Events so far - keep checking as there are some changes of time & venue, and still more events being added. All events are FREE unless otherwise stated.
Tuesday 30th April
Daytime:
Making Websites Easy-Peasy - 11am - 2 hours
How to guide to making a website for campaigns, protests or just news and
comment. You don't need your own computer, expensive software or years
of computer training. This will help you make a site, publicity, images,
domain names, email and all the other stuff you need to know. Recomended
for beginners to the internet as well as those who know a little more.
A Hand-out with all the info provided.
Venue: London Action Resource Centre: 62 Fieldgate St., corner of
Parfett St.,
London E1. (nearest tubes: Whitechapel & Aldgate East)
Run by media activists group Pop Star Liberation Front: http://www.popstarliberationfront.org.uk
Workshop: Outlaw Women - 1pm
From the Chinese straits, Mediterranian, Atlantic and Caribbean, to the
streets of Philly, Bonn, Delhi and London, this workshop charts the rise
and fall of gender-bending pirates, radical black eco-warriors, gun slinging
bandit queens, freedom fighters and beatnik bomb girls - critically.
Venue: Social Centre - phone: 07786 716 335 on Friday 26th April
for details of venue.
Post-revolution and post-capitalist visions - 4pm
An brief history of counter-revolution and insurrectionary failures;
including 1930s Spain, France 1968, English Civil war and beyond, followed
by group discussion amd simulated scenario outlines, focusing on post-capitalist
social organisation, culture, and the shape and scope of counter-revolutionary
elements; How could we be recuperated?What will we do about police, paedophilia,
politicians with secret weapon stockpiles, us with weapons stockpiles?,
food production, industry, work, religion. Could it happen here? And what
would it look like if it did? If we cannot make it here, where will it smoulder
first? What about the concept of an anarchist Permanent Revolution?
Venue: Social Centre - phone: 07786 716 335 on Friday 26th April for
details of venue.
London Reclaim the Streets will host a 'Free Market' - 4 to 8pm
Running up to Mayday, it will be a practical alternative to the apparently
never-ending, sad story of our throwaway society. The idea is simple: we
can create a thriving market without money! Come and have a look for something
you want and then take it for free. And you are most welcome to donate and
bring along anything that's cluttering up your closet, whether its books,
clothes, music, board games. Just leave your wallet at home! 'Free Markets'
are common for example in Argentina where the current crisis has deprived
so many who through the collective and cooperative exchange markets have
found new ways of getting their basic needs: even hair dressers or tailors
are common on such exchange markets!
London Reclaim the Streets: 020 7281 4621; email: rts@gn.apc.org;
http://www.reclaimthestreets.net
Venue: London Action Resource Centre: 62 Fieldgate St., corner of
Parfett St.,
London E1.
LARC Tel: 020 7377 9088
LARC Email: fieldgate@gn.apc.org
Evening:
Why is Hackney up for Sale?
Come to an open meeting of the Hackney NOT 4 Sale group for a discussion
on how Hackney got into the mess it is in and what alternatives there are
for the future.
7pm at The Old Firestation, Corner of Brooke Road and Leswin Road,
Stoke Newington, N16
Talk from Ex-Black Panther, Robert King Wilkerson. 7pm. Venue tba.
Robert King Wilkerson was held in solitary confinement in Angola maximum
security prison, Louisiana, for 27 years for a crime he didn't commit. He
was framed because of his political organising at the prison as a member
of the Black Panther party. Released in February 2001 after a long campaign,
he's now spending his time doing speaking tours around the world to raise
awareness of the brutality, corruption, racism and injustice of the Louisiana
criminal justice system. His co-accused, Albert Woodfox and Herman Wallace,
are still in prison and entering their thirtieth year of solitary confinement.
Protest against Channel Four's censorship of 'Injustice' - 9.00pm
Injustice is a radical feature length film about the struggles for justice
by the families of people that have died in police custody. On its release
a year ago the police tried to censor the film by threatening cinemas. Months
of fighting, by the film makers & families in the film, ended in victory
with the police backing off and the film on release in cinemas across the
UK & internationally. But Channel Four still refuse to broadcast the
film because they won't take on the Police Federation. C4 are not only banning
the film they are telling the police 'It's ok to kill, we won't turn our
cameras on you'. Protest against the ban - since C4 won't screen Injustice
then we are going to screen it on C4!
