Protest for the reinstatement of the Sotheby’s two. This protest will coincide with Sotheby’s international car auction. On the 1st July we protested at Sotheby’s for a real living wage and sick pay. The next morning the cleaners and porters who peacefully protested got banned (aka sacked) from working! Since then we had 5 amazing protests…
Read More Protest at Sotheby’s Car Auction: Reinstate the Sotheby’s 2!Action East End will be hosting this month’s East London Radical Assembly meeting in our usual meeting slot. We will be at the meeting but it is not our meeting so anyone interested in getting involved in the Radical Assembly should come along. The radical assembly meets to plan action to link & strengthen community-led,…
Read More East London Radical Assembly Meeting Thursday August 13thThis week-end will see a major anti-gentrification event in Tower Hamlets. A number of campaigns have joined together to highlight the devastation caused by redevelopment and the demolition and sell-offs of council and social housing. The event begins at Whitechapel Tube at 11 am on Saturday August 8th. We will go on a walking tour…
Read More Closed House Week-endTomorrow, Friday 31 July 2015 at 6pm (meet us Meet us at 5.45pm at Oxford Circus station, United Colours of Benetton exit.) Two of the Sotheby’s four have been reinstated. However, Sotheby’s and Servest are continuing to victimise Percy and Barbara, UVW shop-stewards, on the malicious grounds that they are “inciting violence” and are “deliberately trying…
Read More Protest at Sotheby’s: Reinstate the Sotheby’s 2!July 29 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm What makes a Queer Relationship Queer? What makes it successful? Our relationships challenge the heteronormative model, yet we don’t have common and visible alternatives. The Queer Relationships Project (www.queerrelationships.org) is a new online resources archive and oral history project, aimed at making models, theories and practices easily…
Read More The Queer Relationships ProjectJuly 26 @ 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm A monthly discussion, peer support, and solidarity group (usually last Sunday of each month) concentrating on thinking and practicing relationships “differently” (that usually means we talk a lot about relationship anarchy, ethical non-monogamy, relationships that don’t conform to the “relationship escalator” idea or other ideas promoted by…
Read More Politics in Love, Sex & RelationshipsJuly 23 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Re-reading Marx’s Capital through a decolonial lens by discussing how theoretical and historical intersections of various oppressions can be read through Marx’s Capital. It is hoped that this will inform not only theory but also practice. No expertise is necessary, but some knowledge of decolonial methods and/or…
Read More Decolonising Capital Reading GroupJuly 17 @ 7:30 pm – 11:00 pm We’ll be screening the playful French new wave film Les Stances à Sophie (1971, 97 minutes). Based on the feminist novel by Christiane Rochefort, the film explores themes of sexual liberation, the bourgeois family and its claustrophobic stranglehold, capitalist greed and its environmental catastrophe, set amongst a…
Read More Feminist Fightback Film ClubAll the courageous cleaners and porters – “the Sotheby’s 4″– that took part in the protest on Wednesday ( 1 July) demanding sick pay and end to trade union victimisation have been banned (aka sacked) by Sotheby’s auction house and their contractor Servest the day after the protest. We will now tirelessly fight for their…
Read More Support the campaign to reinstate the Sotheby’s 4All the courageous cleaners and porters – “the Sotheby’s 4″– that took part in the protest on Wednesday demanding sick pay and end to trade union victimisation have been banned (aka sacked) by Sotheby’s auction house and their contractor Servest the day after the protest. Some of them have been working for Sotheby’s for over…
Read More Reinstate the “Sotheby’s 4”