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
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, […]
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Tags: workplace organising
September 2, 2013
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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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July 29, 2013
Haringey resident Reverend Paul Nicolson is refusing to pay his council tax in protest at the cuts to council tax benefit and other government welfare ‘reforms’ that are making many people poorer and pushing them further into debt and poverty. He has said that “civil disobedience is morally defensible if it highlights laws which are […]
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Tags: cuts
July 22, 2013
A public meeting on the second anniversary of Mark Duggan’s death and the twentieth anniversary of Joy Gardner’s death will be held on Saturday 3 August 2013, from 18:00 to 21:00 at North London Community House, 22 Moorefield Road, Tottenham, London N17 6PY.
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Tags: community
