date and time: 31st March 9.30 – 4.30
venue: Burngreave Vestry Hall
cost: £5.00 waged; no charge unwaged/low income
Programme to include:
Morning
Plenary session with Wendy Savage (tbc) on Save our NHS; Alan Gibbons (Campaign for the Book); Chris Walker (Pitsmoor CAB) on the Welfare Reform Bill
First workshop sessions on
Community Campaigns
Culture – music, libraries,museums, theatre
Welfare, disability,unemployment
Trade Unions, political links, representation.
Afternoon
Second workshop sessions on
How can Councils resist the cuts
Housing crisis – Housing Emergency campaign
Education – academies,abolition of EMA, tuition fees – student/ staff
action
NHS – Kill the Bill, local & national campaigns
Plenary session on the alternatives – Climate Change Jobs; unpaid tax & tax avoidance; Occupy movement;TUC the People’s Charter
All Welcome
Tea/ coffee provided; cheap & cheerful food midday