November 13, 2012
The No to Veolia Action Group will be outside Haringey Civic Centre on Monday at 19:00 as part of its ‘Protest Blitz’, urging councillors not to award a waste management contract to Veolia, a company that profits from the occupation of Palestine. The North London Waste Authority, which covers seven boroughs, is soon to award […]
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Tags: local services
November 12, 2012
Lobby the Full Council Meeting on Monday 19 November, 6.45pm at Haringey Civic Centre, High Road, N22 (opp Ewart Grove) Join the fightback against the Government’s unnecessary and unfair ‘austerity’ programme Following the protest last month against the appointment of a new Haringey Council Chief Executive and the union-organised demonstration ‘For a Future That Works’ […]
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Tags: cuts
November 9, 2012
Teachers and parents at Heartlands High School in Wood Green are organising to oppose a move by the school’s Governing Body to “further investigate” converting to academy status, and they are calling for more support. One of those against the Governing Body’s proposal, who did not want to be named, told Haringey Solidarity Group that […]
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Tags: community
October 23, 2012
Following a 30-strong protest after very short notice outside the council meeting to appoint the new CEO, and the mass protest against cuts in central London on Saturday, the Haringey Alliance for Public Services is having a general meeting this Wednesday. Please can all local community and workplace activists and organisations try to attend to […]
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October 21, 2012
You can see a video of the Haringey Housing Action Group letting agent community inspection on YouTube.
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Tags: housing
October 21, 2012
The Tottenham working class activist and campaigner Alan Woodward passed away on Saturday 20th October. Alan had a stroke and fall on Tuesday 16th October and was admitted to the North Middlesex Hospital the following day. His close family* had rallied round during his hospital stay and were with him when he died peacefully. Alan […]
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Tags: workplace organising
October 18, 2012
On Tuesday 16 October, members of Haringey Housing Action Group successfully supported a family facing eviction. Ms T, a member of the group and mother of three, is pregnant and about to be evicted from a private tenancy later in the month, just three days before her baby is due to be born. Ms T […]
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Tags: housing
October 10, 2012
Haringey Council has announced that it intends to appoint the former Chief Executive of Barnet ‘easyCouncil’ on a salary of £189,440 per annum. Nick Walkley spearheaded a mass privatisation and cuts programme in Barnet and jumped ship before its completion. We do not want Barnet’s costly experiment repeated here. His appointment is due to be […]
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October 8, 2012
Haringey Housing Action Group held an inspection of local letting agents to draw attention to high rents, short-term tenancies, discrimination against housing benefit claimants and high administration fees. On Saturday 6 October, a team of Community Housing Inspectors took a tour of local letting agents along Green Lanes to investigate their practices. About 20 people […]
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Tags: housing
October 3, 2012
Join us this Saturday, 6 October for a Community Housing Inspection of Haringey Letting Agents We’ll be meeting at 12 noon at Turnpike Lane tube to investigate local letting agents and uncover unwelcome practices: • Discrimination against people on housing benefit• Extortionate charges to prospective and existing tenants• Encouraging short term tenancies to maximise renewal […]
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Tags: housing
