Worthing Solidarity Network.: March 2011

In what should be a momentous week for the anti-cuts movement, join us for our regular meeting to hear the latest on public service cuts and the campaigns to stop them, plus lots more. This week's agenda includes:

- Fighting cuts to adult social care in West Sussex, with a guest speaker "Don’t Cut Us Out West Sussex" - who organised the brilliant hundreds-strong demo at West Sussex County Council in Chichester recently

- National anticuts demo 26th March: final push to publicise + arrangements for the day

- Update on "Stop 9th Tesco" campaign

- WSN & the local elections: update

As always, everyone is very welcome, particularly if you've never been before!

Police support March 26?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/mar/20/police-support-protesters-growing

Tory MP tells Cameron where to stick NHS reforms.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/tory-mp-blasts-pm-over-destructive-nhs-reforms-2247765.html

Nuclear power has meltdown.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/8393878/Chris-Huhne-Britain-may-scale-back-nuclear-plans-after-Japan-disaster.html

Osborne the social re-engineer.

http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the-staggers/2011/03/osborne-budget-cuts-social

1700 jobs go as Royal mail centres close.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-12812295

Comical Sarah gets geography lesson.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/sarah-palin/8396467/Sarah-Palin-aborts-visit-to-Bethlehem.html

Friday, March 18, 2011

Nuclear power no thanks

http://38degrees.uservoice.com/forums/78585-campaign-suggestions/suggestions/1605751-nuclear-power-is-too-dangerous

Nuclear and oil both in crisis.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/globalbusiness/8386829/World-energy-crunch-as-nuclear-and-oil-both-go-wrong.html

100,000 public sector jobs lost in12 months.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/mar/16/public-sector-job-losses

Meltdown fears underestimated

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/british-ministers-spooked-by-chief-scientific-advisor-2245413.html

Lovies fight cuts.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-12760471

Government propaganda to con students

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/adverts-aim-to-explain-rise-in-tuition-fees-2245360.html

Labour and wider centre-left politics.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/mar/17/labour-til-i-die-party-politics

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

LibDems in reverse

http://www.touchstoneblog.org.uk/2011/03/all-together-for-the-nhs/

NHS psychiatric care crisis

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/mar/15/mental-health-patients-forced-detention

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1366688/Locked-sedated-Dementia-patients-denied-basic-rights-says-damning-report.html

Privatising NHS Blood and Transplant Service "huge error"

http://bit.ly/hCMTb8

King in the Dock

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/8384189/Bank-of-England-court-worried-about-Mervyn-Kings-politicised-role.html

GPs in the money.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/mar/15/nhs-reforms-gps-double-income

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/doctors-urge-the-government-to-abandon-health-reform-bill-2242911.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/8384904/BMA-doctors-urge-ministers-to-scrap-top-down-reforms.html

Commons Treasury committee report 'Principles of tax policy'.

http://bit.ly/fm6rnd

Monday, March 14, 2011

Why we must all say No to Nuclear
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/leading-articles/leading-article-japans-disaster-must-prompt-a-new-look-at-reactor-safety-2241004.html

NHS U-turn?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/mar/13/nhs-reforms-overhaul-liberal-democrats

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/coalition-may-backtrack-on-nhs-reform-plans-2240977.html

And more tax dodger’s
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/mar/14/companies-off-hook-for-16bn-tax

Sunday, March 13, 2011

Europe wide Nuclear reactor checks

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_world/view/1116278/1/.html

60,000 protest against nuclear plants

http://www.livemint.com/2011/03/13220908/Nuclear-power-after-the-quake.html?h=B

Fuel price hike to follow meltdown?

