#WSO 2024
Schedule
Sat Oct 05 2024 at 07:00 pm
Location
Birch Community Centre, Brighton Grove, Rusholme, M14 5JT | Manchester, EN
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This event is part of a national movement called We Shall Overcome and Birch Community Centre are hosting it this October with Pauline Town MBE, of The Station Pub in Ashton Under Lyne.ABOUT PAULINE TOWN, OF THE STATION PUB.
Landlady at the Station Pub, she co-ordinates a hub with support from ‘We Shall Overcome’ organisation, which is pro-community and anti-austerity. From her pub she distributes food, support and love and hugs to those who need it most.
Over the years of helping the most vulnerable, she has campaigned tirelessly to raise money by organising benefit gigs and fundraising events.
She also supports those who have suffered abuse in relationships, by working with other Tameside institutions such as Greystones, Tameside Council and the emergency out of hours team.
WHAT IS WE SHALL OVERCOME?
We Shall Overcome is a movement of musicians, artists and community organisers who are angry about the human costs of austerity policies but who want to do something practical to help those affected. Focused around a weekend in October we’re encouraging people to organise gigs and events that will –
1. Get direct help to those in our local communities who have been adversely affected by austerity policies.2. Raise awareness, show solidarity or apply pressure to those who have political power.
WHO RUNS WE SHALL OVERCOME?
There is no organisation behind this. It is steered by a community of volunteers who created the idea, the logo, the website etc. But each gig and event is independently run and promoted locally. No money comes through ‘We Shall Overcome’, the causes that are supported are chosen locally by individual promoters and everything raised locally stays local.
IS IT AFFILIATED TO A POLITICAL PARTY, TRADE UNION OR CAMPAIGN GROUP?
No this is absolutely not PARTY political but it is a progressive political movement because we oppose austerity policies. We have Socialists, Labourites, Greens, Communists, Anarchists, Trade Unionists, Punks, Mods, Folk singers, Bikers, Hippies, Bass players, and even peer-led demarchists. This is just a bunch of people standing together in defiance of austerity politics in the UK, while trying to do some good for our communities and each other.
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Where is it happening?
Birch Community Centre, Brighton Grove, Rusholme, M14 5JT, Birch Community Association, Brighton Grove, Manchester, M14 5JT, United Kingdom,Manchester, United KingdomEvent Location & Nearby Stays: