Protests around the country last week (including one at the Elephant & Castle) showed that there are many people in the UK keen to support and to copy the strike action that swept across much of Europe last Wednesday. Cuts to education, hospitals, benefits, working conditions and housing are being opposed by demonstrations and other local protests. Come along and show your opposition to these cuts!
EVENTS LIST
Wednesday 21 November
11am. National Student demonstration: “Funding Our Future #Demo2012: Educate, Employ, Empower”. Assembling at Temple Place on the Embankment. Called by the NUS. See Facebook event here. Resources and advice on building the demo from the Education Activist Network here . If you are a student in Southwark and want help with leafleting or other publicity, contact southwarksos@gmail.com
Wednesday 21 November
10.30am. “Fuel poverty – how and why we oppose it”. Meeting organised by Southwark Pensioners Action Group. Venue: Southwark Pensioners Centre, 305-307 Camberwell Road, SE5 0HQ . Contact: spagroup2011@gmail.com or visit website at http://spag.btck.co.uk/ (Also see event on 29 November, below.)
Wednesday 21 November
12 noon to 1pm. Protest in Southwark against welfare cuts and benefits sanctions. Demonstration & leafleting outside A4E, one of the private companies making profits off the backs of the sick and vulnerable. Assemble outside their offices at 21 St George's Road, SE1 6ES. Local information from southwarkdpac@mail.com and national info at http://www.sdpac.org.uk/
Thursday 22 November
10.45am. Protest against Pickles and his cuts. Eric Pickles, Communities & Local Government Minister, meets Wandsworth Conservative councillors who are closing down Meals on Wheels, School Crossings and Adventure Playgrounds, and cutting home helps, disabled transport and youth clubs. Meet outside Park Court, Battersea Park Road (second block of flats from Queenstown Road end), SW11 4LD. Called by Wandsworth Against Cuts and Battersea & Wandsworth Trades Council. Contact www.wandsworthagainstcuts.co.uk or phone 07818066394
Saturday 24 November
2pm. Demonstration to save Lewisham Hospital. Assemble corner of Lewisham High Street / Rennell Street (diagonally opposite Lewisham Police Station, SE13 5JZ) to march to Lewisham Hospital. More details and leaflets etc from http://www.lewishamkonp.org/resources and on-line petition at http://www.savelewishamhospital.com/.
Saturday 24 November
3pm-5pm. Public meeting: “The Housing Commission: A bleak future?” Come and discuss how to retain our housing and build a Council house or flat for everyone who needs one. Speakers: Eileen Short National Chair DCH, Julian Jackson Southwark DCH, Sally Causer Southwark Legal Advice Network. Venue: St Paul's Church Hall, Lorrimore Square, off Carter Street, Walworth Road, SE17. For more details contact: fairymill@gmail.com
Tuesday 27 November
1pm-2.30pm. Southwark Disabled People Against Cuts meeting at Southwark Independent Living Centre, 10 Bradenham Close, SE17 2QB. Please RSVP to Southwarkdpac@mail.com Please invite others you think would be interested.
Thursday 29 November
11am in central London.* Fight the Cold Homes Killers: An action to fight government and Big Six complicity in fuel poverty deaths. Organised by Fuel Poverty Action, the Greater London Pensioners’ Association and Disabled People Against Cuts. *Location to be decided by you in a poll of the worst fuel poverty killers. Vote for the “Cold Homes Killer” you want to target here, or email fuelpovertyaction@gmail.com .
Friday 30 November
Various times.* Protests against plans to rip up working conditions in the civil service and related organisations. Tens of thousands of PCS members are being urged to take Cabinet Office Minister Francis Maude at his word by staging 15-minute protests. Department for Transport (DfT) workers will strike. *Details are here.
Saturday 1 December
10am-3pm. Organising against Gove's Curriculum and fighting for school places: London Primary Schools Conference. Venue: Reay School, Hackford Road, SW9 0EN (near Oval Tube). Organised by Lambeth National Union of Teachers. Details of speakers, workshops and on-line booking here.
ADVANCE NOTICE
Wednesday 5 December
5.30pm. Demonstration when George Osborne unveils the Government’s Autumn Budget Statement. Called by UCU London Region: Assemble Kings College on the Strand. 6.30pm onwards. Rally at Downing Street organised by Unite the Resistance.
Wednesday 5 December
7 pm. Southwark Save Our Services Campaign open meeting. South Bank University, London Road Building, SE1. For room and agenda contact southwarksos@gmail.com
Saturday 8 December
11.30am for 12 noon. Transform the tax dodger Starbucks into services women depend on, such as refuges and crèches. Starbucks store at 2-3 Conduit Street, W1S 2BX, just off Regent Street (nearest tubes Oxford Circus and Piccadilly Circus). If you’ve got any questions email ukuncut@gmail.com Called by UKUncut or find more information at http://www.ukuncut.org.uk/actions/948
Tuesday 11 December
8.30am. Lobby of the TUC General Council meeting to call for the naming of a date for a 24-hour general strike. Assemble at Congress House, Great Russell Street, WC1B 3LS. Called by Unite the Resistance and The National Shop Stewards Network.
