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Mental Health Charter gathers momentum with London event

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There is a deep and continuing crisis in mental health services: austerity driven cuts in welfare, oppressive government benefits ‘reforms’, the growing gap between the richest and poorest in society. Practitioners and service users alike struggle with high caseloads, reduced resources and a target culture underpinned by market ideology and privatisation. The SWAN Mental Health charter calls for an end to the cuts and proposes radical alternatives.

After successful conferences about the charter in Liverpool, Bristol and Oxford earlier this year, an event entitled ‘The Crisis in Mental Health Services’ will be held in London on Saturday 8th November this year. A poster for the London event is attached – plese circulate this widely. It wil feature speakers including Peter Beresford (Professor of Social Policy and Chair of Shaping Our Lives), June Sadd (Survivor Trainer and Researcher), and Disabled People Against Cuts, among others. It will take place at the John Barnes Library, N7 0JN; the nearest tube station is Caledonian Road.     

List of signatories to the SWAN Mental Health Charter:

Michelle ADHEMAR NHS, London  
Abdi AHMED
Jan AINSLEY  Norfolk/Suffolk Mental Health Campaign
Jacqueline AKHURST, Professor of Community Psychology, York St John University
Jan AMSLEY  Norfolk/Suffolk Mental Health Campaign
N. ANGUS ,  Durham Miners Gala, July 2014
Dick BANKS    PCS- DWP s
Ro BARKSHIRE  service user   Sheffield  
Sian BARTLETT    N. Yorkshire
Terri BEHRMAN   service user  London
Jody BEKHOUKH  social work student, London
Peter BERESFORD Chair, Shaping Our Lives, Professor Social Policy, Brunel University
Julie BEVAN
Rachel BEVAN      Derbyshire
Martin BLANCHARD  retired mental health practitioner worker and academic, north London
Tulane BLYTH
Tanya BODEN   
Sarah BOYCOTT  Liverpool Mental Health Organisation
Chrissie BRADBURY   Probation Officer  London
Alex BRADLEY   service user  Bristol
Andy BRAMMER   social worker  W. Yorks
G. BRODY   support worker   London
Carla BROWN, youth worker, Scotland  
Peter BROWN  outreach worker   London
Alan BURGESS   service user  Portsmouth
Jennifer ‘Spadge’ BUSH,  Sheffield UKuncut, Freedom Ride Campaigner
P. BUTLER ,  Durham Miners Gala, July 2014
S. BUTLER   ,  Durham Miners’ Gala, July 2014
Mick CALVERT,  ex-teacher
CANTERBURY AND WHITSTABLE STOP THE CUTS GROUP
Deborah CARLAN  Advocate, London
E. CARR    Durham Miners’ Gala, July 2014
John CARR  support worker, people with learning difficulties, Liverpool
Neil CARTER, London
Helen CASEY  University of Durham
Paula CHAMPION NUT and part of Lifeworks Campaign, Cambridge  
P. CHARLTON   Durham Miners’  Gala, July 2014  
Julie CHASE  NUT/psychologist/service user, Essex
Joseph CLARK   unison member   London
Marisa CLARKE  Merseyside  
K. CLAYTON   Durham Miners Gala, July 2014
Jane CLEMENTS   psychodynamic counsellor, Northhampton
James CLEVES-GARNER, service user
Rachel COHEN, UCU, London
Paul COOPER,  Durham Miners’ Gala, July 2014
Jenny CORNWALL   Preston
Pete COWARD  service user
Jack CRAN
Clare CROFT-WHITE   London  
Dr John CROMBY, Loughborough University
 Steve CULLEN   United Service User Committee
Ryan DARNELL   Chesterfield  
Ismay DARY student
Craig DAVENPORT   service user, Coventry
Sera DAVIDSON  W.Mass Recovery Learning Community
Michelle DEANE   adult nurse  Leicester     
DEFEND WHITTINGTON HOSPITAL CAMPAIGN
Konstantine DIONYSOPOULOU  mental health social worker, Greece
Anna DOBIES,     Peterborough
Laura DONEGANI, London
Rosalee DORFMAN
Elaine DORMON, social worker, London
Barbara DOUGLAS,  Durham Miners’ Gala, July 2014
Pam DREVER   social worker  Essex
Andrew DRUMMOND   retired psychologist, Lancaster  
John DUFF     community worker  Swansea
Rose DUNKLEY
Martin DUNN,  Durham Miners’ Gala, July 2014
Peter DURRANT    ex service user  
