Saturday 14 February 2009

LARC - all day 
'Gender, Race and Class: An Anti-Capitalist Feminist Event (see below)

Outside HMP Wormwood Scrubs, Du Cane Road, London W12 0AE.  noon to 3pm

Weekly demonstration against Judicial Corruption, Unlawful Imprisonments, Human Rights 
Abuses and Institutional Failures in the UK.  It began Saturday 10th January 2009 in the 
face of blatant disregard for the Rule of Law by the Judiciary and the non function of 
established monitory and supervisory institutions for correcting injustices and 
complaints.

PUBLIC NOTICE Demonstration against Judicial Corruption, Unlawful Imprisonments and Human 
Rights Abuses in the UK WHEN: Every Saturday commencing 10th January 2009 WHERE: HMP 
WORMWOOD SCRUBS, DU CANE ROAD, LONDON W12 0AE WHY: ‘In a government of laws existence of 
the government will be imperiled if it fails to observe the law scrupulously. Government 
is the potent omnipresent teacher. For good or ill, it teaches the whole people by its 
example. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for the law. It 
invites every man to become a law unto himself. It invites anarchy’. FOR FURTHER 
INFORMATION: CAMPAIGN FOR TRUTH & JUSTICE www.ctjnet.co.uk E-mail info@ctjnet.co.uk Tel 
02085164668 Mobile 07950827015 

Picadilly Circus 2pm - Reclaim Love Pavement Party

Historic Annual Earth Healing Circle. Samba Band and other magical musicians, with more 
musical from a bicycle sound system.

Class War Speed Dating
The Anti Valentines Day, Pro Smut Night

19:00 - midnight The Cross Kings 126 York Way, Kings cross, N1 0AX
Anarcho Speed dating.
Giggles, lust and awesome Kink. Lonely for valentines day? This event is for punk, 
hippies, crustys, hip hop kids... rebels without a cause...until now. Brought to you 
by Class War!

The Anarcho Speed Dating is open to everyone..men, women, gay, straight, trans, even 
couples! The idea is not to meet the partner of your dreams but to meet some new and 
interesting people, have a laugh and enjoy yourself!

The dating session will last about 2 hours and involves you sitting infront of a 
different person for a few minutes with a few set questions before moving on to the next 
person.

Its going to be hosted by the beautiful Mistress Scarlett L'amour, who'll be keeping you 
all in line with some whip-cracking and a harsh tounge.

Then theres gonna be some great bands playing after that...

HeadJam - Amazing Dubpunk
http://www.myspace.com/headjamuk

Active Slaughter - Angry Activist Anarch-Punk
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=28881280

Axis of Arsholes - 'Avinit Political Ska Punk 
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=119233972

All this plus a Class War stall selling the funniest political newspaper around, the best 
t shirts in town and the odd bit of anarchist literature for u serious types.

The important thing to remeber is theres no expectations from those who come, just good 
times and friendly atmos, no has to do anything they don't wanna do...and anyone who 
steps outta line will be swiftly dealt with by Mistress L'amour...

So come down, have a laugh and meet some new people...you never know, you might even 
pull!!

6pm Housmans Bookshop 

War Resisters’ International launch their ‘Handbook for Nonviolent Campaigns’

A range of guest speakers will be discussing nonviolent strategies and campaign tactics. 

Programme

- Presentation of the ‘Handbook for Nonviolent Campaigns’ by Javier Gárate, 
Coordinator of the Nonviolence Programme of War Resisters' International
- Talk on ‘Nonviolent Campaign Strategies’ by Howard Clark, Chair of War 
Resisters' International
- Discussion on what makes an effective nonviolent campaign
- Drinks and snacks

An anti-capitalist feminist conference	

A one-day anti-capitalist feminist conference in London, including workshops, panels, 
films, and exhibitions. Called by Feminist Fightback, this conference will involve the 
collaboration of a host of different groups and individuals; including activists from the 
Anarcha-Fem Collective, Black Women's Rape Action Project, English Collective of 
Prostitutes, Feminist Activist Forum, Feminist Fightback, Left Women's Network, London 
Pro-Feminist Men's Group, London Third Wave Feminists, Permanent Revolution, Women 
Against Rape, and others.

