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UPCOMING EVENTS / SCHEDULE:

• Saturday 7 May, 10am

Campaign Against Empty Homes meeting 

Join Zoom meeting

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81312365129?pwd=VjhTQjBzMWxIaEdIeXExTnV3RjB2QT09

Meeting ID: 813 1236 5129

Passcode: 015065

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        +44 208 080 6592 United Kingdom

Agenda 

1. Local election manifesto update
2. October Day of Action – dates and themes 
3. Squatting workshop
4. Cost of Living Demonstration presence/leaflet
5. Website/Facebook/ comms presence
6. AOB

• Saturday 28 May 2022, 11am

Homes for All meeting

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89481556217

Meeting ID: 894 8155 6217

Dial by your location
+44 203 901 7895 United Kingdom

• Saturday 18 June 2022

TUC National Demonstration

Saturday 18 June | Portland Place, London | Assemble from 10.30am | March departs 12pm | Rally 1pm

https://www.tuc.org.uk/DemandBetter

PREVIOUS EVENTS:

• Saturday 30 April, 11am

Homes 4 All meeting
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87510319526

Meeting ID: 875 1031 9526

Agenda

1. Report Back from Cladding Rally outside Westminster
2. CAEH
3. Building Housing Bloc for National TUC Demo on 18 June 22
4. Updates/Reports from groups
5. AOB

• Wednesday 20 April, 1pm, Westminster

RALLY: UKCAG 

The #BuildingSafetyBill returns to the House of Commons #EndOurCladdingScandal

• SATURDAY, 9 APRIL 2022 AT 12pm

PROTEST: Cut the Rents ~ End Rip-Off Service Charging
2 Marsham Street, Westminster.  

Facebook Event

• Saturday 2 April , 11:00 am

Homes 4 All General Meeting (11am) followed by Campaign Against Empty Homes meeting (12:30pm)
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87190780792

Meeting ID: 871 9078 0792

Agenda for H4A meeting 11am
1. Where next after the Summit – actions to focus on!
2. Report back from any recent activity
3. Report back from local groups & forthcoming activity
4. AOB

Agenda for CAEH meeting 12:30pm
1. Updates from CAEH 
2. Launching the Housing Manifesto
3. CAEH Meeting next part of series is on Squatting     

• Saturday, 12 March 2022 11:00 – 15:00 

Homes for All National Summit 

Watch the opening and closing plenaries on Facebook https://fb.watch/bIue0ZQ7oI/

• Saturday, 12 February 2022 10:00am

Meetings: Campaign Against Empty Homes (10am) followed by Homes for All (11am)  
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83272392880

Meeting ID: 832 7239 2880
Agenda TBA

• Saturday 12th February 2022 – Save Central Hill Estate et al/Lambeth. Action, 2pm – 4pm on : http://bitly.ws/oqta

• Saturday 15th January 2022, 11am

Campaign Against Empty Homes / Homes4All meeting

Saturday Jan 15, 2022 11:00 AM London

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87152522544

Meeting ID: 871 5252 2544

Agenda 

Campaign Against Empty Homes 11am followed by Homes4All meeting 12pm

1. Campaign Against Empty Homes (1 hour ) 

http://www.axethehousingact.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/CAEH-Manifesto-1-1.docx

1. Polluter Pays Amendment and building safety crisis Speaker: Daniell Hambrook
2. Update on Homes for All National Summit on 12 March 22
3. Report back from local groups
4. Upcoming Local Events – please send event links for posting on HfA website
5. AOB

 

• 4th January 2022 at 6pm – Homes for All Summit Organising Meeting 

   

• Saturday 11th December 2021, 11 A.M

Home for All General Meeting via Zoom followed by Campaign Against Empty Homes meeting.

Meeting ID: 830 1733 8094
203 481 5240 United Kingdom

Agenda below

Online General Meeting – Saturday 11th December

• Saturday 11 December 2021 11:00am

Homes 4 All general meeting (11am) followed by Campaign Against Empty Homes meeting (12:30pm)

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83017338094

Meeting ID: 830 1733 8094
203 481 5240 United Kingdom

• Tuesday 7 December, 2021 7pm

Public Meeting: Action for Fire Safety Justice Update: How We Beat Bellway & How to Keep Going?

