London Citizens in Action
Six months before the majoral election in Londno London Citizens comissioned some students from LSE to conduct a LISTENING CAMPAIGN (we will be using Listening Campaigns in Milton Keynes once we start work). There is a video attached to this newsletter below which you can watch. It was used during the Listening Campaign.
Londoners wanted FOUR key isses to be addressed by the new Mayor, these were:
CitySafe (a proposal to make London's streets safer for young people),
Living Wage: (Not the living wage, but a wage that the most vulnerable can live on).
Affordable Housing: (London Citizens actually got a professor from a university to work out what Affordable Housing is).
and
Strangers into Citizens (a campaign for earned regularisation of undocu-mented migrants).
Each of these four areas had firm measurable proposals and each Mayoral candidate were asked if they would support and carry through the proposals.
Boris Johnson a week later was elected Mayor. At the Accountability Assembly he promised he would work with the London Citizens and move forward their proposals.
These four key themes are the backbone to the work of London Citizens. But London Citizens are also active in local areas making powerful changes for local citizen alliances.