It’d be nice if Edinburgh Womens’ Rape & Sexual Abuse Centre didn’t need to exist, but with recent funding cuts, there’s a risk of it closing for the wrong reasons. So this benefit gig at the Wash House in Portobello (map) is something you might want to go to. Featuring: Gallo Rojo Mairi Campbell and Dave Francis Madge...
The nice people at EPTAG are hosting a public meeting on Short Assured Tenancies this week. Having helped to vanquish illegal letting agency fees and get one particularly odious landlord struck off, they’re looking to have the same success with a campaign to give tenants the right to stay longer in a flat. I hadn’t even realised there were such a...
The protest we mentioned last week, there was a text written for it in the hope we could get a flyer together. This might not happen, but here’s the text. Let us inform you about this amazing TED speaker that has no dignityat all: after he spent two years selling out the social wealth...
Interesting day-long event this Sunday focussing on political movements in the Spanish-speaking world. They have speakers on Bolivia and Venezuela, as well as Spain. I think South America has been the most interesting place for radical politics in the last 15-20 years, with an explosion of social movements, indigineous groups finding their voice, some notable...
Press release from some of our Greek friends. George Papandreou, the former Greek Prime Minister who led Greece into the arms of the IMF has been invited to the TEDGlobal 2013 conference on the 11th June. The ‘Scotland Against Austerity – Stop Papandreou’ coalition have called for a mass demonstration on the same day...
Encouraging news from Merseyside with the formation of a federation of anti-bedroom tax campaigns. The news article says: It’s been a slog but, after months of meetings and discussion, anti-bedroom tax groups across Merseyside met, on Sat 18th May, to conclusively set in place the Merseyside Anti-Bedroom Tax Federation.The federation is run by the members...
Just a quick c&p from an email, as it’s short notice… EDINBURGH SAYS NO TO GREECE AUSTERITY | CAN’T PAY WON’T PAY FRI 17th May 6.30pm, St. Augustine’s Church, George IV Bridge Hi , On June 11th, former Greek PM Georgios Papandreou will visit Edinburgh to speak at an elite conference. He is the...
Here’s some music to get you in the mood for tomorrow’s feminist labour unionism double bill. Northumbrian twee folk the Unthanks performing the Testimony of Patience Kershaw. The haunting lyrics are based on testimony to Ashley’s mines commission in the 19th century. Patience was a hurrier, pushing carts loaded with coal underground. Hard manual...
(This was going to be part of this post but, laziness.) The other strand of political implications thought(*) that I took away from the film "No" was about the relationship between means and ends. It’s a classic anarchist obsession but I’m nothing if not classy, so here we go. (This one genuinely does include...
What does domestic abuse look like?
(Trigger warning for verbal / psychological abuse) I used to work in a pub in the suburbs. It served food and had ideas above its station, but it was basically a boozer serving an eclectic mix of people. Retired gentlemen, teenagers waiting for the bus to town, builders on long lunches. Anyone that lived in...
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