Southwark Save Our Services: 26MARCH - more than half a million people march against the government cuts

DONATE!

Please donate what you can towards the fightback against the cuts. Write to us at southwarksos@gmail.com for details.

What is SSOS?

Southwark SOS is an independent organisation set up by Southwark Trade Union Council in 2010 to campaign against the cuts that were being introduced by the then-incoming Tory-Lib-Dem Coalition government.

In 2017, we still monitor cuts to services imposed by the local council and by central government, and seek to publicise both their impact and also the campaigns of action being undertaken by groups and individuals to oppose them. SSOS has also initiated its own campaigns, organised lobbies and protest events, and supports the campaigns of other anti-cuts and trade union groups by distributing their publicity material and by other practical solidarity work. We seeks to bring together residents and service-users who are affected by cuts and austerity, the workers in the service sector where cuts are made or threatened, and the organisations campaigning against cuts.

Southwark SOS has a regular email newsletter, a Facebook page and this website, all run by volunteers; activists and reps of affiliated community/anti-cuts/trade union groups are always welcome to contribute information to these media, or to discuss and plan opposition to cuts and austerity. More volunteers are needed to help with leafleting at local transport hubs and shopping centres so if you are willing to do this please email southwarksos@gmail.com

Tuesday 5 July

National teachers’ strike called by the NUT against huge cuts to
school budgets (20% in Southwark) and threats to national pay & conditions.

Tuesday 5 July

7pm. Defend Council Housing - organising meeting to discuss the Old Kent Road Area Action
Plan, Axe the Housing Act and the Aylesbury Estate. Venue: Alvey Estate Tenants Hall, ground floor of
Thomson House, Beckway Street, off East Street, SE17 1TS. Beckway Street is
close to the end of East Street at its junction with the Old Kent Road. More
information from southwarkdch@gmail.com

Thursday 7 – Friday 15
July

Various times. Leafleting train and tube stations to publicise
the anti-austerity, anti-racism march on 16 July. (See below.) Times and
locations to suit you! Contact Sarah on 07773031215 if you can help.

Saturday 9 July

11am to 4pm. SDCH stall campaigning against the Housing
Bill (selling of social housing and creating insecure tenancies)at the
Rotherhithe Festival, St Georges Fields, Entrance via Moodkee Street (Between
Canada Water tube and Seven Islands Leisure Centre) SE16 7BL.

Tuesday 12 July

7.30pm. Public meeting: After Brexit Vote No to
Austerity No to Racism. Organised
by Stand Up to Racism, supported by People’s Assembly Against Austerity. Venue:
Weare336, 336 Brixton Road, SW9 7AA. For more info - please ring or text 07956
579466. For map & directions see Facebook event https://www.facebook.com/events/1022467567788975/

Saturday 16 July

12noon. National demonstration – After the
Referendum: No to Austerity, No to Racism, Tories Must Go. Called jointly
by The People’s Assembly Against Austerity and Stand Up to Racism. Assemble
outside BBC, Portland Place, W1A 1AA (map). Please share and invite on Facebook.

Saturday 16 &
Sunday 17 July

11am onwards. Stalls for many anti-cuts/anti-austerity
campaigns will be set up at the Lambeth Country Show in Brockwell Park.
Reply to southwarksos@gmail.com if
you want to help.

Thursday 21 July

7pm
- 9pm. Keep Our NHS Public organising
meeting at Stockwell Centre, 1 Studley Rd (behind Stockwell Tube) SW4 6RA. Email or contact the organisers at lambethkonp@gmail.com.

DIARY

Tuesday 26 & Wednesday 27 April

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

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

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

Tuesday 26 April

7pm.Defend Council Housing - organising meeting at the Alvey Estate
Tenants Hall, ground floor of Thomson House, Beckway Street, off East Street,
SE17 1TS. Beckway Street is close to the end of East Street at its junction
with the Old Kent Road. Map here. More
information from southwarkdch@gmail.com

Thursday 28 April

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

Monday 4 April

All day. Support the occupation of Carnegie Library in Herne Hill. Faced
with closure by Lambeth Council, campaigners have occupied the library since
Thursday. Get updates here.

Wednesday 6 & Thursday 7 April

All
day, 8am onwards. Protest in support of
junior doctors. Junction of Bessemer Road/Denmark Hill SE5 (or go to your
nearest hospital). Information at BMA Website here.The BMA is escalating their strike action.
Download a selfie poster here
for yourself and workmates/ students/neighbours. Tweet or share it on Facebook
with the hashtags: #JuniorDoctors #JuniorContract #NotSafeNotFair. To arrange for a doctor to
speak to TU members at your place of work or union branch meeting, or to send
messages of support contact christopher.james@doctors.org.uk

Wednesday 6 April

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

Tuesday 12 April

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

Friday 15 April

9pm
onwards. Southwark Sleepout to highlight that the Housing Bill, if
passed, will lead to homelessness. Assemble
Outside Southwark Town Hall, 160 Tooley Street, SE1 2QH. Organised by
The Kill the Housing Bill Campaign. Similar events being held nationwide. More
details here on the FB event. Please
share and invite others. Further background in this week’s Inside Housingmagazine.

Saturday 16 April

1pm
onwards. National People’s Assembly
March for Homes, Health, Jobs, Education. End Austerity Now. Assemble: 1pm,
Gower Street / Euston Road, London NW1. Read: 5
Reasons to demonstrate on 16 April. See Facebook event here. If you want
to meet-up with fellow-campaigners to attend any of these, email back or phone
07939090667 and we will tell you of meet-up arrangements.

Monday 18 April

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

Saturday 23 April

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

Tuesday 26 April

7pm. Defend
Council Housing - organising meeting
at the Alvey Estate Tenants Hall, ground floor of Thomson House, Beckway
Street, off East Street, SE17 1TS. Beckway Street is close to the end of East
Street at its junction with the Old Kent Road. Map here.More information from southwarkdch@gmail.com

Saturday 12 March
1-4pm. Health workers’ open meeting: ‘Junior Doctors Can Win: How Can We Take The Fight Forward In The NHS’ At SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG.

Sunday 13 March
12noon. National Demonstration: ‘Kill the Housing Bill - Secure Homes for All - Control Rents - Homes for People not Profit. Assemble at Lincoln’s Inn Fields, WC2A3TL.

Monday 21 March
7pm. Organising meeting of Southwark Trades Council. Agenda items include current campaigns against cuts in Southwark. Open to delegates and observers. Venue: 160 Tooley Street SE1.

FURTHER AHEAD

Saturday 16 April
National People’s Assembly March for Homes, Health, Jobs, Education. End Austerity Now. Assemble: 1pm, Gower Street / Euston Road, London NW1.

Sunday, 27 March 2011

26MARCH - more than half a million people march against the government cuts

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