Save Lambeth Libraries and the Carnegie Library occupation

[save_r_library]

Lambeth plans to "decommission" five of our local Libraries. Join the march to save them.

We will be marching from Brixton Library to Tate South Lambeth Library where the Cabinet Member Jane Edbrooke responsible for the proposals will be holding her surgery. As Tate South Lambeth is to be turned into a gym we will be holding a keep fit class at the Library in Jane Edbrooke's honour. Dig out your PE kit and come along!

The demonstration will start in Windrush Square outside Brixton Library at 10.30am, on Saturday 7 November.

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[SpamMisery]

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[Greebo]

Lambeth plans to "decommission" five of our local Libraries. Join the march to save them.

We will be marching from Brixton Library to Tate South Lambeth Library where the Cabinet Member Jane Edbrooke responsible for the proposals will be holding her surgery. As Tate South Lambeth is to be turned into a gym we will be holding a keep fit class at the Library in Jane Edbrooke's honour. Dig out your PE kit and come along!

The demonstration will start in Windrush Square outside Brixton Library at 10.30am, on Saturday 7 November.

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Gramsci

 

[Tricky Skills]

We covered the story last month.

 

[Tricky Skills]

Some photos, video and audio from this morning.

Around 600 people made the march - not bad for a miserable South London morning. Cllr Edbrooke stayed inside the building rather than address the crowd. She did make herself available though inside to answer any concerns.

 

[boohoo]

Did anyone from urban make it? What a great turnout and so many people with small children braving it in the rain. Good to see people from other campaigns there too.

 

[Biddlybee]

We made placards, but I couldn't brave it in that rain with a temperamental toddler.

 

[boohoo]

We made placards, but I couldn't brave it in that rain with a temperamental toddler.

Chloe was hiding in the buggy. It was very wet. I'm surprised we lasted the whole route! Hopefully the next one will be dry. x

 

[CH1]

Did anyone from urban make it? What a great turnout and so many people with small children braving it in the rain. Good to see people from other campaigns there too.

I went along - but only from Brixton to Stockwell. Seemed a very good turnout considering it was quite rainy - though almost tropically warm rain fortunately.

I collected some eccentric flyers not strictly related to the issue in hand. It reminded me of the good old days really when demos in Lambeth were genteel weekly affairs.

 

[boohoo]

I went along - but only from Brixton to Stockwell. Seemed a very good turnout considering it was quite rainy - though almost tropically warm rain fortunately.

I collected some eccentric flyers not strictly related to the issue in hand. It reminded me of the good old days really when demos in Lambeth were genteel weekly affairs.

Sorry to have missed you! it was lots of umbrellas and anoraks, banners and placards mixed with rain to create low visiability!

Yes, i got a batch of leaflets that got soaked and ended up in the bin.

Will you be going to the demo on Tuesday?

 

[Ms T]

That sign on the greyhound is genius!

 

[CH1]

Sorry to have missed you! it was lots of umbrellas and anoraks, banners and placards mixed with rain to create low visiability!
Yes, i got a batch of leaflets that got soaked and ended up in the bin.
Will you be going to the demo on Tuesday?

Can't I'm afraid - I had already booked onto this Shostakovich lecture at the Russian archive place in Brixton Road
Tuesday 10 November, 19.00
Illustrated Lecture: Dr Lidia Ader on How to Become a Genius? The Case of Dmitri Shostakovich

 

[Tropi]

Lambeth library campaigners convince Scrutiny Committee to make recommendations to Lambeth Council Cabinet over book-ish gyms
People were not happy at all with the Committee's decision.

 

[Tropi]

Lobby the council meeting. Please, come and be counted!

 

[Tropi]

I went to the meeting on Wednesday but wasn't allowed in. The kind lady at the door told us: 'all the seats are taken and I don't want anybody standing up.' I thanked her for looking after my knees. A fellow that was also outside and is against the garden bridge money drain project was distributing this poster:

 

[CH1]

How are things now?

I note from City AM that Ladybird books are back in fashion. Maybe the libraries need to purchase a couple of locally relevant titles?

 

[editor]

This Weds

Save Lambeth Libraries Lobby of Lambeth Council, 7pm 27th Jan

 

[Tropi]

I can't make it on Wed but I hope the councilors get the message before people have to shout 'shame on you!'

 

[CH1]

Sorry not to have been to the council meeting - but I did happen to switch on the London Live (channel 8) news about 6.35 pm and Laura Swaffield of Save Lambeth Libraries was giving an excellent interview outside the school where the meeting was due to happen.

According to the TV reporter no councillor was willing to come on and give the official line. These Co=op Labour councillors are a spineless lot aren't they. I feel tempted to dip into my newly discovered volume called "Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR" by JV Stalin. Must be the real business as each mention of the name of Stalin is printed in RED a bit like a Schofield Bible - for those of a fundamentalist disposition.

 

[CH1]

Save Lambeth Libraries have some suggested reading: It’s not just David Cameron who has no idea how deep his cuts go: It's also the people behind the decisions to close libraries

Buried in the article more than half way through is a suggestion that Jane Edbrooke formerly worked for the private healthcare organisation Nuffield, which came to a convenient arrangement with Greenwich Leisure regarding managing gyms.

I don't think Unison are suggesting that Cllr (Ms at the time) Edbrooke was responsible for this tie-up between her private hospital and fitness centre employer and Greenwich Leisure in 2011.

Just that if you move in the environment of private healthcare, and see strategic advantages in your employer becoming allied to Greenwhich Leisure, what could be more natural than to apply the same principles to Lambeth?

After all it is well know that Lambeth Labour has been captured by the privatising hipster loving property investing set. How awfully jolly hockey sticks to get round the library "problem" with the help of one's old business associate?

 

[CH1]

Its getting personal

 

[editor]

Meeting tonight:

Save Lambeth’s Libraries – public meeting tonight at Brixton Library, Windrush Square, 4th Feb

 

[Tropi]

Keep public spaces public!
For many library visitors, I'm the only person they've talked to all day

 

[editor]

Much respect to these two ladies.

Brixton Buzz salutes the ladies of the Brixton Library picket line!

 

[Tropi]

Thanks Mr Rylance
Mark Rylance supports Save Our Libraries campaign - Brixton Blog

 

[editor]

My friend wrote this:

Once upon a time someone had the idea to communicate by drawing something on a cave wall. Possibly with their own shit. Once upon another time someone had the idea to make a book. I doubt it was a very good book, but it was a bloody good idea. The someone who had the idea to put a load of those books into a building and make it free to visit and browse for all their friends and enemies. I'd like to shake that someone by the hand. I might even kiss them. That was a fucking beautiful idea, the kind of idea that makes me proud to be a human. That is the kind of idea that separates us from factory farmed meat, whose sole existence is to put fat on the bones of the ruling classes' future grandchildren. We should be setting ourselves on fire in protest of library closures.

 

[Gramsci]

Defend the 10 | Campaigning for Lambeth’s Libraries

 

[editor]

I posted this a couple of days ago:

Save Our Libraries: mass rally planned for Windrush Square, Brixton Sat March 5th

 

[editor]

Plugged again

Lambeth Library campaigners leaflet Brixton ahead of of mass rally on 5th March

 

[LeslieB]

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