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<div style="RIGHT: auto">Hi David - am in absolute agreement about our opposition to Govt policy but my understanding is that SCC would be acting unlawfully if they do not implement cuts as dictated by Central govt which could then move in and take over. So we can demonstrate against govt policy but it would seem SCC has it's hand tied?</div>
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<DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><B><FONT size=5>TOMORROW OUTSIDE THE TOWN HALL AT 12.30- </FONT></B></DIV>
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<DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><B><FONT color=#ff0000 size=5>AN ANTI CUTS PROTEST AND PRESENTATION OF THE ALTERNATIVE.</FONT></B></DIV><B><FONT size=5></FONT></B>
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<DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><I><STRONG>CUTS ARE NOT THE CURE - WE ARE FIGHTING TO DEMONSTRATE THAT WE WILL NOT ACCEPT THE LOSS OF JOBS AND DECIMATION OF PUBLIC SERVICES.</STRONG></I></DIV>
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<DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><I><FONT color=#ff0000><STRONG>SEE YOU TOMORROW.</STRONG></FONT></I></DIV>
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<DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><B><U>PLEASE NOTE THE DEMO THIS FRIDAY - DETAILS BELOW.</U></B></DIV>
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<DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><B>LOCAL AUTHORITIES CANNOT MERELY SAY THAT THEY ARE 'HARD PRESSED' AND HAVE NO CHOICE IN THE IMPOSITION OF THE CUTS.</B></DIV>
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<DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><B>THERE <U>IS </U>AN ALTERNATIVE, AND IT IS OUR JOB TO PRESENT THE ALTERNATIVE.</B></DIV>
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<DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><B>LET'S USE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO GET SOME MEDIA COVERAGE AND TO INSTIL SOME NEW YEAR HOPE INTO 2012 FOR SHEFFIELD PEOPLE.</B></DIV>
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<DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"> <B><U>ACTION OUTSIDE THE TOWN HALL - JANUARY 6TH 12.30</U></B></DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Julie Dore has sent a letter to all households regarding the setting of the Council Budget for the next financial year.
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<DIV>Individuals should <B>not </B>be asked to choose where the cuts should fall, who and what should be sacrificed to meet this Governemnts' insane, illiterate austerity programme. </DIV>
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<DIV>This is inviting individuals to be complicit in 'managing' to live with appalling cutbacks where people are losing their jobs, where essential, life-saving and life- enhancing services are being culled, where health and safety is being put at risk, where benefits are being slashed, where thousands will end up losing their homes because of capped Housing Benefits - the barbaric list goes on and on. </DIV>
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<DIV>SACA urges all Sheffield residents to come to the Town Hall at 12.30 on January 6th to express their opposition to Government polices. </DIV>
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<DIV><B>Elected representatives at local council and national level must be pressured into opposing all the austerity measures proposed.</B></DIV>
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<DIV>The Labour leadership would do well to look at the history books, and in particular the record of Clement Attlee's Government in 1945 after the war. Faced with a public sector deficit greater in real terms than today's, and with the memory of the disastrous responses to the Great Depression years fresh in their minds, the Atlee Government <B>chose the public sector as the main motor of the economy with outstanding success - a massive council house building programme, the setting up of the NHS, rebuilding the rail, steel and coal mining industries. This is what we need now.</B></DIV>
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<DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><B>Sheffield Anti Cuts Alliance demands - NO CUTS<U> </U></B></DIV>
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<DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: center">Julie Dore asks 3 questions in her letter and would like a response by 6 January. </DIV>
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<DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: left">Q1 - Do you have any comments on what I have said in this letter?</DIV>
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<DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: left">Answer - The Council should be - <U>STANDING UP FOR SHEFFIELD</U></DIV>
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<DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: left">Q2. What Council services do you think we should protect?</DIV>
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<DIV style="RIGHT: auto; TEXT-ALIGN: left">Answer - <U>SAVE ALL SERVICES</U></DIV>
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<DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: left">Q3 Do you have any ideas and suggestions?</DIV>
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<DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: left">Answer - <U>CUTS ARE NOT THE CURE</U></DIV>
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<DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: center">JOIN US ON JANUARY 6TH - THE MORE THE MERRIER.</DIV>
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<DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: center">If you have not received the letter you can find it on the council website - <A href="http://www.sheffield.gov.uk/" target=_blank rel=nofollow>www.sheffield.gov.uk</A><SPAN> - go to right hand column - Our Budget - Have your Say. Scroll to foot of page and click on the budget letter heading.</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><BR></DIV>-- <BR>Sheffield Anti Cuts Alliance is a grass roots working class anti cuts organisation <SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 30px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">bringing together trade unionists, campaigners, students, the unemployed, pensioners and disabled people against the cuts.</SPAN>
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