Dear All
With elections looming and more and more of us fighting high rents, evictions, gentrification and destruction of their homes and communities, the Radical Housing Network is calling a week of action to give a warning that we intend to force politicians to respond to what Londoners really need:
HOMES FOR PEOPLE NOT FOR PROFIT
Mayor Boris Johnson is the most powerful politician in London when it comes to decisions about housing, with control over a £1.8bn budget for delivering new homes and hundreds of hectares of public land.
His budget goes to the vote on 23 February and if passed, will mean more sky-high rents, sell-offs of the public land we need to build council housing and ‘affordable’ housing that most people can’t afford. It’s a recipe for bigger profits for landlords and developers, and more social cleansing and homelessness for ordinary Londoners.
Details of local actions already being planned as part of the week of action are listed below. The week will culminate in a family-friendly mass action on 23 February to
BLOCK THE BUDGET and demand SOCIAL HOUSING NOT SOCIAL CLEANSING
Monday 23 February, 9am
City Hall, The Queen's Walk, London SE1 2AA
https://www.facebook.com/events/828141947231932/?source=1&sid_create=2710301415
We would love you to be part of the week of action. There are lots of ways you can get involved:
Come along to our next organising meeting on Monday 2 February at 7pm at Unite Moreland Street, EC1V 8BB (nearest tube: Angel or Old Street) to help shape our plans.
Organise an action as part of the week. We’ll help promote it on the Radical Housing Network website and social media.
Help us spread the word. Tell all your members/contacts, mention in on your website, promote the week on social media or contact us to get flyers.
If you’re involved in a trade union, contact us for a draft motion in support of the week.
Come along on the 23rd and help us block the budget!
Let us know if you have any questions or need more information by email to housingnetwork@lists.riseup.net.
Week of action
Events already planned as part of the week of action include:
Sat 14 Feb
Lambeth Housing Activists are holding 'love council housing' stalls around Lambeth during the day. In the evening they’re screening Utopia London with a Q&A with retired council estate architect Kate Macintosh. See housingactivists.co.uk for more details.
Lewisham People Before Profit are holding ‘love council housing’ actions. See Facebook for more details.
Campaigners in Tower Hamlets are holding a banner drop, tour of Britain's first Council Estate and a screening of Chocolate City on how developers carved up Washington. Contact Glyn on 07411 557097 for more details.
Thurs 19 Feb
Digs (Hackney Renters) are holding a screening of great films on housing struggles across the ages (and maybe even a Hackney-based quiz after)! 6.30-9pm at PEER Gallery, 97-99 Hoxton St, N1 6QL.
Sat 21 Feb
Digs (Hackney Renters) are holding an action prep workshop for the week of housing action. Stick around for a surprise and catch the rest of the action. 2pm at PEER Gallery, 97-99 Hoxton St, N1 6QL.
More actions being planned, including private tenants action against high rents (contact southlondonrenters@gmail.com for details).
Best wishes
Liliana Dmitrovic on behalf of Radical Housing Network
Sunday, 1 February 2015
Wednesday, 17 December 2014
Massive cuts to come – your chance to help stop them
Southwark Action Alert 16th December 2014
George Osborne’s Autumn Statement has revealed that public spending as a percentage of GDP is expected to fall to its lowest level since the 1930s. Eleven local strikes or protests happening this week alone show that opposition to cuts is continuing.
In January, plans to oppose cuts to council services will be developed; the ‘March for Homes’ will be publicised across the borough. If you can help, please urgently contact the organisers. Email southwarkdch@gmail.com asap to request leaflets to give to your neighbours, or to offer help with leafleting elsewhere.
***Please put in your diary the events not just happening this week but also the details of January’s housing demonstration, shown below.***
Please tweet this listing, link to our website or post on your own Facebook page. Thank you.
EVENTS LIST
Wednesday 17 December
7.30am onwards. Visit a picket line at Lambeth College. Last strike day before Christmas at Lambeth College, over attacks to their contracts. Visit a picket line at one of the sites (Brixton, Clapham or Vauxhall). Download a collection sheet here. Get more news on the strike at lambethcollegestrike.wordpress.com.
12noon. Come to the UCU/UNISON rally at the Clapham Centre. Local campaign/trade union banners and supporters all welcome. Can you invite Lambeth College strikers to speak at your union branch/campaign meeting? Send invitations to mandybrowncow@yahoo.com
Wednesday 17 December
12noon. Stop Boris demo. A leaked document revealed that Boris Johnson plans to cut 90 percent of the Greater London Authority investment in education and youth service. Demonstrate outside London City Hall, SE1 2AA, called by the Student Assembly Against Austerity.
Wednesday 17 December
6 pm. No Privatisation at National Gallery - 400 Jobs to be Privatised. Protest outside Xmas function for JP Morgan Bankers, National Gallery, Trafalgar Square. Facebook here
Thursday 18 December
12noon - 3pm. ‘Decent Jobs for All' Stall, to raise awareness about Britain’s jobs’ crisis, organised as part of the TUC week of action. Venue: 264 Walworth Road, SE17 1JE opposite the entrance to East Street Market. Photo Opportunity at 12.30 (approx). Find out more at http://decentjobsweek.org/
Thursday 18 December
3.45pm. Join supporters as reps from Keep Our NHS Public leave London to represent KONP at a peaceful surrounding of the European Summit this Friday (19th) in Brussels against European austerity and TTIP. Gather at the Eurostar ticket barrier, St Pancras Station. Bring banners if you can.
Evening. Christmas social for Lambeth ‘Keep Our NHS Public’ campaign (in place of the Dec monthly KONP meeting). Venue and more details from lambethkonp@gmail.com
Thursday 18 December
6.30pm. International migrants’ day demonstration. Given the rising levels of racist scapegoating and attacks on immigrants, there will be a protest at the Home Office. Called by a host of groups including the NUS International Students Campaign and NUS Black Students Campaign.
Thursday 18 December
7pm onwards. South London People’s Assembly organising meeting and social at Bread & Roses pub, 68 Clapham Manor St, London SW4 6DZ.
Saturday 20 December
12 noon to 1pm. Petitioning and leafleting for the March For Homes in Rye Lane, Peckham, outside Boots. See 31 January below for details of the demonstration. If you can help, contact southwarkdch@gmail.com. More information can be found at https://www.facebook.com/Southwark-Defend-Council-Housing. For the March for Homes website, click here. Unite Housing Workers, who are supporting the march, have also created a facebook event for it. Click here.
Saturday 20-21 December
11am onwards for two days. Many Happy Returns! Occupy Democracy will be returning to Parliament Square to remind Westminster and the people of Britain that none of us voted for poverty, hunger, homelessness and unemployment. Facebook event here.
Saturday 27 December, Monday 29 December, Saturday 03 January
9-11am. Join the festive pickets!! Support PCS members on strike for 3 days over Xmas. 400 Jobs to be privatised. Facebook here
ADVANCE NOTICE
Tuesday 5 January
Leafleting for the ‘March For Homes’ begins on Southwark estates. Email southwarkdch@gmail.com asap to request leaflets to give to your neighbours or to offer help with leafleting elsewhere.
7pm. March For Homes organising meeting at UNITE L&E, 33 Moreland St, EC1V 8BB. Called by Defend Council Housing campaign. Contact: southwarkdch@gmail.com. More information can be found at https://www.facebook.com/Southwark-Defend-Council-Housing. For the March for Homes website, click here. Unite Housing Workers, who are supporting the march, have also created a facebook event for it. Click here.
