: 56 Brixton Hill SW2 1QS , Clapham Centre: 45 Clapham Common Southside SW4 9BL , Vauxhall Centre: Belmore St, Wandsworth Rd., SW8 2JY. Send messages of support to Branch secretary at mbrown@lambeth.ac.uk
Thursday 4 July 1 pm. Q&A with Simon Hughes, the LibDem MP for Bermondsey, who will be at Southwark Resource Centre (10 Bradenham Close, London SE17 2QB) to hear views and questions from users and staff. His party has given the Tory government the green light to go ahead with its vicious attacks on disabled, poor and vulnerable people. He has got a lot to answer for! Contact southwarkdpac@mail.com if you can come, and receive info for people to use in planning their questions. Come early to avoid disappointment!
Thursday 4th July 6.30pm. Joint meeting to plan Peoples’ Assembly in Lambeth, called by Lambeth Trades Council and Lambeth SOS at Vida Walsh Centre, off Windrush Square in Brixton. This meeting is open to campaigners from other boroughs including Southwark. Southwark SOS will be represented. Facebook: http://on.fb.me/14FHQUy
Friday 5th July 4pm. Start of the CAMarathon: London to Witney, to mark the 65th birthday of the NHS and highlight the role of David Cameron and the Conservative party in abolishing the NHS. Assemble at Dept of Health, Richmond House, 79 Whitehall, SW1A 2NS. An ‘NHS coffin’ will be carried by 6 pallbearers, first to Parliament before being carried overnight to David Cameron's Witney constituency and delivered there on Saturday. Details at http://www.keepournhspublic.com/camarathon.php.
Friday 5 July 5pm-7.30pm. Come for a fun evening rallying support for 10th July Council Assembly lobby over the bedroom tax. (‘Stop The Bedroom Tax – No Benefit Cuts, No Evictions’). Venue: SGTO offices, Bells Gardens Community Centre, 19 Buller Close, SE15 6UJ. Bring your own mobile phone to help with phoning contacts for next Wednesday’s lobby (see below). Phone David at SGTO on 020 7639 6718 if you intend to come.
Saturday 6 July 10.30am-12.30pm. Help making placards for 10th July Council Assembly lobby over the bedroom tax. Come to the Bells Centre for a fun day with the family. Materials provided, just come along and enjoy making banners to fight the unfair bedroom tax, ready for next Wednesday’s lobby (see below). Venue: SGTO offices, Bells Gardens Community Centre, 19 Buller Close, SE15 6UJ. Phone David at SGTO on 020 7639 6718 if you intend to come.
Saturday 6 July 12.30 -1.30pm. Bedroom Tax stall in Rye Lane, Peckham, to petition and leaflet for the 10th of July Council lobby (see below). Help is needed! To get petition forms for your estate or leaflets for the lobby, contact southwarkbenefitjustice@gmail.com, see their Facebook page or phone SGTO office on 020 7639 6718.
Saturday 6 July Flash mob: Singing for our Health Service, to mark the 65th birthday of the NHS. More information from londonkeepournhspublic@gmail.com
Monday 8 July 3.45pm. Protest Cuts to UAL disability support. University of the Arts London management are cutting disability provision and academic support. These proposals mean valued support staff will have their pay cut, students risk having to travel miles for assessments and the possibility of private providers circling in the future. Staff and students were excluded from the recent review.
UCU has called a demonstration outside the Court of Governors meeting at UAL 272 High Holborn, WC1V 7EY.
Tuesday 9 July 7pm. Doors open for two short films and a talk looking at Greece’s health care system under austerity. Starting at 7.30pm, introduced by Joseph Healy from the Greece Solidarity Campaign. Venue: The Side Room, The Sun of Camberwell, Coldharbour Lane, SE5 9QW. Supported by King’s Unite branch. Open to clinical and non-clinical hospital workers. Enquiries/contact: healthworkersocial@hotmail.com
Wednesday 10 July 6pm. Lobby of Southwark Council to demand that Councillors oppose the Bedroom Tax and commit to not evicting tenants because of benefit cuts. Bring banners and placards! Called by Southwark Group of Tenants Organisations and other organisations. (The Council Assembly includes a themed debate on "Welfare Reform".) Venue: Walworth Academy, Shorncliffe Road (Off Albany Road). Order posters and leaflets for your estate by ringing 07896 341 964 or email southwarkbenefitjustice@gmail.com or see their Facebook page.
Saturday 13 July 10am. - 4pm. Keep Our NHS Public (KONP) National AGM. Hinde St Methodist Church, Thayer St, W1U 2QJ. Speakers include Polly Toynbee and reports from KONP groups round the country. Email agm@keepournhspublic.com for info and a registration form. (Only paid up supporters may attend.) More details at http://www.keepournhspublic.com/meeting.php?id=466
Saturday 20 July Time tbc. UK Uncut will be setting-up food banks inside branches of HSBC – shutting down Britain’s biggest, bonus-munching, crisis-causing, tax-dodging bank. Our taxes bailed them out, but they won’t pay their fair share and the government continues to let them get away with it. Find out more about organising a local protest at http://www.ukuncut.org.uk/blog/call-out-stuff-the-banks-saturday-20th-july
Advance notice
Saturday 27 July National Day of Action called by the Anti-bedroom tax and Benefit Justice Campaign. More info to follow. See their new website or contact the local campaign at southwarkbenefitjustice@gmail.com
Friday 2 August 7.30pm. Fundraiser for the Anti-Bedroom Tax and Benefit Justice Federation at the Tottenham Chances, 399 Tottenham High Road London N17 6QN. Tickets - £5 waged / £2 unwaged £10 solidarity (tickets can be ordered in advance from benefitjustice@gmail.com). Disabled accessible.
