Khoodeelaar! is demonstrating against Tower Hamlets Council today. Gathering at 5 PM Outside the Brady Centre in the Hanbury Street [off Brick Lane] London E1 .Today's Khoodeelaar! demonstration is marking the anniversary of the demand on Tower Hamlets Council to pass an unequivocal No to CrossRail hole Bill Motion that was made by a Khoodeelaar! community meeting held at the Brady Centre in hanbury Street. The meeting loudly agreed with me when I spoke to it and highlighted the roles played by certain elements exercising the crucial decision-making powers on and IN THE NAME of the Tower Hamlets Council in bringing the unnecessary Crossrail hole attacks on the community.
By ©Muhammad Haque
The Organiser, Khoodeelaar! The Brick Lane and Whitechapel London E1 Area campaign against Crossrail hole Bill
1320 Hrs GMT
London Monday 22 January 2007
Exactly a year ago today [chronologically], 22 January 2007 [the day was a Sunday], more than 1000 people turned up at the Brady Centre in the Hanbury Street London E1 [off Brick Lane] to attend a mass meeting in support of the Khoodeelaar! Movement. The meeting was to say NO to Crossrail hole Bill.
The motion that I thought up as I spoke on 22 January 2006 was very clear and very much in accord with the wishes of the people present [and those of the many that were not able to attend].
Tower Hamlets Council controlling clique INVITED the Crossrail hole to the East End.
By doing so, the clique caused the community to do a campaign to stop the Crossrail hole here. The Khoodeelaar! Campaign was set up to defend the community against Crossrail hole-inviter Tower Hamlets Council and to stop the Crossrail hole being given parliamentary go-ahead. We have campaigned for three years against the Crossrail hole.
We have forced [in March 2006] the scrapping of the CrossRail DIRT hole [that was dropped from the ‘CrossRail Bill] part of the Crossrail Bill under pressure from our campaign against it]. That Crossrail DIRT hole [and tunnel] was going to be dug in the Brick Lane and Whitechapel London E1 Area. Now, a year on from the Khoodeelaar! public meeting demand of 22 January 2006, we are still campaigning to have the remainder of the Crossrail hole plot to be scrapped. That Crossrail hole is still included in the Crossrail Bill that is now ‘going through’.
Tower Hamlets Council always has had the option to Say No to Crossrail hole plot.
So why doesn’t it pass the Motion Saying No to Crossrail hole the community passed at that meeting held at the Brady Centre on 22 January 2006?
We can find no legal reason.
We can find no economic reason.
We can find no social reason.
No environmental reason.
No engineering, technical reason.
So we are again calling on all the councillors with any pretence of identifying with the community to use their CURRENT positions on Tower Hamlets Council and move a motion for thj full Council top pass it.
We have already given them the motion to table.
The KHOODEELAAR Motion for Tower Hamlets Council to Say No to Crossrail hole reads as follows:
, “This Council agrees with the Khoodeelaar! the community-defending opposition to the Crsosrail hole being dug in the area and asks the Secretary of State to find any alternatives by taking into actual account all the points that have been made by all the people in the Eats End who have put forward written and verbal objections to the CrossRail plan as it is’.
If the Council controlling clique is prepared to drop its anti-democratic, unaccountable, corrupt practices and be honest with the community then we can help with the further details involved in the drafting of a motion that would formally suit all the relevant constituency and constitutional conditions of the East End …
We are giving this opportunity to the controlling clique in the Council to stop behaving dishonestly and asking them to start behaving honestly, accountably and manifestly in support of and in defence of the economic, social, democratic and environmental needs, demands and wants of the area in whose name they sit on the present Tower Hamlets Council.
As far as the Opposition councillors are concerned, we are telling them that they have no excuse to not organise call ins or to organise motions for the Full Council in accordancee with the Khoodeelaar! community demand of 22 January 2006.
Although the local elections have gone and some ‘new’ councillors have got elected,. the principle of the demand which I spoke [and thus moved] and which was loudly, unconditionally and unanimously passed and supported by the Khoodeelaar! community meeting held a year ago today [22 Jan 2006] stands valid.
It is the most efficient and democratically accountable way out for the Tower Hamlets Council from the mess of the Crossrail hole attack that they had brought upon this community.
