Following reports that news of Michael Jackson’s death caused serious ‘performance problems’ for Google, CNN, AOL, CBS and Yahoo, rampART celebrity snoopers can exclusively reveal an alarming drop in the number of Elvis sightings, coinciding with speculation that Timothy Leary really is dead and the news that Madonna and Bob Dylan ‘are expected to die in the future’. Meanwhile, back at the morgue….

We’re marking the 40th anniversary of Stonewall with a Behind Bars fundraising extravaganza on Saturday night, coupled with the equally extravagant Punx Picnic afterparty. No rampART cafe this week but regular cafes will resume in the near future with (we’ve been promised) scones and home-made jam!

Also:
We’ve been getting reports that some of you have not been getting this newsletter until most of the events are out of date. We send it out early on Tuesday so, if you don’t get it by Tuesday pm, we’ve worked out that it might be because your ISP is scanning it to see if it’s junk. To solve the problem, you need to make sure that the address that it’s sent from
(rampart@mutualaid.org) is in your address book. If this doesn’t work, please let us know.

And, in other news:
The freeschool weekender on housing, squatting and gentrification has been and gone. It was a great success and it has left a beautiful building just waiting for another project to begin. So we call on all those interested in starting up a space to come and get involved…

On Sunday 21st June, as an ending to the freeschool event a discussion was had on what should happen to the building. People expressed an interest incontinuing occupying in order to create a space that complemented the pre-existing projects in East London. With LARC, rampART, freedom, ASS and Belgrade Road all within close proximity we felt a giant free shop would be a nice idea. The building suits it with huge shop windows. Within such close proximity to the centre of finance a daytime space that promotes community without consumerism seems like a pleasant idea. A strong focus could be on attracting a crowd that wouldn’t generally go into squats and social centres by possibly making a space drug free (including alcohol and smoke) and having more family friendly activities. A free bicycle workshop will bring in peddlers by off the street and into the space (or the yard at least….) Regular workshops, infonights, cafes and a food coop were amongst other things discussed.

None of this is set in stone. You can be a part of shaping this project. Come lend a hand, help us occupy and attend the next meeting on TUESDAY 30TH JUNE AT 7PM to discuss what will happen..

love from
the occupiers of 161 commercial street

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***Tuesday, 30th June, Cinema Libre***
***Friday, 3rd July, Radical Theory Reading Group ***
***Saturday, 4th July, BEHIND BARS XV “Tranny-Punk-Ho-Down meets Punx Picnic Afterhours”***
***Monday, 6th July, Rampart Social***

//TUESDAY, 30th JUNE, 7PM AND EVERY TUESDAY///

CINEMA LIBRE

Cinema Libre is a chance for people to meet up and discuss their perspectives and share and learn from others in an informal environment. Discussion is open, and we always look forward to all contributions. Each week we bring you a selection of shorts and feature documentaries in an attempt to flesh out the issues and explore the solutions and action needed.

Remember its still all free so your support is the only currency worth anything and our in-action the only deficit worth worrying about.

//FRIDAY 3RD JULY, 6PM///

RADICAL THEORY READING GROUP

Reading will be from Frederick Engels’ On the Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State, Chapter 2, ‘The Family’. Read part 4, ‘The Monogamous Family’ or the whole chapter if you have time. Full text here http://www.scribd.com/doc/4068357/Engels-The-Origin-of-the-Family-Private-Property-and-the-State and here http://libcom.org/book/export/html/1145.

//SATURDAY 4TH JULY, 8PM – LATE///

BEHIND BARS XV “TRANNY-PUNK-HO-DOWN MEETS PUNX PICNIC AFTERHOURS

Benefit Supporting Kaos GL and Pembe Hayat. Kaos GL was first established in 1994. Most of its members were and still are queer political activists with backgrounds in the Turkish anarchist, feminist and anti-military movements. Kaos GL as a collective started publishing a zine by the same name, which became Turkeys first LGBT magazine. Over the years they graduated from a photocopied zine to a more glossy professional looking periodical, partly thanks to their first ever computer which was purchased with money raised in London by the old Queeruption / La-Di-Dah network. Pembe Hayat, which means “Pink Life in English, was formed later, in response to attacks on the transgender sexworker community in the Ankara suburb of Eryaman in 2006. At that time there were a series of well organised attacks, involving gangs of up to fifty people on transwomen sexworkers both in the streets and on the house where they lived. It was suspected that these gangs were connected with the developers who were trying to make the area more respectable.

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//OTHER UPCOMING EVENTS AT RAMPART///

/*/ MONDAY 6TH JULY 8pm – 11pm /*/*/

RAMPART SOCIAL

After the Rampart meeting we’re having a social evening to be able to relax and spend time with our visitors. Come along and catch up with the collective, tell us what you have been up to…

/*/SATURDAY 11TH JULY 7pm – 2am/*/*/

THE GREAT COLLABORATION EXPERIMENT

Live Painting! Live Music! Live Performance!
Featuring> Sculpture/Graffiti/Cartoons/Tripped-out Colours/Far-out Sounds/Balloons & Clowns!!

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<* AT THE LIBRARY HOUSE *>

52 Knatchbull road (entrance on Burton rd, behind Minet library) SE5 9QY. Nearest tubes : Brixton, Oval, Kennington.
Nearest train : Loughborough junction.
Nearest buses : P5 or Brixton road (3/N3, 59, 133/N133, 159/N159, 415. stop: loughborough road)

Check The Library House Website : http://thelibraryhouse.wordpress.com The Library House is a social center in Brixton Camberwell
Contact us if you want to be on our mailing list and be informed about the events there :) libraryhouse..at..lists.riseup.net

**THIS WEEK (29TH JUNE – 5TH JULY) AT THE LIBRARY HOUSE**

==Tuesday 30th 8pm==
*Weekly Collective meeting*
This is a good chance to talk to the collective if you want to have an event in the space or to find out more about getting involved there.

==Wednesday 1st of July 8pm onwards==
*Summer Cinema Libre*
From now on the cafes on wednesdays in the Library House will be a little bit different. Its getting summery and so its light outside till late. We will serve snacks (cakes, salads or whatever) but no complete meals anymore. So come at 8pm for snacks and films to the Library House! PLEASE CHECK THE WEBSITE, THERE MIGHT BE SLIGHT CHANCE WE HAVE TO CANCEL THE MOVIES, THERE WILL BE SNACKS, TEA AND TALKS ANYWAY SO FEEL WELCOME!!

==Thursday 2nd 7-9pm==
*Capoeira*
We are a group of people sharing and learning some capoeira. We want to have fun while finding our roots. If the weather is nice, we should go in the park. We usually practice movements, make a rodinha and play live music. We have all we need: good mood, a lot of energy and willingness to learn. Sessions are free, and you are more than welcome to join us!

*Film-making-lessons Coming Soon*
A great filmmaker who is working on a film about activism around the olympics is offering filmmaking-lessons. Itll will be 3-week course starting in about 3 weeks. He will teach in sessions of aprox. 2 hours and the classes will be about script writing, film ananlysis, directing, production and more. The only thing we need is at least 4 people to follow the 3-week course. So mail us back to devote your life to filmmaking :) and well let you know very soon if the course will go on. Subscribe now!! Love and spread it!

**<<== Belgrade Road social centre ==>>**

2a Belgrade Road, Dalston.
Belgrade road is a newly opened social space in dalston/stoke newington. It is collectively run and open to the public.
http://belgraderoad.wordpress.com/

REGULAR EVENTS
*Tuesdays 7.30pm // life drawing*
naked narcisistic anarchists require people to draw us
*Thursdays 1-5pm // bike workshop*
Tools and skills available to help you fix/build/pimp your bike *Mondays 11am-2pm // Free English classes for beginners*
everyone is welcome, tea and coffee will be provided. contact: 07928102817 alisisalisis@hotmail.com
*Sundays from 5pm onwards // Cafe*
Veggie and vegan food on donation, films, nice peeps

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//INTRODUCTION TO POLISH LANGUAGE AND CULTURE///

Tuesday 30th June, 7pm – 9pm at Pogo Cafe
76a Clarence Rd
E5 8HB Hackney

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//THE LATIN AMERICAN COORDINADORA IN LONDON IS CALLING TO EMERGENCY PICKETS IN LONDON TO PROTEST THE HONDURAN COUP DÉTAT///

5pm Tuesday June 30 Honduran Embassy
115 Gloucester Place, London W1U 6JT (nearest Tube: Baker Street or Paddington)

4h30pm Friday 3 July USA Embassy
24 Grosvenor Square, London W1A 1AE (Tube: Bond Street/Marble Arch)

In the early hours of Sunday June 28, a group of soldiers seized the democratically elected president of Honduras Manuel Zelaya at gun-point and took him by plane to Costa Rica. A new president was sworn in, while the army decreed a curfew, tanks patrolled the streets, the government TV channel was taken off the air and a list was issued of social movement leaders to be arrested.

The trigger for the coup was an attempt by Zelaya to call a Constituent Assembly in order to reform the country’s constitution. Zelaya’s government had carried out a whole series of progressive reforms in the fields of education and health care, breaking the monopoly of the multinationals in the pharmaceutical and oil sector and boosting the minimum wage by 60% and had the support of the majority of workers, peasants and the poor. His government brought Honduras into the ALBA regional bloc, aligning itself with the progressive governments of Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, Cuba, Nicaragua and others, whose leaders are holding an emergency summit in Managua to reverse the coup.

The masses have come out on the streets and are striking to reject this coup. We give them our full support and demand that the British government backs Zelaya as the only legitimate president of Honduras and acts to bring about the immediate restoration of constitutional order.

Down with the reactionary coup!
Bring back Zelaya!
Solidarity with the people of Honduras!

Called by the Co-ordinadora Latinoamericana (Hands Off Venezuela, Bolivia Solidarity Campaign, Colombia Solidarity Campaign, Ecuadorian Movement in the UK, Latin American Workers Association and Polo Democratico UK) and supported by Colectivo Acuerdo Humanitario, Venezuela Solidarity Campaign and Unite London and Eastern region.

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//WHAT THE OTHER FEMINISTS LOOK LIKE…///

On Tuesday 30th June
Paying a visit to Harriet Harman, Southwark Townhall (5pm), followed by film showing (6.30pm) at Studio 96, The Galleria, Pennack Road, SE16 6PW

An evening of making trouble, sharing ideas and planning ways for women to fight back against the crisis, hosted by Feminist Fightback. All genders welcome!
This is a fundraiser for Lambeth Womens Project
www.lambethwomen.wordpress.com

Harriet Harman, Minister for Women, thinks that a feminist response to the recession would be to place more women in top city jobs, putting them in charge of the banks. Meanwhile Harman supports the Welfare Reform Bill, which proposes to introduce US-style workfare practices, forcing mothers of young children into minimum wage jobs or risk losing their benefits. Harriet Harman likes to talk up her feminist credentials, but what kind of feminist only looks out for the interests of rich women during times of economic crisis? In fact, Harman has a long track record of selling out the majority of women she claims to represent most recently playing a key role in blocking a Bill to legalise abortion in Northern Ireland. If this is how the Minister for Women is going to act on our behalf, then we can do without her!

Fortunately, Harriet Harmans feminism isnt the only kind on offer. Many women in London are organising to resist the iniquities of capitalism from the parents occupying Lewisham Bridge Primary School to protest against its privatisation; to hostel residents demanding decent housing in Hackney; to the Visteon workers who occupied their factory and finally won their redundancy. Feminist Fightback has also been organising grass roots resistance to some of Harmans biggest sell-outs during her time as Minister for Women occupying the Department for Work and Pensions in protest against the Welfare Reform Bill, and taking direct action in solidarity with Northern Irish women who continue to be denied the right to control their own bodies.

Feminist Fightback invites you to join us outside Southwark Town Hall to show Harriet Harman that women have been fighting back in ways very different to those she proposes. Well be decorating the Town Hall, sending message to Harman in a variety of ‘creative’ ways, and inviting our Minister for Women to come out and take a look!

This will be followed by a film showing introducing a number of women-led struggles taking place at the moment. We want this to be an opportunity to find out whats going on in London; to make links with other womens groups; and to find inspiration for how we can act collectively to take control of our workplaces, our communities and our lives. To find out more email feminist.fightback@gmail.com, call 07976 274516 or come along to our next planning meeting, Wednesday 10 June, 6.30pm at the Highbury Roundhouse, 71 Ronald’s Road, N5 (nearest tube: Highbury and Islington). Contact email: feminist.fightback@gmail,com

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//UNITED STRIKE ACTION AT LONDON MET UNI, 2ND JULY///

* UNISON members vote 71% in favour of strike action
* UCU members to take further strike action in coordination with UNISON * 2nd July set for combined union day of action
* Pickets all morning set to close down London Met Uni for a day * Rally at Lunchtime (with this space for details)

One of the main strengths of our campaign to save jobs and defend education at London Met is that we have been united from the start. When UCU took strike action in May UNISON stood shoulder-to-shoulder with them and provided the maximum amount of solidarity we legally could pending our own industrial action ballot. And when students occupied their department bulding over course closures, both UCU and UNISON supported their legitimate protest. UNISON members have now overwhelmingly (over 71%) voted for industrial action and have announced to members that they will be taking strike action on Thursday July 2nd.
As a result of that decision, and in line with UCU’s ballot mandate, and the position unanimously passed at recent UCU members meetings, UCU notified management that their members will join UNISON colleagues. They we will also be taking strike action on Thursday 2nd July (see UCU press relesae). UNISON and UCU have chosen this date to avoid hitting student assessment in order to enable our students to join us. Please urge your students to support our strike, to join us in collecting signatures outside the main doors of most buildings and to participate in our rally at lunchtime on Thursday (details to follow).
Please also bear in mind that to be effective, we need to make as much noise as possible. We need members outside each entrance all morning and at the rally at lunchtime.
Please pass this on to your union contacts, to your friends and family and urge them to join us and show solidarity with our strike. Our fight is your fight. Contacts us via UCU or UNISON, and come to our pickets and rally on Thursday to show your support. See further updates and reports here:
http://savelondonmetuni.blogspot.com/

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//SOLIDARITY WITH MINGA OF INDIGENOUS AND POPULAR RESISTANCE///

COLOMBIA SOLIDARITY CAMPAIGN 10am 5.30pm 4th July 2009
Free entry
School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), Brunei Building, Thornhaugh St, London WC1

Current situation in Colombia and Britain
The Minga of Indigenous and Popular Resistance

My very wise father used to say when we have to cry we will do it together, together we will feel the pain, we dont cry like cowards, we resist Aida Quilcue, Interview April 2009

Aida Quilcue, former Councillor of the CRI (Consejo Regional Indígena de Cauca) and spokeswomen of The Minga of Indigenous and Popular resistance has been victim of the Colombian State more than once. On 16th December 2008 her husband, Edwin Legarda, was assassinated by the Colombian armed forces – a crime that remains unpunished, as do many other human rights violations in a country in which impunity reigns. On 12th May 2009 Aidas 12 year old daughter narrowly escaped an attack by four armed gunmen who lay in wait outside their home.

This has not prevented Aida from going on with the fight and resistance of the indigenous people, participating actively in the Minga and fighting against impunity and power abuses. Today she is being persecuted again, at the beginning of June the public prosecutor’s office issued an arrest warrant against her and other indigenous leaders. The charges: having carried out a process within the Especial Indigenous Jurisdiction against a member of the armed forces that has infiltrated in The Minga illegally. This jurisdiction is recognised by the Colombian constitution and the process has been carried out legally and publicly. The arrest warrant prevents her leaving the country and therefore she was not able to come to the UK to bring her message in a visit that was already scheduled.

We want to transmit Aidas message – the authorities can stop persons, but they cannot stop our voices!

PROGRAMME Saturday 4th July, SOAS

9.30am Registration

10am – 1pm Introduction
Colombian social movements vs Uribes ever more reactionary project Speakers: Carlos Cruz (Polo Democrático UK)
Andy Higginbottom (Colombia Solidarity Campaign)
Javier Sánchez (CaisMaloka)

Battles facing the Colombian and Latin American community
Speakers: Einstein Durango (sacked union activist)

Family member of John Freddy Suarez Santander (campaign against deportation).

