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Foster + Partners’ controversial redevelopment scheme at Bishop's Place in East London has found a powerful enemy in the outspoken MP George Galloway. Galloway, in whose Bethnal Green & Bow constituency the Bishop's Place scheme would be built, has called for the Hammerson development to be halted.
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Election campaigns cost a lot of money - and Respect is proud that we don't have the backing of big business.
But this means we rely on you, our supporters, to donate money for our election campaigns. Now you can donate £3.50 to our campaign by texting GEORGE plus your email address to 81456. |
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Friends of the Earth has invited George Galloway to head up a protest on Tower Bridge this Satuday at 12.30pm. George is very pleased to have had this invitation and to help draw attention to the urgency of the situation which is already devastating some of the poorest countries in the world, including Bangladesh.
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Local news and reports
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George Galloway yesterday congratulated the 175 residents in sheltered housing for the victory over their landlords, Bethnal Green & Victoria Park Housing Association (BGVPHA). BGVPHA this afternoon announced that they were withdrawing the surcharge of over £7 per week they had intended to levy on residents for deficits that had built up over the previous two years. |
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"From the moment our battle bus headed off from City Hall after our launch, you could sense the potential support for our campaign," says George Galloway MP, who is heading Respect's campaign for the London Assembly. |
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Respect's London election campaign launch this morning will be covered on London Tonight on ITV at 6pm today, and on BBC London at 6.30pm - do tune in! We'll have a full report and pictures soon. |
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Join George Galloway and other Respect candidates for the London Assembly on the Respect routemaster at 10.30am, City Hall, on Monday as Geoge launches the campaign to see him and others elected on 1st May.
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George Galloway this evening savagely attacked Boris Johnson and his pretensions to become mayor of London. In an article to appear in tomorrow's Daily Record he writes: "Bonkers Johnson can scarcely be imagined representing one of the world's great capitals. He backed Bush and Blair's war on Iraq and boasts he stole Tariq Aziz's cigar case when roaming around his empty house on a post-war dance on Iraqi war graves. He described black children as 'picaninnies', marvelling at their 'water-melon smiles'. And he's managed to insult the people of Liverpool, Swindon and Bristol."
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Local news and reports
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The Salma Iqbal campaign team has been in full gear this weekend with volunteers canvassing for the Springfield Respect candidate. With local elections on the 1st of May, campaigners and friends have been rallying support amongst local residents in Sparkhill and surrounding areas. |
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For the World Against War demonstration on 15 March, and to build support for Respect in the coming elections, we're proud to launch a special 16-page edition of our newspaper. Pick up your copy or download it! |
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Birmingham Respect is working hard to oppose the
imposition of a ‘Red Route’ traffic restrictions along
the Stratford Road. |
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Respect MP George Galloway will be a guest speaker at the George Habash memorial meeting on March 15, organised by the George Habash Memorial Committee |
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Local news and reports
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Birmingham Respect’s local election campaign has got
off to a flying start. Around 300 people attended a
launch rally with guest speaker George Galloway MP.
Many people commented this was Respect’s best ever
meeting in the city. |
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200 women came together on the evening of Friday 7th
March as part of Respect's celebration of
International Women’s Day 2008. |
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General news
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Shelter staff are taking a second day’s strike action on Monday 10th March.
There will be picket lines at the following locations. Please note they are slightly different from the locations for last week’s strike – there will be no picket line in Newcastle, but there will be one in Bristol. There will also be a rally in Edinburgh. |
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Respect MP George Galloway has tabled an Early Day Motion in Parliament over proposals to build huge skyscrapers in Shoreditch.
Our community is under threat.
Tower Hamlets and Hackney Councils, encouraged by the City of London and Mayor Livingstone, want to change Shoreditch and Spitalfieds for ever.
