Bristol &#38; District Anti-Cuts Alliance

BBC Story (Bristol Adult Mental Health) – The Post (Weston General Hospital)

BULLETIN: 17^th May 2013

2^nd BRISTOL BEDROOM TAX PROTEST! – 1pm Saturday 1^st June – College Green

BADACA Open Meeting – Tuesday 28^th May – 7.30pm – Tony Benn House

SAVE OUR NHS!

Bristol CCG try to privatise Adult Mental Health services while in North Somerset, Clevedon’s new hospital is cancelled and it has now been officially announced that newly appointed NHS bosses are trying to sell off Weston General Hospital!

Andrew Lansley’s dream of privatising the NHS is now coming about. They are planning to skim millions of taxpayers money for his dodgy mates in the private healthcare sector then force anyone who can to afford to pay, to top-up second rate ‘NHS’ services. The ‘Clinical Commissioning Groups’ set up to carry through the privatisations are made up mainly of doctors but many of them have financial stakes in private healthcare providers themselves! Watch this space for a major local demonstration soon to demand that our NHS locally stays public!

*THIS SATURDAY!!!* Saturday 18th May: Defend London’s NHS – Coach from Bristol leaves 8am Anchor Rd.
With all the vigorous London campaigns this will be massive. Let’s make this a national demonstration!
BOOK to be sure of a place. All welcome, including children.
Free to UNITE Health Branch members, their family & friends, low paid, unwaged. (Donations may be requested from others in case we need to put on a second coach.)

Keep Our NHS Public!
The full effects of the Health and Social Care Act only came into effect last month so the struggle must continue.
The Bristol and North Somerset Protect our NHS group
(blog at: www.protectournhs.wordpress.com) meets every fortnight and is now affiliated to the national Keep Our NHS Public campaign (www.keepournhspublic.com)

NEXT MEETING OF ‘PROTECT OUR NHS’ IS ON MAY 21st AT 7.30pm IN THE ROBIN HOOD PUB ON ST MICHAEL’S HILL

To get on mailing list contact:protectournhs@gmail.com

Bedroom Tax campaign

BADACA have called a second Bristol Bedroom Tax protest for 1pm College Green on Saturday 1^st June. Axe the Tax! No Evictions! Details – click here!

Tragically, last week saw the first suicide directly attributed to the Bedroom Tax – more here.

Ujima Radio had a discussion on the Bedroom Tax recently. Listen again – click here. (FF to 31:00)

Leafleting for the 1^st June protest will be taking place in Southmead this Saturday – details here.

Downloads / Links Petition Poster Leaflet Website

Unison lobby: South Gloucestershire Council – Hands Off Our Pay, Terms & Conditions!

South Gloucestershire UNISON and other trade unions are calling on South Gloucestershire Council to scrap their plans to attack the pay of 800 staff of which a large majority are already the lowest paid in the council. Lobby – 5.30pm, Weds 22^nd May – Kingswood Civil Hall – Details – Flyer

500+ Attend May Day Rally to Defend the Right to a Decent Life from Cradle to Grave!

Congratulations to Bristol Trades Union Council on organising a very colourful and lively May Day Rally in what is now clearly a re-established annual tradition.

Report – Photos – Video – ITV Report – The Post

Bristol Unite the Resistance Conference

Bristol and South West Unite the Resistance will be holding a local conference in Bristol on Saturday June 8th. The Conference will run from 12 noon to 4pm and will be held at Ashley Down Centre, City of Bristol College, Refectory, Ashley Down Road, Bristol BS7 9BU. More details.

Bristol transport for People’s Assembly (London, 22nd June)

A return coach has been booked from Bristol to London for the “People’s Assembly” in June. Details of conference – click here. Coach details – click here. A Bristol meeting of the People’s Assembly will take place at 7pm on Wednesday 29^th May at the Malcolm X Centre in St Pauls – click here for details.

BADACA links…

Website: http://www.bristolanticutsalliance.org.uk/
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/BristolAntiCuts
Twitter: http://twitter.com/BrisNoCuts
Forum: http://www.bristolanticutsalliance.org.uk/wordpress/bbpress/
Affiliate: http://www.bristolanticutsalliance.org.uk/affiliate-to-us/

BADACA Bulletin – 12/05/13

admin — Sun, 12 May 2013 14:37:45 +0000

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BBC Story (Bristol Adult Mental Health) – The Post (Clevedon Hospital)

BULLETIN: 12^th May 2013

BADACA Open Meeting – Tuesday 28^th May – 7.30pm

Tony Benn House

500+ Attend May Day Rally to Defend the Right to a Decent Life from Cradle to Grave!

Congratulations to Bristol Trades Union Council on organising a very colourful and lively May Day Rally in what is now clearly a re-established annual tradition.