Wednesday, 21 November 2012
Tuesday, 13 November 2012
Europe Against Austerity
Support the European day of action
Wednesday 14 November
On 14 November the European Trades Union Confederation has called a day of action against austerity across Europe. There will be general strikes in Spain, Portugal, Greece, Italy, Cyprus, and Malta and solidarity action in Belgium, France, Germany and Britain.
Daytime PHOTO-SOLIDARITY EVENT
Southern Europe strikes…
…South London shouts:
“¡Αλληλεγγύη! ¡Solidarity!
¡Solidaridad! ¡Solidariedade!
¡Solidarjetà! ¡Solidarietà!”
Send a photo and message, showing your support for the general strikes across southern Europe on Wednesday plus further strikes in Italy, Belgium and France, and protests in Slovenia, Austria, Switzerland, the Czech Republic and Britain!
Join students, university workers, firefighters, disabled anti-cuts campaigners, southern European activists and others for Photo-Solidarity.
*11am -1.30pm * Come for 5…or 50 minutes*
• Keyworth Street SE1 6NG
(behind South Bank Uni London Rd Building, Elephant & Castle)
• Bring banners, flags, placards, whistles, cameras – or just yourself
• The “debt crisis” debt is not ours. We owe nothing - we should pay nothing
• Together in our millions, we will not be beaten by austerity
Called by: South London: All out for the Oct20th TUC Demo (http://tinyurl.com/14nov2012) & Southwark Save Our Services campaign (http://southwarksaveourservices.blogspot.com/)
Evening protest
Assemble: 5pm-5:30pm, European Commission, 32 Smith Square, City of Westminster, SW1P 3EU MAP. Tubes: St. James's Park / Westminster. Speakers at the protest include: Mark Serwotka (PCS), Katy Clark MP, then short march past parliament to rally.
Rally:
Starts: 6:30pm, Upper Hall, Emmanuel Centre, 9-23 Marsham Street Greater London SW1P 3DW MAP. Speakers include: Tony Benn, Andrew Murray (Unite the Union), Zita Holbourne (PCS and BARAC), John McDonnell MP. Plus activists and trade unionists live-streamed from Europe and footage from the strikes and protests. Please share and invite your friends on facebook.
Supported by Unite the Union, the TUC, PCS, NUJ, P.I.I.G.S United in London, Syriza London, Greece Solidarity Campaign. Called by Coalition of Resistance.
Wednesday 14 November
On 14 November the European Trades Union Confederation has called a day of action against austerity across Europe. There will be general strikes in Spain, Portugal, Greece, Italy, Cyprus, and Malta and solidarity action in Belgium, France, Germany and Britain.
Daytime PHOTO-SOLIDARITY EVENT
Southern Europe strikes…
…South London shouts:
“¡Αλληλεγγύη! ¡Solidarity!
¡Solidaridad! ¡Solidariedade!
¡Solidarjetà! ¡Solidarietà!”
Send a photo and message, showing your support for the general strikes across southern Europe on Wednesday plus further strikes in Italy, Belgium and France, and protests in Slovenia, Austria, Switzerland, the Czech Republic and Britain!
Join students, university workers, firefighters, disabled anti-cuts campaigners, southern European activists and others for Photo-Solidarity.
*11am -1.30pm * Come for 5…or 50 minutes*
• Keyworth Street SE1 6NG
(behind South Bank Uni London Rd Building, Elephant & Castle)
• Bring banners, flags, placards, whistles, cameras – or just yourself
• The “debt crisis” debt is not ours. We owe nothing - we should pay nothing
• Together in our millions, we will not be beaten by austerity
Called by: South London: All out for the Oct20th TUC Demo (http://tinyurl.com/14nov2012) & Southwark Save Our Services campaign (http://southwarksaveourservices.blogspot.com/)
Evening protest
Assemble: 5pm-5:30pm, European Commission, 32 Smith Square, City of Westminster, SW1P 3EU MAP. Tubes: St. James's Park / Westminster. Speakers at the protest include: Mark Serwotka (PCS), Katy Clark MP, then short march past parliament to rally.
Rally:
Starts: 6:30pm, Upper Hall, Emmanuel Centre, 9-23 Marsham Street Greater London SW1P 3DW MAP. Speakers include: Tony Benn, Andrew Murray (Unite the Union), Zita Holbourne (PCS and BARAC), John McDonnell MP. Plus activists and trade unionists live-streamed from Europe and footage from the strikes and protests. Please share and invite your friends on facebook.
Supported by Unite the Union, the TUC, PCS, NUJ, P.I.I.G.S United in London, Syriza London, Greece Solidarity Campaign. Called by Coalition of Resistance.