J. EARLEY  ,  Durham Miners Gala, July 2014
Mary ECCLES , carer, London Shirley FRANKLIN
C. EDWARDS ,  Durham Miners Gala, July 2014
Karin FLEMMINGS  CPN, community psychiatric nurse, Salford
Ian FLETT,  Durham Miners’ Gala, July 2014
Isabella FLORENTIN
M. FLYNN,  Durham Miners’ Gala, July 2014
I. FODOR ,  Durham Miners’ Gala, July 2014
Barabara FOSTER  retired social worker, London
Louis FOX  engineer Brighton
Colin FROST-HERBERT,  SRU, Lewes  
G. GARTH  name added at the Durham Miners Gala, July 2014
Mimi GASHI
Katherine GIDBASHIAN   London
Ian GIDLEY   Nurse/Psychotherapist
Gillian GILLESPI,  Careleavers service
Evan GOODCHILD W.Mass Recovery Learning Community
Beth GREENHILL, psychologist, Liverpool University
Gwen GREY,  Durham Miners’ Gala, July 2014
Yasmin GRIFFITHS-WILLIAMS  Swansea
Rex HAIGH , Consultant Psychiatrist in Medical Psychotherapy
Peter HALE
M. HALL,  Durham Miners’ Gala, July 2014
L. HARDY ,  Durham Miners’ Gala, July 2014
G.O. HARES  Birmingham
Eleni HATZIDIMITRIADOU, Clinical/Community Psychologist, Kingston University and St. Georges University
M. HAYES,  Durham Miners’ Gala, July 2014
Mags HIGGINS    Glasgow
E. HILL,  Durham Miners’ Gala, July 2014
Joel HIRSH   London  
Donna HOIJORD-BEARD Liverpool John Moores University
Ian HOOD   voluntary sector worker  Edinburgh
Sajid HUSSAIN   W. Yorks
Clarence JACKMAN  Kilburn Unemployed Workers Group
Rhian JOHN  service user, Swansea
C. JOHNSON,  Durham Miners’ Gala, July 2014
Malcolm JONES, Unison Shop Steward (pc)     
Tamara KAHORN
Sue KELLY    counsellor  Glasgow
Richard KENDALL-BUSH
Beth KERSLAKE
Sue KILROE  Protect our NHS
Faye KIRK   Liverpool Hope University
Stephen KIRKBY ,  Durham Miners’ Gala, July 2014
Michelle KISBEE   Dorset
John KLOSINSKI  Second Step, Bristol
Zahra KOSAR   social worker with adults, Bristol
Jake LAKE
Paul LANGTON
Alain LEMA  Norwich
Cathy LEWIS   homeless support worker  Leicester
Roger LEWIS, DPAC, Disabled People Against the Cuts
Marian LIEBMANN
Michael LILLEY  MyTime CIC
Jon LONG
Francis LYONS  Surrey
Joyce McANDREW   UCU,  Durham Miners Gala, July 2014
Clare McCHRYSTAL  AMHP, approved mental health practitioner and anti-cuts campaigner, Stockport
Des McDERMOTT  social work lecturer, Ruskin College, Oxord, UK
John McDERMOTT   social worker
J. McDONALD  ,  Durham Miners Gala, July 2014
Bob McGOWAN  ICCM
Ian McKENDRICK  RMN, Oxford
Peter McLINDEN  carer,  Liverpool
Angela McMANUS
Michael McMANUS
Glenn McPARTLIN service user, Nottingham  
Janet MAIDEN,   nurse, London
Tracey MALLONEY   Samaritans listening volunteer
C. MAY   Durham Miners’ Gala, July 2014
Julie MAY   social care worker  Liverpool
Chris MEARS  Unite, Durham Miners’ Gala, July 2014  
Diane MIDDLEMAN Healthwatch
Jackie MILLER   health care  worker, Bristol
Kate MILLER
Lawrie MILLER  advocate   London
Annie MITCHELL, Clinical Director/Assoc. Professor, Doctorate in Clinical Psychology, Plymouth University
Paul MOLONEY, psychologist, member Midlands Psychology Group
Geraldine MONAGHAN   London
John MOORE,  Ashfield Axe the Bedroom Tax, Notts.
A. MOSES,  Durham Miners’ Gala, July 2014
V. MOSES ,  Durham Miners’ Gala, July 2014
Rich MOTH, lecturer in Social Work, Liverpool Hope University, UK
Rameri MOUKAM  Pottigift Therapy CIC
W. MURRAY    Durham Miners Gala, July 2014
Phillipa NAYER    S.U.A.C, service user, Surrey
Jenny NEW
Nigel NEWTON-SMITH   GMB, Freedon Ride Campaigner, Sheffield
D NOLAN mental health social worker, anti-cuts campaigner, Manchester
Tony NUTTALL retired, formerly a mental health commissioner, member UNISON/UNITE Barnsley
A.N. Onymous, civil war artist and service (ab)user, Bath
Francis O’REILLY   Dublin, Ireland
Helen O’SULLIVAN   social worker, children, Cardiff
Niamh O’TOOLE   Teeside
Heidi OWEN
Peter OWEN
Geoffrey PACHENT  Ipswich
Bruce PAENSON   Germany
Jill PANES  service user
M. PATTERSON,  carer,  Durham Miners’ Gala, July 2014
T. PATTERSON ,  Durham Miners’ Gala, July 2014
A.J. PEARSON  Durham Miners’ Gala, July 2014
James PETTEFAR  London