Sunday 29 September All Day. Save Our NHS – national demonstration outside the Tory Party conference, Manchester. Supported by UNITE, GMB, UNISON and other organisations. Ask your campaign group/trade union branch to support this protest. Southwark Trade Union Council is coordinating local transport arrangements. More information from southwarktuc@gmail.com.
OTHER LOCAL CAMPAIGNS:
Crown Post Offices closures/franchising – Peckham & East Dulwich. Background information and petition sheet from the Communication Workers Union here.
Fire stations closures Southwark campaign information and their action plans are found at http://www.saveourstations.org.uk/southwark
Southwark Disabled People Against Cuts meeting meet at Southwark Independent Living Centre, 10 Bradenham Close, SE17 2QB. Details from southwarkdpac@mail.com
Southwark Pensioners Action Group Meets bi-monthly. Campaign information at http://www.spag.btck.co.uk/
Southwark Unison Currently campaigning against job cuts in nurseries and pupil referral units. More information at Tel: 0207 525 6030.
In addition protests against wage-cuts, cuts to disability support, education and health are listed below.
Please help to spread the word by tweeting, or posting this listing on your Facebook page, or help us with leafleting for these events.
EVENTS LIST
Thursday 4 July 9am. Get Cameron - David Cameron will be visiting the Turner Centre Margate CT9 1HG. Thanet Benefit Justice is calling on anti-cuts groups, trade unions, students, disabled campaigners and others to bring whistles and banners and flags. Fb event www.facebook.com/events/412975298816453/
Thursday 4 July 8am onwards. Strike called by Lambeth College UCU against compulsory redundancies. Please visit picket lines at one of these sites: Brixton Centre: 56 Brixton Hill SW2 1QS , Clapham Centre: 45 Clapham Common Southside SW4 9BL , Vauxhall Centre: Belmore St, Wandsworth Rd., SW8 2JY. Send messages of support to Branch secretary at mbrown@lambeth.ac.uk
Thursday 4 July 1 pm. Q&A with Simon Hughes, the LibDem MP for Bermondsey, who will be at Southwark Resource Centre (10 Bradenham Close, London SE17 2QB) to hear views and questions from users and staff. His party has given the Tory government the green light to go ahead with its vicious attacks on disabled, poor and vulnerable people. He has got a lot to answer for! Contact southwarkdpac@mail.com if you can come, and receive info for people to use in planning their questions. Come early to avoid disappointment!
Thursday 4th July 6.30pm. Joint meeting to plan Peoples’ Assembly in Lambeth, called by Lambeth Trades Council and Lambeth SOS at Vida Walsh Centre, off Windrush Square in Brixton. This meeting is open to campaigners from other boroughs including Southwark. Southwark SOS will be represented. Facebook: http://on.fb.me/14FHQUy
Friday 5th July 4pm. Start of the CAMarathon: London to Witney, to mark the 65th birthday of the NHS and highlight the role of David Cameron and the Conservative party in abolishing the NHS. Assemble at Dept of Health, Richmond House, 79 Whitehall, SW1A 2NS. An ‘NHS coffin’ will be carried by 6 pallbearers, first to Parliament before being carried overnight to David Cameron's Witney constituency and delivered there on Saturday. Details at http://www.keepournhspublic.com/camarathon.php.
Friday 5 July 5pm-7.30pm. Come for a fun evening rallying support for 10th July Council Assembly lobby over the bedroom tax. (‘Stop The Bedroom Tax – No Benefit Cuts, No Evictions’). Venue: SGTO offices, Bells Gardens Community Centre, 19 Buller Close, SE15 6UJ. Bring your own mobile phone to help with phoning contacts for next Wednesday’s lobby (see below). Phone David at SGTO on 020 7639 6718 if you intend to come.
Saturday 6 July 10.30am-12.30pm. Help making placards for 10th July Council Assembly lobby over the bedroom tax. Come to the Bells Centre for a fun day with the family. Materials provided, just come along and enjoy making banners to fight the unfair bedroom tax, ready for next Wednesday’s lobby (see below). Venue: SGTO offices, Bells Gardens Community Centre, 19 Buller Close, SE15 6UJ. Phone David at SGTO on 020 7639 6718 if you intend to come.
Saturday 6 July 12.30 -1.30pm. Bedroom Tax stall in Rye Lane, Peckham, to petition and leaflet for the 10th of July Council lobby (see below). Help is needed! To get petition forms for your estate or leaflets for the lobby, contact southwarkbenefitjustice@gmail.com, see their Facebook page or phone SGTO office on 020 7639 6718.
