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KILBURN UNEMPLOYED WORKERS GROUP

MEETING AGENDA,
THURSDAY 10 OCTOBER 2013

VENUE: KINGSGATE COMMUNITY CENTRE, 107 KINGSGATE ROAD, NW6 2JH,
TIME: 3-5:30PM

1. Gather and decide whether to start with a brief meditation — and do so not
2. Appointment/selection of facilitator/chairperson and minute-taker
3. Present
4. Apologies
5. Cases &; Members' Wellbeing(Pt 1)
6. Break
7. Reports and Consultations:
   1. UN consultation prior to investigation into UK Government defaulting on UN Convention on Rights of People with Disabilities [with 10 November deadline for responses]; UK Government response to that [a consultation with 2 week deadline for responses]; and
   2. Request from Trust for London — who fund London Unemployed Strategies — for experts by experience to come forward toward talking with media in the context of TFL's 'London Poverty Profile', report launch of which is Monday 14 October
   3. Friday 4 October: 'Winning the argument on welfare' conference at TUC HQ report by Alan
   4. Sunday 6 October: Demo against the Daily Mail, report by Angela or Giselle
   5. Wednesday 9 October: Leafleting at Kilburn Jobcentre
   6. Committee report by George
8. Draft Minutes of group meetings held 3 October 2013
9. Workshop date suggestions/proposals:
   1. 'The precariat' (a term that merges 'precarious' with 'proletariat'), possibly integrating discussion abouty holistic health?
   2. Work Programme — aka 'Non-Work Programme' — 'conditionality', sanctions and maybe the 'Claimant Commitment'?
   3. Housing
10. Justice for Herbert & All Claimants planning
11. AOB, incl Cases (Pt 2) if necessary, and prompt exit by 5:30pm, with tables and chairs put back in storage space.