Southwark Action Alert 8th September 2015
The huge support being offered by ordinary people to the Syrian refugees in the past week is being replicated by many public service providers and NGOs. Given that the inadequate provision of services is the consequence of government policies of austerity and privatisation, this Saturday’s potentially huge demonstration in support of refugees has attracted many campaigners calling for more funding for housing and service provision. Come along and join us!
People from Southwark will be travelling to Manchester on 4th October to demonstrate outside the Tory Conference. (See below) Can your trade union branch/campaign give formal support to the advertising of this TUC event? Or help with costs of hiring transport and selling tickets? Reply to this email to let us know. The facebook event for the coach is here.
Please tweet this listing, link to our website or post on your own Facebook page. Thank you.
EVENTS LIST
Wednesday 9 September
9am -11am. Southwark Day of Action in support of the National Gallery all-out strike against privatisation. Campaigners and trade unionists in Southwark please come to the picket line or send a message of support initially to southwarksos@gmail.com to be taken on the day. For updates visit the strike Facebook page here.
Friday, 11 September
11am. Leafleting on the Aylesbury Estate for the Housing Rights, Human Rights Film night (see 19 Sept. below). Meet Thurlow Lodge, TRA, Corner of Thurlow Street and Albany Road. Organised by Southwark Defend Council Housing campaign.
aturday 12 September
12noon. Demonstration - Refugees welcome here! Housing campaigners and those against cuts to public services will be marching together at this demonstration in solidarity with refugees. Called by a wide range of refugee support groups, anti-cuts groups and others. Details here. Assemble Marble Arch/Park Lane 12noon. Southwark campaigners and friends meet 11.45am at Elephant & Castle (outside the Metropolitan Tabernacle, opp. the shopping centre).
Sunday 13 September
Rally and lobby of the TUC Congress in Brighton, calling on the TUC and the unions to organise a midweek demonstration on the day that the Tories bring their Trade Union Bill to Parliament and to prepare for mass co-ordinated strike action if it is passed. (Venue: Charlotte Room in the Grand Hotel 97-99 King’s Rd BN1 2FW, next to the Brighton conference Centre). Email info@shopstewards.net if you want to attend and need transport. More info at http://shopstewards.net/activate/events/
Tuesday 15 September
7pm. Public meeting - What Next for the Fight Against Austerity? How can the public mood around the migrant crisis and the response to Corbyn's leadership campaign translate into the death of the austerity agenda? Venue: New Cross Learning, 283 - 285 New Cross Road SE14 6AS. With Lindsey German (People's Assembly, Stop the War, Counterfire) Organised by South East London People's Assembly.
Wednesday 16 September
9am -11am. Southwark Day of Action in support of the National Gallery all-out strike against privatisation. Campaigners and trade unionists in Southwark: please come to the picket line or send a message of support initially to southwarksos@gmail.com to be taken on the day. For updates visit the strike Facebook page here.
Wednesday 16 September
10am–6pm. Fast Food Rights National Organising Day for fast food workers, union activists and community campaigners to find out more about the Fast Food Rights campaign. Organised by the Baker’s Union. Venue: TUC, Great Russell Street, London.
Saturday 19th September
7.30pm Housing Rights, Human Rights Film night, includes a film by Simon Hanna about the fight against social cleansing and the destruction of council housing in Southwark, and seven days in the Barcelona anti-eviction movement that has inspired people everywhere to fight for their homes. Venue: Tiendas Del Sur, 91–95, Newington Butts, Elephant & Castle SE1 6SF. Event supported by: South London People's Assembly Against Austerity, London Mexico Solidarity, Southwark Defend Council Housing.
Tuesday 29 September
7pm. 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. More information from southwarkdch@gmail.com
ADVANCE NOTICE
Sunday 4 October
7am. Coaches depart Southwark to the TUC’s national demonstration at the Tory Party Conference, Manchester. Initial details here. If you want to go, contact secretary@southlondonpa.org to find out about times and tickets. Can your trade union branch/campaign support and advertise this event, or send a donation to help with cost of coach hire? Reply to this email or write to secretary@southlondonpa.org
3-8th October
A week of protests and action at the Tory party conference. Organised by the People’s Assembly and other supporting organisations. See here for details.
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.
Defend Lewisham Southwark College campaign The governors have voted to sell-off the Camberwell campus and a separate proposal by Southwark Council, published last month, is to take over the parts of the buildings that formed Southwark College before it merged with Lewisham in 2012.The Camberwell site is used by about 300 students - who mostly do ESOL classes and basic numeracy and some Job Centre plus courses. Contact savelscollege@gmail.com for more info or to join the mailing list. Campaign Facebook page here. You can download the latest proposal from Southwark Council here.
Keep Our NHS Public meet monthly (except in August) 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. Find out more here or contact londonplaycampaign@gmail.com
information and to get involved, contact Nick on: 020 7467 1283 or 07530 001653, or email nickplus007@gmail.com. Facebook page here.
