Public Meeting: NO RIOT EVICTIONS IN BATTERSEA
@ Doddington Community Centre,
Charlotte Despard Avenue,
Battersea Park Rd, SW11 5HD
Maite de la Calva with her daughter and their block of council flats
Tenants and squatters unite for secure housing
by Josh Hall / @JoshAJHall
Last night council tenants, squatters, private tenants and MPs gathered in Parliament to consider the next steps in the campaign for secure housing.
The meeting, called by Defend Council Housing and the House of Commons Council Housing Group, sought to connect those fighting against the implementation of aspects of the Localism Bill [doc] with those seeking to improve conditions in the private rented sector, maintain and bolster squatters’ rights, and prevent political evictions.
2011 Annual march against custody deaths
From UFFC
By Families, For Families
Saturday 29th October 2011 – From 12.30pm
Assemble: South side of Nelsons Column, Trafalgar Square, London, WC2N 5DN
UNITED FAMILIES & FRIENDS CAMPAIGN (UFFC) PROTEST & RALLY AGAINST CUSTODY DEATHS AND ABUSE!
Solidarity with Juan Carlos Piedra!
People who support migrant cleaners’ struggles in London may well know of Juan Carlos Piedra, an Ecuadorian worker victimised at University College London because of his trade union activism. He has also been active in the solidarity efforts behind UBS bank cleaners in the City of London.
Juan Carlos has been called to an interim hearing for his Employment Tribunal with LCC Services on Tuesday 25th May from 10 am.
Why the Fight Against Nursery Cuts Must Involve People of All Genders
From Feminist Fightback/Friends of Hackney Nurseries
Join us and Friends of Hackney Nurseries on Sunday 30th May, 11am-2pm at London Fields for fun, games and organising to save childcare provision!
At the end of April at least 8 community nurseries in Hackney were informed of immediate cuts in their budget of up to 60%, or about £50,000. This will mean the serious threat of nursery closures, and hardship and distress for parents, workers and children. The Learning Trust and Hackney Council are denying that there is a programme of cuts to nursery provision – so we want to know:
The Flying Bike Picket! Saturday 22 May – support the BA workers & the Right to Strike!
From Workers’ Climate Action:
On Saturday 22 May, Workers’ Climate Action will be organising a critical mass bike ride in solidarity with the BA cabin crew workers’ struggle and in defence of the right to strike.
UPDATE
British Airways bosses have once again secured a high court injunction against the strike on the basis of a technicality with the balloting process. This represents a further attack on working-class democracy and civil liberties in general; workers who voted overwhelmingly to strike are having their right to do so taken away from them and are expected to simply accept, without any option to protest or dissent, contractual changes in which they had no say whatsoever.
Judges have ruled that the BA strike, recently banned by the High Court on a balloting technicality (see here), can go ahead (see the BBC website and the Guardian website for more).
Thailand Solidarity Protest for Democracy @ Royal Thai Embassy London – 20th May, 4 – 6pm
Not Red nor Yellow! We want free & fair elections in Thailand
So the shootings and killings of innocent people has abaited in Thai government sanctioned bloodbath. According to very conservative government figures, at least 60 people have been killed since 10th April when the “Red Shirts” started their campaign for immediate elections.
News Report from Reuters:
Young Migrants & Refugees: “Refuge in Films” Festival 2010
Annual Film Festival Organized by Young Refugees Returns to the BFI Southbank from the 18 to 20 June
Great project, Great festival – Ken Loach
Open Thread: I’m an Al Jazeera News’ Election Pundit tonight. What should I say?
Thanks to the debate I had with Margaret Hodge MP for Barking, your friendly neighbourhood blogger and community activist/organiser has been asked to speak the infamous Qatar based news channel: Al Jazeera at 2.30am (British Summer Time/1:30 GMT) tonight/Friday morning.
They have asked me to discuss the local and general election results in Barking & Dagenham which will either show that the British National Party have control of the local authority or not.
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