Saturday 6 July Flash mob: Singing for our Health Service, to mark the 65th birthday of the NHS. More information from londonkeepournhspublic@gmail.com
Monday 8 July 3.45pm. Protest Cuts to UAL disability support. University of the Arts London management are cutting disability provision and academic support. These proposals mean valued support staff will have their pay cut, students risk having to travel miles for assessments and the possibility of private providers circling in the future. Staff and students were excluded from the recent review.
UCU has called a demonstration outside the Court of Governors meeting at UAL 272 High Holborn, WC1V 7EY.
Tuesday 9 July 7pm. Doors open for two short films and a talk looking at Greece’s health care system under austerity. Starting at 7.30pm, introduced by Joseph Healy from the Greece Solidarity Campaign. Venue: The Side Room, The Sun of Camberwell, Coldharbour Lane, SE5 9QW. Supported by King’s Unite branch. Open to clinical and non-clinical hospital workers. Enquiries/contact: healthworkersocial@hotmail.com
Wednesday 10 July 6pm. Lobby of Southwark Council to demand that Councillors oppose the Bedroom Tax and commit to not evicting tenants because of benefit cuts. Bring banners and placards! Called by Southwark Group of Tenants Organisations and other organisations. (The Council Assembly includes a themed debate on "Welfare Reform".) Venue: Walworth Academy, Shorncliffe Road (Off Albany Road). Order posters and leaflets for your estate by ringing 07896 341 964 or email southwarkbenefitjustice@gmail.com or see their Facebook page.
Saturday 13 July 10am. - 4pm. Keep Our NHS Public (KONP) National AGM. Hinde St Methodist Church, Thayer St, W1U 2QJ. Speakers include Polly Toynbee and reports from KONP groups round the country. Email agm@keepournhspublic.com for info and a registration form. (Only paid up supporters may attend.) More details at http://www.keepournhspublic.com/meeting.php?id=466
Saturday 20 July Time tbc. UK Uncut will be setting-up food banks inside branches of HSBC – shutting down Britain’s biggest, bonus-munching, crisis-causing, tax-dodging bank. Our taxes bailed them out, but they won’t pay their fair share and the government continues to let them get away with it. Find out more about organising a local protest at http://www.ukuncut.org.uk/blog/call-out-stuff-the-banks-saturday-20th-july
Advance notice
Saturday 27 July National Day of Action called by the Anti-bedroom tax and Benefit Justice Campaign. More info to follow. See their new website or contact the local campaign at southwarkbenefitjustice@gmail.com
Friday 2 August 7.30pm. Fundraiser for the Anti-Bedroom Tax and Benefit Justice Federation at the Tottenham Chances, 399 Tottenham High Road London N17 6QN. Tickets - £5 waged / £2 unwaged £10 solidarity (tickets can be ordered in advance from benefitjustice@gmail.com). Disabled accessible.
Sunday 29 September All Day. Save Our NHS – national demonstration outside the Tory Party conference, Manchester. Supported by UNITE, GMB, UNISON and other organisations. Ask your campaign group/trade union branch to support this protest. Southwark Trade Union Council is coordinating local transport arrangements. More information from southwarktuc@gmail.com.
OTHER LOCAL CAMPAIGNS:
Crown Post Offices closures/franchising – Peckham & East Dulwich. Background information and petition sheet from the Communication Workers Union here.
Fire stations closures Southwark campaign information and their action plans are found at http://www.saveourstations.org.uk/southwark
Southwark Disabled People Against Cuts meeting meet at Southwark Independent Living Centre, 10 Bradenham Close, SE17 2QB. Details from southwarkdpac@mail.com
Southwark Pensioners Action Group Meets bi-monthly. Campaign information at http://www.spag.btck.co.uk/
Southwark Unison Currently campaigning against job cuts in nurseries and pupil referral units. More information at Tel: 0207 525 6030.
Monday, 17 June 2013
Join the protests to stop cuts to education, health, fire and postal services
14 June 2013
Education from nurseries to further education are facing big cuts, just as the Government presses on with cuts and privatisation of health, fire and postal services. Please help to spread the word about the protests shown below by tweeting or posting the events on your Facebook page, or help us with leafleting (see below) for campaigns against the bedroom tax or the post office closures.
EVENTS LIST
Thursday 19 June
9am. Protest against fire brigade cuts at the next session of Mayor’s Question Time, to take place at City Hall Called by London FBU. Contact: Paul Embury on 07854 998508.
Thursday 20 June
2pm onwards. CWU members will be on strike against plans to close or franchise 76 Crown offices - 20% of the network. Details of the dispute from the Communication Workers Union at http://www.cwu.org/news/archive/post-office-strikes-number-6-and-7.html. Contact Chris Roche (CWU) on 07912 427 140 if you can help with petitioning or leafleting on behalf of the strikers.
Thursday 20 June
7pm. Lambeth Keep Our NHS Public campaign meeting. Venue: Duke of Cambridge pub, 74 Lansdowne Way, SW8 2DR, nr Stockwell Tube. For more details, phone 07913496012. All Southwark KONP supporters urged to attend.
Saturday 22 June
9.30am – 5pm. People's Assembly Against Austerity. Central Hall Westminster, Storey’s Gate, London, SW1H 9NH. Supporting organisations include Unite the Union, PCS, NUT, NUJ, TSSA, Unison, War on Want, Disabled People Against the Cuts, Coalition of Resistance, People’s Charter, Black Activists Rising Against Cuts, the Green Party. Register at http://thepeoplesassembly.org.uk/register/.