Report – Photos – Video – ITV Report – The Post

SAVE OUR NHS!

Bristol CCG try to privatise Adult Mental Health services while in North Somerset, Clevedon’s new hospital is cancelled and there are rumours that newly appointed NHS bosses are trying to sell off Weston General Hospital!

Andrew Lasnley’s dream of privatising the NHS is now coming about. They are planning to skim millions of taxpayers money for his dodgy mates in the private healthcare sector then force anyone who can to afford to pay to top-up second rate ‘NHS’ services. The ‘Clinical Commissioning Groups’ set up to carry through the privatisations are made up mainly of doctors but many of them have financial stakes in private healthcare providers themselves! Much more in next week’s bulletin…

Saturday 18th May: Defend London’s NHS – Coach from Bristol leaves 8am Anchor Rd.
With all the vigorous London campaigns this will be massive. Let’s make this a national demonstration!
BOOK to be sure of a place. All welcome, including children.
Free to UNITE Health Branch members, their family & friends, low paid, unwaged. (Donations may be requested from others in case we need to put on a second coach.)

Jayne Taylor’s speech (Unite) from BCFM Radio (with commentary from guest Cllr Peter Abraham!) FF to 21:00

NEXT MEETING OF ‘PROTECT OUR NHS’ IS ON MAY 21st AT 7.30pm IN THE ROBIN HOOD PUB ON ST MICHAEL’S HILL

To get on mailing list contact:protectournhs@gmail.com

Bedroom Tax campaign

BADACA have called a second Bristol Bedroom Tax protest for 1pm College Green on Saturday 1^st June. Axe the Tax! No Evictions! Details – click here!

Tragically, this week saw the first suicide directly attributed to the Bedroom Tax – more here.

Ujima Radio had a discussion on the Bedroom Tax recently. Listen again – click here. (FF to 31:00)

Downloads / Links Petition Poster Leaflet Website

Bristol transport for People’s Assembly (London, 22nd June)

A return coach has been booked from Bristol to London for the “People’s Assembly” in June. Details of conference – click here. Coach details – click here.

*** THIS MONDAY NIGHT!!! ***

Permanent Culture Now, Bristol Indymedia & Bristol Solidarity Federation presents The Great Housing Rip Off – an evening of film & discussion on Britain’s housing crisis.

Monday 13th May 8pm The Cube, Dove Street, Bristol. Entry £3/£4 (But nobody turned away due to lack of funds) More Details here

BADACA links…

More than 500 people join Trades Council May Day Rally

admin — Sat, 11 May 2013 14:15:03 +0000

Congratulations to Bristol Trades Union Council on organising a very colourful and lively May Day Rally in what is now clearly a re-established annual tradition. Over 500 people joined the march including contingents from Unison, Unite, GMB, PCS, NUT & many other unions as well as NHS campaigners, disability rights activists and Bedroom Tax protesters. Bristol Radical Block marched in solidarity with the more than 1,000 Bangladeshi workers killed last month when their 8-storey factory near Dhaka collapsed. The factory supplied clothes to Primark (among other western customers) and the march paused outside Primark in Broadmead to protest the poor safety standards for workers in their supply chain.

Media Reports…

ITV

The Post

After the march to Castle Park, speakers addressed the crowd including Jayne Taylor from Unite who welcomed the defeat in the election of LibDem councillors such as Jon Rogers who forced through the privatisation of public homecare and care home services in Bristol. She also called for the defeat of the Bedroom Tax and a council house building programme to solve the housing and unemployment crises. Other speakers included Andy Robertson from Bristol Trades Council, Anne Lemon (NUT), Selena Williams (Unison), John McInally (PCS) and Tom Baldwin for BADACA.

Photos & video…

More photos here (thanks to everyone who sent them in!)

Also some more here…

And thanks to Louise Whittle for the photos on this page… for more of hers click here!

BADACA Bulletin – 02/05/13

admin — Thu, 02 May 2013 20:59:58 +0000

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BULLETIN: 2^nd May 2013

May Day Rally – Defend the Right to a Decent Life from Cradle to Grave – This Saturday – 11am College Green!

Thanks to everyone who has put in so much hard work to make this weekend’s Trades Council May Day March happen. Our regular demonstration photographer isn’t able to attend so if you get any good shots on Saturday, please email them to admin@bristolanticutsalliance.org.uk (or a web link to them.) Thanks in advance! If you haven’t done so already, please also invite all your Facebook friends to our event page for the rally. (Click the Facebook logo above). See you on Saturday!

Poster

SAVE OUR NHS!

