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Under the Moon: The Argonauts and Wages for Housework
Under the Moon: The Argonauts and Wages for Housework
Under the Moon returns at 7pm on Wednesday 28th October to consider domestic rebellions and the home as a site of struggle, misery, and pleasure. We will be reading excerpts from Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts (2015) alongside documents drawn from MayDay Rooms’ ‘Wages for Housework’ and ‘Dissenting Ephemera-Women’s Liberation Movement’ collections. The Argonauts is a work of memoir and auto-theory that explores Nelson’s experience of parenting, pregnancy and queer-family […]
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Babel’s Blessing
Babel’s Blessing
Weekly language classes: Yiddish (beginners and intermediate) Arabic (beginners spoken) Israeli Hebrew (beginners and improvers) Adult batmitzvah class For more information, visit: https://babelsblessing.wordpress.com/
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CCW Tracers + Year of Resilience (Chelsea, Camberwell and Wimbledon)
CCW Tracers + Year of Resilience (Chelsea, Camberwell and Wimbledon)
Researchers on anthropogenic impact from Chelsea College of Arts (University of the Arts London) and CCC: HEAD (Geneva University of Art and Design) will meet to discuss their ongoing collaboration. They will consider in particular their work on walking as an art research method. Two saunters will be reviewed and elaborated, one in Geneva in […]
Film Screening: Squatters (1970) & All Work and No Pay (1976)
Film Screening: Squatters (1970) & All Work and No Pay (1976)
Squatters (1970) 17 minutes Furthering the series of monthly screenings of recently digitised material MDR invites you to a screening of Cinema Action's short film Squatters (1970). This marks the first fruits of MDR's working relationship with Platform Films in bringing back into view this collective's rich vein of political filmmaking. Other Cinema Action films […]
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The 2015 W.A.G.E. Summit: Individual Certification (closed event)
The 2015 W.A.G.E. Summit: Individual Certification (closed event)
On November 1-2, W.A.G.E. convenes at MayDay Rooms to establish the policy for Individual W.A.G.E. Certification. Under this program, individuals will be “certified” on the basis of their commitment to work only with organizations that pay fees according to standards established by W.A.G.E. through its certification program. Initiated and operated by W.A.G.E. and launched […]
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The 2015 W.A.G.E. Summit: Individual Certification (closed event)
The 2015 W.A.G.E. Summit: Individual Certification (closed event)
On November 1-2, W.A.G.E. convenes at MayDay Rooms to establish the policy for Individual W.A.G.E. Certification. Under this program, individuals will be “certified” on the basis of their commitment to work only with organizations that pay fees according to standards established by W.A.G.E. through its certification program. Initiated and operated by W.A.G.E. and launched […]
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Red-Green Study Group meeting
Red-Green Study Group meeting
The Red-Green Study Group has been meeting every couple of months for over two decades. We came together originally to explore convergences and conflicts between red and green political traditions, and we continue this work to this day. We believe that both traditions have much to learn from each other, sharing a common enemy – […]
On/Off Allotments
On/Off Allotments
On Saturday November 7, 2015, MayDay Rooms, along with three of the founding members of Four Corners (Jo Davis, Ron Peck and Wilf Thust) will screen and discuss their 1976 film, On Allotments*. Shot on location in Newham East London, On Allotments might be regarded as a companion piece to the earlier Four Corners film, […]
Southern Insurgency: The Coming of the Global Working Class
Southern Insurgency: The Coming of the Global Working Class
Manny Ness in conversation about his new book 'Southern Insurgency: The Coming of the Global Working Class' The site of industrial struggle is shifting. The West needs to look further if it wants to understand how workers' self-organisation is developing in countries it too often ignores. Across the Global South, peasant communities are forced off […]
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AltMFA
AltMFA
Founded in 2010, AltMFA is an alternative 'Master of Fine Art' course established by artists for artists as a free alternative to studying a university-based MA in London. The course has no fixed premises; our programme takes place in a range of private and public venues. Meetings are every Monday night between 6.30pm and 9.30pm. […]
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Aint I A Woman Collective: Academically speaking, black feminism….
Aint I A Woman Collective: Academically speaking, black feminism….