Wednesday 26 June
7pm. Southwark Trades Council AGM at In-Spire @ St Peter's Church, Liverpool Grove, SE17. Map at http://www.in-spire.org.uk/location.shtml
A report of Southwark SOS activities reports will be presented at the meeting, plus discussion of KNOP, Academies/Free Schools, Benefits Justice Campaign and other anti-cuts and austerity issues. More information from Southwark TUC at southwarktuc@gmail.com.
Wednesday 26 June
7pm. Southwark Save Our Services activities will be included in the STUC meeting (see item above) so there will be no separate Organising Group meeting this month. For a copy of the 2012-13 Southwark SOS campaign report, write to the Secretary at southwarksos@gmail.com
Saturday 29 June
All day. CWU members in Crown Post Offices will be on strike against plans to close or franchise 76 Crown offices - 20% of the network. Details of the dispute from the Communication Workers Union at http://www.cwu.org/news/archive/post-office-strikes-number-6-and-7.html Contact Chris Roche (CWU) on 07912 427 140 if you can help with petitioning or leafleting on behalf of the strikers.
Saturday 29 June
11am-5pm. Conference ‘March Together - Now Strike Together’. Organised by the National Shop Stewards Network. Speakers include Mark Serwotka, PCS, Billy Hayes, CWU, and Steve Gillan, POA, general secretaries. Venue: Camden Centre, Judd Street, WC1H 9JE. Includes sessions on the NHS cuts and housing. More info at www.shopstewards.net and registration from info@shopstewards.net or phone 07952 283 588.
Friday 5 July
4pm. Start of the CAMarathon: London to Witney, to mark the 65th birthday of the NHS and highlight the role of David Cameron and the Conservative party in abolishing the NHS. Assemble at Dept of Health, Richmond House, 79 Whitehall, SW1A 2NS. An ‘NHS coffin’ will be carried by 6 pallbearers, first to Parliament before being carried overnight to David Cameron's Witney constituency and delivered there on Saturday. Details at http://www.keepournhspublic.com/camarathon.php.
Saturday 6 July
Flash mob: Singing for our Health Service, to mark the 65th birthday of the NHS more information from londonkeepournhspublic@gmail.com
Wednesday 10 July
6pm. Lobby of Southwark Council to persuade Councillors to oppose the Bedroom Tax and commit to not evicting tenants because of benefit cuts. Bring banners and placards! Called by Southwark Group of Tenants Organisations (The Council Assembly includes a themed debate on "Welfare Reform".) Venue: Walworth Academy, Shorncliffe Road (Off Albany Road). Order posters and leaflets for your estate by ringing 07896 341 964 or email southwarkbenefitjustice@gmail.com
Advance notice
Saturday 13 July
10am - 4pm. Keep Our NHS Public (KONP) National AGM. Hinde St Methodist Church, Thayer St, W1U 2QJ. Speakers include Polly Toynbee and reports from KONP groups round the country.
Saturday 27 July
National Day of Action called by the Anti-bedroom tax and Benefit Justice Campaign. More info to follow. See their new website at http://antibedroomtax.org.uk/ or contact the local campaign at southwarkbenefitjustice@gmail.com
OTHER LOCAL CAMPAIGNS:
Fire stations closures
Southwark campaign information and their action plans are found at http://www.saveourstations.org.uk/southwark.
Southwark Disabled People Against Cuts meeting meet at Southwark Independent Living Centre, 10 Bradenham Close, SE17 2QB. Details from southwarkdpac@mail.com
Southwark Benefit Justice Campaign
Contact southwarkbenefitjustice@gmail.com and see their Facebook page.
Southwark Pensioners Action Group
Meets bi-monthly. Campaign information at http://www.spag.btck.co.uk/
Southwark Unison
Currently campaigning against job cuts in nurseries and pupil referral units. For more information telephone 0207 525 6030.
Education from nurseries to further education are facing big cuts, just as the Government presses on with cuts and privatisation of health, fire and postal services. Please help to spread the word about the protests shown below by tweeting or posting the events on your Facebook page, or help us with leafleting (see below) for campaigns against the bedroom tax or the post office closures.
EVENTS LIST
Thursday 19 June
9am. Protest against fire brigade cuts at the next session of Mayor’s Question Time, to take place at City Hall Called by London FBU. Contact: Paul Embury on 07854 998508.
Thursday 20 June
2pm onwards. CWU members will be on strike against plans to close or franchise 76 Crown offices - 20% of the network. Details of the dispute from the Communication Workers Union at http://www.cwu.org/news/archive/post-office-strikes-number-6-and-7.html. Contact Chris Roche (CWU) on 07912 427 140 if you can help with petitioning or leafleting on behalf of the strikers.
Thursday 20 June
7pm. Lambeth Keep Our NHS Public campaign meeting. Venue: Duke of Cambridge pub, 74 Lansdowne Way, SW8 2DR, nr Stockwell Tube. For more details, phone 07913496012. All Southwark KONP supporters urged to attend.