Saturday 17 January
(Date and venue tbc). Steering Group meeting for proposed People’s Convention for the NHS. The idea for the People’s Convention for the NHS grew from the People’s March for the NHS which marched from Jarrow to London in August and September. See http://www.peoplesvotefornhs.org.uk/
Monday 19 January
7pm. London KONP Coordinating Meeting at Camden Town Hall
This meeting will discuss organising for 10 March meeting. There will be a pre-meeting at 6pm will discuss North Central London ‘Out Of Hours’ campaign
Saturday 31 January 2015
12noon. London-wide MARCH FOR HOMES. Assemble St Mary’s Churchyard, Newington Butts, SE1 6SQ (Elephant and Castle tube/rail). Called by Defend Council Housing and the People’s Assembly and supported by many other campaigns and trade union branches. If you can help, contact southwarkdch@gmail.com. More information can be found at https://www.facebook.com/Southwark-Defend-Council-Housing.
Monday 26 January
Lobby of Southwark Council Housing Committee meeting. Time and venue to be confirmed.
Wednesday 25 February
Lobby of Southwark Council Budget-setting meeting. Time and venue to be confirmed.
Tuesday 10 March
London-wide public meeting to defend the NHS and in promoting demands for the NHS during the election campaign. Venue: Hammersmith Town Hall. Hosted by Save Hammersmith and Charing Cross campaign, supported by keep Our NHS Public.
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Thursday, 4 December 2014
Southwark Action Alert 3rd December 2014
Leafleting starts in earnest this week to publicise Southwark’s March for Homes that takes place next month. The aim is to bring as many campaigns as possible together on one demonstration, putting the housing crisis at the centre of the political debate and giving confidence to all those fighting for housing justice. Details of how to help are shown below.
It may be near Christmas but organising meetings are still taking place each week to discuss and plan resistance to cuts and austerity. Full details below.
***Please put in your diary the events not just happening this week but the dates for big events next month, shown below.***
Please tweet this listing, link to our website or post on your own Facebook page. Thank you.
EVENTS LIST
Thursday 4 December
7am onwards. Support the strike at Lambeth College. Following the 83% Yes for strike action over new contracts, Lambeth College UCU will be taking the first day of strike action. Visit a picket line at one of the sites (Brixton, Clapham or Vauxhall) Download a collection sheet here.
Saturday 6 December
12 noon – 1.30pm. ‘March For Homes’ Stall & leafleting outside Boots, Rye Lane, Peckham. See 31 January below for details of the demonstration. If you can help, contact southwarkdch@gmail.com. More information can be found at https://www.facebook.com/Southwark-Defend-Council-Housing.
Monday 8 November
9.45am. Petitioning and leafleting against benefit cuts and sanctions. For details of the venue and offers of help, contact southwarkbenefitjustice@gmail.com
Tuesday 9 December
Firefighters 24 hour strike as part of the ongoing pension dispute. Background info here. Please send messages of support initially to southwarktuc@gmail.com and southwarksos@gmail.com for delivery to one of the Southwark fire stations.
Tuesday 9 & Wednesday 10 December
8am onwards. Picket lines at Lambeth College. Lambeth College UCU are due to be taking further strike action over attacks to their contracts. Visit a picket line at one of the sites (Brixton, Clapham or Vauxhall) Download a collection sheet here.
Thursday 11 December
12noon - 2pm. Leafleting about The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) and the privatisation of pathology services by Viapath meet outside St Thomas' Hospital on Lambeth Bridge. Organised by Lambeth KONP. Email: lambethkonp@gmail.com and facebook.com/LambethKONP
Saturday 13 December
12 noon – 1.30pm. ‘March For Homes’ Stall & leafleting outside Boots, Rye Lane, Peckham. See 31 January below for details of the demonstration. If you can help, contact southwarkdch@gmail.com. More information can be found at https://www.facebook.com/Southwark-Defend-Council-Housing.
Thursday 18 December
7pm onwards. South London People’s Assembly organising meeting and social at Bread & Roses pub, 68 Clapham Manor St, London SW4 6DZ.
Thursday 18 December
7pm onwards. Christmas social for Lambeth ‘Keep Our NHS Public’ campaign (in place of the Dec monthly KONP meeting). Venue and more details from lambethkonp@gmail.com
Saturday 20-21 December
11am onwards for two days. Many Happy Returns! Occupy Democracy will be returning to Parliament Square to remind Westminster and the people of Britain that none of us voted for poverty, hunger, homelessness and unemployment. Facebook event here.
ADVANCE NOTICE
Tuesday 5 January
7pm. March For Homes organising meeting at UNITE L&E, 33 Moreland St, EC1V 8BB. Called by Defend Council Housing campaign. Contact: southwarkdch@gmail.com
Saturday 31 January 2015
12noon. London-wide MARCH FOR HOMES. Assemble St Mary’s Churchyard, Newington Butts, SE1 6SQ (Elephant and Castle tube/rail). Called by Defend Council Housing and the People’s Assembly and supported by many other campaigns and trade union branches. If you can help, contact southwarkdch@gmail.com. More information can be found at https://www.facebook.com/Southwark-Defend-Council-Housing.
OTHER LOCAL CAMPAIGNS not listed above:
Keep Our NHS Public. 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. Lambeth KONP meet monthly in Phoenix Pub, 348 Clapham Road, Stockwell, SW9 9AR (between Clapham North and Stockwell stations).
London Unemployed Strategies (LUS) is a new campaign to give a voice to unemployed people to counteract the abuses and attacks made upon them by the government, the mass media and others. Southwark training sessions will take place in November/December. 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.
Southwark Defend Council Housing campaign meet in the Parish Office at St John’s Church, Larcom Street, SE17 1NQ. Map. They are building for a London-wide demonstration in January (see above). More information at https://www.facebook.com/Southwark-Defend-Council-Housing.
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 Pensioners Action Group
Meets bi-monthly. Campaign information at http://www.spag.btck.co.uk/
Southwark Disabled People Against Cuts meet at Southwark Independent Living Centre, 10 Bradenham Close, SE17 2QB. Details from southwarkdpac@mail.com
It may be near Christmas but organising meetings are still taking place each week to discuss and plan resistance to cuts and austerity. Full details below.
***Please put in your diary the events not just happening this week but the dates for big events next month, shown below.***
Please tweet this listing, link to our website or post on your own Facebook page. Thank you.
EVENTS LIST
Thursday 4 December
7am onwards. Support the strike at Lambeth College. Following the 83% Yes for strike action over new contracts, Lambeth College UCU will be taking the first day of strike action. Visit a picket line at one of the sites (Brixton, Clapham or Vauxhall) Download a collection sheet here.
Saturday 6 December
12 noon – 1.30pm. ‘March For Homes’ Stall & leafleting outside Boots, Rye Lane, Peckham. See 31 January below for details of the demonstration. If you can help, contact southwarkdch@gmail.com. More information can be found at https://www.facebook.com/Southwark-Defend-Council-Housing.
Monday 8 November
9.45am. Petitioning and leafleting against benefit cuts and sanctions. For details of the venue and offers of help, contact southwarkbenefitjustice@gmail.com
Tuesday 9 December
Firefighters 24 hour strike as part of the ongoing pension dispute. Background info here. Please send messages of support initially to southwarktuc@gmail.com and southwarksos@gmail.com for delivery to one of the Southwark fire stations.