1pm – 2pm Lunch Break

2pm 5pm The Minga, Indigenous and Popular Resistance
Film clips of Minga and video message from Aida Quilcue

Indigenous Resistance in the Andes and Amazon – Themes
Speakers: G. Saavedra: on the indigenous movement in Colombia; Bolivia Solidarity Campaign; Movement of Ecuadoreans in the UK; Sofia Buchuk Peruvian cultural activist

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//ANTONY FREY MEMORIAL BBQ ::: SATURDAY 4 JULY///

As peope are aware Antony died tragically while on a climbing expedition in the Alps August of last year. He was a friend to many, anti-fascist, comrade and an active part of london’s political scene. There will be an unveiling on a plaque on frontage of Freedom Bookshop in Antony’s memory followed by celebratory BBQ and drink refeshments. Everyone welcome. Please forward to any who may have known him, or would wish to attend.

Antony’s Memorial Plaque Unveiling
Saturday 4th July
2-7pm (unveiling at 2.30pm)
Freedom Bookshop
Angel Alley
84b Whitchapel High Street
London E1 7QX
(Alley right by KFC next to Whitechapel Art Gallery)
map:http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?X=533981&Y=181438&A=Y&Z=110 Nearest Tube: Algate East
(There is also a page tribute to Antony in the latest copy of Freedom newspaper)

This week, we’re inspired by the news that cameras are potentially lethal weapons after West Yorkshire police remanded members of Fitwatch in custody on the grounds that they considered themselves in danger of ‘physical or mental injury’. Next Freeschool will be dedicated to honing our photography skills. Workshops will be offered in Pointing and Shooting, Effective Framing and Dodging and Burning. Donations of suitable equipment urgently required (Hasselblads preferred). Meanwhile, back at the darkroom…

Thursday cafe this week moves up to the roof. We’re taking advantage of the good weather and inviting suggestions for plugging the holes before it rains again.

And, in other news:
An eviction notice has been served on the occupation at Lewisham Bridge.

–- Bailiffs are arriving at 10.30 on Wednesday morning, Callout for people to stay overnight –

Hands Off Lewisham Bridge are asking for your support in resisting the eviction. We need as many people as possible to stay overnight on Tuesday. If you can’t stay overnight then please come down as early as possible on Wednesday morning to support the occupation.

We want to let Lewisham Council know that they are evicting people who have been peacefully protesting over the destruction of community education at our school.

Lewisham Council still don’t have planning permission for their new school. Lewisham Council still haven’t told us why the decant had to take place at Easter, when children were taking SATs and banding tests. Lewisham Council still haven’t told us why they are prepared to wash their hands of the responsibility of educating our children.

If Lewisham Bridge Primary School is given to Leathersellers we parents will have no say in the governance of our school. Staff will be employed by Leathersellers who will set their own terms and conditions taking those teachers out of a collective national teaching body.

This is privatisation! This is bringing the market into our kids’ education, where the only motivation is profit and the only measure is league tables and headcount. Competition will be the name of the game.
Trusts and academies will compete for those children they believe to be desirable and leave those whom they don’t on the scrapheap. Why have Prendergast rejected the Travellers Education Service that used to be based at the school? Why have Prendergast rejected the proposal to establish a SEN unit at the new school?

A consultation process has already started for a trust led by Goldsmiths University which will govern 3 schools: Addey & Stanhope, Deptford Green and Crossways. It is a process that has exactly the same goal. To take our schools out of the public sector and hand them over to the private sector.

We cannot let them get away with this. We can fight this together and we can win!

Come down to Lewisham Bridge Primary School and let the bailiffs know that we’re not going easily.

Hands Off Lewisham Bridge
07946 541 331

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// Calais No Border Camp < 23 – 29 juin / june 2009 > ///

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The Calais No Border camp is a joint venture between French and Belgian activists and migrant support groups and the UK No Borders Network. It aims to highlight the realities of the situation in Calais and Northern France; to build links with the migrant communities; to help build links between migrants support groups ; and lastly, but not least, to challenge the authorities on the ground, to protest against increased repression of migrants and local activists alike.

This camp calls for the freedom of movement for all, an end to borders and to all migration controls. We call for a radical movement against the systems of control, dividing us into citizens and non-citizens, into the documented and the undocumented.

We are included in the No Border Camps’ ‘tradition’, set up in the whole world since 15 years – Strasbourg 2002, Gatwick 2007, at the US-Mexican border or in Ukraine in 2007 and we are linked to the August ‘09 No Border Camp in Lesvos … Everyone is invited to join the camp to discuss about the borders and freedom of movement issues, to imagine and take part into symbolical actions, to live together collectively with the migrants of Calais and the activists and to demonstrate on the 27th of June !

http://calaisnoborder.eu.org/
http://calaisnoborder.eu.org/taxonomy/term/2

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***Tuesday, 23rd June, Cinema Libre*** ***Thursday 25th June, rampART ‘Fixing the Roof’ Cafe***
***Monday 29th June, Rampart Social***
***Friday 3rd July, Radical Theory Reading Group***

//TUESDAY, 16th JUNE, 7PM AND EVERY TUESDAY///

CINEMA LIBRE

Cinema Libre is a chance for people to meet up and discuss their perspectives and share and learn from others in an informal environment. Discussion is open, and we always look forward to all contributions. Each week we bring you a selection of shorts and feature documentaries in an attempt to flesh out the issues and explore the solutions and action needed.

Remember its still all free so your support is the only currency worth anything and our in-action the only deficit worth worrying about.

//THURSDAY, 25th JUNE, 7PM///

RAMPART ‘FIXING THE ROOF’ BBQ

We’re fixing a hole where the rain gets in and stops our minds from wandering…. Food by Lucy and Shadi.

//MONDAY 29th JUNE, 8pm – 11pm ///

Rampart Social

After the Rampart meeting have a social evening to be able to relax and spend time with our visitors. Come along and catch up with the collective, tell us what you have been up to.

//FRIDAY, 3rd JULY, 6PM///

RADICAL THEORY READING GROUP

Reminder that next reading group will be FRIDAY 3RD JULY. We’ll be in the usual place (rampart.co.nr), in the Library at the usual time (6pm). Reading will be from Frederick Engels’ On the Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State, Chapter 2, ‘The Family’. Read part 4, ‘The Monogamous Family’ or the whole chapter if you have time. Full text here
http://www.scribd.com/doc/4068357/Engels-The-Origin-of-the-Family-Private-Property-and-the-State and here http://libcom.org/book/export/html/1145.

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<* AT THE LIBRARY HOUSE *>
52 Knatchbull road (entrance on Burton rd, behind Minet library) SE5 9QY.
Nearest tubes : Brixton, Oval, Kennington.
Nearest train : Loughborough junction.
Nearest buses : P5 or Brixton road (3/N3, 59, 133/N133, 159/N159, 415.
stop: loughborough road)

Check The Library House Website : http://thelibraryhouse.wordpress.com

The Library House is a social center in Brixton Camberwell
Contact us if you want to be on our mailing list and be informed about the events there :)
libraryhouse..at..lists.riseup.net

Cinema Libre had a little break as we had the queer-cafe last week..
But this week Cinema Libre is totally back with a compilation of interesting, funny and delicious political porn as usual ;)

There will be something to snack with the films and hot and (hopefully) cold drinks as (almost) usually :)

Come all and bringe friends, love & rage!
thelibraryhouse

**<<== Belgrade Road social centre ==>>**

2a Belgrade Road, Dalston.
Belgrade road is a newly opened social space in dalston/stoke newington.
It is collectively run and open to the public.
http://belgraderoad.wordpress.com/
REGULAR EVENTS
*Tuesdays 7.30pm // life drawing*
naked narcisistic anarchists require people to draw us.
*Thursdays 1-5pm // bike workshop*
Tools and skills available to help you fix/build/pimp your bike
*Mondays 11am-2pm // Free English classes for beginners*
everyone is welcome, tea and coffee will be provided. contact: 07928102817
alisisalisis@hotmail.com
*Sundays from 5pm onwards // Cafe*
Veggie and vegan food on donation, films, nice peeps…

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// RADICAL INCURSIONS ///

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Free Symposium on squatting, autonomous occupations and the Slack Space Movement. All Welcome! Get Involved! Please Forward!

12 Noon – 7pm
25th June, 2009

Innovation Centre Gallery
Central St Martins College of Art and Design
Southampton Row
WC1B 4AP

Entrance at Proctor Street, opposite Red Lion Square.

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=WC1B+4AP&sll=53.956086,-4.042969&sspn=13.160761,39.550781&ie=UTF8&ll=51.519612,-0.117052&spn=0.006783,0.019312&z=16

No Booking Required: Entrance Free
enquiries: radical.incursions@gmail.com

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// BBQ for Spitalfields Fair ///

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This SUNDAY – Public Meeting / BBQ for Spitalfields Fair.
4pm (For 4:30 start) to discuss Fair followed by BBQ at 5:30/6pm.
Freedom Bookshop 84b Whitechapel High Street E1 7QX

SUNDAY 26TH JULY 12 NOON
“Roll up, Roll up! Whitechapel Anarchist Group cordially invite you to the 2009 Spitalfields Fair on Sunday 26 July 12 Noon, in Allen Gardens – reviving the rebellious spirit of long prohibited East End carnivals. Jump on board and get involved assistance from running a stall, dressing up, making food, painting faces, building old school fair games etc etc. Let your imaginations run wild. And help make it happen.

For UPDATES:
http://whitechapelanarchistgroup.wordpress.com/
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=116581883218#wall_posts

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// CALLING ALL BIKE PUNKS! The 56a Bike Room needs fresh blood! ///

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Ask not what your Infoshop can do for you, but what you can do for your infoshop…

The Bike Room at the 56a Infoshop needs volunteers to come and hang out, drink tea, share their bike skillz and learn some new ones.

We’re a collective of bike geeks trying to provide a real alternative to bike shops by helping people to fix their own bikes instead of charging them money to do it, and by recycling and scavenging old bicycles and bike parts. We also stock a small amount of essential bits and bobs like cables and inner tubes that we sell at cost price.

But we’d like to do so much more!

The more people there are to help out, the easier it is for everyone who comes here, the more people we can get cycling and the more fun we all have.

If you think you can commit to doing a couple of hours each week then pop down to say hi to one of the volunteers. We’re open 3-7 Weds, 2-8 Thurs, 3-7 Fri and 2-6 Sat and we’re at 56a Crampton Street, SE17 3AE. Come along and we’ll show you around and let you get on with pimping out people’s bikes!

This week, we’re urging activists in Dorset to reclaim the promenade following the news that Bournemouth cops are hiding behind beach huts to catch cyclists breaking the speed limit. Also, congratulations to our bovine comrades for a successful direct action on Saturday and for forcing David Blunkett to admit that ‘even the animals hate us’. We’re inviting the one ton cow that charged him to convene a tactical workshop. Vegans only. Meanwhile, back at the farm…

More News:
// schNEWS Appeal for Support ///

SchMOVIES, the video arm of Brighton direct action network SchNEWS, have been raided by the police and shut down.  All computers, cameras, tapes, phones and contact lists have been taken. They need £500 or replacement cameras and computers to get up and running again.

If you can help out, email reelnews@reelnews.co.uk

// London eco-village occupation ///

Around 70 protesters have occupied an empty plot of land next to Kew Bridge in Brentford, London (TW8 0EW). They’ve set up an eco-village.

This will showcase community based sustainable methods of living such as vegetable growing, compost toilets. They in the process of setting up tents and are cleaning the site of rubbish.

We could do with the more of the following if you are thinking of visiting:
>Big water containers (>10ltrs) >Oil for bolts >Screws, bolts, coach bolts. >Stationary: paper, pens, sticky tape, etc., >Banner making material/paints. >Tarps >String and Rope >Spades shovels and forks >Lots of hose for moving water.

We are at Kew Bridge
Map: http://tinyurl.com/n7ny33
We are located at 2 Kew Bridge Road, Brentford, London.
The nearest tube is Gunnersbury, but the Kew Bridge rail station is really close

We need more people to come help make this a full working village. Please come visit, stay for a day or too or come live forever! All you need is a tent. We have alot of support from the community so it seems like this will be a long lasting project

Site rules include: no dogs, no drugs, no vehicles and only accoustic music please!

Our facebook group is: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=88020757939&ref=ts
or follow us on twitter http://twitter.com/KewEcoVillage
or find more info here: http://london.indymedia.org.uk/articles/1530

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***Tuesday, 9th June, Cinema Libre***
***Wednesday, 10th June, Crunch the Creditors UK tour***
***Thursday 11th June, EU and Fascism on the rise – film night ***
***Friday, 12th June, FIT Watch benefit ***
***Saturday, 13th June, Bass Pressure ***
***Monday, 15th June, Rampart meeting and Social cafe afterwards ***

//TUESDAY, 9TH JUNE, 7PM AND EVERY TUESDAY///

CINEMA LIBRE

Cinema Libre is a chance for people to meet up and discuss their perspectives and share and learn from others in an informal environment. Discussion is open, and we always look forward to all contributions. Each week we bring you a selection of shorts and feature documentaries in an attempt to flesh out the issues and explore the solutions and action needed.

Remember its still all free so your support is the only currency worth anything
and our in-action the only deficit worth worrying about.

//WEDNESDAY, 10TH JUNE///

CRUNCH THE CREDITORS UK TOUR, 2009 COMES TO RAMPART

US Anarchist Hip-Hop Benefit for Whitechapel Anarchist Group
Drowning Dog & DJ Malatesta (Entartete Kunst) – San Francisco – with support from Comrade Malone & Tickin Timebomb John

NatterJack presents:
Go to  http://www.myspace.com/natterjackpromo for links to all acts.
Facebook Event:  http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=91736611672&ref=mf

//THURSDAY, 11TH JUNE, 7PM///

EU and Fascism on the rise – film night

‘It Happened Here’

More information http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Happened_Here
A 1966 British film, set in an alternate history in which Nazi Germany successfully invades and occupies the United Kingdom during World War II.

//FRIDAY, 12TH JUNE, 8PM – late ///

FITWATCH PRESENTS

Benefit for the (soon to be) unemployed
Bands & DJs

Recent events in Brighton proved that the FIT team can be kicked off the streets. Now they are about as useful as a chocolate teapot!
So welcome to the dole queue lads, we will send you a couple of half empty beer cans after the party. Good riddance FIT & don’t come back!

BUT SERIOUSLY FOLKS
FITwatch can have a downside. Blocking cameras can result in assaults by the police and sometimes serious charges. Therefore funding is needed to clear a lot of debt, as well as legal support.
Come along, have a good time and find out more!

Supported by Jobcenter +
fitwatch.blogspot.com

//SATURDAY 13TH JUNE, 9pm – late ///

Bass Pressure

A Night of Jungle, Dubstep n Dancehall

Featuring Rowan (Megabitch Soundsystem) Hobocop (dissidentisland.org) Dj Panjea, KittyKrump, Whalid (infobass.com) & La Etnia (wirelessfm.net)

Excellent night of bass heavy music & conscious visuals. Babylon aint that tuff!
>From 9 til later. Post G20 Benefit. £3 Donation Entry.

//MONDAY 15TH JUNE, 8pm – 11pm ///

Rampart Social cafe

After the Rampart meeting we are having a social cafe to be able to relax and spend time with our visitors. First cafe of what we hope will be a weekly event. Come along and chill with the collective – event proposals not a requirement (though of course welcomed, but try bring it to the meeting if it’s for real!). Food and sunshine will be arranged.

//THURSDAY, 18TH JUNE, 7PM///

PIRATE FILM NIGHT

Pirate Bay copyright cinema night
More info next week.

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<* AT THE LIBRARY HOUSE *>
This week, our special event is a photograph exhibition on saturday 13th at 7pm. K. James took pictures of squats and squatters around London and will be showing them at the Library House.

Summer is coming, and there will probably be some changes at the Library House.
First is the change of shape of our cafe. Wednesday evenings will be less food and more sun: welcome to our Summer Cinema Libre!

Once in a while we will do a special cafe (maybe benefit, special screenings, talks etc) with lots of food but we will let you know on time off course! Contact us if you want to put on a special event on a wednesday!

Kundalini Yoga is over. There might be some random yoga lessons during summer, just keep an eye on the newsletter and the website if you’re interested.

