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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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Category: haringey council
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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Category: Uncategorised
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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Category: Uncategorised
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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Category: Uncategorised
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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Category: Uncategorised
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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Category: Uncategorised
Tags: debt / welfare benefits
October 11, 2014
About fifteen people, turned up at the North London Hospice Shop in Wood Green today, to protest at their use of forced labour, and to ask them to sign up to the Keep Volunteering Voluntary pledge. North London Hospice has been staffing some of its 18 shops across Barnet, Enfield and Haringey with people on […]
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Category: Uncategorised
Tags: debt / welfare benefits
October 9, 2014
Today members of Haringey Solidarity Group and Boycott Workfare paid workfare provider Urban Futures in Wood Green a visit. Fifteen people occupied the office with banners and a soundsystem – challenging Urban Futures on their treatment of claimants and speaking to people on enforced jobsearch about their experiences and sharing info on their rights. We’d […]
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Category: Uncategorised
Tags: debt / welfare benefits
October 8, 2014
We all know Community Work Placements aren’t about helping people find work. Instead, forced unpaid work and supervised job search treat the unemployed like criminals. Six months of workfare is more than twice the maximum community service sentence! CWP forces claimants to work for 34 hours a week – most of the time doing pointless […]
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Category: Uncategorised
Tags: debt / welfare benefits
October 6, 2014
On Saturday, 11 October, from 12pm, we’ll be outside North London Hospice’s Wood Green shop, as part of Boycott Workfare’s week of action against workfare. And once more, we’ll be asking them, why they are still involved with Community Work Placements and other workfare schemes. Join us from 12pm at North London Hospice shop, 19 […]
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Category: Uncategorised
Tags: debt / welfare benefits