The FAF feminist history group will participate with a project collecting the oral 
histories of women involved in Outwrite, the radical, anti-imperialist newspaper which 
ran from 1982 to 1988. We hope to have the first stage of a visual exhibition ready for 
the February conference.

"We are feminists who have come together from a number of groups to organise an event 
in February 2009.  We are excited and energised by the current resurgence in 
feminist activism in the UK , but we think that the kind of feminist movement we 
build and the kind of politics it has, matter.

We are committed to an anti-capitalist feminism which sees the interconnections 
between all struggles against oppressions and against capitalism, and we want to 
build an event that creates an open space to discuss this and develop our ideas. But 
we don’t want to just talk about our politics – we want to fight to actually 
change the material conditions of women’s lives, to fight misogyny and our own 
exploitation, and to involve as many women and men as possible in the campaigns that 
will be at the centre of this event.

We want the joint event to provide us with a forum to come together, participate in 
open debate, develop strategies to work towards our common aims, network, make 
alliances and inspire each other to build a strong and  active  feminist movement. 
We need to unite to challenge women’s oppression and exploitation.   We want to 
fight for the rights of all women - and that includes the rights of sex workers and 
‘illegal’ migrants.

We organise using non-hierarchical, consensus-based decision making. We recognise 
the power structures that exist among us, based on the inequalities of our society, 
which amplify some voices and marginalise others, and we will actively work to 
confront them. Decisions are taken at monthly meetings, which are open to feminists 
of all genders. There’s also the option to work autonomously in self-defined 
groups (e.g. women-only). We respect the fact that women have a diversity of 
experience and we see this as positive in that it enables us to learn from each other.

Key issues on which we want to organise include…

•Defending and extending reproductive freedom.

•Opposing rape and sexual abuse.

•Fighting racism and immigration controls.

•Building solidarity between women workers.

•Challenging all forms of heterosexism and increasing our freedom of sexual expression.

•Struggles against capitalist exploitation.

Monthly Meetings are held at the Arbour Community Centre, 100 Shandy Street, Stepney 
Green, London. Free creche usually provided. Contact Rebecca on 07971719797 for 
directions, creche bookings, and further info. Meetings open to all. 

Monday 16 February 2009

LARC 2-6pm

FEMADLIB KOLEKTIV
2:00PM - 6:00PM
http://femadlibkolektiv.blogspot.com/ 

RampART Social Centre, 15-17 Rampart Street, Whitechapel, E1 2LA 7pm

Collective meeting: You are welcome to come by and get involved. Specially people needed 
to help with the Thursdays Cafes. 

Pogo Cafe Film 7pm
Film: The Wobblies

“Solidarity! All for One and One for All!” With that slogan, the Industrial Workers of 
the World, aka the Wobblies, took to organizing unskilled workers into one big union and 
changing the course of history. Along the way to winning an eight-hour workday and fair 
wages in the early 20th century, the Wobblies were one of the few unions to be racially 
and sexually integrated and often met with imprisonment, violence, and the privations of 
prolonged strikes. 

This award-winning film airs a provocative look at the forgotten American history of this 
most radical of unions, screening the unforgettable and still-fiery voices of Wobbly 
members–lumberjacks, migratory workers, and silk weavers–in their 70s, 80s, and 90s. 

Eerily echoing current times, THE WOBBLIES boldly investigates a nation torn by naked 
corporate greed and the red-hot rift between the industrial masters and the rabble-
rousing workers in the field and factory. Replete with gorgeous archival footage, the 
film pays tribute to American workers who took the ideals of equality and free speech 
seriously enough to die for them. 

Directed by Stewart Bird and Deborah Shaffer, THE WOBBLIES is a rare and challenging 
invitation to rethink both past and present through the eyes of an organization largely 
omitted from memory."

Tuesday 17 February 2009

7.30 pm at LARC, 62 Fieldgate Street, London E1 1ES.
meeting about a radical history project on resistance in detention,
called by London No Borders

Why write a radical history? 