Tuesday 9 & Wednesday 10 December
8am onwards. Picket lines at Lambeth College. Lambeth College UCU are due to be taking further strike action over attacks to their contracts. Visit a picket line at one of the sites (Brixton, Clapham or Vauxhall) Download a collection sheet here.
Thursday 11 December
12noon - 2pm. Leafleting about The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) and the privatisation of pathology services by Viapath meet outside St Thomas' Hospital on Lambeth Bridge. Organised by Lambeth KONP. Email: lambethkonp@gmail.com and facebook.com/LambethKONP
Saturday 13 December
12 noon – 1.30pm. ‘March For Homes’ Stall & leafleting outside Boots, Rye Lane, Peckham. See 31 January below for details of the demonstration. If you can help, contact southwarkdch@gmail.com. More information can be found at https://www.facebook.com/Southwark-Defend-Council-Housing.
Thursday 18 December
7pm onwards. South London People’s Assembly organising meeting and social at Bread & Roses pub, 68 Clapham Manor St, London SW4 6DZ.
Thursday 18 December
7pm onwards. Christmas social for Lambeth ‘Keep Our NHS Public’ campaign (in place of the Dec monthly KONP meeting). Venue and more details from lambethkonp@gmail.com
Saturday 20-21 December
11am onwards for two days. Many Happy Returns! Occupy Democracy will be returning to Parliament Square to remind Westminster and the people of Britain that none of us voted for poverty, hunger, homelessness and unemployment. Facebook event here.
ADVANCE NOTICE
Tuesday 5 January
7pm. March For Homes organising meeting at UNITE L&E, 33 Moreland St, EC1V 8BB. Called by Defend Council Housing campaign. Contact: southwarkdch@gmail.com
Saturday 31 January 2015
12noon. London-wide MARCH FOR HOMES. Assemble St Mary’s Churchyard, Newington Butts, SE1 6SQ (Elephant and Castle tube/rail). Called by Defend Council Housing and the People’s Assembly and supported by many other campaigns and trade union branches. If you can help, contact southwarkdch@gmail.com. More information can be found at https://www.facebook.com/Southwark-Defend-Council-Housing.
OTHER LOCAL CAMPAIGNS not listed above:
Keep Our NHS Public. 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. Lambeth KONP meet monthly in Phoenix Pub, 348 Clapham Road, Stockwell, SW9 9AR (between Clapham North and Stockwell stations).
London Unemployed Strategies (LUS) is a new campaign to give a voice to unemployed people to counteract the abuses and attacks made upon them by the government, the mass media and others. Southwark training sessions will take place in November/December. 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.
Southwark Defend Council Housing campaign meet in the Parish Office at St John’s Church, Larcom Street, SE17 1NQ. Map. They are building for a London-wide demonstration in January (see above). More information at https://www.facebook.com/Southwark-Defend-Council-Housing.
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 Pensioners Action Group
Meets bi-monthly. Campaign information at http://www.spag.btck.co.uk/
Southwark Disabled People Against Cuts meet at Southwark Independent Living Centre, 10 Bradenham Close, SE17 2QB. Details from southwarkdpac@mail.com
Sunday, 23 November 2014
Southwark Action Alert 23 November 2014
Tomorrow, health workers across the country are on strike and they want you to come to their picket line to show your support for them, and for the National Health Service, which is under attack. Already, money has been collected across Southwark and messages sent to union reps organising tomorrow’s strike. Please visit a picket line (see details below) or reply to this email if you want to help with support for the next strike.
Southwark Adult Learning Service has finally abandoned its exorbitant ‘repeat fees’ and fully reinstated concessionary rates for people on benefits. This is a great vindication of a three-year campaign by students and shows that anti-cuts action can win.
Conferences and organising meetings are also taking place every week to discuss and plan resistance to cuts and austerity. Full details below.
***Please put in your diary the events not just happening this week but the dates for big events next month, shown below.***
Please tweet this listing, link to our website or post on your own Facebook page. Thank you.
EVENTS LIST
Monday 24 November
7am -11am. Health unions’ four hour strike over pay. Unions taking part: Unison, Unite, GMB, Royal College of Midwives (RCM), Society of Radiographers (SOR), UCATT, POA, Occupational Therapists (BAOT), Dietetic Association (BDA), and Hospital Consultants and Specialists Association. Read more here why the strike is happening. Visit picket-lines at your local hospital to show your support:
Kings College Hospital - Denmark Hill Bessemer Road and Denmark Hill SE5 9RS
Guy’s hospital - Guys Great Maze Point main entrance, road to the Shard SE1 9RT
St Thomas' Hospital - entrance off Westminster bridge SE1 7EH
Lewisham Hospital - High St, Lewisham SE13 6LH
Ambulance stations - some will have picket-lines. See list of stations here.
Please take photos of the picket line. You can still collect messages of support or donations to the strikers’ fund. Click here to download the pledge sheet. We can post the messages and photos on facebook etc. Email them to southwarksos@gmail.com.
Monday 24 November
9.45am. Petitioning and leafleting against benefit cuts and sanctions. Southwark Benefit Justice will be outside A4E, 21 St Georges Road, SE1 6ES. More information, or to help, contact southwarkbenefitjustice@gmail.com
Tuesday 25 November,
1pm. London FBU will be protesting as part of their pensions dispute as Fire Minister Penny Mordaunt opens the new West Norwood fire station at 210 Knights Hill, London SE27 0QA. Supporters are warmly invited to come along.
Tuesday 25 November
7pm. London coordinating meeting of the ‘Keep Our NHS Public’ campaign. All welcome. Agenda includes Cuts in GP surgeries. Venue: Camden Town Hall, Judd St, WC1. More information at www.defendlondonsnhs.wordpress.com
Tuesday 25 November,
7pm. Meeting of Southwark Defend Council Housing campaign in the Parish Office at St John’s Church, Larcom Street, SE17 1NQ. Agenda to include plans for building for a London-wide demonstration in January (see below). More information at https://www.facebook.com/Southwark-Defend-Council-Housing.
Thursday 27th November
6-8pm. Operation Disabled Vote - launch event. An initiative which aims to encourage more deaf and disabled people to register to vote and have their say at the 2015 General Election. Held at 336 Brixton Road, SW9 7AA. To book a place, please contact Ellen Clifford at Inclusion London by emailing: ellen.clifford@inclusionlondon.co.uk
Thursday 27 November
6.30pm Austerity Lies and Myths: what the government doesn't want you to know: Economic briefing ahead of Osborne's Autumn Statement, at NUT HQ, Hamilton House, Mabledon Place, London WC1H 9BD. The Panel includes Owen Jones (Journalist), James Meadway (Economist) Dr Faiza Shaheen (Save the Children), Micheal Burke (Economist). Chaired by Christine Blower (General Secretary, NUT). Organised by The People’s Assembly. To register, click here.
Friday 28th November
11.30am. 'No More Deaths from Fuel Poverty: Energy Rights Now! Protest march. On the day the government reveals how many people died last from the effects of fuel poverty. Organised by Fuel Poverty Action and Reclaim the Power. Meet outside the Institute of Directors, Pall Mall. March to Energy UK- the body that represents all the Big Six energy companies. 'Join' and share the facebook event here.
Monday 1 December
6pm – 9pm. TTIP: Turning the Tide in Westminster workshop to help us learn about how to lobby MPs and MEPs on TTIP. Venue: Aldersgate Room, Westminster Central Hall, SW1H 9NH. Organised by the World Development Movement. Event information here.
