Join us for the launch of Mapped, a tool that integrates with common membership systems to enable more strategic organising.

6:30 PM, Tuesday, April 2 at Pelican House in London
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'Where are the factory gates?' is out now! Our new booklet of extracts from conversations with community organisers. What's the argument for community organising, how is it happening, what are its struggles and failures, how can we win and share power? seedsforchange.org.uk/downloads/wher…

And… we’re on!

Submissions for Antiuni Open Day on 4 May are now open on festival.antiuniversity.org/register

Register your event by until 14 April to be included.

Events around themes of change, transition and distribution of power encouraged!

FACILITATION WORKSHOPS FOR ALL
Are you a new ANTIUNIVERSITY NOW organiser wanting to experiment with a new idea and wanna chat about your event before submitting? Join our facilitation workshops on 3 April, 6:30pm Cooperation Town in Camden.
Register on eventbrite.co.uk/e/antiuni-open…

APNews: Arts Council England (Arts Council England) has updated its policies, warning that 'political statements' made by individuals linked to an organisation can cause 'reputational risk', breaching funding agreements (1/5)

The private rental sector runs on PUBLIC money.

£70bn straight into landlords' pockets for poor-quality and insecure accommodation.

Imagine if that £70bn went into public housing.

The housing crisis is a political choice.

Joan Donovan, PhD 🦫 🏳️‍🌈 speaks about her whistleblower journey on Whistleblower Network News. Important listen if you care about the malicious influence of Big Tech and big money donors at elite universities like Harvard University.

whistleblowersblog.org/features/harva…

Buying local food, from local producers, food coops, isn’t just about reducing your environmental impact. It’s about creating vibrant, local food economies, jobs, opportunities for people to meet the people producing food! Not about perfect carrots from who knows where

Aysen's high court victory this week: a summary 🧵 of the case and some thoughts about it.

First off, what happened?

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civilian to police officer: 'I am the one who called you. I am the one who called you, sir.'

Police officer to civilian: 'Get on the fucking floor. Do as you're fucking told.'

Officer punches civilian in head. Heavy restraint.

PC Jonathan Marsh denies assault by beating 1/

Great article from Co-operative News - music and creative arts #coops are delivering greater equality – both economically and culturally – not just to the co-operative sector, but locally in our communities, nationally and internationally. ⬇️⬇️

Final open events if u wanna find out about TOMA prog for 2024/25!

Online sesh w/ TOMA prog leader emma edmondson / 6.30 Weds 6 Dec

Drop-in open day / Sun 10 Dec The Old Waterworks w/ TOMA artists & Lolly Adams 1-5pm for including drop-in monoprinting workshop. Check bio 4 links.

Come join TOMA!

We’re looking for 15 artists to join the fifth cohort starting in May 2024.

Want to find out more?

~ TOMA programme info including open days ~ toma-art.com/education-prog…

DM if you have any questions and please share far and wide!

🧵Do you know what happens when you don’t pay artists? They stop being able to caring about anything. Currently working 7 days a week 70 hours average & earning below 12k. It’s exhausting you never have security. Why do you do farm work? It pays better and it means I can cover

The list of Palestinians to be potentially released by Israel has 300 names:
—270 children
—30 women
—233 have not been convicted of anything
—21 are accused of throwing stones

‘Disabled people must work from home to do ‘their duty’, says UK minister’.

Picking oakum? Staffing 0898 phone lines? Anything to make them alone and invisible but somehow economically productive. theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/n…

The whole gig economy seems to be the 19th-century ‘you boy’ urchin model with added oppression. What a way to hollow out a workforce and a country.

Priyamvada Gopal © And many of my international students have questioned this lulling and what it means for the Discourse we surround ourselves with on de/anti colonial practices in HE. They are asking serious questions about hypocrisy, double standards, and silence in the academy.

In 1922 Winston Churchill was Colonial Secretary. He explained why the British government was assisting in the creation of what became Israel and, later on, what his attitude was towards the Palestinian inhabitants (the ‘dog in a manger’), and to the Indigenous peoples of…

Setting Up Spaces: “Where Do I Start?” 🤔

Fri 10 Nov 5-7pm @ Little Turf, Keeley Rd
Free & open to all

A talk, workshop + discussion with Natanya Mark, Co-director of F.A.T. Studio and Co-founder of Old Kent Road Arts Club.

turf-projects.com/event/setting-…