Homebase pay your workers! Picket Sun 14 Apr, 1pm, Harringay
This Sunday, a few of people from Boycott Workfare will be coming to Haringey to picket Homebase in Green Lanes about their take up of forced labour. Sunday is their busiest trading day in the week. Please come along and join in.
1pm-2.30pm, Sunday 14th April, Haringey Homebase, Green Lanes. (close to Sainsbury's & Harringay Green Lanes overground)
In just one week, Homebase in Haringey profits from 750 hours of unpaid work, with over 20 workfare placements in the store. A fact which they proudly display on a poster in their back office.
Not surprisingly, this is having a massive impact on the paid work available: a staff member has told us that, since tens of workfare placements were brought in, overtime has been cut for everyone. Some people’s hours have been cut from 48 down to eight – far below the threshold for Working Tax Credits – because that is all they are contracted for.
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- Published: 11 April 2013
Community Housing Inspectors return to expose anti-social Haringey letting agents
On Saturday 27th April 2013,as part of a London-wide day of action against Letting Agents, 20 Haringey Community Housing Inspectors went out to investigate the practices of local Letting Agents in Green Lanes, Haringey.
Other actions took place in other parts of London including in Islington/Hackney, Brixton and Herne Hill, see the Let Down campaign blog.
Haringey’s action was a follow-up inspection to one held six months ago – in October 2012, members of Haringey Housing Action Group became ‘Community Housing Inspectors’ and exposed the unwelcome practices these Letting Agents are engaged in: profiting and supporting landlords all to the detriment of the basic need of people to find an affordable, secure home.
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- Published: 29 April 2013
Return of the Community Housing Inspectors - Letting Agent protest Sat 27 Apr, 12pm
Join in, and meet at 12 noon outside Turnpike Lane tube.
We will once again be taking to the streets of Haringey to inspect local letting agents as part of Let Down: a day of action against letting agents.
Six months ago, on 6 October 2012, local housing campaigners became ‘Community Housing Inspectors’ to investigate local letting agents and uncover the unwelcome practices they are engaged in. On Saturday we are carrying out further inspections to find out if any of our demands for changes have occurred. Where they have not, we will be providing a ‘Cease and Desist Order’* to letting agents found to be engaging with greedy and anti-social behaviour. The ‘Cease and Desist Order’ will only be revoked if they put an end to such practices.
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- Published: 26 April 2013
Stop workfare on Homes for Haringey estates - protest Wed 10 Apr, 1pm, Wood Green
Homes for Haringey is the borough's arms-length management organisation, set up to manage council housing. Recently, we have found out that local unemployed people are being forced to work on their estates for no pay and with no workplace rights.
Please come and support a lunchtime protest
this Wednesday 10th April, 1pm
at the Homes for Haringey offices in Wood Green
Alexandra House, 10 Station Road, N22 7TR (2 mins from Wood Green tube)
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- Published: 08 April 2013
Scrap the Cap! Resisting the Government's Benefit Cap
Haringey, Enfield, Bromley and Croydon have been chosen by the government to be used as a testing ground for their Overall Benefit Cap. People living with three or more dependent children will be most likely to be affected, facing cuts in housing benefit of up to £400 a week. But it will affect many others too. What can you do if you are affected, and what can we all do to resist this attack on our community?
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- Published: 12 March 2013
Ward's Corner: Help stop Grainger from covering up the lives and buildings they plan to demolish!
Grainger have submitted an application to hang a gigantic advertising hoarding that will span the entire corner building of the Wards Department store. Below is a picture of what it will look like: you got to see it to believe it!
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- Published: 27 February 2013
Defending Haringey's Public Services - Civic Centre - Wed 27 Feb, 6.30pm
Fightback together against council and government attacks on our services, our facilities, our rights and our communities!
Defend Our Public Services - Rally at Full Council Meeting
Wednesday 27th February, 6.30pm - 7.30pm
Civic Centre, High Rd, N22
- Stop cuts to our services, benefits and facilities
- Affordable and secure housing for all
- Defend the NHS
- No to privatisation of our public services
- No to property speculators imposing unwanted ‘regeneration’ schemes on our neighbourhoods
- We demand the resources our communities need
It's OUR Haringey!
Called by Haringey Alliance for Public Services
Linking up opposition to cuts and privatisation of our public services, our community facilities & the welfare state
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- Published: 25 February 2013
Haringey health activists and doctors unite to prevent NHS privatisation!
In a surprising but very welcome move Haringey Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) has set out rules that can stop private companies taking over health services in Haringey. Now Haringey and Bristol CCGs lead the way in helping local people to defend the NHS!
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- Published: 23 February 2013
Protest at Haringey Landlords Forum - Tues 19 Feb, 5pm!
Bring rents down! No evictions!
Join Haringey Solidarity Group and Haringey Housing Action Group at the:
Haringey Landlords Forum
Tuesday 19 February, 5pm at Wood Green Civic Centre
High Road, Wood Green, N22 (5 mins walk up the hill from Wood Green tube)
Come and join us at the Haringey Landlords Forum, where up to 100 landlords from around the borough will be meeting with the council. We will have the chance to ask them to reverse their decisions to evict tenants, raise rents, and refuse to rent to housing benefit claimants.
Housing is a basic necessity. But landlords choose to ignore this when they maximise rental income and refuse to help tenants affected struggling to pay their rent. They should not be allowed to go about their business unchallenged.
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- Published: 17 February 2013
Over 500 attend massive public meeting and demand no sell offs or cuts to the Whittington Hospital
On the evening of Tuesday 12th over 550 people filled Archway Methodist Hall's main room, three overspill rooms and the foyer. Staff from the hospital board were unable to convince angry members of the public that their proposals to sell of the site, sack 570 staff and reduce the beds from 330 to 177 (despite recent red alerts over over-occupancy of beds) are acceptable, and the meeting called for the proposals to be dropped.
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- Published: 15 February 2013
Your Rights and Mobile Fingerprinting
Last week, the Metropolitan police confirmed that its officers have started to use mobile fingerprint scanners, the 25th UK police force to do so. Initially the Met have 350 of these devices, linked to police Blackberry phones, which they claim can provide, in under two minutes, confirmation of personal details, warning markers and whether a person is wanted for a crime.
The police can use these devices to take a person’s fingerprints, with or without consent, if they ‘reasonably suspect’ they have committed a criminal offence. The individual concerned does not need to be under arrest , nor does the offence they are suspected of need to be a serious offence. Once fingerprints have been used to establish ID, the police may decide to arrest, summons, give a fixed penalty notice, give ‘words of advice’, or take no further action.
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- Published: 11 February 2013
