Events

No Political Evictions in Battersea

Monday 5th December 2011
7:30pm to 9:30pm

Doddington Community Centre, Charlotte Despard Avenue, Battersea Park Rd, SW11 5HD (see map)

Speakers: 

  Austin Mitchell MP
  John McDonnell MP
  Eileen Short - National chair, Defend Council Housing campaign
  Emma Norton - Solicitor for Liberty, the national council for civil liberties
  Chaz Singh - Education Activist Network

Social housing is under attack. The Tories want to do away with secure tenancies, raise rents close to the market rate, and cap housing benefits in a way that will expel the poor from large parts of London.

To help ram these things through, they’re demonising tenants. So they’re using the recent riots politically, to evict whole families, even when only one child has committed a minor offence. They are starting with a family on the Doddington
estate.

The Tories talk about the ‘Big Society’, but it seems to mean big cuts for us and big bonuses for them. Our council, which is so keen to evict the poor (and which has £105 million in reserves) is refusing to keep adventure playgrounds open, children’s breakfast clubs running, local libraries fully staffed, or Doddington’s Children’s Activity Centre open. They’re also cutting 16
youth worker posts next year, and 7 more in 2013. Join the opposition to the cuts, and to the persecution of tenants.

  No political evictions, no collective punishment
  Defend secure tenancies for council tenants
  For council run playgrounds and libraries

Meeting supported by Battersea & Wandsworth Trades Council and Defend Council Housing