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You are invited to a public meeting to discuss the current chaos in our education system.
Balmoral Hotel, Dunmurry
Tuesday 30 June
6.30pm
Panellists:
Members Notice
Members wishing to attend please contact Alex Attwood’s Office on 028 9080 7808
Dear Colleague,
This September is the tenth anniversary of the publication of the Patten Report on Policing. The SDLP is organizing a series of anniversary events during 2009 to reflect on policing developments over the last decade and to consider policing challenges over the next.
The first Patten Anniversary Event which will take place on Saturday 28 March 2009 at St. Mary’s University, Falls Road, Belfast and will look at “Policing and Oversight at times of threat“. The content of the first event has been revised given the recent terrible murders. The Programme is attached.
I am writing to invite you to attend the Conference. I hope you will consider its content is timely and relevant.
Yours sincerely,
ALEX ATTWOOD,
SDLP ASSEMBLY MEMBER, WEST BELFAST.
REMINDER: Impending Event on Monday 22nd September
SDLP in West Belfast have organised a public forum discussion addressing the issue of All-Ireland Politics, the changing face of politics in the North, the impact of the credit crunch and if the executive is measuring up to the needs of the community.
The debate will also consider the SDLP and potential realignment: what this will mean for unionists, what effects it will have on politics in the north. But most of all, it is a chance for you to tell the SDLP and other politicians what you are thinking.
The Panel will be:
* Alex Attwood SDLP
* Basil McCrea UUP
* Edwin Poots DUP
The evening will be a short introduction to the issues from all panellists followed by a question and answer session.
It will take place on 22nd September in Forthspring Community Centre, Springfield Road, West Belfast at 7pm.
All members of the public, party and press welcome.
For more information contact, Matthew McDermott 028 9080 7808/9
SDLP in West Belfast have organised a public forum discussion addressing the issue of All-Ireland Politics, the changing face of politics in the North, the impact of the credit crunch and if the executive is measuring up to the needs of the community.
The debate will also consider the SDLP and potential realignment: what this will mean for unionists, what effects it will have on politics in the north. But most of all, it is a chance for you to tell the SDLP and other politicians what you are thinking.
The Panel will be:
* Alex Attwood SDLP
* Basil McCrea UUP
* Edwin Poots DUP
The evening will be a short introduction to the issues from all panellists followed by a question and answer session.
It will take place on 22nd September in Forthspring Community Centre, Springfield Road, West Belfast at 7pm.
All members of the public, party and press welcome.
For more information contact, Matthew McDermott 028 9080 7808/9
SDLP Employment and Learning Spokesperson Alex Attwood MLA led a delegation of SDLP Youth to the University of Ulster to meet with the Vice Chancellor and push for radical change in the University and Students Unions treatment of political societies.
The ‘political protocol’ is a policy adopted by the university and the students union to ‘govern’ how political societies function on campus. SDLP Youth have been challenging the protocol for a number of years at the University as it restricts very basic freedoms.
The protocol has caused much contention and SDLP representatives have been asked to leave the UU Campus, as it doesn’t allow representatives to be present on Fresher’s Fayre, a busy day for all societies.
Speaking after the meeting SDLP Youth representative, Councillor Matthew McDermott said,
“the meeting was very positive and productive. SDLP Youth have been at the forefront of fighting to have this restriction removed. It seems that there could now at last be movement on the protocol and restrictions on political societies lifted.
The Vice Chancellor acknowledged that the North has moved forward, that political activity at university was very important for students and that the ‘political protocol should be looked at.
He agreed to seek that the Student Union president revisit the area and hopefully this is the beginning of the end of the protocol and its arbitrary conditions.
Political activity is very important to many students and the protocol is unjustified, unfair and discriminatory against those who wish to express their political opinion. We have always argued for its immediate abandonment and for political societies to be treated like any other society.”
Irish News