If they get their way Brick Lane will be surrounded by massive glass tower blocks, providing homes, offices and shops for the rich - excluding and blocking out the light for local people. |
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Shelter workers held their first strike day on Wednesday 5 March - it was a great success. The National Pensioners' Convention were there with their banner, as was the National Shop Stewards' Network, with theirs. |
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The Government's new immigration points based system has started to be implemented this week, less than a month after the Border and Immigration Agency announced details of the "Australian-style" Points scheme on the 6th February.
Brown’s government has once again acted with knee-jerk legislation to counter the hysteria about immigration and asylum seekers, hysteria whipped up by the constant bombardment of negative reports in the media. |
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The decision to allow Milton Keynes a license for a regional casino has been welcomed by local Councillors and MP's alike. The promise of up to 250 new jobs is heralded as a perfect reason for the development to take place, adding to the entertainment mix of Milton Keynes, the "city that thinks differently". |
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Shelter workers will be on strike Wednesday 5 March. Here are details of pickets lines throughout the UK. Please do go and show Shelter workers your support! |
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Dear sisters and brothers,
I have long felt proud to be support the work you do in Shelter, which has done so much to highlight the national scandal of homelessness and overcrowding.
Both those issues blight the lives of large numbers of my constituents in East London. They need Shelter to be a strong, campaigning organisation – that requires a staff which is properly and fairly rewarded, well motivated and respected.
Ken Loach – a fellow leading figure in the Respect party – has already spoken out powerfully in your support, on Radio 4 and elsewhere, and I have no hesitation in joining him.
It is almost beyond belief that you are being forced to sign new, inferior contracts. These are the kinds of neo-liberal measures which on a social scale contribute to the housing crisis Shelter does so much to address.
I know you have not taken the decision to take strike action in defence of your pay and conditions lightly. But you have done so overwhelmingly. I have had over 30 years membership and association with the TGWU – now part of Unite – and I know it has always acted not only for its members but for the wider social good.
As a longstanding friend and supporter of Shelter, I would appeal to the management to meet with your union representatives, withdraw these attacks on your conditions and pay, and together with you seek to win the funding that the charity deserves to do its vital work.
In solidarity,
George Galloway
Respect MP for Bethnal Green and Bow |
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"I am utterly disgusted at the behaviour of the Tory councillors at tonight's full council meeting, when they voted to end mother tongue funding," said a furious Abjol Miah, Respect Group leader on Tower Hamlets Council. "They have singled out the Bangladeshi community in Tower Hamlets for attack. I wonder if any Tory councillor consulted with any of their Bangladeshi members. I don't think their Bangladeshi members would have given this any support had they known this was what the Tory councillors planned."
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Respect MP George Galloway will be appearing on the BBC's "Question Time" programme this Thursday, 28 February at 10.35pm on BBC1. Do tune in.
Please visit the BBC website for details. |
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Respect councillors and supporters were campaigning in Watney Market on Saturday to keep local post offices in business. Royal Mail is planning to close five sub post offices in Tower Hamlets.
Customers at 75 Whitechapel Road, Watney Street in Shadwell, Devons Road and Heylyn Square in Bow and at The Quarterdeck on the Isle of Dogs could see their local services axed.
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Clive Searle from Manchester Respect Renewal reports on a great few days, with meetings and walkabouts with candidates and Respect MP George Galloway |
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54 people braved a bitterly cold night to attend the launch meeting of the new respect Renewal branch in Atherton, Lancashire on Tuesday 19th February.
Despite the failure of the heating the temperature inside the meeting soon heated up as the start of the meeting had to be delayed while George Galloway MP conducted a live interview with Channel 4 news from inside the meeting hall. George passionately defended the gains of the Cuban revolution receiving a great round of applause from the meeting after tearing a strip off the interviewer in London. |
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On 12 February around 80 people attended a lively public meeting called by Lambeth and Southwark Respect Renewal at Elephant & Castle. The theme of the meeting was ‘The Economy Brown Built’, particularly focussed on the current economic crisis and the government’s attempt to hold down pay and pensions while prices, particularly fuel prices, let rip. |
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