Monday 1 December
6pm – 8.00 pm. Public meeting: Trade Unions Against TTIP. Venue: Diskus Centre, Unite Central Office, 128 Theobalds Road, Holborn, WC1X 8TH. Organised by the Campaign for Trade Union freedom. Facebook event here.
Monday 1 December
7pm-8.30pm. South London People’s Assembly organising meeting at Bread & Roses pub, 68 Clapham Manor St, London SW4 6DZ, planning work around local campaigns.
Tuesday 2 December
5:30pm onwards. Austerity has failed: Sack George Osborne Protest on the eve of Osborne's Autumn Statement, Downing Street, London. Please share & invite your friends on Facebook.
ADVANCE NOTICE
Saturday 31 January 2015
Defend Council Housing and Peoples' Assembly have jointly called a London-wide MARCH FOR HOMES. Called by Defend Council Housing and the People’s Assembly. Leafleting will be starting this month. If you can help, contact southwarkdch@gmail.com. More information can be found at https://www.facebook.com/Southwark-Defend-Council-Housing.
OTHER LOCAL CAMPAIGNS not listed above:
Keep Our NHS Public. 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. Lambeth KONP meet monthly in Phoenix Pub, 348 Clapham Road, Stockwell, SW9 9AR (between Clapham North and Stockwell stations).
London Unemployed Strategies (LUS) is a new campaign to give a voice to unemployed people to counteract the abuses and attacks made upon them by the government, the mass media and others. Southwark training sessions will take place in November/December. 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 Pensioners Action Group
Meets bi-monthly. Campaign information at http://www.spag.btck.co.uk/
Southwark Disabled People Against Cuts meet at Southwark Independent Living Centre, 10 Bradenham Close, SE17 2QB. Details from southwarkdpac@mail.com
Southwark Adult Learning Service has finally abandoned its exorbitant ‘repeat fees’ and fully reinstated concessionary rates for people on benefits. This is a great vindication of a three-year campaign by students and shows that anti-cuts action can win.
Conferences and organising meetings are also taking place every week to discuss and plan resistance to cuts and austerity. Full details below.
***Please put in your diary the events not just happening this week but the dates for big events next month, shown below.***
Please tweet this listing, link to our website or post on your own Facebook page. Thank you.
EVENTS LIST
Monday 24 November
7am -11am. Health unions’ four hour strike over pay. Unions taking part: Unison, Unite, GMB, Royal College of Midwives (RCM), Society of Radiographers (SOR), UCATT, POA, Occupational Therapists (BAOT), Dietetic Association (BDA), and Hospital Consultants and Specialists Association. Read more here why the strike is happening. Visit picket-lines at your local hospital to show your support:
Kings College Hospital - Denmark Hill Bessemer Road and Denmark Hill SE5 9RS
Guy’s hospital - Guys Great Maze Point main entrance, road to the Shard SE1 9RT
St Thomas' Hospital - entrance off Westminster bridge SE1 7EH
Lewisham Hospital - High St, Lewisham SE13 6LH
Ambulance stations - some will have picket-lines. See list of stations here.
Please take photos of the picket line. You can still collect messages of support or donations to the strikers’ fund. Click here to download the pledge sheet. We can post the messages and photos on facebook etc. Email them to southwarksos@gmail.com.
Monday 24 November
9.45am. Petitioning and leafleting against benefit cuts and sanctions. Southwark Benefit Justice will be outside A4E, 21 St Georges Road, SE1 6ES. More information, or to help, contact southwarkbenefitjustice@gmail.com
Tuesday 25 November,
1pm. London FBU will be protesting as part of their pensions dispute as Fire Minister Penny Mordaunt opens the new West Norwood fire station at 210 Knights Hill, London SE27 0QA. Supporters are warmly invited to come along.
Tuesday 25 November
7pm. London coordinating meeting of the ‘Keep Our NHS Public’ campaign. All welcome. Agenda includes Cuts in GP surgeries. Venue: Camden Town Hall, Judd St, WC1. More information at www.defendlondonsnhs.wordpress.com
Tuesday 25 November,
7pm. Meeting of Southwark Defend Council Housing campaign in the Parish Office at St John’s Church, Larcom Street, SE17 1NQ. Agenda to include plans for building for a London-wide demonstration in January (see below). More information at https://www.facebook.com/Southwark-Defend-Council-Housing.
Thursday 27th November
6-8pm. Operation Disabled Vote - launch event. An initiative which aims to encourage more deaf and disabled people to register to vote and have their say at the 2015 General Election. Held at 336 Brixton Road, SW9 7AA. To book a place, please contact Ellen Clifford at Inclusion London by emailing: ellen.clifford@inclusionlondon.co.uk
Thursday 27 November
6.30pm Austerity Lies and Myths: what the government doesn't want you to know: Economic briefing ahead of Osborne's Autumn Statement, at NUT HQ, Hamilton House, Mabledon Place, London WC1H 9BD. The Panel includes Owen Jones (Journalist), James Meadway (Economist) Dr Faiza Shaheen (Save the Children), Micheal Burke (Economist). Chaired by Christine Blower (General Secretary, NUT). Organised by The People’s Assembly. To register, click here.
Friday 28th November
11.30am. 'No More Deaths from Fuel Poverty: Energy Rights Now! Protest march. On the day the government reveals how many people died last from the effects of fuel poverty. Organised by Fuel Poverty Action and Reclaim the Power. Meet outside the Institute of Directors, Pall Mall. March to Energy UK- the body that represents all the Big Six energy companies. 'Join' and share the facebook event here.
Monday 1 December
6pm – 9pm. TTIP: Turning the Tide in Westminster workshop to help us learn about how to lobby MPs and MEPs on TTIP. Venue: Aldersgate Room, Westminster Central Hall, SW1H 9NH. Organised by the World Development Movement. Event information here.
Monday 1 December
6pm – 8.00 pm. Public meeting: Trade Unions Against TTIP. Venue: Diskus Centre, Unite Central Office, 128 Theobalds Road, Holborn, WC1X 8TH. Organised by the Campaign for Trade Union freedom. Facebook event here.
Monday 1 December
7pm-8.30pm. South London People’s Assembly organising meeting at Bread & Roses pub, 68 Clapham Manor St, London SW4 6DZ, planning work around local campaigns.
Tuesday 2 December
5:30pm onwards. Austerity has failed: Sack George Osborne Protest on the eve of Osborne's Autumn Statement, Downing Street, London. Please share & invite your friends on Facebook.
ADVANCE NOTICE
Saturday 31 January 2015
Defend Council Housing and Peoples' Assembly have jointly called a London-wide MARCH FOR HOMES. Called by Defend Council Housing and the People’s Assembly. Leafleting will be starting this month. If you can help, contact southwarkdch@gmail.com. More information can be found at https://www.facebook.com/Southwark-Defend-Council-Housing.
OTHER LOCAL CAMPAIGNS not listed above:
Keep Our NHS Public. 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. Lambeth KONP meet monthly in Phoenix Pub, 348 Clapham Road, Stockwell, SW9 9AR (between Clapham North and Stockwell stations).
London Unemployed Strategies (LUS) is a new campaign to give a voice to unemployed people to counteract the abuses and attacks made upon them by the government, the mass media and others. Southwark training sessions will take place in November/December. 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 Pensioners Action Group
Meets bi-monthly. Campaign information at http://www.spag.btck.co.uk/
Southwark Disabled People Against Cuts meet at Southwark Independent Living Centre, 10 Bradenham Close, SE17 2QB. Details from southwarkdpac@mail.com
Tuesday, 11 November 2014
Southwark Action Alert 6 November 2014
A lobby calling on Southwark Council to stand up for council housing and a strike by thousands of health workers across Southwark are two key protests this month. Conferences and organising meetings are also taking place every week to discuss and plan resistance to cuts and austerity. Full details below.
