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• April Mini Eco-Fair, Mostly in Pictures

  Created: Monday, 27 April 2009 09:42 Author: Liliana Dmitrovic

  Previously on People's Republic of Southwark: we spent an amazing Saturday in Nursery Row Park and witnessed some great mulching, some even greater flag making as well as some broad daylight guerrilla sunflower planting.Thanks to all of you who made the...

• Lucas Gardens under Threat

  Created: Friday, 24 April 2009 23:29 Author: Liliana Dmitrovic

  The Southwark Council is proposing to sell off part of Lucas Gardens for private development, in what seems to be 'a-borough-for-sale' campaign.No part of Southwark is immune from the Council's rampant 'have-space-must-build-flats-for-dem-better-people-wi...

• Publishing

  Created: Thursday, 23 April 2009 20:11 Author: Ari

  Plans for running community group training for web hosting are getting closer to  being reality, stay tuned for when something will happen. We're hoping to get the group which started at Art's Bar running again and a group for fro the Crossal Gradening d...

• Southwark Accepts Borough-wide Food Strategy

  Created: Thursday, 23 April 2009 09:36 Author: Liliana Dmitrovic

  Jenny Jones, Southwark's Green Councillor, secured the unanimous backing of Southwark Council for the development of a borough wide food strategy on 8th April 2009.Speaking after the vote at last week's Council Assembly Councillor Jones said she hoped the...

• Motion for a Borough-wide Food Strategy for Southwark

  Created: Thursday, 23 April 2009 09:33 Author: Liliana Dmitrovic

  At council assembly on Wednesday 8th April 2009 Green Party Councillor Jenny Jones moved the following motion which was accepted.1. That council assemblya) Notes the vitality, vibrancy and diversity of Southwark's food industries and culturesb) Notes that...

• Sustainable Communities Act Meeting

  Created: Monday, 20 April 2009 22:41 Author: Liliana Dmitrovic

  Last week a public meeting about the Sustainable Communities Act took place in Peckham Settlement. The well-attended meeting was organised by Local Works, and speakers included Steve Shaw of Local Works, Lorraine Roberts of Active Citizens' Hub and Claire...

• Growing Southwark at Cossall Estate, March 2009

  Created: Monday, 20 April 2009 21:50 Author: Liliana Dmitrovic

  Growing Southwark was back at the Cossall Estate in March, and this time round, people got the chance to do some more planting, as well as draw and write down their ideas for the planned food growing space. This month, they are planning a group v...

• Elephant and Castle Regeneration, Unplugged

  Created: Wednesday, 15 April 2009 18:06 Author: Liliana Dmitrovic

  For those of you who have not had a chance to listen to our Resonance FM programme earlier this week, here are the links to bite-size podcasts which you can listen to online or download: Eloise, a local resident, talks about the Elephant and Castle Ameni...

• People's Republic of Southwark April Mini Eco-Fair

  Created: Sunday, 12 April 2009 14:00 Author: Liliana Dmitrovic

  On Saturday 25th April, 12-4pm, People's Republic of Southwark's mini eco-fair goes all the way to SE17, to the Nursery Row Park , a beautiful green space located just behind the East Street Market (between Brandon and Orb Street), on Saturday 25thApril, ...

• Southwark Food Strategy Meeting

  Created: Friday, 10 April 2009 15:20 Author: Liliana Dmitrovic

  Are you interested in growing and eating food? Or the politics around it? Growing Southwark is having a meeting about the borough-wide food strategy on Wednesday, 22nd April, 19:30 - 21:00, in the Herne Tavern (the garden room), Forest Hill, London SE22 ...

• Elephant and Castle Regeneration on Resonance FM

  Created: Friday, 10 April 2009 15:17 Author: Liliana Dmitrovic

  For those of you who are staying in London this rainy Easter, tune in to Resonance FM, 104.4 FM on Monday, 13th April, at 13:30, to listen to our programme about the Elephant and Castle Regeneration. The programme features Jenny Jones, The Green Party Me...