Save Lewisham Hospital
There is an indication that Lewisham Hospital may be under threat again. a petition online has been launched. For more information, click here. For the petition, click 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 organising meetings are held monthly at Bread & Roses pub, 68 Clapham Manor St, London SW4 6DZ. More information from secretary@southlondonpa.org. SLPA facebook here.
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 meets 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.
Southwark Disabled People Against Cuts can be contacted at Southwark Independent Living Centre, 10 Bradenham Close, SE17 2QB or by emailing southwarkdpac@mail.com
Monday, 14 September 2015
Thursday, 20 August 2015
Health services under the axe!
Southwark Action Alert 16th August 2015
You don’t need to look far to see the scale of cuts people in Southwark are facing: Public health funding in south London will be cut by £40 million from next January; King’s College Foundation Trust is estimating an £86million shortfall in this financial year, threatening job losses and a deteriorating service. And health is supposed to be a ‘protected’ area of government spending!
These are all reasons for joining people from Southwark who will be travelling to Manchester on 4th October to demonstrate outside the Tory Conference. (See below) Can your trade union branch/campaign give formal support to the advertising of this TUC event? Or help with costs of hiring transport and selling tickets? Reply to this email to let us know.
EVENTS LIST
Tuesday 18 August
7.15am to 9.30am. Protest against fare rises and calling for an affordable railway under public ownership. At Waterloo station, outside Exit 5, ‘Victory Arch’. Called by Action For Rail Campaign. See more here.
Wednesday 19 August
9am onwards. Southwark Day of Action in support of the National Gallery all-out strike against privatisation. Campaigners and trade unionists in Southwark please come to the picket line or send a message of support initially to southwarksos@gmail.com to be taken on the day. Strikers will help adapt a suitable painting from the National Gallery collection to help publicise our solidarity. For updates visit the strike Facebook page ‘No Privatisation at The National Gallery’.
Saturday 22 August
4pm – 7pm. Meeting of Aylesbury Tenants and Leaseholders First, inviting residents and friends to discuss what is happening on the estate and listen to people who have been displaced by Council’s previous demolitions. Venue: Pembroke House, 80 Tatum Street SE17 1QR. Email: aylesburytenant@yahoo.co.uk or call: 07476532632.
ADVANCE NOTICE
Sunday 13 September
Rally and lobby of the TUC Congress in Brighton, calling on the TUC and the unions to organise a midweek demonstration on the day that the Tories bring their Trade Union Bill to Parliament and to prepare for mass co-ordinated strike action if it is passed. (Venue: Charlotte Room in the Grand Hotel 97-99 King’s Rd BN1 2FW , next to the Brighton conference Centre). Email info@shopstewards.net if you want to attend and need transport. More info at http://shopstewards.net/activate/events/
Saturday 19th September
7.30pm Housing Rights, Human Rights Film night, includes a film by Simon Hanna about the fight against social cleansing and the destruction of council housing in Southwark, and seven days in the Barcelona anti-eviction movement that has inspired people everywhere to fight for their homes. Venue: Tiendas Del Sur, 91–95, Newington Butts, Elephant & Castle SE1 6SF. Event supported by: South London People's Assembly Against Austerity, London Mexico Solidarity, Southwark Defend Council Housing.
Tuesday 29 September
7pm. 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. More information from southwarkdch@gmail.com
Sunday 4 October
7am. Coaches depart Southwark to the TUC’s national demonstration at the Tory Party Conference, Manchester.See details here. If you want to go, reply to this email to find out about times and tickets. Can your trade union branch/campaign support and advertise this event, or send a donation to help with cost of coach hire? Reply to this email or write to secretary@southlondonpa.org
3-8th October
A week of protests and action at the Tory party conference. Organised by the People’s Assembly and other supporting organisations. See above for details.
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.
Defend Lewisham Southwark College campaign The governors have voted to sell-off the Camberwell campus and a separate proposal by Southwark Council, published last month, is to take over the parts of the buildings that formed Southwark College before it merged with Lewisham in 2012.The Camberwell site is used by about 300 students - who mostly do ESOL classes and basic numeracy and some Job Centre plus courses. Contact savelscollege@gmail.com for more info or to join the mailing list. Campaign Facebook page ‘Defend Lewisham Southwark College’. You can download the latest proposal from Southwark Council’s website.
Keep Our NHS Public meet monthly (except in August) 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. Find out more here or 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.
Save Lewisham Hospital
There is an indication that Lewisham Hospital may be under threat again. a petition online has been launched. For more information, click here. For the petition, click 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.
South London People’s Assembly organising meetings are held 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 meets 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.
Southwark Disabled People Against Cuts can be contacted at Southwark Independent Living Centre, 10 Bradenham Close, SE17 2QB or by emailing southwarkdpac@mail.com
You don’t need to look far to see the scale of cuts people in Southwark are facing: Public health funding in south London will be cut by £40 million from next January; King’s College Foundation Trust is estimating an £86million shortfall in this financial year, threatening job losses and a deteriorating service. And health is supposed to be a ‘protected’ area of government spending!