Also, if you interested in more SOMA anarchist therapy workshops (cause you couldn’t make it on the open day!), contact us and we’ll put you in contact with the relevant people  :)

==Tuesday 9th 8pm==
*Weekly Collective meeting*
This is a good chance to talk to the collective if you want to have an event in the space or to find out more about getting involved there.

==Wednesday 10th 8pm onwards==
*Summer Cinema Libre*
>From now on the cafes on wednesdays in the Library House will be a little bit different. It’s getting summery and so its light outside till late. We will serve snacks (cakes, salads or whatever) but no complete meals anymore. So come at 8pm for snacks and films to the Library House!

==Thursday 11th 7-9pm==
*Capoeira*
We are a group of people sharing and learning some capoeira. We want to have fun while finding our roots. If the weather is nice, we should go in the park. We usually practice movements, make a rodinha and play live music. We have all we need: good mood, a lot of energy and willingness to learn. Sessions are free, and you are more than welcome to join us!

==Saturday 13th 7-10pm==
*Blink and you’ll miss it: Squats close up*
New photographs by K. James. K. James presents several groups of images, both black and white and colour, that challenge us to look closer at the people and landscapes of the London squatting scene.

– THE LIBRARY HOUSE 52 Knatchbull road (entrance on Burton rd, behind Minet library) SE5 9QY. Nearest tubes : Brixton, Oval, Kennington. Nearest train : Loughborough junction. Nearest buses : P5 or Brixton road (3/N3, 59, 133/N133, 159/N159, 415. stop: loughborough road) Check The Library House Website : http://thelibraryhouse.wordpress.com

The Library House is a social center in Brixton Camberwell Contact us if you want to be on our mailing list and be informed about the events there libraryhouse..at..lists.riseup.net

**<<== BELGRADE ROAD SOCIAL CENTRE ==>>**
2a Belgrade Road, Dalston.
Belgrade road is a newly opened social space in dalston/stoke newington.
It is collectively run and open to the public.
http://belgraderoad.wordpress.com/

REGULAR EVENTS
*Tuesdays 7.30pm // life drawing*
naked narcisistic anarchists require people to draw us…
*Thursdays 1-5pm // bike workshop*
Tools and skills available to help you fix/build/pimp your bike
*Mondays 11am-2pm // Free English classes for beginners*
everyone is welcome, tea and coffee will be provided. contact: 07928102817
alisisalisis@hotmail.com
*Sundays from 5pm onwards // Cafe*
Veggie and vegan food on donation, films, nice peeps…

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// SPEAK OUT AGAINST RACISM AND DEPORTATIONS ///

Saturday 13 June 2009 12pm noon
Upper St, N1, Outside Angel Station

Open-air rally with speeches from anti-racist groups across London, uniting to take a common stand in defence of migrant workers and asylum seekers.

Please come along and bring speeches, music, chants, literature. Add your voice and help us speak out againt racism.

Public rally outside Angel Tube station, Islington, London N1

‘The message is clear – whether you’re a visa overstayer, a foreign criminal or a failed asylum seeker, the UK Border Agency is determined to track you down and remove you from Britain.’ Home Secretary Jacqui Smith, 18 March 2009

Racism is the form which national oppression takes within an imperialist country like Britain. Imperialist nations brutally exploit and impoverish oppressed nations, justifying their plunder and wars on the basis that people in these countries are inferior or have brought their oppression on themselves. They then use immigration laws to keep out people fleeing from the resulting war and poverty. The British working class is encouraged to see immigrants as the cause of its problems rather than capitalism. State racism and divide-and-rule government tactics are creating a fertile recruiting ground for overtly racist parties like the British National Party.

As Britain’s capitalist crisis increases its hold, the Labour government is stepping up its offensive against migrants and state racism is on the rise.

• Immigration detention capacity has increased from just 250 spaces in 1993 to 3,038 spaces with plans in the pipeline to increase the detention estate by 60% by 2012. Foreign nationals in criminal prisons are currently being moved into designated ‘ghetto’ prisons.
• In November 2008, Immigration Minister Phil Woolas boasted that the government is deporting immigrants at a rate of one every eight minutes. It is making increasing use of charter flight mass deportations.
• Ten years after the McPherson Inquiry into the death of Stephen Lawrence branded the Metropolitan Police ‘institutionally racist’, black people are still seven times more likely to be stopped and searched than white people are.
• Anti-terrorism laws are being indiscriminately used to round up Muslim and Asian people and criminalise their communities. On 8 April 12 innocent Pakistani students were arrested on the pretext they were planning a bombing campaign. When it became apparent they were innocent they were handed over to the Borders Agency to be detained pending deportation.
So just as the Home Secretary’s message is clear, ours must be too.

NO DETENTION! NO DEPORTATIONS! NO TO STATE RACISM!
SUPPORT ASYLUM SEEKERS AND MIGRANT WORKERS!

// LONDON NAKED BIKE RIDE ///

Saturday June 13, 2009 from 3:00pm – 5:30pm
Hyde Park
London, England

On Saturday 13 June 2009 the sixth London Naked Bike Ride will return to the streets of the capital, allowing riders to see the city sights from the comfort of a bike or skates. The ride is easy and upbeat, and riders decorate their bodies and bikes with messages of protest against oil dependency and car culture.

Time: 3pm assembly (for 3.30pm departure)
Location: South-east corner of Hyde Park, by the Achilles statue, near Hyde Park Corner.

There’s a Facebook Event here: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=81590177505

Or see:
see http://www.worldnakedbikeride.org/uk/ and
http://wiki.worldnakedbikeride.org/wiki/London for detailed info.

2009 will be the sixth year of London’s participation in the World Naked Bike Ride. Numbers of riders have risen each year – 2004 had 58 riders in Hyde Park, 2005 had 250 riders in the central London streets, 2006 had 800, and 2007 and 2008 had 1,000.

Every year, in cities around the world, people will be riding naked to celebrate cycling and the human body. The ride demonstrates the vulnerability of cyclists on the road and is a protest against oil dependency.

Be there, as bare as you dare!

Website: http://www.worldnakedbikeride.org/uk/london

// ISBO present: ‘THE BOTTOM WILL RISE AND CREATE A NEW WORLD’ ///

Saturday 13th June – 5pm

The International School for Bottom-up Organizing (ISBO) launch their first book, sharing their work in training Revolutionary Organizers, creating and supporting radical grassroots projects across the Americas, and building powerful relationships of solidarity. From a rural Social Action Research Centre and Palenques in Colombia, to the poor Black community of the Lower Ninth Ward in post-Katrina New Orleans, ISBO is organizing and seeking out radical folk passionate and deeply committed to creating a new world from the Bottom Up!

A founding statement by the ISBO puts it thus: “Ours is an international struggle that must be led by the poorest and darkest, especially women. We all need the same freedom and equality; we all have the same oppressors, worldwide. Our movement will work toward an internationalist, egalitarian world. We foresee a world in which the genius and creativity of humanity is unleashed, in which all humans share and share alike, whether in starvation or in plenty: in which we are free to love and truly take care of one another.”

This evening London-based members of ISBO will be discussing their work and launching their first book ‘The Bottom Will Rise and Create a New World’.

Housmans Bookshop, 5 Caledonian Road, King’s Cross, London N1 9DX
Tel: 020 7837 4473
Free entry

// MERCHANTS OF DEATH FREE WALKING TOUR ///

Sunday 14 June 2009, 3PM

Meet at Clock Tower/Little Ben, outside Victoria Station, opposite the Palace Theatre where Billy Eliiot is showing

London Campaign Against Arms Trade will take you on a tour of arms companies in central London. Discover which company has the Pentagon’s biggest private security contracts in Iraq, which company has been investigated for alleged corruption in six countries, which company was contracted by the RAF to test and service cluster bombs and much more.

Contact email: londoncaat@riseup.net

// FULL UNEMPLOYMENT CINEMA AT 56a ///

Yes, our rolling free film programme continues this month with 56a presentation of a recently made fil about Lucio, an anarchist bankrobber, kidnapper and bricklayer. Full Unemployment Cinema also present Pitfall, a marvellous 1960’s Japanese classic.

- TUESDAY 16th June 7.30pm: ‘Lucio’ (2007)

‘Urtubia Lucio has devoted his entire life to anarchism. He collaborated with Che Guevara, robbed Citibank of 3,000 million pesetas, has been involved in notorious kidnapping … all without missing a day at his job as a bricklayer.’
http://www.moriarti.com/lucio.html

- SUNDAY 21st June 5pm: (Changed from earlier advertised 3pm!!)
Full Unemployment Cinema at 56a – ‘PITFALL’, Hiroshi Teshigahara (1962)

Based on the experimental fiction of postwar novelist Kobo Abe, Pitfall is a haunting, spare, and elemental, yet surreal and atmospheric portrait of alienation. Teshigahara weaves actual footage of coal miners and their hungry and desperate families into Pitfall to establish his sympathy for the workers, but do not expect a neo-realist call to arms.

http://unemployedcinema.blogspot.com/2009/05/junes-film-screening.html

Free. All Welcome

56a Infoshop, 56 Crampton St, London, SE17 3AE

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// FREESCHOOL ON HOUSING, SQUATTING & GENTRIFICATION ///

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Location to be confirmed…
19th – 21st June 2009

A weekend of free workshops, discussions and skillsharing focusing on issues relating to housing and squatting is being planned for mid-June. The London FreeSchool will be occupying an empty building for the weekend. This is an open project for people to come and get involved in creating a new space from the beginning. It will hopefully include workshops relating to opening/fixing squats, housing rights and gentrification.

For this to be successful we need people… So, if you are skilled in the art of lockpicking, enjoy fixing toilets, have loads of knowledge relating to housing co-ops or anything else that is vaguely relevant that you wish to share we would love to hear from you!

London FreeSchool aims to confront the hierachy 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 so come get involved…

Check the website http://londonfreeschool.wordpress.com
Email deschooling_society [at] lists [dot] riseup [dot] net
or text ‘freeschool’ to 07905 774 037
for more information including the location which should be announced on the 19th!

Contact email: deschooling_society [at] lists [dot] riseup [dot] net

This week, we’re extending thanks to President Barack Obama for informing us that computers are ‘weapons of mass destruction’. ‘A few key strokes’, apparently, could bring down the white house and ’seriously damage’ the US corporate infrastructure. Unfortunately, he neglected to tell us which ones. rampART’s team of volunteer monkeys will be on to it as soon as they’ve finished the complete works of Shakespeare. Meanwhile, back at the hacklab….

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***Tuesday, 2nd June, Cinema Libre***

***Thursday 4th June, rampART Cafe, Commemorating Tiananmen Square***

***Friday, 5th June, Toys ‘R’ Noise Industrial Electronic Night***

***Saturday, 6th June, Crossing Channels IV: A benefit for the Calais Noborders Camp***

//TUESDAY, 2nd JUNE, 7PM AND EVERY TUESDAY///

CINEMA LIBRE

Cinema Libre is a chance for people to meet up and discuss their perspectives and share and learn from others in an informal environment. Discussion is open, and we always look forward to all contributions. Each week we bring you a selection of shorts and feature documentaries in an attempt to flesh out the issues and explore the solutions and action needed.

Remember its still all free so your support is the only currency worth anything and our in-action the only deficit worth worrying about.

//THURSDAY, 4TH JUNE, 7PM///

RAMPART CAFE

Commemorating the 20th anniversary of the events in Tiananmen Square. Films, food and discussion.

//FRIDAY, 5th JUNE, 8pm – Late///

TOYS ‘R’ NOISE INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONIC NIGHT

Toys ‘R’ Noise – circuit bending burning speakers; Ambitek – mix; DJNee – outrageous electroclash; Branchu Nature Brute & Ventoline – schisosopheric video act;Vaisso – mutant turntable mix. Donations on door.

//SATURDAY 6TH JUNE, 8pm – 2am///

CROSSING CHANNELS IV:

A benefit for the Calais No Border camp Featuring live bands: * The Severed Limb – skiffle [http://myspace.com/theseveredlimb] * Captain of the Rant – acapella/punk/lyrical [http://myspace.com/captainoftherantpoetry] Plus DJs: * Sduk + cntrst- tropical/electro/dub [http://myspace.com/cntrst] PLUS MORE ACTS TBC! Suggested donation: £5 Refreshments available All monies raised go towards the No Border Camp in Calais, 23rd-29th June, 2009

http://london.noborders.org.uk

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//OTHER UPCOMING EVENTS AT RAMPART///

//WEDNESDAY, 10TH JUNE///

CRUNCH THE CREDITORS UK TOUR, 2009 COMES TO RAMPART

US Anarchist Hip-Hop Benefit for Whitechapel Anarchist Group

Drowning Dog & DJ Malatesta (Entartete Kunst) – San Francisco – with support from Comrade Malone & Tickin Timebomb John

//FRIDAY, 12TH JUNE///

BENEFIT FOR FITWATCH

—- details in next week’s newsletter —–

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<* AT THE LIBRARY HOUSE *>

52 Knatchbull road (entrance on Burton rd, behind Minet library) SE5 9QY. Nearest tubes : Brixton, Oval, Kennington. Nearest train : Loughborough junction. Nearest buses : P5 or Brixton road (3/N3, 59, 133/N133, 159/N159, 415. stop: loughborough road)

Check The Library House Website : http://thelibraryhouse.wordpress.com

The Library House is a social center in Brixton Camberwell Contact us if you want to be on our mailing list and be informed about the events there :) ibraryhouse..at..lists.riseup.net

**THIS WEEK (1st – 6th JUNE) AT THE LIBRARY HOUSE**

Excellent news, we have the date for our next court case: 14th of August 2009! So we’re here for another few months!! When you think that the whole eviction process started at the end of february… So we’re here, summer is coming, come gardening with us, get involved in the collective and dont hesitate to propose events! :)

==Monday 1st 6.30-8pm== *Kundalini Yoga 6-week course* Last session today… Kundalini Yoga returns to The Library House for six weeks only. The theme is vitality, Working with breath movement, mantra and meditation we will tap into our infinite energetic reserves and release old debilitating energy. Donations appreciated. Wear loose comfy clothing and bring water and a blanket or something warm to cover you; to relax in. If the weathers nice we’ll be outdoors. Contact Laura 07779 284527 for more details.

==Tuesday 2nd 6.30pm== *Fired Up Queers meeting* Next meeting of Fired Up Queers (formerly unnamed london queer activist group…) will be Tuesday June 2nd at 7.30pm at the Library House in Brixton. Possible topics under dicussion: – queer contingent for Calais No Border Camp – pride 4th July – follow on from bristol and leeds gatherings

==Tuesday 2nd 8pm== *Weekly Collective meeting* This is a good chance to talk to the collective if you want to have an event in the space or to find out more about getting involved there.

==Wednesday 3rd 6pm onwards== *Cafe Marie and Cinema Libre* The weekly cafe starts around 6pm with lovingly cooked vegan food and access to the free shop. Friendly folks get together to chat before the films from Cinema Libre at 8pm. Expect a clever mix of political and current event shorts or similarly themed documentaries for most nights. Discussions between films, as well.

==Thursday 4th 7-9pm== *Capoeira* We are a group of people sharing and learning some capoeira. We want to have fun while finding our roots. If the weather is nice, we should go in the park. We usually practice movements, make a rodinha and play live music. We have all we need: good mood, a lot of energy and willingness to learn. Sessions are free, and you are more than welcome to join us!

**<<== Belgrade Road social centre ==>>**

2a Belgrade Road, Dalston. Belgrade road is a newly opened social space in dalston/stoke newington. It is collectively run and open to the public.

REGULAR EVENTS *Tuesdays 7.30pm // life drawing* naked narcisistic anarchists require people to draw us. *Thursdays 1-5pm // bike workshop* Tools and skills available to help you fix/build/pimp your bike *Mondays 11am-2pm // Free English classes for beginners* everyone is welcome, tea and coffee will be provided. contact: 07928102817 alisisalisis@hotmail.com *Sundays from 5pm onwards // Cafe* – veggie and vegan food on donation – films – nice peeps hopefully will become a weekly event.