***Please put in your diary the events not just happening this week but the dates for big events next month, shown below.***
Please tweet this listing, link to our website or post on your own Facebook page. Thank you.
EVENTS LIST
Saturday 8 November
11am - 1pm. Leafleting and petitioning about the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) and NHS privatisation. Outside Stockwell tube (not Kennington Market as previously advertised). For more information, contact lambethkonp@gmail.com. See new facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/LambethKONP
Monday 10th November
7pm-8.30pm. South London People’s Assembly organising meeting at Bread & Roses pub, 68 Clapham Manor St, London SW4 6DZ, planning work around local campaigns, and feedback on the last Assembly.
Saturday 15 November
11am-4pm. ‘Striking together - organising to win’ national conference. Workshops: After the health strikes, where next for the fight to save the NHS? The fight against zero hours contracts and organising the unorganised (Hosted by BFAWU), Migrant workers: Part of the union, part of the solution (Hosted by BARAC), Benefit justice: Stop the Tories war on the poor (Hosted by DPAC and Benefit Justice Campaign), Campaigning for rejection of the local government pay proposal. Speakers include US Fast Food strikers, trade unionists from striking unions and anti-austerity groups. Model motion here. For more information and to register, click here. Called by Unite the Resistance campaign.
Saturday 15 November
10am-4.30pm. Croydon Assembly (TUC) – Join Together To Fight Inequality. Venue: Ruskin House, 23 Coombe Rd, Croydon, CR0 1BD. Speakers include: Mark Serwotka, Philipa Harvey, Nero Ughwujabo. For more info visit http://croydontuc.org.uk/events_138408.html
Sunday 16 November
Defend the Right to Protest Conference. Opening plenary “Injustice somewhere is a threat to justice everywhere”; workshops on Undercover cops and the secret state, Policing the neoliberal university, Deaths in custody - is justice possible? Know your rights, Fracking: the future face of protest policing, Strikes, solidarity and the law, Resisting the assault on civil liberties. Book your place. Other contact at info@defendtherighttoprotest.org
Monday 17 November
9.45am. Petitioning and leafleting against benefit cuts and sanctions. Southwark Benefit Justice will be outside Peckham JCP, 24-26 Peckham High Street, SE15 5DS. More information, or to help, contact southwarkbenefitjustice@gmail.com
Tuesday 18 November
3pm. ‘Stand up for council housing’ Lobby of Southwark Council Cabinet meeting at the Council's Offices, 160 Tooley Street SE1. Called by Southwark Group of Tenants Organisations. SGTO has also organised a deputation to present the ‘Six Alternative Pledges’ to the Council's Cabinet.
Wednesday 19 November
12noon. National Student Demonstration - No Fees, No Cuts, No Debt! Assemble at Malet Street at around 12noon and march round Russell Square, down Kingsway to the Strand, and then to Trafalgar Square, Whitehall and ending at Parliament by 4pm. Supported by the National Union of Students. Facebook page here .
Thursday 20 November
7pm. Lambeth Keep Our NHS Public organising meeting in Phoenix Pub, 348 Clapham Road, Stockwell, SW9 9AR (between Clapham North and Stockwell stations). Please note there is no Southwark KONP group so Southwark activists please make contact with this group to find out about local activity.
Monday 24 November
7am-11am. Health unions’ four hour strike over pay. Unions taking part: Unison, Unite, GMB, Royal College of Midwives (RCM), Society of Radiographers (SOR), UCATT, POA, Occupational Therapists (BAOT), Dietetic Association (BDA), and Hospital Consultants and Specialists Association. Read more here why the strike is happening. Visit picket-lines at your local hospital to show your support. For further details of local picket-lines, or to help leafleting the public in support of the strike, email southwarksos@gmail.com
Monday 24 November
9.45am. Petitioning and leafleting against benefit cuts and sanctions. Southwark Benefit Justice will be outside A4E, 21 St Georges Road, SE1 6ES. More information, or to help, contact southwarkbenefitjustice@gmail.com
Tuesday 25 November
7pm. Meeting of Southwark Defend Council Housing campaign in the Parish Office at St John’s Church, Larcom Street, SE17 1NQ. Map. Agenda to include plans for building for a London-wide demonstration in January.
Monday 1 December
6pm – 8.00 pm. Public meeting: Trade Unions Against TTIP. Venue: Diskus Centre, Unite Central Office, 128 Theobalds Road, Holborn, WC1X 8TH. Organised by the Campaign for Trade Union freedom. Facebook event here.
ADVANCE NOTICE
Saturday 31 January 2015
Defend Council Housing and Peoples' Assembly have jointly called a London-wide MARCH FOR HOMES. Called by Defend Council Housing and the People’s Assembly. Leafleting will be starting in November. If you can help, contact southwarkdch@gmail.com
OTHER LOCAL CAMPAIGNS not listed above:
London Unemployed Strategies (LUS) is a new campaign to give a voice to unemployed people to counteract the abuses and attacks made upon them by the government, the mass media and others. Southwark training sessions will take place in November/December. 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 Pensioners Action Group
Meets bi-monthly. Campaign information at http://www.spag.btck.co.uk/
Southwark Disabled People Against Cuts meet at Southwark Independent Living Centre, 10 Bradenham Close, SE17 2QB. Details from southwarkdpac@mail.com
***Please put in your diary the events not just happening this week but the dates for big events next month, shown below.***
Please tweet this listing, link to our website or post on your own Facebook page. Thank you.
EVENTS LIST
Saturday 8 November
11am - 1pm. Leafleting and petitioning about the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) and NHS privatisation. Outside Stockwell tube (not Kennington Market as previously advertised). For more information, contact lambethkonp@gmail.com. See new facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/LambethKONP
Monday 10th November
7pm-8.30pm. South London People’s Assembly organising meeting at Bread & Roses pub, 68 Clapham Manor St, London SW4 6DZ, planning work around local campaigns, and feedback on the last Assembly.
Saturday 15 November
11am-4pm. ‘Striking together - organising to win’ national conference. Workshops: After the health strikes, where next for the fight to save the NHS? The fight against zero hours contracts and organising the unorganised (Hosted by BFAWU), Migrant workers: Part of the union, part of the solution (Hosted by BARAC), Benefit justice: Stop the Tories war on the poor (Hosted by DPAC and Benefit Justice Campaign), Campaigning for rejection of the local government pay proposal. Speakers include US Fast Food strikers, trade unionists from striking unions and anti-austerity groups. Model motion here. For more information and to register, click here. Called by Unite the Resistance campaign.
Saturday 15 November
10am-4.30pm. Croydon Assembly (TUC) – Join Together To Fight Inequality. Venue: Ruskin House, 23 Coombe Rd, Croydon, CR0 1BD. Speakers include: Mark Serwotka, Philipa Harvey, Nero Ughwujabo. For more info visit http://croydontuc.org.uk/events_138408.html
Sunday 16 November
Defend the Right to Protest Conference. Opening plenary “Injustice somewhere is a threat to justice everywhere”; workshops on Undercover cops and the secret state, Policing the neoliberal university, Deaths in custody - is justice possible? Know your rights, Fracking: the future face of protest policing, Strikes, solidarity and the law, Resisting the assault on civil liberties. Book your place. Other contact at info@defendtherighttoprotest.org
Monday 17 November
9.45am. Petitioning and leafleting against benefit cuts and sanctions. Southwark Benefit Justice will be outside Peckham JCP, 24-26 Peckham High Street, SE15 5DS. More information, or to help, contact southwarkbenefitjustice@gmail.com
Tuesday 18 November
3pm. ‘Stand up for council housing’ Lobby of Southwark Council Cabinet meeting at the Council's Offices, 160 Tooley Street SE1. Called by Southwark Group of Tenants Organisations. SGTO has also organised a deputation to present the ‘Six Alternative Pledges’ to the Council's Cabinet.
