In this email newsletter:
- Our AGM, Sunday 3rd June, 6.30pm
- Housing Film Screening, Sunday 3rd June, 7.30pm
- EXTRAS REQUIRED Sunday 20th May - Chartist Film!
- VOLUNTEERS NEEDED for 70 years of our NHS events!
- TICKETS AVAILABLE: Coaches to London NHS demonstration - 30th June
- Upcoming events
- PFI Exhibition - "How come we're still paying for this?", 25th June - 1st July
- #OurNHS70 Celebration and Demonstration in London - 30th June
- 70 years of the NHS - Stroud day of celebration, 7th July
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1. Stroud Against the Cuts AGM 2018
As ever with our organising meetings, supporters of Stroud Against the Cuts' aims are welcome to attend our AGM on 3rd June, from 6.30pm.
This will be short formal meeting where we:
1. Provide a brief report on activities over the past year
2. Assess our financial situation and expected changes over the year to come
3. Elect officers - including at minimum a Chair, Secretary and Treasurer
4. Identify our priorities for the coming year
5. Review our constitution and make any necessary amendments
We invite nominations for the positions of Chair, Secretary and Treasurer (positions curently held by James Beecher, Christine Stockwell, and Hannah Basson respectively, who will be standing down).
These are voluntary positions. If you are interested, we can advise on the workload they involve but at minimum this includes attendance at almost all of our monthly 2-hour evening organising meetings (a few absences are unavoidable but we seek a degree of commitment).
We also welcome nominations for other posts, and have in the past elected a number of "Committee Members". Applicants should notify our Secretary of nomination by email or text by 7 days before the AGM (Sunday 27th May), and must be able to attend the AGM on the 3rd June: chrisstockwell100@gmail.com / 07717 491587.
For election of officers, votes can be cast by those who reside in Stroud district, and have taken part in a Stroud Against the Cuts action or meeting during the past 12 months.
The AGM will be followed by a screening of the film Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle.
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2. Housing FILM SCREENING
We will screen " Dispossession - The Great Social Housing Swindle" after our Annual General Meeting on Sunday 3rd June, at the Lansdown Hall, from 7.30pm. Entry is free but we will be collecting donations to cover costs and help fund our NHS 70th anniversary celebration events - please donate generously! The film explores the agenda behind the neglect, demolition and regeneration of council estates in the U.K. over the past thirty years. The film reveals how individuals and communities are fighting against the state and private developers, as they try to save their homes from demolition, while investigating the decisions that turned a crisis into a tragedy. In 2017 housing rose to the top of the British political agenda for the first time in a generation. But despite the media spotlight, few stories examined the catastrophic long-term failures that resulted in a chronic shortage of social housing in the United Kingdom. Dispossession does. It is the story of people who know that housing is not an expensive luxury, but a fundamental human right.
Watch the trailer above or at Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle - Official Trailer.
We will be joined by guest speaker Laurie Davies, Town Councillor for Slade ward (Labour) who will be present for a discussion after the film.
Share the Dispossession Facebook event and invite your friends!
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3. Sunday 20th May - Chartist Film -
EXTRAS REQUIRED!
This weekend is the anniversary (near enough) of May 21st 1839 when the Chartists gathered on Selsley Common.
Local people are involved in a project to make a film about this event - "Days of Hope". They are intending to film a gathering this Sunday as part of the film.
If you are free between 10.30 and about 1.30 and can make it up to Selsley Common (meet in the car part) please join them and be part of a film about Stroud's history - placards and banners are welcome.
Watch the video of Stroud people reading The Charter, and learn more via Days of Hope - The Chartists in Stroud on Facebook.
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4. VOLUNTEERS NEEDED for 70 years of our NHS events!
Hopefully you have heard about our plans to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the founding of the NHS. If not, see below and check out our new website: nhs70stroud.wordpress.com.
Now we need you!
