News and announcements

For our next RadEd Reading group, we will be a collaborating with the Common House’s own Autonomous Tech Fetish (ATF), to explore where Hack culture and analysis meet with radical pedagogies and analysis. When: Monday, 23rd of February, 7.15-9.15pm The first aspect we want to discuss is the relation between hacking and pedagogy. Hacking is a practice widely…

UPATE (21 Feb): PROTEST AT SOTHEBY’S IS CANCELLED. WE HAVE WON!!!!! We have officially resolved our collective dispute with CCML, the cleaning contractor at Sotheby’s and there will be no protest tomorrow.  We have won every single demand we made. This is an inspiring victory and a true David v Goliath triumph! On the eve of…

Granito de Arena (Grain of Sand), (2005, ca 60 min, Spanish with subtitles) Trailer: http://www.corrugate.org/trailer.html For over 20 years, global economic forces have been dismantling public education in Mexico, but always in the constant shadow of popular resistance… Granito de Arena is the story of that resistance – the story of hundreds of thousands of…

Plan C organises a pre housing demo meeting point at the common house January 31 @ 10:00 am – 11:30 am Join us for a pre march tee. Here you find the route on the march here http://marchforhomes.org/details/ And here an article in the Guardian about the march http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/jan/23/housing-march-lack-affordable-homes-london All welcome  

For January’s Film Club we will be screening United in Anger: A History of ACT UP, jointly and in solidarity with the group, who will be leading a discussion afterwards. United In Anger is a unique feature-length documentary that combines startling archival footage which puts the audience on the ground with the activists, and remarkably…

January 14 @ 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm HIGH SCOOL (1968) directed by Frederick Wiseman (75 mins). HIGH SCHOOL was filmed at a large urban high school in Philadelphia. The film documents how the school system exists not only to pass on ‘facts’ but also transmits social values from one generation to another. HIGH SCHOOL presents a series of formal…