Hackney Solidarity Network

Meeting to plan the first edition of the new "Hackney Heckler", HSN newspaper. Please come if you have ideas about content, production, distribution, etc, or if you just want to chat about other stuff ... :-)

Agenda
9.30 Registration, tea and coffee
10.00 Welcome - London Tenants Federation
10.15 Shelter, Planning Aid for London, Just Space
Planning Network and the London Tenants
Federation will each outline one key issue
they would like to see included in a housing
strategy for London if they were responsible
for its publication.
11.00 Tea and coffee break
11.20 Workshops (details adjacent)
12.20 Plenary session
1.00 Lunch
2.00 Presentation on the Mayor’s draft London
Housing Strategy - Alan Benson, GLA Head
of Housing and Homelessness.

THURSDAY 4th JUNE - a meeting at the Twelve Pins Pub, 263 Seven Sisters Road, next to Finsbury Park station, to build solidarity with the upcoming strike.

More info here: http://www.rmtlondoncalling.org.uk/node/615 and here: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/event.php?eid=91196911038&ref=mf

More information about the dispute here: www.rmtlondoncalling.org.uk/jobspayjustice

A meeting for everyone who wants to support Underground and TfL workers in our fight for jobs, pay and justice.

A Call to the Anarchist MovementAs the world economy heads deeper into an unprecedented recession, the spectre of social unrest is again spreading across Europe and the World. In the UK we have experienced an extended holiday from wide-spread class struggle as social democracy and capitalism worked hand in hand to maintain social peace. But as the guarantees of the banks have gone, so too have the guarantees that the state can manage the emerging social conflict, which could potentially turn into social rebellion unseen in the UK for decades.

A Call to the Anarchist MovementAs the world economy heads deeper into an unprecedented recession, the spectre of social unrest is again spreading across Europe and the World. In the UK we have experienced an extended holiday from wide-spread class struggle as social democracy and capitalism worked hand in hand to maintain social peace. But as the guarantees of the banks have gone, so too have the guarantees that the state can manage the emerging social conflict, which could potentially turn into social rebellion unseen in the UK for decades.

Direct action has been used throughout history as a powerful tool for
social change. Ordinary people have been responsible for all major social
changes - women's rights, civic rights and even democracy itself in many
places can be said to be result of direct action.

Climate change is the most urgent challenge we've ever faced - and yet
instead of serious sustainable solutions we see new runways and new coal
fired power stations. Are you interested in doing more to highlight the
urgency of climate change? Come to this workshop on direct action by
Climate Camp.

Tree Musketeers Solstice Tree Wheel cycle tour of Hackney's Trees, Gascoyne Road, Well Street Common E9, 11am, 21 June 2009

with Kevin Smith (Carbon Trade Watch) and including a Screening of 'The Carbon Connection'.

When world leaders negotiate a new climate agreement this December, they
will promote one solution above all others: carbon trading. The EU already
has its own carbon trading system; in the US, Obama is working hard to
push a 'cap-and-trade' system through Congress. But what is carbon
trading? What is the theory behind it? How does it work in practice? And,
most importantly, will it help us avert climate chaos?

Discover the truth behind carbon trading in a unique workshop organized by

* Hackney Hostel Residents are sick of waiting! *

Join residents to demand housing at 10 am on Tuesday the 30th June at Hackney Town Hall on Mare St, Hackney Central.

Residents of Hackney’s hostels and temporary accommodation demand that:

- decisions on their applications be made within the 33 working days the council promises.

- Residents be housed in safe, suitable and decent housing at all times.

- Disrepair in the hostels be fixed immediately.