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Living Maps Network Reading Groups
Living Maps Network Reading Groups
A reading group on critical cartography set up to supplement the seminars. The group meets monthly on the second Wednesday of each month. Participants don’t have to know a whole lot about the field –indeed the point is to explore areas we don’t know much about, as well as to share information and engage in […]
Stop Killing Londoners – Cut Air Pollution
Stop Killing Londoners – Cut Air Pollution
"Stop Killing Londoners – Cut Air Pollution" is a new direct action campaign in London demanding an 80% reduction in air pollution by 2018. The government authorities have been in the pocket of private corporate interests for too long and allowing illegal levels of pollution to continue – which now kill 10,000 people each year […]
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Recording Resistance Symposium
Recording Resistance Symposium
What vulnerabilities and benefits lay in recording resistance to late capitalism? Through a series of presentations, video pieces and a workshop this one day event examines tensions between the progressive documentation of radical struggles and the surveillance possibilities embedded within current recording technology. Key thinkers in the fields of surveillance studies, radical film and live art […]
MayDay Exhibition Opening
MayDay Exhibition Opening
The 'Recording Resistance' symposium coincides with the opening of a permanent exhibition of material held at MayDay Rooms. These displays showcase a selection of documents, images and ephemera—reflecting the breadth of collections located in the building. While the radical culture that emerged from the late 1960s lies at the heart of this repository, its scope […]
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Harlan County Screening
Harlan County Screening
For this season of The Film is a Weapon screening series, we'll be taking our lead from the Ford Workers' Group film shows for Dagenham workers in the mid 1980s. These screenings brought together films about working class struggles all over the world. Our first screening will be of Harlan County. Here's what "The Combine" […]
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Revolting Bodies #1- Birth + Death
Revolting Bodies #1- Birth + Death
Join us for a series of poetry workshops lead by poet and writer Eleanor Penny. Over three sessions, we'll explore stories of queer and feminine life in resistance - at the kitchen sink, in the bedroom, in the hospital, on the streets. We'll delve into the MayDay archives, looking at queer zines, feminist poetics and […]
Scan-a-thon: Newham Monitoring Project
Scan-a-thon: Newham Monitoring Project
In conjunction with "Thirty Years of Surveillance: The Video Camera as a Weapon" this months Scan-a-thon will focus on our Newham Monitoring Project's U-Matic Tape collection. We will be screening the tapes as we digitise them at the same time. Come and find out about the wonderful world of U-matic and see some amazing footage […]
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Thirty Years of Surveillance: The Video Camera as a Weapon
Thirty Years of Surveillance: The Video Camera as a Weapon
This event will look at the role of archival videos that document and bear witness to past protests and demonstrations in London. We will include videos made in the 1970s and 1980s, held by the London Community Video Archive and MayDay Rooms. A panel discussion following the screening will be framed around how this material […]
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Book Launch of “Uncommon Building”
Book Launch of “Uncommon Building”
This publication has its provenance in an experimental workshop held in Sheffield, UK, in April 2016. Jointly organised by Theatrum Mundi and the School of English at the University of Sheffield, the workshop brought together a multidisciplinary group of creative practitioners, scholars, and theorists and invited them to contribute their expertise to a collaborative archaeology […]
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Screening and Discussion: Diaz – Don’t Clean Up This Blood
Screening and Discussion: Diaz – Don’t Clean Up This Blood
The G8 Summit in Genoa in the summer of 2001 was the culmination of a global wave of anti-capitalist protests, which had begun in the mid-1990s. Activists from around the world converged in the Italian city, and were met by the relentless brutality of a police force significantly composed of fascists. While perhaps the most […]
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America First? – Talk with Gifford from San Francisco about struggles in the Bay Area and in the logistics sector.
America First? – Talk with Gifford from San Francisco about struggles in the Bay Area and in the logistics sector.
America First? – Second season of our series of conversations with comrades in the US about current struggles and organising on the ground. The going gets tough, but there is loads of inspiring stuff happening in the US at the moment. Things we want to understand and learn from. From prison organising to struggles in […]
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Living Maps Network Reading Groups
Living Maps Network Reading Groups
A reading group on critical cartography set up to supplement the seminars. The group meets monthly on the second Wednesday of each month. Participants don’t have to know a whole lot about the field –indeed the point is to explore areas we don’t know much about, as well as to share information and engage in […]
Until Victory Screening
Until Victory Screening
Film about the struggle of workers organized in SI Cobas in the meat industry in Modena, Italy, in the winter of 2016/17. The material was filmed almost exclusively by workers and supporters themselves with their smartphones. It gives an impression of the physical violence and brutality perpetrated against superexploited workers. The meat industry in the Modena […]
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Slack Pussy Session 7
Slack Pussy Session 7
"After Kathy Acker" (2017) by Chris Kraus. Chosen by Paul B. Preciado. "'To lie is to try,' Chris Kraus writes in this examination of the various personae of Kathy Acker, the fucked-up girl from high school who, through lying and trying, became an experimental writer of rare courage and vision. In some ways a contemporary […]
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