These are all reasons for joining people from Southwark who will be travelling to Manchester on 4th October to demonstrate outside the Tory Conference. (See below) Can your trade union branch/campaign give formal support to the advertising of this TUC event? Or help with costs of hiring transport and selling tickets? Reply to this email to let us know.
EVENTS LIST
Tuesday 18 August
7.15am to 9.30am. Protest against fare rises and calling for an affordable railway under public ownership. At Waterloo station, outside Exit 5, ‘Victory Arch’. Called by Action For Rail Campaign. See more here.
Wednesday 19 August
9am onwards. Southwark Day of Action in support of the National Gallery all-out strike against privatisation. Campaigners and trade unionists in Southwark please come to the picket line or send a message of support initially to southwarksos@gmail.com to be taken on the day. Strikers will help adapt a suitable painting from the National Gallery collection to help publicise our solidarity. For updates visit the strike Facebook page ‘No Privatisation at The National Gallery’.
Saturday 22 August
4pm – 7pm. Meeting of Aylesbury Tenants and Leaseholders First, inviting residents and friends to discuss what is happening on the estate and listen to people who have been displaced by Council’s previous demolitions. Venue: Pembroke House, 80 Tatum Street SE17 1QR. Email: aylesburytenant@yahoo.co.uk or call: 07476532632.
ADVANCE NOTICE
Sunday 13 September
Rally and lobby of the TUC Congress in Brighton, calling on the TUC and the unions to organise a midweek demonstration on the day that the Tories bring their Trade Union Bill to Parliament and to prepare for mass co-ordinated strike action if it is passed. (Venue: Charlotte Room in the Grand Hotel 97-99 King’s Rd BN1 2FW , next to the Brighton conference Centre). Email info@shopstewards.net if you want to attend and need transport. More info at http://shopstewards.net/activate/events/
Saturday 19th September
7.30pm Housing Rights, Human Rights Film night, includes a film by Simon Hanna about the fight against social cleansing and the destruction of council housing in Southwark, and seven days in the Barcelona anti-eviction movement that has inspired people everywhere to fight for their homes. Venue: Tiendas Del Sur, 91–95, Newington Butts, Elephant & Castle SE1 6SF. Event supported by: South London People's Assembly Against Austerity, London Mexico Solidarity, Southwark Defend Council Housing.
Tuesday 29 September
7pm. 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. More information from southwarkdch@gmail.com
Sunday 4 October
7am. Coaches depart Southwark to the TUC’s national demonstration at the Tory Party Conference, Manchester.See details here. If you want to go, reply to this email to find out about times and tickets. Can your trade union branch/campaign support and advertise this event, or send a donation to help with cost of coach hire? Reply to this email or write to secretary@southlondonpa.org
3-8th October
A week of protests and action at the Tory party conference. Organised by the People’s Assembly and other supporting organisations. See above for details.
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.
Defend Lewisham Southwark College campaign The governors have voted to sell-off the Camberwell campus and a separate proposal by Southwark Council, published last month, is to take over the parts of the buildings that formed Southwark College before it merged with Lewisham in 2012.The Camberwell site is used by about 300 students - who mostly do ESOL classes and basic numeracy and some Job Centre plus courses. Contact savelscollege@gmail.com for more info or to join the mailing list. Campaign Facebook page ‘Defend Lewisham Southwark College’. You can download the latest proposal from Southwark Council’s website.
Keep Our NHS Public meet monthly (except in August) 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. Find out more here or 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.
Save Lewisham Hospital
There is an indication that Lewisham Hospital may be under threat again. a petition online has been launched. For more information, click here. For the petition, click 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.
South London People’s Assembly organising meetings are held 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 meets 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.
Southwark Disabled People Against Cuts can be contacted at Southwark Independent Living Centre, 10 Bradenham Close, SE17 2QB or by emailing southwarkdpac@mail.com
Sunday, 26 July 2015
Southwark Will Suffer
Southwark Action Alert 21 July 2015
The new government’s austerity plans will have a huge impact on Southwark: cuts to welfare will worsen poverty, imposition of a new Right to Buy will compound the housing crisis, cuts and closures will decimate further education, the abolition of grants will increase student debt. These are all reasons for joining people from Southwark who will be travelling to Manchester on 4th October to demonstrate outside the Tory Conference. (See below) Can your trade union branch/campaign give formal support to the advertising of this event? Or help with costs of hiring transport and selling tickets? Reply to this email to let us know.
Please tweet this listing, link to our website or post on your own Facebook page. Thank you.
EVENTS LIST
Saturday 25 July
12-1pm. Benefit Justice stall petitioning against the benefit cuts. Venue: Outside Boots on Rye Lane. On top of the cuts to disability benefits, working tax credits, the continuation of the bedroom tax and other brutal cuts the reduction of the benefit cap to £23,000 will mean that another 500 families in Southwark may now be forced to move away from their friends, families and communities, many out of London.
