Conservatives Govt closing #Libraries through Council Cuts say they are refreshing Libraries spacemaker.club/save-our-libra… LibraryofBirmingham Birmingham Archives & Collections Birmingham People's Assembly Brum Climate Justice Coalition Ruth Millington Julien Pritchard Birmingham Loves Libraries FoBAH Number 11 Arts Catherine O'Flynn #saveourlibraries

🧵 Ok, let’s take these one by one. How about?

1. Invest in industry & infrastructure; give workers the means to bargain for better pay & conditions with a New Deal.

2. Restore the NHS to its founding principles, end top down management & kick out private interests. (1/3)

Brum Climate Justice Coalition Marcus Belben Once libraries close, they don't re-open.

Closing libraries is taking away opportunity from our youth, our marginalised and vulnerable, our elders.

Closing libraries is theft.

Save our Libraries, Save Ourselves
Article by Marcus Belben: spacemaker.club/save-our-libra…
'Many of Birmigham’s public libraries were built as part of a campaign to provide libraries within walking distance of every local resident'

Arts in crisis - great piece in the Big Issue
Musicians' Union Big Issue
Funding must be restored to the arts if people are to be able to wash away the dust of every day life!

The majority of 16-18 yo SEND kids will NOT be able to travel on the bus to school independently.
Some will never travel independently.
This policy is unbelievably short sighted and WILL mean our most vulnerable kids can't go to school in September!
National Education Union Birmingham NEU

There is a large majority of young SEND adults who, for diverse reasons (including a shit, unwelcoming social structure) will never be able to travel independently. BCC taking away the most from those that already have the least.

Education will definitely be impacted by changes to the home to school transport! Parents simply can't get their kids on the bus every day AND work or care for siblings! People's Assembly SEND Action Contact Special Needs Jungle SEND Community Alliance SendNationalCrisis *Worcs* @SendCrisis
#BrumRiseUp

BCC delivered the crushing news that transport for 16-18 will be a bus pass except for exceptional circumstances. Don't all SEND children have those?
Already families are saying their kids won't be able to attend in September!
People's Assembly Contact Special Needs Jungle

Just a reminder that 14 yrs ago there were no waiting lists over 18-weeks, no 12-hour A&E waits, no waiting an hour for an urgent ambulance, over 90% of cancer patients started treated within two months, everyone could see their GP within 2-days,…

Then we got the Tories

From Selly Oak to Stirchley to Druids Heath, this weekend we trekked 5 and a half miles from one library to another, hearing beautiful words from poets and authors. We need all our libraries! Join our campaign: birminghamloveslibraries.org

Buy art and support the campaign for an #Orgreave public inquiry!

This is my edition of 40 #linocut prints, marking the 40th anniversary of the Battle of Orgreave on 18th June 1984 - my tribute to the bravery and resilience of striking miners and mining communities >

A Tory MP (14yrs of austerity) cutting a ribbon to open a Barclays Bank (financial crash, libor scandal etc) inside a Public Library (800 closed, sector decimated) - and people wonder why I’m so against the commercialisation and privatisation of libraries 🙄

Can we function without Nurses?

No.

Can anyone get a job as a nurse?

No.

Do we have enough nurses?

No.

Should we pay nurses fairly, retain staff and improving staffing levels.

Yes.

Retweet if you agree!

#FairPayforNursing #NursesDay #IND2024 #NursesDay 2024

Many politicians lining up to thank us on #NursesDay

None lining up to pay us properly.

The erosion of the arts in schools & colleges is beyond crisis point - we’re facing an #ArtsApocalypse !

National Education Union with other organisations, is calling for an end to the decimation of arts education. We need a rich & diverse curriculum. #InvestinEducation
neu.org.uk/latest/library…

📰Read more here: gmb.org.uk/news/birmingha…

#StrikeMap

| BREAKING 🚨| GMB Midlands picket lines for #Birmingham school strike on 14 May are up on our map.

🗺️👉Go here: strikemap.org/union/gmb

📸 (c) GMB Union

#StrikeMap #EqualPay #Birmingham SchoolStrike

A really important action this weekend! Birmingham Loves Libraries really showing the passion and creativity that is the heart of all Library communities! #BrumRiseUp #PailOutBrum #PauseTheCuts Friends of the LoB People's Assembly EquityBirminghamWM Alan Wylie British Library

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Save The Electric.
Stop Glenbrook gutting the UK's oldest cinema
Sign the petition
Then go enjoy a nice day out in the sun
Soon you'll just be living in the shade of randomly plonked towers like mole people

change.org/saveoldstation…