Organised by 'Friends of Injustice' as part of the Mayday Festival of Alternatives.
Venue: Channel Four Television, 124 Horseferry Road, London, SW1P.
Tube:
St. James Park.
For full details see: http://www.injusticefilm.org.uk
Wednesday 1st May - Mayday
Daytime:
7.30am - Critical Mass
South Ride - Camberwell Green
North Ride - Camden Town Tube
Ride For Your Life!
Calling all bikes, skates, boards, wheelchairs, and anything on wheels with
no engine…
see critical
mass page for more details>>>
9am - B.A.R.F. (Breakfast Against Routine Fit-ups): W.O.M.B.L.E.S.
Protest
A demonstration of solidarity outside the trial of the
Womble 7. Wear white overalls.
Don't let the Wombles fight alone.
Horseferry Road Magistrates Court, London SW1. (nearest tubes: Victoria,
Westminter).
see
Autonomous Actions page for more details>>>
see Womble 7 page to find out
about the trial>>>
10am - International Socialist Resistance (ISR) organised demo
against the international arms trade, outside British Aerospace, 6 Carlton
Gardens, SW1 Contact details: againstcapitalism@hotmail.com
12pm - Mayday Mayhem Against The Fur Trade.
London Animal Action protest against Phillip Hockley Furs, 20 Conduit Street,
W1 (off Regent Street).
see
Autonomous Actions page for more details>>>
12pm - Trade Unions March
Held every year, this traditional march starts from Clerkenwell Green.
See: http://www.glatuc.org.uk/MayDay.html
for details.
1pm - Mass Action: Mayday in Mayfair
Mayday in Mayfair will be a fluid, spontaneous and exciting return to the
Mayfayre, happening everywhere at once, without a fixed starting point or
finish. Four separate but intertwined elements of Ye Olde May Day will take
place. These are: The Travelling Circus, Carniball, Wake for Capitalism
and Critical Mass.
see 'Mayday in Mayfair'
page for more details>>>
5pm - Soho Carnival Parade - Mayday Event called by Sex Workers Pride
Supported by International Union of Sex Workers and GMB London No.1
Region.
Assemble: 5pm Old Compton St., London W1
see
Autonomous Actions page for more details>>>
Go to 'Mayday in Mayfair'
page>>>
Go to 'Mayday Autonomous
Actions' page>>>
Evening:
Comedy and Magic night.
featuring; Rob Newman, Ian Cognito, Smile & Subvert and Tony Allen (compere).
a mad bad bunch of anarchist comix to help relieve the stress of the day!
With Vegan food available from the Emmaz cafe crew.
Venue: Chats Palace, 42 Brooksby's Walk, Homerton, E8. Nearest train
station: Homerton on Silverlink line.
£3.99 / £2.99 concs entry. (A benefit for Our Mayday)
The Documentary Filmmakers Group is hosting a special event for Mayday.
The evening will include screenings of activist video shot earlier in the
day as well as completed Direct Action documentaries. This will all be followed
by a panel discussion with speakers from Media Workers Against War, Undercurrents
and Indymedia.
£3 on the door
7:00pm - Late
Arrive early for seats (120 seater cinema)
Venue: London Film School, 24 Shelton Street (nearest tube Covent
Garden)
more details at: http://www.dfglondon.com
Mayday Madness: Save Spitalfields Market.
Spitalfields Market Under Threat (SMUT) & the 333 Club present:
A benefit night hosted by The Pineapple Boys, with suave surf sounds
of The Bikini Beach Band, latin inuendo of Cuban funkistadors Y-ya, &
retro latino tonemeister DJ Bakan, while Budgie & guests bring on the
funk & break beats.
9.30 - 2am, Entry £8.
333 Club, 333 Old Street, EC1
Thursday 2nd May
Daytime:
Council Elections - 'Vote For
Nobody' campaign.
Find out more about
'Vote nobody>>>
'Health & healing' day
Central to Anarchism is the belief in self-empowerment and the notion that
we, the community, should control our lives as much as we possibly can.