Radical history is told by and from the point of view of those on the wrong side of 
the
border, to remember and celebrate the otherwise untold story of what they learned,
achieved and sacrificed. Its purpose is to inspire and encourage those engaged in
similar struggles with pride in a shared history and to pass on lessons learned. The
questions it asks are different to those of mainstream history because it reflects
different interests. It perceives the so-called powerless majority as agents of
questions it asks are different to those of mainstream history because it reflects
different interests. It perceives the so-called powerless majority as agents of
historical change rather than as passive subjects. 
  
Scope and structure of the project 
  
The project will involve discussion groups, building an archive through research, and
producing a record. It aims to involve as many people as possible who took part in or
witnessed the protests. It will record the main UK detention centre struggles of the
last decade, including Campsfield 1998, Yarl’s Wood 2002 and Harmondsworth 2006.
However, there is no limit to the themes and subjects that can be covered, depending 
on
people’s interests. 
  
Finally, some general questions to get thinking about…. 
      
·       Riots, disturbances and uprisings: the function of words in recording
resistance   
·       Why were those particular forms of protest chosen? 
·       How did detainees draw on traditions of struggle in their home 
countries during
the protests?   
·       What is the relationship of detention centre protests to the ‘social 
movement’?
·       How are narratives of resistance passed on within detention centres, 
prisons
and affected communities? 
·       How did protestors organise? 

and affected communities? 
·       How did protestors organise? 
·       What worked and what didn’t? 
·       Is it valid to draw parallels between the detention centre protests 
and the prison riots of the 1980s and 90s?   
·       Is there a political difference between immigration and criminal 
detention? 

 Library House - every Tuesday at 8pm  
Collective meeting. Come to bring ideas for events or simply to learn how to participate.

Wednesday 18 February 2009

Library House - every Wednesday from 6pm  

Cafe Marie with hot food and hot drinks at about 6pm, and at about 8pm, will show 
footages related to this Saturday anti-valentine’s day event “reclaim love“ and some 
updates about the struggles of the Tamils in Sri Lanka and in Gaza Palestine.

7pm Housmans Bookshop  talk and book launch. Campaign against Climate Change 
presents: 'Too Little, Too Late: The Politics of Climate Change' with Colin Challen MP

Challen has been the most outspoken parliamentarian on the issue of climate change, and 
will be discussing the political dimension of this issue, as covered in his latest book. 
Too Little, Too Late: the politics of climate change' asks why tougher policies are not 
being followed to tackle climate change and presents the arguments for the first time 
from the perspective of an elected politician. Challen condemns the inability of 
political parties to form a consensus around a meaningful response and suggests ways 
forward.

He believes that action will need to be bottom-up as well as top-down but fears 
catastrophe may play a role in shifting policies to a level adequate to the task. He 
warns against 'displacement' activities, such as building a new fleet of nuclear power 
stations, and calls for a massive expansion of renewable energy as well as personal 
carbon allowances.

Colin Challen is that rare animal: a brave, intelligent, parliamentarian who seeks no 
patronage. It takes courage to challenge your own government, let alone point out to the 
public, during a recession, the steps individuals must take if climate change catastrophe 
is to be avoided.

This evening Colin will be discussing the political dimensions of climate change, as 
covered in his latest book. This event is hosted by the Campaign against Climate Change.

Thursday 19 February 2009

Library House - 52 Knatchbull road  SE5 9QY (entrance on Burton rd, behind Minet 
library) Every Thursday 7-9pm   Capoeira
A group of people sharing and learning some capoeira, wanting to have fun while finding 
one's roots. The space is rather small but it great fun - you need to be really aware of 
your surroundings. Practice movements, make a rodinha and play live music. We have all we
need: good mood, a lot of energy and wilingness to learn. Sessions are free and every one
is more than welcome to join

RampART Social Centre, 15-17 Rampart Street, Whitechapel, E1 2LA 
THE EUROMAYDAY AND PRECARIOUS LABOUR ACTIVISM

FEBRUARY FREESCHOOL WEEKENDER

20th - 22nd February 2009

A weekend of workshops, discussions and skillsharing to promote free,
community organised learning.

