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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...
Haringey Independent: ‘Citizens Inquiry’ to investigate Tottenham riots
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Press Release: Community leaders launch the Citizens’ Inquiry into the Tottenham Riots
On Saturday 15th October North London Citizens will launch the Citizens’ Inquiry into the Tottenham Riots. The Citizens Inquiry is a community-led response to the Tottenham Riots that aims to understand what caused the riots, how the riots have affected our communities and what now needs to be done. The Citizens Inquiry was commissioned by...
Heythrop College joins London Citizens
By Dave Stewart SJ, College Chaplaincy Team. “All politics is local”, claimed an influential Massachusetts politician of the last century, Thomas P. “Tip” O’Neill. If O’Neill was right, he was telling us that people acting together have the power to change their communities for the better. And, having brought about change – for the better...
“Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.” Martin Luther King
Over the past few days, Citizens across London have been preoccupied restoring peace across our neighbourhoods. Thousands of leaders from London Citizens institutions have come together, in solidarity, to stress the importance of building relationships between neighbours. In Tottenham, North London Citizens leaders supported a Peace Vigil of over 200 people on Monday 8th. Members...
PRESS RELEASE: Living Wage Campaign meet Tesco CEO Philip Clarke
PR: New Tesco boss urged to pay Living Wage by 7 year old activist PRESS RELEASE for immediate release THURSDAY 21st APRIL 2011 NEW TESCO BOSS URGED TO PAY LIVING WAGE BY 7 YEAR OLD ACTIVIST Photos: http://bit.ly/hPbk3p The new Chief Executive of Tesco, Philip Clarke, had a chance encounter yesterday when he was challenged...
The Day for Civil Society: celebrating 10 years of the Living Wage Campaign
In the summer of 2000, 15 experienced community leaders whose institutions helped found TELCO (The East London Communities Organisation) in 1996, gathered in Retreat at The Royal Foundation of St Katharine’s in Limehouse, to reflect on the theme of ‘What is happening to our families?’. In the rounds and introductions the complaint and condition was...
Shoreditch Delegates’ Assembly – The Chair’s Perspective
Hearing the words, “Kehinde you will be among the chairing committee for the delegate assembly”, I felt a mixture of excitement and fear. Excitement because I have been given the opportunity to do something I have never done, a once in a lifetime opportunity and because I was given the opportunity to develop myself in...
800 citizens from North London to follow Gandhi’s footsteps
On March 30th 2011 diverse communities from across North London will come together to celebrate the founding of a new people’s alliance: North London Citizens. At the famous venue of Friends House, where leaders such as Mahatma Gandhi have spoken, we will revive and reignite North London’s long history of democracy in action. North London Citizens is a powerful alliance of schools and universities, churches, mosques...
TELCO takes stock of the past year’s achievements
By Joanna Cordero A decade after its launch, the Living Wage Campaign celebrated landmark achievements at the The East London Communities Organisation (TELCO) annual assembly on Tuesday. Jane Wills of Queen Mary University in London told TELCO members last night that: “In the last ten years, you have given at least 9000 workers in London...
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