Tuesday 28 July
7pm. 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. More information from southwarkdch@gmail.com
Wednesday 29 July
Reviewing and Resisting the Trade Union Bill public meeting, 6pm Mander Hall, NUT, Marbledon Place WC1 9BD
Representatives from the TUC, FBU, RMT, PCS, UNITE, UNISON and ASLEF, have already agreed to join with IER experts John Hendy and Keith Ewing, together with MPs and others to determine what steps the labour movement needs to take to expose the unfair and undemocratic nature of the government’s proposals.
See http://www.tradeunionfreedom.co.uk/reviewing-resisting-the-trade-union-bill/
ADVANCE NOTICE
Sunday 13 September
Rally and lobby of the TUC Congress in Brighton, calling on the TUC and the unions to organise a midweek demonstration on the day that the Tories bring their Trade Union Bill to Parliament and to prepare for mass co-ordinated strike action if it is passed. (Venue: Charlotte Room in the Grand Hotel 97-99 King’s Rd BN1 2FW , next to the Brighton conference Centre). Email info@shopstewards.net if you want to attend and need transport. More info at http://shopstewards.net/activate/events/
Sunday 4 October
National Demonstration at the Tory Party Conference, Manchester. Called by the TUC and the People’s Assembly. Details will follow. Can your trade union branch/campaign give formal support to the advertising of this event? Or help with costs of hiring transport and selling tickets? Reply to this email or write to secretary@southlondonpa.org
4-8th October
A week of protests and action at the Tory party conference. Organised by the People’s Assembly and other supporting organisations. See here for details.
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
Defend Lewisham Southwark College campaign 312 jobs have been at risk. The Camberwell will be closed at the end of July and sold off for approx.. £5m. The site is used by about 300 students - who mostly do ESOL classes and basic numeracy and some Job Centre plus courses. Contact savelscollege@gmail.com for more info or to join the mailing list. Campaign Facebook page here. You can download the latest proposal from Southwark Council here.
Keep Our NHS Public meet monthly (except in August) 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. Find out more here or 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.
Save Lewisham Hospital
There is an indication that Lewisham Hospital may be under threat again. a petition online has been launched. For more information, click here. For the petition, click 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 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 meets 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.
Southwark Disabled People Against Cuts can be contacted at Southwark Independent Living Centre, 10 Bradenham Close, SE17 2QB or by emailing southwarkdpac@mail.com
The new government’s austerity plans will have a huge impact on Southwark: cuts to welfare will worsen poverty, imposition of a new Right to Buy will compound the housing crisis, cuts and closures will decimate further education, the abolition of grants will increase student debt. These are all reasons for joining people from Southwark who will be travelling to Manchester on 4th October to demonstrate outside the Tory Conference. (See below) Can your trade union branch/campaign give formal support to the advertising of this event? Or help with costs of hiring transport and selling tickets? Reply to this email to let us know.
Please tweet this listing, link to our website or post on your own Facebook page. Thank you.
EVENTS LIST
Saturday 25 July
12-1pm. Benefit Justice stall petitioning against the benefit cuts. Venue: Outside Boots on Rye Lane. On top of the cuts to disability benefits, working tax credits, the continuation of the bedroom tax and other brutal cuts the reduction of the benefit cap to £23,000 will mean that another 500 families in Southwark may now be forced to move away from their friends, families and communities, many out of London.
Tuesday 28 July
7pm. 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. More information from southwarkdch@gmail.com
Wednesday 29 July
Reviewing and Resisting the Trade Union Bill public meeting, 6pm Mander Hall, NUT, Marbledon Place WC1 9BD
Representatives from the TUC, FBU, RMT, PCS, UNITE, UNISON and ASLEF, have already agreed to join with IER experts John Hendy and Keith Ewing, together with MPs and others to determine what steps the labour movement needs to take to expose the unfair and undemocratic nature of the government’s proposals.
See http://www.tradeunionfreedom.co.uk/reviewing-resisting-the-trade-union-bill/
ADVANCE NOTICE
Sunday 13 September
Rally and lobby of the TUC Congress in Brighton, calling on the TUC and the unions to organise a midweek demonstration on the day that the Tories bring their Trade Union Bill to Parliament and to prepare for mass co-ordinated strike action if it is passed. (Venue: Charlotte Room in the Grand Hotel 97-99 King’s Rd BN1 2FW , next to the Brighton conference Centre). Email info@shopstewards.net if you want to attend and need transport. More info at http://shopstewards.net/activate/events/
Sunday 4 October
National Demonstration at the Tory Party Conference, Manchester. Called by the TUC and the People’s Assembly. Details will follow. Can your trade union branch/campaign give formal support to the advertising of this event? Or help with costs of hiring transport and selling tickets? Reply to this email or write to secretary@southlondonpa.org
4-8th October
A week of protests and action at the Tory party conference. Organised by the People’s Assembly and other supporting organisations. See here for details.
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
Defend Lewisham Southwark College campaign 312 jobs have been at risk. The Camberwell will be closed at the end of July and sold off for approx.. £5m. The site is used by about 300 students - who mostly do ESOL classes and basic numeracy and some Job Centre plus courses. Contact savelscollege@gmail.com for more info or to join the mailing list. Campaign Facebook page here. You can download the latest proposal from Southwark Council here.