Thursday, 1 November 2012
Local action against health, fire and welfare benefits cuts
Southwark Action Alert 30 October 2012
More than 150,000 people marched against cuts and austerity on October 20th and 2,000 of those had joined via the assembly and feeder march in South London. It was a huge show of strength but local protests over cuts to health welfare benefits and the fire service are still going on and we ask you to support these as well. (See the listing below.)
EVENTS LIST
Monday 5 November
6pm-7pm, prior to Southwark Borough’s firework display. Petitioning in opposition to threatened closure of Southwark and Peckham fire stations. Venue: Southwark Park entrances. Volunteers needed to help: write urgently to southwarksos@gmail.com
Tuesday 6 November
1pm-2.30pm. Southwark Disabled People Against Cuts meeting at Southwark Independent Living Centre, 10 Bradenham Close, SE17 2QB. Please RSVP to Southwarkdpac@mail.com Please invite others you think would be interested.
Wednesday 7 November
11am Fire-fighters mass meeting and lobby of Parliament against 25% cuts over next four years. Assemble Westminster Hall SE1, opposite the Houses of Parliament. Details here.
Wednesday 7 November
12 noon- 1pm. Protest in Peckham against welfare cuts and benefits sanctions. Demonstration & leafleting outside Maximus, one of the private companies making profits off the backs of the sick and vulnerable. Assemble outside their offices at 218 Rye Lane SE15 4NL.
Wednesday 7 November
7 pm. Uniting the Resistance: The way forward after the Oct20 TUC demonstration. Open meeting. Vida Walsh Centre, Saltoun Road SW2 (off Windrush Square). Details from southlondonutr@gmail.com
Thursday 8 November
10-1pm. Tackling Youth Unemployment in Southwark – Stop Blaming Young People. Round-table discussion about the impact of welfare cuts and how young people should be supported. Beormund Community Centre, 177 Abbey Street SE1 2AN. Organised by Southwark Legal Advice Network. For more information, contact http://www.southwarkadvice.org.uk/
Thursday 8 November
6 pm -8pm. Public meeting: Save Lewisham Hospital's A&E, maternity and surgical units threatened with closure. Venue: Lessoff Auditorium, Lewisham Hospital, Lewisham High Street, SE13 6LH. Speakers: Heidi Alexander MP, Dr Louise Irvine (Lewisham GP, BMA, and Keep our NHS Public), Eileen Smith (Save Our Local Hospitals, Greenwich), Mike Davey (Lewisham Unison), Steve Bullock (Mayor, unconfirmed). More details from http://www.savelewishamhospital.com/
Friday 9 November
Time tba. Lobby of health unions meeting to consider deal that could see important terms and conditions abandoned affecting NHS staff and privatised staff on matching conditions. Assemble outside the Ambassador Hotel, 12 Upper Woburn Place, Bloomsbury WC1H 0HX (near Euston Station). Called by Healthworkers Network . Email healthworkersnetwork@gmail.com
Tuesday 13 November
1pm-2.30pm. Southwark Disabled People Against Cuts meeting at Southwark Independent Living Centre, 10 Bradenham Close, SE17 2QB. Please RSVP to Southwarkdpac@mail.com Please invite others you think would be interested.
Wednesday 14 November
12 noon- 1pm. Protest in Southwark against welfare cuts and benefits sanctions. Demonstration & leafleting outside SEETEC, one of the private companies making profits off the backs of the sick and vulnerable. Assemble outside their offices at: The foundry 156 Blackfriars Rd SE1 8EN.
Wednesday 14 November
5pm. Twilight protest to coincide with general strikes in Spain, Portugal, Italy, Greece, Cyprus and Malta, called by European TUC. Venue: Outside the European Commission Offices, 32 Smith Square, City of Westminster, SW1P 3EU. Tubes: St. James's Park / Westminster. Called by the Coalition of Resistance, supported by UNITE and Greece Solidarity Campaign.
Thursday 15 November
7.30pm. ‘Save Our Fire Stations’ public meeting. Peckham and Southwark both earmarked for closure. Speakers from London Fire Brigade Union and Dave Lewis, Secretary of local tenants association where a fire in 2009 killed 6 people. Venue: Welton Hall, Bushey Hill Road, Camberwell, SE5 8QF. Called by Southwark Socialists. Supported by Southwark Save Our Services campaign. For more information phone 07812 063 409. Petition to take round your neighbours available from southwarksoso@gmail.com
Thursday 15 November
7 – 9pm. Lambeth Keep Our NHS Public Campaign monthly meeting. At Duke of Cambridge, 74, Lansdowne Way, Stockwell, SW8 2DR. Details from: lambethkonp@gmail.com
Saturday 17 November
11am - 5pm. ‘Unite the Resistance’ National conference, including workshops on The international struggle against austerity, Solidarity and the law, The campaign for equality, In defence of the public sector, Our vision in education, Organising unemployed people, Migrant workers and young people. Full list of speakers and tickets here. Venue: The Emmanuel Centre, 9 – 23 Marsham Street, London SW1P 3DW (nearest tubes Victoria, Westminster, St James’s Park, Pimlico). Registration: from 10am.
