May 19, 2015
Saturday 30th May, 10.30am-5.30pm (arrive from 10.15am for a cup of tea), London Welsh Centre (10 minutes’ walk from King’s Cross station) Details of all the workshops we’ll be hosting on the day are now on the Boycott Workfare website. If you’ve got any suggestions or would like to be involved in one, please get […]
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Tags: debt / welfare benefits
March 21, 2015
‘MAKING WORK PAY’ is a hypocritical euphemism used by Iain Duncan Smith and the government to justify cuts in welfare benefit payments and make claiming increasingly difficult. With this completely false statement comes no assurance or intent to increase and legally enforce a minimum wage significantly, in line with the massively inflated costs of rent, […]
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Tags: debt / welfare benefits
February 14, 2015
On Saturday, 7th. February, North London Hospice held a major fund-raising event, “Strictly Dancing”, at the Arts Depot in Finchley. This event promised to draw not only senior staff from the charity but also supporters and well-wishers. As part of our ongoing campaign to persuade NLH to withdraw from the Community Work Placement programme, we […]
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Tags: debt / welfare benefits
February 1, 2015
“If we want them to tap dance, then they will tap dance,” a Whitehall official on government plans for benefit claimants (Sunday Times, 2012) Take action this week to stop workfare in North London Hospice shops – From Mon 2 Feb – in a “communications conga” – social media / email / phone action – […]
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Tags: debt / welfare benefits
January 30, 2015
HARINGEY SAYS ‘NO TO CUTS!’ – JOIN THE UNITED PROTESTS Supported by local community networks, trades unions, service user campaigns, and political organisations LOBBY: Tuesday 10th February, 5.30pm Lobby the Council’s cabinet meeting – Outside the Civic Centre, High Rd N22 DEMONSTRATION: Monday 23rd February, 5.30pm Demonstration through Wood Green 5.30pm Assemble at Ducketts Common […]
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January 29, 2015
The story so far of our continued campaign against the hated Community Work Placement scheme and the ongoing participation of North London Hospice In May last year, the Department for Work and Pensions launched its latest workfare scheme for the long-term unemployed – Community Work Placements (CWP). Previous schemes met with outrage when corporations, like […]
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Tags: debt / welfare benefits
December 5, 2014
This Saturday, 6 December, 12.30pm. Join us on a picket of North London Hospices shop on Wood Green High Road (Turnpike Lane end). Haringey Solidarity Group continues its support for claimants referred to Urban Futures as part of the hated Community Work Placement scheme. On a weekly basis, claimants tell us the shameful way in […]
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Tags: debt / welfare benefits
November 28, 2014
A couple of us from Haringey took a trip to the Urban Futures office in Ilford this morning. We were there to protest the use of the Community Work Program, talk to anyone attending Urban Futures who maybe on the scheme and to inform local people as to why we were there.
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Tags: debt / welfare benefits
October 29, 2014
Earlier this year, a member of Haringey Solidarity Group and Kurdistan Anarchists Forum spent two weeks in Syrian Kurdistan. Here he writes about his experiences and considers the attempts at self-government in the region against the background of the Syrian civil war and rise of Islamic State.
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Tags: state control
October 19, 2014
Reel News footage of our Urban Futures occupation as part of the Boycott Workfare week of action against workfare.
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Tags: debt / welfare benefits
