Bristol Cost of Living Crisis Meeting
Start: Friday, September 23, 2022• 6:15 PM
End: Friday, September 23, 2022• 8:00 PM
Feeling daunted about how to manage the next six months, but haven't had time to look into solutions? Frustrated with how we got here, but bored of just shouting at the TV? Aware of ideas coming from different groups but want to know more before getting involved?
This meeting gives
you a chance to hear the basics from Bristolians involved in different
approaches. Followed by half an hour of questions, and time in smaller
groups to get more details.
Featuring:
Enough is Enough - a coalition of work and housing unions campaigning to demand policies that put ordinary people first. With RMT Regional Organiser Brendan Kelly.
Bristol Energy Network - Experts in helping people in fuel poverty access support for energy efficiency measures. With Coordinator Rachel Moffat.
Don't Pay - a new campaign to resist the current energy prices hikes by collectively refusing to pay
With a Bristol regional organiser.
Dr Peter Webb - Senior Lecturer in Sociology at UWE on the Bristol Poll Tax Unions, how resistance worked then and the differences now.
Bristol Disability Equality Forum How disabled folks have been fighting the cuts, with Projects' and Community Climate Action Coordinator, Emma Geen
This is a free event with tea, biscuits and veggie samosas provided.
The meeting house is within 10 minutes’ walk of Marlborough Street Bus
Station and 15 minutes on foot from Temple Meads Train Station. It is
close to several bus routes serving many areas of the city. Bike racks
are provided in a small garden at the front, and Cabot Circus car park
is next door.
It's fully wheelchair accessible and has a hearing loop.
The venue is fully wheelchair accessible and has a hearing loop. Limited parking is available, if you are a blue badge holder, please contact us to reserve a spot. Let us know if you have other access needs, and we'll do our best to meet them.
