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5 Caledonian Road, London N1 9DX
Celebrate Jan Woolf’s new book: Stories – short and long- setting ordinary people against big themes; love, war, loss,contemporary politics and the search for fulfilment. Like the author’s first collection Fugues on a Funny Bone they arefunny, witty and acerbic as well as serious. Stormlight includes her Royal Court short play You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know examining the Blair legacy. Stories range from a Rambler’s Christmas day walk, a childless senior sneaking into a mothers’ and babies’ only film, a bitter family argument over the EU referendum, management consultant
wonkery, and the down but not quite out of homeless street life. All are rooted in experience and activism. Jan Woolf is also a playwright. janwoolf.com
Spry, alert and heartful, Jan Woolf’s writing pulses with the quick of life.
Lindsay Clarke
This latest collection from Jan Woolf is like a Swiss army penknife. Each blade is of a different length and intention but all gleam with an incisiveness that will impress even the most casual reader.
Paul Simon, Morning Star.
The evening’s readings will include the short play ‘You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know’ first performed at the Royal Court. Guest actors include Alan Franks.
Entrance free, wine donation, signed books £10 (cash only)
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Thousands of people have been convinced that socialism is possible after years of defeat. This is part of a series of discussions to define what socialism means in the 21st century, hosted by socialists active in the Labour Party, unions and elsewhere.
Mutiny’s Participatory Public Debate
Political Crisis. Climate Crisis.
Time to Organise!
6.30-9.00pm, Tuesday 18 June
Room 3E, Student Central
Malet Street, London WC1E 7HY
Join us to debate how we fight Brexit, Climate Catastrophe, and Corporate Power.
Timetable
6.30pm: Welcome and lead-offs from the panel on creeping fascism, climate catastrophe, and corporate power.
7.00pm: Discussion groups: What sort of socialist organisation do we need to fight back?
7.45pm: Feedback from discussion groups.
8.15pm: General plenary discussion.
8.45pm: The wrap: Where do we go from here?
Chair:
Namaa Al-Mahdi
Human rights campaigner, social media activist, and citizen journalist for the Sudan.
Panellists:
Sabrina Huck
Activist with Labour Campaign for Free Movement, co-chair of Wandsworth Momentum, columnist for Labour List.
Sabrina will introduce on the Euro elections and the Labour electoral meltdown.
Seema Syeda
Labour and Momentum activist, co-author of Creeping Fascism: what it is and how to fight it.
Seema will introduce on Farage, Brexit, and the rise of the Far Right.
Viv Soni
Postgrad student at Sussex University, Labour activist in Spelthorne.
Viv will introduce on the climate crisis and corporate power.
Discussion Group Facilitator:
Simon Hannah
Labour and Momentum activist, joint branch secretary of Lambeth Unison, author of A Party with Socialists in it: a history of the Labour Left.
Wrap:
Neil Faulkner
Archaeologist, historian, author of A Radical History of the World.
Join with the Peterloo Massacre Bi-Centenary March for Democracy in Manchester on Sunday 18th August. Gather at Whitworth Park Oxford Road 11.30 am to set off at 12:00 for Rally at Albert Square.
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National Demonstration
Together Against Trump
Stop the State Visit
June 4 | 12:00
Central London
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Organised by: Together Against Trump »
In early June, Donald Trump is planning to come to the UK. This time, it will be for a full state visit – with processions down the Mall in a golden carriage. But there won’t be any cheering crowds.
Last year, a quarter of a million mobilised to say no to Trump’s politics of hate and division. This time, we will take to the streets in even bigger numbers – to fight for migrant and refugee rights, for women’s rights, against the corporate elites and for the future of our planet.
This demonstration isn’t just about Trump as one man. He is a symbol of the new far right, a politics of islamophobia and anti-semitism, of war and conflict, and walls and fences that are growing around the world.
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Celebrating the legacy of Heathcote Williams
Poet, playwright, activist, conservationist
A writer for this and future ages
Sunday 4 May | 2pm
The Canvas: Vegan Cafe & Creative Venue
42 Hanbury St, London E1 5JL
Sessions led by David Erdos actor, writer, illustrator, director,
and Geoff Francis artist, writer, conservationist
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Contact: [email protected]
This workshop will focus on Heathcote Williams’ environmental poetry : Whale Nation, Falling for a Dolphin, Sacred Elephant, Autogeddon – and will take a variety of forms:
– initial discussion groups
– writers workshops
– self contained study sessions
– theatrical rehearsals leading to a series of small scale mounted readings, events and productions .
Come and learn about the genius of an epic poet for this and every age. Connect your own creativity with those of this legendary writer in this new initiative aimed at connecting the world to the word.
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London Demonstration
Tuesday 3rd December 2019 at 12:00
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Hosted by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and the Stop the War Coalition
Donald Trump is set to visit London in December for the next NATO Heads of State summit.
