privatisation
Copland: The Education Sell-off
The People’s Assembly
Saturday 21 June 2014: 50,000 people marched through London to protest against austerity and the ruling coalition government.
The BBC was heavily criticised for not covering the largest anti-government demonstration for several years. It did however start coverage from 8pm that evening, but not before a deluge of social media condemnation of the publicly funded institution from across the globe.
Placards and banners highlighted a myriad of issues from tax avoidance and evasion to the bedroom tax and welfare cuts, education and NHS privatisation to calls for an end to the funding off the Trident nuclear weapons program.
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People’s Assembly Anti Austerity Protest
Comedian Mark Steel Addresses People’s Assembly Protest
FBU Matt Wrack Addresses People’s Assembly Protest
Health and Welfare Cut on People’s Assembly Protest
NUT On The People’s Assembly Anti Austerity Protest
PCS Union On The People’s Assembly Anti Austerity Protest
Bedroom Tax on The People’s Assembly Protest
Jeremy Corbyn MP Addresses People’s Assembly Protest
Immigration on The Peoples Assembly Protest
Class War on The People’s Assembly Protest
Tower Hamlets Mayor Luftar Rahman Addresses The People’s Assembly
People’s Assembly Anti Austerity Protest
Comedian Mark Steel Addresses People’s Assembly Protest
Health and Welfare Cut on People’s Assembly Protest
Bedroom Tax on The People’s Assembly Protest
Tower Hamlets Mayor Luftar Rahman Addresses The People’s Assembly
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The Year That Was 2013
Cops Off Campus
Wednesday 11 December: Thousands of students protested during the Cops Off Campus national day of action. In London protestors broke through chained gates, burned bins, attempted to break into Senate House and occupy it and marched across the university campus, to oppose the protest ban injunction and recent intervention by riot police on campus to disperse previous protests. Protestors accused the police of violence and unlawful arrests at previous smaller protests.
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Protestors march in their thousands: http://bit.ly/1djThFP
Protestors tear down Stewart House gates: http://bit.ly/1bX6AxK
Protestors try to break through Senate House entrance:http://bit.ly/19aoI8J
Thousands of protestors take to the London streets:http://bit.ly/IRZIaj
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Private Concerns
In 2005 I spent some time working as a care worker for a private company in North West London supplying workers for the “Care In The Community” program. In August 2006 The Big Issue released a feature article based on some of my experiences. Now, some eight years later, as the same issues are returning to the news, I have decided to re-release the article here. Continue reading