Wednesday 19 November
12noon. National Student Demonstration - No Fees, No Cuts, No Debt! Assemble at Malet Street at around 12noon and march round Russell Square, down Kingsway to the Strand, and then to Trafalgar Square, Whitehall and ending at Parliament by 4pm. Supported by the National Union of Students. Facebook page here .
Thursday 20 November
7pm. Lambeth Keep Our NHS Public organising meeting in Phoenix Pub, 348 Clapham Road, Stockwell, SW9 9AR (between Clapham North and Stockwell stations). Please note there is no Southwark KONP group so Southwark activists please make contact with this group to find out about local activity.
Monday 24 November
7am-11am. Health unions’ four hour strike over pay. Unions taking part: Unison, Unite, GMB, Royal College of Midwives (RCM), Society of Radiographers (SOR), UCATT, POA, Occupational Therapists (BAOT), Dietetic Association (BDA), and Hospital Consultants and Specialists Association. Read more here why the strike is happening. Visit picket-lines at your local hospital to show your support. For further details of local picket-lines, or to help leafleting the public in support of the strike, email southwarksos@gmail.com
Monday 24 November
9.45am. Petitioning and leafleting against benefit cuts and sanctions. Southwark Benefit Justice will be outside A4E, 21 St Georges Road, SE1 6ES. More information, or to help, contact southwarkbenefitjustice@gmail.com
Tuesday 25 November
7pm. Meeting of Southwark Defend Council Housing campaign in the Parish Office at St John’s Church, Larcom Street, SE17 1NQ. Map. Agenda to include plans for building for a London-wide demonstration in January.
Monday 1 December
6pm – 8.00 pm. Public meeting: Trade Unions Against TTIP. Venue: Diskus Centre, Unite Central Office, 128 Theobalds Road, Holborn, WC1X 8TH. Organised by the Campaign for Trade Union freedom. Facebook event here.
ADVANCE NOTICE
Saturday 31 January 2015
Defend Council Housing and Peoples' Assembly have jointly called a London-wide MARCH FOR HOMES. Called by Defend Council Housing and the People’s Assembly. Leafleting will be starting in November. If you can help, contact southwarkdch@gmail.com
OTHER LOCAL CAMPAIGNS not listed above:
London Unemployed Strategies (LUS) is a new campaign to give a voice to unemployed people to counteract the abuses and attacks made upon them by the government, the mass media and others. Southwark training sessions will take place in November/December. 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 Pensioners Action Group
Meets bi-monthly. Campaign information at http://www.spag.btck.co.uk/
Southwark Disabled People Against Cuts meet at Southwark Independent Living Centre, 10 Bradenham Close, SE17 2QB. Details from southwarkdpac@mail.com
Saturday, 25 October 2014
Southwark Action Alert 23 October 2014
The campaign to stop the demolition of council homes to be replaced by private housing is gathering pace. Details of meetings and how to join this campaign are shown below. Meanwhile, watch our facebook page and website for updates on public sector and health unions taking action over pay.
***Please put in your diary the events not just happening this week but the dates for big events next month, shown below.***
Please tweet this listing, link to our website or post on your own Facebook page. Thank you.
EVENTS LIST
Thursday 23 October
6pm to 8.30pm. Understanding the TTIP, a meeting organised by South East Region TUC at Congress House, Great Russell Street, WC1B 3LS. All meeting details here. Registration is essential. Phone Joanne Williams on 020 7467 1218.
Saturday 25 October
10am - 4.30pm Ruled By the Banks - a day symposium on how they rule us all, including over health and TTIP. Venue: UNITE building, 128 Theobalds Rd, Holborn (5 mins north of Holborn tube, via Southampton Row, next to Holborn Hotel). More details at StopTTIP.net
Saturday 25 October
3pm. How can we stop the council demolishing our homes? What should be the future of the Aylesbury? Public Meeting called by Southwark Group of Tenants organisations (SGTO). Venue: Pembroke House, 80 Tatum Street London SE17 1QR. Join the campaign by contacting Southwark Defend Council Housing on 02076227201 or write to southwarkdch@gmail.com
Monday 27 October
5pm. Launch event for an Energy Bill of Rights in a Committee Room (number TBC) at the Houses of Parliament. Come along to tell your story, to join the conversation and to learn about the Energy Bill of Rights. Facebook event here. Called by the Fuel Poverty Action Group. Contact fuelpovertyaction@gmail.com
Tuesday 28 October,
7pm. Meeting of Southwark Defend Council Housing campaign in the Parish Office at St John’s Church, Larcom Street, SE17 1NQ. Map. Agenda to include plans for building for a London-wide demonstration in January.
Tuesday 28 October,
Benefit gig for Southwark Defend Council Housing. Parva Hinton and three other bands appearing at the Montague Arms, New Cross SE14.
Saturday 8th Nov
11am - 1pm. Lambeth KONP stall at Kennington Market opposite Oval tube station. For more information, contact lambethkonp@gmail.com
Saturday 15 November
11am-4pm. ‘Striking together - organising to win’ national conference. After the NHS strikes and the TUC demo on 18 October, this conference addresses the question: “what happens next?”
Speakers include US Fast Food strikers, Peter Pinkney (RMT president), Matt Wrack (FBU Gen Sec), Mags Dalton & Roger Hutt (Care UK), Frank Wood (Unite NEC & King’s Coll Hosp), Barbara Pokryszka (UNITE, Hotel s organiser), Mandy Brown (Lambeth College), John McDonnell MP, Ian Hodson (BFAWU), Ian Lawrence (NAPO gen Sec), Helen Davies (Unison NEC, Barnet), Bryan Kennedy (One Housing). Model motion here. For more information and to register, click here. Called by Unite the Resistance campaign.
Saturday 15 November
10am-4.30pm.
Croydon Assembly (TUC) – Join Together To Fight Inequality. Venue: Ruskin House, 23 Coombe Rd, Croydon, CR0 1BD. Speakers include: Mark Serwotka, Philipa Harvey, Nero Ughwujabo. For more info visit http://croydontuc.org.uk/events_138408.html
Sunday 16 November
Defend the Right to Protest Conference. Opening plenary “Injustice somewhere is a threat to justice everywhere”; workshops on Undercover cops and the secret state, Policing the neoliberal university, Deaths in custody - is justice possible? Know your rights, Fracking: the future face of protest policing, Strikes, solidarity and the law, Resisting the assault on civil liberties. Book your place. Other contact at info@defendtherighttoprotest.org
ADVANCE NOTICE
Wednesday 19 November
12noon. National Student Demonstration - No Fees, No Cuts, No Debt! Called by the National Union of Students. Venue: Central London (TBA). Facebook page here .
