Protests
against energy costs, the bedroom tax and austerity are all featured below.
Come to one of the organising meetings of local campaigns and help us get
organised! Also, buy your ticket on-line here for the South London People’s
Assembly on 7th December.
Don’t forget
to tweet this listing, post on your Facebook page, or help us with leafleting
for these events. Thank you.
EVENTS LIST
Tuesday 5
November
10am – 6 pm.
Various activities in as part of the Lewisham Bonfire of Cuts protest. See here
for events and venues.
6pm.
Blockade of Westminster Bridge, assembling in Jubilee Gardens. Also bring your
energy bills for burning, to highlight the massive rise in energy prices which
have left people choosing between heating and eating. This part of a Day of
civil disobedience called by the People’s Assembly Against Austerity, backed by
the TUC. See
http://thepeoplesassembly.org.uk/ and Facebook event .
Wednesday 6
November
10am-12.30pm.
Fuel Poverty Action's first free 'Keep Warm Cafe': an opportunity to hear about
what causes fuel poverty and what we can do about it, and advice on your bills
and keeping warm. Free refreshments. Venue: 307 Camberwell Road (Southwark
Pensioner's Centre), London, SE5 0HQ. For more information email to
fuelpovertyaction@gmail.com or ring 07586482157.
Sunday 10
November
3-6pm. Community activists’ groups collaboration
against austerity & cuts. Reviewing and planning local campaigns.
Camberwell Leisure Centre cafe (Artichoke Place, off Camberwell Church Street,
a minute walk from the green). For an agenda and more information CONTACT Lili
at info@peoplesrepublicofsouthwark.co.uk.
Tuesday 12
November
10am.
Protest and lobby to support an Opposition motion against the Bedroom Tax in
Parliament: an opportunity to pile the pressure on the government. Bring
banners and placards. Meet 10am-12.30 in the Boothroyd Room (wheelchair
accessible), Portcullis House. More details from Shaun at Southwark Benefit
Justice Campaign on 07896 341 964.
6.30pm.
London coordinating meeting of London KONP. Discussion to include: NHS London
report Call to Action! and other NHS campaigns. Venue: Unite Offices,
Theobald’s Rd, WC1X 8TN (Holborn Tube, or buses to end of Southampton Row)
Details at http://camdenkeepournhspublic.org.uk/events.html
Wednesday 13
November
6.30pm.
Public debate on welfare reform at Bells Gardens Community Centre Buller Close
SE15 6UJ. Speakers: Leaders of the three parties represented in Southwark
Council, ie Cllr Richard Livingstone, Cllr Anood Al-Samerai and Cllr Michael
Mitcher, as well as Sally Causer of Citizens Advice Bureau and Eileen Short of
Defend Council Housing, followed by questions and discussion. Organised by
Southwark Group of Tenants Organisations (SGTO). More information from
michael@sgto.co.uk
Tuesday 19
November
12noon –
2pm. Protest rally at parliament when Jeremy Hunt gives his response to the
Francis, Berwick and Keogh reports to the House of Commons. Further details
from the 4:1 Campaign (for mandatory minimum staffing levels) at
fourtoonecampign@gmail.com
Wednesday 20
November
5.30pm –
7pm. Protest Lobby of Lambeth Council meeting: Save Brixton from Property Developers.
Save Lambeth College in Brixton, No Bedroom Tax Evictions. At Lambeth Town Hall
SW2. More details at http://lambethsaveourservices.org/
6.00pm.
Southwark Save our Services organising meeting at the Walworth Methodist
Centre, 54 Camberwell Rd Camberwell,
London SE5 0EN. All welcome – email to southwarksos@gmail.com for an agenda.
7.00pm.
Southwark Benefit Justice campaign organising meeting (in same venue as the SOS
organising meeting) Contact southwarkbenefitjustice@gmail.com or see their
Facebook page.
Thursday 21
November
7pm. Lambeth
Keep Our NHS Public campaign organising meeting at Duke of Cambridge pub, 74
Lansdowne Way, SW8 2DR (5 mins from Stockwell Tube). As there is now Southwark
KONP group, supporters are invited to attend your nearest group meeting. More
details from lambethkonp@gmail.com
ADVANCE
NOTICE
Please note
that the Lambeth People’s Assembly, originally planned for Saturday 2 November,
has been postponed. More details at http://lambethsaveourservices.org/
Saturday 7
December
10am – 5pm.
South London Peoples Assembly Venue: Richard Hoggart Building (Main Building),
Goldsmiths University, New Cross London SE14 6NW
Speakers
include Owen Jones, Francesca Martinez, Kevin Courtney, Mark Campbell, Louise
Irvine, Billy Hayes. Workshops include Austerity and Racist Scapegoating,
Welfare not Warfare, Alternatives to Austerity, Disability, Austerity and
Resistance, How can we save our NHS?, Explaining and Fighting the Benefit Cuts,
Austerity, Language and the Media, Protest Films – Making our own news, Banner
Making - a practical workshop, The Battle for Education. More tba. Get tickets
online (£5 advance, Concessions (JSA/ESA/Income Support) are free - please send
an email to event@southlondonpa.org See full details at
http://www.southlondonpa.org/
Saturday 25
January
12 noon.
SBJC Demonstration against the bedroom tax and benefit cuts. Assembly in
Peckham Square. Get flyers and more details from
southwarkbenefitjustice@gmail.com or see their Facebook page.
OTHER LOCAL
CAMPAIGNS:
Fire
stations closures
Southwark
campaign information and their action plans are to be found at
http://www.saveourstations.org.uk/southwark and London action at
http://www.london.fbu.org.uk/?page_id=527. See a hard hitting film on fire
brigade cuts: http://ow.ly/oBEO5
Royal Mail
campaign against privatisation
Background
information and petition sheet from the Communication Workers Union at
http://www.cwu.org/save-our-royal-mail.html.
Southwark
Defend Council Housing campaign usually meet at St John's Parish Offices in
Larcom Street SE17, just off Walworth Road. National campaign website here. For
info about meetings contact initially southwarksos@gmail.com
Southwark
Disabled People Against Cuts meet at Southwark Independent Living Centre, 10 Bradenham
Close, SE17 2QB. Details from southwarkdpac@mail.com
Southwark
Pensioners Action Group
Meets
bi-monthly. Campaign information at http://www.spag.btck.co.uk/
South London
People's Assembly. Usually meet in The Bread & Roses, Clapham. Contact
lilimarauk@hotmail.co.uk for details of meetings. See more on Facebook or go to
http://www.southlondonpa.org/
South London
Unite the Resistance. Meet monthly. Usual venue: Rear Bar, Effra Hall Tavern,
Kellett Road, Brixton, SW2. For more information phone 07956579466. For
information about the national UtR organisation go to http://uniteresist.org/