Join us as we share the campaigning tactics that forced Bellway to pay full remediation costs for our blocks. Hear from six Fire Safety Justice campaigners and join us in an open discussion as we reflect on successes and challenges in 2021 and decide together, where do we go from here?

https://www.facebook.com/events/1298495370653981

Agenda

*How We Beat Bellway (and how you can too)*
Chloe, Joanna & Kelly, ASFJ crew & Bellway Must Pay co-founders

*How We’re Beating Barratt*
Rhian, Barratt leaseholder, AFSJ crew

*How We Won London City Hall*
Reece (photographer and film-maker) and Natalie (Tower Hamlets Leaseholders for Justice), AFSJ crew

*How to Keep Going: Building Safety Crisis and Mental Health*
Natalie and Jane, AFSJ crew

*Q&A session: successes, challenges and next steps

*Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81699453728

Meeting ID: 816 9945 3728

Dial by your location
0203 901 7895 United Kingdom

• Saturday 13th November – Two meetings

Homes 4 All General Meeting (11am) FOLLOWED BY Campaign Against Empty Homes meeting (12:30pm)
Same Zoom login for both meetings

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82329583869Meeting ID: 823 2958 3869

Agenda for H4A

1. Safety Crisis Day of Action – Report back and next steps
2. Campaign Against Empty Homes – Report back & join 2nd meeting for next steps
3. Report back from DCH & Parliamentary Housing Meeting
4. Updates from local Groups
5. AOB

Agenda for CAEH

1. October 9 Day of Action Round up – what went well – what could we do better next time?
2. What campaigning should we do next?
3. How do we organise ourselves?
3.1 We have individual campaigners, local community groups, National and regional organisations
3.2 What is the best way/structure to organise ourselves?
4. Finances
5. Date of next meeting(s)

• Wednesday 24th November 2021 – March to Southwark Council’s Assembly
  Assemble: 6pm at Vauban Carpark, Alscot Road, Opposite Spa Gardens SE1 3GG (Bus 1 and 78)
  March to Tooley Street for a rally outside Council Assembly: 6:30pm @160 Tooley Street, SE1 2QH

• Thursday 25th November 20201 – UK Housing Awards Protest, London

5PM – Assemble at North Greenwich Tube Station, London

Details at SHAC: https://shaction.org/events/

• Friday 26th November 2021 – National Pensioner’s Convention against Cold Winter Deaths Protest

Saturday 2nd October – Two meetings

Homes 4 All General Meeting (11am) FOLLOWED BY Campaign Against Empty Homes meeting (12:30pm)
Same Zoom login for both meetings

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87307801672

Meeting ID: 873 0780 1672

 

DPAC #AudioRiot week of action: 24 September 2021

Speakers to include Paula Peters (DPAC and Unite Community), La Toya Grant (Commission on Social Security), Michael Pugh (New Economics Foundation) and Ellen Clifford (Author of The War on Disabled People) with solidarity messages from Jeremy Corbyn, John McDonnell, Marsha De Cordova and Ken Loach.

*Special guest appearances from Rita Resistance and Boris Piffle Johnson.*

Come to hear how you can get involved not only in DPAC’s #AudioRiot protest activities but a full array of resistance taking place over the next few weeks from allies including The World Transformed, Peoples Assembly, Manchester DPAC and the Campaign Against Empty Homes. We will also hear from the Experts by Experience Commission on Social Security and the New Economics Foundation’s Living Income Coalition about building towards a better social security system.