SPECIAL EVENT

*Saturday 6th June 7pm // Resistance to the 2010 Canadian olympics*

This saturday the 6th of June at 7pm 2a Belgrade road will be hosting a meeting and discussion on resistance to the 2010 Canadian olympics. Hope to see a few of you there. Social War is Everywhere – No 2010 Olympics on Stolen Land. The “Bosses Grand Idea,” the Olympics, aptly termed by Greek anarchists in the time leading up to the 2004 Athens Olympics, is coming to Vancouver in 2010. We say it is already here. Before winning the Olympic bid in 2003, urban development, tourism and resource exploitation were heavily promoted as a way to sell BC on an international level. Not just an event, the Olympics functions to market this land, through ski resorts, mining, shipping ports, highways and security; to catalyze and secure the projects of the bosses. The Olympics serves to enforce projects of exploitation and social control across British Columbia that will, in many cases, integrate and bolster capitalist infrastructure internationally. Initially, anarchists in British Columbia, were inspired to participate in anti-Olympics efforts by the ongoing indigenous resistance to ski-resorts and development, destroying land and ways of life. By continuing in long-term pre-existing struggles, indigenous resistance is at the forefront of the anti-Olympics fight.

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//CLIMATE RUSH PEDAL POWER///

MONDAY 1ST JUNE, 5PM

…A GOOD OLD-FASHIONED START-OF-SUMMER BIKE RIDE!

On Monday 1st June the UK Parliament returns from recess for the summer sitting. We want to give them a warm welcome and remind them of the heat they can expect if they continue to ignore climate change.

Ed Miliband (Secretary of State Energy and Climate Change) is in Bonn that evening, discussing with other ‘world leaders’ the agenda for the UN Climate Summit in Copenhagen. Let’s give our ‘leaders’ a taste of the civil disobedience they can expect if real climate justice fails to materialise.

It is also the first evening of a coal conference at the illustrious ‘Chatham House’. Everyone who’s anyone, at least in the coal world, will be there.

We’ll begin our bike-ride outside their conference before winding our way through town.

Meet us from 5pm on St James Square, SW1Y 4LE. We’ll then move off at 6pm and take our bikes for a relaxed tour through London. Labour might think that investing in electric cars is the solution to climate change but we know that cars using electricity from coal-fired power stations is yet another red-herring.

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//MELTDOWN: THE END OF THE AGE OF GREED///

with Paul Mason

WEDNESDAY, 3RD JUNE, 7PM

Newsnight’s economics editor Paul Mason discusses the financial crash and explains why, love it or loathe it, the neo-liberal era is over. Followed by Q&A and book signing. ‘Meltdown’ tells the story of the financial crash that destroyed the West’s investment banks, brought the global economy to its knees, and began to undermine three decades of neo-liberal orthodoxy. Covering the credit crunch and its aftershocks from the economic front line, BBC journalist Paul Mason explores the roots of the US and UK’s financial hubris, documenting the real-world causes and consequences from the Ford factory, to Wall Street, to the City of London.

In response to the immense challenge now facing the existing economic system, he outlines a new era of hyper-regulated capitalism that could emerge from the wreckage. Paul Mason writes: “The book tells the story of the events of September-October 2008: I’m the economics editor of BBC Newsnight, so I had a ringside seat. It explains how we got here – from the shadow banking system, to subprime, to the commodities speculation that forced a billion people to go without meals in mid-2008. It also explains why, love it or loathe it, the neo-liberal era is over.”

Paul Mason is the economics editor of BBC Newsnight and has covered globalisation and social justice stories from locations across the world, including Latin America, Africa and China. His previous book ‘Live Working, Die Fighting’ was longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award.

Paul’s blog on the unfolding financial crisis ‘Idle Scrawl’ can be found at www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/newsnight/paulmason/. /

Housmans Bookshop 5 Caledonian Road King’s Cross London N1 9DX Tel: 020 7837 4473

Free entry Nearest tube: King’s Cross

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//THE LATIN AMERICAN TURN: ON THE UNFINISHED PROJECT OF DECOLONISATION///

THURSDAY 4TH JUNE 9.30 – 5.30 One day Public Workshop Room B35 Birkbeck College

In European debates on the politics of emancipation, from Philosophy to Social, Legal, and Political Theory, from Jurgen Habermas to Toni Negri and Slavoj Zizek, the idea of the ‘unfinished project of modernity’ has become a mantra. In contrast, in other parts of the world, in the so-called ‘global South’ and specifically in Latin America, the debate that rages on, concerns the unfinished project of decolonisation. Crucially, in the Americas this debate takes place not only in theory but also in actual political practice, in places like Bolivia, Venezuela, and Brazil, but also among the Latino/Hispanic communities in the U.S. and in the Caribbean. This workshop will contribute to the exploration of such a problem and hopefully to the beginning of a more rigorous, equal and true dialogue.

Speakers: Linda Martin-Alcoff (City University of New York) Marcia Martins da Rosa (NHS) Enrique Dussel (National Autonomous University of Mexico & UAM-Iztapalapa) Lewis Ricardo Gordon (Temple University, Philadelphia) Nelson Maldonado-Torres (University of California, Berkeley) Ramón Grosfoguel (University of California, Berkeley) Eduardo Mendieta (State University of New York) Paul Gilroy (LSE) tbc. Boyan Manchev (College International de Philosophie, Paris) This event is free – for more information visit http://www.bbk.ac.uk/bih/  or email: j.eisner@bbk.ac.uk

Naked Punch are sponsoring How The Light Gets In – www.howthelightgetsin.org – the UK’s first philosophy and music festival which coincides with the Hay Literary Festival from 22-31 May. With live music every night from Michael Nyman, Roger Eno and more, philosophy debates including guests Will Hutton, AC Grayling and Simon Blackburn, and bracing walks along Offa’s dyke, it should be wonderful fun. Take a look at the full programme for more information or to book tickets at www.howthelightgetsin.org

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//DEATH AND ASTONISHING RESURRECTION: THE LABOUR PARTY///

FRIDAY, 5TH JUNE, 10PM

London & Brighton pub, 139 Queens Road, Peckham, London SE15 2ND * Location & Public Transport Map: http://tinyurl.com/TLP-rising-map * Facebook Event Page: http://tinyurl.com/TLP-rising * Event Flyer: http://tinyurl.com/TLP-rising-flyer

A Government of the Dead Production A circus performance in which governments fall, Parliament is sacked and politics exceed the wildest possibilities of art… Invited Guests * Mister Mayhem » the Laughing Professor » General Secretary of THE Labour Party * ‘Honest John McDonnell’ » the one and only direct action MP » the Honourable member for Hayes and Harlington » Chair of the Labour Representation Committee We the working class want a party of our own. Many ingenious names have been suggested for this party, e.g. * The Gordon Brown Nightmare Labour Party * The Astonishingly Resurrected Labour Party * The Radioactive Mutant Labour Party * The Monster Raving Loony Labour Party * The Street-fighting Direct Action Labour Party * The ‘Bash the Rich’ Anarchist Labour Party * The Cataclysmically Violent World Revolutionary Labour Party…. To maximally piss off New Labour, however, we decided to call ourselves simply * THE Labour Party » Four bands + DJs + comperes + poetic justice + live radio on www.ph7.com  + samba to shake the House of Commons down. » New singles launched: songs for the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. » Admission charges: Bankers £1,000; Toffs: £10; Low earners: whatever you can cough up.

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//ECO-VILLAGE OCCUPATION NEAR HAMMERSMITH///

SATURDAY, JUNE 6TH, 10AM

you may be aware of the eco-village occupation which is being planned for Saturday June 6th. The idea is to occupy a disused urban site in SW London near Hammersmith and to start an eco-village community based on sustainable methods of living such as vegetable growing, compost toilets the works. There is a press release below- please can you distribute it to all and sundry and tell everyone you know who would want to know that this thing is going down or up? (depending on which way you look at it 8-)

The land is everybodys.

This eco-village occupation is inspired by campaigns like The Land is Ours which campaigns peacefully for access to the land, its resources, and the decision-making processes affecting them, for everyone, irrespective of race, gender or age. for more information, please visit: www.tlio.org.uk

Meet-up:

The exact location of the site will be revealed on the day. The meet up point is at Waterloo Station (under the clock in the middle of the station) at 10AM on Saturday 6th June. Please try to be on time as we don’t want to be hanging around all morning.

If you would like to speak to someone regarding the campaign or the occupation, please contact Carolyn on: 01727 812369 or Gareth on: 07515 166011 or email: diggers360@yahoo.co.uk

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//POLICE AND VIOLENCE AT THE SASSOON GALLERY///

SATURDAY 6TH JUNE 2009 4-9PM 213 blenheim grove se15 5bb

Following his reenactments of the death of Jean Charles De Mendez, and most recently Ian Tomlinson, Mark McGowen continues this theme by curating a one day event a based on real live events about pigs kicking people’s heads in. Featuring art, live performances, bands & more from some of the most interesting contemporary artists based in and around London. You are invited to participate in what promises to be an anarchic, interactive and informative event.

Anne Margrete Bergh, Shitter of the Yard, Richard Dedomenici, Chiara Mu, Simon Ould, Louise Loudoun, Robin Bale, Charlie Fox, Neil Drabble, Sara Burgess, Jenny Gordon, FREEE, David C West, Gilbert and George, Micalef, Byron Pritchard, Yul Hilton, Jackie Clark, Laura Oldfield Ford, Rachel Cattle, Harry Pye, Sottish Weirdo’s, Jim Woodall, Vanessa Mitter, Kate Kotcheff, Geraldine Ryan, Liam Herne, Phoebe Collings James, Fiona Symes

for more info: ben@des-res.demon.co.uk http://www.thesassoongallery.co.uk

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//SATURDAY, JUNE 6th & SUNDAY, JUNE 7TH///

ANARCHIST CONFERENCE ‘09

Queen Mary & Westfield College

**Anarchist Movement Conference 2009** Anarchist Movement Conference 2009 will happen at Queen Mary & Westfield College on Saturday June 6th and Sunday June 7th, 2009. The space will include 20 rooms and a large hall as well as a creche for both days. It is a chance to put our ideas on the table and rebuild ourselves. The barriers that exist need to be broken down, the experiences and ideas of those involved in anarchist politics need to be shared, discussed, critiqued and debated. The task is urgent, practical and necessary – are we as a movement mature enough to face the challenge? www.conference09.org.uk <http://www.conference09.org.uk/> Please set aside 20minutes to register. Download the form at http://www.conference09.org.uk/register.html If you are in a group in London PLEASE put this on your agenda at your next meeting. It is important that we see this as a part of what we are ALL doing. Its our movement, its our conference. You can also register at Freedom Bookshop. Or email registrations@conferecen09.org.uk for more assistance.

RampART is five years old this month which makes us about 500 in social centre years. We want to say a big thank you to all the people and organisations who have used the space, helped out, supported and inspired us.
Celebrate with us on Friday, May 29 th and raise a glass to another five years of piracy and mayhem. Music from our favourite bands and Djs + our resident rampRATS squeaking up a storm and a special guest appearance by the contents of the rampART fridge. Party like it’s 2004!! Meanwhile, we’d like
to thank Conservative MP Anthony Steen for the announcement that he has a ‘very, very large house’. Any other MP, Peer of the Realm, CEO or reigning monarch with space to spare should contact us via the website. Coming up this week….

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***Tuesday,26th May, Cinema Libre***

***Thursday 28th May, Chill-Out Cafe. Free Food!***

***Friday, 29th May, Radical Theory Reading Group***

***Friday, 29th May, RampART’s 5th Anniversary Party***

***Saturday, 30th May, Free Tibet Benefit***

//TUESDAY, 26th MAY, 7PM AND EVERY TUESDAY///

CINEMA LIBRE

Cinema Libre is a chance for people to meet up and discuss their perspectives and share and learn from others in an informal environment. Discussion is open, and we always look forward to all contributions. Each week we bring you a selection of shorts and feature documentaries in an attempt to flesh out the issues and explore the solutions and action needed.

Remember its still all free so your support is the only currency worth anything and our in-action the only deficit worth worrying about.

//THURSDAY, 28th MAY, 7PM///

RAMPART CAFE

Pre-anniversary party chill-out cafe. Music, good company and free food.

//FRIDAY, 29th MAY, 6pm///

RADICAL THEORY READING GROUP

We’ll be reading Chapter 3, ‘Anarchism, Poststructuralism and the Politics of Sexuality: Sexual Orientation as State-form’ from a very interesting doctoral thesis by Jamie Heckert called Resisting Orientation: On the Complexities of Desire and the Limits of Identity Politics, available here
http://sexualorientation.info/thesis/Resisting%20Orientation%20-%20C3.pdf
(thanks Anna!) Suggest reading from the sub-head ‘Queer Culture’ on page 54 to the top of page 70 but the whole chapter is interesting if you have the time.

In response to those who have worried about feeling excluded because of the complex language of some of our readings, my suggestion is to find a section that makes sense to you, even if it is only one paragraph, and think about what it might mean in a wider context. All theorists repeat themselves anyway. Or, alternatively, skip the reading and just come along to join in the discussion. No pressure – this is not a university seminar! Happy reading.

//FRIDAY, 29th MAY, 9pm – Late///

PARTY TO CELEBRATE RAMPART’S 5TH BIRTHDAY!!!

No Mas Nada, Thee Intolerable Kidd, David Cronenberg’s Wife, 52 Commercial Road, Savlon + Djs Steene (drum’n'bass/dubstep), walid ‘n’ kitty (dancehall) & klanger (breaksore) + others. BYOB.

//SATURDAY 30th MAY, 7pm – late///

FREE TIBET BENEFIT PARTY

Early evening: films, discussion & vegan food. Later: Uproar, Active Slaughter, Kick Up the 80s Djs + more TBC.

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//OTHER UPCOMING EVENTS AT RAMPART///

//FRIDAY 5TH JUNE///

TOYS ‘R’ NOISE

— Experimental sound art —

//SATURDAY 6TH JUNE///

NO BORDERS BENEFIT

— Details in next week’s newsletter—

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<* AT THE LIBRARY HOUSE *>

52 Knatchbull road (entrance on Burton rd, behind Minet library) SE5 9QY.
Nearest tubes : Brixton, Oval, Kennington.
Nearest train : Loughborough junction.
Nearest buses : P5 or Brixton road (3/N3, 59, 133/N133, 159/N159, 415.
stop: loughborough road)

Check The Library House Website : http://thelibraryhouse.wordpress.com
<http://thelibraryhouse.wordpress.com/>
The Library House is a social center in Brixton Camberwell
Contact us if you want to be on our mailing list and be informed about the events there :)
libraryhouse..at..lists.riseup.net

**THIS WEEK (25th – 30th MAY) AT THE LIBRARY HOUSE**

First, thanks to all of you who came at “Le Grande Fete” on saturday, it was an amazing day! Fantastic weather, elderflower fritters and tons of food, music, bikes, capoeira and such a great crowd! Party went on really late and was very fun!

If you want to get involved, please do come round at our weekly meeting on tuesdays 8pm. We do need more people to make the place even more vibrant!
Ok, having a meeting is not always very funny and exciting, but we promise you’ll get some tea and hopefully some cake :)

The main event this week is on Friday 29th of May: Latin American Cine Klub by Cinema Klandestino. A collective from Bristol that will come and present two movies:
1. FRETECO: Occupied Factories and Workers’ Control in Venezuela
2. LA TOMA (The Take)

==Monday 25th 6.30-8pm==
*Kundalini Yoga 6-week course*
Another 2 sessions…
Kundalini Yoga returns to The Library House for six weeks only. The theme is vitality, Working with breath movement, mantra and meditation we will tap into our infinite energetic reserves and release old debilitating energy.Donations appreciated.
Wear loose comfy clothing and bring water and a blanket or something warm to cover you; to relax in. If the weathers nice we’ll be outdoors. Contact Laura 07779 284527 for more details.

==Tuesday 26th April 8pm==
*Weekly Collective meeting*
This is a good chance to talk to the collective if you want to have an event in the space or to find out more about getting involved there.

==Wednesday 27th 6pm onwards==
*Cafe Marie and Cinema Libre*
The weekly cafe starts around 6pm with lovingly cooked vegan food and access to the free shop. Friendly folks get together to chat before the films from Cinema Libre at 8pm. Expect a clever mix of political and current event shorts or similarly themed documentaries for most nights.
Discussions between films, as well.

==Thursday 28th 7-9pm==
*Capoeira*
We are a group of people sharing and learning some capoeira. We want to have fun while finding our roots. If the weather is nice, we should go in the park. We usually practice movements, make a rodinha and play live music. We have all we need: good mood, a lot of energy and willingness to learn. Sessions are free, and you are more than welcome to join us!

