1. Our Final Word
(Letters/Letters in the Local Press)

...ve a problem with the Hope Not Hate strategy is that it concentrates its response to the BNP during election campaigns, for example its “2008 Anti-Fascist Fortnight” campaign.  We b...

2. More about the BNP
(Letters/Letters in the Local Press)

...hen perhaps they could begin to contribute something. It is possible that communities can be united around campaigns to improve their own lives and the lives of immigrants instead of voting New Labo...

3. Hackney Solidarity Network, 12th May 2008
(2008 News/2008 News Menu)

...idarity@hotmail.co.uk.  There is (inevitably) an e-group list that you can join if you want updates of campaigns etc....

4. Hackney Solidarity Network Monday February 11th 2008 at 7.30 pm
(News Archive/News Archive 2007)

... information on what they are doing, and to share skills and knowledge etc 2) Improve communication between campaigns, groups and individuals 3) Give people the opportunity to meet and socialise with...

5. Hackney Independent Social Event
(News Archive/News Archive 2007)

...to get together socially all those who have supported what we have been doing, whether that be our various campaigns, our involvement in the occupation of Tony’s Café on Broadway Market...

6. Olympic Promises: Falling at the first hurdle?
(News Archive/News Archive 2007)

...yths.  You can also join the Games Monitor yahoogroup to keep abreast of developments and join in local campaigns. For those who are happy wading through the academic language, the London As...

7. Hackney Co-ordination Meeting - Tuesday December 12th
(News Archive/News Archive 2006)

Hackney Independent is organising a meeting to bring together people, activists and campaigns in Hackney who we see as fighting lone battles and being picked off one by one by the council. The meeti

8. Winter 2006/07 Newsletter
(Newsletters/Newsletter Archive 1999-present)

...ews you won't hear from Hackney Today. We have also stood in the local elections, take part in community campaigns, and organise practical stuff like advice sessions & support the Hackney Inde...

9. Summer 2006 newsletter
(Newsletters/Newsletter Archive 1999-present)

... local publication. We have also stood candidates in the local elections, regularly take part in community campaigns, and organise practical stuff like advice sessions and support the Hackney Indepe...

10. The Haggerston local election and the future
(News Archive/News Archive 2006)

...o expand upon our activist base. Needless to say, our work with Tenants’ Associations and around such campaigns as Broadway Market and Haggerston swimming pool will continue. The challenge and...

11. Hackney Independent newsletter - Spring 2006
(Newsletters/Newsletter Archive 1999-present)

... input into policy about the sale of its commercial properties, having been forced to by recent high-profile campaigns in Broadway Market and Dalston Lane. Hackney Independent would like to see this e...

12. Locked Out of Acton's Lock
(News Archive/News Archive 2006)

... input into policy about the sale of its commercial properties, having been forced to by recent high-profile campaigns in Broadway Market and Dalston Lane. Hackney Independent would like to see this e...

13. Hackney Independent newsletter - Winter 2005/06
(Newsletters/Newsletter Archive 1999-present)

...al local publication. We have also stood candidates in the local elections, regularly take part in community campaigns, and organise practical stuff like advice sessions and support the Hackney Indepe...

14. We Need Housing For the People Not For the Rich
(Letters/Letters in the Local Press)

...s, not what it says. Labour in Hackney means less council housing and more luxury flats. Hackney Independent campaigns as part of the community to save the council housing we have and to build more co...

15. A Change Has Got To Come...
(News Archive/News Archive 2005)

...rests of working people (the majority of Hackney's population) first. For over 5 years we have supported campaigns to protect vital community services in Shoreditch, worked with tenants to tackle ...

16. Haggerston & Hoxton Edition Spring 2005
(Newsletters/Newsletter Archive 1999-present)

...cil plans to build flats on their site We have had some defeats like the closure of Laburnum school. Other campaigns, like to re-open Haggerston Pool are still going on. We have established the Inde...

17. "Tenants Optimism and Government Disarray"
(News Archive/News Archive 2005)

...ow take-up for the next round of transfers and ALMOs (see the DCH website). There are also energetic local campaigns in a number of areas facing ballots. Let us know what your council is doing and h...

18. Hoxton Independent?
(News Archive/News Archive 2005)

...cil plans to build flats on their site We have had some defeats like the closure of Laburnum school. Other campaigns, like to re-open Haggerston Pool are still going on. We have established the Inde...

19. "Inside Housing" Magazine
(News Archive/News Archive 2004)

... A source involved with the initiative confirms in the article that the Council are seriously worried by the campaigns mounted by local people against their propaganda: "Better the devil you know...

20. Education, Education, Education?
(News Archive/News Archive 2003)

...ll the other public and community facilities that are under threat in this borough and make links with those campaigns. Everyone involved needs to understand that closure of these schools is part of t...

21. How Many Councillors Does It Take to Change a Lightbulb? Winter 2002
(Newsletters/Newsletter Archive 1999-present)

...housing surgeries for tenants and residents and local residents have made use of community halls to organise campaigns protesting against the council's inaction over abandoned cars or the closure ...

22. "Exciting improvements to Hackney Leisure Centres"
(News Archive/News Archive 2002)

...d of campaigning for improved community facilities in the South of the Borough. We are currently involved in campaigns to save Laburnum School and to re-open Haggerston Pool and are actively supportin...

23. Labour Councillors Claim Abandoned Cars Are "Priority"
(News Archive/News Archive 2002)

In this week's Hackney Gazette, Labour councillors from Stoke Newington have gone on record as claiming that abandoned cars are a priority for them. Might there be just a touch of political opport

24. Hackney IWCA Hits Out...
(News Archive/News Archive 2001)

Hackney IWCA Hits Out at Council's Record on Abandoned Carspress release 2nd November 2001 In the week that the government has declared a crackdown on abandoned cars, community activists fro

25. “You Can’t Live On a Web Site”
(News Archive/News Archive 2001)

...gressive alternatives to gentrification and privatisation.   A number of other positive local community campaigns have happened over the last two years - at the end of this piece is documentation...