Saturday 22 June
9.30am – 5pm. People's Assembly Against Austerity. Central Hall Westminster, Storey’s Gate, London, SW1H 9NH. Supporting organisations include Unite the Union, PCS, NUT, NUJ, TSSA, Unison, War on Want, Disabled People Against the Cuts, Coalition of Resistance, People’s Charter, Black Activists Rising Against Cuts, the Green Party. Register at http://thepeoplesassembly.org.uk/register/.
Wednesday 26 June
7pm. Southwark Trades Council AGM at In-Spire @ St Peter's Church, Liverpool Grove, SE17. Map at http://www.in-spire.org.uk/location.shtml
A report of Southwark SOS activities reports will be presented at the meeting, plus discussion of KNOP, Academies/Free Schools, Benefits Justice Campaign and other anti-cuts and austerity issues. More information from Southwark TUC at southwarktuc@gmail.com.
Wednesday 26 June
7pm. Southwark Save Our Services activities will be included in the STUC meeting (see item above) so there will be no separate Organising Group meeting this month. For a copy of the 2012-13 Southwark SOS campaign report, write to the Secretary at southwarksos@gmail.com
Saturday 29 June
All day. CWU members in Crown Post Offices will be on strike against plans to close or franchise 76 Crown offices - 20% of the network. Details of the dispute from the Communication Workers Union at http://www.cwu.org/news/archive/post-office-strikes-number-6-and-7.html Contact Chris Roche (CWU) on 07912 427 140 if you can help with petitioning or leafleting on behalf of the strikers.
Saturday 29 June
11am-5pm. Conference ‘March Together - Now Strike Together’. Organised by the National Shop Stewards Network. Speakers include Mark Serwotka, PCS, Billy Hayes, CWU, and Steve Gillan, POA, general secretaries. Venue: Camden Centre, Judd Street, WC1H 9JE. Includes sessions on the NHS cuts and housing. More info at www.shopstewards.net and registration from info@shopstewards.net or phone 07952 283 588.
Friday 5 July
4pm. Start of the CAMarathon: London to Witney, to mark the 65th birthday of the NHS and highlight the role of David Cameron and the Conservative party in abolishing the NHS. Assemble at Dept of Health, Richmond House, 79 Whitehall, SW1A 2NS. An ‘NHS coffin’ will be carried by 6 pallbearers, first to Parliament before being carried overnight to David Cameron's Witney constituency and delivered there on Saturday. Details at http://www.keepournhspublic.com/camarathon.php.
Saturday 6 July
Flash mob: Singing for our Health Service, to mark the 65th birthday of the NHS more information from londonkeepournhspublic@gmail.com
Wednesday 10 July
6pm. Lobby of Southwark Council to persuade Councillors to oppose the Bedroom Tax and commit to not evicting tenants because of benefit cuts. Bring banners and placards! Called by Southwark Group of Tenants Organisations (The Council Assembly includes a themed debate on "Welfare Reform".) Venue: Walworth Academy, Shorncliffe Road (Off Albany Road). Order posters and leaflets for your estate by ringing 07896 341 964 or email southwarkbenefitjustice@gmail.com
Advance notice
Saturday 13 July
10am - 4pm. Keep Our NHS Public (KONP) National AGM. Hinde St Methodist Church, Thayer St, W1U 2QJ. Speakers include Polly Toynbee and reports from KONP groups round the country.
Saturday 27 July
National Day of Action called by the Anti-bedroom tax and Benefit Justice Campaign. More info to follow. See their new website at http://antibedroomtax.org.uk/ or contact the local campaign at southwarkbenefitjustice@gmail.com
OTHER LOCAL CAMPAIGNS:
Fire stations closures
Southwark campaign information and their action plans are found at http://www.saveourstations.org.uk/southwark.
Southwark Disabled People Against Cuts meeting meet at Southwark Independent Living Centre, 10 Bradenham Close, SE17 2QB. Details from southwarkdpac@mail.com
Southwark Benefit Justice Campaign
Contact southwarkbenefitjustice@gmail.com and see their Facebook page.
Southwark Pensioners Action Group
Meets bi-monthly. Campaign information at http://www.spag.btck.co.uk/
Southwark Unison
Currently campaigning against job cuts in nurseries and pupil referral units. For more information telephone 0207 525 6030.
Tuesday, 4 June 2013
PCS Workers on strike on Wednesday need your support
Dear anti-cuts activists
The workers who are being asked to implement the government’s harsh 'Welfare Reform' will be on strike this Wednesday.
Can you forward this email to your networks, and encourage members to support the events shown below.
Thank you
Chris Kelly
Secretary, Southwark SOS campaign
The UK government is drastically scaling back public services under the false claim that cuts are necessary to address the financial crisis caused by the collapse of the banking sector. The PCS union is campaigning for
- investment in HMRC to close the tax gap,
- investment in the DWP to support people most in need at a time of mass unemployment and to generate revenue to fund other essential public services.
Support local picket lines from 8am-9.30am
As always any act of solidarity, messages to those on strike and visits to picket-lines are very welcome. In Southwark pickets should be at the following JCP offices
· London Bridge (Newington Causeway)
· Peckham JCP (Peckham High St)
If you can send a message of support by email, please send it to Sarah Murdock (PCS DWP Lambeth and Southwark branch organiser) at s.l.murdock05@gmail.com or text to 07879424631.