Lesley PHILLIPS   NUT   Suffolk
Jeff PIPER   Durham Miners’ Gala, July 2014
Jean PIPER      Durham Miners’ Gala, July 2014
E. POOLE    Durham Miners’ Gala, July 2014
A.E. POTTE   Durham Miners’ Gala, July 2014
(Dr) Penny PRIEST, Clinical Psychologist, Staffs & Shropshire.
Chris PRICE  adult social care worker  Portsmouth
Paul QUIRK   service user, Liverpool
Emily REID        NUT  London
Douglas REID   service user, London
Kate REIGATE   retired teacher  London
A. REED   Durham Miners’ Gala, July 2014
John REES     carer, N Notts
reVision Liverpool   
Paul RIMMER reVision
Dell ROBERTS   Southwark Benefits Campaign, London
John ROBERTS
Kate ROBERTS   unison member  Sheffield  
Victoria ROBINS   nurse, Guildford
Sophie ROBINSON
J. ROSS-BLAKLEY,  Durham Miners’ Gala, July 2014
Estelle RUSSELL  service user, Birmingham  
June SADD   survivor trainer, researcher, consultant
Janet SANG  Sussex Defend the NHS  
Carolyn SARGENT LJMU
Noami SALISBURY  development worker, Bristol Crisis Service for Women
Pater SANDERS
Janet SANG   Sussex Defend the NHS
Lydia SAPOVNA   UCC, Cork. Ireland
Carolyn SARGENT Liverpool John Moores University
Nicola SCOPE  Derby  
John SEARLE
Johannah SEKUDA, senior lecturer, social work, University of South Africa
T. SHADFORTH  Durham Miners’ Gala, July 2014
SHAPING OUR LIVES
Graham SHARP  Durham Miners’ Gala, July 2014
Alison SHARPE    Health Visitor, Devon
Elaine SHELTON, Unison, Durham Miners’ Gala, July 2014
Chris SHEPHERD    student mental health nurse  Chesterfield
K. SIMPSON ,  Durham Miners’ Gala, July 2014
Sanni SISAY   London  
Peter SKROBAK
Roddy SLORACH, Disability Advisor, London
Chrissy SMITH
J. SMITH  ,  Durham Miners’ Gala, July 2014
Lisa SMITH     Derbyshire
Vincent SMITH
C. SONDERGAARD  4Wings
M. SPEARS, Durham Miners’ Gala, July 2014
Sheila SPOONER, London  
Georgie STAGG  ,  Durham Miners’ Gala, July 2014
Liz STOKES
Patricia STOLL  reVision
Nick STONE   
George SULLIVAN
Thomas SUTCLIFFE Asperger’s Support Group
SWAN,  the Social Work Action Network
Dr Angela SWEENEY
P. SYKES  ,  Durham Miners’ Gala, July 2014
Sue TALBOT    AMHP, Approved Mental Health Practitioner, Wakefield
Anthony TANG  psychiatric nurse  London
B. TAYLOR    Durham Miners’ Gala, July 2014
Neil TERRY  West Yorkshire
Kieran THOM    service user  London
G. THOMAS
Philip THOMAS, former Consultant Psychiatrist, currently Hon Visiting Professor, Bradford.
Emma THOMPSON
Gabrielle THORPE   Service user, Kingston
Alison TIERNEY
Anne-Marie TIERNEY  Portsmouth NN
Wendy TRAYMOR  Young Persons Advisory Service  
Phil TURNER, Journalist, Sheffield  
Margaret TURNER  sec’ty: Soteria Network
UNITED SERVICE USERS COMMITTEE (USUC), Salford
Judith VARLEY  University of Liverpool
Carole VINCENT  Friend of service users, London
Ursula WALKER   West Midlands  
Verity WALKER-SHERRIFF  social worker, Manchester
Marian WARNER  psychologist, West Midlands
D.WALTERS ,  Durham Miners’ Gala, July 2014
H. WALTERS    Durham Miners’ Gala, July 2014
Jessica WEAVER  Liverpool John Moores University
David WEBB
Olga WEINBERGER   Linkswende, Austria
Jeremy WEINSTEIN, psychotherapist
Dave WELTMAN, mental health social worker, Bristol
S. WENN   London
Russell WHINCUP    service user  London
D. WHINHAM ,  Durham Miners Gala, July 2014
Frederica WHITE  Suffolk
V. W. WHITTINGHAM    London
Pete WIDLINSKI    Justice First, Durham Miners Gala, July 2014
Susan WILD    South Yorkshire
Erica WILDGOOSE
Huw WILLIAMS
Darren WILLIAMSON  reVision  
E. WILLIAMSON    Durham Miners’ Gala, July 2014
Tim WILSON reVision
Kevin WINGFIELD   service user    Suffolk
Daniel WINTERBURN Liverpool John Moores University
K. WOOD  ,  Durham Miners’ Gala, July 2014
Willow WOOD     Dorset
Henny WOODS   student Portsmouth
Jenny WOODS   PCC worker  Portsmouth
Jon WOODS    social worker   Portsmouth
Karen WOODS  mental health social worker, Merseyside
Dave WYATT  AMHP, approved mental health practitioner, Wolverhampton
Isobel YEOMANS  Acupuncturist  London
J. YOUNG   Durham Miners’ Gala, July 2014  

