March 31, 2014
Today members of Haringey Solidarity Group joined Boycott Workfare in paying a visit to the London headquarters of workfare exploiter YMCA. They’ve defended their use of unpaid, forced work in previous statements and we’ve called them out on it. Mandatory Work Activity forces people to work without wages under threat of sanction, and doesn’t help […]
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Tags: debt / welfare benefits
March 24, 2014
with families, carers & supporters11am, Saturday 29th March 2014Assemble at Bruce Castle Park,Lordship Lane N17 8NU Move off 11.30 – march down Tottenham High Road to Tottenham Green East, N15 4UR for a PUBLIC SPEAK-OUTFollow up meeting; Haringey benefit claimants and supporters11 am – 1 pm Saturday 12th AprilNorth London Community House, 22 Moorefields Rd, […]
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Tags: debt / welfare benefits
March 9, 2014
On the afternoon of Friday 7 March members of HSG headed to Poundland on Wood Green High Road to hold a protest against the company’s continued use of free labour, in particular its exploitation of young unemployed people, as part of the government’s workfare schemes.
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Tags: debt / welfare benefits
February 3, 2014
On Saturday 1st February the Our Tottenham Community Planning Conference was attended by over 95 people representing 42 local community groups & organisations, residents associations, traders groups, education institutions and London wide networks.
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Tags: community
January 28, 2014
Come to an info and skill-sharing day in London on 15 February, 10.45am-5.30pm, Maiden Lane Community Centre near Kings Cross. Directions here. Getting your welfare rights is about a lot more than just knowing your welfare rights. Across the UK, people are getting together to support each other and pushing back workfare, standing up to sanctions, wrong decisions, and insecure […]
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Tags: debt / welfare benefits
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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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