Come to a strike day rally at 12noon
Come to a strike day rally and support PCS members striking against cuts to vital public services. A special invitation is being made to all who are involved in campaigns for welfare claimants. It’s at:
The London Welsh Centre 157-163 Gray's Inn Road WC1X 8UE. Mark Serwotka will be speaking.
The workers who are being asked to implement the government’s harsh 'Welfare Reform' will be on strike this Wednesday.
Can you forward this email to your networks, and encourage members to support the events shown below.
Thank you
Chris Kelly
Secretary, Southwark SOS campaign
The UK government is drastically scaling back public services under the false claim that cuts are necessary to address the financial crisis caused by the collapse of the banking sector. The PCS union is campaigning for
- investment in HMRC to close the tax gap,
- investment in the DWP to support people most in need at a time of mass unemployment and to generate revenue to fund other essential public services.
Support local picket lines from 8am-9.30am
As always any act of solidarity, messages to those on strike and visits to picket-lines are very welcome. In Southwark pickets should be at the following JCP offices
· London Bridge (Newington Causeway)
· Peckham JCP (Peckham High St)
If you can send a message of support by email, please send it to Sarah Murdock (PCS DWP Lambeth and Southwark branch organiser) at s.l.murdock05@gmail.com or text to 07879424631.
Come to a strike day rally at 12noon
Come to a strike day rally and support PCS members striking against cuts to vital public services. A special invitation is being made to all who are involved in campaigns for welfare claimants. It’s at:
The London Welsh Centre 157-163 Gray's Inn Road WC1X 8UE. Mark Serwotka will be speaking.
Monday, 6 May 2013
Protest meetings, leafleting and demonstrations
Southwark Action Alert 6 May 2013
Come along to these events. Make your voice heard against fire-station and post office closures, against the bedroom tax and threats to the NHS. Please help to spread the word by tweeting or posting this listing on your Facebook page, or help us with leafleting (see below).
EVENTS LIST
Tuesday 7 May
1pm onwards. Leafleting & petitioning against proposed closure/privatisation of Peckham Rye and Lordship Lane East Dulwich post offices. CWU members will be on strike against plans to close or franchise 76 Crown offices - 20% of the network - which would affect over 800 jobs. Details of the dispute from the Communication Workers Union here. Contact Chris Roche (CWU) on 07912 427 140 if you can help.
Tuesday 7 May
Public meeting to discuss the threatened closure of Southwark Fire Station at Queensborough Community Hall, Scovell Rd (off Southwark Bridge Road), SE1 1QF at 7pm. Called by Lant & Bittern Tenants & Residents Association. Open to all.
Wednesday 8 May – Friday 17 May
Various times. Public leafleting to advertise the All-London demonstration to save the NHS on 18 May (see below). Volunteers urgently needed to leaflet at rail stations and shopping centres in Southwark. Write to southwarksos@gmail.com
Saturday 11 May
11am. Second Benefit Justice Summit: To create one national voice to end the war on the poor; to oppose the bedroom tax, cuts in council-tax benefit, ending disability living allowance and other cuts. Venue: Central Hall, Westminster. Video of first BJ Summit is here . More details at http://benefitjustice.wordpress.com or email to benefitjustice@gmail.com
Saturday 11th May
12 noon. Anti-workfare picket outside Poundland in Peckham. Called by SolFed. Details and background here.
Saturday 11 May
4pm. First planning meeting to organise a demonstration "People United Against Austerity" to protest against the international troika and against austerity on 1st of June. Venue: Royal Festival Hall 4th floor. See Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/events/487313571341669/
Monday 13 May
1pm onwards. Turn Up the Heat On British Gas Protest at the AGM of Centrica – parent company of British Gas – at Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, Broad Sanctuary, London, SW1P 3EE Map: http://goo.gl/maps/Vf1rI. More info and background at http://fuelpovertyaction.org.uk/
Tuesday 14 May
6.30pm. London Keep Our NHS Public campaign meeting at Camden Town Hall, Judd Street, WC1H (opposite St Pancras Station).
Tuesday 14 May
7pm. Public Consultation meeting to discuss the proposed closure of 12 fire stations Venue: City Hall, The Queen’s Walk, SE1 2AA. Called by London Fire Brigade. Southwark FBU encourage all concerned residents to attend.
Thursday 16 May
6.30pm. Demonstration - Save Clapham Fire Station. Assemble at Brixton Fire Station on Gresham Road. March to Lambeth Town Hall. Called by London Region Fire Brigades Union. Details at www.facebook.com/SaveClaphamFireStation
Thursday 16 May
7pm. Lambeth Keep Our NHS Public campaign meeting. Venue: Duke of Cambridge pub, 74 Lansdowne Way, SW8 2DR, nr Stockwell Tube. For more details, phone 07913496012. All Southwark KONP supporters urged to attend.
Saturday 18 May
12 noon. London-wide demonstration to Save the NHS. Assemble Jubilee Gardens, Waterloo, SE1. Supported by a wide range of hospital campaigns, health unions, medical staff, MPs, London Labour Party, Green Party. Get your trade union or community organisation to back the call. Mass distribution of leaflets is needed. Contact londonkeepournhspublic@gmail.com for copies or contact Southwark SOS to help with local leafleting.