One way we can do this is through looking after both our own health and
that of the wider community. We are holding an alternative health and healing
day in order to learn more about how our bodies work, their relationship
with the earth, and how we can help one another in the community to cut
out the state (doctors) and capital (pharmaceuticals) as much as we can.
Contrary to popular belief, revolution can be good for our health!
Stress, contamination of food air and water supply, global warming, alienation,
not to mention the police batons .... capitalism is bad for us in lots of
different ways, and it is the end result of several millennia of patriarchy,
with its drive to enslave the body and stifle desire. Come and celebrate
the innate human instinct to heal ourselves and others, often persecuted
and hindered, but never crushed. There will be a variety of workshops and
therapies on offer, including shiatsu, aromatherapy, massage, ear acupuncture,
radical yoga, herbal medicine, women's health, the politics of madness,
and more, in a chilled out atmosphere and beautiful venue, and yes it's
all free. Open at about 11 am; hopefully there will be some food, but bring
your own or to share if you can.
If we can heal ourselves we can help others heal themselves, and together
we can heal our society and our planet.
Venue: London Action Resource Centre: 62 Fieldgate St., corner of
Parfett St., London E1. (nearest tubes: Whitechapel, Aldgate East)
Some times/details below (further details tba):
Sports massage - 5pm
radicalyoga - free yoga classes with opportunities for discussion,
practice and meditation. You will be very welcome to participate…wearing
loose clothing, bring a happy heart, an empty stomach and an open mind.
4:30pm-7pm – London Action Resource Centre, 62 Fieldgate Street, E1
Evening:
Film: 'Injustice' - 6pm
Injustice is a radical feature length film about the struggles for justice
by the families of people that have died in police custody. On its release
a year ago the police tried to censor the film by threatening cinemas. Months
of fighting, by the film makers & families in the film, ended in victory
with the police backing off and the film on release in cinemas across the
UK & internationally.
Venue: London School of Economics
Films: Showing of a documentary film (Spanish, no subtitles) of
the SINTRAEMCALI trade union occupation of the Emcali tower in
Cali, Columbia. On Christmas Day last year, 800 workers occupied
the nerve-centre of the state-owned municapal company which runs
water, electricity and telecoms, for over three weeks,and won their fight
to stop essential resources being privatised. A talk by Carlos Gonzales,
member of Sintraemcali and participant in the occupation plus a member of
the Colombia Solidarity Campaign, follows.
followed by:
The destruction of Tabaco: This Spanish language film
is made up of simple and shocking footage of the destruction of a small
farming village in Colombia by employees of Intercor, a coal mining company
then owned 100% by Exxon, the largest energy company on Earth.
The residents of Tabaco - mostly of African and Indigenous descent - were
facing relocation so that the coal strip mine of El Cerrejon Norte in the
northern Colombian province of La Guajira could expand. They demanded a
decent resettlement arrangement so that the whole community could stay together,
move to a new site and carry on farming.
Intercor claimed it couldn't afford to meet the community's demands and
told the people to leave. They stayed. So Intercor employees came to the
village on August 9th last year with bulldozers, accompanied by 200 armed
police and 500 soldiers, to confront 100 unarmed villagers and destroy their
homes. The film shows the preparations for destruction, the efforts of the
community's lawyer, Armando Perez, to get a local judge to call off the
operations, and the aftermath of the demolitions. There are interviews with
some of the residents.
It is a roughly produced film and won't make the cinema. It never made the
news either. Even some progressive publications in Britain refused to cover
it because there were not enough victims to make it newsworthy. So the campesinos
and their Indigenous cousins in this forgotten corner of a forgotten country
can be shafted by the world's leading energy company because their injuries
weren't bad enough and none of them got killed that day - despite houses
being demolished with people still in them.
Now the mine has been bought out by companies based in London. Come and
see
what they are profiting from. Afterwards you might wish to be in touch with
them....
Venue: The Union Tavern, Camberwell New Rd, nearest
tube Oval or BR Vauxhall, in the luvly back room called The Latin Palace.
Friday 3rd May
Daytime:
Campaign Against The Arms Trade: Protest ouside BAE Systems AGM
Venue: QE2 Conference Centre, SW1
Morning: time tba
BAE Systems, the world's largest arms company are holding their AGM on 3rd
May. BAE are notorious in
their disregard of human rights and regularly sell arms and equipment that
is used in repression and
conflict around the world. Come and disrupt the people who fuel and profit
from conflict around the world.
contact for protest: action@caat.demon.co.uk
http://www.caat.org.uk
http://www.baesystems.com
Prisoner Resistance! - 11am.
