{"id":2354,"date":"2012-05-05T22:14:05","date_gmt":"2012-05-05T22:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bothness.uber.space\/?p=2354"},"modified":"2012-05-05T22:14:05","modified_gmt":"2012-05-05T22:14:05","slug":"resisting-austerity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/norwichpeace.org\/?p=2354","title":{"rendered":"Resisting Austerity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Friends&#8217; Meeting House Upper Goat Lane7pm 31st May<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Greece is at the cutting edge of austerity measures being introduced across Europe. While these<br \/>\nmeasures protect the interests of the rich, they just make matters worse for the majority of the<br \/>\npopulation. In Britain, the Coalition government is pursuing similar measures which<br \/>\nwill see workers earning less and working longer for a smaller pension; plus the marketisation of<br \/>\neducation and the dismantling of the NHS and other public services. In Norfolk, deep cuts in services,<br \/>\nbenefits and jobs are hurting thousands of people. The Greek people have shown mass<br \/>\nresistance to such outrages &#8211; and we can learn from their response.<br \/>\nThe report from Greece<br \/>\n<strong>PAUL MACKNEY<\/strong><br \/>\nFormer General Secretary of NATFHE\/UCU union. Member of recent Greece Solidarity Campaign fact-finding<br \/>\ndelegation to Athens by UK trades unions and campaigners, which visited many Greek anti-austerity organisations, parties,<br \/>\nunions and movements. Paul will report, with film evidence, on the appalling impact of the austerity programme in Greece, and<br \/>\nthe variety of forms of organised resistance.<br \/>\n<strong>MARINA PRENTOULIS<\/strong><br \/>\nLecturer in politics at UEA, recently returned from Athens.<br \/>\nOrganised with support from Norfolk Coalition Against the Cuts: http:\/\/norfolkcoalitionagainstcuts.org\/<br \/>\nGreece Solidarity Campaign http:\/\/www.greecesolidarity.org\/ Coalition of Resistance http:\/\/www.coalitionofresistance.org.uk\/<br \/>\nUpdated leaflets and info from: trevor@tpcampaigns.fsnet.co.uk<\/p>\n<p><strong>The report from Norfolk<\/strong><br \/>\nA report on the worsening impact of government and council cuts in welfare and services on local people:<br \/>\npensioners, the poor, the unemployed, the young, the disabled &#8211; and how to build resistance.<br \/>\nSpeakers include representatives from local pensioners, youth and disabled people\u2019s<br \/>\norganisations.<br \/>\nMore groups welcome!<br \/>\nContact: trevor@tpcampaigns.fsnet.co.uk\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 07794 690322<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friends&#8217; Meeting House Upper Goat Lane7pm 31st May Greece is at the cutting edge of austerity measures being introduced across Europe. While these measures protect the interests of the rich, they just make matters worse for the majority of the population. In Britain, the Coalition government is pursuing similar measures which will see workers earning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/norwichpeace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2354"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/norwichpeace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/norwichpeace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/norwichpeace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/norwichpeace.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/norwichpeace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2355,"href":"https:\/\/norwichpeace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2354\/revisions\/2355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/norwichpeace.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/norwichpeace.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/norwichpeace.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}