ACORN Brighton: Community Union
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Brighton, England
Joined July 2018
They’re asking to leave their tenancy early so they can live somewhere safe, but AR Lettings refuses to engage. 📣Use the link below to tell AR Lettings to meet with ACORN and let these tenants go! https://t.co/5HLInuv59O
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🔥We also heard more about the Bailiff-Free Britain action from some of the members who were there. 👥Rich gave us updates on our latest member defence case. 2 of our members have been reporting damp, leaks & pests in their flat to AR Lettings for >2 two years with nothing done.
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🟥NOVEMBER BRANCH MEETING RECAP ✊Branch Secretary Poppy ran a hands-on direct action workshop. We learned about some different types of direct action, and the different types of roles required for a successful eviction resistance. This was followed by a fun role-play exercise.
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"Bailiff, Ciao!" - A short film about the action taken by ACORN Brighton members against the Brighton & Hove City Council for their egregious use of bailiffs. Email your MP about bailiff-free Britain using the link below: https://t.co/ZCar4f2T0S
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"Bailiff, Ciao!" - A short film about the action taken by ACORN Brighton members against the Brighton & Hove City Council for their egregious use of bailiffs. Email your MP about bailiff-free Britain using the link below: https://t.co/ZCar4f2T0S
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We'll also be holding a big training on action with branch secretary Poppy. If you've ever felt intimidated by the prospect of confronting a landlord or taking a role in an action, this is the training for you!
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THURSDAY! Can you make it? Our monthly members meeting is on Thursday November 20th, from 7-9pm at Community Base. We'll be hearing a report back from a big Bailiff Free Brighton action, plan an outreach stall for the campaign, and report on ongoing member defence campaigns.
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In the face of this intimidation, if our members cannot live in peace, we believe that the council should not get to continue with business as usual. Write to your MP using our online tool to call for an end to bailiff use: https://t.co/ZCar4f3qQq
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While council members pinky promise to reduce bailiff use and pat themselves on the back, we know that this inhumane practice leaves vulnerable members of our community with long term financial consequences and their mental health worsened.
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This follows a recent Freedom of Information request revealing that the council used bailiffs 11,000 times over the past year - a 120% increase compared to the previous year.
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Today, as part of ACORN’s national Bailiff Free Brighton campaign, ACORN Brighton members disrupted the Brighton & Hove City Council meeting. ACORN is demanding an immediate ban on the council use of bailiffs.
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All politicians can do when they're called out on their behaviour is claim victimhood. The real victims are the people Bella and her council chased with bailiffs. Struggling families. Mothers. Children. 11,000 of them.
What’s disgusting is claiming you don’t like people being harassed then coming to a woman’s place of work to scream, shout & intimidate her. Nasty bullies. Oh & we’ve changed our policy on bailiffs, not that you ever let the truth get in the way of an attention-seeking stunt!
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What's disgusting is sending 11,000 bailiffs to harass the people of our city in just one year.
Disgraceful behaviour by @ACORN_Brighton this afternoon. Pulling a stunt that almost stopped our decision-making to provide 306 new affordable homes in the City (100% affordable including 183 council homes!). But they didn’t stop us. We’ve invested an extra £2.3 million 🏠
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We'll also be holding a big training on confrontational action with branch secretary Poppy. If you've ever felt intimidated by the prospect of confronting a landlord or taking a role in an action, this is the training for you! https://t.co/pc5vdvu5eH
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Our monthly members meeting is on Thursday November 20th, from 7-9pm at @CommunityBase We'll be hearing a report back from a big Bailiff Free Brighton action, plan an outreach stall for the campaign, and report on ongoing member defence campaigns.
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Hilariously, they complained about ACORN's involvement, saying they wished Sam and Liberty has just spoken to them first. Would that be the 2.5 years of emails and calls, or when we came down to speak and you locked the doors on us? You can help here:
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ACORN's South East region contains the Branches and Groups Brighton and Oxford, as well as many other members in other towns and cities, all fighting campaigns on the issues that matter to them. Join...
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They said that Sam and Liberty can leave, but then refused to put it in writing, and then said the leak won't be fixed as the leaseholder is refusing. Shameful!
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We've been back down AR Lettings today to support our members Liberty and Sam, who still have a massive leak, damp, mould and pest problem. We marched into the office and finally got to speak to someone (after last time, they locked the doors and hid in the back).
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...from directly blocking dozens of evictions on the streets of Brighton, to traveling to parliament to lobby MPs, beating the landlords has taken graft and numbers. If you want to see more wins like this, you need to join ACORN today! https://t.co/6KzocFPkgH
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The next step is for the government to announce an implementation date, likely to be early next year. But this isn't the end of the fight. There's loads more to do and these kind of wins don't happen on their own. We've been fighting for this tooth and nail for a decade...
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