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Review of Brenda Boardman’s Fixing Fuel Poverty

Source: Energy Bulletin - Peak Energy feed

Brenda Boardman continues to do pioneering work in the field of fuel poverty in Britain. She is Emeritus Fellow with the Lower Carbon Futures at the Environmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford. Twenty years ago, Boardman wrote her landmark study, Fuel Poverty: From Cold Homes to Affordable Warmth, which provided the first quantifiable definition of fuel poverty (ie. when a household spends more than 10% of its income on energy services). read more more >>

UPM: Mass Rally of the Unemployed in Durban to Demand Decent Work and a Guaranteed Income for All

Source: Abahlali baseMjondolo

Unemployed People’s Movement Press Statement 31 August 2010 MASS RALLY OF THE UNEMPLOYED IN DURBAN TO DEMAND DECENT WORK AND A GUARANTEED INCOME FOR ALL VENUE: Glebelands Stadium, Umlazi DATE: Wednesday 1 September 2010 TIME: 11:00 CONTACT PEOPLE: Ayanda Kota 078 625 6462, Nozipho Mnteshana 079 740 5074 SPEAKERS: Nozipho Mnteshana, Chairperson of the Unemployed People’s Movement in Durban and S’bu Zikode, President of Abahlali baseMjondolo South Africa A million jobs were lost last year. Many people who are working remain poor. We cannot continue like this. Therefore we, as part of a growing solidarity and militancy on the part of the organisations of the working class are demanding: read more more >>

Recovery: 1 in 6 Americans in Government Anti-Poverty Programs

Source: Cryptogon

Via: USA Today: Government anti-poverty programs that have grown to meet the needs of recession victims now serve a record one in six Americans and are continuing to expand. More than 50 million Americans are on Medicaid, the federal-state program aimed principally at the poor, a survey of state data by USA TODAY shows. That’s [...] more >>

An optimistic diary (for once)

Source: Energy Bulletin - Peak Energy feed

I'm usually known as one of the doomers'n'gloomers on the blogs, with diaries and comments on the economy heavily leaning towards negative views. And to a large extent, I still stand by these positions and fully expect (i) the economy to dive again and (ii) an even worse financial crisis coming our way. I'm also part of the peak oil / peak resources crowd, and do not consider our current civilisation, especially as hundreds of millions in emerging markets rush to embrace it, to be sustainable. ... But, surprisingly, I also have a number of arguments to be optimistic for the medium term, i.e. that let me hope that I will not spend my late years in poverty and/or in the middle of societal collapse. read more more >>

SEP public meeting against cuts

Source: Indymedia UK Newswire

The Socialist Equality Party is calling for a public meeting about the potential mass unemployment leading from government cuts to be held 3pm on 4th September at East Oxford Community Association, 44b Princes Street, Oxford OX4 1DD. more >>

We respond to David Cameron’s threat to end life long council tenancies

Source: London Coalition Against Poverty

A spokesperson from Hackney Housing Group, part of London Coalition Against Poverty (LCAP), said: “Hackney Housing Group urges the coalition government to strongly reconsider David Cameron’s plan to end lifetime council tenancies. This plan, if put into action, will intimidate thousands of people who will never know whether their future in their own homes is secure. [...] more >>

CONGO: All that glitters...

Source: CorpWatch - Latest Articles

Decades of gold mining should have given Congo a ticket to prosperity. Instead, it is trapped in a cycle of violence and poverty. more >>

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Reclaim the Future 5: A vast day/night party event in a liberated, occupied space in London, 5 September 2009

from email, updated 6 September 2009: "Reclaim the Future 5 is a vast all-day all-night information and party event in a liberated, self-managed occupied venue somewhere in London on Saturday 5 September 2009.
* At least two rooms of live bands 9pm-4am
* DJs 4am-7am
* Cabaret * Workshops and stalls all afternoon - info on the arms trade, the G20, prisoner & detainee support, squatting, samba, permaculture, climate change, bike repair, and more... more

Police Review: magazine cartoon - "In staggeringly poor taste"

from J4J campaign, 18 November 2008: We would imagine that, in the midst of the inquest into the death of Jean Charles de Menezes, publications aimed at and widely read by serving police officers would show greater sensitivity in the way they talk about fatal shootings by the police. But evidently not. The magazine "Police Review", in its 14 November edition, decided that the introduction of new rules preventing firearms officers from conferring after a shooting was best illustrated by this appalling cartoon. more