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Author: Phil Tsappas \ Housing \ Meeting \ Private renter \ Radical Housing Network \ report
Report: Radical Housing Network
notes from the 27th Oct Radical Housing Network meeting by Phil Tsappas MIPIM – what next? Meeting held @ UNITE, Moreland Street, near Angel tube station – 30 in attendance After the great success of #blockboris campaign outside the property fair MIPIM, which was held for the first time in London, the Radical […]
Author: Tayeiba Shaa \ Barnet \ Barnet housing Action Group \ Housing \ job centre \ Protest \ report \ Wood Green
Sanctions protest – taking action on benefits
by Tayeiba Shaa September 11th saw a pan national day of demonstrations outside key job centres around the cuts in benefits, in particular with regards to ‘sanctioning’. According to the citizen’s advise Bureau benefit sanctions are described as: “To get Universal Credit, you have to meet certain work-related requirements. These are the things you have […]
Author: Janette Evans \ Barnet \ Barnet housing Action Group \ benefits \ Housing \ job centre \ Protest \ report \ Reverend Paul Nichols \ Unite \ Wood Green
No sanctions – no targets – action at Wood Green job centre
by Janette Evans When I first got the idea for Barnet Housing Action Group to hold a protest outside the job centre in Wood Green – it was for very personal reasons; my daughter had moved into the hostel at the Y.M.C.A. and I had got to know a few of the young people there […]
Author: Charlie Kiss \ Cycling \ human rights \ LGBT \ Peter Tatchell \ report
Reports: Cycle ride marks the history of gay rights
By Charlie Kiss On Sunday 14th September I joined the bike ride out in Camden and Islington – a fund raiser for the Peter Tatchell foundation and to commemorate the first gay rights demonstration held in Britain in 1970. I had seen the film Pride the night before and was therefore especially motivated to go […]
Author: Jim Jepps \ Camden \ Natalie Bennett \ Patrick Harvie \ report \ Scottish Independence
Debating Scottish Independence in Camden
by Jim Jepps On Friday night Patrick Harvie, a Green Member of the Scottish Parliament, addressed a meeting in Camden Town Hall making the case for Scottish Independence. In a lively and informative meeting Harvie tackled questions of the currency, nationalism, the EU and what those who live in England can do. Harvie described […]
Author: Kyri Tsappas \ Justice \ Mark Duggan \ report \ Tottenham
Vigil for Mark Duggan – report and pictures
Report and pictures by Kyri Tsappas 200 people met at Broad water Farm on Monday the 4th of August to remember Mark Duggan, who was brutally murdered by the police 3 years ago at the age of 29. The family wanted to meet at Broadwater Farm and march towards Ferry Lane where Mark was fatally […]
Author: Reuben Bard-Rosenburg \ ECONOMY \ EU \ NOTOTTIP \ report \ TRADE \ TTIP \ USA
North Londoners plan the fight against TTIP
by Reuben Bard-Rosenberg Yesterday I went along to a meeting in Islington of activists opposed to the Trans Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). TTIP is a treaty being negotiated between the US and EU, which will not only remove barriers to trade, but which will also strictly limit the ability of governments to carry […]
Author: Kyri Tsappas \ Gaza \ Haringey \ march \ Protest \ report
Haringey takes to the streets in solidarity with Gaza
by Kyri Tsappas The mood on the demonstration on Saturday was quite electric. 500 angry and frustrated protesters took to the street, waved their placards and banners and marched through Wood Green High road. There were many slogans being shouted and sung like “ In our thousands and our millions, we are all Palestinians” […]
Author: Merilyn Moos \ Gaza \ Haringey \ Haringey Justice for Palestinians \ Meeting \ report
Report: Gaza emergency meeting Wightman Road Mosque
by Merilyn Moos Over 100 people of every age and background gathered to condemn Israel’s massacre of people in Gaza. In addition to the speakers, and despite considerable technical difficulties, ironically mostly at our end, there was a moving, intermittent conversation via Skype with Hazem in Gaza. I shall focus on the main themes only. […]
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 […]
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