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A MASSIVE North East People’s Assembly event is to be staged next weekend.
The first Assembly saw a 500-strong turnout and took place last year amid growing resistance to the coalition government’s austerity programme.
The second takes place next Saturday, November 1, and will continue building a broader, more powerful anti-austerity movement.
Beth Farhat, secretary of Northern region of the TUC and a keynote speaker, said: “The North East People’s Assembly is building a grassroots movement taking action to protect our lives, our living standards, our rights, and our future.”
The event, at Northern Stage in Newcastle, will have three slogans — No More Austerity, Save our NHS, Stand up for Education.
There will be two rallies, 10 workshops and a people’s variety show in the evening with comedy, music, dance and spoken-word entertainment.
Alternatives to Austerity will be discussed by top economists James Meadway of New Economics Foundation and Andrew Fisher, author of The Failed Experiment.
For more information, see http://www.northernstage.co.uk/whats-on/north-east-peoples-assembly-2014.