Stories from the Frontline

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I read this article and the experiences of the people within it with a familiar feeling. While the examples in this article are UK specific, the general experiences that people highlighted bear similarities to those of people I meet through my daily work here in Ireland. As social workers we are more often than not the one’s who support people in accessing their basic rights to food, shelter, income and education, to name a few. I wonder if any of you have any (anonymised) examples of the bureaucratic nightmares people here have to go through here in Ireland in order to secure basic income, basic services, food, clothing etc? I have plenty I could share. Maybe some service users would like to share their experiences themselves? If so, feel free to send any and all stories to socialworkactionnetworkireland@gmail.com. It would be great to gather a snapshot of people’s experiences of trying to access their basic rights here in Ireland and what social workers are doing to support people in this. The article here should give you some idea of what you could contribute.

 

Link to article: http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/aug/05/even-the-sight-of-a-cv-would-give-me-an-anxiety-attack-guardian-readers-on-benefit-sanctions

Solidarity March in Dublin Saturday July 26th

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Assemble 2pm at The Spire, O’Connell Street, Dublin 1. March to Israeli Embassy.

Link to the facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/1438755526404959/

Link to the Twitter event message: https://twitter.com/ipsc48/status/492319996245475328

Event information on the IPSC website: http://www.ipsc.ie/event/dublin-march-and-rally-for-gaza-ipsc

CORU Registration Board – Election of Next Round of Members

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The people putting themselves forward for the next round of the CORU registration board have been put up on CORU’s website. CHECK THIS OUT ASAP. Voting will be by post and will close on July 29th. Whether you love CORU (or hate it) it is vitally important that YOU, the people on the ground, have a voice in this process. See if you know any of the candidates. If so, contact them and ask them what their objectives are, if voted in. Critique them, tell others what they say and make sure to post it on the SWAN facebook page and/or Twitter account. We will send out as much info about the candidates as we can to make sure you are all as informed as possible. Don’t let the next four years of CORU be as bad as the first few years. CORU should HELP us do our jobs, not HINDER us.