==Friday 29th 7.30pm==
*LatinAmerican CineClub by Cinema Klandestino*
Cinema Klandestino take leave of their hometown this Friday the 29th of
May to travel to London for one night only. Two movies:
- FRETECO: Occupied Factories and Workers’ Control in Venezuela (Venezuela, 2009, 40mins). 
A new film on the Venezuelan Revolution.
Produced by Vive TV in Venezuela, this new documentary on FRETECO  explores the movement of occupied factories and workers’ control in Venezuela.
- LA TOMA (The Take) (Argentina, 2004, 87mins)
A film by director Avi Lewis and writer Naomi Klein, focusing on the struggle of workers in Argentina to take back their abandoned factories amidst economic collapse.
//The Cinema Klandestino collective//
Inspired by the Cineclubs of Bogotá, the Cinema Klandestino Collective have spent the past year and a half bringing the best of Latin American cinema, old and new, to a Bristolian audience.
http://www.cinemaklandestino.org

**<<== Belgrade Road social centre ==>>**

2a Belgrade Road, Dalston.
Belgrade road is a newly opened social space in dalston/stoke newington.
It is collectively run and open to the public.
REGULAR EVENTS
*Tuesdays 7.30pm // life drawing*
naked narcisistic anarchists require people to draw us…
*Thursdays 1-5pm // bike workshop*
Tools and skills available to help you fix/build/pimp your bike
*Monday 18th 11am-2pm // Free English classes for beginners*
everyone is welcome, tea and coffee will be provided. contact: 07928102817
alisisalisis@hotmail.com

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//INTERNATIONAL STRUGGLE WEEK AGAINST DISAPPEARANCES PROGRAM///

24th May 2009 – 31st May 2009
Panel – voice of disappearances
24th May, Sunday, 14.00-17.00, RWCA Hall,
(Refugee Workers Cultural Association, Unit C1, 3-19 Victorian Grove, London N16 8EN)

Speakers
Dr. Moorthy, (Disappearances in Sri Lanka and struggle against disappearances)
Giuliana Casalle, Colombia Solidarity Campaign, (Disappearances in Latin America and struggle against disappearances)
Max Fuller, Writer (Disappearances in Iraq, Middle east, and struggle against disappearances)
Ilhan Karatepe, From ICAD, Journalist, (Disappearances policy, how it was created and how it is used and how to struggle against disappearances)

Tent Camp for disappearances
30th May Saturday, 13.00 – 31st May Sunday, 13.00, at Parliament Square

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//PUBLIC MEETING AT GOLDSMITH’S COLLEGE: OCCUPIED!///

WEDNESDAY 27TH MAY FROM 6.30PM

2009 – the year of the recession – is also the year of the OCCUPATION. From workers in a Ford factory in Enfield demanding their redundancy pay, to
parents in a primary school in Glasgow demanding it stays open, to university students just about everywhere (even Goldsmiths) demanding greater access to education, everywhere it is being demonstrated as a viable tactic.

Whats the potential of OCCUPATION as a tactic for getting what we want?

Come find out – open to all students and non students

Speakers from the OCCUPATIONS at:
LEWISHAM BRIDGE PRIMARY SCHOOL (SE13)
CHARLOTTE TURNER PRIMARY SCHOOL (SE8)
LONDON METROPOLITAN UNI (E1)
FORD VISTEON CAR FACTORY (EN3)

followed by a QUESTION & ANSWERS session.

RHB308 (Main building, 2nd floor, follow signs)
GOLDSMITHS COLLEGE
LEWISHAM WAY, SE14 (British Rail: New Cross/New Cross Gate)

REFRESHMENTS FOR THE EARLY BIRDS
(hosted by Autonomy & Solidarity)

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/A DIE-IN FOR NATO’S VICTIMS IN AFGHANISTAN///

WEDNESDAY 27 MAY, 11am
Northwood tube station (Metropolitan line)
for a procession to the gates of Britain’s military nerve centre (and NATO
Regional Command)

** Wear wedding clothes **

“We all ran into our houses and later the jets arrived. They dropped one bomb and it hit a wall and demolished it. Dust and dirt went everywhere. Then they dropped another and it destroyed our house … It was meant to be a wedding and at these events you expect happiness, dancing and to see your relatives. You don’t expect your daughters to be killed for no reason” – Haji Abdul Satar, who’s daughters Najeba (9) and Fatima (10) were killed in the US attack on Haji Nabu on 27 May 2007

WHAT IF THEY’D BEEN BRITISH?
On 27 May 2007, forty-seven Afghan civilians were killed when a US war plane bombed a wedding party in Afghanistan. Thousands more have been killed by US/NATO forces since the 2001 invasion.

A BBC poll published on 13 November showed that 68% of people in Britain think all British troops should be withdrawn from Afghanistan within 12 months.

Join us on Wednesday 27 May 2009 for an act of nonviolent civil disobedience at Britain’s military nerve centre in Northwood, demanding an end to the bombing and the withdrawal of all British troops from Afghanistan.

—–
Action called by JNV, the London and Oxford Catholic Workers and Voices UK.

More information (accommodation available):
0845 458 2564 www.stopbombingafghanistan.org

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//DIE-IN NONVIOLENT DIRECT ACTION WORKSHOP AND LEGAL BRIEFING///

TUESDAY 26th MAY, 7.30pm

Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, WC1R 4RL

The Die-in is an act of civil disobedience, so by taking part you will be rising arrest. It should be possible to take part in the wedding procession to the main entrance at Northwood, and then to vigil outside, without being arrested. However, whilst the police will usually give ample warning before arresting people – giving you time to comply with their demands etc… – this cannot be guaranteed. Those not wishing to be arrested are welcome to join us on 27th, but should be aware of this reality.

If you are thinking about risking arrest on 27 May and you’ve never been arrested before then we recommend that you attend this legal briefing.

For more info on the arrest process and other possible offences see the briefings on the Activists’ Legal Project web-site:
www.activistslegalproject.org.uk.

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//INFONIGHT ON MIGRATION ON US/MEXICO BORDER///

WEDNESDAY, 27TH MAY, 7PM

Pullens Centre, 184 Crampton Street, Elephant & Castle, SE17 3AE

Talk from activist from No More Deaths (nomoredeaths.org), which gives humanitarian aid to migrants on the US/Mexican border. Plus showing of the 2006 film “Crossing Arizona”.

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//TALK + PAMPHLET LAUNCH: GREEN LEFT – ECO-SOCIALISM///

WEDNESDAY, 27TH MAY, 7PM

…putting a green and red spanner in the works…

Green Left is an eco-socialist, anti-capitalist current within the Green Party, which started in June 2006 when 36 Green Party members agreed its launch statement (the Headcorn Declaration).

Sarah Farrow, Green Left co-convenor said then: “Activists in the Green Party have founded Green Left because many Greens believe the only path to an ecological, economically and socially just and peaceful society has to be based on an anti-capitalist political agenda.”

This evening guests from Green Left will be discussing their agenda, and launching a new pamphlet on the issues at hand.

Housmans Bookshop
5 Caledonian Road
King’s Cross
London N1 9DX
Tel: 020 7837 4473

Free entry
Nearest tube: King’s Cross

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//DISSIDENT ISLAND RADIO PRESENTS DISSIDENT DUBS III: BEATS FROM THE PIT///

SATURDAY 30TH MAY – London & Brighton, Peckham

They came to Drax to stop the pollution. 29 reasonable and good looking people, armed with imagination, shovels, a red flag and a canary suit. Now, they are desperate outlaws, being threatened by people in wigs and gowns. They need your support. They want you to have a good time. They think you should come to Dissident Dubs III. They are the Drax 29.

On Saturday the 30th Dissident Island Radio are pleased to present ‘Dissident Dubs III – Beats from the Pit’ at the London & Brighton pub in Peckham, to support the Drax29 activists. It’s a 3 quid donation on the door, starting with films at 6pm and DJs from 10pm ’till very very late.
The venue is right beside Queens Road train station.

We’ve got Mr Hyde, Kovert, Depoh, HoboCop and loads of other cool DJs  playing Drum’n'Bass, DubStep, Reggae, Jungle and lots of other cool things going on. So come along and support the Drax 29 legal fund.

dissidentisland@riseup.net

a single act of defiance is worth more than a thousand angry words. You
know what to do….

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//CLIMATE RUSH PEDAL POWER///

MONDAY 1ST JUNE, 5PM

…A GOOD OLD-FASHIONED START-OF-SUMMER BIKE RIDE!

On Monday 1st June the UK Parliament returns from recess for the summer sitting. We want to give them a warm welcome and remind them of the heat they can expect if they continue to ignore climate change.

Ed Miliband (Secretary of State Energy and Climate Change) is in Bonn that evening, discussing with other ‘world leaders’ the agenda for the UN Climate Summit in Copenhagen. Let’s give our ‘leaders’ a taste of the civil disobedience they can expect if real climate justice fails to materialise.

It is also the first evening of a coal conference at the illustrious ‘Chatham House’. Everyone who’s anyone, at least in the coal world, will be there.

We’ll begin our bike-ride outside their conference before winding our way  through town.

Meet us from 5pm on St James Square, SW1Y 4LE. We’ll then move off at 6pm and take our bikes for a relaxed tour through London. Labour might think that investing in electric cars is the solution to climate change but we know that cars using electricity from coal-fired power stations is yet another red-herring.

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//THE LATIN AMERICAN TURN: ON THE UNFINISHED PROJECT OF DECOLONISATION///

THURSDAY 4TH JUNE 9.30 – 5.30
One day Public Workshop Room B35 Birkbeck College

In European debates on the politics of emancipation, from Philosophy to Social, Legal, and Political Theory, from Jurgen Habermas to Toni Negri and Slavoj Zizek, the idea of the ‘unfinished project of modernity’ has become a mantra. In contrast, in other parts of the world, in the so-called ‘global South’ and specifically in Latin America, the debate that rages on, concerns the unfinished project of decolonisation.
Crucially, in the Americas this debate takes place not only in theory but also in actual political practice, in places like Bolivia, Venezuela, and Brazil, but also among the Latino/Hispanic communities in the U.S. and in the Caribbean. This workshop will contribute to the exploration of such a problem and hopefully to the beginning of a more rigorous, equal and true dialogue.

Speakers: Linda Martin-Alcoff (City University of New York) Marcia Martins da Rosa (NHS) Enrique Dussel (National Autonomous University of Mexico & UAM-Iztapalapa) Lewis Ricardo Gordon (Temple University, Philadelphia) Nelson Maldonado-Torres (University of California, Berkeley) Ramón Grosfoguel (University of California, Berkeley) Eduardo Mendieta (State University of New York) Paul Gilroy (LSE) tbc. Boyan Manchev (College International de Philosophie, Paris)
This event is free
- for more information visit http://www.bbk.ac.uk/bih/
or email:
j.eisner@bbk.ac.uk

Naked Punch are sponsoring How The Light Gets In -
www.howthelightgetsin.org – the UK’s first philosophy and music festival which coincides with the Hay Literary Festival from 22-31 May. With live music every night from Michael Nyman, Roger Eno and more, philosophy debates including guests Will Hutton, AC Grayling and Simon Blackburn, and bracing walks along Offa’s dyke, it should be wonderful fun. Take a look at the full programme for more information or to book tickets at www.howthelightgetsin.org

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//ECO-VILLAGE OCCUPATION NEAR HAMMERSMITH///

SATURDAY, JUNE 6TH, 10AM

you may be aware of the eco-village occupation which is being planned for Saturday June 6th. The idea is to occupy a disused urban site in SW London near Hammersmith and to start an eco-village community based on sustainable
methods of living such as vegetable growing, compost toilets the works. There is a press release below- please can you distribute it to all and sundry and tell everyone you know who would want to know that this thing is going down or up? (depending on which way you look at it 8-)

The land is everybodys.

This eco-village occupation is inspired by campaigns like The Land is Ours which campaigns peacefully for access to the land, its resources, and the decision-making processes affecting them, for everyone, irrespective of race, gender or age. for more information, please visit: www.tlio.org.uk

Meet-up:

The exact location of the site will be revealed on the day. The meet up point is at Waterloo Station (under the clock in the middle of the station) at 10AM on Saturday 6th June. Please try to be on time as we don’t want to be hanging around all morning.

If you would like to speak to someone regarding the campaign or the occupation, please contact Carolyn on: 01727 812369 or Gareth on: 07515 166011 or email:
diggers360@yahoo.co.uk

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//SATURDAY, JUNE 6th & SUNDAY, JUNE 7TH///

ANARCHIST CONFERENCE ‘09

Queen Mary & Westfield College

**Anarchist Movement Conference 2009**
Anarchist Movement Conference 2009 will happen at Queen Mary & Westfield
College on Saturday June 6th and Sunday June 7th, 2009. The space will include 20 rooms and a large hall as well as a creche for both days. It is a chance to put our ideas on the table and rebuild ourselves. The barriers that exist need to be broken down, the experiences and ideas of those involved in anarchist politics need to be shared, discussed, critiqued and debated. The task is urgent, practical and necessary – are we as a movement mature enough to face the challenge?
www.conference09.org.uk
Please set aside 20 minutes to register. Download the form at
http://www.conference09.org.uk/register.html
If you are in a group in London PLEASE put this on your agenda at your next meeting. It is important that we see this as a part of what we are ALL doing. Its our movement, its our conference.
You can also register at Freedom Bookshop. Or email
registrations@conferecen09.org.uk for more assistance

RampART is five years old this month which makes us about 500 in social
centre years. We want to say a big thank you to all the people and
organisations who have used the space, helped out, supported and inspired us.
Celebrate with us on Friday, May 29 th and raise a glass to another five
years of piracy and mayhem. Music from our favourite bands and Djs + our
resident rampRATS squeaking up a storm and a special guest appearance by the
contents of the rampART fridge. Party like it’s 2004!! Meanwhile, we’d like
to thank Conservative MP Anthony Steen for the announcement that he has a
‘very, very large house’. Any other MP, Peer of the Realm, CEO or reigning
monarch with space to spare should contact us via the website. Coming up this
week….

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<* EVENTS @ rampART *>
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***Tuesday,26th May, Cinema Libre***

***Thursday 28th May, Chill-Out Cafe. Free Food!***

***Friday, 29th May, Radical Theory Reading Group***

***Friday, 29th May, RampART’s 5th Anniversary Party***

***Saturday, 30th May, Free Tibet Benefit***

//TUESDAY, 26th MAY, 7PM AND EVERY TUESDAY///
CINEMA LIBRE
Cinema Libre is a chance for people to meet up and discuss their perspectives
and share and learn from others in an informal environment. Discussion is
open, and we always look forward to all contributions. Each week we bring you
a selection of shorts and feature documentaries in an attempt to flesh out
the issues and explore the solutions and action needed.

Remember its still all free so your support is the only currency worth
anything
and our in-action the only deficit worth worrying about.

//THURSDAY, 28th MAY, 7PM///

RAMPART CAFE

Pre-anniversary party chill-out cafe. Music, good company and free food.

//FRIDAY, 29th MAY, 6pm///

RADICAL THEORY READING GROUP

We’ll be reading Chapter 3, ‘Anarchism, Poststructuralism and the
Politics of Sexuality: Sexual Orientation as State-form’ from a very
interesting doctoral thesis by Jamie Heckert called Resisting Orientation: On
the Complexities of Desire and the Limits of Identity Politics, available
here
http://sexualorientation.info/thesis/Resisting%20Orientation%20-%20C3.pdf
(thanks Anna!) Suggest reading from the sub-head ‘Queer Culture’ on page 54
to the top of page 70 but the whole chapter is interesting if you have the
time.

In response to those who have worried about feeling excluded because of the
complex language of some of our readings, my suggestion is to find a section
that makes sense to you, even if it is only one paragraph, and think about
what it might mean in a wider context. All theorists repeat themselves
anyway. Or, alternatively, skip the reading and just come along to join in
the discussion. No pressure – this is not a university seminar! Happy
reading.

//FRIDAY, 29th MAY, 9pm – Late///

PARTY TO CELEBRATE RAMPART’S 5TH BIRTHDAY!!!

