7.00pm, Wednesday 16th May, Committee Room 10 in Parliament. Outraged by anti-choice abortion clinic protests? Concerned about the counselling plans? Then come to our Pro-Choice public meeting next week and have your say. We are seeing an alarming change of climate at the moment, as activists and politicians opposed […]
Tuesday 8th May: 7pm until 9pm Housmans bookshop, 5 Caledonian Road, Kings Cross, London N1 Non-violence and sport. Discussion and debate led off this monthby Jim Jepps (editor of Big Smoke) Is sport usually just an excuse to indulge our most primitive tribalist instincts? Does the hysteria around many sports events […]
Monday, May 21: 6:00pm Friends Meeting House, Euston Road (opposite Euston Station) It was a moment that changed more than just Olympic history. That it certainly did, forever. most iconic image of the Olympic Games and the Black Power movement also captured the mood, the anger and resistance of 1968. […]
Walk Like a Pirate 2012 – in partnership with Emap Page to sponsor our Piratical Walkers is now up! Click here to sponsor Walk Like A Pirate Current fundraising total is over £1,700! Walk Like A Pirate is a 12 mile walk along the beautiful River Lea and Regent’s canal, […]
Saturday 5th of May: 12 noon until 5pm. Outside the front of St. Paul’s Cathedral. EC4M 8BU. Connect the dots for Climate Impact Day. Come along and have fun with giant twister, picnics, photo exhibition, and more. 2pm: discussion exploring climate impacts. 4pm: big photo stunt. 5pm: film screening […]
Are you the parent of a child, or children, with food allergies? Find it difficult to find where to eat, or what they can eat risk free? Come along to the Food Allergy Parent Support Group, Saturday 30 June, 3-5pm, Stoke Newington, Hackney, N16. So if your child has multiple food […]
Thousands are expected to take part in the ‘Big Ride‘ on Saturday 28 April, when people join together in central London for a fun event with a serious message: the city needs safer streets for cycling. This fully marshalled family-friendly bike ride takes place just days before the mayoral […]
With George Galloway’s surprise victory in Bradford is there a new space opening up for the left? Can the left copy respect’s “Bradford Spring” here in London? This meeting brings together speakers from the progressive left, Labour, the Greens and TUSC to debate the prospects for the left at the […]
Thursday 19th April 2012, 6pm Outside DEFRA, 17 Smith Square, London, SW1P 3JR Walk & Cycle March, Rally and Direct Action Join the event on Facebook SPEAKERS CONFIRMED: Jenny Jones, Green Party London Mayoral Candidate and London Assembly member. Alan Andrews, lawyer for Air Quality issues at Client Earth Join us for […]
Lewisham forager, Darren Flint will be running a wild food cafe for one day only on Sunday 29th April. In the morning we will gather a wealth of wild foodstuffs from around the heart of Deptford. Then we will return to a local community cafe for a series of hands-on cooking […]
Never noticed this before. As strolling past Trafalgar Square I saw the statue of Charles the first....
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