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/5eb3ca86-4d86-11e0-85e4-00144feab49a.html#axzz1GVh8jFwE

Friday, March 11, 2011

Strike call by doctors and teachers.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/now-doctors-and-headteachers-threaten-to-strike-over-pensions-2238589.html

Don’t call Fred Goodwin a **nker.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfinance/8375272/Sir-Fred-Goodwin-RBS-chief-takes-out-gagging-order.html

Nuclear reactor meltdown fears

http://www.google.co.uk/search?aq=2&oq=japan+nuclear&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=japan+nuclear+emergency#q=japan+nuclear+emergency&hl=en&prmd=ivnsu&source=univ&tbs=mbl:1&sa=X&ei=IRJ9TcvYL5OxhQfs3fyABw&sqi=2&ved=0CDQQ8QkoAzAB&fp=d3283173feea699c

Thursday, March 10, 2011

Pensions
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/mar/10/million-strike-planned-pensions
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/storm-looms-as-public-sector-pension-reforms-unveiled-2237787.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1364773/Pensions-dream-ruins-15-million-families.html

Banks

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/mar/09/banks-refuse-to-tell-fsa-about-high-earners

Wednesday, March 09, 2011

Meeting tonight, see above!

£900m Council redundancy and severance costs.

http://bit.ly/hwiXXi

Police cuts: “I'm not sure ministers know what they're doing”

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/blog/2011/mar/08/police-cuts-ministers?INTCMP=SRCH

Police declare "war" on the Government.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/2011/03/09/police-declare-war-on-the-government-over-savage-job-and-pay-cuts-115875-22975968/

By-election hat-trick for Labour?

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/columnists/maguire/2011/03/09/how-ed-miliband-can-secure-a-by-election-hat-trick-for-labour-115875-22975996/

Notts miner encourages cuts resistance

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/columnists/maguire/2011/03/09/notts-miners-leader-keith-stanley-has-lessons-for-workers-fighting-cuts-115875-22975997/

Tuesday, March 08, 2011

Police to join March 26 protest?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/mar/08/police-protest-march-pay-cuts

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12672329
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/8367948/Police-officers-attack-ministers-who-have-never-had-to-pay-a-mortgage-for-cutting-front-line-salaries.html

WCA: "I felt it was assumed that I was lying...”

http://www.guardian.co.uk/global/2011/mar/07/work-capability-assessment-criticism

Don’t bin your dial up Modem!

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/features/could-the-uk-government-shut-down-the-web-2235116.html

Monday, March 07, 2011

Students criminalised for exercising their right to protest

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/mar/06/met-police-criminalising-generation-students

Legal challenge to welfare reform

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/mar/07/legal-challenge-housing-benefit-reform

Doctor: NHS reforms will take health care back to the 30s

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/mar/06/nhs-shakeup-risks-return-doctor

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/mar/07/non-national-health-service-editorial

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/mar/06/nhs-reforms-health-bill-compete

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/8365334/NHS-reforms-will-return-health-service-to-1930s.html

Saturday, March 05, 2011

Important info for March 26

http://marchforthealternative.org.uk/2011/02/18/access-and-disability/

Student loans debt (4mins in): USA today UK tomorrow?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XB2FS4RT2sY

Bank assets ‘goat poo’

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hPvRjpRjLg&feature=relmfu

Friday, March 04, 2011

Important info for March 26

http://marchforthealternative.org.uk/2011/02/18/access-and-disability/

People power cut the cuts!

http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/8887561.Brighton_and_Hove_opposition_unite_to_defeat_Tory_budget/?ref=mr

Clegg, your boy took one hell off a beating!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/mar/04/labour-barnsley-central-byelection-lib-dems

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-12643639

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/byelection/8360984/Barnsley-Central-by-election-Lib-Dems-admit-they-got-a-kicking.html

Cash your Giro and get a tipple.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/mar/03/claimants-will-have-to-cash-giros-at-off-licences

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1362793/Go-newsagent-pick-pension-Post-Offices-lose-benefit-payment-deal-U-S-bank.html

Thursday, March 03, 2011

Doctor to patient: 'you can't have treatment because that way I'll get paid'.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-12578300

Who would win an election tomorrow?

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/labour-winning-over-squeezed-middle-voters-2228527.html
http://www.comres.co.uk/page1902251851.aspx

Mervyn King blames Bankers for collapse in living standards.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/king-says-living-standards-may-never-recover-from-the-crisis-2229570.html

Private health firm, IHP, proposes turning savings on NHS patient spending – into profits.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/mar/02/nhs-reform-surgeries-stock-market

Over 600 Oxbridge academics say No to tuition fees.hike
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/hundreds-of-oxbridge-dons-demand-inquiry-into-tuition-fees-2229615.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-12611543