Wednesday 22 May
7pm. Southwark Save Our Services Campaign organising meeting. Venue: Southbank University London Road Building. (Ask at Reception for Southwark SOS meeting room.) For agenda please contact southwarksos@gmail.com
Thursday 23 May
7pm. Public meeting: The fight against Austerity. Speakers: Kevin Courtney NUT deputy general secretary, Paul Embury, London regional secretary FBU. and Tanya Murat, Southwark Benefits Justice and anti-bedroom tax campaigner. Venue: Karibu Centre, 7 Gresham Rd, Brixton, SW9 7 PH. (Five minutes’ walk from Brixton tube.) Called by South London Unite the Resistance. Contact: southlondonutr@gmail.com
Wednesday 29 May
10.30am. Meeting: The Future of Housing in Southwark. Organised by Southwark Pensioners Forum. Venue: InSpire, Crypt at St. Peter’s, Liverpool Grove SE17 5HH. More information from 020 7708 4556, or write to mail@southwarkpensioners.org.uk or see www.southwarkpensioners.org.uk
Advance notice
Friday 7 June
9am - 4.30pm. Advice sessions: Get a better understanding of your rights and the impact that benefit changes may have on you. Sessions on the debt & budgeting, housing matters, employment, and the Welfare Reforms program. includes session at 2.30pm on Universal Credit and 3.45pm on the bedroom tax. Organised by Blackfriars Advice Centre and Cambridge House Law Centre. Booking a place must be done in advance, posted or dropped into the office at Blackfriars Advice Centre, or ring 020 7358 7000. Venue: Cambridge House, 1 Addington Square, SE5 0HF.
Saturday 15 June
Demonstration against NHS reforms – leafleting constituents of Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt. Assemble at the ramp leading to Lewisham DLR Station at 08.30am for coach to Farnham, Surrey. Details at www.savelewishamhospital.com/the-hunt-for-hunt/ Book your coach ticket or enquiries to savelewishamhospital@yahoo.com
Saturday 22 June
9.30am – 5pm. People's Assembly Against Austerity. Central Hall Westminster, Storey’s Gate, London, SW1H 9NH. Supporting organisations include Unite the Union, PCS, NUT, NUJ, TSSA, Unison, War on Want, Disabled People Against the Cuts, Coalition of Resistance, People’s Charter, Black Activists Rising Against Cuts, the Green Party. Register here.
Saturday 29 June
11am-5pm. Conference ‘March Together - Now Strike Together’. Organised by the National Shop Stewards Network. Speakers include Mark Serwotka, PCS, Billy Hayes, CWU, and Steve Gillan, POA, general secretaries. Venue: Camden Centre, Judd Street, WC1H 9JE. More info at www.shopstewards.net and registration from info@shopstewards.net or phone 07952 283 588.
Wednesday 3 July
7pm. Southwark Council Assembly includes a themed debate on "Welfare Reform". It will be preceded by an hour-long informal session from 6pm and the main business meeting from 7pm. Venue to be announced.
Saturday 6 July
Demonstrations and other festivities to celebrate the NHS 65th birthday. Details to be announced.
OTHER LOCAL CAMPAIGNS:
Fire stations closures campaign information at http://www.saveourstations.org.uk/
Southwark Disabled People Against Cuts meeting meet at Southwark Independent Living Centre, 10 Bradenham Close, SE17 2QB. Details from southwarkdpac@mail.com
Southwark Benefit Justice Campaign
Contact southwarkbenefitjustice@gmail.com and see their Facebook page.
Come along to these events. Make your voice heard against fire-station and post office closures, against the bedroom tax and threats to the NHS. Please help to spread the word by tweeting or posting this listing on your Facebook page, or help us with leafleting (see below).
EVENTS LIST
Tuesday 7 May
1pm onwards. Leafleting & petitioning against proposed closure/privatisation of Peckham Rye and Lordship Lane East Dulwich post offices. CWU members will be on strike against plans to close or franchise 76 Crown offices - 20% of the network - which would affect over 800 jobs. Details of the dispute from the Communication Workers Union here. Contact Chris Roche (CWU) on 07912 427 140 if you can help.
Tuesday 7 May
Public meeting to discuss the threatened closure of Southwark Fire Station at Queensborough Community Hall, Scovell Rd (off Southwark Bridge Road), SE1 1QF at 7pm. Called by Lant & Bittern Tenants & Residents Association. Open to all.
Wednesday 8 May – Friday 17 May
Various times. Public leafleting to advertise the All-London demonstration to save the NHS on 18 May (see below). Volunteers urgently needed to leaflet at rail stations and shopping centres in Southwark. Write to southwarksos@gmail.com
Saturday 11 May
11am. Second Benefit Justice Summit: To create one national voice to end the war on the poor; to oppose the bedroom tax, cuts in council-tax benefit, ending disability living allowance and other cuts. Venue: Central Hall, Westminster. Video of first BJ Summit is here . More details at http://benefitjustice.wordpress.com or email to benefitjustice@gmail.com
Saturday 11th May
12 noon. Anti-workfare picket outside Poundland in Peckham. Called by SolFed. Details and background here.
