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is a political organisation aiming to build workplace and community democracy through direct action and struggling with all those fighting for change.
We stand for the power of workers and local people against the bosses and politicians in order to bring about radical social change, to build a society based on freedom, democracy and cooperation.
Ellenor talks about her history as an activist and the London Coalition Against Poverty.
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People Power, the Daily Telegraph sponsored primer on campaigning in your community is a new book, published in 2008, that marks a departure from traditional literature of this nature; filled with examples of campaigns in action, the book covers ground from forming a committee, to uploading video on youtube through to making deputations to government ministers.
Liberty and Solidarity member Sandy talks about how he became and activist, as well as detailing some of the organisations that we participate in within London.
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Liberty and Solidarity has had a busy few months since its founding conference in September. Having created our constitution and formulated our key strategies we have set about getting involved in community and workplace politics across the country. In Glasgow our members have been heavily involved in the Burgh Angel community newspaper, whilst in London our activists have been working within London Coalition Against Poverty, including helping with preparations for its housing campaign road-show. We've also been active within the IWW union nationally, both helping the union to organise within the health sector and helping win key democratic reforms within the union itself.
In a letter to the National Union of Journalists, the Minister for security and counter-terrorism, Vernon Coaker, clarified that the police may stop photographers taking pictures or videos when “the taking of photographs may cause or lead to public order situations or inflame an already tense situation or raise security considerations.” The Police have already been using heightened security tensions and their powers under the Terrorism Act to remove and harass people documenting political demonstrations, which was the cause of the dialogue with the NUJ.