Introduction to the UK prison system, reform, revolt and how life has changed
for prisoners over the years. The Parkhurst riots (1969), Grisley Risley
victory (1989) and Strangeways uprising (1990) plus the shape of future
resistance (i.e Detention centre uprisings Yarl's Wood,UK and Woomera, Australia)
are all explored and their origins and impact on prison life evaluated.
Venue: London Action Resource Centre: 62 Fieldgate St., corner of
Parfett St., London E1. (nearest tubes: Whitechapel, Aldgate East)
MILLION MIND MARCH
Serving Notice to Quit - St Paul’s Cathedral, London - 12pm
Meet at Monument to proceed via the London Stone to the Stone circle atop
Ludgate Hill whereupon ‘Notice to Quit’ will be served on the
Bishop of London to vacate the carbuncle known as St Paul’s Cathedral
by June 3rd to enable its demolition in accordance with good healthy and
safety practice.
Reclaim The Stones.
We invite u to join us in an experiment to use our collective psychic powers
to take the cathedral back in time to that of the Fire of London. All the
while, simultaneosly, taking it forward into the future. Then the ancient
Stone Circle atop Ludgate Hill will reappear, where we will issue a Decleration
of Independence from Great Britain.
To help us we shall be resurrecting the dead to raise generations of rebels
- from Sylvia Pankhurst to Boadicca, from Watt Tyler to Paul Cuffee - and,
of course, thousands and thousands of unknown rebels whose names were never
recorded in the history books of the bourgeoisie.
Join us and BRING YOUR ANCESTORS - YOU KNOW IT MAKES SENSE
Rising Tide: Workshop on Climate Change - 2pm
We know climate change is happening, so it’s time to take action
for climate justice!
Rising Tide UK is a new rapidly growing grassroots network. It supports
community initiatives and local protest against climate change, and for
climate justice. It’s also a part of the international Rising Tide
network.
For more info see: http://www.risingtide.org.uk
Venue: London Action Resource Centre, 62 Fieldgate Street, E1
Workshop/discussion: Feminism 101 - 4pm.
Challenging the (capitalist lie that) we live in a post feminist world,
so don't need to talk about: Sexism, male power and patriarchy as political
issues! How can men taking women-related issues (like feminisation of poverty,
work, childcare, domestic violence, rape...) seriously? Should men be involved
in those struggles and, if so, how? Most of us have some privilege/s and
can be oppressors as well as oppressed. How can we--men, women, white/black,
class divides, etc etc.-- acknowledge our privilege/oppressor behaviour
without it being a big/divisive deal?
Venue: London Action Resource Centre: 62 Fieldgate St., corner of
Parfett St., London E1. (nearest tubes: Whitechapel, Aldgate East)
European Social Consulta: discussion - 7pm
The ESC is a product of the ideas and visions of social movements that are
struggling against capitalist globalisation and its neo-liberal policies.
Our mobilizations have created spaces of convergence where we have become
aware of the importance and complementary nature of our social struggles.
Given our growing capacity for mass mobilization, the system is creating
the conditions necessary to control us: police impunity, restriction of
basic liberties, intimidation and manipulation of information. Because of
this, we believe it is important to deepen our contact and communication,
strengthen our networks, connect to the rest of society and decentralize
our struggles.The ESC will allow our social movements to take the initiative,
to build a precess complementary to mobilizations around international summits
and forums and to support the cohesion of European social movements. The
ESC is therefore meant to be a project that will reinforce the efforts of
local groups and networks and to connect local and global struggles.
Venue: London Action Resource Centre: 62 Fieldgate St., corner of
Parfett St., London E1. (nearest tubes: Whitechapel, Aldgate East)
Evening:
West London Anarchist & Radical History Walk in Hammersmith
William Morris's connections with Hammersmith are well known, but but there
is much more to our radical history than just Morris. Join us for
a tour through the past finishing with a drink at one (or more) of Hammersmith's
finest pubs. Children welcome.
