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Feminist labour unionism on film: Silkwood and Harlan County War double bill!!
Edinburgh Anarchist Federation brings you a double bill – two excellent films about workplace organising and feminism. For free. Delicious! Sunday 24th March, from 3pm, at ACE, 17 West Montgomery Place, Leith Silkwood Academy Award nominated movie showing the true, harrowing story of nuclear power worker and union organiser Karen Silkwood (Meryl Streep). Victimised...
“The Thought Police Won’t Let Me Be An Anarchist” – AF member interviewed in VICE magazine
After UK anti-terrorist police detained two anarchists at Heathrow airport, on their way home from the St. Imier gathering in Switzerland, the two have given an interview about their experience to VICE magazine. The interview explains what happened to the two men, and explains how this can legally happen to anyone at all, under Schedule...
Free Pussy Riot demo this Friday
As Russian feminist punks Pussy Riot are sentenced to two years in a prison colony for their protest against Putin in March, solidarity demonstrations have sprung up around the world. Demonstrate in solidarity with Pussy Riot on Friday 24th August, 12pm, Russian Embassy 58, Melville St., Edinburgh, EH3 7HF On the same day as this sentence...
UK anti-terrorist police detain Anarchist Federation member
Two anarchists returning to the UK from a conference in Switzerland were detained, denied a solicitor and interrogated by counter-terrorist officers. For the past week, thousands of anarchists from across the world have been converging in St.Imier, Switzerland to celebrate the 140th anniversary of the founding of the Anarchist international. The gathering took the...
Free CeCe, the girl who lived!
CeCe McDonald is a transgender woman of colour, who survived a brutal assault by racist transphobes, which left her seriously injured and one of her attackers dead. She was yesterday (4th June 2012) sentenced to 41 months after being convicted of second degree manslaughter, which she is likely to serve in an all-male prison....
Pro-Choice Counter-Protest, Edinburgh, Saturday 28th April
11am – 1pm, meet at exit to to Princes Exchange car park on the corner of Lothian Road and Lauriston Place (http://g.co/maps/q8xbw) On the 44th anniversary of the Abortion Act, SPUC will be holding “kerbside vigils” against reproductive rights in towns and cities across the UK. One of these vigils will be held in Edinburgh,...
Edinburgh Workfare Protest Sat. 31st March
Britain-wide day of action against forced unpaid labour…. MEET 12 NOON KIRKGATE SHOPPING CENTRE, FOOT OF LEITH WALK To take action at companies and charities still using workfare conscripts - we say to those companies and charities still involved in this rip-off – stop now! All welcome, bring banners, placards, whistles, drums…. Organised by...
Boycott Workfare National Day of Action 3rd March
Edinburgh Anarchist Federation fully endorses the national day of action called by grassroots campaign Boycott Workfare. Join the protest in Edinburgh: Assemble 12 noon, Hunter Square, Saturday 3rd March, to visit some nearby businesses using unpaid workfare ‘volunteers’ to work for free. Workfare is a government scheme that makes people on benefits work for their...
Greek crisis, Eurozone crisis, or systemic crisis? Discussion with Dimitris Dalakoglou of Occupied London
Saturday 25th January, 4pm, Autonomous Centre of Edinburgh As international creditors & bailiffs circle Greece, its government has responded with austerity policies. The results include deepened unemployment, cut pensions and social provision. A permanent state of crisis is the new post-democratic way of government: in the name of the economy, the facade of democracy...