STAND UP TODAY, SAVE TOMORROW – NORWICH SAYS ENOUGH IS ENOUGH

Posted on September 8, 2022 by Norwich Radical in Community and tagged acorn, Boris Johnson, cameron matthews, cost of living crisis, Covid-19, CWU, Denzil Dean, eddie dempsey, EnoughisEnough, featured, grace petrie, jeremy corbyn, Jess Barnard, liz truss, NEU, norwich, NUJ, politics, RMT, Royal College of Nursing, taj ali, Tories, trade unions, uk.

by Rowan Gavin

“We are living in unique, unique times.”

The words of Eddie Dempsey, Assistant General Secretary of the RMT, speaking to the packed-out rally for the Enough is Enough campaign at Epic Studios in Norwich on Tuesday night. He’s right. Many are saying they can’t remember a time when so many were so hard-off in this country. Meanwhile, by a number of measures, the richest few have never been so rich. My rent and the rate on my electricity meter have gone up this year, and with more price hikes on the horizon I’m worried about what it’s gonna cost to stay warm this winter. My friends, colleagues, and almost everyone I speak to are facing the same concerns. But despite all that, one thing makes this moment feel unique to me more than anything else: the strength of working people’s will to fight back.

THE ANTI-POLL TAX UNIONS: LESSONS IN COMMUNITY ORGANISING

Posted on January 28, 2021 by Norwich Radical in Community, Inter|national and tagged acorn, activism, All-British Anti-Poll Tax Federation, anti-poll tax unions, austerity, bailiffs, campaigning, civil disobedience, class, community organising, Danny Burns, featured, grassroots, miners strike, non-payment, poll tax, Poll Tax Rebellion, poll tax riots, protest, Thatcher, Tories, uk, unions.

By Niahl Hubbard

When activists look back to the movement that arose to challenge the introduction of the Poll Tax, they will see it as one of ordinary people taking on the establishment and coming out victorious. Whilst the rioting in Trafalgar Square and similar confrontations between police and protestors often takes centre stage in our collective memory of this period, there is the risk of overlooking the grassroots and community led resistance that fought every step of the way during the Poll Tax’s introduction – the resistance of the Anti-Poll Tax Unions.

TAKING WHAT’S OURS: ACORN NORWICH’S FIGHT FOR TENANTS’ RIGHTS

Posted on December 31, 2020 by Norwich Radical in Community and tagged abbotFox, acorn, Acorn Norwich, ACORN renters' union, ACORN Tenants' Union, community union, direct action, estate agents, housing, illegal evictions, landlords, letting agents, Northwood, Norwich City Council, pandemic, rent, rent strike, trade union.

By Sean Meleady

ACORN Norwich, a community union which focuses particularly on tenants’ rights, has been dealing with member defence cases against two Norwich estate agents: abbotFox and Northwood.

NEW TOWNS TO POOR DOORS: SOCIAL HOUSING OVER THE DECADES

Posted on December 26, 2020 by Norwich Radical in Community, Perspectives and tagged acorn, City, city planning, class, classism, council flat, council tenants, economy, featured, hierarchy, housing, housing crisis, milton keynes, neighbourhood plans, new town, post war, social housing, tenant.

by Kasper Hassett

To most people, thinking of social housing might typically invoke one of two images: kids weaving big-wheeled bikes between identical high rises; or post-war ‘new town’ developments, which historically placed workers and their families in entirely new communities in industrial areas. These possibilities may ring true for some people’s lived experiences, but with the decline of new social housing developments at a time when they are needed most, the few new properties being released to social housing tenants are often nestled among more expensive housing only available to more affluent residents, in ways which alienate the poor. In fact, social housing now is so far removed from dominant expectations of cohesive, mono-class communities that it is hard to spot.

SHELTERED, BUT NOT FROM MUCH: CLASS-BASED BARRIERS TO STUDENT HOUSING

Posted on September 19, 2020 by Norwich Radical in Student and tagged acorn, campaign, Community, coronavirus, covid, Covid-19, featured, guarantor, house, housing, international students, landlord, norwich, private accommodation, rent, social status, students, UEA, UEA SU, uk, university, University of East Anglia, working class.

by Kasper Hassett

This month, many returning university students are settling into house-shares in the private rental sector, as the first-year intake prepares to move into halls of residence shortly after. However, for students whose families live in poverty, there are a number of barriers to accessing rental homes, which have worsened this year due to the coronavirus pandemic, which has also constructed new obstacles to prevent poorer students from relying on campus accommodation.

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STAND UP TODAY, SAVE TOMORROW – NORWICH SAYS ENOUGH IS ENOUGH

by Rowan Gavin

THE ANTI-POLL TAX UNIONS: LESSONS IN COMMUNITY ORGANISING

TAKING WHAT’S OURS: ACORN NORWICH’S FIGHT FOR TENANTS’ RIGHTS

By Sean Meleady

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