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London: July events at 56a Infoshop
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
Waving, not drowning: rampART 2009 and beyond
from email, 11 January 2009: "Despite rumours to the contrary, rampART Social Centre and Creative Space is very much alive, well and ready to connect. We’ve had our problems over the past year, not least because we’ve been preparing for an eviction that hasn’t happened. Bowl Court was amazing but, ultimately, devastating. In its short life it showed us what a social centre can potentially realise but it also took energy and resources away from rampART and left us with a building in dire need of renovation and an exhausted and dissipated collective. So much for the past. Now for the future….." more
London Zine Symposium 2008, 27 April
from email, 24 April 2008: This year the Zine Symposium has moved to a bigger location with more stalls, workshops and events happening during the day. There's over 35 stalls, spread across two large rooms, selling a wide variety of zines, comix, small press creations, and revolutionary literature. more
TAA: Location for Temporary Autonomous Art Brighton announced + events list
from email 3 April,2008: We are in the building, come on down to 105 Wellington Road, Portslade. THS building on the corner of Church Road and Seafront Road: bring your artwork early to grab a space. more
Space is The Place: Sidestepping The Property Ladder, 11-13 April London
from email, 19 March 2008: This is a one-off event in a new venue which will form part of the April days of international action in support of autonomous spaces. A weekend-long social centre in London in an occupied space to coincide with the Europe-wide days of action in defence of free spaces and for an anti-capitalist popular culture. more
Street Blitz: London, 1 - 15 May 2008
from email, 18 March 2008: London again becomes a canvas for your bleeding 'art as the 2 week open-festival of street art and creative subversion returns to the capital. Start preparing your artwork now because the organisers are planning for this to be the one that really kicks it off! The basic premise is that you install your art on the streets and then marks its location on the map on the Street Blitz website. more
Abolishing the Borders from Below #31 (February 2008) is out!
from Czytelnik CIA, 3 March 2008: International anarchists collective from Berlin published in last days of February 2008 next issue of its excitingly irregular magazine “Abolishing the Borders from Below - an anarchist journal from Eastern Europe”. The main chapters in this issue are militarisation in Eastern Europe, facing repression, labour struggles. more
Temporary Autonomous Art comes to Brighton in a derelict space near you: 2-5 April 2008
from email, 26 January 2008: TAAs are free, open access art exhibitions that take place in disused and reclaimed spaces throughout the UK. Next meeting at the [Brighton] Cowley Club on 5th March. Come along and find out a bit more about TAA's and offer your skills and experience. Get involved! more
MAYDAY Magazine launch weekend: Fri 26 & Sat 27 October 07
from email, 24 October 2007: MAYDAY Magazine is a newly published anarchist journal. It was formed out of the need to develop political and practical ideas around the movements we are involved in. From anti-fascism, social centres, migrant and no border struggles to the legacies and histories of class struggle in the UK . The intention is to bring together all our experiences and bring radical anti-capitalist and anarchist ideas to a wider audience. more
"Voices of Resistance from Occupied London" + G8 special
Autumn 2007, 48pp. Free! Themed "Urban Struggles and Revolts around the World" our new issue contains articles on Copenhagen's Ungdomshuset, the French riots of 2005, contributions by Georgy Katsiaficas and Richard Pithouse, a 20-page G8-special, illustrations by Leandros and much, much more. more
Manchester Temporary Autonomous Arts Exhibition, 24-27 October 2007
from email, 9 October 2007: Following the success of last years extravaganza in Manchester's Northern quarter... it's happening again! The 2nd annual Temporary Autonomous Arts festival in Manchester 24-28th October 2007. Once again Manchester is joining the tide of collective groups coming together to create a cultural, interactive autonomous space where people are free to be, free to create and free to express themselves. more
27th London Anarchist Bookfair - 27 October 2007
Saturday 27 October 2007, Queen Mary & Westfield College, Mile End Road, London E1
Books, speakers, meetings, workshops, films, exhibitions, food, creche and much more. We've got space for stalls, meetings, film and cabaret. Crash space at Ramparts (25 minutes away).
As well as the creche there will be a space for older kids. Get in touch if you want a stall or to run a meeting - or just turn up on the day with thousands of others.
Annual unseemly scuffle with the police outside has yet to fully (dis)organised. more
Police station gets good spanking after interfering with party
Fifteen people have been arrested after a police station was attacked by a mob of around 100 people who hurled beer and wine bottles at the building... The siege in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, took place after three people had been arrested on suspicion of driving a vehicle which had sound equipment on board, Norfolk Police said. more
'Europe: Communities of Resistance' @ Ramparts Thursday 12th July
Europe: Communities of Resistance, 7:30 pm 12th July @ Rampart: A night of debate and movies about the National Social Forum of the Banlieues with invited participants from London No Borders.
Between the 22, 23 and 24 june 2007 in St.Denis, Paris, there was a National Social Forum of the Banlieues. The event was attended by lots of different local grassroot movements. more
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Reclaim the Future 5: A vast day/night party event in a liberated, occupied space in London, 5 September 2009
from email, updated 6 September 2009: "Reclaim the Future 5 is a vast all-day all-night information and party event in a liberated, self-managed occupied venue somewhere in London on Saturday 5 September 2009.
* At least two rooms of live bands 9pm-4am
* DJs 4am-7am
* Cabaret * Workshops and stalls all afternoon - info on the arms trade, the G20, prisoner & detainee support, squatting, samba, permaculture, climate change, bike repair, and more... more
Police Review: magazine cartoon - "In staggeringly poor taste"
from J4J campaign, 18 November 2008: We would imagine that, in the midst of the inquest into the death of Jean Charles de Menezes, publications aimed at and widely read by serving police officers would show greater sensitivity in the way they talk about fatal shootings by the police. But evidently not. The magazine "Police Review", in its 14 November edition, decided that the introduction of new rules preventing firearms officers from conferring after a shooting was best illustrated by this appalling cartoon. more