Wednesday 21 November
11am. National Student demonstration: “Funding Our Future #Demo2012: Educate, Employ, Empower”. Assembling at Temple Place on the Embankment. Called by the NUS. See Facebook event here. Resources and advice on building the demo from the Education Activist Network here . If you are a student in Southwark and want help with leafleting or other publicity, contact southwarksos@gmail.com
Wednesday 21 November
12 noon to 1pm. Protest in Southwark against welfare cuts and benefits sanctions. Demonstration & leafleting outside A4E, one of the private companies making profits off the backs of the sick and vulnerable. Assemble outside their offices at: 21 St George's Road, SE1 6ES.
Saturday 24 November
2pm. Demonstration to save Lewisham Hospital. Assemble corner of Lewisham High Street / Rennell Street (diagonally opposite Lewisham Police Station) to march to Lewisham Hospital. More details and leaflets etc from http://www.lewishamkonp.org/resources
Saturday 24 November
3pm-5pm. Public meeting: ‘The Housing Commission: A bleak future?’ Come and discuss action to get what we want. Speakers: Eileen Short National Chair DCH, Julian Jackson Southwark DCH, Sally Causer Southwark Legal Advice Network. More details and contact: fairymill@gmail.com
Advance notice
Wednesday 5 December
12noon & 6pm. Protest in central London against Cuts announced by George Osborne in the Government’s Autumn Budget Statement. More details to be announced.
Wednesday 5 December
7 pm. Southwark Save Our Services Campaign open meeting. South Bank University SE1. For room and agenda contact southwarksos@gmail.com
More than 150,000 people marched against cuts and austerity on October 20th and 2,000 of those had joined via the assembly and feeder march in South London. It was a huge show of strength but local protests over cuts to health welfare benefits and the fire service are still going on and we ask you to support these as well. (See the listing below.)
EVENTS LIST
Monday 5 November
6pm-7pm, prior to Southwark Borough’s firework display. Petitioning in opposition to threatened closure of Southwark and Peckham fire stations. Venue: Southwark Park entrances. Volunteers needed to help: write urgently to southwarksos@gmail.com
Tuesday 6 November
1pm-2.30pm. Southwark Disabled People Against Cuts meeting at Southwark Independent Living Centre, 10 Bradenham Close, SE17 2QB. Please RSVP to Southwarkdpac@mail.com Please invite others you think would be interested.
Wednesday 7 November
11am Fire-fighters mass meeting and lobby of Parliament against 25% cuts over next four years. Assemble Westminster Hall SE1, opposite the Houses of Parliament. Details here.
Wednesday 7 November
12 noon- 1pm. Protest in Peckham against welfare cuts and benefits sanctions. Demonstration & leafleting outside Maximus, one of the private companies making profits off the backs of the sick and vulnerable. Assemble outside their offices at 218 Rye Lane SE15 4NL.
Wednesday 7 November
7 pm. Uniting the Resistance: The way forward after the Oct20 TUC demonstration. Open meeting. Vida Walsh Centre, Saltoun Road SW2 (off Windrush Square). Details from southlondonutr@gmail.com
Thursday 8 November
10-1pm. Tackling Youth Unemployment in Southwark – Stop Blaming Young People. Round-table discussion about the impact of welfare cuts and how young people should be supported. Beormund Community Centre, 177 Abbey Street SE1 2AN. Organised by Southwark Legal Advice Network. For more information, contact http://www.southwarkadvice.org.uk/
Thursday 8 November
6 pm -8pm. Public meeting: Save Lewisham Hospital's A&E, maternity and surgical units threatened with closure. Venue: Lessoff Auditorium, Lewisham Hospital, Lewisham High Street, SE13 6LH. Speakers: Heidi Alexander MP, Dr Louise Irvine (Lewisham GP, BMA, and Keep our NHS Public), Eileen Smith (Save Our Local Hospitals, Greenwich), Mike Davey (Lewisham Unison), Steve Bullock (Mayor, unconfirmed). More details from http://www.savelewishamhospital.com/
Friday 9 November
Time tba. Lobby of health unions meeting to consider deal that could see important terms and conditions abandoned affecting NHS staff and privatised staff on matching conditions. Assemble outside the Ambassador Hotel, 12 Upper Woburn Place, Bloomsbury WC1H 0HX (near Euston Station). Called by Healthworkers Network . Email healthworkersnetwork@gmail.com
Tuesday 13 November
1pm-2.30pm. Southwark Disabled People Against Cuts meeting at Southwark Independent Living Centre, 10 Bradenham Close, SE17 2QB. Please RSVP to Southwarkdpac@mail.com Please invite others you think would be interested.
