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Plan Zheroes is now a “Souperhero of London”
Peasoup magazine today named the Greener Planet Action Team’s Plan Zheroes surplus food campaign one of their “Souperheroes of London”. Our online map has been up and running for about two months now and we already have branches of EAT, Subway, Tesco Express and Cafe Rouge signed up. Lotti and Chris met last week with...
London Citizens Launch Citizens Agenda for 2012 Mayoral Election
London Citizens kicked off their Mayoral Elections campaign on Monday 16th January with the launch of the Citizens Agenda for London. The event was held at St Mary’s Church, Somers Town, the parish of the 1920s housing campaigner, Fr Basil Jellicoe. Community leaders from across London revealed a series of proposals, which London Citizens will...
TELCO makes its mark! 15 years of organising in East London
On Wednesday 30th November, 1600 TELCO leaders met at the Troxy Centre in Limehouse to celebrate 15 years of successful Community Organising in East London. Community Organising in the UK is at its strongest in east London, where 1000s of leaders have been trained in the art of public...
NUS Launches I Am The Change
Students’ unions have played an important role in many of Citizens UK’s successful campaigns over the years. Universities and colleges in London were among the first institutions to pay the Living Wage. This year the National Union of Students (NUS) enter a partnership with Citizens UK and have launched a new project called I Am The Change to encourage...
South London Liberal Synagogue in CitySafe Action on Mitzvah Day
On Sunday 20th November, members of South London Liberal Synagogue launched a CitySafe campaign with an interfaith community walk in Streatham. The walk marked the synagogue’s central project for Mitzvah Day, an international Jewish-led day of social action. Mitzvah Day 2011 saw a dozen members of the synagogue, which has recently begun working with South...
As youth unemployment hits high, TELCO secures an estimated £400,000 of Living Wages
As headlines announce that youth unemployment hit record highs, on Tuesday 15th November, 200 young people from TELCO member communities in Hackney secured Living Wage jobs to be part of the London 2012 Games. This equates to an estimated £400,000 of Living Wages for TELCO members and their families. This success is the result of...
Neil Jameson, Executive Summary for November
To build and sustain a broad-based people’s organisation, like London Citizens, is the corporate job of civil society leaders, their institutions and Community Organisers, for whom this is a vocation. These Citizens organisations need to be owned and therefore funded, as much as possible, by local community institutions in order that they are fully able...
INVITATION: Citizens Inquiry into the Tottenham Riots (launches this Saturday, 11:00 – 12:30)
Citizens Inquiry into the Tottenham Riots Launch Saturday, October 15th 2011 11:00 – 12:30 Tottenham Town Hall (Map) http://www.citizensinquiry.org.uk/ The Citizens Inquiry into the Tottenham Riots is a community-led response to the riots. The inquiry is an organised long-term response to the riots led by community leaders who will shape the way civil society rebuilds Tottenham...
Organising for Peace – Archbishop Vincent Nichols praises CitySafe Champions
The Most Reverend Vincent Nichols, Archbishop of Westminster, con-celebrated a special Mass at Westminster Cathedral on Friday 7th October to inaugurate ‘100 Days of Peace’, a project designed to coincide with the 2012 Olympics. The Mass was attended by more than 1,000 school children, teachers, and parents. He called on the 200,000 children attending Catholic...
Haringey Independent: ‘Citizens Inquiry’ to investigate Tottenham riots
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