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Today at TUC Women's conference, PCS moved a motion congratulating their members at BEIS for successful strike action, and drawing attention to the appalling conditions that outsouced workers, many of them women, face. I made the following contribution to the debate.
Congratulations to PCS on its brilliant win at BEIS and solidarity with your ongoing sturggles at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and elsewhere.
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Janine will be speaking about Neurodiversity and Labour.
Details from Greenwich and Woolwich Labour Party.
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Lewes Constituency Labour Party is organising a big day event ‘Painting the Town Red’ for Labour across Sussex, Kent and Surrey. The purpose is to mix ideas and practical skills.
The day will revolve around music, spoken word, design and children’s events.
Janine will be opening the spoken word stream with a talk around the radical potential of spoken word.
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I made Nadia Whittome's maiden Commons speech into a poem. Here it is:
"I'm here through solidarity
and hard work in my town
I want to say to Nottingham:
'I will not let you down'
I'll represent this burning earth
- a planet we must save
To speak up for a generation
outward-faced and brave
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POSTPONED due to Covid-19
Details of rescheduling to follow.
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In the cacophony of post mortems of Labour’s defeat, the role of Labour councils is being overlooked or at least understated.
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I spoke with my dad (pictured) about his memories of the 1945 general election ...
75 years ago when I was seven, I experienced the first of 22 general elections in my life.
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Isn't this a heartland too?
We have poundshops, pawnshops, boarded-up shops
and industries replaced by social services
We too have schools with leaking roofs
and youth in gigs and gangs and anguish
Isn't this a heartland too?
We have hearts and we have lands
Hearts that beat on rundown streets
and lands blemished with landfill
and corporate-municipal scandal
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Venue: Student Central, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HY View Map
Chair Sean McGovern. Speakers Include John McDonnell, Marsha de Cordova, Francesca Martinez, Micheline Mason, Barbara Lisicki, Richard Rieser, Janine Booth, Kirsten Hearn and others to be confirmed.
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I’m stockpiling for harder times
I'm panicking and hoarding
But I won’t vote for Labour 'cos
I don’t like Jeremy Corbyn
Of course I’d like to see more help
for those who face adversity
Of course folk shouldn’t have to pay
to go to university
And rent controls would be so good -
the costs that they’re absorbing
But I’ll not vote for Labour 'cos
I don’t like Jeremy Corbyn
