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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,
DONCASTER RACEDAY 2017
I, DANIEL BLAKE SCREENING
Come to a special screening of Ken Loach’s award-winning film I, Daniel Blake, provided by Sheffield Trade Union Council.
Daniel Blake (59) has worked as a joiner most of his life. Now, for the first time ever, he needs help from the state. A deeply moving, starkly realistic story of a man thrust into the benefits system after suffering a heart attack.
7pm, Monday 23 January
Trades and Labour Club, 200 Duke Street Sheffield S2 5QQ
Entrance free but donation of £2 welcome to cover cost
A NEW MASS MOVEMENT AGAINST RACISM
In October 2016 over 1,500 people – including Jeremy Corbyn, Diane Abbott and Alf Dubs – launched a mass movement against racism.
The idea is to build a network of activists within local communities and amongst the trade union movement to combat attempts to divide ordinary people by defending the positive migrant workers play in Britain, support refugees and confront racism, islamophobia and antisemitism.
At our last Branch Committee a motion was passed to
- affiliate to Stand Up to Racism, publicise its initiatives to members in our branch, and to be part of the Sheffield Stand Up to Racism Committee
- send two delegates from our branch (as well as our union banner) to the Stand Up to Racism Trade Union Conference on 4 February 2017 in London
- support and build the TUC-backed Stand Up to Racism demonstration on 18 March (UN Anti-Racism Day)
With this in mind, the branch is supporting and inviting members to attending the following protest in Sheffield, which is part of a number of protests organised around the country in solidarity with those who will be protesting in America.
No to Trump’s racism
Protest his inauguration
Friday 20 January
5pm
Outside Sheffield Town Hall
FIND OUT IF YOU ARE AFFECTED BY THE GOVERMENT’S NEW 40% STRIKE THRESHOLD
Threshold for ‘important public services’ takes effect on 1 March; political fund opt-in rules transition period starts on same day read more