This week I have done a lot of things. The first one is that i found a local issue about Disaster Capitalism. I went to a socialist party’s meeting with Talat and Aisha at monday night. During this meeting i found 2 influenced local issue: the postal system and healthy system have been influenced by American company.
In the postal sector the Communication Workers Union faces a huge battle. The entire post office network is under threat, with 1 in 3 delivery offices, including Coventry’s Bishop Street, threatened with closure. In the last 10 years 22 local post offices in Coventry have closed, with 4 more announced in recent days. The main city centre post office in Hertford Street has gone to WH Smiths. These whole things is due to the labour government and postcomm opened up the British postal market to other countries. And hundreds of local jobs are at threat.
In health New Labour wants privately owned clinics directly competing with existing GP and hospital services. It is no coincidence that US health corporations are muscling in on the NHS market. In coventry, the only one hospital has been owned by a American company. Now coventry’s residents have to pay money when they go to the hospital.
The socialist party want to win the campaign because today’s labour party is a party of the giant corporations, its policies attacked on the lives and living conditions of working-class people.
And the second thing what i did is filming the paper portraits performance by florence peake and katye coe. Then i will edit this clips to a short documentary.
