Monthly Archives: February 2017
UNISON AGM COLLEGIATE CAMPUS
AGM FOODBANK COLLECTION
IT’S OUR NHS RALLY IN LONDON
The government’s chronic underfunding of the NHS threatens to destroy the service and could lead to further privatisation.
If you’re angry at the state of the NHS, join the People’s Assembly and campaigners across the country on a march for the NHS to Parliament on Saturday 4th March.
Book your place online or call/text 07941 332993. Tickets £20 wages/£10 unwaged.
NATIONAL DEMONSTRATION
Saturday 18 March 2017 Stand Up To Racism National Demonstration London
Stand Up To Racism has called a national demonstration to coincide with the UN Anti-Racism Day. Find details of transport from Sheffield.
Over 50 MPs, peers, trade unionists and Jewish and Muslim leaders have joined together in backing a ‘Stand Up to Trump Stand Up to Racism’ demonstration.
The demonstration is backed by Doreen Lawrence, Rabbi Lee Wax and members of The Muslim Council of Britain and is supported by shadow cabinet members Diane Abbott and Emily Thornberry as well as leading backbenchers Clive Lewis, Chuka Umunna, Lisa Nandy, Bill Morris, Neil Kinnock and Peter Hain and trade union leaders including the National Union of Teachers’ Kevin Courtney and Unite’s Len McCluskey.
HOLOCAUST HERITAGE AND LEARNING CENTRE
Sheffield Unite Against Fascism public meeting on Tuesday 14 March, 6pm – 7.30pm,
Central United Reformed Church, Norfolk St, Sheffield S1 2JB
‘Introducing the new Holocaust Heritage and Learning Centre for the North’
Please join us on the night to hear about this important initiative and participate in the discussion how Sheffield can contribute.
Speakers include:
Lilian Black, Chair, The Holocaust Survivors’ Friendship Association
Sue Pearson, a Kinderstransport refugee who lives in Sheffield
Chair: John Campbell
For more information about the new centre in the north please see https://www.hlf.org.uk/about-us/media-centre/press-releases/holocaust-heritage-and-learning-centre-north
FRIENDS OF EDWARD CARPENTER WEEKEND
Saturday 25th/Sunday 26th February
The Friends of Edward Carpenter are celebrating LGBT+ History Month and Marking and Celebrating the Partial Decriminalisation of Homosexuality in Britain in 1967. We are organising events with SAYiT and other local organisations and are fundraising for FOEC, SAYiT and Rape Crisis.
See the Facebook page for these events.
Saturday 25th February Millennium Galleries, Arundel Gate, Sheffield
Sunday 26th February 2017 Sheffield Hallam University – The HUBS, Paternoster Row,
