brixtonblade
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Happy to split the money but the burger is all mine... folks are there to hear me sing after all
Brixton news, rumour and general chat - June 2015
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boohoo
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brixtonblade
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Done.You can have the burger. I'll have the pint - sounds like a fair deal.
Start with "you are my sunshine" and finish with "little donkey"?
editor
hiraethified
We played that with the Mrs Mills Exp so I know it very well
brixtonblade
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We played that with the Mrs Mills Exp so I know it very well
Like this but with more teeth?
boohoo
No.
No idea....did the OB have guns or tobacco?
blameless77
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xsunnysuex
Life is a horizontal fall.
Not exactly Brixton. But a heads up to anyone coming to Brixton via Streatham. A motor bike has gone under a bus down by the new leisure center. Total mess. The road is closed. Looks nasty. Hope the rider is ok. Judging by the state of the road, I have my doubts.
Contrarian
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Is anyone going to the demo tomorrow....?
Open letter from the Mental Health Resistance Network
mentalhealthresistancenetwork@gmail.com
MARCH ON STREATHAM JOB CENTRE – FRIDAY 26TH JUNE, 1.30 pm
MEETING POINT: STREATHAM MEMORIAL GARDENS, STREATHAM HIGH ROAD/ STREATHAM COMMON NORTH, LONDON SW16
STREATHAM JOB CENTRE PLUS: CROWN HOUSE, STATION APPROACH, LONDON SW16 6HW
* A pilot project to bring CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) into Job Centres starts at Streatham Job Centre Plus in June 2015.
* In the same month, Lambeth “Living Well Hub” for Community Mental Health Services is due to open in the same building.
*Mental Health Resistance Network is unhappy with these developments which are part of the government’s brutal “back to work” agenda.
*Mental Health Resistance Network has called a demonstration which will march on Streatham Job Centre on Friday 26th June.
*Mental Health Resistance Network is circulating an open letter to relevant individuals, charities and professional organisations stating our position and asking them to join us in our condemnation for these developments.
Mental Health Resistance Network is organising a demonstration to take place at Streatham Job Centre Plus on Friday 26th June 2015, protesting against the opening there of Lambeth’s principal community mental health centre (“Living Well Network Hub”) the following Monday.
Streatham Job Centre also, from June 2015, hosts the first pilot of the DWP’s scheme to provide psychological therapies – specifically Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) – at Job Centres for people suspected of having mental health problems. This is the first of ten pilot schemes in advance of a national project planned to begin in January 2016.
We are calling on you/ your organisation to state your position on these issues, and we hope join us in our condemnation of these developments.
As mental health service users, we are extremely unhappy with these developments. We deplore the government’s brutal “back to work” agenda, which is a front for cutting disabled welfare benefits for the most vulnerable. Mental health service users are understandably terrified of Job Centres and the threat of losing their benefits through Sanctions, or degrading and unfit-for-purpose Work Capability Assessments. With the main point of access to Community Mental Health services in Lambeth on the 3rd floor of a Job Centre, many of us will feel too frightened to ask for the help and services we need, and lose contact with services altogether.
Mental health service users are already reporting higher levels of fear, anxiety and anguish as a result of the increasingly difficult welfare benefits system, which is linked to an increasing rate of suicides. This situation will be exacerbated by the new developments.
We should not be put under pressure to look for work unless we feel capable. The competitive, profit-driven and exploitative nature of the modern workplace is not suitable for people whose mental health is fragile. But the location of the Network Hub at Streatham Job Centre put us under such pressure if we try to use mental health services.
Experts agree that CBT does not work for everyone; that psychological therapies are ineffective if they are forced on people; and that they need to take place in safe, unthreatening environments. We do not think making people have CBT at Job Centres will make anyone magically “fit for work.” We are concerned that people will be Sanctioned (i.e. have their benefits stopped) if they do not co-operate with this “therapy” either out of principle or because they are not well enough. “BACK TO WORK THERAPY” IS NO THERAPY AT ALL!
Additionally, we are concerned that this amounts to an extension of the coercive powers of the 1983 Mental Health Act amended 2007. Whereas at present people can only be forced into “treatment” under in-patient Sections of this Act or by Community Treatment Orders, making welfare benefits and by extension housing conditional on agreeing to psychological treatment broadens the principle of compulsion.
We condemn the involvement of IAPT in this attempt to make people undergo “therapy” at Job Centres, which we believe goes against professional ethics. We are also unhappy that psychiatrists, occupational therapists, nurses, social workers and other mental health professionals are also expected to work at Streatham Job Centre, again compromising their professional ethics, and we call on individual staff and collective agencies representing them to publicly oppose this development.
