London Demo 2013

DEFEND LONDON’S NHS      

●Save Our Hospitals●No to Privatisation

DEMONSTRATION

SATURDAY 18 MAY

NEWS REPORTS

ITN: http://www.itv.com/news/london/update/2013-05-18/nhs-campaigners-head-to-downing-street/

BBC: Live TV coverage not available on iplayer  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-22581644

Interview with Rachael Maskell from Unite: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22579470

PHOTOS

Some great photos here: http://www.demotix.com/news/2064027/thousands-march-defend-londons-nhs-demonstration-london#media-2063895

http://www.demotix.com/news/2064195/save-nhs-protest#media-2064120

http://www.demotix.com/news/2065974/demonstration-held-stop-privatisation-nhs#media-2065864

http://www.flickr.com/photos/grey-photography/8750753751/in/photostream/

http://www.flickr.com//photos/51438940@N03/sets/72157633527915942/show/with/8751762612/

More on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/121307804726666/121314818059298/?comment_id=147262662131180&notif_t=like

Handing our letter to David Cameron  http://www.demotix.com/news/2064007/defend-nhs-petition-delivered-10-downing-street#media-2064136

VIDEOS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edusD6qZggY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lfvJHBH7xM

Louise Irvine Save Lewisham Hospital http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFNhYzBcgNchttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0z2GIq4oPM

Andy Slaughter MP http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0z2GIq4oPM

Jeremy Corbyn MP  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riIAXx9yg7Y

Peter Kavanagh Unite http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwXCkqhr2QU

Darren Johnson Green Party  and Shirley Murgraff Keep Our NHS Public http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOgrY8nV9Xs

Cecilia Anim Royal College of Nursing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TU3kf9Qk4WU

Anne Drinkell  Save our Hospitals Hammersmith and Charing X http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Tqo3-pU48s

Dixie Dean Paramedic http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAaEDluDVig

Bonnie Craven SW London http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9Q34iS7ehs

Desiree Crabenburgh http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llloHErJPNI

Shirley Franklin Defend Whittington Hospital https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10152339198940260&set=o.243554475615&type=2&theater

GMB on the march http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eQT_AJ41p0

Protest at Barclays in the Strand http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8n9bkRM2fxM

WELL DONE TO EVERYONE WHO MADE THE MARCH HAPPEN!

Well done to everyone who made today’s brilliant Defend London’s NHS Demonstration happen!

If campaigners in London can do this think what a demonstration called by the national unions and political parties would be like.

Check out what next in the campaign here:   https://defendlondonsnhs.wordpress.com/upcoming-events/

 

This demonstration was called by an unprecedented coalition of London residents, medical staff, trade unions and health campaigners who have come together to raise the alarm regarding the biggest threats to A & E’s, maternity units and in-hospital care for a generation.

Closures planned across the capital include nine accident and emergency departments, a number of maternity units and thousands of hospital beds that campaigners believe will put lives at risk..

Hospitals and community services are also threatened with take-over by multi-national private companies. Hundreds of thousands of London residents have pledged their opposition to these privatisation plans for the NHS.

Across the capital, tens of thousands have taken to the streets to protest and demonstrate to save their local hospitals. 80,000 signed a petition against the closures in North West London. 25,000 joined the demonstration to defend Lewisham hospital.

The local campaigns have joined up to call on the government to stop these closures. We are working together to undermine the government’s divisive tactics of playing one hospital off against another. Instead we are demanding that the government provide the funding needed for safe levels of care across the capital.

Help save London’s Health Service

The demonstration has been called by Save our Hospital campaigns across London and London Keep Our NHS Public. It has been backed by Unite the union, a number of MPs and councillors, trade unions and the London Labour Party. Please ask your organisation to pledge their support to publicise the demonstration by adding your name. Donations towards costs will also be gratefully received (Cheques to Keep Our NHS Public c/o 32 Savernake Rd, NW3 2JP).

SUPPORT FOR  18 MAY DEMONSTRATION

Support for the demo includes:      Save Lewisham Hospital Campaign, Defend Whittington Hospital Coalition, Save our Hospitals Ealing, Save Hammersmith and Charing Cross Hospitals, Andy Slaughter MP, Steve Pound MP, Virendra Sharma MP, John Cryer MP, David Lammy MP, Frank Dobson MP, Jeremy Corbyn MP, John McDonnell MP, Dianne Abbott MP, Greater London Labour Party, London Green Party, Dr Onkar Sahota, Jennette Arnold & Murad Qureshi, Joanne McCartney  London Assembly Members, Catherine West Leader Islington Council, Rachael Saunders Councillor Tower Hamlets, Unite the Union, National Union or Journalists, RMT, London Region GMB, London Regional Council of the BMA, London Region CWU, London &SE Region PCS, Whipps cross Hospital UNISON, Westminster UNISON, Save Chase Farm, Brent Fightback, Kensington and Chelsea Residents Save Our Hospital, Ealing Trades Union Council NHS Campaign, Medical Practitioners Union Unite, Roger Lloyd Pack, Ealing Southall CLP, Kingston Trades Council, Kingston and Surbiton Green Party, Kingston Keep Our NHS Public , Kingston GMB, Islington Trades Council, We Are Waltham Forest Defending Our NHS, Camden Keep Our NHS Public , Tower Hamlets BMA,  Euston Tower PCS, Islington NUT, Tower Hamlets Keep Our NHS Public, Unite the Resistance, City & Hackney Coalition to Defend the NHS, Lambeth Keep Our NHS Public, Camden UNISON,  Save Our Local Hospitals Greenwich, Bexley & Bromley, Lambeth Pensioners Action Group, PCS DEFRA Southern, Coalition of Resistance,  Defend Haringey Health Services Coalition, Islington Pensioners Forum, Redbridge Save Our NHS, National Health Action Party,  Tower Hamlets College UCU, Islington North Labour Party, RMT EPS 0520, Bromley Trades Council, Westminster North Labour Party, Camden Trades Council, Lewisham People Before Profit, Greenwich NUT, London Young Greens, London Magazine NUJ,  City & Hackney Division BMA, East London Health Unite, Homerton Hospital Unison, Occupy London, Brent Trades Council, Haringey 38 Degrees, Croydon TUC, London Health Emergency, Socialist Health Association, National Pensioners Convention, London Young Labour Exec committee, Anonymous UK, Friends of the Earth, Islington division BMA, Hands Off Hinchingbrooke, Save Barnet NHS, Enfield Alliance Against the Cuts, SWAN Social Work Action Network, Hackney Unites, University of London Union,  London Region UCU, London Region Unison, London Region RCN.