[OccupySheffield] [Occupy London] voice of the voiceless 21st jan sheffield uk - unemployed / other diverse workers union ?

[tom@occupysheffield.org.uk]

The rally is part of the program

T

----- Reply message -----
From: "jamie kelsey-fry" <lsxcamp at gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Dec 29, 2011 11:03 am
Subject: [OccupySheffield] [Occupy London] voice of the voiceless 21st jan sheffield uk - unemployed / other diverse workers union ?
To: "Mark Barrett" <marknbarrett at googlemail.com>
Cc: <occupysheffield at email-lists.org>


No, I was up in Sheffield just now, for a day and saw the Citadel of Hope
and it's going to host an amazing national Occupy convention on that
weekend.

All power to Sheffield Occupy and thanks for the hospitality!

Keep It Lit

Jamie

On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Mark Barrett
<marknbarrett at googlemail.com>wrote:

> Dear Dawn and Everyone
>
> Please see Jamie's email below. Jamie are you on the Sheffield email list
> (cc/d) ? If not you should be on it you diamond :)
>
> Cheers!
>
> Mark
>
> On 29 December 2011 10:18, jamie kelsey-fry <lsxcamp at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hey all
>>
>> Is this rally part of the national occupy conference that's starting on
>> the same day in Sheffield?
>>
>> J
>>
>>  On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 8:27 AM, Mark Barrett <
>> marknbarrett at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>   Rally of the 99%
>>> 21st January Sheffield
>>> .. please see message below from Dawn
>>>
>>> Mark
>>>  ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>> From: <barriers2bridges at virginmedia.com>
>>> Date: 28 December 2011 19:45
>>> Subject: RE: [OccupySheffield] I think this warrants serious
>>> consideration
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi Mark,
>>> Could you pls send to the list - this keeps happening, where I think I'm
>>> replying to your/other's thread on the list, but a visually impaired
>>> computer user, and don't always know which address is where etc.
>>>
>>> Hope to meet you if you make it up here for the occupy gathering and the
>>> rally.
>>>
>>> Dawn
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: marknbarrett at googlemail.com [mailto:marknbarrett at googlemail.com]
>>>  Sent: 28 December 2011 18:12
>>> To: barriers2bridges at virginmedia.com; Anna Harris
>>> Subject: Re: [OccupySheffield] I think this warrants serious
>>> consideration
>>>
>>> Hi Dawn -- thanks for this, sounds great but, like your earlier message
>>> you
>>> only sent it to me, maybe you should be writing to the wider community on
>>> this? I've cc'd Anna Harris as she's expressed a strong interest in the
>>> idea
>>> also, to maybe chat some more here  but I do think you should also mail
>>> the
>>> whole Sheffield list which I understand is a national one  ( I am based
>>> in
>>> London btw). Very keen to help with this further, just not sure how best
>>> to
>>> yet! Grr about losing your post, that's such an annoying experience. Mark
>>> Sent from phone
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: <barriers2bridges at virginmedia.com>
>>> Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2011 18:04:21
>>> To: 'Mark Barrett'<marknbarrett at googlemail.com>
>>> Subject: RE: [OccupySheffield] I think this warrants serious
>>> consideration
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>> I hit something the other night in the middle of my thread re an
>>> unemployed/diverse workers group and the rest went out the window.
>>>
>>> Basically, it has been suggested 'several times' during the course of me
>>> attending SACA meetings (Sheffield Anti-Cuts Alliance) which on the
>>> whole I
>>> don't tend to do anymore; the upshot was, from the "hardest hit" demo
>>> last
>>> may, was the DPU, instead of a more sensibly driven combined effort
>>> between
>>> both those of us who are unemployed and/or have additional needs.
>>> Unfortunately too, SACA is an agenda-driven umbrella grouping, with a
>>> lot of
>>> left-wing sectarian tug-of-warring, with an executive, who's members are
>>> too
>>> tied to union affiliation (in my humble opinion).
>>>
>>> Whatta shame, because Sheffield, with its long industrial history, has
>>> become disempowered if your long term unemployed.
>>>
>>> And, that is just what 'the Rally of the 99%: the Voice of the Voiceless
>>> will be promoting on 21 January.
>>> It will now be in conjunction with the occupy conference here in
>>> Sheffield,
>>> but I have been organising it for a month now and almost have all the
>>> speakers we need to represent the unrepresented i.e. those without
>>> union...!
>>> I have, a speaker from Occupy Sheffield, a well-known representative of
>>> Chesterfield Unemployed workers, myself (to speak on behalf of 'people'
>>> with
>>> additional needs) A visually impaired entrepreneur (to further promote a
>>> more 'can do' aspect of having additional needs/challenges) a speaker
>>> from
>>> SACA and a speaker to promote a socialist alternative to the current
>>> Cystem!
>>> I still need some one to speak on behalf of people with mental health
>>> conditions, homelessness, an ethnic minority group and maybe a tenancy
>>> association, that will all be in the bag along with the comference
>>> hoasted
>>> here in Sheffield.
>>>
>>> Occupy is the perfect nonhierarchical organised community to set up an
>>> unemployed/diverse workers union (or whatever we decide to call it), but
>>> as
>>> I say, I'm personally not involved in the DPU, because having additional
>>> needs equates to more than just being on benefits; some people still have
>>> jobs whatever their additional needs and, despite the bringing in of the
>>> DDA
>>> ('dis-ability Discrimi
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