Reclaim the Future 5: RTF5 Collapse of Capitalism Special! Saturday 5 September 2009

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from email, updated 6 September 2009:

For a report on the event, see:
https://london.indymedia.org.uk/articles/2299

Reclaim the Future 5 is a vast all-day, all-night event in a liberated, self-managed occupied venue somewhere in London. Info stalls and workshops all day on topics like the arms trade, borders, alternative radio and video activism, followed by cabaret, bands and DJs until morning.

Location announced!

454-490 Mile End Road (old car showroom)
London E1 4PE (map)
Opposite Queen Mary's university, just west of the Regent Canal, on the south side of Mile End Road

* tube Mile End (Central Line line only running) 5 min walk
* bus 25 Oxford Circus - City - Mile End - Stratford - Ilford (24 hour)
* bus 205 Paddington - King's Cross - Mile End - Bow (24 hour)
* bus 277 Highbury - Hackney Central - Mile End - Limehouse (24 hour)

Doors open 1pm

Phone numbers for location on the day:
* 07758 119 655
* 07729 178 836

Help wanted - volunteers! Tat wanted: Lights, kitchen tat, tables, chairs, banner materials, paint, banners and arts, displays, cleaning stuff, basic tools, brooms, fire extinguishers, first aid kits, polyprop, gaffer tape...

At least two rooms of live bands 9pm-4am

Bands already confirmed:

o Gertrude
o Rabies Babies
o Headjam
o 52 Commercial Road [no, not the RTF address]
o KADT (album launch)
o Dropping Bombs
o Defcon Zero
o Bottle Job
o King Salames and the Cumberland 23
o Refusal

and likely...
o Bug Central
o Babaluck

# DJs 4am-7am
# Cabaret stage:

* Live cabaret
* 2 Up Sound System
* Drum and Bass DJs

# Live internet radio broadcast by Dissident Island Radio
# Cafe area, vegan food
# Bar
# Cinema all day and night
# Art spaces, exhibitions

Workshops 1:30 - 7pm

* 1.30-3pm Dissident Island Radio, how to do internet radio
* 1.30-6pm London Campaign Against Arms Trade
* 1.30-6pm Bike repair workshop - 56a and Bicycology(?)
* 3pm-4pm Zoe, filmmaker with Indymedia, on rethinking finance and networking alternative media using open source software'
* 4pm-5.30pm Corporate Watch - Olympics
* 4pm-5pm Anarcha feminists - title tbc
* 5pm-6pm International Times archive
* Q & A with Mike Lesser former editor of radical fortnightly International Times (1966-1986) on its complete archive recently launched on www.internationaltimes.it
* 5.30-6pm London No Borders Calais camp report back
* 6pm-7pm Corporate Watch - NETCU (National Extremism Tactical Coordination Unit)
* 6pm-7pm Bristol Commutiny on Bristol Co-Mutiny event 12-18 September comutiny.wordpress.com

Stalls 1pm-7pm

* Active Distribution radical literature, T-shirts, merchandise
* Corporate Watch
* London No Borders
* In Defence of Ancient Forests
* East London Hunt Sabs
* Advisory Service for Squatters (A.S.S.)
* Haringey Justice for Palestineans (tbc) Palestinean handicrafts for sale
* FITWATCH
* Schnews
* Past Tense Publications/ Radical History Group
* Haringey Solidarity Group
* NO ID gallery T-shirts, screenprints
* Smash EDO
* Freedom Bookshop
* London CAAT
* Animal Rescue
* Dissident Island Radio

* Help wanted - volunteers
* Tat wanted - Lights, kitchen tat, tables, chairs, banner materials, paint, banners and arts, displays, cleaning stuff, basic tools, brooms, fire extinguishers, first aid kits, polyprop, gaffer tape...

Benefit for anti-capitalist and anti-militarist causes, prisoner support.
("This time we're really, really skint.")

General enquiries:
reclaiminfo@yahoo.co.uk

Booking enquiries for stalls and workshops:
rtfworkshops@yahoo.co.uk

See http://www.rts.gn.apc.org and Indymedia for updates soon

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