CALL FOR SOLIDARITY FROM St. Agnes Place and the Kennington Play Project
19.11.2005 11:15 | Free Spaces | London
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CALL FOR SOLIDARITY FROM St. Agnes Place and the Kennington Play Project
Please Forward this to people in South London.
On Wednesday 23rd November 2005 at Brixton Town Hall, Lambeth Council will be holding a full council meeting. We want to discuss the future of St Agnes Place and the nearby Kennington Play Project. Their plan is to close the playground and knock down twenty one properties (52 54 56 58 60 62 64 66 68 70 72 74 75 77 79 81 83 85 87 89 and 91) in a £16m deal with London Quadrant Housing who want to buy the land.
For more than 30 years, the squatters of St Agnes Place have formed one of Britain's most distinctive communities and have established themselves as a positive part of the wider community. The Kennington Play Project has offered a safe open-access play facility for local children which is as in demand now as it was over 25 years ago when it opened. Once the council takes a decision like this, the likelihood of further land sales and demolition in the area increases. Where will this stop and where will the children who use the playground go to play?
The demolition notice has already been served, and it is now a matter of time before they act on it. Lambeth Council has been trying to get rid of the residents of St Agnes Place for years - Councillor Keith Fitchett recently described them as “parasites”. This is the same man who is at the centre of a Council Housing fraud scandal which has recently cost £2.8m of tax payer’s money. Police fear this money may never be recovered and Fitchett may be forced to resign as a result. We are being expected to put our trust in a council which is knee deep in scandal and financial mismanagement.
The meeting on the 23rd is your opportunity to make your views heard. We need to let Lambeth know that their plans are totally unacceptable and will have an extremely negative impact on the local residents. The more people we can get down to Brixton Town Hall the better. Please pass this information on to your friends and arrange to meet at 6:00pm.
For further information please feel free to call: 07795 542 458
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Please Forward this to people in South London.
On Wednesday 23rd November 2005 at Brixton Town Hall, Lambeth Council will be holding a full council meeting. We want to discuss the future of St Agnes Place and the nearby Kennington Play Project. Their plan is to close the playground and knock down twenty one properties (52 54 56 58 60 62 64 66 68 70 72 74 75 77 79 81 83 85 87 89 and 91) in a £16m deal with London Quadrant Housing who want to buy the land.
For more than 30 years, the squatters of St Agnes Place have formed one of Britain's most distinctive communities and have established themselves as a positive part of the wider community. The Kennington Play Project has offered a safe open-access play facility for local children which is as in demand now as it was over 25 years ago when it opened. Once the council takes a decision like this, the likelihood of further land sales and demolition in the area increases. Where will this stop and where will the children who use the playground go to play?
The demolition notice has already been served, and it is now a matter of time before they act on it. Lambeth Council has been trying to get rid of the residents of St Agnes Place for years - Councillor Keith Fitchett recently described them as “parasites”. This is the same man who is at the centre of a Council Housing fraud scandal which has recently cost £2.8m of tax payer’s money. Police fear this money may never be recovered and Fitchett may be forced to resign as a result. We are being expected to put our trust in a council which is knee deep in scandal and financial mismanagement.
The meeting on the 23rd is your opportunity to make your views heard. We need to let Lambeth know that their plans are totally unacceptable and will have an extremely negative impact on the local residents. The more people we can get down to Brixton Town Hall the better. Please pass this information on to your friends and arrange to meet at 6:00pm.
For further information please feel free to call: 07795 542 458
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I work in s London and will be there on Wed
19.11.2005 13:41
Against the indulgences of neoliberalism and religious fundamentalism
Copyleft Matthew Edwards 2005
One century is done, another begun. It is time for us to think big and act small. It is time for us to connect our small actions together to make a big movement.
With all the creative techniques of NON-VIOLENCE we can invent let us
1) FIGHT violence
2) FIGHT nuclear weapons
3) FIGHT the idea of the third world war
4) FIGHT the reality of the third world
5) FIGHT climate change
6) FIGHT corruption
7) FIGHT fundamentalism
8) FIGHT religious intolerance
9) FIGHT bombs with food
10) FIGHT consumerism
11) FIGHT materialism
12) FIGHT commercialism
13) FIGHT celebrity culture
14) FIGHT political jargon
15) FIGHT the rape of mother nature
16) FIGHT pollution
17) FIGHT apathy
18) FIGHT despair
19) FIGHT cynicism
20) FIGHT those making a killing in our name
21) FIGHT ignorance
22) FIGHT privatisation
23) FIGHT the corporatisation of the media
24) FIGHT the society of the spectacle
25) FIGHT ennui
26) FIGHT the machine
27) FIGHT against resource wars
28) FIGHT selfishness
29) FIGHT bling bling
30) FIGHT disaffection
31) FIGHT disconnection
32) FIGHT alienation
33) FIGHT anomie
34) FIGHT reification
35) FIGHT loss of community
36) FIGHT commodity fetishism
37) FIGHT greed
38) FIGHT envy
39) FIGHT the obsession with style over substance
40) FIGHT exploitation
41) FIGHT injustice
42) FIGHT oppression
43) FIGHT over-production
44) FIGHT waste
45) FIGHT cultural obesity
46) FIGHT hypocrisy
47) FIGHT bigotry
48) FIGHT self thought policing
49) FIGHT disrespect for elders
50) FIGHT conspicuous consumption
51) FIGHT war profits
52) FIGHT hypnosis
53) FIGHT the domination of the weak by the strong
54) FIGHT unhappiness
55) FIGHT unnecessary consumer desires
56) FIGHT unsustainable economic growth
57) FIGHT stress
58) FIGHT disease
59) FIGHT mental disorder
60) FIGHT the fast food economy
61) FIGHT the attention deficit disorder culture
62) FIGHT your disbelief in your own creative power
63) FIGHT the power
64) FIGHT hype
65) FIGHT hyper-power
66) FIGHT weapons of mass deception
67) FIGHT dismal stories
68) FIGHT war in peace clothing
69) FIGHT hegemony
70) FIGHT space imperialism
71) FIGHT false profits
72) FIGHT hatred
73) FIGHT the elimination of indigenous cultures
74) FIGHT the extinction of species
75) FIGHT deforestation
76) FIGHT lies
77) FIGHT poverty of mind and spirit
78) FIGHT (un)free enterprise
79) FIGHT servitude
80) FIGHT the programming of the mind by advertising and propaganda
81) FIGHT unethical finance
82) FIGHT unethical medicine
83) FIGHT loss of love
84) FIGHT your own personal demons
85) FIGHT misery
86) FIGHT false consciousness
87) FIGHT false conscience
88) FIGHT tyranny
89) FIGHT apartheid
90) FIGHT the loss of the idea of the brotherhood and sisterhood of mankind
91) FIGHT whited sepulchres
92) FIGHT all modern forms of the system of indulgences
93) FIGHT the idea of paying for salvation
94) FIGHT the fall from the perfumed garden we are all born into
95) FIGHT the idea of death
LET YOUR LIGHT SHINE TO THE WORLD.
JOIN THE GREEN REFORMATION.
WITHOUT YOU IT IS NOTHING.
Matthew Edwards
e-mail:
matthewedwards999@yahoo.co.uk
TOGETHER WE WILL WIN THIS ONE
19.11.2005 14:06
The Kennington Chartist
And another one...
19.11.2005 16:58
Zorro