Meet at Hammersmith Tube, Hammersmith & City Line, 6.15pm.
Late night films at the Rio Cinema, 107 Kingsland High St, Dalston.
E8 Tel 0207 241 9410
11.15 pm - Black Box BRD (Black Box Germany) Dir Andres Veiel - 2001
Black Box Germany is a powerful documentary film by the award-winning director
Andres Veiel. It steps back into German history and portrays the Federal
Republic of Germany during the 70s and 80s. The country is polarized due
to the power struggle of the German state and the "Red Army Faction",
and thus on a constant brink of civil war. Society is torn; the fronts are
irreconcilable.
The life stories of both Wolfgang Grams and Alfred Herrhausen are linked
to this era, though in a tragic way. Grams is the one who takes up arms
for moral rigor; Herrhausen however seizes power and dies in power. Their
curricula vitae lead through the enemy camps of the Federal Republic, through
opposing worlds that have had no dialogue and incomprehensible to each other
until now. The fight is over, but the wounds are still open.
The film, reconstruction of a true story, has won acclaim in Germany since
its release this summer.
followed by:
Asurot (Detained) - Dir Anat Even and Ada Ushpiz - 2001.
Three Palestinian widows, live with their 11 children in a house in Hebron
that lies on the border; the front is under Israeli occupation, the Palestinian
authority controls the back. At the entrance to the house a military post,
on the roof the Israeli army has placed a watch point over Palestinian Hebron.
Three women, trapped in the middle, constantly surrounded by Israeli soldiers,
carry on their difficult lives in a perverse situation: the occupation becomes
a routine. This is the story of an occupation that extends to the house.
This is an internal prison, the external one is the ongoing occupation.
As Israeli Women directors, tired of the cumulative effects of oppression
in the occupied territories in our own society, we wished to present the
arbitrariness of the occupation as seen via the barred windows of an occupied
house, in order to show the thin line between a smile and a gun shot.
Saturday 4th May
Daytime:
"Jayday" Legalise Cannabis day in Brockwell Park - visit
the Schnews marquee, Indymedia marquee, and Mayday marquee for infostalls,
vegan food, music & movie projections.
‘Urban redecoration’ - details tba.
Evening:
A political punk rock event
featuring; Seein Red (legendary Dutch Hard core lefties of the DIY scene),
Whizzwood (Singalong angry punk stuff with humour from Hull), Shakari (Noisey
kids of Holland), Freaks Union (more Hull based punk rock that rips and
swings!), Scalplock (Londons grindcoredoomnoisemerchants).
£4 in 4 all!
An Active Event, Benefit for Emmaz Social Centre.
With Vegan food available from the Emmaz cafe crew.
Venue: Chats Palace, 44 Brooksby's Walk, Homerton, E5 Tel 0208 533
0227
Sunday 5th May
Daytime:
Looney Left Mayday Footie Tournament & 'Hackney Not 4 Sale' Picnic
2002:
'Hackney Not 4 Sale' Picnic
This year’s Radical Picnic is to take place in Clissold park, Stoke
Newington, Hackney, from 12 noon onwards.
Hackney NOT 4 Sale are putting out a big shout for people to bring along;
loads of food to share, theirs and other peoples kids, friends and parents,
so that we can all take part in a big radical picnic alongside the Looney
Left Football tournament that is taking place there on the same day as part
of the Mayday Festival of Alternatives.
Who are Hackney NOT 4 Sale?
HN4S are a small group of people who live and/or work in Hackney. Many of
us have been involved in grassroots politics and community campaigns in
Hackney for many years, though we have no political party affiliations.
The group formed last summer after squatting a council owned shop and turning
it into a spoof Nelson Bakewell estate agent “selling off community
property to the rich and powerful”. Over 50 buildings were shown to
be in danger of having funding cut or being sold off by Hackney council.
We have since called for protests both inside and outside auctions, as well
as joining with striking council workers and worked with other community
groups resisting the cuts and sell offs in Hackney. We also produce a free
newsletter as well as an email information list in order to get information
out to as many people as possible around Hackney and beyond.
So back to the picnic...
