Jo Beard

Jo is a grassroots political activist, who helped set up, and organises with, UK Uncut. He is involved in a number of other social justice and environmental campaign groups. He has worked as a teaching assistant in a London primary school, on a market stall selling vegetables and pruning apple trees.

Redecorate, repopulate: what next for the E15 mums?

A group of young mothers have petitioned local government and occupied abandoned homes in Newham, London, calling for ‘social housing not social cleansing’. Here they discuss the growing movement to combat the housing crisis and prevent evictions.

By Jo Beard

/ 10 Oct 2014