OTHER LOCAL CAMPAIGNS not listed above:
Keep Our NHS Public meet monthly in the Phoenix Pub, 348 Clapham Road, Stockwell, SW9 9AR (between Clapham North and Stockwell stations). Please note there is no Southwark KONP group so Southwark activists please make contact with this Lambeth group to find out about local activity. For more information, contact lambethkonp@gmail.com
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. See the website at http://www.southlondonpa.org/ and to sign up for updates and alerts.
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 Pensioners Action Group
Meets bi-monthly. Campaign information at http://www.spag.btck.co.uk/
Southwark Disabled People Against Cuts meet at Southwark Independent Living Centre, 10 Bradenham Close, SE17 2QB. Details from southwarkdpac@mail.com
***Please put in your diary the events not just happening this week but the dates for big events next month, shown below.***
Please tweet this listing, link to our website or post on your own Facebook page. Thank you.
EVENTS LIST
Thursday 23 October
6pm to 8.30pm. Understanding the TTIP, a meeting organised by South East Region TUC at Congress House, Great Russell Street, WC1B 3LS. All meeting details here. Registration is essential. Phone Joanne Williams on 020 7467 1218.
Saturday 25 October
10am - 4.30pm Ruled By the Banks - a day symposium on how they rule us all, including over health and TTIP. Venue: UNITE building, 128 Theobalds Rd, Holborn (5 mins north of Holborn tube, via Southampton Row, next to Holborn Hotel). More details at StopTTIP.net
Saturday 25 October
3pm. How can we stop the council demolishing our homes? What should be the future of the Aylesbury? Public Meeting called by Southwark Group of Tenants organisations (SGTO). Venue: Pembroke House, 80 Tatum Street London SE17 1QR. Join the campaign by contacting Southwark Defend Council Housing on 02076227201 or write to southwarkdch@gmail.com
Monday 27 October
5pm. Launch event for an Energy Bill of Rights in a Committee Room (number TBC) at the Houses of Parliament. Come along to tell your story, to join the conversation and to learn about the Energy Bill of Rights. Facebook event here. Called by the Fuel Poverty Action Group. Contact fuelpovertyaction@gmail.com
Tuesday 28 October,
7pm. Meeting of Southwark Defend Council Housing campaign in the Parish Office at St John’s Church, Larcom Street, SE17 1NQ. Map. Agenda to include plans for building for a London-wide demonstration in January.
Tuesday 28 October,
Benefit gig for Southwark Defend Council Housing. Parva Hinton and three other bands appearing at the Montague Arms, New Cross SE14.
Saturday 8th Nov
11am - 1pm. Lambeth KONP stall at Kennington Market opposite Oval tube station. For more information, contact lambethkonp@gmail.com
Saturday 15 November
11am-4pm. ‘Striking together - organising to win’ national conference. After the NHS strikes and the TUC demo on 18 October, this conference addresses the question: “what happens next?”
Speakers include US Fast Food strikers, Peter Pinkney (RMT president), Matt Wrack (FBU Gen Sec), Mags Dalton & Roger Hutt (Care UK), Frank Wood (Unite NEC & King’s Coll Hosp), Barbara Pokryszka (UNITE, Hotel s organiser), Mandy Brown (Lambeth College), John McDonnell MP, Ian Hodson (BFAWU), Ian Lawrence (NAPO gen Sec), Helen Davies (Unison NEC, Barnet), Bryan Kennedy (One Housing). Model motion here. For more information and to register, click here. Called by Unite the Resistance campaign.
Saturday 15 November
10am-4.30pm.
Croydon Assembly (TUC) – Join Together To Fight Inequality. Venue: Ruskin House, 23 Coombe Rd, Croydon, CR0 1BD. Speakers include: Mark Serwotka, Philipa Harvey, Nero Ughwujabo. For more info visit http://croydontuc.org.uk/events_138408.html
Sunday 16 November
Defend the Right to Protest Conference. Opening plenary “Injustice somewhere is a threat to justice everywhere”; workshops on Undercover cops and the secret state, Policing the neoliberal university, Deaths in custody - is justice possible? Know your rights, Fracking: the future face of protest policing, Strikes, solidarity and the law, Resisting the assault on civil liberties. Book your place. Other contact at info@defendtherighttoprotest.org
ADVANCE NOTICE
Wednesday 19 November
12noon. National Student Demonstration - No Fees, No Cuts, No Debt! Called by the National Union of Students. Venue: Central London (TBA). Facebook page here .
OTHER LOCAL CAMPAIGNS not listed above:
Keep Our NHS Public meet monthly in the Phoenix Pub, 348 Clapham Road, Stockwell, SW9 9AR (between Clapham North and Stockwell stations). Please note there is no Southwark KONP group so Southwark activists please make contact with this Lambeth group to find out about local activity. For more information, contact lambethkonp@gmail.com
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. See the website at http://www.southlondonpa.org/ and to sign up for updates and alerts.
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 Pensioners Action Group
Meets bi-monthly. Campaign information at http://www.spag.btck.co.uk/
Southwark Disabled People Against Cuts meet at Southwark Independent Living Centre, 10 Bradenham Close, SE17 2QB. Details from southwarkdpac@mail.com
Sunday, 12 October 2014
Join the strikes and visit the picket lines this week – come to the TUC demonstration on 18th
Southwark Action Alert - update 11 October 2014
Three days of strikes take place next week over cuts in real incomes for millions of public sector workers. Please come along to picket lines to show your support, and come to the huge demonstration planned for next Saturday in London. The campaign to stop the demolition of council homes to be replaced by private housing is gathering pace. Details of how to join these campaigns are shown below.
***Please put in your diary the events not just happening this week but the dates for big events next month, shown below.***
Please tweet this listing, link to our website or post on your own Facebook page. Thank you.
EVENTS LIST
Saturday 11 October
2pm. A pan-European day of action against the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). Actions organised by 38 Degrees at 11am at Waterloo Station (outside Smiths).Assemble at Parliament Square at 2pm. More info at http://www.nottip.org.uk/nationaldayofaction/ Facebook page.
Monday 13 October
7am-11am. Solidarity picket line and strikers breakfast at King’s College Hospital, Bessemer Road Entrance on Denmark Hill, SE5 as part of health workers’ four hour strike over pay. Or visit picket-lines at your local hospital to show your support. Read more here why the strike is happening. Contact Frank Wood on 07798 531734, or just turn up at King’s on Monday morning.
Tuesday 14 October
Strike of lecturers in Further education colleges including LSoCo at The Cut SE1 . Go along to the picket line to show your support. Get a flyer with background to the strike here. Contact southwarktuc@gmail.com for details of where other picket lines are. (Please note that the strike of local government workers planned for today has been suspended.
Wednesday 15 October
Strike by members of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS). Workers in museums, galleries, government offices, courts, job centres etc. will be on strike over pay. Visit a picket line to show your support - contact southwarksos@gmail.com for details of where picket lines will be
See http://www.pcs.org.uk/ for more details and for publicity materials.
Tuesday 14 and 21 October
6.30pm. Leafleting to advertise the SGTO public meeting on housing (25 Oct). Meet at Thurlow Lodge, Thurlow Street, half way down Albany Road. Phone 02076227201 if you want leaflets for your own estate. See a report of the debate about Southwark housing at http://35percent.org/
Wednesday 15 October
Strike by members of the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union in a long-running dispute over jobs, pay and conditions. Background info here
Thursday 16 October
7pm. Lambeth Keep Our NHS Public organising meeting in Phoenix Pub, 348 Clapham Road, Stockwell, SW9 9AR (between Clapham North and Stockwell stations). Please note there is no Southwark KONP group so Southwark activists please make contact with this group to find out about local activity.