Clissold Park has been on the receiving end of various attacks including
the recent closure of it’s café, bowling green and the children’s
paddling pool. In the past year park workers borough-wide have also suffered
cuts in pay and conditions. As if that was not enough, Clissold Park’s
much needed and much loved 1 o’clock club, used by parents, carers
and children, is now fighting closure (along with all the other 1 o’clock
clubs) in the borough, and there are still threats to the popular deer enclosure.
Clissold Park is an example of what is happening to community resources
all over Hackney and in many cases beyond.
It is for these reasons that Hackney NOT 4 Sale will be at the picnic on
5th May with more information about the closure and selling off of other
community resources and other threats such as privatisation and gentrification
in and around Hackney. We will also have ideas for what people can do to
resist these threats both here and elsewhere. Why not bring along
campaign stalls or displays that you might have, as well as any practical
information and creative ideas for social centres, workers co-ops, community
gardens etc…
We are also hoping to encourage the local 'talent' (that hopefully includes
you!); comedians, musicians, magicians, jugglers, hip-hop, poets… to
come along and entertain us and each other. There will also be workshops
and games for kids including samba instrument workshops and puppet making.
This as well as a seed give away and an alternative health area with information
on alternative therapies such as herbal medicine, homeopathy etc.
For more info, ideas and offers of entertainment please email: hackneyNOT4sale@yahoo.com
or call: 07950 539 254
Looney Left Mayday Footie Tournament - 2002
Calling all footie Loons. Great footballing events do not rely on great
footballers, this is the Looney Left ethos. In fact the Loonier you are
the more we reclaim the game from the corporations who dominate what has
now become a multi-million pound industry. We want to make this event a
class act where we organise our own games, which are inclusive and fun,
on a day of historical significance. We want to create an autonomous football
space where we are uncontainable, uncheckable and uncontrollable. So if
you agree with most of the above put in a team, or just turn up for a game,
also kids game and if you’d rather try a non-competitive version of
the game dreamt up by some other Looney, then join in the 3 sided footie
event and put it to the test. With enough people a mass game is planned,
so bring your own football. There will be other festivities at the
venue including music and picnic, but bring along your own contributions,
food, music, games etc.
Venue: Clissold Park, Stoke Newington.
Kick off for main tournament: 12pm
3 sided event: whenever we feel like it!
Kids game: before tounament final
Very few women have participated in the tournament in recent years, this
year we are trying to put in a women's team, it doesn’t matter if you
don’t play regularly, get involved and experience playing with other
women!
There will also be the Looney Left World Cup / Jubilee Tournament in early
June. Date yet to be confirmed.
Mayday Tournament teams need to send £20 to Looney Left Collective
c/o PO Box 32, 136 Kingsland High St., Dalston, E8. Cheques payable to ‘Between
the Lines’, or send £30 to enter both the May and June tournaments.
Money goes to covering costs, goals, printing etc. You should also send
in team names, shirt colours and team contact no.
For queries & futher info. Email: looneyleftcollective@hotmail.com
or ring 07786 720 146
to read about the radical
history of football, go to the Carniball page>>>
Evening:
Introduction to D10 and anti-Militarist direct action - 7pm
D10 is a anti militarist group made up of a diverse collection of autonomous
activists from many different backgrounds. We have chosen to define ourselves
by our actions. Recent actions have included blockades at Northwood
and throwing paint bombs at a military presentation. This workshop explains
the philosophy behind D10, lends insight into anti-militarist action in
the UK and offers people a chance to get involved.
Venue: tba
Bass-heavy punky reggae bash with the Restarts, Nomadix Roots, One
Style + DJ Dave (Zion Train). The return of the local punk & roots warriors.
8pm till 2am at Arsenal Tavern, 175 Blackstock Road, N4 (Arsenal, Finsbury
Park tubes.)
Entry: 5 quid/3.50 quid
Contact for gig: nlmaydayfestival@lycos.co.uk
Monday 6th May
Daytime:
Anarchist Bookfair - 10am to 5pm
with stalls from Active Distribution, Ak Press, Anarchist Federation,
Haven Distribution, Freedom Press, London Animal Action., H.S.G., Stair,
and many more.
Get the latest books, magazines, leaflts, t-shirts, badges, videos, posters
etc.
With Vegan food available from the Emmaz cafe crew.
Venue: The Exchange Community Centre, Sebbon Street, Islington, N1.