No Mas Nada, Thee Intolerable Kidd, David Cronenberg’s Wife, 52 Commercial
Road, Savlon + Djs Steene (drum’n'bass/dubstep), walid ‘n’ kitty (dancehall)
& klanger (breaksore) + others. BYOB.

//SATURDAY 30th MAY, 7pm – late///

FREE TIBET BENEFIT PARTY
Early evening: films, discussion & vegan food. Later: Uproar, Active
Slaughter, Kick Up the 80s Djs + more TBC.

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Inspired by the charity which provides gardens for traumatised British Army soldiers, we at RampART are proposing a spot of gardening leave for battle weary activists. Spring is supposedly here and building sites abandoned by recession hit developers are turning into mini ecosystems all over London. Anyone interested in squatting some open space and reclaiming the land for a spot of alfresco activism should turn up at our meeting on Monday 25th May and present their horticultural credentials. Meanwhile, back at the potting shed…

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A big thank you to the folks from 56a Infoshop and collective members and friends involved in the Visteon workers benefit for two great parties and leaving the place sparkly clean. Coming up this week….

***Tuesday,19th May, Cinema Libre***

***Thursday 21st May, Uni Occupation Cafe. Free food!***

***Saturday, 23rd May, Radical Routes 21st Birthday Party***

And coming very soon….

***Saturday, 29th May, RAMPART’S 5th BIRTHDAY! FREE PARTY!! FREE PARTY!!***

//TUESDAY, 19th MAY, 7PM AND EVERY TUESDAY///

CINEMA LIBRE

Cinema Libre is a chance for people to meet up and discuss their perspectives and share and learn from others in an informal environment. Discussion is open, and we always look forward to all contributions. Each week we bring you a selection of shorts and feature documentaries in an attempt to flesh out the issues and explore the solutions and action needed.

Remember its still all free so your support is the only currency worth anything and our in-action the only deficit worth worrying about.

//THURSDAY, 21ST MAY, 7PM///

RAMPART CAFE – UNI OCCUPATION NIGHT

To celebrate the occupation of our local university and in solidarity with students everywhere protesting the marketization of higher education, the closure of courses and staff redundancies, we’re revisiting the stirrings of dissent in Paris in 1968 when Nanterre university was occupied by student activists. We’ll be showing a short film ‘Outside the Window: Events in France, May 1968′ which looks at the events from the perspective of film makers, followed by discussion and FREE FOOD. Joel will be cooking.

//SATURDAY 23rd MAY, 11pm – 6am///

RADICAL ROUTES 21ST BIRTHDAY AFTERPARTY

Eltham John – Jungley Dub Dr Colossus – Yardcore Everyday Junglist – Folkstep Junglism

Trebor soundsystem

//OTHER UPCOMING EVENTS AT RAMPART///

//FRIDAY, 29th MAY, 6pm///

RADICAL THEORY READING GROUP

We’ll be reading Chapter 3, ‘Anarchism, Poststructuralism and the Politics of Sexuality: Sexual Orientation as State-form’ from a very interesting doctoral thesis by Jamie Heckert called Resisting Orientation: On the Complexities of Desire and the Limits of Identity Politics, available here http://sexualorientation.info/thesis/Resisting%20Orientation%20-%20C3.pdf (thanks Anna!) Suggest reading from the sub-head ‘Queer Culture’ on page 54 to the top of page 70 but the whole chapter is interesting if you have the time.

In response to those who have worried about feeling excluded because of the complex language of some of our readings, my suggestion is to find a section that makes sense to you, even if it is only one paragraph, and think about what it might mean in a wider context. All theorists repeat themselves anyway. Or, alternatively, skip the reading and just come along to join in the discussion. No pressure – this is not a university seminar! Happy reading.

//FRIDAY, 29th MAY, 9pm – Late///

*FREE* PARTY TO CELEBRATE RAMPART’S 5TH BIRTHDAY!!!

52 Commercial Road, Djs Kitty Kate, Walid, Steene and Klanger + others + our resident rampRATS squeaking up a storm and a special guest appearance from the contents of the rampART fridge!! Party like it’s 2004!!!

//SATURDAY, 30th MAY///

FREE TIBET PUNK BENEFIT

— details to follow—

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<* EVENTS IN OTHER SOCIAL CENTRES *>

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<* AT THE LIBRARY HOUSE *>

52 Knatchbull road (entrance on Burton rd, behind Minet library) SE5 9QY. Nearest tubes : Brixton, Oval, Kennington. Nearest train : Loughborough junction. Nearest buses : P5 or Brixton road (3/N3, 59, 133/N133, 159/N159, 415. stop: loughborough road)

Check The Library House Website : http://thelibraryhouse.wordpress.com <http://thelibraryhouse.wordpress.com/> The Library House is a social center in Brixton Camberwell Contact us if you want to be on our mailing list and be informed about the events there :) ibraryhouse..at..lists.riseup.net

**THIS WEEK (18th – 24th MAY) AT THE LIBRARY HOUSE**

Some news about the court case: We’re still here!! the case has been adjourned again, so it seems that we’re here for at least another month!

Our main event this week: LE GRANDE FETE :) an open day at the Library House of workshops lazing around, food and a Party “Final(ly) some DJs at the LibHou”!. Starts at 11am with an invisible food walk (harvesting wild herb and plants growing in the streets/greens of london!) and end late at night (how late, not sure, we told you, its the first time we’re having DJs here!).

And dont forget next week, Cinema Klandestino on 29th of May. A collective from Bristol will come and present some latin american movies! 1. FRETECO: Occupied Factories and Workers’ Control in Venezuela 2. LA TOMA (The Take) http://thelibraryhouse.wordpress.com/2009/05/14/latinamerican-cineclub-by-cin ema-klandestino/
http://www.cinemaklandestino.org

==Monday 18th 6.30-8pm==
*Kundalini Yoga 6-week course*
Kundalini Yoga returns to The Library House for six weeks only. The theme is vitality, Working with breath movement, mantra and meditation we will tap into our infinite energetic reserves and release old debilitating energy.Donations appreciated. Wear loose comfy clothing and bring water and a blanket or something warm to cover you; to relax in. If the weathers nice we’ll be outdoors. Contact Laura 07779 284527 for more details.

==Tuesday 19th April 8pm==
*Weekly Collective meeting*
This is a good chance to talk to the collective if you want to have an event in the space or to find out more about getting involved there.

==Wednesday 20th 6pm onwards==
*Cafe Marie and Cinema Libre*
The weekly cafe starts around 6pm with lovingly cooked vegan food and access to the free shop. Friendly folks get together to chat before the films from Cinema Libre at 8pm. Expect a clever mix of political and current event shorts or similarly themed documentaries for most nights. Discussions between films, as well.

==Thursday 21st 7-9pm==
*Capoeira*
We are a group of people sharing and learning some capoeira. We want to have fun while finding our roots The space is rather small but it is great fun as you need to be really aware of your surroundings. We usually 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 you are more than welcome to join us!

==Saturday 23rd 11am onwards==
*LE GRANDE FETE: Open day and Party*

WORKSHOPS *
11am Invisible Food walk: invisible food walk (harvesting wild herb and plants growing in the streets/greens of london!) * 12.30 Cooking what we got during the walk! * 2-4pm diy rainwater harvesting wheelie bin: we got rain, we got wheelie bins. Lets try to make a rainwater harvesting system! * 4-5pm SOMA an Anarchist Therapy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somatherapy * 6pm Capoeira rodha
Also Hopefully a bike workshop, jam session, a bonfire.
VEGAN BBQ from 6pm – bring your own tofu and other fancy vegan stuff to grill!
EARLY AFTERPARTY 10pm-3am random DJs for pleasure and rage +++everything free!+++

**<<== BELGRADE ROAD SOCIAL CENTRE ==>>**

2a Belgrade Road, Dalston. Belgrade road is a newly opened social space in dalston/stoke newington. It is collectively run and open to the public. REGULAR EVENTS *Tuesdays 7.30pm // life drawing* naked narcisistic anarchists require people to draw us. *Thursdays 1-5pm // bike workshop* Tools and skills available to help you fix/build/pimp your bike *Monday 18th 11am-2pm // Free English classes for beginners* everyone is welcome, tea and coffee will be provided. contact: 07928102817 alisisalisis@hotmail.com

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//EDUCATION AND YOUTH IN COLOMBIA – 7PM TUESDAY, 19TH MAY///

Colombia Solidarity Campaign The Apple Tree pub, 45 Mount Pleasant, WC1 (Russell Square, Farringdon, Kings X or Angel tube)

A discussion of ‘Colombia’s classroom wars’ in Frontline Latin America – a chance to talk with Colombian students and educators

Between 1999 and 2005, more than half of reported murders of trade unionists in the world happened in Colombia, of whom more than half were working in the education sector. This is in addition to detentions, disappearances, displacements and threats, including against family members.

Protests against cuts in education have led to teachers being branded as ’subversives’, and schools have often been drawn into the war between the guerrilla, state and paramilitary groups.

Opposition to the Uribe government continues in schools and universities. FECODE, the national teachers’ federation is well organized and active. How can we build solidarity in the UK?

London branch meetings of the Colombia Solidarity Campaign take place at 7pm every third Tuesday of the month. http://www.colombiasolidarity.org.uk/

More Teacher Trade Unionists Murdered in Colombia http://www.teachersolidarity.com/blog/more-teacher-trade-unionists-murdered-i n-colombia/#more-318

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//INTERNATIONAL STRUGGLE WEEK AGAINST DISAPPEARANCES PROGRAM///

24th May 2009 – 31st May 2009 Panel – voice of disappearances 24th May, Sunday, 14.00-17.00, RWCA Hall, (Refugee Workers Cultural Association, Unit C1, 3-19 Victorian Grove, London N16 8EN)

Speakers Dr. Moorthy, (Disappearances in Sri Lanka and struggle against disappearances) Giuliana Casalle, Colombia Solidarity Campaign, (Disappearances in Latin America and struggle against disappearances) Max Fuller, Writer (Disappearances in Iraq, Middle east, and struggle against disappearances) Ilhan Karatepe, From ICAD, Journalist, (Disappearances policy, how it was created and how it is used and how to struggle against disappearances)

Tent Camp for disappearances 30th May Saturday, 13.00 – 31st May Sunday, 13.00, at Parliament Square

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//MOBILISING MEETING FOR CALAIS NOBORDER CAMP///

Wednesday 20 May 2009 at LARC – London Action Resource Centre, 62 Fieldgate Street, Whitechapel, E1 1ES.

This meeting is for all London-based activists who are hoping to go to the Calais No Border camp (23rd-29th June), and/or the big demo from Calais town centre to Coquelles detention centre on 27th June.

The meeting will cover practical questions, such as how we co-ordinate travel from London to the camp and/or demo, and how we mobilise for Calais over the next month. There will also be some info sharing about the demo and what is happening during the camp.

We can also discuss the possibility of solidarity action(s) in the UK on 27th June, for those who are unable to travel to Calais.

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//SATURDAY 23 MAY, 10:30 AM, WATERLOO STATION///

Pure Genius!! A call for those interested in a new eco project.

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//SUPPORT DEATH ROW PRISONER TROY DAVIES///

Tuesday, 19th May, 4pm

NO PHYSICAL EVIDENCE. NO MURDER WEAPON. ANOTHER MAN IMPLICATED.NO COURT YET WILLING TO HEAR THE NEW EVIDENCE.EXECUTION DATE COULD BE SET SOON

Amnesty International UK will hold a demonstration outside the US Embassy in London on 19th May between 16:00 – 18:00 hours. We will also hand in a letter to the US Embassy.

When: 19th May 16:00-18:00 Location: US Embassy 24 Grosvenor Square London, W1A 1AE Organizers: Amnesty International UK Contact: Kim Manning-Cooper, 020 7033 1582, kim.manning.cooper@amnesty.org.uk

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//SACK PARLIAMENT///

Saturday, 23rd May, 12 noon

ALL OF THEM MUST GO. Come and tell the fraudster MPs what you think of them. Bring saucepans, kettles, drums, horns, whistles. We’ve had enough. Our taxes have been ripped off by bankers demanding bailouts for their champagne lifestyles; now the MPs are laughing in our faces with their brazen claims: for moat clearance; grouse-beaters; helipads; swimming pools; fur-lined loo seats; mole-traps; and claims for imaginary mortgages!

The summer of middle-class rage starts now! And working-class rage? you ain’t seen nothing yet! Dress code: Guy Fawkes, the only man ever to enter Parliament with honourable intentions; recommended interpretation: V for Vendetta. Mask only from £4.50, to full costume from £39.99, from UK vendors – see: http://www.google.co.uk/products?q=V+for+Vendetta+costume&scoring=p

This protest is due to start at 12pm with a view to link up at Trafalgar at 3pm to join in with the police violence demo happening outside the Scotland Yard.

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//STOP POLICE VIOLENCE///

Saturday, 23rd May 3pm

On Saturday May 23rd 2009, the United Campaign against Police Violence group will be holding a protest march starting from Trafalgar Square, London. This comes after a series of protest that have occurred after the controversial G20 summits. In which a passer by, the police struck Ian Tomlinson, in an unprovoked attack, which caused a huge uproar. Chris Knight, suspended professor at the University of East London and leader of the protest, believes that, ‘ that new labour are trying to impose a police state that nobody wants.’ The march from Trafalgar Square will then go on towards Downing Street, and finally will finish at New Scotland Yard. It will be held between 3pm – 6pm.

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//ECO-POETRY READING///

Saturday, 23rd May 5pm

‘Creatures of the Intertidal Zone’ with Susan Richardson

Susan’s collection of poetry, ‘Creatures of the Intertidal Zone’ (Cinnamon Press, 2007), was inspired by her journey through Iceland, Greenland and Newfoundland in the footsteps of an intrepid eleventh century female Viking. One of the collection’s central themes is the impact of climate change and other environmental issues on the landscape of the arctic and sub-arctic.

Housmans Bookshop 5 Caledonian Road King’s Cross London N1 9DX Tel: 020 7837 4473

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NEW ID GALLERY opening June 4th 2009!

Situated on 31 Commercial Road, in the heart of Whitechapel just between Aldgate East, Brick Lane, the Whitechapel Gallery and the Metropolitan University, we will show Unknown Art and present Constant Change.

We will present a new show every week, the opening hours 1-6pm Friday to Sunday. We will also host a night “be your own art” every Thursday in Fresh Club next door.

http://noidgallery.net/ Contact: http://noidgallery.net/contact.html

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//SATURDAY, JUNE 6th & SUNDAY, JUNE 7TH///

ANARCHIST CONFERENCE ‘09

Queen Mary & Westfield College

**Anarchist Movement Conference 2009** Anarchist Movement Conference 2009 will happen at Queen Mary & Westfield College on Saturday June 6th and Sunday June 7th, 2009. The space will include 20 rooms and a large hall as well as a creche for both days. It is a chance to put our ideas on the table and rebuild ourselves. The barriers that exist need to be broken down, the experiences and ideas of those involved in anarchist politics need to be shared, discussed, critiqued and debated. The task is urgent, practical and necessary – are we as a movement mature enough to face the challenge? www.conference09.org.uk Please set aside 20minutes to register. Download the form at http://www.conference09.org.uk/register.html

If you are in a group in London PLEASE put this on your agenda at your next meeting. It is important that we see this as a part of what we are ALL doing. Its our movement, its our conference. You can also register at Freedom Bookshop. Or email registrations@conferecen09.org.uk for more assistance

This week, the Tory MP who claimed more than £380 in expenses for horse manure gets a round of applause for effectively dumping him/herself in the sh*t. Our sympathies are with the horses. Meanwhile, back at the stable….

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***Tuesday,12th May, Cinema Libre***
***Thursday 14th May, RampART Cafe***
***Friday 15th May, Benefit for 56a Infoshop***
***Saturday, 16th May, Benefit for Visteon Workers***

//TUESDAY, 12th MAY, 7PM///

CINEMA LIBRE

Cinema Libre is a chance for people to meet up and discuss their perspectives and share and learn from others in an informal environment. Discussion is open, and we always look forward to all contributions. Each week we bring you a selection of shorts and feature documentaries in an attempt to flesh out the issues and explore the solutions and action needed.

Remember its still all free so your support is the only currency worth anything and our in-action the only deficit worth worrying about.

//THURSDAY, 14th MAY, 7PM///

CHILLED OUT CAFE

No films, heated debate or debriefs. Just good food, music, and good company.

