J30! Support the anti-cuts strikes in Hackney!

On June 30th in Hackney thousands of teachers, lecturers, benefits and tax workers will be on strike to defend their pensions from a draconian and political motivated attack by the government. Nationally, hundreds of thousands will be out on strike.

Anti-cuts groups like Hackney Alliance across the country are mobilising people to support these strikes, as we recognise their fight is our fight, to defend our social/public services, services that we pay for.

Most schools in Hackney will be shut (see http://local.teachers.org.uk/hackney/Campaigns/PensiosnJune2011.cfm) and as there will be few strike breakers in Hackney we have decided, with advice from NUT reps, to recommend people go to a limited amount of schools where there will be big pickets or there may be scabs or there are anti union heads.

So we are recommending people go to show support to these pickets lines at 7/7.30;
B6 College (Lea Bridge Road Roundabout), Bridge Academy (Laburnum Street, Haggerston), London Fields Primary (Westgate Street, by Broadway Market) , Woodberry Down Primary (Woodberry Grove) and Hackney Community College (Falkirk Street/Kingsland Road).
And also the PCS picket line at Wilton Way DWP by the Town Hall.

We are recommending people from Shoreditch and the south of the borough go to Bridge Academy first thing and then join the march from there to Hackney Community College, where dozens of ESOL and other staff face redundancy and will be on strike within weeks,  at c.9am.

We are recommending people from the north of the borough come to Hackney Town Hall for 8am for supporting any pickets that may call for support, e.g the Learning Trust or Job Centre.

And that people then converge on Hackney College at 10am for a rally/assembly before moving off to Old Street to go into central London for the mass demo, meeting at Lincoln Inn Fields at 11am

We also understand there may be a UkUncut action in Hackney on the day.

Please have your phone charged and on, to get updates during the morning and please talk to people on picket lines etc!

for more details see;

https://hackneyalliance.wordpress.com/2011/06/29/j30-support-the-anti-cuts-strikes-in-hackney/

http://www.pcs.org.uk/en/campaigns/30-june/

http://www.j30strike.org/

cheers Glyn Harries joint secretary Hackney Alliance to Defend Public Services

Unison calls for support for J30 strikes

Support your fellow workers on June 30

Members will have seen the news that education workers and civil servants will be taking strike action on the 30^th June in defence of their pensions, and in the case of PCS the wholesale slaughter of the Department of Work and Pensions by the Tory government.

This is an important strike and marks a distinct change in the tactics of the national unions who are, for the first time since the 1970s, coordinating their action to maximise its effectiveness.

At the same time the government focuses all its malice on the civil servants, teachers, lecturers and classroom assistants, it is also looking into ‘reforming’ our pensions with a view to us paying more, earning less and working harder for longer. We will be next and so, we too, need to be prepared to stand up to the government when the time comes.

No one wants to go on strike; it is the last resort but it is also the most powerful weapon that we as workers have in defence of our jobs and conditions of employment.

The members of the ATL, NUT, UCU and PCS,  will be feeling pretty apprehensive about taking this action and we know how daunting it can be to stand on a picket line, so we are asking our members to show solidarity on the day by stopping and talking to those on the pickets in Hackney at the job centre and DWP building in Sylvester path and across the boroughs schools and colleges.

By showing our solidarity in their time of struggle we can build a stronger trade union movement in this borough and when the time comes for us to take action hopefully that solidarity and support will be returned.

Members can send a message of support to their public sector colleagues who are fighting for all of us by e-mailing the NUT branch at: secretary@hackney.nut.org.uk, ATL at jfreeman@atl.org.uk or the local PCS branch here:  Charles.mcdonald@jobcentreplus.gsi.gov.uk.

http://hackneyunison.wordpress.com/2011/06/16/support-your-fellow-workers-on-june-30/

ESOL FEST June 19th!

THE ESOL FEST

On Sunday 19th June there will be two big ESOL FESTS in London, one in the south and one in the north and east, with the aim of bringing together students, teachers and community organisations for a celebration of multi-culturalism and ESOL, within the context of a general defence of Adult and Further Education.

The east London fest will meet at Hackney Town Hall 12.30pm OR Stepney Green Park at 12.30pm to march to Bethnal Green Gardens for an afternoon of celebration and activities from 2-5pm.

Afternoon activities will include music, dancing, food, speakers, henna tattoos, and lots of other activities.

We hope the event will be a festive day with a serious message behind it that ESOL is important and deserves, like all of Adult Education to be protected and we invite all teachers, students and community organisations to come out and support us.

Hackney Alliance ‘Cavalcade Against the Cuts’, June 11th, to publicise J30!

To build support for J30 the Hackney Alliance to Defend Public Services will be doing a Cavalcade of cars and bicycles on June 11th meeting at 10.30 at Morrisons or Topps Tiles car park in Stamford Hill! We will go from Stamford Hill to Dalston to Hackney and to Homerton Hospital! We have 6 cars and loads of bikes committed so far but want more! SO if you have a car, a truck, a lorry (Eubanks where are you!), a tank, a motorbike, scooter, bicycle, whatever bring them down. Bring flags and posters with J30 on. Bring noise!
For those of you without transport we need people leafletting alongside ( fast walkers!) or static at Dalston and Hackney, or you could get a lift!

The Hardest Hit – 10,000+ disabled people protest cuts 11/5/2011

With the minimum of press coverage, 10,000+ disabled people demonstrated against the Tory cuts ion the 11th May 2011.

See the website at http://thehardesthit.wordpress.com/

http://www.disabilitylib.org.uk/component/content/article/1-latest-news/445-the-hardest-hit-march-anger-at-government-no-show-as-more-than-10000-march

And the winner of the TUC Anti Cuts 60 second video contest is..

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http://www.tuc60seconds.org.uk/

And another great Hackney anti-cuts video!

SPCO Anti Cuts video, filmed at Hackney Alliance protest

Benefit Gig for Hackney Alliance, March 26th

TUC March 26th March for The Alternative!

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