Residents were manhandled at the AGM 2023 meeting (Annual General Meeting) today as can be seen in the video.
#disgacefulbehaviourbyNewhamLabour
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Yep, you can't make this stuff up.
Surfers turning up to protest again sewage pollution were advised not to go into the sea because of... wait for it... wait for it... sewage pollution.
Ho hum.
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Friends of mine have opened up a free shop in Dalston today, only a 5 minute walk from Dalston Kingsland station (yes, literally everything is free!)
please give this a rt, go visit or follow them on instagram @/the_friendly.society
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I have to say this has to be one of if not the biggest PR blunder I've ever seen any industry make.
What in God' name were they thinking about. "I know, our customers hate us so let's tell them we want to charge them an extra £10bn." WHAT?!
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Simply not true.
There are just 2 stretches of river in England designated as bathing water, Ilkley and Oxford.
Both have 'no swim' advisories posted this morning.
Both are listed as having 'Poor' water quality.
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Laura Kuenssberg asks Coffey if she’d swim in our waters & is happy to let kids in it this summer
Therese Coffey can’t see a problem then calls the European Environment Agency liars on live TV when they say our waters are the worst in Europe.
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#ridge #bbclaurak
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Tell people you admire them.
Thank people when you learn from them.
Appreciate the people who make you feel comfortable in their presence.
Say it regularly and watch your relationships improve.
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We're celebrating the publication of 'Local Police Monitoring: A Practical Guide' and discussing histories of police monitoring in Newham tomorrow evening!
We're excited to welcome and learn from such an incredible panel.
From 6pm at the Old Spotted Dog, E7. Come through!
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Also tomorrow in Parliament, this despicable move should not be lost amongst renters reform bill noise. Asylum seekers to lose basic housing protections in move to cut hotel use
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The RHL will continue to take back empty homes and buildings, house all homeless and fight for universal social housing. We encourage others to do the same.
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Plans to abolish ‘feudal’ leasehold system in England and Wales dropped. Well there we are. No time to enact compulsory future commonhold by this Govt, apparently.
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🗣️ “We cannot allow them to spread insecurity and socially cleanse us. We demand no demolition, no privatisation – refurbishment, security and justice!"
Claimant, resident and campaigner Aysen Dennis on why the Aylesbury estate redevelopment should be stopped.
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Last chance to see Fight4Aylesbury today. We are opening 4-9pm for the last time.
is speaking at 4pm, and Dan Renwick at 6pm. Get yourself down here.
Location details in pinned thread.
#Fight4Aylesbury
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Shame is a feeling of not being good enough, not mattering, and an embarrassment for having needs or wanting them to get met. Shame can be inherited and passed down generationally.
Here How:
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As the chart demonstrates, the provision of Social Rent homes across England, which are closest in nature to traditional council housing, is severely lacking.
Instead, Affordable Rent (based on up to 80% of the local market rent) and Shared Ownership are prioritised.
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CALL OUT 🗣️ The police have wrecked the siege camp, but we're not moving. We need people in Leicester to lend us sleeping bags, roll mats, warm clothing, blankets, tarpaulin, food. We've already had some rapid response donations but we need more as we continue to lay siege!
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"May 1st Workers' Day
All the revolutionary working classes struggle in unison against the occupation and its schemes!"
(Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, 2023)
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May day, May day! Our demands to Newham Labour Council
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May day, May day! Our demands to Newham Labour Council
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#OtD 30 Apr 1923 radical Jewish actor Al Lewis was born in NYC. Best known for the role of grandpa Munster in the Munsters, his mother took him to May Day protests and he became a socialist. He later helped rehouse evicted people during the depression.
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Facts - yep thousands look at any of these campaign groups Labour councils have been social cleansing & knocking down council estates for at least 15 years
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Listen to talk about the deeply inhumane nature of the US blockade against Cuba.
#MayDayCuba2023 #OffTheList
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“Former council flats in some inner-city areas are being sold off or even demolished and replaced with new apartment blocks as areas gentrify. Former tenants are moved further out of London, cost of the new apartments price out those in social housing..”
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The rumors are true: due to popular demand, we're extending the Fight4Aylesbury exhibition for two more weekends!
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Another fantastic day at the Aylesbury Estate tenants exhibition . Hearing it might be extended for two weeks, weekend opening. Hope the organisers can rest up a bit. They smashed it!
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1313 people died whilst experiencing homelessness in 2022.
Whilst the rich turn their backs, we will #MakeThemCount.
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Come along to Fight4Aylesbury exhibit. Open Friday 14 -Sunday 23 April. You are invited to A’s council flat on Aylesbury Estate to celebrate 20+ years of housing struggles for housing justice and against gentrification, social cleansing and demolition of social housing.
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🗞️Really important coverage of living in overcrowded and hazardous homes featuring the temporary accommodation block where have been organising and supporting residents.
We need high-quality, 3, 4, 5 family-sized bed council homes now!✊❤️🏡
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-653120
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Our member A wants to thank everyone for your compassion in the face of 's cruelty. To our horror, Haringey confirmed today that they're going ahead with the eviction tomorrow. Please join our Twitter storm tomorrow 10-12 and tell to #LetAStay!
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This is the future @haringeycouncil are planning for our member A when they evict her on Thursday. She has diabetes & hypertension, she lives in chronic pain & walks with a stick- but it’s okay, their reviewer says she can just sit on the street and eat iceberg lettuce. #LetAStay twitter.com/HaringeyHousin…
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Coming up right now on BBC news at 10, our campaigners from 10 Victoria St in Newham highlight the effects of overcrowding on children:
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campaigning about these issues since a decade. Good to see that public attention is being put on these lived yet often disregarded & unseen realities!
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Michael Buchanan on the BBC: 1000s of children forced to share beds with their parents and terrible effects that overcrowding has on family life. Featuring Focus E15 campaigners and fighters for housing justice: bbc.co.uk/news/uk-653120 @NewhamLondon @rokhsanafiaz @lynbrownmp
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FocusE15 fighting for the rights of the people of Newham. Gentrification is hounding the borough
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I’ve broken promises?! Me?! When will people understand that it’s not my fault, but the fault of my hapless officers who seem incapable of delivering on my ever-changing whims?
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Overcrowding in temporary accommodation, and Newham’s failure to meet its promise to to rehouse those in a particularly grim block used for TA.
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The effects of overcrowding severely hamper the life chances of children living in Britain today. Thank you for this article. For more information:
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Michael Buchanan on the BBC: 1000s of children forced to share beds with their parents and terrible effects that overcrowding has on family life. Featuring Focus E15 campaigners and fighters for housing justice: bbc.co.uk/news/uk-653120
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Mayor of Newham promised to move families out of the substandard, unsafe accommodation at Brimstone House, E15, by the end of May 2023
60 families are still living in the building with no end in sight
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BBC shines a spotlight on Newham council’s broken promises
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“I deserve my own room, space and bed." Nine year old Deni shares a bed with her mum & is forced to do her homework on the floor. This is the reality of living in an overcrowded home.
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