Our next meeting will take place at 7pm on Tuesday 16th April 2013 at the Community Flat in Persevere Court (Ground Floor) 10 North Leith Mill, Edinburgh, EH6 6JY. At this meeting we will be finalising plans for a Leith public meeting on the Bedroom Tax.
All welcome.
For more info contact us at greaterleithc59@gmail.com.
Our next open organising meeting will take place at 6.30pm on Tuesday 16th April 2013 at the Northfield / Willowbrae Community Centre, 10 Northfield Road, EH8 7PP. All welcome.
On Monday’s Today Programme David Bennett, a market trader, said that after his housing benefit had been cut, he lives on £53 per week. The next interviewee was Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith, who was defending the changes. The interviewer then asked him if he could live on this amount. He replied: “If I had to, I would.”
This petition calls on Iain Duncan Smith to live on this budget for at least one year Continue reading
The closing date for our Bedroom Tax petition to Edinburgh Council is Friday 5th April. The petition calls on the Council to commit to not evicting tenants who fall into rent arrears due to their housing benefit being cut.
Click here to sign the petition. Full text below.
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6.30pm Tuesday 2nd April 2013 Northfield / Willowbrae Community Centre, 10 Northfield Road, EH8 7PP. Open meeting for people in the East of Edinburgh to organise against public sector cuts and privatisation. All welcome.
Iain Duncan Smith, the work and pensions secretary, was called a “ratbag” as he was heckled by anti-cuts protesters who gatecrashed a speech in Edinburgh on Wednesday. Smith was about to deliver a speech on pensions reform when North Edinburgh Fights Back campaigner Willie Black began haranguing the MP, calling him a “parasite” and a “ratbag” for pursuing social security cuts that would leave “millions” of people homeless.
Click here to read the full article from the Guardian or here to see the video from BBC’s Reporting Scotland.
Saturday 30 March 2013. Meet 12 noon St Andrews Square, march at 12.45pm to Scottish Parliament. See “Bedroom Tax that broke the Cameron Back Protest (Edinburgh)” on Facebook.
In more than 30 locations across Britain people opposed to the Bedroom Tax will be gathering in city centres to protest against the policy on March 16th and 30th, reports Andy Richards. Foster parents, disabled persons, single parents and families with a recently bereaved member are the people whom this policy hurts the most.
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From Edinburgh Coalition Against Poverty;
Anti workfare demonstrators shut down British Heart Foundation and Salvation Army shops in Leith on Saturday 23rd March. The actions, part of the Britain-wide Week of Action against the Government’s compulsory work-for-your-benefits schemes, targeted two charities who have persisted in exploiting the unemployed, sick and disabled through workfare. Continue reading
In this edition of Edinburgh Trade Union Council’s 
monthly anti-cuts newsletter;
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