For more information contact:
mentalhealthresistancenetwork@gmail.com
Open letter from the Mental Health Resistance Network
mentalhealthresistancenetwork@gmail.com
MARCH ON STREATHAM JOB CENTRE – FRIDAY 26TH JUNE, 1.30 pm
MEETING POINT: STREATHAM MEMORIAL GARDENS, STREATHAM HIGH ROAD/ STREATHAM COMMON NORTH, LONDON SW16
STREATHAM JOB CENTRE PLUS: CROWN HOUSE, STATION APPROACH, LONDON SW16 6HW
* A pilot project to bring CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) into Job Centres starts at Streatham Job Centre Plus in June 2015.
* In the same month, Lambeth “Living Well Hub” for Community Mental Health Services is due to open in the same building.
*Mental Health Resistance Network is unhappy with these developments which are part of the government’s brutal “back to work” agenda.
*Mental Health Resistance Network has called a demonstration which will march on Streatham Job Centre on Friday 26th June.
*Mental Health Resistance Network is circulating an open letter to relevant individuals, charities and professional organisations stating our position and asking them to join us in our condemnation for these developments.
Mental Health Resistance Network is organising a demonstration to take place at Streatham Job Centre Plus on Friday 26th June 2015, protesting against the opening there of Lambeth’s principal community mental health centre (“Living Well Network Hub”) the following Monday.
Streatham Job Centre also, from June 2015, hosts the first pilot of the DWP’s scheme to provide psychological therapies – specifically Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) – at Job Centres for people suspected of having mental health problems. This is the first of ten pilot schemes in advance of a national project planned to begin in January 2016.
We are calling on you/ your organisation to state your position on these issues, and we hope join us in our condemnation of these developments.
As mental health service users, we are extremely unhappy with these developments. We deplore the government’s brutal “back to work” agenda, which is a front for cutting disabled welfare benefits for the most vulnerable. Mental health service users are understandably terrified of Job Centres and the threat of losing their benefits through Sanctions, or degrading and unfit-for-purpose Work Capability Assessments. With the main point of access to Community Mental Health services in Lambeth on the 3rd floor of a Job Centre, many of us will feel too frightened to ask for the help and services we need, and lose contact with services altogether.
Mental health service users are already reporting higher levels of fear, anxiety and anguish as a result of the increasingly difficult welfare benefits system, which is linked to an increasing rate of suicides. This situation will be exacerbated by the new developments.
We should not be put under pressure to look for work unless we feel capable. The competitive, profit-driven and exploitative nature of the modern workplace is not suitable for people whose mental health is fragile. But the location of the Network Hub at Streatham Job Centre put us under such pressure if we try to use mental health services.
Experts agree that CBT does not work for everyone; that psychological therapies are ineffective if they are forced on people; and that they need to take place in safe, unthreatening environments. We do not think making people have CBT at Job Centres will make anyone magically “fit for work.” We are concerned that people will be Sanctioned (i.e. have their benefits stopped) if they do not co-operate with this “therapy” either out of principle or because they are not well enough. “BACK TO WORK THERAPY” IS NO THERAPY AT ALL!
Additionally, we are concerned that this amounts to an extension of the coercive powers of the 1983 Mental Health Act amended 2007. Whereas at present people can only be forced into “treatment” under in-patient Sections of this Act or by Community Treatment Orders, making welfare benefits and by extension housing conditional on agreeing to psychological treatment broadens the principle of compulsion.
We condemn the involvement of IAPT in this attempt to make people undergo “therapy” at Job Centres, which we believe goes against professional ethics. We are also unhappy that psychiatrists, occupational therapists, nurses, social workers and other mental health professionals are also expected to work at Streatham Job Centre, again compromising their professional ethics, and we call on individual staff and collective agencies representing them to publicly oppose this development.
For more information contact:
mentalhealthresistancenetwork@gmail.com
CH1
"Red Guard"(NLYL)
I was thinking of it - in fact I had got it into my head it was on Saturday, so good job you posted this.
MARCH ON STREATHAM JOB CENTRE – FRIDAY 26TH JUNE, 1.30 pm
The meet-up point is Streatham Memorial Gardens at 13.30.
Btw I was at a book launch yesterday at Goldsmiths yesterday and this very situation of CBT in Job Centres came up as an example.