Keep Our NHS Public meet monthly (except in August) 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. Find out more here or 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.
Save Lewisham Hospital
There is an indication that Lewisham Hospital may be under threat again. a petition online has been launched. For more information, click here. For the petition, click 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 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 meets 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.
Southwark Disabled People Against Cuts can be contacted at Southwark Independent Living Centre, 10 Bradenham Close, SE17 2QB or by emailing southwarkdpac@mail.com
Monday, 15 June 2015
Southwark Action Alert 11th June 2015
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.
Monday, 25 May 2015
Protests, petitioning and leafleting – it’s time to get involved!
Southwark Action Alert 25th May 2015
More than 60,000 people have already said they will attend the People’s Assembly March Against Austerity next month. Southwark campaigners will be meeting up at Elephant and Castle and going up together to the Bank of England assembly point. There’s a local planning meeting this week and more leafleting this weekend. Contact details are below, if you can help.
See details below about two strikes coming soon in south London that need your support: at Lewisham and Southwark College and at the Globe Theatre.
Various protests, petitioning and leafleting sessions are happening this weekend. Whether you feel strongly about one campaign or are just fearful of five more years of government cuts and austerity, now’s the time to get involved!
***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
Tuesday 26 May
6.30-7.30. South London People’s Assembly planning meeting to build the June 20 anti-austerity demonstration. Meet at Bread and Roses, 68 Clapham Manor St, SW4 6DZ (in the garden room at the back). All welcome. If you've never come along before, now is the time! Flyers and posters will be available to take away. Meeting Facebook event here. Demo Facebook event here. More information from secretary@southlondonpa.org
Tuesday 26 May
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
Wednesday 27 May
5:30pm. Protest on day of the Queen’s Speech; End Austerity Now! Assemble: Downing Street, then at 6.30 march to rally at 7pm, Emmanuel Centre, Marsham Street, Westminster SW1P 3DW. Called by the People’s Assembly. More details here.
Friday 29 May
6pm-7pm. Aylesbury Estate petitioning on Wendover 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.
Saturday 30 May
12noon to 1pm. Petitioning against demolition of council homes (to be presented to the Council in July). Outside Morrison’s, Walworth Road, Opposite East Street SE17. Organised by Southwark Defend Council Housing campaign.
Saturday 30 May
1pm, Demonstrate in support of the campaign against the privatisation of the National Gallery and reinstatement of sacked Senior PCS rep Candy Udwin. (Members are also on strike again from 26 May to 4 June). Called by national PCS and supported by People’s Assembly. Come along and bring workmates and friends. Facebook event here. Strike info at http://bit.ly/NGrallyM30
Saturday 30 May
Various times. Leafleting to publicise the People’s Assembly demonstration on 20 June. (See below). To find out where your nearest leafleting point will be, contact secretary@southlondonpa.org
Sunday 31 May
4pm-5pm. Aylesbury Estate petitioning on Wendover 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.
Monday 1 June
8.30am - 3pm. Come to support Globe Theatre workers who are striking in a dispute over pay, at their picket line. Workers are members of BECTU trade union. Background info here. If you can’t come, send a message of support to the strikers via southwarksos@gmail.com
Thursday 4 June
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.
Friday 5 June
6.30 pm. Defend Lewisham Southwark College campaign meeting in Room 150 Goldsmiths University, Main Building. (See information above about the threat to FE in South East London). Come along, or contact savelscollege@gmail.com for more info or to join the mailing list.
Wednesday 10 June
7pm. Public meeting about the cuts to Lewisham Southwark College. (See above). Venue: St Giles' Church, Camberwell, SE5 8RB. The campaign is asking for volunteers to help with leafleting and other publicity. Contact savelscollege@gmail.com
ADVANCE NOTICE
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
Saturday 20 June
12noon. National Demonstration and festival: END AUSTERITY NOW - the message to the new Tory government. Assemble 12pm, Bank of England (Queen Victoria St) City of London. Nearest tube: Bank. Southwark meeting point: outside Metropolitan Tabernacle opp. Elephant & Castle Rail Station. Called by the People’s Assembly. Weblink here. Share & invite your friends on Facebook.
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.
Lambeth Keep Our NHS Public organising 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 the 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.
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.
Southwark Disabled People Against Cuts can be contacted at Southwark Independent Living Centre, 10 Bradenham Close, SE17 2QB or by emailing southwarkdpac@mail.com
More than 60,000 people have already said they will attend the People’s Assembly March Against Austerity next month. Southwark campaigners will be meeting up at Elephant and Castle and going up together to the Bank of England assembly point. There’s a local planning meeting this week and more leafleting this weekend. Contact details are below, if you can help.
See details below about two strikes coming soon in south London that need your support: at Lewisham and Southwark College and at the Globe Theatre.
Various protests, petitioning and leafleting sessions are happening this weekend. Whether you feel strongly about one campaign or are just fearful of five more years of government cuts and austerity, now’s the time to get involved!
