December 7, 2013
On Thursday 28th November a delegation of traders from North Tottenham High Road West addressed the Council’s cabinet meeting. They presented their 4,000-strong petition in which local people rejected the demolition of the area. The traders condemned the consultation over the future of the area as a ‘sham’ and said they had been lied to […]
Category: Uncategorised
Tags: planning & development
November 24, 2013
Mike Freer MP is a co-architect of the controversial ‘Section 144′ law that criminalises squatting in domestic properties. On 22nd November 2013, campaigners arrived to protest and camp outside his constituency office (the Finchley building that used to be Margaret Thatcher’s office). At first, in a PR move, he invited them off the pavement and […]
Category: Uncategorised
Tags: housing
November 11, 2013
Photo: Hjuk at en.wikipedia North London’s man-made water supply, the New River, is 400 years old this year… Much has been made of its history; but it isn’t well known that the New River’s creation and development is intimately bound up with the growth of capitalism. Now radical history publishers Past Tense have just produced […]
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Tags: community
October 28, 2013
The latest issue of Haringey Solidarity Group’s newsletter, Totally Indypendent, is now out, with articles about Tottenham ‘regeneration’ (including the new Costa Fortune in Seven Sisters), the implications of cuts to legal aid and much more. You can download a link from our website, just click on the link in the Newsletter side panel, but […]
Category: Uncategorised
Tags: misc reports
October 6, 2013
ZOMBIE DISCO fundraiser, with bands and DJs playing the deadest beats at the Silver Bullet, 5 Station Place, Finsbury Park, N4 Friday 25 October – free before 8pm, £5 / £3 (concs) after. Music and bar til 3am. Tube: Finsbury Park is 1 min walk. Buses: 4, 19, 24, 106, 153, 210, 236, 253, 254 […]
Category: future events
September 17, 2013
Haringey Solidarity Group are calling for people to join a picket outside the Harringay Homebase following recent confirmation that the Willesden branch of Homebase continue to recruit unpaid workers via their local Job Centre. This is despite earlier statements from Homebase stating that they would only take on people on work experience through local organisations, […]
Category: Uncategorised
Tags: workplace organising
September 2, 2013
Category: Uncategorised
Tags: housing
August 21, 2013
Haringey Council has recently said that it will listen to the concerns of local traders over the ongoing ‘regeneration’ of Tottenham High Road, which many fear is little more gentrification. Many traders have been recently speaking out against proposed demolitions and the threat of higher rents which could close many local family businesses. But despite […]
Category: Uncategorized
Tags: community
August 15, 2013
On 12 August 2013 the final stage of the rollout of the government’s benefit cap started. The cap has been ‘trialled’ in Haringey and three other London boroughs, since April. In July, it then spread to areas which had low numbers of households affected. Now local authority areas with over 276 affected households will have […]
Category: Uncategorised
Tags: debt / welfare benefits
August 7, 2013
Saturday 3rd August marked the second anniversary of the death of Mark Duggan at the hands of armed police, and the twentieth anniversary of the death of Joy Gardner at the hands of immigration officers. At a packed public meeting at North London Community House, members of their families and others shared their stories and […]
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Tags: community
