For those of us that can’t be there at the demo on Friday at 11.00. We must support Focus E15!
Yet another example of the misery and inhumanity heaped on ordinary working-class people, women and children by the anti-welfarism agenda. An agenda that is taking and blighting lives, an agenda that sees people without any right to decent housing for their children, and ripped from their families and friends by a program of social cleansing.
Our silence is complicity and agreement- our support shows we will not accept this!
Please tweet from here https://dftr.org.uk/FocusE15
What the Newham Mothers say:
We have been told we will not be offered council housing but that we will be offered private rented accommodation from accredited landlords outside of London in places like Hastings, Birmingham and Manchester. If we refuse this offer, we will be classed as making ourselves intentionally homeless and face temporary accommodation with little protection from eviction and no guarantee of a long-term solution from the council. Also if we chose to rent privately we are not entitled to get sufficient help with deposits which we cannot afford ourselves.
We want secure and suitable housing for mothers in east London!
‘This life is stressful I understand why people take their lives. Even more stressful if we’re young. We want to work or study, we’re not lazy, we don’t want to be on benefits forever, and we want to raise our children ourselves. Children need stability, moving is traumatic, for anyone, especially children.’
‘Our children need to know their grandparents, their cousins, their families.’
‘I have stopped looking for places as I have been rejected so many times’
‘You’re not tearing us apart from our families….we are fighters’
To read more on Focus E15 see links
https://uclu.org/policy/up1321/focus-e15-mothers
https://anticuts.com/2014/03/19/current-struggles-focus-e15-mothers/