***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
Tuesday 26 May
6.30-7.30. South London People’s Assembly planning meeting to build the June 20 anti-austerity demonstration. Meet at Bread and Roses, 68 Clapham Manor St, SW4 6DZ (in the garden room at the back). All welcome. If you've never come along before, now is the time! Flyers and posters will be available to take away. Meeting Facebook event here. Demo Facebook event here. More information from secretary@southlondonpa.org
Tuesday 26 May
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
Wednesday 27 May
5:30pm. Protest on day of the Queen’s Speech; End Austerity Now! Assemble: Downing Street, then at 6.30 march to rally at 7pm, Emmanuel Centre, Marsham Street, Westminster SW1P 3DW. Called by the People’s Assembly. More details here.
Friday 29 May
6pm-7pm. Aylesbury Estate petitioning on Wendover 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.
Saturday 30 May
12noon to 1pm. Petitioning against demolition of council homes (to be presented to the Council in July). Outside Morrison’s, Walworth Road, Opposite East Street SE17. Organised by Southwark Defend Council Housing campaign.
Saturday 30 May
1pm, Demonstrate in support of the campaign against the privatisation of the National Gallery and reinstatement of sacked Senior PCS rep Candy Udwin. (Members are also on strike again from 26 May to 4 June). Called by national PCS and supported by People’s Assembly. Come along and bring workmates and friends. Facebook event here. Strike info at http://bit.ly/NGrallyM30
Saturday 30 May
Various times. Leafleting to publicise the People’s Assembly demonstration on 20 June. (See below). To find out where your nearest leafleting point will be, contact secretary@southlondonpa.org
Sunday 31 May
4pm-5pm. Aylesbury Estate petitioning on Wendover 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.
Monday 1 June
8.30am - 3pm. Come to support Globe Theatre workers who are striking in a dispute over pay, at their picket line. Workers are members of BECTU trade union. Background info here. If you can’t come, send a message of support to the strikers via southwarksos@gmail.com
Thursday 4 June
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.
Friday 5 June
6.30 pm. Defend Lewisham Southwark College campaign meeting in Room 150 Goldsmiths University, Main Building. (See information above about the threat to FE in South East London). Come along, or contact savelscollege@gmail.com for more info or to join the mailing list.
Wednesday 10 June
7pm. Public meeting about the cuts to Lewisham Southwark College. (See above). Venue: St Giles' Church, Camberwell, SE5 8RB. The campaign is asking for volunteers to help with leafleting and other publicity. Contact savelscollege@gmail.com
ADVANCE NOTICE
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
Saturday 20 June
12noon. National Demonstration and festival: END AUSTERITY NOW - the message to the new Tory government. Assemble 12pm, Bank of England (Queen Victoria St) City of London. Nearest tube: Bank. Southwark meeting point: outside Metropolitan Tabernacle opp. Elephant & Castle Rail Station. Called by the People’s Assembly. Weblink here. Share & invite your friends on Facebook.
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.
Lambeth Keep Our NHS Public organising 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 the 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.
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.
Southwark Disabled People Against Cuts can be contacted at Southwark Independent Living Centre, 10 Bradenham Close, SE17 2QB or by emailing southwarkdpac@mail.com
Tuesday, 12 May 2015
Shocked & depressed by the election result? Opposition has already started in Southwark
12th May 2015
The election result is a bitter blow to all of us campaigning for public services, decent benefits & welfare provision. But the stakes are too high for us to roll over and accept £12 billion of welfare cuts, privatisation and job losses.
During the past five days, forty thousand people have signed in on Facebook to attend the anti-austerity demonstration on 20th June (details below). This is a sign of the opposition the government can expect. Locally too, there are campaigns than need your help.
Lewisham and Southwark College has been singled out by the Tories for the harshest cuts of any Further Education College in the country. 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.
EVENTS LIST
Tuesday 12 May
10am. Aylesbury CPO Inquiry - Southwark Council is trying to compulsorily purchase housing to make way for luxury housing built by Barratt homes. Venue: Millwall Conference Centre, the New Den, Zampa Road,SE16 3LN. (Map) Come along and join the campaigners. Find out more here.
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.
Wednesday 13 May
7pm Southwark Trades Council meeting Main item: how local unions can work together to respond to the upcoming attacks, at 160 Tooley Street (Room GO3). 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, or just come along on Wednesday.
Friday 15th May
6.30 pm. Defend Lewisham Southwark College campaign meeting in Room 150 Goldsmiths University, Main Building. (See information above about the threat to FE in South East London). Come along, or contact savelscollege@gmail.com for more info or to join the mailing list.
Tuesday 19 May
4.45- 5.45pm. Demonstration against massive cuts at Lewisham Southwark College, including closure of the Camberwell site. Assemble outside the Lewisham Way site to lobby the governors.
Thursday 21 May
7.30 pm onwards. Fundraiser for the ‘Defend Lewisham Southwark College campaign and strike at the Amersham Arms, 388 New Cross Rd, SE14 6TY. Acts: ONE JAH (formed at Lewisham College) / COLIN SAMURAI / STEVE MORRISON / TRACKHORSE / CERI JAMES and The Three Fifths. MIKUS Dub DJ and PAT LYONS Master of Ceremonies. Facebook event here.