(off Upper Street, behind Islington Town Hall). Nearest tube: Highbury &
Islington.
If you would like a stall at the bookfair please email: festivalofalternatives@yahoo.com
Film: Coconut Revolution - 3pm
Venue: London Action Resource Centre: 62 Fieldgate St., corner of
Parfett St., London E1. (nearest tubes: Whitechapel, Aldgate East)
Workshop: Food Autonomy - 4pm.
A one to one-and-a-half hour talk plus gorgeous slide show featuring images
of diverse agriculture and grass roots resistance to corporate control of
the food chain. Workshop also includes updates from the Resistance is Fertile
(www.resistanceisfertile.com/english/) actions in Den Haag April 8 - 19
against the Sixth Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention
on Biological Diversity (phew! - aka Cop6) which looks at the commodification
and privatisation of 'genetic resources'- plants, ecosystems, land, agriculture,
and knowledge.
Venue: London Action Resource Centre, 62 Fieldgate Street, E1 (corner
of Fieldgate St & Parfett St). Nearest tube: Aldgate East or Whitechapel.
No Borders - 6pm
A participatory discussion about the current strengthening of nation state
borders and the proliferation of immigration controls. Come and join in
a discussion about recent struggles against these controls and how the resistance
can spread in the future until everyone can enjoy freedom of movement.
Venue: London Action Resource Centre: 62 Fieldgate St., corner of
Parfett St., London E1. (nearest tubes: Whitechapel, Aldgate East)
Haringay: Mayday at the Markfield: A celebration of independence
and interdependence of our communities, (Speak outs, festive stuff, discussions,
videos, displays) at the Markfield Project, Tottenham.
Find out more about
'Mayweek in Haringey'>>>
Evening:
Film: Incitement to riot - 6pm; followed by a followed by a discussion
about how police tactics during public order situations have changed over
the past few decades.
"Incitement To Riot" is an hour long video that does just what
it says on the box! Packed with footage from all the best riots of the past,
and a hard hitting soundtrack, from Gil Scott Heron to Conflict!
followed by:
Film: New Kids on the Black Block.
Venue: London Action Resource Centre, 62 Fieldgate Street, E1 (corner
of Fieldgate St & Parfett St). Nearest tube: Aldgate East or Whitechapel.
Simon Jones Campaign: talk & film - 8pm.
Film charting the struggle of Simon Jones' family and friends to secure
justice for their loved-one's death. Simon was killed on his first day of
work four years ago when the grab of a crane virtually decapitated him.
He was sent to work at Shoreham Docks for Euromin by Personnel Selection
– a Brighton employment agency. He had had no health and safety training
whatsoever and had never worked at a dockyard before.
Film is followed by a talk describing how the campaign was set up, gained
momentum, succeeded in prosecuting Euromin - the company responsible for
the health and safety breaches which caused Simon's death - the political
issues behind corporate killing - casualisation, flexible labour, unscrupulous
employment agencies, the use of direct action, and and the future tactics.
Venue: London Action Resource Centre: 62 Fieldgate St., corner of
Parfett St., London E1. (nearest tubes: Whitechapel, Aldgate East)
Throughout the Week
Vote For Nobody Campaign
Leafleting and campaigning using the Vote For Nobody idea, against the Council
Elections on Thursday 2nd May.
more
about 'Vote nobody'>>>
WOMBLES on trial - the Womble 7 are on trial from Monday 29th April
- Friday 3rd May, at Horseferry Rd Magistrates Court, SW1. There will be
demos outside the court all week. Please come down and show your support
for their fight against political repression.
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about the Wombles trial>>>
A temporary week-long Social Centre, with Infoshop, workshops, discussions,
vegan cafe, art exhibition, film showings. Phone: 07786 716 335 on Friday
26th April for details of venue.
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about Social Centres>>>
Mayweek in Haringey
People associated with Haringey Solidarity Group are organising local events
around the time of Mayday - from Friday April 26th to Tuesday May 7th -
to communicate the fact that there is a radical and realistic anti-capitalist/anti-authoritarian
alternative to the current system.
more
about 'Mayweek in Haringey'>>>
More workshops and events are planned for the Mayday Festival of Alternatives.
Keep checking this timetable for updates.