Hands off our NHS! Updated press release
Raise your voices in a HOWL of protest against the government’s plans for the NHS
London, Liverpool, Leeds and Barnstaple – Saturday 28th January 2017
What’s happening
Following the success of our first HOWL event on 23rd December 2016 at Whitehall, we are holding another rally and march on 28th January, marking NHS England’s plan to commence implementation of their 44 Sustainability and Transformation Plans and to build support for the national Health Campaigns Together/People’s Assembly demonstration in London on 4th March.
The STPs will be the final nail in the coffin of our NHS as we know it – publicly funded, publicly provided and free at the point of need. The government doesn’t want to hear your voice. Make sure they do!!
Bring vuvuzelas, bring air horns, bring whistles, bring drums, bring anything that will make a noise, join us in an almighty "Howl of Protest for the NHS".
Where & when
Assemble from 12.30pm Old Palace Yard, Westminster for a 1pm start, speakers and a HOWL
March to Department of Health/Whitehall. Speakers include:
· Peter Stefanovic, lawyer, NHS activist and campaigner
· Aneira Thomas – first baby born on the NHS who went on to become a nurse
· Paula Peters – Disabled People Against Cuts
· Sami Cee, future mental health nurse, trans and HIV activist
· Aislinn Macklin-Doherty, Junior Doctor and NHS campaigner
· Tony O’Sullivan, doctor and co-chair KONP
https://www.facebook.com/events/1599650713674010/
There will be simultaneous HOWL events in
LIVERPOOL 12-3pm, Church Street, L1
LEEDS 11am-12.30pm, outside the BBC, St Peter’s Square, LS9 8PH
BARNSTAPLE 10.15-12.45pm, Barnstaple Library, Tuly Street, EX31 1EL11am-12.30pm
If you can't get to any of these locations, please sign up for the Thunderclap on FaceBook or Twitter – this sends out a message from all supporters, timed to coincide with our first HOWL.
Thunderclap link http://thndr.me/AlqXdn
Hashtags #StopSTPs #careforthenhs #NHSnotforsale
Video of part of our event on 23rd December – hear us HOWL!
https://youtu.be/W-fdlQN58Tg
Wantage CLP, Unite member and Hands Off Our NHS!