The Happiness Industry: How the Government and Big Business Sold us Well-Being
by William Davies
Why are we so interested in measuring happiness?
What was a Buddhist monk doing at the 2014 World Economic Forum in Davos lecturing the world’s leaders on mindfulness? Why do many successful corporations have a ‘chief happiness officer’? What can the chemical composition of your brain tell a potential employer about you? In the past decade, governments and corporations have become increasingly interested in measuring the way people feel: ‘the Happiness index’, ‘Gross National Happiness’, ‘well-being’ and positive psychology have come to dominate the way we live our lives. As a result, our emotions have become a new resource to be bought and sold.[/QUOTE][/QUOTE]
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hiraethified
Some photos from Monday night's Folk Up session at the Queen's Head. It is such a lovely vibe there.
http://www.brixtonbuzz.com/2015/06/...beer-at-the-queens-head-monday-night-folk-up/
http://www.brixtonbuzz.com/2015/06/...beer-at-the-queens-head-monday-night-folk-up/
friendofdorothy
Solidarity against neoliberalism!
Thank you for posting this. Will try to make it, hope I can get away from work on time. Its such an outrage!
Winot
I wholeheartedley agree with your viewpoint
That is interesting. I also saw a stat that the same number of people use Brixton tube as use Leeds railway station.
The guy then asked if anyone could guess number two. Of course nobody got it, but it was Oxford Circus - Brixton and he didn't say number three.
Also, 12% of contactless journeys are from non UK countries with Italians making the highest proportion of that and Aussies number two.
He also said that the ticket checkers can't tell if you have tapped in, but that they can tell if your card is invalid for usage, eg expired, and they'll fine you. Their checker then will store your card number and check it back at the office. If they find you haven't paid, and you do this a few times, they'll blacklist you and your card won't work the gate in future. But it seems that there is potential for a few free journeys.
Also, 12% of contactless journeys are from non UK countries with Italians making the highest proportion of that and Aussies number two.
He also said that the ticket checkers can't tell if you have tapped in, but that they can tell if your card is invalid for usage, eg expired, and they'll fine you. Their checker then will store your card number and check it back at the office. If they find you haven't paid, and you do this a few times, they'll blacklist you and your card won't work the gate in future. But it seems that there is potential for a few free journeys.
They can tell on the bus. The driver gives the inspector a list of card numbers.
teuchter
je suis teuchter
So an oyster card stores data somehow but a contacless can only send the info back to the mothership at the moment of tapping in/out?
I've always wondered whether the magnetic stripes on train tickets are read-only or whether it's recorded on the ticket when you put it through a gate.
I've always wondered whether the magnetic stripes on train tickets are read-only or whether it's recorded on the ticket when you put it through a gate.
Yeah, he said that the bus machine can download all the relevant card numbers onto the checker device. Also those where the card has been read but the transaction didn't go through, and those guys will be let off without a fine.
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hiraethified
This is the Brixton forum. The feedback forum is over there ->
Rushy
basically a scrotum
shifting gears
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Good news:
Just talked to tony at house of bottles on coldharbour and when quizzed seemed to suggest the heat has been taken of them a bit. We had a quick chat about how Brixton was unrecognisable now. A genuinely lovely man.
Bad news:
Walked past the village and it was full of the same identikit twats as ever - barely an ethnic minority to be seen. But then, lots of people here prefer it that way.
Brixton's dying, if you can't see it, you're one of them.
Just talked to tony at house of bottles on coldharbour and when quizzed seemed to suggest the heat has been taken of them a bit. We had a quick chat about how Brixton was unrecognisable now. A genuinely lovely man.
Bad news:
Walked past the village and it was full of the same identikit twats as ever - barely an ethnic minority to be seen. But then, lots of people here prefer it that way.
Brixton's dying, if you can't see it, you're one of them.
friendofdorothy
Solidarity against neoliberalism!
Piece about this in Guardian on online http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/jun/26/mental-health-protest-clinic-jobcentre-streatham
There was a resonable and lively turn out to this - I'd say about 70 - 80 people. Nice to see you there CH1
boohoo
No.
I don't think they do
It's not dying, it's changing. It will change again. It has always changed.
For those of us who had no choice but to put up with Brixton through the shit times and deal with people who would look down their nose at the area, it feels harder to deal with when it becomes 'on trend' and those people who didn't like it now fall over themselves to hang out here.
editor
hiraethified
It feels that the outsiders who looked down at us during the hard times have now moved in, taken over and are still looking down at us.
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