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Author: Heidi Saarinen \ Lordship N22 \ Paddy Power \ Wood Green
It’s not just chosen few who should get a say on high streets
by Heidi Saarinen, of the Lordship N22 Campaign Group – @LordshipN22Camp ‘As a community, we must remember that the responsibility of the future of our communities, our place here and now and more long term, is really with us’. Having been involved in the local Lordship N22 Campaign to stop Paddy Power taking over the former Lordship […]
Film \ Haringey \ Haringey Independent Cinema \ War
Film: King and Country 31st July
HIC is a not-for-profit community film club organised and run by Haringey residents. It’s usually held on the last Thursday of the month at West Green Learning Centre on West Green Road. Doors open at 7pm. Everyone welcome! Haringey Independent Cinema presents… King and Country As with several British films made in the realist period of the […]
Author: Janette Evans \ Barnet \ Mayor Hugh Rayner \ Protest \ report
“Shame on Hugh” not our Barnet mayor
by Janette Evans Barnet Housing Action Group with members of our west Hendon and BAPS greeted the mayor outside the AGM at MIND on 21 July. Barnet Tory Mayor – Hugh Raynor – sat on the housing scheme committee that decided they would pay £3,000 to landlords that rented ‘spare rooms’ without disclosing he was […]
Albino \ ELSA \ Maya Levy \ Music \ Robb Johnson \ Songs From Below
Songs From Below: Robb Johnson + Albino + Maya Levy + ELSA July 29th
When: July 29th, starts 7.30 pm Where: Fiddler’s Elbow – Camden – 1 Malden Road, NW5 3HS So we have some more fantastic musicians and song-crafters, and indeed a veritable giant of radical folk-punk. This Songs from Below is not one to miss – featuring Robb Johnson, Albino, Maya Levy and ELSA.We’re incredibly pleased to be welcoming […]
education \ Fortismere School \ Haringey \ Julie Davies \ Muswell Hill \ NUT \ petition \ Tottenham \ trade unions
Support Haringey NUT branch secretary Julie Davies
A week after impressive co-ordinated strike action trade unionists are calling for people to sign a petition of support (below) after Haringey Council formally suspended NUT Secretary Julie Davies pending an investigation into co-ordinated letters of complaint from a small number of Haringey headteachers and concerns raised over the use of her Twitter account in her […]
Author: Merilyn Moos \ Bloomsbury \ Hampstead \ History \ immigration \ MI5 \ Migrants \ Refugees \ secret service
Review: how we spied on the anti-Nazis who fled to Britain
Merilyn Moos Reviews “A Matter of Intelligence. M15 and the Surveillance of Anti-Nazi Refugees 1933-50” by Charmian Brinson and Richard Dove. We too often think of the consequences of Nazism as something far away from us. But many of the refugees who came to the UK between 1933 and 1939 ended up living in and […]
Frank Dobson \ Julie Davies \ NHS \ Pete Firmin \ Press round-up
Weekend Press Round-up
The Kilburn Times reports on residents concerned about social cleansing; “Pete Firmin, who is a committee member of the residents’ association, said: “We thought the project was about improving local facilities and living conditions in social homes; but now, those who have been living in the area are essentially being driven out. This all amounts […]
Books \ Event \ Housmans \ Irish \ John Healy
‘London Irish Fictions’ 30th July
BOOK TALK ‘London Irish Fictions’ with John Healy and Tony Murray Wednesday 30th July, 7pm at Housmans Bookshop. Tony Murray’s ‘London Irish Fictions’ is the first book about the literature of the Irish in London. By examining over 30 novels, short stories and autobiographies set in London since the Second World War, Murray investigates the […]
Child abuse \ Daniel Morgan \ Darcus Howe \ Empty Homes \ Housing \ Janine Griffis \ Mayor Hugh Rayner \ Paul Foot \ Press round-up
The Weekend Press Round-Up
The BBC reports that London boroughs have the power to penalise home owners who leave properties empty, yet they aren’t using them. “Councils are empowered to use the Empty Homes Premium to charge home owners 50% extra council tax if they leave properties empty for two or more years. “Yet Freedom of Information requests to […]
Irish Ceilidh fundraiser: Justice for Palestine 19th July
Irish Ceilidh fundraiser for Justice for Palestinians 19th July, from 7.30 pm. Cost £10
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