Dear Supporters
I hope you are well,
The Campaign to Save the Seven local libraries under threat of either being closed or handed over to voluntary organisations will conclude at the Council Cabinet meeting on Tuesday 16th July. Whatever the Council decide, the reality is a number of professional library workers in Ealing will sacked or be forced to accept redundancies, having served their Ealing community for years.
UNISON: “We believe that Ealing Council has not proved willing to look at alternative ways of funding the service unlike the neighbouring boroughs of Hounslow and Hillingdon. This short term and short-sighted decision will have a damaging impact on the most vulnerable members of our local communities and on the future of our children who need access to books and a safe space to learn and study….. Thank you to those who came out leafleting last Saturday, the hottest day of the year so far.”
ACTIONS
• Tomorrow, 6th July, in Acton there will be a "Read-In" at the Ealing Labour Party HQ: Ruskin Hall, 16 Church Rd, London W3 8PP. Meeting at 10.45 am outside McDonalds in the High Street. Please come along if you can.Bring a book, preferably one with a happy ending and a fold up chair and a friend. I’m looking forward to reading,‘The Life and Rhymes of Benjamin Zephaniah’, Poet, Lyricist, Writer, Activist. The Autobiography’. Then I can have a follow up dialogue with him about it in due course! Benjamin is in full support of our Libraries campaign.
• Saturday 13th July 11 am. A short March is planned from Hanwell Library to West Ealing Library along the Uxbridge Road. Let’s match or double the numbers who came along to the Greenford March on 25th May. Please bring along family and friends.
• Tuesday 16th July 6pm, Lobby of the Cabinet meeting, outside the Town Hall, Uxbridge Road, W5 2BY. The meeting will be taking place in the atrium of Perceval House. Please come along and bring your families, friends and neighbours. As James Conlon, UNISON rep urges, “Let's make our presence felt and show that we will stand up for our services and the workers that provide them”.
Follow us on Twitter@ealingsave , online https://ealingunison.org.uk/ealing-libraries-need-our-help/ and on facebook:https://www.facebook.com/groups/1145308135637512/?source_id=690103684783370;
#SaveEalingLibraries. #OurChildrensSake
As ever,
Thank You.
Best wishes
Grace
Grace Quansah (Akuba)