Benefits / Events

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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