London FreeSchool aims to confront the
hierarchy and inequality that dominates learning. It stems from a belief
that the control and institutionalisation of education is wrong and as
communities we need to reclaim knowledge in order to develop self
reliance. It is a collectively run project open to all, in fact we are
actively seeking new bodies who want to get involved and help organise
similar events to this. If you are up for this then please get in contact
(deschooling_society [at] riseup [dot] net).

Check the website http://londonfreeschool.wordpress.com from now onwards
for more information on what is planned for the weekend. We hope to have
all the descriptions for workshops up as soon as possible and the full
timetable will be posted around the 13th February.

Sign up to our newsletter at
https://lists.riseup.net/www/subscribe/londonfreeschool for irregular
updates on upcoming events in London.

Friday 20 February 2009

 Library House - every Friday 11am - 1pm  

Kundalini Yoga Session on donation - Bring your own yoga mat and blanket

Kundalini yoga is a physical and meditative discipline, comprising a set of techniques
that use the mind, senses and body to create a communication between “mind” and “body”. 
Kundalini yoga focuses on psycho-spiritual growth and the body’s potential for 
maturation, giving special consideration to the role of the spine and the endocrine 
system in the understanding of yogic awakening

London Free School until Sunday the 22nd

A weekend of free workshops, skill-sharing and discussions

check the 
website http://londonfreeschool.wordpress.com for last minute changes in time table

Rampart

4-6pm              Clothes Making

4-6pm              Drumming Workshop

4:30-6pm         Getting rid of ?Education?

6pm                 Radical Theory Reading Group

7-9pm              Dissident Island setup

9-10pm            DI Broadcast - featuring an 'Economic Meltdown' show, featuring a panel discussion and interviews de-mystifying the credit crunch, linking it to critiques of capitalism and looking at the practical, grassroots responses to these. Afterwards, as
always, a live DJ set, this time some drum'n'bass, to see us into the
weekend...so tune-in by clicking the 'listen now' button or download the
show (and all our previous ones too!) at www.dissidentisland.org


10pm-2am       Benefit Party for rampART and London FreeSchool

Saturday 21 February 2009

Culture Centre

Outside HMP Wormwood Scrubs, Du Cane Road, London W12 0AE.  noon to 3pm

Weekly demonstration against Judicial Corruption, Unlawful Imprisonments, Human Rights 
Abuses and Institutional Failures in the UK.  It began Saturday 10th January 2009 in the 
face of blatant disregard for the Rule of Law by the Judiciary and the non function of 
established monitory and supervisory institutions for correcting injustices and 
complaints.

London Free School from today until Sunday the 22nd

A weekend of free workshops, skill-sharing and discussions

check the 
website http://londonfreeschool.wordpress.com for last minute changes in time table

1-3pm              Life Drawing

2-5:30pm         Theory and Practice Workshop 1 & 2

5:30-7pm         Here We Are! A Map For Autonomous Spaces

7pm+               Café / Infoshop

6-8pm              Belly Dancing

8-late               Music Workshop (followed by jam session, bring your own instruments!)
	
6-9pm Housmans Bookshop  Trusty Chords Presents... Occupied London Launch 
live music Squab Mega Games 2 PJ & Gaby

SQUAB –
A blend of hip hop, reggae, ska and dub all rounded off by the fact that they've got one 
of the best beat boxers in the country. 

MEGA GAMES 2 -
Weird and wonderful folk punk with a guitar, a melodica and shouting.