 

Link: http://www.coru.ie/en/news/details/update_social_worker_registration_board_election_2014

Tuam babies: How the English ‘sent back’ unmarried mothers to Ireland

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Link: https://policypress.wordpress.com

Note: In the blog post one paragraph misquotes Garrett. This is how the paragraph should read: “There was a threefold system in Ireland to deal with ‘unmarried mothers’ – the Church-run Mother and Baby homes forming one part, but a greater number of women were resident in the County Homes and Magdalen Asylums – the former was local authority-run and over which the Church did not have any say.”

Housing Bill Demonstration

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Social Work Action Network (SWAN) Ireland is an organisation whose main aim is to create a space where social workers, social care workers, students, service users, carers, academics and members of the public can come together, equally and collectively, to campaign for a fairer society. We are also part of an international network.

The Social Work Action Network Ireland is hugely concerned about the disastrous effects the new proposed Housing Bill could have on the marginalised and disenfranchised communities that we work with on a daily basis.

Section 37 of the bill is worrying in it’s potential consequences. It advises that the new Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) to replace rent allowance, “shall be deemed to be an appropriate form of social housing support for a household…” Therefore, once someone is on rent allowance and is transferred to the HAP, they will be classed as being in “social housing” (while living in private rented accommodation). This section of the bill allows the government to say that they are providing social housing for people while not physically building or providing any long-term social or local authority housing. This section also has the consequence of misleadingly shortening the extensive housing lists around the country over night as people are considered adequately housed by the local authority.

This bill appears to be disingenuous and is not an adequate response to the current housing crisis in Ireland. Instead of fudging numbers on a page and moving responsibility for rent allowance from one government department to another, SWAN Ireland suggests that it would be more sensible for the government to begin to address the crisis in a meaningful way by following the suggestions of Housing Action Now:

  1. End chaos in the private rented sector through measures such as rent controls,
  2. End the mortgage crisis through measures such as moratoriums on evictions from properties that are the principle family residence,
  3. Provide social housing through measures such as building new houses,
  4. Address issues regarding Traveller specific accommodation such as ensuring local authorities are forced to support Traveller specific accommodation (Source: https://housingactionireland.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/housing_action_now_long_edit.pdf).

SWAN Ireland encourages all it’s supporters to meet at Dáil Eireann tomorrow, June 17th at 6pm to protest the introduction of this bill.

Please see the following groups for more information:

Housing Action Facebook Page, Housing Action Now Facebook Page, Housing Action Now WordPress Site, Social Work Action Network Ireland Facebook page and WordPress site.

Email: socialworkactionnetworkireland@gmail.com

 

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Housing Action Now – Manifesto for Housing

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From the Housing Action Now website: “A housing bubble. Not enough supply. Not enough credit. We hear so much about the housing market, but for the majority of us the reality is an ongoing housing crisis. At the heart of this crisis is the government’s failure to create a housing policy that guarantees everyone’s access to a home. The market-based policies of debt-fuelled home ownership have not only failed – they have undermined the right to housing for hundreds of thousands across Ireland.

So begins our manifesto for the right to housing, which we will be launching on Thursday June 12th at 6pm in the teachers club. More details here: https://housingactionireland.wordpress.com/2014/05/29/were-launching-our-housing-manifesto/ .

The manifesto has been developed to provide a snapshot of the housing crisis and present solutions in a an accessible format. We hope it will help to bring together all those who believe housing is something that none of us can live without or should have to live with out.

You can download the full version here: https://housingactionireland.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/housing_action_now_long_edit.pdf. We’ve also prepared a shorter version for sharing online, which you can download here: https://housingactionireland.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/housing_action_now_short_withlink.pdf.”

Statement of support from SWAN Ireland to the Paris Bakery Workers

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We encourage all SWAN supporters to visit the workers at the bakery to pledge their support and offer any assistance they can e.g. some food, some kind words, some practical assistance if needed.

