25 January 2016

Next meeting: Tuesday 2 February at 7.30, Craft Beer Company

Next meeting: Tuesday 2 February at 7.30, Craft Beer Company

Also this Saturday
Unprecedented cuts to local council funding by the government is meaning vital services are under severe threat. Across Brighton and East Sussex this is likely to mean, Libraries closing, day care centres for the disabled closing, special schools to close, special educational needs teachers cut, ending the housing support service, reductions in sexual health services, youth services cut, drug rehabilitation cut, children’s centres to close and much more.

The Trade Unions and local campaigning organisations are organising demonstrations this Saturday 30th January to raise awareness of the depth of the cuts and build opposition to them.

Brighton: Meet Midday at the Level, Union Road to march to the Town Hall

Eastbourne: Meet 11am Bankers Corner, Terminus Road


14 January 2016

Wapping Lies: Media Democracy 30 Years On

Saturday, 23 January 2016 - 13:30 to 16:30
Friends Meeting House
Ship Street BN1 1AF Brighton

Sussex LRC has organised an afternoon of politics, laughs, poems and song to mark the printworkers' fight for jobs and justice during the 1986/87 Wapping Dispute and examine how ownership of the media stifles press and broadcasting freedom in the UK, discuss the impact of social media, and have some fun!

Hear from
  • Paul King – Father Of Chapel (union rep) at The Sun Machine Chapel,
  • local performance poet Attila the Stockbroker,
  • John Bailey – FOC for the NGA at The Sun,
  • Mike Simons – Executive Producer of Still The Enemy Within and a journalist during Wapping,
  • comedian Kate Smurthwaite,
  • Morning Star Editor Ben Chacko,
  • singer/songwriter Robb Johnson,
  • Independent journalist Liam Young, and others. 
Refreshments will be available.

£4 waged, £2 concessions with donations from the event being made to the News International Dispute Archive and the Campaign For Press and Broadcasting Freedom

Facebook event HERE

More info:

11 January 2016

Next meeting: 12 January at 7.30 at the Craft Beer Company

Next meeting

Tuesday 12 January at 7.30 at the Craft Beer Company, Upper North Street, Brighton

thecraftbeerco.com/pubs/brighton/

1. Welcome and apologies
2. Reports, inc treasurer's, trades council
3. Strikes and demonstrations, inc junior doctors, march against cuts
4. DM motions and amendments
(NB copies of preliminary agenda will be available at the meeting, and members can also access it online here: https://www.nuj.org.uk/documents/nuj-dm-2016-preliminary-agenda/nuj-dm-preliminary-agenda-2016.pdf)

5. Election of DM delegates
6. Future meetings and events, inc branch AGM
7. AOB

All welcome.