South London People’s Assembly Conference. Saturday 4 October at Lambeth Town Hall, Brixton.
Great report of Saturday’s fantastic South London People’s Assembly in South West Londoner! More pictures to follow! Thanks to everyone who came down to take part in discussions on austerity and housing, disability, young people, the NHS, benefit justice and the living[…]
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BBC Complaints – Form Letter Response to No More Austerity News Blackout
This is the form letter response from the BBC Complaints department regarding the news blackout regarding the People’s Assembly No More Austerity March and Rally in Parliament Square.
The BBC seem to be ignoring the complaints and just sending the same form letter[…]
Estimated 50,000 march in London against ConDems’s austerity
There were an estimated 50,000 people who made the march today, starting from Portland Place, The BBC headquarters, but nothing was known whether the BBC News would deign to report upon the demonstration against the ConDem Cuts on our services. Perhaps they preferred to concentrate on the[…]
SELPA: South East London People’s Assembly
As part of the People’s Assembly Against Austerity. SELPA aims to cover the South East of London. Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Lewisham, Southwark.
Twitter @PeoplesSELondon
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SouthEastLondonPeoplesAssembly?fref=ts
An Introduction to the Economics of Austerity and the Alternatives.
With Michael Burke, economist and campaigner for the People’s Assembly Against Austerity, and[…]
The Daily Mail, Young Street, W8 5EH (High St Kensington tube)
So, the Daily Mail accused Ralph Miliband – a Jewish refugee who fled the Holocaust and proudly fought the Nazis – of “hating Britain”. The irony. This is a paper that once backed the Blackshirts and Adolf Hitler, whose genocidal regime posed arguably the[…]
Martin decided to join the first Essex People’s Assembly meeting and this is the video live stream.[…]
Read more →PEOPLE’S ASSEMBLY against austerity.
Opening plenary:
http://occupylondon.org.uk/archives/30714
First Discussions of the day.
http://occupylondon.org.uk/archives/30721
Democracy and Decision Making.
http://occupylondon.org.uk/archives/30706
Welfare not Warfare
http://occupylondon.org.uk/archives/30725
Local Assemblies, Defending Public Education/Welfare State & The Sharp End.
http://occupylondon.org.uk/archives/30729
OPEN MIC:
Ewa of @NoDashforGas Reclaim the Power. Total Policing
Ruth London, OL and Fuel Poverty Action.
Question to Caroline Lucas.
Timothy[…]
Read more →Welfare not Warfare
The government is spending billions on war in Afghanistan while it wields the austerity axe on benefits, housing, health and education. Spending on the Trident nuclear submarine system is protected while libraries close and public sector workers see wage cuts. The wars of the past decade have had a terrible cost in[…]
Tactics for the anti-austerity movement
A wide variety of tactics including strikes, mass demonstrations, direct action, legal action and online organising have already been put to good use in the anti-austerity movement. In this session, with plenty of input from the floor, we’ll consider the strengths and weaknessess of these different forms of action and[…]