NATO, as an aggressive and expansionist nuclear and military alliance, plays a dangerous global role – it’s still in Afghanistan 18 years on and is expanding into Latin America. The summit will be a crucial opportunity for our movement to oppose Trump’s nuclear warmongering and interventionist agenda.
The exact location has not yet been announced, but we must begin building the mobilisation now so the movement is ready to take action in December. Let’s unite against war and military aggression and ensure President Trump’s visit to Britain will be met with the response that it deserves.
Protest: No Nuclear War
Thurs 28 Oct | 17:00-18:30
Downing Street
London, SW1
Organised by: Stop the War Coalition and CND Facebook Event »
In his debut speech at the UN, Donald Trump vowed to “totally destroy North Korea” if it threatens the US or its allies. The North Korean foreign minister responded that North Korea will consider detonating a hydrogen bomb “of unprecedented scale” in the Pacific Ocean. The US has begun to fly bombers and fighter jets off the coast of North Korea in a show of force.
We are alarmed by the threat of nuclear war in North East Asia and the wider Pacific region. North Korea continues to test nuclear weapons and missiles in defiance of the international community, while the US and its allies continue provocative actions, threats and exercises in or near North East Asia and the Pacific. There is a real danger that these actions will lead to the use of nuclear weapons by intention or miscalculation. There are no safe hands for nuclear weapons and any detonation of a nuclear device would be a humanitarian catastrophe with global impacts. Threatening and isolating the North Korean regime risks escalating the conflict rather than encouraging solutions.
We urge the UK Government to use all appropriate diplomatic, international and legal means to end nuclear threats, to push for negotiations with North Korea and a return to the Six-Party Talks involving China, North Korea, South Korea, Japan, Russia and the US. Both immediate and longer term solutions are needed including creating a zone free of nuclear weapons in North East Asia, a process to address the underlying causes of regional insecurity and conflict on the Korean Peninsula, and the promotion of peace, development and cooperative co-existence and security for all peoples in the region.
We call on the UK Government to reject a military solution to the conflict and urgently use its influence to press for all involved to avoid and refrain from further provocative rhetoric or military exercises and tests.
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Tories Out National Demonstration & Festival
30 Sept – 04 Oct | Manchester |
Sun 01 Oct National Demonstration | 12:00 – 16:00
Castlefield Bowl | Rice St | Manchester M3 4JR
Organised by: The People’s Assembly Against Austerity »
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A series of gigs, parties, rallies, meetings, screenings, comedy nights, educational events, and a National Demonstration on Sunday 1 October, in the city to let the Tories know that we won’t rest until we have chased them out of office.
“How dare the Tories come to our city?! A city annihilated by their cuts.” was how actor and friend of the People’s Assembly Maxine Peake put it last year. 2017 is the time to remind the Tories they are still not welcome in this great city.
The main hub of activity for the week will the The People’s Assembly Event Marquee in the centre of town – Piccadilly Gardens. The marquee will host public meetings, book launches, workshops and more throughout the week.
Click here for full details of the Take Back Manchester Festival
Eric Ashby and Heathcote Williams
Anima: Celebrating Two Wildlife Heroes
Eric Ashby and Heathcote Williams
Saturday 30 September | 10 am – 5 pm
Village Community Centre
Highwood Road | Brockenhurst,
Hampshire SO42 7RY
Anima Event includes nearly 30 stalls, workshops, talks, films, an art exhibition, and lots of good eats which won’t cost the earth. Discover how individual lifestyles affect our earth and the animals we share it with. See how we can take action in our own lives plus actively support organisations on the front line.
Entrance to Anima is a suggested donation of £2.50 per person and £5 for a family.
Anima Event will benefit the environmental charity No More Dodos, which uniquely uses Art and Sport to inspire individual action to bring about change for the good of the planet.
Eric Ashby 1918 – 2003, conservationist and prolific filmmaker, shared his love of the New Forest with the world through his wildlife films, many of them made for the BBC. He believed that wild animals should be filmed behaving naturally, and his high standards of still photography and film-making in the wild became his hallmark. His numerous films included The Unknown Forest, A Hare’s Life, A Forest Diary, The Private Life Of The Fox, and the biographical The Silent Watcher.
Heathcote Williams 1941-1917, poet, playwright, essayist, actor, artist, magician, political activist and much else besides, was described as a ‘polymathic English genius’ in his Guardian obituary. He was admired by Al Pacino, Harold Pinter, Ted Hughes, Mike Figgis, Derek Jarman, Ralph Steadman , Jeremy Hardy and literally hundreds of other leading figures in the arts world, who found inspiration in his work. He wrote many epic poems celebrating animals and the planet and questioning what we are doing to it, the most famous being the bestseller Whale Nation. Anima will be showing performances of a number of his poems on a screen in the art exhibition. This will include The Last Dodo, a poem he wrote inspired by the mission of No More Dodos for whom he was an arts ambassador. More about and by Heathcote Williams here…