No to Crossrail hole Bill Demo against Tower Hamlets Council Weds

The key demand being pressed today Wednesdsay 8 February 2006 on Tower Hamlets Council - is in the resolution passed at the KHOODEELAAR campaign meeting on Sunday 22 January 2006 .

Here are the texts as contaiend in THE khoodeelaar legal letter to Tower Hamlkets Coucnil chief executuive on 25 January 2006

Brick Lane London E1 Area Campaign against the Crossrail hole Bill 2006
© Muhammad Haque / CBRUK / KHOODEELAAR / LAWMEDIA 2006


KHOODEELAAR! legal affairs e-mail
 lawmedia@hotmail.com
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25 January 2006

To

Christine Gilbert
Chief Executive
London Borough of Tower Hamlets Council
Mulberry Place
5 Clove Crescent
London E14 2BG

Scheduled to be sent to fax 020 7364 4911 at 0920 Hrs GMT on Wednesday 25 January 2006

actual texts of the demands as put to the meeting as a motion and as agreed by the meeting on Sunday 22 January 2006 held at 5 PM at the BRADY centre, 192 Hanbury street London E1 held in support of the KHOODEELAAR campaign against the Crossrail hole PLAN/BILL/SCHEME


To Tower Hamlets Council that you, the London Borough of Tower Hamlets Council, make clear your condition as put so far to the select committee of MPs on the Crossrail Bill and you do this by implementing the community’s demand as put to the meeting on Sunday 22 January 2006 and agreed by the meeting.

The texts as spoken by the mover of the motion are quoted as delivered, with explanatory contents included in English from the original Seelotee also spoken by the mover MUHAMMAD HAQUE.



This document has been written by MUHAMMAD HAQUE the keynote speaker at the meeting who moved the motion that was agreed as the demand of the meeting.

1. (a) “ there is no provision for any digging of any hole or similar in any part of the Brick Lane area”
(b) “ in any other part of the East End that is affecting the business, the lives, the livelihoods, the society of our community”
(c) “ if” the LBTH Council “ want to make any representation citing any technical excuse” (if the LBTH Council tries the ploy that ‘so and so has given us advice to follow this course...”) “then we must have the evidence of any advice received in front of the community IN TIME so that the proceedings in the House of Commons of the select committee on the Crossrail Bill is not missed or delayed in any way because of this.

2. “That the Council take steps - the Majority group on the Council take steps - to hold an emergency meeting of the full Council in the next two weeks and the sole item for the agenda will be about the Crossrail plan in view of the opinion expressed by this meeting and by others in the community”

Do you agree this one ?
Meeting : [loudly] YES

3. “If the Council refuse to accept our demand or to act according to the demand then we take appropriate action in court or constitutionally otherwise so that the Crossrail plan is not allowed to go ahead in any case through our community.”

Meeting: LOUD APPROVAL


[End of texts] [transmitted via fax to Christine Gilbert at 0920 Hrs GMT on Wednesday 25 January 206]

KHOODEELAAR online report at 1405 Hrs Wednesday 8 February 2006 on the khoodeelaar demonstration against Tower Hamlets council

Tower hamlets council was put on notice today that their continuing failure to pass the unequivocal resolution saying no to crossrail hole was fuelling political anger and social disquiet in the brick lane London e1 area. And if those who were still engaged in looking for ways to sabotage the community’s voice against the crossrail hole would pay a very heavy political price indeed.


The political opposition was boosted by local Bethnal green and bow mp George Galloway who sent a message of solidarity to the demonstrators. In it, Galloway pledged total support to the khoodeelaar campaign of opposition to the crossrail hole in the area and or anywhere else in the borough.


Addressing the demonstrators at the entrance to mulberry place, the khoodeelaar campaign organiser Muhammad Haque said
“More than 1000 people turned up on Sunday 22 January at the Brady centre to demonstrate solidarity with the campaign against the crossrail whole attack on the BRICK LANE AREA. At that meeting I moved a motion which was overwhelmingly, unequivocally passed.

Janet Ludlow, leader of the main Opposition Group on Tower Hamlets the Lib Dems said that the controlling group of councillors on Tower Hamlets Council who had been responsible for bringing the Crossrail hole problem to the area, “are not interested in explaining their actions to local people. They are only interested in talking to themselves and to Government”.

Speaking in the knowledge of the massive demand for the Council to pass the No to Crossrail hole Bill resolution [which demand Janet Ludlow herself witnessed at the Brady Centre on 22 January 2006], she told the KHOODEELAAR campaign against Crossrail hole Bill demonstration today that the current controlling group of councillors on Tower Hamlets Council were treating local people as meriting the lowest priority. "We are bottom of the pile, as local people" she concluded.

Opposition Lib Dem councillor on Tower Hamlets Council, Councillor Akikur Rahman said that the Crossrail hole would disproportionately affect the established Bangladeshi community.

A speaker who is a resident in the Hanbury Street said that the Council had behaved in an undemocratic, unrepresentative, intransparent way and that they had superposed the truth of local groups opposed to the Crossrail hole being included in the relevant communicators and representations. The way forward for her and her fellow campaigners was -
‘No to this hole, No to corrupt Deals and No to corrupt Council’.





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filed 1405 Hrs GMT Wednesday 8 February 2006