Welfare: Know Your Rights
As part of the Hackney Unemployed Workers Group’s continued activity to promote true understanding of how to combat the oppressive welfare system in the UK, a training and information day has been organised for Saturday the 27th of February at Navarino Mansions Community Hall, Dalston, near Hackney Downs station (google map).
Hear about benefits you might [...]
Plotting and scheming for Welfare not Workfare
On 12 November, it became legal to force unemployed people to work for their benefits – to do 40-hour-weeks for under a third of the minimum wage. The Government’s Welfare Reform Act introduced ‘Work for your Benefit’ pilot schemes, which once completed can be rolled out without any further debate. It also attacked single parents [...]
How will the Welfare ‘Abolition’ Bill affect us?
1.30pm-5.30pm, Sun 22nd November
Navarino Mansions Community Hall, Dalston Lane (near Hackney Downs), E8 1LB
Free to attend – tea, coffee and snacks free too!
Wheelchair accessible. Childcare available – see below.
Single parent?
Unemployed?
Sick or disabled?
In temporary or insecure work?
Working for Jobcentre Plus?
If so, the Welfare Reform Bill will target you.
The government want to make us pay for their [...]
No To Welfare Abolition: The National Planning Meeting
Manchester University Students Union, Steve Biko Building, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PR, rooms MR1 and MR2 (google map)
Saturday 14th November
Arrive 11.30am for 12 noon start. Finish 5.30pm.
The aims:
stop the implementation of the welfare reform (abolition) bill
build a network of solidarity between claimants
create links between unemployed workers and workers in the PCS
The day:
Share information
Plan a national [...]
Poetry Dinner from Hackney Unemployed Workers Action
Hackney Unemployed Workers Action Group present an evening of delicious Indian food, live spoken word and DJs on Monday 21st September 7-11pm, Pogo Cafe, 76 Clarence Road, Hackney, E5 (google map)
Featuring:
Kate Tempest – inspirational young MC-poet from South London
Jonny Fluffypunk – the ‘pastoral nihilist’ famous for his comic insight born of bitter experience
Angry Sam [...]