From Monday 3rd to Sunday 9th August 2015 Anarchist Action Network is holding a free week of events at LARC (London Action Resource Centre) in East London. The week will include a social space with free drinks and evening meals, workshops, discussions, film screenings, practical skillshares and more. We hope that these events will address some of the issues which most people are facing right now – including problems with housing and welfare cuts, and the government austerity agenda, increased poverty, racism and the racist border system, state violence and harassment.
See the full up to date Programme of Events here
We’re still confirming workshops, but here’s what we have so far.
For more information about East London Rising, go here.
Doors open at 12 noon every day.
Monday 3 Aug – Anti-racism, Anti-borders
2-3pm – Introduction to anarchism
3-4pm – Women in Militant Antifascism
5-6pm – Community Solidarity in Resisting Raids
6.30pm – Free vegan dinner
7-8pm – Talk on Antifascism by Martin Lux
8-9pm – Struggles against borders in Morocco
Tuesday 4 Aug – Environment & degrowth
2-3pm – Thinking about technology and degrowth – a Luddite perspective from Luddites200
3-4pm – Earth First! Ecological direct action network workshop
5-6pm – London Mining Network: “Collective, horizontal and consensus-based: How Indigenous self-organisation has stopped international mining giants”
6.30pm – Free vegan dinner
7-8pm – Talk on Heathrow resistance, degrowth and anarchism by Transition Heathrow
8-9pm – Talk on Climate Change and anti-capitalism by Corporate Watch
Wednesday 5 Aug – Skillshares
1-2pm – Introduction to anarchism
2-3pm – International Solidarity Movement training on going out to join struggles in Palestine
3-5pm – Street direct action training
5-6pm – Know Your Rights
6.30pm – Free vegan dinner
7-9pm – Counter-Surveillance Corner: Information security for the discerning anarchist
Thursday 6 Aug – Benefits claimants’ and workers’ rights
1-2pm – Introduction to anarchism
3-4pm – Workshop by Boycott Workfare – a UK-wide campaign to end forced unpaid work for people who receive welfare
6.30pm – Free vegan dinner
7-8pm – Fighting for Ourselves: how workers from CNT-AIT in Zaragoza, Spain, fight the bosses and win
Friday 7 Aug – Housing struggles and anti-eviction
1-2pm – Introduction to Anarchism
2-3pm – How to set up a Housing Co-op and Intro to Radical Routes
3-5pm – Eviction Resistance Workshop
5.30-7pm – Class War & the Poor Doors
7pm – Free vegan dinner
7.30-8.30pm – Housing Action Southwark and Lambeth Housing Action
Saturday 8 Aug – Anti-militarism and anti-imperialism
2-3pm – Life Beneath the Drones in Gaza by Corporate Watch
3-4pm – Opposing UK based Israeli drone factories by the Stop Elbit campaign
4-5pm – Talk on resistance in Kurdistan – by Kurdish activists and a short talk on the DSEi arms fair’s complicity in repression in Kurdistan by Corporate Watch followed by a discussion about the movement in solidarity with Kurdish freedom struggles.
5-6.30pm – Resisting the DSEI arms fair: screening of short film Arms Dealers On Trial followed by discussion about DSEI with DisarmDSEI, AAN & CAAT.
6.30pm – Free vegan dinner
Sunday 9 Aug – Anarchism
2-3pm – Street Direct Action training
3-4pm – Intro to anarchism
4-5pm – Anarcha-feminism
5-6pm – Introduction to the Anarchist Action Network
6.30pm – Free vegan dinner
7pm – What anarchism means for us
Free every day:
- Tea and coffee
- Hot meals each evening
- Info area
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