London’s Rampart still open

Ram­part Newslet­ter 23rd Jan­u­ary 2008

Hi there,

Lat­est news, as of writ­ing, we have lodged an appeal to the court deci­sion back in Decem­ber and are now wait­ing back for a hear­ing date..
to decide whether there can be an appeal or not and whether or not we have a ‘stay of exe­cu­tion’ (the Ram­part build­ing DOESN’T have a plan­ning appli­ca­tion on it yet). Oh well. At least the pos­ses­sion order from the last court case is delayed until this hear­ing.

In all this uncer­tain­ty we’re not rolling over and play­ing dead. We’re still very much open and oper­at­ing at (near­ly) nor­mal lev­els.. what­ev­er that means! We’re tak­ing on new event pro­pos­als and invite you to send fur­ther requests so con­tact us at the usu­al address rampart@mutualaid.org

For events, in the case of evic­tion, we have the new build­ing to fall back on, which has tak­en shape nice­ly and now has the capac­i­ty to host meet­ings and work­shops, with the music space not far off being ready. More help­ing hands please, if you have any spare send them our way!

We always need peo­ple to help with the occu­pa­tion rota, 3 in the build­ing at all times, so email us if you have a spare day or evening free. We are also look­ing at, and I stress only look­ing at, the ben­e­fits
and impli­ca­tions of becom­ing a legal enti­ty in order to nego­ti­ate with land­lords for use of build­ings. How this affects our abil­i­ty to oper­ate as a space for rad­i­cal pol­i­tics is under scruti­ny. Any­one with knowl­edge or expe­ri­ence of form­ing a legal enti­ty for such a pur­pose please get in con­tact, we’d real­ly like to hear what you have to say.

So hap­pen­ings at the Ram­part the com­ing week looks like this:

++ FRIDAY 25TH ++

== Reclaim Your Health ==

What?
An Alter­na­tive Home­o­path­ic Clin­ic focussed on empow­er­ing & enabling you to health.

How?
One-to-one con­sul­ta­tions on a month­ly basis. Reme­dies, Essences, Herbs & advice to take dur­ing the month.

Where?
Ram­part Social Cen­tre, 15–17 Ram­part Street, Whitechapel, E1 2LA

When?
Every Fri­day: 2pm – 6pm

How Much?
£0. It’s an exchange or barter clin­ic. Bring what­ev­er you want. Eg. Skipped food, poet­ry, art, socks, a good book or an IOU!
reclaim@homeopathy4health.co.uk

== Rad­i­cal The­o­ry Read­ing Group ==

We’re read­ing Gilles Deleuze’s ‘Post­script on the Soci­eties of Con­trol’ and, if you have time ‘Intel­lec­tu­als & Pow­er: A Con­ver­sa­tion between Michel Fou­cault and Gilles Deleuze’: here
http://libcom.org/library/postscript-on-the-societies-of-control-gilles-deleuze
and here
http://libcom.org/library/intellectuals-power-a-conversation-between-michel-foucault-and-gilles-deleuze

6pm in the Library

== Dis­si­dent Island Disks ==

They’re going to do some feat to get the radio show out this Fri­day since there’s now no inter­net con­nec­tion at the Ram­part but the Dis­si­dents are very deter­mined to make it hap­pen, so tune in for
inter­views, radio play and some amaz­ing tunes, start­ing some­time after 9pm

http://dissidentisland.servebeer.com

++ WEDNESDAY 30TH ++

== Pop­u­lar Upris­ing in Oax­a­ca ==

When Mex­i­can para­mil­i­tary forces shot Brad Will in the chest, killing him, his cam­era fell from his hands. But it did­n’t stop record­ing. It con­tin­ued mov­ing from hand to hand, telling Brad’s sto­ry, as well as the sto­ry of the move­ment of move­ments that he was a part of. From the squats of New York to the forests of Ore­gon, from the anti-glob­al­iza­tion protests in Seat­tle, Prague, Que­bec to the pop­u­lar upris­ing in Oax­a­ca, Brad’s cam­era paints us a pic­ture of what his life was about, and what so many of his friends con­tin­ue to strug­gle for.

Film screen­ing and debate. Start­ing 8PM

++ Call for par­tic­i­pa­tion ++

Rad­i­cal The­o­ry Read­ing group are organ­is­ing a sym­po­sium enti­tled ‘Rad­i­cal The­o­ry & Every­day Life Sym­po­sium’, for Feb­ru­ary 2nd or a date after­wards
Any­one inter­est­ed con­tact symposium0202@yahoo.co.uk, call out is below
Call for vol­un­teers to help orga­nize the Rad­i­cal The­o­ry and Every­day Life Sym­po­sium on the 2nd of Feb­ru­ary.
It is a sym­po­sium designed to address the rela­tion­ship between rad­i­cal ideas and strate­gies for col­lec­tive action and social change. The aim is to offer oppor­tu­ni­ties for dis­cus­sion, bring togeth­er peo­ple com­mit­ted to fight­ing injus­tice and oppres­sion, explore rad­i­cal ideas in an infor­mal set­ting and get con­vivial over drinks, music etc.

How can you help us? Come along to the next meet­ing of Rad­i­cal The­o­ry Read­ing Group on the 25th of Jan­u­ary (see below the details of our next meet­ing) and tell us about your idea of a pre­sen­ta­tion or work­shop which you want to do. Or you can get in touch on this email address symposium0202@yahoo.co.uk Your help in orga­niz­ing prac­ti­cal and tech­ni­cal things around the Sym­po­sium is also very wel­comed.

Else­where »

++ Vig­il and Fast for Lovin­sky con­tin­ues ++

The inter­na­tion­al Vig­il and Fast for Lovin­sky con­tin­ues at the usu­al time of 5–6pm every Wednes­day from 23 Jan­u­ary – the same day as the week­ly human rights demon­stra­tion at the Mar­tyrs Mon­u­ment in Port-au-Prince, which Lovinsky’s orga­ni­za­tion has been hold­ing for years, and which has now also become a vig­il for his return.
Out­side the Brazil­ian Embassy
32 Green Street
Lon­don W1K 7AT
Call 020 74822496 to con­firm!
http://www.globalwomenstrike.net/

Ram­part meet­ings every Mon­day at 7pm, come along to get involved, was nice to see so many peo­ple at the meet­ing just gone. Thanks for read­ing and for all your sup­port.