WOMBLES - Benefits / Events

Anarcha-feminist Gathering, Manchester 10-11 April 2010

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:56:43 +0000

from email, 9 March 2010: "Saturday April 10 and Sunday April 11 2010, Manchester Student Union - Anarcha-feminists in Manchester, including the Anarchist Federation Women's Caucus, present two days of discussions, workshops, skill-sharing and fun for people of all ages and genders! Whether you're a committed activist, dipping a toe in the waters or just interested in finding out what anarcha-feminism is, there will be something here for you..." more

London No Borders / Calais Migrant Solidarity Benefit, 26 February 2010

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 18:40:41 +0000

from email, 21 February 2010: Benefit gig for No Borders / Calais Migrant Solidarity at 195 Mare Street, Hackney. 6pm onwards: Food / Film / Info, 8pm - 2am: Music, including - Captain of the Rant (A'capella / Punk / Lyrical) - 52 Commercial Road (experimental / post-rock) - Rabies Babies (punk / rock / thrash) - Jakal (punk / reggae / ska) - Deferred Sucess (acoustic / folk / punk) - Plus more to be confirmed! Come along top get more info No Borders / Calais Migrant Solidarity..." more

Guy Fawkes Night, 5 November 2009, Parliament Square, London

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:56:08 +0000

from Guy Fawkes, 5 November 2009:

Big political party on Parliament Square, November 5th, 9pm

This is going to be huge. be there at Parliament Square! more

London Anarchist Bookfair, Saturday 24 October 2009

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:14:07 +0000

from friends, 3 October 2009: "This year's London Anarchist Bookfair will be held on Saturday 24th October 2009, from 10am to 7pm. The venue for this year's London Anarchist Bookfair, for the 3rd year running, is Queen Mary & Westfield College, Mile End Road, London, E1 4NS.

This year, apart from the wide variety of anarchist groups and individuals having meetings, we are hoping to have a few surprises. Watch this space.

We need help publicising the bookfair far and wide this year. We want to get more people along to find out what we all do and say. We want to aim at those who may not have heard much about anarchism, apart from the rubbish on the TV... more

InfoUsurpa: London Social Centre event listings, 1st - 7th March 2010

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 16:26:32 +0000

from email, updated 1 March 2010: "InfoUsurpa is a regular weekly listing of events, gigs, benefits and radical meetings happening in social centres, free spaces in London and beyond..." more

London: World Music Festival - anti-fascist benefit night, 16 September 2009

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 17:23:57 +0000

from email, 15 September 2009: "7pm till 3am, £5.00 on the door, at Charlie Wright's Bar, 45 Pitfield Street, London N1 6DA +++ Live bands include: London Afrobeat Collective, The Vamp, Babar Luck, The Moombas; PLUS Pigsnoots - DJs on the decks playing the best of 50's and 60's jazz, rhythm and blues, rock'n'roll, reggae, ska, latin, afrobeat, boogaloo and the wildest funk jams. All money raised goes to anti-bnp, anti-racist and autonomous anti-fascist activities..." more

London Key Party: Where does this key fit? Saturday 19 September 2009

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:51:15 +0000

from email, 19 September 2009: "Saturday 19 September 2009 / London / 22:00. Location: Key Party, Non Commercial House, 165 Commercial Street, London E1 6BW. Benefit gig to buy a keycutter machine for the squatting movement!

It is a de-privatization of a service - getting things out of the market, by building alternative, autonomous infrastructure that anyone can use to copy their own keys :)

This is a response for the call-out for 2 days of direct action on the 18th & 19th September 2009 around housing and the creation of more autonomous spaces at this time of crisis..." more

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

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 18:58:15 +0000

from email, updated 5 September 2009: Location announced! 454-490 Mile End Rd, London E1 4PE, nearest tube Mile End Rd (Central Line), bus 25, 205, 277.

"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.

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..." more

EDO Decommissioners update & benefit bash, Friday 4 September 2009

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 17:44:26 +0000

from bristolabc, 3 September 2009: "As the legal case around the 6 Bristol EDO Decommissioners grows ever more complicated, there’s timely news of another benefit for their support campaign this Friday, 4 September, from 8.30pm at The Plough.