For our exhibition from 25th June - 1st July we need people who can sit with the exhibition for a time - we need to fill a rota to cover at least 10am - 4pm on each of those days. Can you help? You don't need to know anything about the NHS or PFI - though it would help if you do - we just need someone to keep an eye on the photographs, hand out information and collect donations. Email: nhs70stroud@gmail.com
For the #OurNHS70 march in London on Saturday 30th June we need stewards who can help us ensure everyone has an enjoyable day at the demonstration and gets back to the coach safely. You don't need to have done anything similar before, we can provide you with all the information you need. Email: nhs70stroud@gmail.com
For our celebration day in Lansdown Hall and Bank Gardens on 7th July we need stewards who can guide people around the event and collect donations, and other helpers. Please get in touch if you'd like to be involved: nhs70stroud@gmail.com
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5. TICKETS AVAILABLE: #OurNHS70 Celebration and Demonstration in London - 30th June
As part of the NHS70Stroud events, Keep Gloucestershire’s NHS Public will be organising local transport to this national demonstration in London: NHS at 70: Free, for all, forever
Coaches will leave from Stroud Bus Station on Merrywalks, at 9am at the latest and returning no later than 9pm. Reserve a seat – you will receive updates on details of pick-up times.
Tickets are priced at £20, £5 for 16-and-under, with a limited number of tickets available free for those unable to afford a ticket (donations can be made on the day). Contact us if you have any questions.
Tell your friends to reserve their seat on the coach by sharing the following link: tinyurl.com/ournhs70coachstroud
PLEASE BOOK YOUR SEAT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE SO WE KNOW WHETHER TO BOOK A SECOND COACH
Our friends in the HOLD - Hands Off Lydney and Dilke hospitals campaign he HOLD Campaign are considering booking a coach - planning to pick up in Lydney, Coleford, Cinderford and Gloucester. If leaving from one of those locations would be easier for you, drop them an email via: hold@writeme.com so they can get an idea of numbers.
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Lansdown Hall, 3rd June, 6.30pm - 9.30pm - Film from 7.30pm
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People Vs PFI Exhibition-How come we’re still paying for this?
Lansdown Gallery, 25th June - 1st July
A photographic exhibition aimed at raising awareness and understanding of "Private Finance Initiatives" (PFI) in the UK. The photographs are mainly the work of Marion Macalpine (whose work has been shown before at the "How Come we Didn't Know?" exhibition in Line Gallery).
The exhibition illustrates the range of PFI deals across different sectors and throughout the UK, including schools, health, roads, prisons, housing and refuse into power schemes. It provides an overview of the extent to which PFI contracts have swallowed up public funds and channelled money into corporate coffers.
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NHS - Free, for all, forever-National demonstration
Saturday 30 June 2018
Assemble 12pm, Portland Place, London W1A (nearest tubes: Oxford Circus / Great Portland St)
Parade route to 10 Downing Street, Whitehall
Organised by Health Campaigns Together and the People Assembly Against Austerity
" Say yes to:
- A publicly owned NHS that is free for all
- Proper funding and proper staffing
- Support for our wonderful NHS workers
- World class services for every community"
Tickets for transport to the demonstration by coach are available now!
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Lansdown Hall & Gallery and Bank Gardens, GL5 1BB Stroud, Gloucestershire
10am-5pm
The NHS was founded on July 5th 1948.
We'll be marking 70 years of the NHS at this day-long event at the Lansdown Hall in Stroud.
The event will include talks, stalls, music, film and theater. We're also hoping to get local shops involved and a group are making blue and white bunting. If you're involved in a community group you think should be getting involved, or would like a stall - get in touch and we'll help.
More details TBC - check our NHS70Stroud website for updates - please let us know if you would like to take part, help organise the event, or suggest ideas!
We would love to hear from people who would like to organise and/or perform at a party in the evening - get in touch!
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What happened when Hunt came to town...
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