Thursday 21 May
7pm. Lambeth Keep Our NHS Public organising meeting 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 the Lambeth group to find out about local activity. The group have a new Facebook page at www.facebook.com/LambethKONP.
Tuesday 26 May
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. More information from southwarkdch@gmail.com
ADVANCE NOTICE
Wednesday 10th June
7pm. Public meeting about the cuts to Lewisham Southwark College. (See above). Venue and details tbc. The campaign is asking for volunteers to help with leafleting and other publicity. Contact savelscollege@gmail.com
Saturday 20 June
National Demonstration and festival: END AUSTERITY NOW - the message to the new Tory government. Assemble 12pm, Bank of England (Queen Victoria St) City of London. Nearest tube: Bank. Called by the People’s Assembly. Weblink here. Share & invite your friends on Facebook
The election result is a bitter blow to all of us campaigning for public services, decent benefits & welfare provision. But the stakes are too high for us to roll over and accept £12 billion of welfare cuts, privatisation and job losses.
During the past five days, forty thousand people have signed in on Facebook to attend the anti-austerity demonstration on 20th June (details below). This is a sign of the opposition the government can expect. Locally too, there are campaigns than need your help.
Lewisham and Southwark College has been singled out by the Tories for the harshest cuts of any Further Education College in the country. 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.
EVENTS LIST
Tuesday 12 May
10am. Aylesbury CPO Inquiry - Southwark Council is trying to compulsorily purchase housing to make way for luxury housing built by Barratt homes. Venue: Millwall Conference Centre, the New Den, Zampa Road,SE16 3LN. (Map) Come along and join the campaigners. Find out more here.
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.
Wednesday 13 May
7pm Southwark Trades Council meeting Main item: how local unions can work together to respond to the upcoming attacks, at 160 Tooley Street (Room GO3). 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, or just come along on Wednesday.
Friday 15th May
6.30 pm. Defend Lewisham Southwark College campaign meeting in Room 150 Goldsmiths University, Main Building. (See information above about the threat to FE in South East London). Come along, or contact savelscollege@gmail.com for more info or to join the mailing list.
Tuesday 19 May
4.45- 5.45pm. Demonstration against massive cuts at Lewisham Southwark College, including closure of the Camberwell site. Assemble outside the Lewisham Way site to lobby the governors.
Thursday 21 May
7.30 pm onwards. Fundraiser for the ‘Defend Lewisham Southwark College campaign and strike at the Amersham Arms, 388 New Cross Rd, SE14 6TY. Acts: ONE JAH (formed at Lewisham College) / COLIN SAMURAI / STEVE MORRISON / TRACKHORSE / CERI JAMES and The Three Fifths. MIKUS Dub DJ and PAT LYONS Master of Ceremonies. Facebook event here.
Thursday 21 May
7pm. Lambeth Keep Our NHS Public organising meeting 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 the Lambeth group to find out about local activity. The group have a new Facebook page at www.facebook.com/LambethKONP.
Tuesday 26 May
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. More information from southwarkdch@gmail.com
ADVANCE NOTICE
Wednesday 10th June
7pm. Public meeting about the cuts to Lewisham Southwark College. (See above). Venue and details tbc. The campaign is asking for volunteers to help with leafleting and other publicity. Contact savelscollege@gmail.com
Saturday 20 June
National Demonstration and festival: END AUSTERITY NOW - the message to the new Tory government. Assemble 12pm, Bank of England (Queen Victoria St) City of London. Nearest tube: Bank. Called by the People’s Assembly. Weblink here. Share & invite your friends on Facebook
Monday, 27 April 2015
Campaign and Vote - against cuts and austerity
Southwark Action Alert 26th April 2015
The NHS and housing are two issues that local campaigns are organising protests about this month.
Watch out for an electoral voice against cuts and austerity: hustings are a great opportunity to challenge those parties committed to cuts and austerity, and to hear from those candidates who are opposed to them. Details are shown below. If you know of hustings that aren’t listed, please email back to give us information about them.
***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
Tuesday 28 April
10am. Aylesbury CPO Inquiry - Southwark Council is trying to compulsorily purchase housing to make way for luxury housing built by Barratt homes. The schedule has not yet been produced, but first two days are likely to be Southwark Council presenting its case, with objectors following on third day. Venue: Millwall Conference Centre, the New Den, Zampa Road,SE16 3LN. Come along and join the campaigners. Find out more here.
Tuesday 28 April
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. More information from southwarkdch@gmail.com
Wednesday 29 April
7pm. Hustings / Question Time for Dulwich and West Norwood constituency at The Portico Gallery, 23a Knights Hill, SE27 0HS. Organised by Norwood Forum. Email: info@norwoodforum.org
Thursday 30 April
7.30pm. Hustings for Camberwell & Peckham Constituency. Chaired by Zoe Williams, author and Guardian columnist. Venue: the Peckham Liberal Club, 24 Elm Grove London SE15 5DE. Twitter @CP_hustings; Facebook at http://on.fb.me/1Hdaouc.
