Kilburn
Unemployed Workers Group:
Inform and
Survive
7.6.2012
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“As the
Con-Dem Cabinet of multi-millionaires continues to conspire on privatising and
asset-stripping our public services with lobbyists from global corporations as
'advisers', the Kilburn Unemployed Workers Group (KUWG) helps people in Brent
and Camden and beyond know what they can do about it,” Alan Wheatley, a KUWG
spokesperson said today.
Meeting every Thursday from 3pm
till 5pm at Kingsgate Community Centre, 107 Kingsgate Road, NW6 2JH, the KUWG
liaises with Disability in Camden's (DISC) benefits advice team over casework
brought to KUWG by meeting attenders who become aware of the group meetings via
weekly leafleting outside Kilburn Jobcentre. As an offshoot of that contact,
Luchvinder from DISC will be talking to the Group on Thursday, 14 June about
forthcoming legislated changes to the benefits system and what to do about
them. And on 21 June the group will be welcoming Richard Braniff, TUC envoy
starting a group of young unemployed in NW10 on how we can help prevent the
youth of today becoming part of a reserve army of slave labour. Speakers
generally speak for about ten minutes at the start of the meeting, and then
answer questions for about a further ten minutes.
KUWG will also be represented at a
meeting of the London Coalition Against Poverty (LCAP) on 23 June, and is
aiming to take part in forthcoming trade union demonstrations and activities,
as well as co-operating with Brent Trades Council and Brent Fight Back.
“What is happening to our public
services is a legalised abuse of vulnerable people, while the 2012 Diamond
Jubilee, London Olympics and Paralympics constitute an expensive distraction.
But, as self-help 'survivors'' groups established in the 1980s, a 'survivor' is
someone who is no longer prepared to be or become a 'victim'. We help local
people become better informed and survive as stakeholders and trustees of
public services for the public good,” Mr Wheatley concluded for the Kilburn
Unemployed Workers Group.
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