Wednesday 14 November
12 noon- 1pm. Protest in Southwark against welfare cuts and benefits sanctions. Demonstration & leafleting outside SEETEC, one of the private companies making profits off the backs of the sick and vulnerable. Assemble outside their offices at: The foundry 156 Blackfriars Rd SE1 8EN.
Wednesday 14 November
5pm. Twilight protest to coincide with general strikes in Spain, Portugal, Italy, Greece, Cyprus and Malta, called by European TUC. Venue: Outside the European Commission Offices, 32 Smith Square, City of Westminster, SW1P 3EU. Tubes: St. James's Park / Westminster. Called by the Coalition of Resistance, supported by UNITE and Greece Solidarity Campaign.
Thursday 15 November
7.30pm. ‘Save Our Fire Stations’ public meeting. Peckham and Southwark both earmarked for closure. Speakers from London Fire Brigade Union and Dave Lewis, Secretary of local tenants association where a fire in 2009 killed 6 people. Venue: Welton Hall, Bushey Hill Road, Camberwell, SE5 8QF. Called by Southwark Socialists. Supported by Southwark Save Our Services campaign. For more information phone 07812 063 409. Petition to take round your neighbours available from southwarksoso@gmail.com
Thursday 15 November
7 – 9pm. Lambeth Keep Our NHS Public Campaign monthly meeting. At Duke of Cambridge, 74, Lansdowne Way, Stockwell, SW8 2DR. Details from: lambethkonp@gmail.com
Saturday 17 November
11am - 5pm. ‘Unite the Resistance’ National conference, including workshops on The international struggle against austerity, Solidarity and the law, The campaign for equality, In defence of the public sector, Our vision in education, Organising unemployed people, Migrant workers and young people. Full list of speakers and tickets here. Venue: The Emmanuel Centre, 9 – 23 Marsham Street, London SW1P 3DW (nearest tubes Victoria, Westminster, St James’s Park, Pimlico). Registration: from 10am.
Wednesday 21 November
11am. National Student demonstration: “Funding Our Future #Demo2012: Educate, Employ, Empower”. Assembling at Temple Place on the Embankment. Called by the NUS. See Facebook event here. Resources and advice on building the demo from the Education Activist Network here . If you are a student in Southwark and want help with leafleting or other publicity, contact southwarksos@gmail.com
Wednesday 21 November
12 noon to 1pm. Protest in Southwark against welfare cuts and benefits sanctions. Demonstration & leafleting outside A4E, one of the private companies making profits off the backs of the sick and vulnerable. Assemble outside their offices at: 21 St George's Road, SE1 6ES.
Saturday 24 November
2pm. Demonstration to save Lewisham Hospital. Assemble corner of Lewisham High Street / Rennell Street (diagonally opposite Lewisham Police Station) to march to Lewisham Hospital. More details and leaflets etc from http://www.lewishamkonp.org/resources
Saturday 24 November
3pm-5pm. Public meeting: ‘The Housing Commission: A bleak future?’ Come and discuss action to get what we want. Speakers: Eileen Short National Chair DCH, Julian Jackson Southwark DCH, Sally Causer Southwark Legal Advice Network. More details and contact: fairymill@gmail.com
Advance notice
Wednesday 5 December
12noon & 6pm. Protest in central London against Cuts announced by George Osborne in the Government’s Autumn Budget Statement. More details to be announced.
Wednesday 5 December
7 pm. Southwark Save Our Services Campaign open meeting. South Bank University SE1. For room and agenda contact southwarksos@gmail.com
Sunday, 7 October 2012
ACTION ALERT 07OCT12
Every trade union and every campaigning group against the cuts is organising for the biggest possible turnout in London on October 20. The TUC are expecting up to a million people. Join in the mobilising effort from this weekend. Also see below the events about cuts to health, disability allowances, pensioner rights and civil rights.
Wednesday 10 October
7pm. All-Southwark Rally against the cuts: UK, Greece – Same Problem, Same Solution- Cancel the Debt. Speakers: John McDonnell MP, Stella Christou (Syriza, Greece), April Ashley (Southwark UNISON). Salvation Army Hall, Princess Street, SE1. Called by Southwark TUC.
Wednesday 10 October
7pm. Lambeth KONP/38degrees meeting – how to stop CCGs commissioning private health care services. Also discussing NHS actions as part of the TUC march against austerity on Oct20. Venue: Upstairs at The Priory Arms, Priory Grove, Stockwell, SW8 2BP.
Saturday 13 October and all next week
11am & 2 pm (on Saturday) and peak travel times for stations (weekdays). Leafleting sessions publicising the TUC demonstration on 20 October against the cuts. We will supply leaflets and details of meeting-up arrangements if you ring us (07519 811 657).