//FRIDAY, 15th MAY, 9-LATE///

56A INFOSHOP BENEFIT PARTY

52 Commercial road : beautiful atmospheric post rock
Me and Goliath : Screamo Core
Sorro: Sludgy Doom
Hobocop- Dissidant Island DJ – dubstep
Klaus. Minimal step

//SATURDAY 16th MAY, 7pm – 2am///

PARTY IN SUPPORT OF THE FORD/VISTEON WORKERS

7-9PM:
-workers from the Enfield factory will speak about the occupation and their ongoing dispute with Ford
-screening of the Reel News film and images from the occupation.

9PM-2AM: live music and DJs
-Half a Person (Mandolin)
-Special Guest Singing Sensation: Femii
-Double Negative
-DJ Anomie(Rocksteady / Dancehall)
-XC (Dancehall + Dubs)
-John Eden (Dancehall + Reggae)
-Martin Klang (Electro)
-Galaxy Code (Dubstep/D+B)
-other acts TBC
-sound system by trebor

ABOUT THE FORD/VISTEON DISPUTE
The workers at Visteon occupied the factory in Enfield on Wednesday 1st April. The previous day, in a 6-minute meeting, they were told that the European company, with plants in Belfast, Basildon and Enfield, was going into administration and that they could come and collect their possessions the next day, with no wages due. They are continuing to maintain a 24-hour picket outside the factory. A deal is being offered, but there are outlying concerns so the struggle continues. For more details and information on how to help out, visit:
http://visteonoccupation.wordpress.com/

//OTHER UPCOMING EVENTS AT RAMPART///

//SATURDAY, 23rd MAY///

RADICAL ROUTES 21st BIRTHDAY PARTY/BENEFIT

—details in next week’s newsletter—

//FRIDAY, 29th MAY, 6pm///

RADICAL THEORY READING GROUP

We’ll be reading Chapter 3, ‘Anarchism, Poststructuralism and the Politics of Sexuality: Sexual Orientation as State-form’ from a very interesting doctoral thesis by Jamie Heckert called Resisting Orientation: On the Complexities of Desire and the Limits of Identity Politics, available here
http://sexualorientation.info/thesis/Resisting%20Orientation%20-%20C3.pdf
(thanks Anna!) Suggest reading from the sub-head ‘Queer Culture’ on page 54 to the top of page 70 but the whole chapter is interesting if you have the time.

In response to those who have worried about feeling excluded because of the complex language of some of our readings, my suggestion is to find a section that makes sense to you, even if it is only one paragraph, and think about what it might mean in a wider context. All theorists repeat themselves anyway. Or, alternatively, skip the reading and just come along to join in the discussion. No pressure – this is not a university seminar! Happy reading.

//FRIDAY, 29th MAY, 9pm – Late///

*FREE* PARTY TO CELEBRATE RAMPART’S 5TH BIRTHDAY!!!

52 Commercial Road, DJ Steene and others. Full lineup will be announced next week.

//SATURDAY, 30th MAY///

FREE TIBET PUNK BENEFIT

— details to follow—

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<* AT THE LIBRARY HOUSE *>

52 Knatchbull road (entrance on Burton rd, behind Minet library) SE5 9QY.
Nearest tubes : Brixton, Oval, Kennington.
Nearest train : Loughborough junction.
Nearest buses : P5 or Brixton road (3/N3, 59, 133/N133, 159/N159, 415. stop: loughborough road)

Check The Library House Website : http://thelibraryhouse.wordpress.com
The Library House is a social center in Brixton Camberwell
Contact us if you want to be on our mailing list and be informed about the events there :)
libraryhouse..at..lists.riseup.net

**THIS WEEK (11th -18th MAY) AT THE LIBRARY HOUSE**

Here’s what’s happening from Monday May 11th to May 18th at the Library House.

This wednesday 13th is our court case. A second session after the adjournment 2 months ago. Anyone who’s around is welcome to come at court for support: 10.30am at Lambeth County Court Cleaver St, London, SE11 4DZ. For the bravest ones: Radical Breakfast at 9am at the Library House!

Put down on your diary the two next special dates:
- Library House day on 23rd May. One of the last event? :) A chilled out day of workshops, food, lazing around in the garden, bonfire and music (jam session and hopefully some DJs!). probably starting at about 4pm.
More details later!
- Cinema Klandestino on 29th of May. A collective from Bristol will come and present some latin american movies! http://www.cinemaklandestino.org

love and rage!

==Monday 11th 6.30-8pm==
*Kundalini Yoga 6-week course*
Kundalini Yoga returns to The Library House for six weeks only. The theme is vitality, Working with breath movement, mantra and meditation we will tap into our infinite energetic reserves and release old debilitating energy.Donations appreciated.
Wear loose comfy clothing and bring water and a blanket or something warm to cover you; to relax in. If the weathers nice we’ll be outdoors. Contact Laura 07779 284527 for more details.

==Tuesday 12th April 8pm==
*Weekly Collective meeting*
This is a good chance to talk to the collective if you want to have an event in the space or to find out more about getting involved there.

==Wednesday 13th 10.30am==
*Court Case support!*
This wednesday 13th is our court case. A second session after the adjournment 2 months ago. Anyone who’s around is welcome to come at court for support: 10.30am at Lambeth County Court Cleaver St, London, SE11 4DZ.
For the bravest ones: Radical Breakfast at 9am at the Library House!

==Wednesday 13th 6pm onwards==
*POST COURT Cafe Marie*
If you cannot go to court with us come along at the cafe, get updates, get happy or sad with us! :) The weekly cafe starts around 6pm with lovingly cooked vegan food and access to the free shop. Friendly folks get together to chat before the films from Cinema Libre at 8pm. Expect a clever mix of political and current event shorts or similarly themed  documentaries for most nights. Discussions between films, as well.

==Thursday 14th 7-9pm==
*Capoeira*
We are a group of people sharing and learning some capoeira. We want to have fun while finding our roots The space is rather small but it is great fun as you need to be really aware of your surroundings. We usually 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 you are more than welcome to join us!

==Sunday 17th 7pm==
*South London Squatters Network Meeting*
the library house collective is calling the squatters or ex- or futur-squatters living in south London to come to a meeting on sunday the 17th May, 7pm @ the Library House.
We thought it’d be a good idea to try again to build some networking, and share our experiences and skills!
Maybe the aim of this meeting could be to decide clearly what we want to do with a network, how and when do we meet etc.? or maybe something else?
And remember there are still the squatting practical night in 56a infoshop from 7pm every 2nd and 4th tuesday of the month.
These are exciting times, lets squat the world!

==Monday 18th 6.30-8pm==
*Kundalini Yoga 6-week course*
Kundalini Yoga returns to The Library House for six weeks only. The theme is vitality, Working with breath movement, mantra and meditation we will tap into our infinite energetic reserves and release old debilitating energy.Donations appreciated.
Wear loose comfy clothing and bring water and a blanket or something warm to cover you; to relax in. If the weathers nice we’ll be outdoors. Contact Laura 07779 284527 for more details.

**<<== BELGRADE ROAD SOCIAL CENTRE ==>>**

2a Belgrade Road, Dalston.
Belgrade road is a newly opened social space in dalston/stoke newington.
It is collectively run and open to the public.

REGULAR EVENTS
*Tuesdays 7.30pm // life drawing*
naked narcisistic anarchists require people to draw us…
*Thursdays 1-5pm // bike workshop*
Tools and skills available to help you fix/build/pimp your bike
*Monday 18th 11am-2pm // Free English classes for beginners*
everyone is welcome, tea and coffee will be provided. contact: 07928102817
alisisalisis@hotmail.com

SPECIAL EVENT:
*Sunday 17th May 5pm onwards // Together4tamils presnts an evening exploring the struggle for tamil cultural identity and self determination* cafe, exhibition, movies, speakers, discusion, traditional tamil musical satire and music till late

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//FRIDAY, 15th MAY, 7.30PM (MUSIC FROM 8PM)///

ROVICS, JOHNSON + MORE @ LARC!

Acoustic Insurgency presents an evening of unplugged anarchy – David Rovics & Robb Johnson + Ed Cox Acoustic + Sarah Bear + Veggie Food and Bar. £5 (if you still have a job), £3 (benefit cheats).

LARC, 62 Fieldgate Street, London, E1 1ES

//SATURDAY, 16th MAY, 4PM TILL LATE///

CLASS WAR PRESENTS … BENEFIT FOR ANARCHIST CONFERENCE ‘09

Defcon Zero, Bottle Job, Active Slaughter, Condition Dead, Bug Central, Refuse/All, ICH, Flowers of Flesh & Blood, Armed Response Unit + stalls.

£5 before 7pm, £7 after 7pm

Boston Arms, 178 Junction Road, London, N19 5QQ

//SATURDAY, 16th MAY, 5PM///

‘Atheism and Feminism’ with Sue Mayer

Sue Mayer will be debating the relationship between atheism and feminism, and remembering the freethinking women who challenged religious sway over civil laws and practices so that women may have the rights they possess today.

The untold story of the feminist movement is that it was sparked and nurtured by women without superstition, by the religious nonconformists and liberals, the unorthodox, the heretics, by the freethinking sceptics, rationalists, agnostic and atheists.

Women of today owe an enormous debt to the freethinking founders and foremothers of the women’s movement who dared question and confront the religious status quo which demand women’s silence, subjection, servitude and unquestioning obedience.

Sue Mayer will be debating the relationship between atheism and feminism, and remembering the freethinking women who challenged religious sway over civil laws and practices so that women may have the rights they possess today.

Sue Mayer is the convenor for London Feminist Freethinkers, a secular feminist group the meets to discuss such issues as where attitudes to women come from, equal representation, pay, pensions and work, women’s role in the family and society, how politics and religion affect women and the family, women’s reproductive rights, autonomy, freedom and equality.

Housmans Bookshop
5 Caledonian Road
King’s Cross
London N1 9DX
Tel: 020 7837 4473

Free entry
Nearest tube: King’s Cross

www.housmans.com
Tel: +44 (0)20 7837 4473
shop email: shop@housmans.com
map: http://tinyurl.com/2oq9vv

//SATURDAY, JUNE 6th & SUNDAY, JUNE 7TH///

ANARCHIST CONFERENCE ‘09

Queen Mary & Westfield College

As the world economy heads deeper into an unprecedented recession, the spectre of social unrest is again spreading across Europe and the World. In the UK we have experienced an extended holiday from wide-spread class struggle as social democracy and capitalism worked hand in hand to maintain social peace. But as the guarantees of the banks have gone, so too have the guarantees that the state can manage the emerging social conflict, which could potentially turn into social rebellion unseen in the UK for decades.

So, where does that leave the Anarchist Movement? Are we relevant? Do we exist in a form coherent enough to actually be called a movement? Are we progressing? The Anarchist Movement Conference is a chance to put our ideas on the table and rebuild ourselves. The barriers that exist need to be broken down, the experiences and ideas of those involved in anarchist politics need to be shared, discussed, critiqued and debated. The task is urgent, practical and necessary – are we as a movement mature enough to face the challenge?

How and where should we organise? Who are we are speaking to? How do we relate to the wider world as anarchists? These are some of the discussions that might happen during the course of the weekend. We want this conference to be a historical turning point, a point where we manage collectively to come together to look at the problems and work towards the solutions. Anarchists from every federation, network and local group, those involved in diverse struggles from environmental direct-action to community work, trade unionism to DIY projects – we invite you and encourage you: Claim your place at the table and help make a movement!

If we truly aim to be part of making history we need to remake ourselves as an organised, pragmatic movement to become an effective part of revolutionary change. If we do not learn from the mistakes of the past we are doomed to repeat them. The anarchist ideals of mutual aid, solidarity and the desire to live as equals have been echoed throughout our history, in every country, by women and men, regardless of race or ethnicity. We have a proud history, this conference is both about recognizing where we have come from and organizing where we want to go. Be a part of it!

http://www.conference09.org.uk/index.html

//WEDNESDAY, 13th MAY, 7pm///

DAVID DOUGLASS ‘THE WHEEL’S STILL IN SPIN’

David Douglass, long-time coal miner, union activist and revolutionary, discusses the period from the end of the 60s to the coming to power of Thatcher.

David Douglass was a pitman for 40 years in the coalfields of the Tyne and in South Yorkshire. This book, the second in his trilogy ‘Stardust and Coaldust’, deals with the period from the end of the 60s to the coming to power of Thatcher. In this 15 year period, dramatic events in the world revolution course around the globe. Dave Douglass transports us back to a time conventional histories have tried to forget or bury or rewrite.

It is a political and social history told by a direct participant in the events, and not from some distant hill of academic neutrality. It has deep and insightful cameos of pit work and the recent history of the Miners Union. Douglass joins up the dots, along with some telling insights into the hidden world of underground labour in its harsh and gritty reality.

Throughout the whole story the air of sexual freedoms, which broke free of constraints in the previous decade survive and prosper. This is a time, when the world was up for grabs, the earth resounded to the world revolutionary impulse. The genii were free from the bottle, and the music was up loud. From where we all stand now, that distant period seems dim and becomes dimmer with every new law and every new brick successive governments have placed on the wall. Soon, they hope, no-one will remember how close we came, to finishing with the whole scumbag system of greed, privilege and power.

Housmans are delighted to welcome long-time coal miner, union activist and revolutionary Dave Douglass to discuss his latest book.

For more information about Dave Douglass please visit
http://www.minersadvice.co.uk/dave.htm
http://libcom.org/tags/dave-douglass

Housmans Bookshop
5 Caledonian Road
King’s Cross
London N1 9DX
Tel: 020 7837 4473

//THURSDAY, 14th MAY, 7PM///

LONDON NO BORDERS MEETING

Fortnightly meeting discussing issues around border controls, and planning future actions. More info: http://london.indymedia.org.uk/groups/noborders

LARC
62 Fieldgate Street
London, E1 2ES

//FRIDAY, 15th MAY, 9PM ///

DISSIDENT ISLAND SHOW

It’s show time!! Dissident Island will be broadcasting live at 9pm – so check out the show! Go to our website for more details on how to listen…http://www.dissidentisland.org/

//SATURDAY, 16th MAY, 12noon///

EUROFLASHMOB AGAINST AIRPORT EXPANSION

Saturday 16 May 2009. The day of the Eurovision Song Contest. Join Heathrow Flashmobbers in a Europe-wide Flash Mob – taking place on the same day at 6 airports across Europe.

Flash Heathrow! Flash Paris! Flash Frankfurt! Flash Schipol! Flash Brussels! Flash Dublin!

Each flashmob will be singing Eurovision classics (song-sheets provided), so download your favourite eurovision song onto your ipod or phone and bring your friends, instruments, hats, wigs, and your dancing shoes and let’s party.

Now for the serious bit: airport expansion is seriously bad for local people, increased noise, air pollution, and especially the climate. The aviation industry want to expand airports across the UK and Europe, but opposition is huge, and the scientists are telling us we have to drastically cut emissions if we are to beat climate change. Flashmobs are a fun way to highlight the real opposition there is to expansion at airports across Europe. Here’s another big chance to show our opposition to a 3rd runway at Heathrow.

See you in Heathrow Terminal 1 Departures at 12 noon on the dot!

Tell BAA to get in tune: No Third Runway.

www.euroflashmob.com

Following the announcement that GCHQ are initiating a ‘Mastering the Internet’ programme involving ‘thousands of black box probes being covertly inserted across online infrastructure’ to monitor ‘those who threaten the UK and its interests’, the accommodating folks at RampART have decided to be completely open and transparent about our future plans. So…. the plan to squat the International Space Station and open RampART: Intergalactic Branch is on hold until someone returns our angle grinder. Meanwhile, back at the Mothership…..

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//TUESDAY, 5th MAY, 7PM///

CINEMA LIBRE

Cinema Libre is a chance for people to meet up and discuss there perspectives and share and learn from others in an informal environment. Discussion is open, and we always look forward to all contributions

Each week we bring you a selection of shorts and feature documentaries in an attempt to flesh out the issues and explore the solutions and action needed. Tonight Cinema Libre continues with a round up of the last 4 weeks from the mega uber over re-action by the G20 meltdown Cops to the continuing fight in Greece against the facist cops, from the N.A.T.O. summit Barbecue to the plight of London cleaners demanding fair wages and treatment. As usual there will be tons of other culture jammin’ media to give you that extra skip in your step as
we watch the capitalist system crumble around us.

