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August 18, 2010
Haringey has lost nearly £17,000,000 in previously allocated government grants since the new coalition government came into power. Young people will be hit hard by the latest wave of cuts as free swimming lessons for children are scrapped, free school meals, and youth centre programmes are also likely to go. For more information please see: http://bit.ly/dkqGVk http://bit.ly/arxwAR
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Category: Uncategorised
Tags: local services
July 27, 2010
Financial Restrictions regarding 2010/11 Budget – READ IMMEDIATELY This message was sent with High importance. Sent: 23 July 2010 To: Managers Circulation Cc: CEMB Access; Labour Councillors; Conservative Councillor; Lib Dem Councillors; Independent Councillor Colleagues, I write to advise you that our monthly budget monitoring is predicting a significant in-year overspend. […]
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Category: Uncategorised
July 27, 2010
It’s what’s called a “grower”. The third, and by far the largest, meeting of Haringey Alliance for Public Services saw the alliance move out of first gear, with the tiny Big Green Bookshop in Wood Green playing host to about 30 assorted trade unionists, community activists and concerned local residents. People swapped stories of cuts […]
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Category: Uncategorised
Tags: local services
July 6, 2010
HSG organised a protest against giant corporation BP on Saturday 26 June outside Tottenham Hale BP Garage as part of Haringey Sustainability Month. The aim was to draw attention to the many climate crimes BP is responsible for, all in the name of profit, show solidarity with workers exploited by the corporation and encourage people […]
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Category: Uncategorised
Tags: environment
July 5, 2010
Equality considerations were unlawfully ignored in approval of multi million pound development Campaigners fighting to prevent demolition of businesses and homes on the Wards Corner site over Seven Sisters tube station were today celebrating victory in an important Judicial Review test case. The Court of Appeal handed down a ruling that Haringey Council had acted […]
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Category: Uncategorised
Tags: community
June 27, 2010
Writing an article for the site is pretty straightforward, although there are some bugs in joomla. Here is a very quick guide…
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Category: about us
June 21, 2010
The Spurs Ground Development is not just about a new stadium. It also involves the building of new housing, a supermarket, luxury hotel and more. It’s happening on our doorstep and will affect our lives:– who will our new neighbours?– for anyone living in temporary accommodation, maybe you’re hoping to move into one of the flats one […]
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Category: Uncategorised
Tags: planning & development
May 29, 2010
We spent the month before the general election enthusiastically distributing the latest “anti-election” issue of our newsletter. With street stalls every weekend, tube station distributions and door-to-door delivery, we handed out all 5,000 copies of the Totally Indypendent in just over four weeks. In fact we had so much fun that we completely forgot to […]
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Category: Uncategorised
Tags: misc reports
April 11, 2010
The coming election is supposed to be our big opportunity to “exercise our democratic freedom” by voting for the next government. But general elections only happen about every five years. So if we live until we’re 70 years old, we’ll only get to “exercise our democratic freedom” about ten times in a lifetime. When we […]
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Category: Uncategorised
Tags: community
March 7, 2010
Haringey Solidarity Group’s views on local and parliamentary elections are pretty clear – elections give the impression of democracy, but when it comes down to decision-making, the elected representative, whether it’s an MP or a councillor, is more interested in listening to their party than the voices of local people. However, giving local residents the […]
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Tags: community
