UK Newswire Archive
Remploy Demonstration At Tory Party Conference – 8:30am Wednesday
09-10-2012 16:42
8:30am
ICC, Broad Street, Birmingham, B1 2EA
Accessibility information: Demonstration will be held outside. I’m afraid I don’t know how long it is expected to go on for. There is level access to the demonstration area in Centenary Square, and accessible toilets within 500 meters in Paradise Forum and Brindley Place restaurants/bars.
New Street, Moor Street and Snow Hill Train Stations are all around the same distance from the ICC and have level access. Five Ways train station is slightly closer but does not have level access.
Israeli Embassy contacts Sussex Police over Brighton protest
09-10-2012 15:40
Sussex Police have disclosed they have been in contact with the Israeli Embassy over Palestine solidarity street protests against the new Sodastream shop in Brighton.Cuts Cafe - first impressions and pics
09-10-2012 10:52
Photos from Census Resistance solidarity vigil at Liverpool court
08-10-2012 23:01
Join anti-war/solidarity vigils outside the court again from 1pm on Friday 19 October (Andy) and Friday 23 November (Sarah).
Conflict in the countryside as badger cull set to start
08-10-2012 22:18
Book Review: Hard Work: Life in Low-Pay Britain (2003) by Polly Toynbee
08-10-2012 20:55
A Review of Hard Work: Life in Low-Pay Britain (2003) by Polly Toynbee
Badger Cull Tory Conference
08-10-2012 18:31
Picket the Bigots - Tory Party Conference
08-10-2012 17:50
Extradition: Judiciary Aborts British Civil Rights
08-10-2012 17:23
http://youtu.be/JOC_XhITPmE Police corruption !
08-10-2012 17:04
"In August 2008 Michael Doherty, who lives in Hillingdon, discovered a long series of messages exchanged by his 13-year-old daughter with someone who appeared as if he might be grooming her. The messages were sexually explicit. At one point the person proposed staging a kidnap and whisking her away. Doherty went to the police.......Cuts Cafe building open: 1 Stamford St, SE1 9NT
08-10-2012 16:55
So, this is it: Cuts Cafe: 1 Stamford Street, SE1 9NT. Doors opening to public at 5pm + people needed to help sort out the space!
Workshops starting this evening with Crypto Party - see full events listing
IMPORTANT UPDATE: we are not yet wheelchair accessible, entry only via stairs - We hope to be wheelchair accessible by Wednesday. Therefore the DPAC workshop has been postponed and will be rescheduled, please keep an eye out.
The Crypto party workshop will still be happening at 6.30pm today; and all are welcome to come and help with final set ups. Obviously we’re massively sorry about this, and will endeavour to help anyone that still wants to come.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Cuts-Caf%C3%A9/362777590463045
London Anarchist Bookfair Programme of Meetings
08-10-2012 15:53
Saturday27th October
From 10am to 7pm
Queen Mary, University of London,
Mile End Road, London, E1 4NS.
Silvia Federici Book Launch
08-10-2012 15:40
November 12, 2012 18:00LG02, New Academic Building, Centre For Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London, New Cross, SE14 6NW
Historical Materialism Conference London November 8-11 2012
08-10-2012 15:36
8-11 November
Far Right Fallouts Continue!
08-10-2012 11:03
Unite The Right? Yeah Right! Several little grupuscules held wee demos with minimal success! Read all abaht it!Haringey activists stage letting agents inspection
08-10-2012 10:55
Haringey Housing Action Group and other housing activists 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 twenty people took part in the inspection, asking letting agency staff about their company policies, including: whether they accept tenants claiming housing benefit; how many months deposit they require; what charges they make to tenants; and what is the longest tenancy period they offer.
Of the agencies visited, four agreed to take part, while Winkworths, Kings Group, Bairstow Eves, Brian Thomas and Anthony Pepe all denied access or refused to speak to the self styled inspectors.
The protest took place against a backdrop of housing benefit cuts, a lack of Haringey letting agents willing to accept tenants on housing benefit, rent inflation outstripping wage inflation, and a concern that landlord and letting agent practices are leading to a significant change in the local demographic.
Rent increases in the private rented sector are not driven by increased costs. In a recent survey by Shelter, only four per cent of landlords said they had increased rents because increased mortgage costs. By contrast, one in five had put up rents because their letting agent had encouraged them to.
Renting out property is not a business like selling luxury cars: housing is a basic necessity. When letting agents put up fees and rents, this pushes tenants further into poverty. Haringey Housing Action Group will support any tenants facing eviction because they cannot pay their rent.
The protest felt like a huge success. We managed to gather information that will be of help to prospective tenants in the borough (the results will be publicly available), and we put across our demands to the letting agent staff, as well as to hundreds of passersby, many of whom told us of their own bad experiences of local letting agents. We also shut down a handful of letting agents, possibly the ones who felt they had more to hide. And we turned the tables on the letting agents who carry out checks on our homes without permission.
Haringey Housing Action Group organised this action alongside Haringey Solidarity Group and Haringey Private Tenants Action Group. We are part of a growing network of groups in London who are beginning to take action around the increasing housing crisis, groups such as Hackney Housing Group, Housing for the 99%, Hackney Digs and Camden Federation of Private Tenants.