Remember its still all free so your support is the only currency worth anything and our in-action the only deficit worth worrying about.

//THURSDAY, 7th MAY, 7PM///

CHILLED OUT CAFE

No films, heated debate or debriefs. Just good food from RampART’s favourite cook, music, and good company.

//OTHER UPCOMING EVENTS AT RAMPART///

FRIDAY, 15 MAY
BENEFIT FOR 56A INFOSHOP

SATURDAY 16 MAY
VISTEON WORKERS BENEFIT

END OF MAY – RAMPART BIRTHDAY PARTY!!

We’re five years old this month – which makes us about 500 in social centre years. Bands, DJs, food etc. Date and line up will be announced in next week’s newsletter.

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<* AT THE LIBRARY HOUSE *>
52 Knatchbull road (entrance on Burton rd, behind Minet library) SE5 9QY.
Nearest tubes : Brixton, Oval, Kennington.
Nearest train : Loughborough junction.
Nearest buses : P5 or Brixton road (3/N3, 59, 133/N133, 159/N159, 415.
stop: loughborough road)

Check The Library House Website : http://thelibraryhouse.wordpress.com
<http://thelibraryhouse.wordpress.com/>
The Library House is a social center in Brixton Camberwell
Contact us if you want to be on our mailing list and be informed about the events there :)
libraryhouse..at..lists.riseup.net

**THIS WEEK (4TH-11TH MAY) AT THE LIBRARY HOUSE**

==Tuesday 5th 7.30pm==
*Queer Group Meeting*
A new queer (activist) group has started. It meets twice a month, once in North London (at LARC), and once in South London (at the Library House). The group is very new, so discussion about what it should be and do are still ongoing, but there seems to be a lot of enthusiasm to work on race/anti-racism issues, creating a queer bloc/affinity group for demos and actions, and community education (within our own communities and reaching outwards).

==Tuesday 5th 8pm==
*Weekly Collective meeting*
This is a good chance to talk to the collective if you want to have an event in the space or to find out more about getting involved there

==Wednesday 6th 6pm onwards==
*Cafe Marie + Cinema Libre *
The weekly cafe starts around 6pm with lovingly cooked vegan food and access to the free shop. Friendly folks get together to chat before the films from Cinema Libre at 8pm. Expect a clever mix of political and current event shorts or similarly themed documentaries for most nights. Discussions between films, as well.

==Thursday 7th 7-9pm==
*Capoeira*
We are a group of people sharing and learning some capoeira. We want to have fun while finding our roots The space is rather small but it is great fun as you need to be really aware of your surroundings. We usually 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 you are more than welcome to join us!

**<<== 2a Belgrade Road social centre ==>>**

2a Belgrade Road, Dalston
Belgrade road is a newly opened social space in dalston/stoke newington.
It is collectively run and open to the public. We currently have two weekly events and more to come soon…
*Tuesday 7.30pm life drawing*
naked narcisistic anarchists require people to draw us…
*Thursday 1 – 5pm bike workshop*
Tools and skills available to help you fix/build/pimp your bike

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COAL, COLOMBIA AND HUMAN RIGHTS: THE LONDON CONNECTION

7pm – 9pm Tuesday 5 May

London Mining Network and Colombia Solidarity Campaign, in association with Amnesty International UK, invite you to a public meeting at:

The Human Rights Action Centre, Amnesty International UK, 17-25 New Inn Yard, London EC2A 3EA.

The meeting will be in Breakout Room 1 on the main floor.

Community leader Jose Julio Perez and legal representative Armando Perez will speak about the long struggle of the people of Tabaco, Colombia, to obtain a just settlement from the Cerrejon Coal Company after villagers were violently evicted and their homes demolished to make way for mine expansion in 2001.

Cerrejon Coal is owned by three large mining companies listed on the London Stock Exchange: Anglo American, BHP Billiton and Xstrata. Some of the mine’s coal feeds British power stations. The British-based Colombia Solidarity Campaign and allied groups around the world supported the community in its struggle for justice. In December, 2008, the Tabaco Relocation Committee finally signed an agreement with Cerrejon Coal which should lead to the reconstruction of their community and some compensation for their loss.

What are the pros and cons of the agreement signed? What difficulties lie ahead in implementing it? What lessons might be learned by other communities facing relocation to make way for mining projects? What role can solidarity from London-based groups play in helping communities obtain justice from London-based mining companies? Armando and Jose Julio will give their views and initiate a discussion and sharing of experiences.

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BAE AGM

<http://www.run-riot.com/node/%202504>

Wednesday, 6th May 10am <http://www.run-riot.com/node/%202504>

Queen Elizabeth Conference Centre, Broad Sanctuary, London SW1P 3EE

BAE Systems are one of the biggest arms companies in the world and were investigated by the Serious Fraud Office for bribery until the investigation was halted on national security grounds.

Campaign Against Arms Trade will be outside their AGM for a photo and media opportunity at 10am.  The AGM itself starts at 11am and finishes at 1pm.  For more info, see http://www.caat.org.uk/events/bae-agm-2009.php

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—– Welfare Reform Bill parliamentary briefing —–

Wednesday 6 May 6.30-8.30 pm
House of Commons, Committee Room 12, Westminster, London SW1
ALL WELCOME  Wheelchair access

Deepening our crisis!

Keynote speaker:  Oliver James
Child psychologist and author of bestselling Affluenza

“Parents should be given the option of one of them being paid the national average wage while they give up work to care for children.”

Mothers are the world’s first carers and the first line of defence against poverty, illness and other threats to survival. But the work of mothers and other unwaged carers is not valued or economically supported. We are always in crisis but unlike the banks we are never bailed out.

Unless we act now, the Welfare Reform Bill will force many more families into destitution and even criminalisation, and children into neglect.

Jointly hosted by
Baroness Afshar OBE & John McDonnell MP
The Bill treats mothers as “workless”, and whether single or in couples, requires them to seek work or “progress towards work” as a condition of receiving benefit – and to leave their children at an ever earlier age.
The Bill abolishes Income Support, lowers the Carers and Maternity Allowances, and makes “work-related activity” compulsory for every claimant of “working age” – mothers with small children, people over 60, most people with disabilities or ill-health and their full-time carers.
“Work for your benefits” will force mothers and others to work for £1.73 an hour in supermarkets, etc., bypassing and undermining the minimum wage. Mothers are already among the lowest-paid workers.

Contact: Global Women’s Strike Tel: 020 7482 2496
womenstrike8m@server101.com www.globalwomenstrike.net

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COLOMBIA CARAVANA 2008

Wednesday 6th May 7pm

Launch of Report investigating the treatment of human rights lawyers in Colombia

Hosted by Garden Court Chambers

Speakers:
Mark Cunningham QC (Barrister at Maitland Chambers), Sara Chandler (Council member of the Law Society of England and Wales), Colombian Human Rights Defender

Venue:
Garden Court Chambers
57-60 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London, WC2A 3LJ
Tube: Holborn (Central and Piccadilly lines) 2 minutes walk

Date:
7pm 6th May 2009
Followed by drinks reception

In August 2008 a delegation of forty-two members of the UK legal profession joined an international delegation of lawyers, the ‘Caravana Internacional de Juristas’ in Colombia, as part of a campaign by Colombian human rights lawyers called “No Justice without Lawyers”.

The delegation investigated the life threatening working conditions of human rights advocates and has returned with a commitment to support and to seek International protection for their Colombian colleagues.

The report documents our findings and recommendations.

Free to attend but please RSVP before
RSVP: milliegw@gmail.com

After an eventful G20 the forces of the state seem to be sort of on the back foot!!! So let’s keep up the pressure on those pigs unless they’ve all died from swine flu. Mayday is just round the corner:  let’s show them that we’re not easily scared.


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//TUESDAY, 28 APRIL, 7PM///

CINEMA LIBRE

Cinema Libre is a chance for people to meet up and discuss there perspectives and share and learn from others in an informal environment. Discussion is open, and we always look forward to all contributions

Each week we bring you a selection of shorts and feature documentaries in an attempt to flesh out the issues and explore the solutions and action needed.
Tonight Cinema Libre continues with a round up of the last 4 weeks from the mega uber over re-action by the G20 meltdown Cops to the continuing fight in Greece against the facist cops, from the N.A.T.O. summit Barbecue to the plight of London cleaners demanding fair wages and treatment. As usual there will be tons of other culture jammin’ media to give you that extra skip in your step as we watch the capitalist system crumble around us.
Remember its still all free so your support is the only currency worth anything and our in-action the only deficit worth worrying about.

//THURSDAY, 30 APRIL, 7PM///

MAYDAY CAFE

Mayday is almost here, so come down with your imputs & views about this important time of year comrades! Cafe is running as usual with smart vegan food, drinks, music (hopefully) & info on the various Mayday events (Spachijackers project, SmashEDO in Brighton and more).
Projections:
Ken Loach’s ‘It’s a Free World’
‘On the Verge’

//FRIDAY, 1 MAY, 8PM TIL 6AM///

CROSSING CHANNELS III: A No Borders benefit for transnational solidarity

Featuring live bands:
* Mama Skank – ska/roots
* Jakal – punk/ska/reggae
* Captain of the Rant – acapella/punk/lyrical
* Carbon Town Cryer – gospel/visual/blues
Plus Djs:
* xtrats – drum n bass
* Charlie Chalk (FGC) – drum n bass n reggae
* Plug Jakal and Baba Jonah – reggae

Suggested donation: £5

Refreshments available
All monies raised go towards the Noborder Camp in Calais, 23-29 June 2009

//OTHER UPCOMING EVENTS AT RAMPART///

FRIDAY, 15 MAY
BENEFIT FOR 56A INFOSHOP

SATURDAY 16 MAY
VISTEON WORKERS BENEFIT

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<* EVENTS IN OTHER SOCIAL CENTRES *>

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<* AT THE LIBRARY HOUSE *>

52 Knatchbull road (entrance on Burton rd, behind Minet library) SE5 9QY.
Nearest tubes : Brixton, Oval, Kennington.
Nearest train : Loughborough junction.
Nearest buses : P5 or Brixton road (3/N3, 59, 133/N133, 159/N159, 415.
stop: loughborough road)

Check The Library House Website : http://thelibraryhouse.wordpress.com
The Library House is a social center in Brixton Camberwell
Contact us if you want to be on our mailing list and be informed about the events there :)
ibraryhouse..at..lists.riseup.net

==Wednesday 29th 6pm onwards==
*IRAQI LGBT BENEFIT – Cafe Marie + Cinema Libre *
The weekly cafe starts around 6pm with lovingly cooked vegan food and access to the free shop. Friendly folks get together to chat before the films from Cinema Libre at 8pm. Expect a clever mix of political and current event shorts or  similarly themed documentaries for most nights.
Discussions between films, as well.
All donations will go to Iraqi LGBT
Website : http://iraqilgbtuk.blogspot.com/

==Thursday 30th 7-9pm==
*Capoeira*
We are a group of people sharing and learning some capoeira. We want to have fun while finding our roots The space is rather small but it is great fun as you need to be really aware of your surroundings. We usually 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 you are more than welcome to join us!

==Saturday 2nd 5pm==
*Cafe Marie Philo/creative*
A day for people to share their own philosophical ideas, opinions and anything they want to talk about. Coame and get the ball rolling with whatever is in your mind! (for more details rosesq..at..inbox.lv)

==Monday 4th 6.30-8pm==
*Kundalini Yoga 6-week course*
Kundalini Yoga returns to The Library House for six weeks only. The theme is vitality, Working with breath movement, mantra and meditation we will tap into our infinite energetic reserves and release old debilitating energy.
Monday evenings from April 27th 6-30 to 8pm. Donations appreciated.
Wear loose comfy clothing and bring water and a blanket or something warm to cover you; to relax in. If the weathers nice we’ll be outdoors. Contact Laura 07779 284527 for more details.

==Tuesday 5th 8pm==
*Weekly Collective meeting*
This is a good chance to talk to the collective if you want to have an event in the space or to find out more about getting involved there.

**< 100 FLOWERS SOCIAL CENTRE >**

2a Belgrade Road, Dalston­
Belgrade road is a newly opened social space in dalston/stoke newington.
It is collectively run and open to the public. We currently have two weekly events and more to come soon…
*Tuesday 7.30pm life drawing*
naked narcisistic anarchists require people to draw us…
*Thursday 1 – 5pm bike workshop*
Tools and skills available to help you fix/build/pimp your bike

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UK PEACE ACTIVISTS TO STAGE STRIKE PROTEST IN SUPPORT OF TAMILS

From 10am all day, Wednesday 29 April, Parliament Square, London

Peace activists will be “On Strike Against Genocide” tomorrow in support of the of the British Tamil community whose relatives are under siege in Sri Lanka. Peace Strike is calling on people to respond to the emergency situation in Sri Lanka by taking the day off work, nursery, school, college and university and to gather in Westminster.

Tamil protestors have been in Parliament Square since early April to bring attention to the plight of their people in Tamil Eelam caught up in the military assault by the Sri Lanka Government. Most protesters have relatives who have been seriously injured or killed.

Parameswaran Subramanivan, a 28 year old student on ³hunger strike till death², has lost 10 immediate family members. Doctors have warned that the Tamil student, on hunger strike in Parliament Square for 22 days in protest at the Sri Lankan governments military assault, may have only a week to live. (1)

Maria Gallastegui from Peace Strike said, ŒThousands of Tamil women, children, men, students, young and old have kept up a constant presence in Parliament Square in all weathers, for over 3 weeks. We have been constantly asking British Government officials to discuss the situation and have been absolutely shocked by the indifference to every attempt. The Genocide Prevention All Party Parliamentary Group said they were not interested, and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office have not replied to our emails. It is disgusting how the Tamils in Britain are being ignored.¹

CONTACT
Maria Gallastegui on 07886 662091
http://www.peacestrike.org.uk

NOTES
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/26/tamil-protest-hunger-strike-sri-lanka

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MET POLICE AUTHORITY DEMO 30 APRIL – TOMLINSON’S DEATH WASN’T AN ACCIDENT – STOP POLICE BRUTALITY

Thursday, 30 April: Lobby of the Metropolitan Police Authority meeting on G20 policing, City Hall.

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SPACEHIJACKERS: ‘MAYDAY! MAYDAY!’ at the Bank of England

Date: 01/05/2009
Time: 17:04
Producer: Spacehijackers
Price: Free
Get ready to give up the fight and ceebrate our status as happy prisioners!
Bring along your criminal record.
Surf to http://www.spacehijackers.org
See you at Bank of England [Threadneedle Stree, EC2R 8AH]
There is no place for freedom in an age of terror! We’re watched & tracked. Conversations are monitored. If they want a nation of criminals, then let’s let them have it! Turn yourself in at the Bank of England now.
http://www.run-riot.com/node/%202504

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AMNESTY FOR A FEW OR PAPERS FOR ALL? WHY WE ARE MARCHING ON 4 MAY

PUBLIC MEETING 4.30pm Friday 1st May

Exmouth Arms, 1 Starcross Street, NW1 2HR

Speakers from: Coordinadora Latinoamericana, Turkish and Kurdish communities, Tamil community, Campaign Against Immigration Controls

How to get to the Exmouth Arms from Trafalgar Square
BUS: Trafalgar Square Take the Route Bus 29 from Stop C towards Wood Green Shopping City or Route Bus 24 from Stop C towards Royal Free Hospital / Pond St
WALK: north Charing Cross Road, Tottenham Court Road, cross over Euston Road, right on north side then left on North Gower Street, right onto Starcross Street.
TUBE: Euston, Euston Square or Warren Street (Northern line from Charing Cross)

The Coordinadora Latinoamericana will march on Monday 4th May with the demand:

NO ONE IS ILLEGAL – PAPERS FOR ALL!
We will assemble at 10.00am outside Fusion at the Elephant and Castle, and from there march to Trafalgar Square. Join Us!

Mayor información (Español): 07837949884, 07818667192 (English): 07895085645

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MAYDAY! MAYDAY! MASS STREET PARTY AGAINST WAR AND GREED

SMASH EDO/ITT – SMASH CAPITALISM

Brighton, May 4th 2009.
http://www.smashedo.org.uk/