Bermondsey
Camberwell Green
East Dulwich
Elephant & Castle
Peckham
Walworth Road
Sunday 14 October
11:30am-5:30pm. Conference: Austerity, Justice & the Power of Protest. Defend the Right to Protest 2012 National Conference. University of London Union, Malet Street. Speakers include Darcus Howe, Owen Jones, Nina Power, Marcia and Sam Rigg [Sean Rigg Justice & Change Campaign], Janet Alder [Justice For Christopher Alder], John McDonnell, Tony Benn, Alfie Meadows and lots more. More details here.
Monday 15 October
7pm. Rally: March for an alternative – the case for a general strike
Friends Meeting House, 173 Euston Road, London NW1 2BJ
(nearest tube Euston). Called by Unite the Resistance. Details of speakers here. Petition urging the TUC to follow up the congress vote by naming the day for a general strike is here.
Tuesday 16 October
1pm-2.30pm. Southwark Disabled People Against Cuts meeting at Southwark Independent Living Centre, 10 Bradenham Close, SE17 2QB. Please RSVP to Southwarkdpac@mail.com Please invite others you think would be interested.
Saturday 20 October
Mass TUC demonstration in London “A Future That Works”. More details from the TUC at http://afuturethatworks.org/march-logistics/ and here. 10.30am. Assemble for South London Assembly outside Imperial War Museum. Facebook Event http://tinyurl.com/oct20feeder . Contact southwarksos@gmail.com for bulk supplies of the local assembly flyer.
Advance notice
Sunday 28 October
All day. Our Universities are not supermarkets: National conference of the Education Activist Network. Venue: School of Oriental and African Studies, Thornhaugh Street, London WC1H 0XG. Facebook event here. Supported by Campaign for the Public University, Postgraduate Workers Association, Liverpool Guild of Students, Essex Students’ Union, Goldsmiths Students’ Union, Young Greens, Student Broad Left, Woodcraft Folk, Defend the Right to Protest.
Wednesday 31 October
NPC National Lobby in defence of the bus pass and other pensioner rights. 11.30am. Protest, George V statue, Old Palace Yard.
1pm. Rally/Lobby, Committee Room 14, House of Commons. Leaflet to download and further details at http://npcuk.org/
Saturday 17 November
11am - 5pm. Unite the Resistance National conference.
The Emmanuel Centre, 9 – 23 Marsham Street, London SW1P 3DW
(nearest tubes Victoria, Westminster, St James’s Park, Pimlico). Registration: from 10am. Full list of speakers and tickets here.
Wednesday 10 October
7pm. All-Southwark Rally against the cuts: UK, Greece – Same Problem, Same Solution- Cancel the Debt. Speakers: John McDonnell MP, Stella Christou (Syriza, Greece), April Ashley (Southwark UNISON). Salvation Army Hall, Princess Street, SE1. Called by Southwark TUC.
Wednesday 10 October
7pm. Lambeth KONP/38degrees meeting – how to stop CCGs commissioning private health care services. Also discussing NHS actions as part of the TUC march against austerity on Oct20. Venue: Upstairs at The Priory Arms, Priory Grove, Stockwell, SW8 2BP.
Saturday 13 October and all next week
11am & 2 pm (on Saturday) and peak travel times for stations (weekdays). Leafleting sessions publicising the TUC demonstration on 20 October against the cuts. We will supply leaflets and details of meeting-up arrangements if you ring us (07519 811 657).
Bermondsey
Camberwell Green
East Dulwich
Elephant & Castle
Peckham
Walworth Road
Sunday 14 October
11:30am-5:30pm. Conference: Austerity, Justice & the Power of Protest. Defend the Right to Protest 2012 National Conference. University of London Union, Malet Street. Speakers include Darcus Howe, Owen Jones, Nina Power, Marcia and Sam Rigg [Sean Rigg Justice & Change Campaign], Janet Alder [Justice For Christopher Alder], John McDonnell, Tony Benn, Alfie Meadows and lots more. More details here.
Monday 15 October
7pm. Rally: March for an alternative – the case for a general strike
Friends Meeting House, 173 Euston Road, London NW1 2BJ
(nearest tube Euston). Called by Unite the Resistance. Details of speakers here. Petition urging the TUC to follow up the congress vote by naming the day for a general strike is here.
Tuesday 16 October
1pm-2.30pm. Southwark Disabled People Against Cuts meeting at Southwark Independent Living Centre, 10 Bradenham Close, SE17 2QB. Please RSVP to Southwarkdpac@mail.com Please invite others you think would be interested.
Saturday 20 October
Mass TUC demonstration in London “A Future That Works”. More details from the TUC at http://afuturethatworks.org/march-logistics/ and here. 10.30am. Assemble for South London Assembly outside Imperial War Museum. Facebook Event http://tinyurl.com/oct20feeder . Contact southwarksos@gmail.com for bulk supplies of the local assembly flyer.
