AN online meeting will be held tomorrow, Wednesday, December 1, at 8 pm over the crisis facing families across the North with risis prices
Hardship Crisis: We Demand an Emergency Action Response will include speakers Bernadette McAliskey, South Tyrone Empowerment Programme; Pat Austin, National Energy Action NI; Aidan Campbell, Rural Community Network; Albert Hewitt, Unite; Fiona McCausland, NI Anti-Poverty Network Community; Niall McCarroll, Derry Trades Union Council; Marissa McMahon, Participation and Practice of Rights/Belfast; Sinead Quinn, Right to Work PPR/Derry; StudenUnion rep.
Chair of the meeting, Cllr Shaun Harkin, said: “We are facing a hardship emergency that won’t discriminate when hitting people in Creggan, the Fountain, the Shankill and the Falls.
“The political establishment is once again fiddling and locked into communal division.
“We need a united message demanding pressure on Westminster and immediate actions by the Stormont Executive to protect people.
“We urge people to join the online meeting and to get involved in organising a people power response.”
Facebook link for meeting is: https://fb.me/e/1vqiFLdCT
Zoom link for meeting. Open to press: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88619424881
Hardship Action Meeting statement: “People across our society are facing into a winter of pain.
“Massive energy price rises, rent hikes, new tax burdens, the cruel 20-a-week cut to Universal Credit along with real terms pay cuts will make paying the bills impossible for the vulnerable and many workers across all of our communities.
“There is a genuine sense of fear among many people about what the cost of living crisis will mean for them.
“We’ve been told we were ‘building back better’ out of the pandemic. The pandemic is still here but government and corporations are building on the backs of the least well-off.
“This is an emergency situation calling for an immediate set of responses from government to avoid tragic circumstances and the deepening of inequalities.
“Join representatives and campaigners at 8 pm on Wednesday, December 1, outlining immediate emergency responses and action needed to protect people now and the longer-term reordering of government priorities.”
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