PJ & GABY -
Folk punk about friendship, love, hating work, war being crap, you get the idea

Sunday 22 February 2009

London Free School from today until Sunday the 22nd

A weekend of free workshops, skill-sharing and discussions

check the 
website http://londonfreeschool.wordpress.com for last minute changes in time table

 Library House 

1-3pm              Basic Internet Security & Encryption for Beginners

1-3pm              Pinhole Photography

3-5pm              Flour and Water

3-5pm              Knitting

3-5pm              Spanish

FULL UNEMPLOYMENT cinema now using 56a for screenings

 56a 3pm	

BONUS FOR IRENE by Helke Sander, 1971

A BONUS FOR IRENE (EINE PRÄMIE FÜR IRENE)
1971, DVD, 60 min, b/w, German with English subtitles
DIR Helke Sander; CAST Gundula Schroeder, Sarah Schumann, Helga Foster

A BONUS FOR IRENE portrays the hardships of a single working mother with two
children. Her encounters with men are more than disappointing, they are in
control of the factory, their workplace, but weak, boring, and clueless when it
comes to women. “Women workers unite”, seems to be the theme of this film,
one of the earliest German feminist documents.

Helke Sander was born in Berlin in 1937. From 1966 to 1969, she studied at the
newly founded Deutsche Film und Fernsehakademie in Berlin. An active feminist,
Sander’s work is very closely linked to her political commitment. Her films
include BREAK THE POWER OF THE MANIPULATORS (1968), A BONUS FOR IRENE (1971),
THE TROUBLE WITH LOVE (1983), LIBERATORS TAKE LIBERTIES (1991), and IN THE
MIDDLE OF MALESTREAM (2005).

We will also be showing  three early Helke Sander short films. Sander's films
are hardly ever shown anywhere, so we are happy to put some of them on for
free.

Monday 23 February 2009

RampART Social Centre, 15-17 Rampart Street, Whitechapel, E1 2LA 7pm

Collective meeting: You are welcome to come by and get involved. Specially people needed 
to help with the Thursdays Cafes. 

Pogo Cafe Film 7pm

GOOD MORNING, NIGHT (BOUNGIORNO, NOTTE)

Chiara leads a quiet life. She works as a librarian, is recently married and has moved into a new apartment with her husband. At that that’s how Chiara wants to be seen. What nobody knows, is that she is a member of one of the world’s most feared terrorist groups who have kidnapped the President of their country and are holding him hostage in their basement.

Such is the ingenious premise of Mario Bellocchio’s new film Good Morning, Night, which has its UK premiere at the 2003 London Film Festival. Already hailed in Italy, where it won a number of prizes at the Venice Film Festival, the film depicts real-life events in Italy in 1978 when the Red Brigade kidnapped and eventually murdered the then Prime Minister. Aldo Moro’s death may not have resulted in a change - Italy’s post-war electoral instability lasted well into the 1990s - but it was a defining moment for Italians that lived through it.

Tuesday 24 February 2009

 Library House - every Tuesday at 8pm  
Collective meeting. Come to bring ideas for events or simply to learn how to participate.

Wednesday 25 February 2009

 Library House - every Wednesday from 6pm  

Cafe Marie with hot food and hot drinks at about 6pm, and a film at about 8pm

Thursday 26 February 2009

 Library House - 52 Knatchbull road  SE5 9QY
(entrance on Burton rd, behind Minet library)
Every Thursday 7-9pm  
*Capoeira* - A group of people sharing and learning some capoeira, wanting to
have fun while finding our roots. The space is rather small but it great fun -
you need to be really aware of your surroundings. Practice movements, make a 
rodinha and play live music. We have all we need: good mood, a lot of energy and 
wilingness to learn. Sessions are free and every one is more than welcome to join

RampART Social Centre, 15-17 Rampart Street, Whitechapel, E1 2LA 7-10pm: talk

Introduction into the historical context of the emerging racist theories in the second 
half of the 19th century and the development of the modern Dracula legend between the 
1850s and 1920s.

The second part of the evening deals with the interesting changes F.W. Murnau made to the 
well-known books for the German film version “Nosferatu” in 1922.