 

Leaseholders Together Rally: 16 September 2021

Join the Leaseholders Together rally on Thursday 16 September 2021 (1pm-4pm) in Parliament Square, London!

https://endourcladdingscandal.org/newsfeed/leaseholders-together-rally-16-september-2021/

Saturday 4th September, 11am Homes for All General Meeting

followed by

Campaign Against Empty Homes organising meeting, 12:30pm Sat 4th September

Homes for All General Meeting FOLLOWED BY CAEH meeting
Time: Sep 4, 2021 11am

Agenda

1. Empty Homes Meeting to follow at 12.30

2. Update on Cladding Day of Action

3. LP Conference 4. RHN Charter – please try & read before mtg Charter https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uLhRGI2bV_zDmDqvL7f98zzU-sjctbdwBVdJu_iIOfI/edit?usp=sharing

5. Grenfell Update 

6. Demolitions and Haringey

7. Local Updates/Action

8. AOB

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88567607320

Meeting ID: 885 6760 7320

Agenda for CAEH meeting

Thursday 2nd September 6pm, Homes for All Steering Meeting
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82965158100

Meeting ID: 829 6515 8100

Saturday 21 August, 12pm  PROTEST AT NINE ELMS, SW8 TO DEMAND DEVELOPERS PAY FOR OR FIX BUILDING SAFETY DEFECTS AND MAKE OUR HOMES SAFE!

Nine Elms Developer Protest – MAKE THEM PAY! Protest called by Action for Fire Safety Justice
12pm, Saturday 21 August
3 Viaduct Gardens, Nine Elms, London SW11 7AY

Details here: http://www.axethehousingact.org.uk/uncategorized/action-fire-safety-campaigners-to-target-sky-pool-and-developers-at-nine-elms-on-21-august/

Facebook event

 

Saturday 31 July, 11am till 12pm Campaign Against Empty Homes organising meeting 

We are meeting on Zoom here: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81312365129

Meeting ID: 813 1236 5129

Passcode: 015065

The main focus of the agenda is the launch of the Campaign and the October 9th Day of Action

1. Notes of the last meeting
2. Strapline for the Campaign – what should it be?
3. Invites to join sent
4. Press launch day for the Campaign
5. Draft model resolution
6. Action Pack
7. Updated publicity
8. AOB

If there is anything else you would like to add then please let us know at: will.mcmahon@emptyhomes.com

 

Homes 4 All General Meeting – 11am, Saturday 17th July 2021

Time: Jul 17, 2021 11:00 AM London

Join Zoom Meeting

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88017987224

Meeting ID: 880 1798 7224

Agenda

[Notes of last meeting -see below]
1. Empty Homes campaign – preparing for next National Event

2. Update & Report from Fire Safety Crisis campaign including live stream from Chelmsford protest   

3.Update from Steering Meeting on kickstarting “Round Table” Event

5. The People’s Charter for Democracy in Planning: For a planning system that puts people, health and the environment first The Charter – The People’s Charter for Democracy in Planning

6. Local reports – Haringey, Southwark / Crane collapse Tower Hamlets first anniversary 

7. AOB incl Date of next meeting

Notes of the last meeting (12 June 21)

1) End our Cladding Scandal

• 5 June Developer Showroom Day of Protest 5 June: 18+ local protests round the country live-streamed. Paul Mason to post round-up 
  
• Leaseholders Together End Our Cladding Scandal national lobby/rally outside parliament Thursday 12 July 12.30pm
  Homes for All to support and build. Everyone.
  
• call to follow and support Good Law Project actions
  
• Justice4Grenfell petition to government re implementing recommendations

2) Grenfell 4th Anniversary Monday 14 June 2021

Those who can invited to go to main Grenfell event with organisation/union banners: 6.30pm Methodist Church, 240 Lancaster Road. Anyone having a local vigil to send brief details to Tanya for HomesforAll website
suggestion to contact local churches to ring bells lack of personal evacuation plans for disabled people needs publicising. DPAC has petition.

3) Campaign Against Empty Homes
Councillor Dairmaid Ward gave talk on Islington Council’s actions in buying back RTB council homes + constraints on councils’ budgets/ability to do so other than for temporary accommodation. Request for him to produce a pamphlet spelling this out for use with/of other councils. He will send article he’s written on this to Morag for her to post on H4A website. Umbrella group now set up. Next empty homes organising meeting 10 July 11am. Details on H4A website. Next Day of Action 2 or 9 October. Islington HomesforAll protest.

