On Wednesday 9th May, HSG activists were outside the Civic Centre in Wood Green where the Landlords Forum was being held, to put pressure on landlords not to increase their rents above Housing Benefit Local Housing Allowance (LHA) levels.

Although small in number, we handed out a considerable number of leaflets to people going into the forum and to passers by, explaining why we were there. Despite landlords being well aware of the widespread Housing Benefit cuts in Haringey from January 2012, some have already increased their rents above LHA rates.

As friends gather in Washington D.C. to demand the closure of Guantanamo, we take to the streets in Haringey

This morning, 11 January, on the 10th anniversary of the opening of Guantanamo, folks from Veterans for Peace, No Borders, Haringey Solidarity Group and Giuseppe Conlon Catholic Worker House gathered in Turnpike Lane, Haringey to demand the immediate closure of Guantanamo and other US gulags.

Our gathering included three former prisoners and a British veteran of the wars on Iraq and Afghanistan.  We made a specific call for the release of Londoner Shaker Aamer.

by Janet Lallysmith, parent

Parents, teachers and governors at Downhills Primary School, Tottenham have launched a campaign to prevent the Department for Education (DfE) forcing the school to become a sponsored academy by September 2012. Although no Haringey primary schools were identified in Michael Gove’s original list of 200 ‘underperforming’ schools, this hasn’t stopped the DFE targeting schools in the most deprived parts of Haringey.

Downhills’ governors, teachers and parents found out about DFE plans through a leak in the local press a few weeks ago. We mobilised rapidly and organised meetings for interested parties – the first one was attended by over 120 people and addressed by Alasdair Smith from the Anti-Academies Alliance. It quickly became apparent that most people had no idea of the Secretary of State’s agenda for privatisation in our schools or the implications for their children.  Most people signed up to be involved in the campaign.

by Kwadwo Kari-Kari

“All day, all week, we sleep on London’s freezing streets.” - Occupy LSX placard

Let me start with a confession: I have not spent a single night sleeping at any of the occupations. If that appalls you I can only apologise, but I was one of two protesters that successfully “occupied” Paternoster Square (ok hung around in Starbucks) from midday to 2pm on 15th October. I do see myself as part of the Occupy Movement, and admire those who camp in the City of London. I think that the majority of sympathisers and supporters aren’t attracted to sleeping on freezing streets of London as a method of enabling social change. So I want to suggest not that we do something different, but instead diversify our tactics to engage more of the “99%” we claim to represent.