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>From Andrew Roberts Secretary Survivors History Group http://studymore.org.uk/ studymore@studymore.org.uk telephone: 020 8 986 5251 home address: 177 Glenarm Road, London, E5 ONB Survivor History Group Summer 2012 Newsletter The July London meeting of the Survivors History Group will be held on Wednesday 25.7.2012 from 1pm to 5pm at Together, 12 Old Street, London. Everybody is welcome and refreshments will be provided. The September meeting has had to be moved from a Wednesday to Thursday 27.9.2012 (subject to approval by this Wednesday's meeting) because of the availability of a room at Together.   -------------------------------------------------------------------- The agenda for the July meeting will be drawn up at the beginning of the meeting, but it will include Peter Campbell's regular report back on the research he is leading on the history of Survivors Speak Out and discussion of material received from other people about Survivors Speak Out.  Rick Hennelly has se...

Thank you Marcus for these tweets: I'm so sorry if I in any way caused offense. I am truly sorry and would never have wished to do so. Yours sincerely, Marcus "certainly.I think we need to tackle myths head on:willing them away doesnt win us new support.Accept need to use words w/great care!" Marcus A Roberts. HEDDWCH. Mike.

Some excellent news for myself and others who have struggled to keep up with union demos in a wheelchair. This is from a TUC bulletin received today: Access for disabled members at marches and rallies The Midlands TUC Disability Forum recently discussed what can make a trade union march and rally better from the viewpoint of a disabled member. A number of things were highlighted by members of the Forum, including: Hosting those with a disability at the front of the march so they can help set the pace of the march; Having a number of places organised where disabled members could join or leave a march, so shortening the route or avoiding hills and slopes; Refuge and toilet facilities; Appropriately briefed and aware stewards; The provision of a bus for the use of members when they are tired, so allowing them to keep up with the march rather than drop out. The autumn will see two import campaign marches and rallies - at the Conservative Party rally in Birmingham on 7th Oct...

Was the title of the meeting at the Abbey Conference Centre, Saturday 7th July. Heading up (temp.) the new NCODP Campaign Group, I went. The opening speaker, Clive Lewis - Norwich South Parliamentary Candidate for The Labour Party, set the scene: “Pulling together, unity is power - it is essential that all of us: political parties; trades unions; campaign organisations; voluntary organisations; community groups; members of the public - all of us should work together.” For about the next two hours and about four more speakers, I thought I was at a Labour Party convention. Total narrow party insularity x total blinkering to anyone or anything else. Brilliant speech by Owen Jones (http://owenjones.org/about/) though. Later, the People’s Charter workshop was good (www.thepeoplescharter.org) and I’ve contacted them to see if I can get more information for our NCODP group. In the afternoon following a few more speakers, I found myself in a Red - Green debate: Clive Lewis again, Neal ...

E mail from Andrew Roberts. One of my projects over the summer will be to start looking at Together's user-invovement policies in the context of the history of the survivor movement. I want to do this to pursue issues raised by contributors to the book Critical Perspectives on the Survivor Movement and to get some background material for our own planned book on Survivor History relevant to the promotion "from the top" of the survivor movement (NSUN for example) in the last decade. My experience and knowledge is mostly of the "bottom-up" movement and I feel I need to look at things from the other end as well. Any thoughts people have on the role of this particular charity in relation to the survivor movement would be appreciated. Personally I find looking at the empirical history of specific groups more helpful to my own grasp of what happens in history than broad generalisations, but comments of any kind will be welcome. Best wishes. Andrew Send reply t...