Advance notice
Sunday 28 October
All day. Our Universities are not supermarkets: National conference of the Education Activist Network. Venue: School of Oriental and African Studies, Thornhaugh Street, London WC1H 0XG. Facebook event here. Supported by Campaign for the Public University, Postgraduate Workers Association, Liverpool Guild of Students, Essex Students’ Union, Goldsmiths Students’ Union, Young Greens, Student Broad Left, Woodcraft Folk, Defend the Right to Protest.
Wednesday 31 October
NPC National Lobby in defence of the bus pass and other pensioner rights. 11.30am. Protest, George V statue, Old Palace Yard.
1pm. Rally/Lobby, Committee Room 14, House of Commons. Leaflet to download and further details at http://npcuk.org/
Saturday 17 November
11am - 5pm. Unite the Resistance National conference.
The Emmanuel Centre, 9 – 23 Marsham Street, London SW1P 3DW
(nearest tubes Victoria, Westminster, St James’s Park, Pimlico). Registration: from 10am. Full list of speakers and tickets here.
Saturday, 22 September 2012
Help us publicise the TUC demonstration on October 20
With the impact of austerity measures being felt across Britain as well as across Europe, the TUC demonstration ‘For a Future that Works’ on Saturday 20 October will be a hugely important event that we hope you will want to support.
All of us in Southwark who were involved in the build-up to the last TUC demonstration on 26 March last year will recall that the half-million who took to the streets on that day were mobilised by weeks of concerted activity in every locality across Britain, including here in South London. We collaborated with other boroughs to help build a feeder march on the day numbering some thousands, marching to the main demonstration. The following months then saw an escalation of strikes against the Government’s attack on pensions which, many would argue, were launched because of the enthusiasm and confidence generated by the 26 March demonstration.
We need your help urgently to mobilise hundreds of thousands of people who will want to attend the demonstration but don’t yet know about it!
This Saturday 22 September and throughout October until the demonstration we are organising mass-leafleting across Southwark publicising the TUC demonstration. Join other volunteers leafleting your nearest shopping centre or rail station, or we can supply you with bundles of leaflets for your own street/housing estate. Contact southwarksos@gmail.com or ring 07939 090 667.
Monday 24 September
6-8pm, Southwark Disabled People Against Cuts meeting at Southwark Independent Living Centre, 10 Bradenham Close SE17 2QB. Please RSVP to Southwarkdpac@mail.com Please invite others you think would be interested. One of the items on the agenda will be organising transport for disabled people to attend the TUC demonstration.
Wednesday 10 October
7 pm. All-Southwark Rally Against the Cuts: For A Future that Works! Speakers include John McDonnell MP, a speakers from Greece, local trade unionists and anti-cuts campaigners. Salvation Army Hall, Princess Street SE1 (Elephant & Castle.) Called by Southwark TUC.
Saturday 20 October
'For A Future That Works' - mass TUC demonstration in London. From 10.30am. Local assembly point at Geraldine Mary Harmsworth Park (outside the Imperial War Museum). More details about the demonstration from the TUC at http://afuturethatworks.org/march-logistics/ and here. Get TUC flyers downloaded here and contact southwarksos@gmail.com for bulk supplies of the local leaflet (attached) advertising the local assembly point at Geraldine Mary Harmsworth Park (outside the Imperial War Museum).
All of us in Southwark who were involved in the build-up to the last TUC demonstration on 26 March last year will recall that the half-million who took to the streets on that day were mobilised by weeks of concerted activity in every locality across Britain, including here in South London. We collaborated with other boroughs to help build a feeder march on the day numbering some thousands, marching to the main demonstration. The following months then saw an escalation of strikes against the Government’s attack on pensions which, many would argue, were launched because of the enthusiasm and confidence generated by the 26 March demonstration.
We need your help urgently to mobilise hundreds of thousands of people who will want to attend the demonstration but don’t yet know about it!
This Saturday 22 September and throughout October until the demonstration we are organising mass-leafleting across Southwark publicising the TUC demonstration. Join other volunteers leafleting your nearest shopping centre or rail station, or we can supply you with bundles of leaflets for your own street/housing estate. Contact southwarksos@gmail.com or ring 07939 090 667.
Monday 24 September
6-8pm, Southwark Disabled People Against Cuts meeting at Southwark Independent Living Centre, 10 Bradenham Close SE17 2QB. Please RSVP to Southwarkdpac@mail.com Please invite others you think would be interested. One of the items on the agenda will be organising transport for disabled people to attend the TUC demonstration.
Wednesday 10 October
7 pm. All-Southwark Rally Against the Cuts: For A Future that Works! Speakers include John McDonnell MP, a speakers from Greece, local trade unionists and anti-cuts campaigners. Salvation Army Hall, Princess Street SE1 (Elephant & Castle.) Called by Southwark TUC.
