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On March 26, 2013, when hundreds of campaigners from across London and the rest of England converged on Parliament for a protest against the Tory-led coalition government's attempts to subject almost the whole of the NHS to privatisation, I photographed this man, Danny, a former teacher who had recently heard about the campaign, with whom I spent some time talking as we queued up to get into the House of Commons, along with Anna, a campaigner from north London.
The demonstration outside Parliament was followed by a powerful and rousing meeting inside the House of Commons, featuring the Green MP Caroline Lucas, the Labour MPs Diane Abbott, John McDonnell and Heidi Alexander, and the Labour peer Philip Hunt (Baron Hunt of Kings Heath), and Dr. Brian Fisher, a GP from the London Borough of Lewisham, and a key player in the Save Lewisham Hospital campaign, seen here. The government plans to achieve this underhand privatisation through secondary legislation relating to Section 75 of the wretched Health and Social Care Act that was passed last year, and the regulations first came to light just a month ago.
Although 350,000 people recently signed a 38 Degrees petition opposing the plans, and Lib Dem minister Norman Lamb promised that the key regulations on competition in the NHS would be rewritten, the rewritten regulations have barely changed, and they still oblige the NHS -- and, specifically, the Clinical Commissioning Groups of GPs who will take over responsibility for 80 percent of the NHS's budget from April 1 -- to put almost all NHS services out to tender, allowing private companies to begin to devour the whole of the NHS or face legal challenges that they will probably lose because enforced competition will have been made into a key component of the provision of NHS services.
The need to oppose the implementation of the Section 75 regulations is hugely important, and we only have until the third week of April to persuade members of the House of Lords (and particularly Lib Dem and cross-bench peers) to join with Labour peers in striking down the legislation. Opponents of the government's plans are also encouraged to write to their MPs to ask them to sign an Early Day Motion calling for the regulations to be overturned.
Find out how to write to members of the House of Lords -- and what to say -- here: www.savelewishamhospital.com/write-letters-to-lords-now/
Contact your MP here to ask them to sign EDM 1188, calling for the Section 75 regulations to be annulled: www.writetothem.com/
And here's the EDM: www.parliament.uk/edm/2012-13/1188
For my article about the regulations, see: www.andyworthington.co.uk/2013/02/25/urgent-save-the-nhs-...
For the 38 Degrees petition, see: secure.38degrees.org.uk/page/s/nhs-section-75
For more on Andy Worthington, see: www.andyworthington.co.uk/
For all my NHS protest photos, see: www.flickr.com/photos/andyworthington/tags/nhs/
For my most interesting photos, see: www.flickriver.com/photos/andyworthington/popular-interes...
As far as you can see on the land and out to the sea.
There's something very wrong and its time to change.
We are going to need a helping hand.
We want to save the world and we hope that you can understand.
This is really a very catchy song. If you want to find out more....Save My World or Saving Gaia.
Some preservation-minded people turned this apartment building (330 Wythe) into a plea to save the Domino Sugar factory from destruction. Its landmark status is being considered now. Story from curbed.
Grace and McKenna are stepping up to help Saige and Gabi save the arts program at their school.
All this came in my latest lot of Mega-mini AG dolls. The guitar and saxophone are Lego.
This is my first attempt at designing and assembling save the date tickets for my destination wedding. Yes it was quite a process but I'm pretty happy with the results. Envelopes were made from vellum paper. They were scored, folded, and then embossed with two palm trees. The sleeves were made from sparkle merlot card stock, scored, folded, and embossed. The tickets were printed three to a sheet on Aspire Petallics metallic paper. The corners were rounded and sides were cut each by hand with an x-acto.
I decided to make a quick, cheap 'save the date' cards with the theme of tying the knot
Pretty Basic: the center string has a heart paperclip to help hold the perferated calender to what ever you want. On the back of the card has the following instructions:
Remove calender at perforation. Use heart paperclip to attach calender to datebook. dog collar, sun visor, microwave or religious leader. And remember, request the weeknd of May 2nd off. REQUEST IT!!
Completely free to use image of the word save, as always, a link back to www.visioncreation.co.uk would be nice, but not required.
I was contacted by the lovely people at The Museum of Art and Design in New York a while ago and was invited to exhibit.Am so chuffed,its going to be incredible there will be so many amazing jewellery artists and their work there.
Place du Peyrou in the old town of Sarlat-la-Canéda with the bishop’s residence in the background on a hot day, Dordogne, France
Some background information:
Sarlat-la-Canéda is a commune in the southwestern French department of Dordogne, located in the administrative region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Sarlat and La Canéda were distinct towns until they were merged into one commune in 1965. Sarlat-la-Canéda is situated 7 kilometres (4.3 miles) north of the Dordogne river in the historic region known as Périgord Noir. It has less than 9,000 residents, but welcomes more than one million visitors each year because of its beautiful well-preserved old town.
The settlement of Sarlat develoved around an abbey that was founded between 820 and 838 by Pepin I, Duke of Aquitaine. In the 13th century, Sarlat become broadly independent and in 1317, Pope John XXII designated the town as the seat of a bishopric. The abbey church became the cathedral Saint-Sacerdos and the monks the cathedral chapter.
In the 13th century and also at the beginning of the 14th century Sarlat thrived as a trading town, but the events of the Hundred Years' War ruined the commune. Although it was never captured by English troops, it still fell into English hands in 1360, because that was defined in the Treaty of Brétigny. When fights rekindled in 1370, Sarlat sided with the French King Charles V and hence, was involved in the French recapture of the Périgord region in 1404. However, the victory was dearly bought, because the bishopric lay in ruins afterwards.
Reconstruction was taken on with no hesitation and most of the houses that still form Sarlat’s townscape date from the interval between 1450 and 1500 and hence, are built in Early Renaissance style. At the beginning of the 16th century, the church Sainte-Marie was completed, whose construction had already begun in 1368. In 1553, a bishop's residence in Italian style was built next to the cathedral. Because of Sarlat’s wealthy upper class that had developed around the bishop, the judges and the clerks, a flamboyant cultural life evolved.
But in the 17th century, Sarlat paled into political insignificance and impoverished increasingly. The structure of the buildings began to derelict, the town’s ramparts were dismantled in large part and the moats were filled up. However, the town’s poverty also saved it from being modernized. In 1962, a monument preservation law was passed by the French government and between 1964 and 1974, the town of Sarlat-la-Canéda was restored comprehensively.
In 2002, Sarlat‘s historic centre, with 77 protected monuments, was added to France's Tentative List for future nomination as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It consists of impeccably restored stone buildings and is largely car-free. Today, numerous visitors, especially from northern Europe and the US, come on holiday to Sarlat and the region surrounding it. And some of them have even settled there permanently.
One reason for that development is also the cuisine of the Périgord Noir region. Foie gras is produced in several large factories and also by many small producers. Other farms raise geese and ducks to produce other delicacies such as confits and pâté. Furthermore, agricultural commodities include corn, hay, walnuts, walnut oil, cheeses, wine, cèpes (a species of wild mushroom) and of course also truffles. Hence, it is safe to say that the Périgord Noir region provides sustenance.
A film festival has been held in Sarlat-la-Canéda every November since 1991. Other annual events include the Truffle Festival, the Christmas Market and the Theatre Games Festival.