Worried about how you will afford your gas bill in the coming winter?
Then join the protest:

PROTEST AGAINST BRITISH GAS!
PROTEST AGAINST FUEL POVERTY!
PROTEST AGAINST INCREASED GAS & ELECTRICITY BILLS!

Assemble 2 pm, Saturday 27th September,
British Gas Offices, Churchill Way (off Queen Street)

Bring drums, placards, banners etc.
Please forward this email to as many people as possible - as soon as possible!

Protest to demand -

* AN EMERGENCY WINDFALL TAX on profits of gas companies to fund measures to alieviate the burden working people & fund environmental measures such as house insulation to lower household fuel bills

* GREATER REGULATION OF CORPORATE POWER - government enforced price-capping

* RE-NATIONALISATION OF THE GAS & ELECTRICITY companies and run them to meet the needs of the many instead of the profits of the few!

British Gas raised prices last year to obsenely boost profits by 500% - Now bills have gone up again, and thousands of households have been plunged into financial hardship because of the greed of the few. And every other gas company is now raising prices.

Gas prices are a *key social justice issue* - 1 in 4 people are now in fuel poverty (spending more than 10% of income on fuel), and more pensioners die in Britain in winter - the 5th richest world economy - than in Siberia due to not being able to adequately heat their homes.

Politicians pretend to be powerless before the privatised utilities, but there are many things they could do. Instead, Brown once again cut corporation tax in another tax break for the rich.

This protest is initiated by Cardiff supporters of the People Before Profit Charter but anybody is welcome to support. Already we have had support from left wing councillors and assembly members, socialists, trade unionists, environmentalists, church poverty groups, social justice campaigners & concerned citizens. A full list of sponsors of the protest will be publicised shortly.

The People Before Profit Charter has been launched to put forward demands that would stop ordinary people sinking deeper into poverty. As well as the demands to tax corporate profits, the charter calls for an end to Brown’s 2 percent pay limit on public sector workers, the abolition of tax on fuel and energy for old people and the poor, and the restoration of the link between state pensions and average earnings.

Current signatories include (all in personal cacpicity) - George Monbiot, John Pilger, Tony Benn, John McDonnell MP, Jeremy Corbyn MP, Alice Mahon ex-MP, Bethan Jenkins AM, Cerith Griffiths Chair of Fire Brigades Union South Wales, Marianne Owens, ViceChair PCS Wales, Chris Daw, Unison Wales Youth Forum Chair, Ted Knight, former leader of Lambeth Council & many others.

Poeni os medrwch fforddio eich bil nwy y Gaeaf hwn?
Ymunwch a'n brotest:

YN ERBYN NWY PRYDAIN!
YN ERBYN TLODI TANWYDD!
YN ERBYN CODIAD YM MILIAU NWY A THRYDAN!

Ymgasglwch, 2 pm, Dydd Sadwrn, 27ain o Fedi,
Swyddfeydd Nwy Prydain, Churchill Way (oddi ar Stryd y Frenhines), Caerdydd

Dewch a offerynnau taro, placardiau, baneri
Danfonwch yr e-bost hwn i'ch cysylltiadau – cyn gynted a phosib!

Protest i hawlio-

* TRETH ARGYFWNG ar elw cwmnïau nwy i ariannu mesurau i hwyluso'r faich ar teuluoedd a ariannu mesurau amgylcheddol fel insiwleiddio tai i lleihau biliau tanwydd

* RHEOLEIDDIO PWERAU CORFFORAETHOL – prisiau teg wedi eu sefydlogi gan y Llywodraeth

* AIL WLADOLI CWMNIOEDD NWY A THRYDAN a'u rhedeg er mwyn ateb gofynion y mwyafrif yn hytrach na sicrhau elw i'r lleiafrif!

Fe wnaeth Nwy Prydain godi eu prisiau llynedd er mwyn sicrhau elw o dros 500% - Mae ein biliau erbyn hyn wedi mynd yn uwch unwaith eto, gan adael miloedd o gartrefi gyda phroblemau ariannol oherwydd trachwant y cwmnïau. Mae pob un cwmni nwy nawr yn codi eu prisiau.

Mae pris Nwy yn *fater allweddol o gyfiawnder cymdeithasol* - mae 1 ymhob 4 person yn dioddef o dlodi tanwydd (gan wario mwy na 10% o'u hincwm ar danwydd). Mae mwy o bensiynwyr yn marw yn y D.U dros y gaeaf – y 5ed gwlad gyfoethocaf yn y byd – nag yn Siberia gan nad ydynt yn medru gwresogi eu tai yn effeithlon.

Mae gwleidyddion yn smalio eu bod yn methu ag ymyrryd a'r fusnesau preifat, er mae yna sawl peth y maent yn medru ei wneud. Ond er gwaethaf hyn, mae Gordon Brown unwaith eto wedi cwtogi trethi corfforaethol er mwyn sicrhau toriad treth arall i'r cyfoethog.

Mae'r brotest hon yn cael ei threfnu gan gefnogwyr yng Caerdydd o'r Siartr 'People Before Profit', ond mae croeso i unrhyw un gefnogi. Hyd yn hyn, rydym wedi derbyn cefnogaeth gan gynghorwyr adain chwith, sosialwyr, undebwyr llafur, amgylcheddwyr, ymgyrchwyr eglwysig yn erbyn tlodi, ymgyrchwyr dros gyfiawnder cymdeithasol ag amryw o ddinasyddion eraill. Mi fydd rhestr llawn o noddwyr y brotest yn cael ei chyhoeddi'n fuan.

Mae Siartr'People Before Profit' wedi ei sefydlu er mwyn sicrhau nad yw pobol cyffredin yn disgyn fwy fwy i dlodi. Ynghyd a'r galwad am drethu cwmnïau corfforaethol, mae'r siartr yn galw ar Brown i cael gwared a'r cyfyngiad tal o 2% ar weithwyr y sector gyhoeddus, diddymu'r dreth tanwydd ac ynni i'r henoed a'r tlawd, ag ail sefydlogi'r cyswllt rhwng y pensiwn gwladol a chyfartaledd cyflog

Mae'r arwyddwyr presennol yn cynnwys- George Monbiot, John Pilger, Tony Benn, John McDonnell AS, Jeremy Corbyn AS, Alice Mahon cyn AS, Cerith Griffiths - Cadeirydd Undeb Brigâd Dân De Cymru, Marianne Owens, Is Gadeirydd PCS Cymru, Chris Daw, Cadeirydd Fforwm Ieuenctid Unison Cymru Ted Knight, cyn arweinydd Cyngor Lambeth & sawl un arall.

Os dymunwch gefnogi'r brotest, neu arwyddo'r siartr, ebostiwch:  cardiffchartists@live.co.uk