Hackney Solidarity Network

We've launched a new, free newsletter called the Hackney Heckler. The first issue has been enthusiastically received by the good people of the borough - so enthusiastically that we hardly have any copies left. We had 3000 printed and they will be gone by Saturday! But please read on for a link to download as a PDF!

The Heckler aims to be a focal point for resistance in Hackney and work has already started on the second issue. If you would like to to contribute or can help with distribution, then please get in touch!

Hackney Solidarity Network/Reel News FREE monthly film night!!

This month: COUNTDOWN TO COPENHAGEN

7pm onwards, Sunday October 11th @ The MOTH club, cnr. Vallette Street and Morning Lane (opp. Hackney Town Hall)

Our regular night of films and discussion focuses on the global protests around the climate talks in Copenhagen this December - and, 10 years on from Seattle,
these mobilisations could provide a similar watershed moment. So here's a chance to discuss not only what's going to happen in Copenhagen and how to get there,

"Next Reel News / Hackney Solidarity Network documentary film and discussion night!
Sunday September 13th 7pm - 10 pm @ The MOTH, Vallette Street Hackney

[article posted on the Meanwhile at the Bar blog by Butchersapron on 17 August 2009 in response to the Left's recent anti-BNP campaigning. http://meanwhileatthebar.org/bar/phpBB3/]

For Workers’ Led Just Transition!

For sustainable, skilled, socially useful work!

For democratic public ownership of the energy and transport industries!

For internationalist cooperation, assistance and solidarity!

For a world based on the rational, collective application of our efforts to provide for our needs without destroying the future!

Climate Change is a Class Issue!

The very first public HSN outing was, in association with the London Coalition Against Poverty, an event in Dalston (May 2008) with the Movement for Justice in El Barrio, who were seeking international support for their campaign against gentrification in NYC. Updates and more information from MJB here:

Voices of the Other New York:

Dispatch from the Second Encuentro for Dignity and Against Displacement in El Barrio

July 02, 2009

By Michael Gould-Wartofsky

NO HACKNEY HIGH-RISE
is opposed to Southern Housing’s 19 FLOOR TOWER proposed at 22-44 LONDON LANE E8 3PR and all other proposed inappropriate towers.
• Tower blocks do not preserve or enhance character or appearance where it is proposed - in a conservation area.
• Proposed development is out of scale with the terraced streets that surround the proposed development.
• Proposed development is too dense, adversely affecting the quality of life for those who live within and surrounding the development.

From Liberty & Solidarity website:

http://libertyandsolidarity.org/node/48

This report documents and critically analyses the working conditions of construction workers on the Stratford City development site of the 2012 Olympic Games. We base our findings entirely on the accounts of anonymous IWW and non-IWW construction workers employed there.

The report documents widespread mismanagement and a lack of resources devoted to ensuring that health and safety standards are maintained. Police intimidation of workers and harassment union activists is also documented.

Originally issued as an email by Hackney Council for Voluntary Services:

The Community Empowerment Network (CEN) cross cutting grant programme has been designed to fund new and established networks of voluntary and community sector (VCS) organisations to develop their infrastructure and work more closely with the Team Hackney Partnership and the CEN.