Saturday 11 May
4pm. First planning meeting to organise a demonstration "People United Against Austerity" to protest against the international troika and against austerity on 1st of June. Venue: Royal Festival Hall 4th floor. See Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/events/487313571341669/
Monday 13 May
1pm onwards. Turn Up the Heat On British Gas Protest at the AGM of Centrica – parent company of British Gas – at Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, Broad Sanctuary, London, SW1P 3EE Map: http://goo.gl/maps/Vf1rI. More info and background at http://fuelpovertyaction.org.uk/
Tuesday 14 May
6.30pm. London Keep Our NHS Public campaign meeting at Camden Town Hall, Judd Street, WC1H (opposite St Pancras Station).
Tuesday 14 May
7pm. Public Consultation meeting to discuss the proposed closure of 12 fire stations Venue: City Hall, The Queen’s Walk, SE1 2AA. Called by London Fire Brigade. Southwark FBU encourage all concerned residents to attend.
Thursday 16 May
6.30pm. Demonstration - Save Clapham Fire Station. Assemble at Brixton Fire Station on Gresham Road. March to Lambeth Town Hall. Called by London Region Fire Brigades Union. Details at www.facebook.com/SaveClaphamFireStation
Thursday 16 May
7pm. Lambeth Keep Our NHS Public campaign meeting. Venue: Duke of Cambridge pub, 74 Lansdowne Way, SW8 2DR, nr Stockwell Tube. For more details, phone 07913496012. All Southwark KONP supporters urged to attend.
Saturday 18 May
12 noon. London-wide demonstration to Save the NHS. Assemble Jubilee Gardens, Waterloo, SE1. Supported by a wide range of hospital campaigns, health unions, medical staff, MPs, London Labour Party, Green Party. Get your trade union or community organisation to back the call. Mass distribution of leaflets is needed. Contact londonkeepournhspublic@gmail.com for copies or contact Southwark SOS to help with local leafleting.
Wednesday 22 May
7pm. Southwark Save Our Services Campaign organising meeting. Venue: Southbank University London Road Building. (Ask at Reception for Southwark SOS meeting room.) For agenda please contact southwarksos@gmail.com
Thursday 23 May
7pm. Public meeting: The fight against Austerity. Speakers: Kevin Courtney NUT deputy general secretary, Paul Embury, London regional secretary FBU. and Tanya Murat, Southwark Benefits Justice and anti-bedroom tax campaigner. Venue: Karibu Centre, 7 Gresham Rd, Brixton, SW9 7 PH. (Five minutes’ walk from Brixton tube.) Called by South London Unite the Resistance. Contact: southlondonutr@gmail.com
Wednesday 29 May
10.30am. Meeting: The Future of Housing in Southwark. Organised by Southwark Pensioners Forum. Venue: InSpire, Crypt at St. Peter’s, Liverpool Grove SE17 5HH. More information from 020 7708 4556, or write to mail@southwarkpensioners.org.uk or see www.southwarkpensioners.org.uk
Advance notice
Friday 7 June
9am - 4.30pm. Advice sessions: Get a better understanding of your rights and the impact that benefit changes may have on you. Sessions on the debt & budgeting, housing matters, employment, and the Welfare Reforms program. includes session at 2.30pm on Universal Credit and 3.45pm on the bedroom tax. Organised by Blackfriars Advice Centre and Cambridge House Law Centre. Booking a place must be done in advance, posted or dropped into the office at Blackfriars Advice Centre, or ring 020 7358 7000. Venue: Cambridge House, 1 Addington Square, SE5 0HF.
Saturday 15 June
Demonstration against NHS reforms – leafleting constituents of Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt. Assemble at the ramp leading to Lewisham DLR Station at 08.30am for coach to Farnham, Surrey. Details at www.savelewishamhospital.com/the-hunt-for-hunt/ Book your coach ticket or enquiries to savelewishamhospital@yahoo.com
Saturday 22 June
9.30am – 5pm. People's Assembly Against Austerity. Central Hall Westminster, Storey’s Gate, London, SW1H 9NH. Supporting organisations include Unite the Union, PCS, NUT, NUJ, TSSA, Unison, War on Want, Disabled People Against the Cuts, Coalition of Resistance, People’s Charter, Black Activists Rising Against Cuts, the Green Party. Register here.
Saturday 29 June
11am-5pm. Conference ‘March Together - Now Strike Together’. Organised by the National Shop Stewards Network. Speakers include Mark Serwotka, PCS, Billy Hayes, CWU, and Steve Gillan, POA, general secretaries. Venue: Camden Centre, Judd Street, WC1H 9JE. More info at www.shopstewards.net and registration from info@shopstewards.net or phone 07952 283 588.
Wednesday 3 July
7pm. Southwark Council Assembly includes a themed debate on "Welfare Reform". It will be preceded by an hour-long informal session from 6pm and the main business meeting from 7pm. Venue to be announced.
Saturday 6 July
Demonstrations and other festivities to celebrate the NHS 65th birthday. Details to be announced.
OTHER LOCAL CAMPAIGNS:
Fire stations closures campaign information at http://www.saveourstations.org.uk/
Southwark Disabled People Against Cuts meeting meet at Southwark Independent Living Centre, 10 Bradenham Close, SE17 2QB. Details from southwarkdpac@mail.com
Southwark Benefit Justice Campaign
Contact southwarkbenefitjustice@gmail.com and see their Facebook page.
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