Friday 27 February 2009

 Library House - 52 Knatchbull road (entrance on Burton rd, behind Minet library) SE5 9QY
Every Friday 11am - 1pm  

Kundalini Yoga Session on donation - Bring your own yoga mat and blanket

Kundalini yoga is a physical and meditative discipline, comprising a set of techniques
that use the mind, senses and body to create a communication between “mind” and “body”. 
Kundalini yoga focuses on psycho-spiritual growth and the body’s potential for 
maturation, giving special consideration to the role of the spine and the endocrine 
system in the understanding of yogic awakening

 Bank of England, London 12 noon: SHAC CITY SHAKEDOWN  

The protest will meet at the Bank of England, central London, at 12 noon. There will be
a brief speech, before proceeding to march through the financial districts of London, 
conducting demonstrations against major shareholders or stakeholders

More information can be obtained by emailing info@shac.net

Website:  http://www.shac.net/action/demos/city_shakedown/index.html

Saturday 28 February 2009

Outside HMP Wormwood Scrubs, Du Cane Road, London W12 0AE.  noon to 3pm

Weekly demonstration against Judicial Corruption, Unlawful Imprisonments, Human Rights 
Abuses and Institutional Failures in the UK.  It began Saturday 10th January 2009 in the 
face of blatant disregard for the Rule of Law by the Judiciary and the non function of 
established monitory and supervisory institutions for correcting injustices and 
complaints.

London Coalition Against Poverty:
Gatekeeping Roadshow Planning meeting – 2.15-5pm at the Arbour Centre, 100 Shandy Street 
on the Ocean Estate, opposite Stepney Green tube station.

The HPU WG is planning a Gatekeeping Roadshow. (Gatekeeping is the tactic that councils 
use to meet their homelessness targets – ie by discouraging people from making an 
application for housing as a homeless person.) LCAP has been challenging this practice at 
the Hackney housing office for the past year. Now we want to spread the campaign to other 
parts of London – by visiting every housing office in Inner London, providing advice on 
legal rights, compiling information on gatekeeping experiences and publicising the 
practice – and we intend to finish the Roadshow with a demonstration.

We hope that the Roadshow will bring an increase in the number of people affected by gatekeeping contacting us for help to fight back. We want to be ready for this, involving mean more people with training in organising and participating in Direct Action.

People are needed to network, produce publicity, fundraise, research, staff the office and many other exciting and fulfilling activities.

 Library House - 52 Knatchbull road  SE5 9QY
(entrance on Burton rd, behind Minet library)
Mini-Eco Fair (People’s Republic of Southwark)  

There will be:  a seed swap, a walking tour of the neighborhood, a Really
Really Free Market (glorified, participatory free shop!), film screening,
more to be announced.
http://www.peoplesrepublicofsouthwark.co.uk

 Housmans Bookshop 5pm

The Freethought History Research Group present
Darwin, Marx and Aveling
a talk byTerry Liddle

Terry Liddle explores the relationship between the three men and between Darwin’s theory, secularism and the left. Followed by Q&A and discussion.

The Freethought History Research Group

The Freethought History Research Group was founded to encourage interest and research into the neglected field of the history of atheism, infidelity, secularism and related subjects.

The FHRG group publishes pamphlets, many of which have been out of print for decades. Authors include GW Foote and Thomas Paine. Two pamphlets are published a year, and members receive a copy as port of their subscription.

The group also publishes an annual journal; hopefully it will eventually appear  bi-annually. Again, members receive this on publication. Members are invited to submit articles and reviews for publication.

For more information please visit:
http://www.fhrg.bravehost.com
FORTHCOMING EVENTS IN 2009

...more details to follow...


British premiere of a new documentary, 'Chomsky & Company'

Saturday 7th March 2009 - Time not confirmed (5 or 6pm)

Mark Gold talks about his latest book 'Cranks and Revolutions', a light-hearted drama documentary of the last fifty years of radical protest in the UK.

Wednesday 11th March 2009 - 7pm

Editor of Lobster, Robin Ramsay talks about his latest book 'Politics & Paranoia'

Saturday 14th March 2009 - 5pm

'Unmasking the State: A Rough Guide to Real Democracy' - Paul Feldman

Wednesday 18th March 2009 - 7pm

Unlocking Democracy celebrate 20 years of Charter 88

Wednesday 25th March 2009 - 7pm