These benefits help pay for publicity and research in defence of the six, along with some travel costs and of course prisoner support – Elija (James) Smith is still on remand remember, nearly 8 months in jail without a trial..." more

"Talk to us, not about us" - Abahlali baseMjondolo movement in Hackney, 4-5 September 2009

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 23:39:51 +0000

from LCAP, updated 3 September 2009: "Fifteen years after the end of apartheid, poverty and inequality in South Africa have increased. Durban’s shack dwellers started to build a movement in 2005 and Abahlali baseMjondolo is now the largest social movement of the poor in post-apartheid South Africa. BENEFIT Fri 4 Sept 7.30pm-2am @ the Belgrade Social Centre, 2a Belgrade Rd, London N16. TALK Sat 5 Sept 3-5.30pm @ Navarino Mansions Community Hall, Dalston Lane, London E8..." more

Whitechapel, London: Spitalfields Fair is coming... See you Sunday 26 July 2009

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:49:09 +0000

from email, 23 July 2009: "The Spitalfields Fair is coming!

As living standards slide back to 1900 levels we are reviving the traditional east end knees up this SUNDAY 26TH JULY at 12 Noon.

Throughout the day there will also be live musicians, sound systems, market traders, cake stalls, piñatas, face painting, man in the stocks, gypsy tarot reader, coconut shy and lots, lots more! All the fun of the fair!

Come in fancy dress, the theme is the ghost’s of the east end returning, so anything from a street urchin, suffragette, pirate, plague victim, magician to opium addict. Best dressed wins a prize!

See you SUNDAY 26TH JULY! Please everyone try and turn up 12 Noon on the dot so we can kick off with a big bang..." more

London: July events at 56a Infoshop

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:26:49 +0000

from 56a, updated 18 July 2009: "56A Zine Library Launch and Benefit Weekend, Saturday 25th July - Launch Party Music & Distros at The Grosvenor in Stockwell 7.30pm. Music from: Jean Genet, Husbands, Chaps and Candy Panic Attack :: Sunday 26th July at 56a - Pancake breakfast from 12 noon. Workshops, discussions, exhibition, zine library browsing, general hanging out. Specific activities confirmed; self published comics discussion, practical squatting and bike fixing workshops..." more

Musta Pispala - Black Pispala: Anarchist counter-cultural festival in Tampere, Finland, 10-12 July 2009

Sun, 28 Jun 2009 01:15:39 +0000

from Czytelnik CIA, updated 10 July 2009: "The 4th Musta Pispala will offer practical and theoretical workshops, parties, sauna, book fair and children's activities in the unique setting of Tampere, Finland.

Through the workshops in the festival you can get familiar with topics such as basics of anarchism and anarcha-feminism. There will be a couple of workshops on anarchist parenting and unschooling. Anti-psychiatry criticizes mainstream views on mental problems, and offers alternatives for mental care...

Our analysis is not limited only to human relations. It also includes our relationships with non-human beings. Our aim is to strengthen critical views and empowerment in the form of taking control of our lives. Kill the police within!..." more

Benefit for the Anarchist Movement Conference @ the Boston Arms, 16 May 2009

Fri, 15 May 2009 16:38:37 +0000

from email, 12 May 2009: Saturday 16 May 2009. 4pm till late @ Boston Arms, 178 Junction Road, Tufnell Park, London, N19 5QQ. Nearest tube: Tufnell Park, Northern Line. Many buses too! £5 before 7pm, £7 after
- Defcon Zero - Bottlejob - Condition Dead - Bug Central - Refuse/All - ICH - Flowers of Flesh & Blood - Armed Response Unit
++ plus stalls
The Anarchist Movement Conference is a chance to put our ideas on the table and rebuild ourselves. 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? more

Free events at 56a Infoshop - films & zine nights, May 2009

Fri, 15 May 2009 11:48:22 +0000

from email, updated 11 May 2009: "LONDON: This May we got three events in our small but perfectly formed Social Centre space:
- the film 'Chop Shop' (Sunday 17 May) directed by Ramin Bahrani;
- a night of dystopian sci-fi films - 'Idaho Transfer' and 'Soylent Green' - to get you scared for the future (Tuesday 19 May);
- plus a night of readings and chat from two US zine writers and zine librarians Alex Wrekk and Robb Roemershauser (Wednesday 20 May)..." more