Archive for category: Event

• Protest: Bikes Alive 2: This Monday (23rd Jan)

  BIKES ALIVE ANNOUNCES MORE DIRECT ACTION – RETURNS TO KINGS CROSS ON MONDAY 23 JANUARY Bikes Alive – the direct action campaign to resist the violence inflicted on cyclists (and on other people) by motor vehicles – is following up its blockade of the Kings Cross one-way system on Monday 9 […]

   

• Talk: The Green Moment? The Crises of Capitalism and the Response of Progressive Politics: 24th Jan

  The Green Moment? The Crises of Capitalism and the Response of Progressive Politics. Tuesday, 24 January 2012 from 18:00 to 19:30 Sir David Davies Lecture Theatre Roberts Building, UCL, Torrington Place WC1E 7JE Beneath the present financial crisis, modern global capitalism faces deeper anxieties. Climate change threatens irreparable damage to […]

   

• Bikes Alive organising meeting. Thurs 19th Jan

  THURSDAY’S BIKES ALIVE MEETING The meeting of Bikes Alive supporters, announced earlier, is confirmed for 7pm, on Thursday 19 January, in Housmans Bookshop (5 Caledonian Road, Kings Cross, London N1). The meeting is for planning and preparation for the action next Monday, for a bit of strategising about Bikes Alive and similar actions in […]

   

• Lambeth SOS meeting this Thursday

  Hi Everyone, Please try and make it to our planning meeting:Thursday, 19 January, 6.30pm, Vida Walsh Centre, just off Windrush Square, Brixton. We will be discussing building the demonstration and carrying out direct action against the new round of cuts that Lambeth Council will be trying to rubber stamp at […]

   

• Event: Sack Boris this Tuesday (17th)

  First Sack Boris action day on Tuesday – come along and help Thanks to everyone who has arranged to give away our brilliant new fares-focused SACK BORIS oyster wallets this week. Our volunteers will be at stations around London in the morning and evening rush hours on Tuesday, and they’d […]

   

• Meeting: Thinking Critically About NHS Reform

  Westminster Skeptics Thinking critically about NHS Reform When? Monday, January 23 at 7:30PM Download iCalendar file (e.g. import to Outlook or Google Calendar) Where? The Monk Exchange Strutton Ground SW1H 0HW

   

• All star comedy fund-raiser for sexual health

  Join Al Murray and a stellar line-up of guests on the 13th of January 2012 for this one-off charity benefit event. Featuring Helen Arney, David Baddiel, Mitch Benn, Scott Capurro,Richard Herring, Robin Ince, Shappi Khorsandi, Matt Parker, Jay Rayner,Kate Smurthwaite and Catie Wilkins, Sex Appeal will prove, once and for all, that when it comes to comedy, we’d all gladly opt for… More Sex […]

   

• Demonstrate against the abstinence education bill: 20th January

  From the Facebook campaign: Stop Dorries’ abstinence for girls sex education bill. We are asking people to email their MPs to demand that they vote against Dorries’ abstinence education bill at its second reading on 20 January 2012. We will also be demonstrating against the abstinence education bill on the 20th January outside […]

   

• Walks: The Radical East End

  Walks in 2012 East London will be attracting a lot of attention this year with the Olympics. I hope you will want to encourage your friends to take an interest in other aspects of East London such as its rich social and political history! The dates for my first walks […]

   

• Public Meeting: London Keep Our NHS Public. Tues 10th Jan

  LONDON KEEP OUR NHS PUBLIC MEETING TUESDAY 10 JANUARY 7.30pm Camden Town Hall, Judd St, WC1 (Kings X tube) A combination of massive public opposition and lobbying stopped the Health bill in its tracks in the spring of last year. Now we need the same again as early as possible in […]