If you wish to offer some financial assistance you can do so through the Migrant Rights Centre here: http://www.mrci.ie/one-time-donation/

We also encourage SWAN supporters to sign this petition: http://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/pay-paris-bakery-the-wages-owed-to-them#share

 

Email: socialworkactionnetworkireland@gmail.com

 

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Oxford Conference 28th June: The Crisis in Mental Health Services

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In response, the Social Work Action Network (SWAN) has developed a charter for mental health, which activists can use to campaign around both locally and nationally. The conference at Ruskin College will include workshops on a range of topics in relation to the crisis in mental health services and is open to everyone. The conference will be promoting and encouraging people to sign up to the charter, which is available to download here. Hard copies of the charter will be available on the day.

The keynote speaker will be Professor Peter Beresford, service user, Chair of Shaping Our Lives and Professor of Social Policy at Brunel University.

The event, which runs from 10:00 – 16:00, is hosted by Ruskin College and kindly sponsored by Ruskin UCU. The location of the event is Ruskin College, Dunstan Road, Oxford OX3 9BZ.

Admission fees will be £12 waged and £6 unwaged (this includes refreshments). Payment will shortly be able to be made online, but in the meantime all queries and expressions of interest should go to dmcdermott [at] ruskin.ac.uk

A flyer for the event can be downloaded below. 

Reminder: SWAN Dublin Monthly Meeting

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Don’t forget that the monthly Social Work Action network Ireland Dublin meeting is on this Thursday. Come along and get involved!

Venue: Seomra Sproai, 10 Belvedere Court, Off Mountjoy Square, Dublin 1.

Time : 7-8.30pm

Date: Thursday May 22nd.

 

See poster for full details

 

Demo in Wicklow against cuts to disability services

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An opportunity has arisen as Enda Kenny is visiting The Local Enterprise office Campus, Clermont, Rathnew, Co Wicklow at 11.30 am. We have only just found out about this so are seizing the moment.

We invite all disabled people (their families, friends & supporters) to protest on behalf of all disabled people, ill people & elderly people who may not be able to join us. it is NOT a party political event though of course an local election candidates are welcome to join us.

The only banners please are SCISSORS. See attached picture.

We are arranging a scissor making evening tomorrow Wednesday in Greystones at 7pm to 9pm (pm me for address) . As well as a planning meeting, we have fliers to distribute.

If you are thinking of coming on the demo and would like to make scissors you will need…

1.I sheet ‘foam board’
2.one sheet red card same size
3.craft blade (disposable)
4.Pritt
5.Large black felt-tip pen

All obtainable from the art and hobby shop Blacklion.

Also you might like to bring some food to share. Let’s make a fun evening of it.

Please share this with anyone who you think might like to come. if you can’t come to make scissors tomorrow evening you can make your own at home.

Draw out a scissors on foam board 62cm from tip of scissors to furthest edge of handle. Cut carefully with blade resting the foam board on a hard flat surface. Two things to be careful of, 1) foam board is easily bent, 2) going through board with blade and cutting/scratching hard surface and …it’s a damn sharp blade be careful. children to be supervised. trace scissors onto red paper, cut out with scissors. Stick on one side of scissors with pritt. Write clear SHORT slogan !

Tell us if you are coming by email or PM.

Love to see you, tomorrow evening or Thursday morning”.

Margaret’s facebook page can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/margaret.kennedy.353?fref=ts

Housing Crisis Protest: RENT CONTROLS NOW

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Housing Crisis Protest:  RENT CONTROLS NOW

 

Join the Social Work Action Network Ireland in supporting and attending this direct action event

As people working on the frontline and as those living in these dire situations every day, we need to get together and fight this housing and homelessness crisis


Build social housing
SAT 10th MAY 2pm – 4pm
City Hall, Dame Street

Called by Anti Austerity Alliance,
Paul Murphy MEP

Living in Limbo:Direct Provision in Galway, Ireland

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 Do you know about the situation of asylum seekers in Galway?
What is it like to live in direct provision?
What can be done to support those who are?
 
The Galway Integration Consortium are organising an awareness raising session on the issue of direct provision.
 
The even will be addressed by asylum seekers currently living in Galway, the Galway city manager, Brendan McGrath and chaired by Anastasia Crickley, Irish representative and Vice President of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racism and Discrimination
 
FRIDAY MAY 9th in CITY HALL at 11am
 
See poster for more details.