The Ain't I A Woman Collective is a black feminist organisation, which aims to centre the voices of women with African ancestry in Europe and beyond. We believe that there is a need for more creative spaces for black women's voices, writing and well-being, and work to constantly carve out such space. The overarching aim […]
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Babel’s Blessing
Babel’s Blessing
MDR Hosted Weekly language classes: Yiddish (beginners and intermediate) Arabic (beginners spoken) Israeli Hebrew (beginners and improvers) Adult batmitzvah class For more information, visit: https://babelsblessing.wordpress.com/
Babel’s Blessing
Babel’s Blessing
MDR Hosted Weekly language classes: Yiddish (beginners and intermediate) Arabic (beginners spoken) Israeli Hebrew (beginners and improvers) Adult batmitzvah class For more information, visit: https://babelsblessing.wordpress.com/
Babel’s Blessing
Babel’s Blessing
MDR Hosted Weekly language classes: Yiddish (beginners and intermediate) Arabic (beginners spoken) Israeli Hebrew (beginners and improvers) Adult batmitzvah class For more information, visit: https://babelsblessing.wordpress.com/
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CARAT: Afrika In Debt Bondage
CARAT: Afrika In Debt Bondage
The CAFA Archival Resources Action Team (CARAT), in collaboration with the All-Afrikan Networking Community Link for International Development (AANCLID), extends this special invitation to you to join us from 6pm to 10 pm on Friday, 13th November 2015 for a Consultative Dialogue on the theme "AFRIKA IN DEBT BONDAGE: A Global Justice Matter of Freedomfighting […]
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Concrete Action Organisational Meeting
Concrete Action Organisational Meeting
Concrete Action is a platform for architecture and planning professionals to support communities fighting for a liveable city. If you're interested in getting more involved, please come to our first post-launch meeting. We are looking for people who have enthusiasm and ideas, planning and architecture knowledge helpful but not necessary. Please RSVP interest to concreteaction@riseup.net
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Under the Moon: ‘I am hitting my head against the walls, but the walls are giving way’
Under the Moon: ‘I am hitting my head against the walls, but the walls are giving way’
The next meeting will focus on music and politics, texts to be announced soon. Email weareunderthemoon@gmail.com to join the mailing list or for more information. Find us on facebook. And visit http://weareunderthemoon.tumblr.com/
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Futures: Social
Futures: Social
Some lessons from the Paris Commune We will be talking about issues raised by the book Communal Luxury by Kristin Ross possibly organised around the themes of: 1. the proletarian clubs 2. theory as process 3. the realisation of art and abolition of labour? and maybe 4. how do we react to inspiring struggles elsewhere? […]
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Film Screening: Cinema in East London (Four Corners 1979)
Film Screening: Cinema in East London (Four Corners 1979)
To compliment the screening and work with On Allotments earlier this month, November's MDR Screening will focus on Four Corners' account of the birth, growth and ultimately, demise of Cinema culture in the East End of London. This collective work takes the form of a tape/slide presentation and was made by Four Corners with the […]
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ASH. Collective Reading of the Tory Housing Bill
ASH. Collective Reading of the Tory Housing Bill
ASH (Architects for Social Housing) have organised a collective reading of the Tory Housing and Planning Bill, from which we will produce a written statement from the position of the housing movement. We aim to produce a short summary of its contents and their implications, and distribute this as widely as possible among the people who […]
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Militant Technics: With aaaaarg.org/Public School, Public Library, Memory of the World and MayDay Rooms.
In early December Sean Dockray (Aaaaargh/Public School), Marcell Mars and Tomislav Medak (Mama/Memory of the World), Sebastian Luetgert and Jan Gerber (Pando.ra/Pirate Cinema) and members of MayDay Rooms (MDR) will assemble at 88 Fleet Street, London. Across a series of meetings and workshops we will address the relationship between technics and struggle, or to be […]
Anti-Academia Workshop
Anti-Academia Workshop
There is a growing sense that there is something going wrong in universities. We can do something about this. This workshop is motivated by a desire to explore education for its own sake. Join academics and activists to hear about how other people have tried to do things differently, and share ideas about your hopes […]
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