| 6 October 2006 |
This web site
launched |
Before I'd teamed up with
the rest of what was to become SOW. |
| 10 October 2006 |
Launch of SOW
Campaign Plan |
- Register your support .
- Write to your MP asking him/her to raise your
concerns with the Minister concerned
|
| 12 October 2006 |
NABO's Stop
the Cuts protest, at BW AGM in Birmingham |
See report
here. |
| Rest of October |
Launch
petition campaign |
- Download petition pack from the website and
distribute petition forms and posters around your area. Clubs, Pubs, Post
Offices, places of work, etc.
- Identify a rally that you can attend, if there
isn't one, get a group together and organise your own.
|
| Early November |
Campaign
casual wear available |
Support the Campaign
financially by ordering the distinctive campaign wear and promotional items.
Order form here (PDF
format). |
| November/December |
Defra start
making spending plans for future years |
Write letter to Waterway
Minister, Barry Gardiner and and Environment Minister David Miliband copying
your MP asking him to contact the Ministers on your behalf. |
| 25 & 26
November |
Nationwide
protest begins in the form of a blockade in Gas Street, Birmingham with SOW
protest rallies held across the waterways network |
See reports
here. |
| December |
Local rallies
are being organised |
Offer your help, or
organise your own event. Gather more signatures. |
| 16 January |
Protest cruise
past Parliament |
See reports
here. |
| 3 & 4 March |
SOW Community
Protest events take place across the country. |
Make sure you attend and
bring all your family and friends too. It'll be a fun day out and you'll be
helping to Save our Canals |
| A few days later |
Petition is
delivered to Parliament and/or 10 Downing Street/and/or DEFRA Individual MPs
present local petitions in the House. |
The
date of this has been held over, possibly to await the arrival in office of the
new Prime Minister. |
| Late March 2007 |
The Budget is
a opportunity for government to respond to our protests so it is important to
keep up the pressure on your MP. |
Keep writing letters
asking for responses from Ministers We have already generated one of the
largest public protest campaigns in British political history.History will tell
whether we have succeeded or whether the battle continues. |
| Since them |
We need to
keep the campaign going until the crucial spending decisions are made in the
Comprehensive Spending Review for the next three years, which almost certainly
won't happen until the change of Prime Minister and possibly not until
September. |
Since this is now the time
of year when lots of waterways events are taking place, we are using as many of
these as possible as occasions to present our campaign. Meanwhile the campaign
in Parliament continues and our supporters are urged to keep up a barrage of
letters to their MPs. The recent adjournment debates in Parliament. and
evidence to the EFRA Seclect Committee (all linked to from our In Parliament page) might give you
some ideas for questions to put to your MP. It is a good idea where possible to
tie our general concerns in with local issues that might be affected by the
cuts. |