Thursday 30 April
10am - 12.30pm. '7 days to Save the NHS' protest. Outside Dept of Health. For more information phone 07841181656 or email rehana.azam@gmb.org.uk
5.30pm. Hands Off Our Pay: Healthworkers’ protest against planned attacks to unsocial hours pay outside St Thomas's Hospital main entrance, Westminster Road SE1 7EH. Supported by UNITE the Union. Flyer here. Facebook page here.
Saturday 2 May
12noon. Demonstration - Bring Back the NHS: a public service, open to everybody and free at the point of use. Opposition to closure of services in the Maudsley. Organised by Southwark Pensioners Action Group. Assemble outside King’s College Hospital. (If you are free at 9.30 on Friday 1 May at 9.30 come to the pensioners centre and help make some placards.)
7.30pm. Hustings for Bermondsey and Old Southwark constituency. Venue: St James Bermondsey, Thurland Road SE16. Organised by Christians for Transformation in Bermondsey and Rotherhithe (C4T) but open to all. Details here.
ADVANCE NOTICE
Thursday 21 May
7pm. Lambeth Keep Our NHS Public organising meeting 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 the Lambeth group to find out about local activity. The group have a new Facebook page at www.facebook.com/LambethKONP.
Saturday 20 June
National Demonstration and festival: END AUSTERITY NOW in London, just six weeks after the general election, the message to the new government will be to end austerity. Called by the People’s Assembly. Weblink 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. If you can help, contact southwarkdch@gmail.com or phone 07792 786 192. Website: www.defendcouncilhousing.org.uk/dch. Facebook page: click here.
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.
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 Disabled People Against Cuts meet at Southwark Independent Living Centre, 10 Bradenham Close, SE17 2QB. Details from southwarkdpac@mail.com
The NHS and housing are two issues that local campaigns are organising protests about this month.
Watch out for an electoral voice against cuts and austerity: hustings are a great opportunity to challenge those parties committed to cuts and austerity, and to hear from those candidates who are opposed to them. Details are shown below. If you know of hustings that aren’t listed, please email back to give us information about them.
***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
Tuesday 28 April
10am. Aylesbury CPO Inquiry - Southwark Council is trying to compulsorily purchase housing to make way for luxury housing built by Barratt homes. The schedule has not yet been produced, but first two days are likely to be Southwark Council presenting its case, with objectors following on third day. Venue: Millwall Conference Centre, the New Den, Zampa Road,SE16 3LN. Come along and join the campaigners. Find out more here.
Tuesday 28 April
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. More information from southwarkdch@gmail.com
Wednesday 29 April
7pm. Hustings / Question Time for Dulwich and West Norwood constituency at The Portico Gallery, 23a Knights Hill, SE27 0HS. Organised by Norwood Forum. Email: info@norwoodforum.org
Thursday 30 April
7.30pm. Hustings for Camberwell & Peckham Constituency. Chaired by Zoe Williams, author and Guardian columnist. Venue: the Peckham Liberal Club, 24 Elm Grove London SE15 5DE. Twitter @CP_hustings; Facebook at http://on.fb.me/1Hdaouc.
Thursday 30 April
10am - 12.30pm. '7 days to Save the NHS' protest. Outside Dept of Health. For more information phone 07841181656 or email rehana.azam@gmb.org.uk
5.30pm. Hands Off Our Pay: Healthworkers’ protest against planned attacks to unsocial hours pay outside St Thomas's Hospital main entrance, Westminster Road SE1 7EH. Supported by UNITE the Union. Flyer here. Facebook page here.
Saturday 2 May
12noon. Demonstration - Bring Back the NHS: a public service, open to everybody and free at the point of use. Opposition to closure of services in the Maudsley. Organised by Southwark Pensioners Action Group. Assemble outside King’s College Hospital. (If you are free at 9.30 on Friday 1 May at 9.30 come to the pensioners centre and help make some placards.)
7.30pm. Hustings for Bermondsey and Old Southwark constituency. Venue: St James Bermondsey, Thurland Road SE16. Organised by Christians for Transformation in Bermondsey and Rotherhithe (C4T) but open to all. Details here.
ADVANCE NOTICE
Thursday 21 May
7pm. Lambeth Keep Our NHS Public organising meeting 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 the Lambeth group to find out about local activity. The group have a new Facebook page at www.facebook.com/LambethKONP.
Saturday 20 June
National Demonstration and festival: END AUSTERITY NOW in London, just six weeks after the general election, the message to the new government will be to end austerity. Called by the People’s Assembly. Weblink 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. If you can help, contact southwarkdch@gmail.com or phone 07792 786 192. Website: www.defendcouncilhousing.org.uk/dch. Facebook page: click here.
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.
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 Disabled People Against Cuts meet at Southwark Independent Living Centre, 10 Bradenham Close, SE17 2QB. Details from southwarkdpac@mail.com
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