4 Evictions
HomesforAll to take forward proposal for round-table. Email Morag with suggestions. Steering group to set up meeting to include those who make suggestions, before 10 July.

Next HomesforAll meeting 17 July 2021

Fire Safety Crisis Protest by Action for Fire Safety Justice –  12 pm, Thursday 15 July, 10 Downing Street, SW1A 2AA

Details here http://www.axethehousingact.org.uk/uncategorized/action-cladding-campaigners-to-take-the-fight-to-downing-street-15-july/

Saturday 10 July,  Campaign Against Empty Homes organising meeting 11am till 12pm

We are meeting on Zoom here: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81312365129?pwd=VjhTQjBzMWxIaEdIeXExTnV3RjB2QT09

Meeting ID: 813 1236 5129

Passcode: 015065

The main focus of the agenda is the October 9th Day of Action and which organisations should be on the steering group of Campaign Against Empty Homes and how we launch the campaign.

1. Building the Campaign Against Empty Homes Coalition

a) Who do we want to invite to be on the committee – Suggestions: HFA, AEH, Unite, Unite Community, GMB, Shelter, Big Issue, UNISON, NEU, Streets Kitchen, MPs

b) How do we want to launch the Campaign Against Empty Homes.

2. Planning for the 9th October Day of Action

a) What do we want to do on the day – Zoom Rally, live events, what else?
b) Action Pack
c) Model Resolution to support
d) Press launch for the day
e) Updated publicity.
f) Any other ideas

3. AOB

If there is anything else you would like to add then please let us know at will.mcmahon@emptyhomes.com.

Monday 14th June, 4th Anniversary of Grenfell fire – day of action #JusticeForGrenfell 

On Monday 14th June, Homes for All is calling for supporters to remember the 72 lives lost and to stand in solidarity with the survivors and bereaved of the Grenfell fire. This must never happen again.

Details here http://www.axethehousingact.org.uk/news/buildingsafety/join-us-to-mark-the-4th-anniversary-of-the-grenfell-fire/

Saturday 12th June, 11am,  Homes for All General Meeting

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82426578224

Meeting ID: 824 2657 8224

Agenda
1. #EndOurCladdingScandal showroom protest day report (5 June) and next steps
2. Grenfell 4th anniversary actions Monday 14th June
3. Campaign Against Empty Homes Day of Action (2nd October) and local reports on empty homes. Cllr Diarmaid Ward (Islington) will attend to discuss requisitioning
4. Evictions (moratorium ended 31 May)   5. AOB

Saturday 5th June,  #EndOurCladdingScandal New Homes Showroom Protests – National Day of Local Action

Local actions happening in your area from 11am to 2pm with an online rally

Details here http://www.axethehousingact.org.uk/uncategorized/endourcladdingscandal-time-to-fight-for-fire-safety/

 

Saturday, 29th May, 11am Empty Homes Day of Action organising meeting

This meeting is for everyone who wants to take part in the October Day of Action for empty homes.

Join Zoom Meeting

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81312365129?pwd=VjhTQjBzMWxIaEdIeXExTnV3RjB2QT09
Meeting ID: 813 1236 5129
Passcode: 015065

Saturday May 15th 2021 Homes for All General Meeting , 11am  

Topic: Homes4All General Meeting
Time: May 15, 2021 11:00 AM London

Agenda

1. Empty homes day of action report and next steps
2. Grenfell anniversary 14th June and cladding issue
3. Evictions open letter and EDM 
4. Planning White Paper in queens speech 
5. Rents update

Saturday April 17th 2021  ‘Empty Homes Day of Action’ Including rally 11am to 12pm. We are joining with Action on Empty Homes for an  on  Saturday 17th April. Details here: http://www.axethehousingact.org.uk/uncategorized/empty-homes-day-of-action-saturday-april-17th-2021/