We are preparing court action, a series of court actions, that will cost more time and resource than the controlling claque on Tower Hamlets Council appears to realise.
Say No to CrossRail, hole
No to Crossrail-backing Council
Say No to Crossrail
Pass the Motion against Crossrail hole Bill Now
To be continued
The Organiser, Khoodeelaar! The Brick Lane and Whitechapel London E1 Area campaign against Crossrail hole Bill
1320 Hrs GMT
London Monday 22 January 2007
Exactly a year ago today [chronologically], 22 January 2007 [the day was a Sunday], more than 1000 people turned up at the Brady Centre in the Hanbury Street London E1 [off Brick Lane] to attend a mass meeting in support of the Khoodeelaar! Movement. The meeting was to say NO to Crossrail hole Bill.
The motion that I thought up as I spoke on 22 January 2006 was very clear and very much in accord with the wishes of the people present [and those of the many that were not able to attend].
Tower Hamlets Council controlling clique INVITED the Crossrail hole to the East End.
By doing so, the clique caused the community to do a campaign to stop the Crossrail hole here. The Khoodeelaar! Campaign was set up to defend the community against Crossrail hole-inviter Tower Hamlets Council and to stop the Crossrail hole being given parliamentary go-ahead. We have campaigned for three years against the Crossrail hole.
We have forced [in March 2006] the scrapping of the CrossRail DIRT hole [that was dropped from the ‘CrossRail Bill] part of the Crossrail Bill under pressure from our campaign against it]. That Crossrail DIRT hole [and tunnel] was going to be dug in the Brick Lane and Whitechapel London E1 Area. Now, a year on from the Khoodeelaar! public meeting demand of 22 January 2006, we are still campaigning to have the remainder of the Crossrail hole plot to be scrapped. That Crossrail hole is still included in the Crossrail Bill that is now ‘going through’.
Tower Hamlets Council always has had the option to Say No to Crossrail hole plot.
So why doesn’t it pass the Motion Saying No to Crossrail hole the community passed at that meeting held at the Brady Centre on 22 January 2006?
We can find no legal reason.
We can find no economic reason.
We can find no social reason.
No environmental reason.
No engineering, technical reason.
So we are again calling on all the councillors with any pretence of identifying with the community to use their CURRENT positions on Tower Hamlets Council and move a motion for thj full Council top pass it.
We have already given them the motion to table.
The KHOODEELAAR Motion for Tower Hamlets Council to Say No to Crossrail hole reads as follows:
, “This Council agrees with the Khoodeelaar! the community-defending opposition to the Crsosrail hole being dug in the area and asks the Secretary of State to find any alternatives by taking into actual account all the points that have been made by all the people in the Eats End who have put forward written and verbal objections to the CrossRail plan as it is’.
If the Council controlling clique is prepared to drop its anti-democratic, unaccountable, corrupt practices and be honest with the community then we can help with the further details involved in the drafting of a motion that would formally suit all the relevant constituency and constitutional conditions of the East End …
We are giving this opportunity to the controlling clique in the Council to stop behaving dishonestly and asking them to start behaving honestly, accountably and manifestly in support of and in defence of the economic, social, democratic and environmental needs, demands and wants of the area in whose name they sit on the present Tower Hamlets Council.
As far as the Opposition councillors are concerned, we are telling them that they have no excuse to not organise call ins or to organise motions for the Full Council in accordancee with the Khoodeelaar! community demand of 22 January 2006.
Although the local elections have gone and some ‘new’ councillors have got elected,. the principle of the demand which I spoke [and thus moved] and which was loudly, unconditionally and unanimously passed and supported by the Khoodeelaar! community meeting held a year ago today [22 Jan 2006] stands valid.
It is the most efficient and democratically accountable way out for the Tower Hamlets Council from the mess of the Crossrail hole attack that they had brought upon this community.
We are preparing court action, a series of court actions, that will cost more time and resource than the controlling claque on Tower Hamlets Council appears to realise.
Say No to CrossRail, hole
No to Crossrail-backing Council
Say No to Crossrail
Pass the Motion against Crossrail hole Bill Now
To be continued
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