Please come and support our protest in support of the cleaners at 100 Wood Street who are paid poverty wages and are being unlawfully dismissed by the anti-union cleaning contractor Thames Cleaning and Support Services Limited (“Thames”). The protest takes place this TUESDAY 21st June AT 5.30 PM at 100 Wood Street E17 (near St…
Read More Protest at 100 Wood Street: No to Job Cuts! Yes to a Living Wage!Two Topshop cleaners have been suspended and sacked subjected to gross acts of bullying and victimisation for having merely joined a union, UVW, and led the campaign for a living wage. Join us for a national demo to demad their reinstatement and the Living Wage. Protests are held in over 17 cities across the UK…
Read More National Protest at Topshop: Against Trade Union Victimisation & For the Living WageMay 26, 2016, 10 am – 5.30 pm Closed Meeting: Phakama Phakama will be having a closed meeting, in which scheduled interviews will be conducted.
Read More May 26, 2016, 10 am – 5.30 pm Closed Meeting: PhakamaA screening of ‘Schools of Trust’ and a presentation and discussion with Paola Murdolo a 17 year old former student from the Kapriole, a democratic school where much of the documentary is filmed. Paola will present the concept of democratic education along with reflections on her experience of being a student at a democratic school…
Read More Rad Ed Film Fundraising Night, Schools of Trust, Mon 11th April 7.45pmCome in solidarity to Topshop, 214 Oxford St, London if you can this Saturday (11 March) at 3pm. Come and join UVW for a mass protest at Topshop flagship store in Oxford Street demanding a Living Wage for all workers, both the outsourced cleaners and the in-house sales assistants. Toshop is the flagship brand of the Arcadia…
Read More Protest at Topshop (Oxford Street) LIVING WAGE NOWToday, 8th Feb marks the Chinese New Year or the spring festival. It is the year of the fire Monkey! Fire + Monkey = powerful, energetic, creative, blazing, adventurous….a time to create change with both of these cheeky elements. Motto for the year: soon as you realise the path is not fruitful, try a new…
Read More Fresh Start – the acupuncture clinic made it through the winter…come along!I have decided to take a break from teaching the Tuesday yoga class. Numbers have been very low since last year. I would like to re-start in Spring, unless I get a ton of people promsing to join sooner. I will have to restart it as a course next time around to make it sustainable.…
Read More Yoga classes on holdFriday 15th January, 11am – 3pm (and then every other Friday). Come help us celebrate by printing beautiful, radical things!
Read More Riso Print Club is back on!We are sad to say that Ava, our risograph printer, has broken down beyond repair and we are in the process of finding a replacement one so that wonderful agit prop printing can continue at Common House. We are fundraising for the replacement riso: you can donate towards it via our Friends of Common House…
Read More Update on Riso Printing at Common HouseFriday, 18th December, 7pm – 11pm. Music, DJ’s, drinks on donations. Save the Date! Note: The party is taking place at The Old Fire Station, 61 Leswin Road, N16 7NX Tickets – or to donate even if you can’t make it to the party: £5 (waged): https://dashboard.gocardless.com/api/template_plans/11DSFW6N71/paylink £3 (unwaged): https://dashboard.gocardless.com/api/template_plans/11DS9M3Q9N/paylink
Read More Common House Xmas Fundraiser @ The Old Fire Station