Saturday 18 October
11am. ‘Britain Needs a Pay Rise’ TUC national demonstration in London. See facebook.com/britainneedsapayrise. For resources and publicity materials go to http://britainneedsapayrise.org/ To march with others from Southwark, email southwarksos@gmail.com or southwarktuc@gmail.com.
Thursday 23 October
6pm to 8.30pm. Understanding the TTIP, a meeting organised by South East Region TUC at Congress House, Great Russell Street, WC1B 3LS. All meeting details here. Registration is essential. Phone Joanne Williams on 020 7467 1218.
Saturday 25 October
3pm. How can we stop the council demolishing our homes?
What should be the future of the Aylesbury? Public Meeting called by Southwark Group of Tenants organisations (SGTO). Venue: Pembroke House, 80 Tatum Street London SE17 1QR. Join the campaign by contacting Southwark Defend Council Housing on 02076227201 or write to southwarkdch@gmail.com
Monday 27 October
5pm. Launch event for an Energy Bill of Rights in a Committee Room (number TBC) at the Houses of Parliament. Come along to tell your story, to join the conversation and to learn about the Energy Bill of Rights. Facebook event here. Called by the Fuel Poverty Action Group. Contact fuelpovertyaction@gmail.com
Tuesday 28 October,
7pm. Meeting of Southwark Defend Council Housing campaign in the Parish Office at St John’s Church, Larcom Street, SE17 1NQ. Map. Agenda to include plans for building for a London-wide demonstration in January.
ADVANCE NOTICE
Saturday 15 November
11am-4pm. ‘Striking together - organising to win’ national conference. After the mass public sector strikes on 13 & 14 October and the TUC demo on 18 October, this conference addresses the question: “what happens next?”
Speakers include US Fast Food strikers, Matt Wrack (FBU), Mags Dalton & Roger Hutt (Care UK), Billy Hayes (CWU), Mandy Brown (Lambeth College), John McDonnell MP, Ian Hodson (BFAWU), Ian Lawrence (NAPO), Helen Davies (Barnet Unison), Peter Pinkney (RMT), Bryan Kennedy (One Housing), Jane Aitchiso & Sean Vernell (Unite the Resistance). Model motion here. For more information and to register, click here. Called by Unite the Resistance campaign.
OTHER LOCAL CAMPAIGNS not listed above:
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. See the website at http://www.southlondonpa.org/ and to sign up for updates and alerts.
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 Pensioners Action Group
Meets bi-monthly. Campaign information at http://www.spag.btck.co.uk/
Southwark Disabled People Against Cuts meet at Southwark Independent Living Centre, 10 Bradenham Close, SE17 2QB. Details from southwarkdpac@mail.com
Three days of strikes take place next week over cuts in real incomes for millions of public sector workers. Please come along to picket lines to show your support, and come to the huge demonstration planned for next Saturday in London. The campaign to stop the demolition of council homes to be replaced by private housing is gathering pace. Details of how to join these campaigns are shown below.
***Please put in your diary the events not just happening this week but the dates for big events next month, shown below.***
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EVENTS LIST
Saturday 11 October
2pm. A pan-European day of action against the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). Actions organised by 38 Degrees at 11am at Waterloo Station (outside Smiths).Assemble at Parliament Square at 2pm. More info at http://www.nottip.org.uk/nationaldayofaction/ Facebook page.
Monday 13 October
7am-11am. Solidarity picket line and strikers breakfast at King’s College Hospital, Bessemer Road Entrance on Denmark Hill, SE5 as part of health workers’ four hour strike over pay. Or visit picket-lines at your local hospital to show your support. Read more here why the strike is happening. Contact Frank Wood on 07798 531734, or just turn up at King’s on Monday morning.
Tuesday 14 October
Strike of lecturers in Further education colleges including LSoCo at The Cut SE1 . Go along to the picket line to show your support. Get a flyer with background to the strike here. Contact southwarktuc@gmail.com for details of where other picket lines are. (Please note that the strike of local government workers planned for today has been suspended.
Wednesday 15 October
Strike by members of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS). Workers in museums, galleries, government offices, courts, job centres etc. will be on strike over pay. Visit a picket line to show your support - contact southwarksos@gmail.com for details of where picket lines will be
See http://www.pcs.org.uk/ for more details and for publicity materials.
Tuesday 14 and 21 October
6.30pm. Leafleting to advertise the SGTO public meeting on housing (25 Oct). Meet at Thurlow Lodge, Thurlow Street, half way down Albany Road. Phone 02076227201 if you want leaflets for your own estate. See a report of the debate about Southwark housing at http://35percent.org/
Wednesday 15 October
Strike by members of the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union in a long-running dispute over jobs, pay and conditions. Background info here
Thursday 16 October
7pm. Lambeth Keep Our NHS Public organising meeting in Phoenix Pub, 348 Clapham Road, Stockwell, SW9 9AR (between Clapham North and Stockwell stations). Please note there is no Southwark KONP group so Southwark activists please make contact with this group to find out about local activity.
Saturday 18 October
11am. ‘Britain Needs a Pay Rise’ TUC national demonstration in London. See facebook.com/britainneedsapayrise. For resources and publicity materials go to http://britainneedsapayrise.org/ To march with others from Southwark, email southwarksos@gmail.com or southwarktuc@gmail.com.
Thursday 23 October
6pm to 8.30pm. Understanding the TTIP, a meeting organised by South East Region TUC at Congress House, Great Russell Street, WC1B 3LS. All meeting details here. Registration is essential. Phone Joanne Williams on 020 7467 1218.
Saturday 25 October
3pm. How can we stop the council demolishing our homes?
What should be the future of the Aylesbury? Public Meeting called by Southwark Group of Tenants organisations (SGTO). Venue: Pembroke House, 80 Tatum Street London SE17 1QR. Join the campaign by contacting Southwark Defend Council Housing on 02076227201 or write to southwarkdch@gmail.com
Monday 27 October
5pm. Launch event for an Energy Bill of Rights in a Committee Room (number TBC) at the Houses of Parliament. Come along to tell your story, to join the conversation and to learn about the Energy Bill of Rights. Facebook event here. Called by the Fuel Poverty Action Group. Contact fuelpovertyaction@gmail.com
Tuesday 28 October,
7pm. Meeting of Southwark Defend Council Housing campaign in the Parish Office at St John’s Church, Larcom Street, SE17 1NQ. Map. Agenda to include plans for building for a London-wide demonstration in January.
ADVANCE NOTICE
Saturday 15 November
11am-4pm. ‘Striking together - organising to win’ national conference. After the mass public sector strikes on 13 & 14 October and the TUC demo on 18 October, this conference addresses the question: “what happens next?”
Speakers include US Fast Food strikers, Matt Wrack (FBU), Mags Dalton & Roger Hutt (Care UK), Billy Hayes (CWU), Mandy Brown (Lambeth College), John McDonnell MP, Ian Hodson (BFAWU), Ian Lawrence (NAPO), Helen Davies (Barnet Unison), Peter Pinkney (RMT), Bryan Kennedy (One Housing), Jane Aitchiso & Sean Vernell (Unite the Resistance). Model motion here. For more information and to register, click here. Called by Unite the Resistance campaign.
OTHER LOCAL CAMPAIGNS not listed above:
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. See the website at http://www.southlondonpa.org/ and to sign up for updates and alerts.
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 Pensioners Action Group
Meets bi-monthly. Campaign information at http://www.spag.btck.co.uk/
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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