Let’s feel our strength! The numbers on demonstrations supporting local health services just keep getting larger. You may have heard about the 25,000 who marched through Lewisham in January. Last Saturday (20th April) 50,000 people marched on a local demonstration in Stafford. (Yes despite the problems a few years ago, analysed by the Francis Report, local people support their services and their NHS)
http://www.supportstaffordhospital.co.uk/

Keep Our NHS Public!
The full effects of the Health and Social Care Act only came into effect this month so the struggle must continue.
The Bristol and North Somerset Protect our NHS group
(blog at: www.protectournhs.wordpress.com) meets every fortnight and is now affiliated to the national Keep Our NHS Public campaign (www.keepournhspublic.com)

NEXT MEETING IS ON MAY 7th AT 7.30pm IN THE ROBIN HOOD PUB ON ST MICHAEL’S HILL

To get on mailing list contact:protectournhs@gmail.com

Bedroom Tax campaign

A small local anti Bedroom Tax meeting was held in Southmead this week and we are keen to facilitate others across the city. We are also provisionally looking at another Bedroom Tax demonstration in Bristol on 1^st June – more in next week’s bulletin.

Ujima Radio are having a discussion on the Bedroom Tax this Wednesday between 12 noon and 2pm. Listen again – click here.

Downloads / Links Petition Poster Leaflet Website

Bristol transport for People’s Assembly (London, 22nd June)

A return coach has been booked from Bristol to London for the “People’s Assembly” in June. Details of conference – click here. Coach details – click here.

BADACA links…

BADACA Bulletin – 26/04/13

admin — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 11:00:05 +0000

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BULLETIN: 26^th April 2013

May Day Rally

Supporters who need leaflets for their workplace/neighbourhood can collect them from the Unite offices, Tony Benn House, Victoria St. during office hours.

Poster

Leafleting – please help leaflet for this important event at:

12.00pm – Saturday 27 April - East St, Bedminster (meet outside Asda)

“Don’t let them bury the NHS”

Demonstrate

Monday 29^th April

6.00pm

Bristol Royal Infirmary

Please bring placards / banners. There will be a piece of “street theatre” and appropriate dress will be available.

Let’s feel our strength! The numbers on demonstrations supporting local health services just keep getting larger. You may have heard about the 25,000 who marched through Lewisham in January. Last Saturday (20th April) 50,000 people marched on a local demonstration in Stafford. (Yes despite the problems a few years ago, analysed by the Fancis Report, local people support their services and their NHS)
http://www.supportstaffordhospital.co.uk/

NEXT MEETING IS ON MAY 7th AT 7.30pm IN THE ROBIN HOOD PUB ON ST MICHAEL’S HILL

To get on mailing list contact:protectournhs@gmail.com

Bedroom Tax campaign

Saturday 27^th April – activity in Southmead

This Saturday there will be a BADACA stall and leafleting in Southmead to publicise a planned local BADACA public meeting next Thursday around the Bedroom Tax (which will hit at least 150 households in the area).

Please come along to lend a hand with the petitioning and door-to-door leafleting. We will be at the shopping precinct at Glencoyne Square, near the end of Arneside Rd, from 11am for at least two hours.

Contact Dave Weltman for further details: 07917676068.

Downloads / Links Petition Poster Leaflet

On the buses

First Bus are holding a series of public consultations on the services they (or claim to) provide.

BADACA links…

BADACA Bulletin – 18/04/13

admin — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 12:28:52 +0000

BRISTOL ANTI-CUTS ALLIANCE

BULLETIN: 18^th April 2013

Bedroom Tax Campaign

Saturday 20^th April – activity in Southmead

Contact Dave Weltman for further details: 07917676068.

There is a report of a BADACA meeting on the tax in Filwood, together with important information on the lodging of appeals and the spread of the campaign throughout the city and its surrounding area here.

Downloads / Links Petition Poster Leaflet Facebook

May Day Rally

Saturday 4^th May

11.00am

College Green to Castle Park

Leafleting – please help leaflet for this important event at:

12.00pm – Saturday 20 April - Gloucester Road (by Amnesty Bookshop)

- Broadmead (by BHS)

Supporters who need leaflets for their workplace/neighbourhood can collect them from the Unite offices, Tony Benn House, Victoria St. during office hours.

Downloads / Links

Poster

The Anarchist Bookfair

Lots of stalls on fighting the cuts. Volunteers to help with the BADACA stall please contact admin@bristolanticutsalliance.org.uk

BADACA Organising Committee

This is an informal and open meeting which takes place on Thursdays at 11.00am in the Watershed café, Harbourside. The Committee’s job is to make sure things get done. Anyone who is available at that time is welcome to come along.

BADACA links…

BADACA Bulletin – 12/04/13

admin — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 16:47:53 +0000

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