Saturday 20 October
'For A Future That Works' - mass TUC demonstration in London. From 10.30am. Local assembly point at Geraldine Mary Harmsworth Park (outside the Imperial War Museum). More details about the demonstration from the TUC at http://afuturethatworks.org/march-logistics/ and here. Get TUC flyers downloaded here and contact southwarksos@gmail.com for bulk supplies of the local leaflet (attached) advertising the local assembly point at Geraldine Mary Harmsworth Park (outside the Imperial War Museum).
Monday, 10 September 2012
Southwark Disabled People Against Cuts invite you to an open meeting
Are you sick of:
DISABLED PEOPLE and their supporters ARE FIGHTING BACK
Southwark Disabled People Against Cuts invite you to an open meeting to work out a plan of action to defend:
Tuesday 11 September 2-4pm
Southwark Independent Living Centre, 10 Bradenham Close SE17 2QB
RSVP Southwarkdpac@mail.com and ask to be put on the email list
- Work Capability Assessments?
- Benefit cuts?
- Services slashed?
- Care cuts?
- Disability hate crime on the increase?
- Housing benefit hammered?
- Council tax benefit shrunk?
- DLA for the chop?
- Fear?
- Despair?
- ATOS?
DISABLED PEOPLE and their supporters ARE FIGHTING BACK
Southwark Disabled People Against Cuts invite you to an open meeting to work out a plan of action to defend:
- ourselves
- our benefits
- our services.
Tuesday 11 September 2-4pm
Southwark Independent Living Centre, 10 Bradenham Close SE17 2QB
RSVP Southwarkdpac@mail.com and ask to be put on the email list
Tuesday, 4 September 2012
An ‘autumn of discontent’!
Action
Alert 26 August 2012
This
month sees the mobilisation for a demonstration on 20 October against the
Government’s cuts and austerity, timed to coincide with George Osborne’s spending
review designed to cut public spending by £83bn. Organisers want to get a million
people on the streets of London on that day, alongside the national strikes
over spending cuts, pay and pensions that are being organised. There are
details below of local planning meetings, rallies and mass-leafleting. Come
along!
EVENTS LIST
Wednesday 5 September
6 pm. Mobilisation Meeting for
the TUC’s Oct 20 demonstration ‘For a Future that Works ‘. Help us to
organise the publicity for the demonstration across Lambeth & Southwark.
Open to representatives and activists from trade unions, community and campaign
organisations in South London. Venue: the Vida Walsh Centre, 2b Saltoun Road
SW2 1EP (two minutes’ walk from the Town Hall and Ritzy
Cinema). Disabled access. Called by
various anti-cuts groups, trade union and community organisations in
Lambeth/Southwark. For more details contact southwarksos@gmail.com .
Sunday
9 September
1pm. Lobby of TUC conference in Brighton:
'Strike against Austerity!' Called by the National Shop Stewards Network. Train
tickets available at £5 return. Phone 07977 132 391. Meet at London Bridge
Station near M&S. More details here .
Tuesday 11 September
2-4pm. Meeting of the
newly-formed Southwark group of
Disabled People Against the Cuts. Open meeting to plan action to defend
ourselves, our benefits and our services. Venue: Southwark Independent Living
Centre, 10 Bradenham Close SE17 2QB. Email to Southwarkdpac@mail.com for more
details.
Saturday
15 September
All Day. Mass-leafleting across Southwark, and at
the Lambeth Country Show, publicising the TUC demonstration on 20 October
(see below). Contact southwarksos@gmail.com to join other volunteers leafleting your
nearest shopping centre, or we can supply you with bundles of leaflets for your
own street/housing estate!
Saturday
22 September
Protest at Lib-Dem conference in Brighton. Organised by Stop
the Cuts, Right to Work and Brighton Trades Council. More details
to be announced.
Advance notice
Thursday 4 October
7-9pm. All London public meeting: tackling fuel poverty.
Venue: Crossroads Women's Centre, 25 Wolsey Mews, Kentish Town, London NW5 2DX.
Organised by Fuel Poverty Action (www.fuelpovertyaction.org.uk ).
Sunday 7 October
Demonstration outside the Tory
Conference in Birmingham. Called by the Right to Work Campaign and others. More details
to be announced.
Wednesday 10 October
7 pm. All-Southwark Rally Against
the Cuts: For A Future that Works! Speakers include John McDonnell MP,
speakers from Greece, local trade unions and anti-cuts campaigns. Venue to be
announced. Called by Southwark TUC.
Sunday 14 October
11:30am – 5:30pm. Conference:
Austerity,
Justice & the Power of Protest. Defend the Right to Protest 2012
National Conference. London. Details here.
Saturday
20 October
11am. 'A Future That Works' - mass TUC
demonstration in London. More
details from the TUC at http://afuturethatworks.org/march-logistics/ and here.
Get flyers downloaded here
or contact southwarksos@gmail.com for
bulk supplies and information about the local assembly point planned for Oval
Tube/Kennington Park. (Also see 5th & 15th September above,
for information about the South London mobilisation for this event.)
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