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                    The Alternative Art College presents; Education as Experiment.   Date: 17th May Time: 10am – 6pm Location: 47 Lewisham Way, Goldsmiths College. The Alternative Art College is a non-profit education facility; The AAC’s reason for being is to challenge the notion of knowledge consumers, to [...]

Second call out for participants, this time it’s Scrubs! As with the Gherkin we are exercising our right, excuse the pun, to free association. The days events will begin at 9am and go on until 1pm, if you want more blurb please check our press release below. We hope to see you ALL there!!!

the sky and the tunnel scheme # 1

Posted: March 13, 2012 by casualagent in The Political, The Tunnel

Here is the official launch of the new look ‘prison group’. Below is a link to our blog, please take a look. http://communiquelondon.org/ There is also an event happening at the Gherkin at 12:00 on the 17th.Please join us for a little bit of playful action.                   [...]

….In Paris, cheap housing is pushed out of sight of the boulevards, to the banlieues, the impoverished, underserved, tense suburbs. With its history of public housing, London has always been far more of a medley, incomes jostling together across the city. Now the poor are to be pushed centrifugally, faster and faster. The banlieuefication of [...]

Copying this email here to bring attention to the question of submitting work for assessment.  1. Nice to receive final confirmation 18 days before it is due. 2. I wonder how notebooks would be submitted on the VLE and as multiple hard copies? 3. I still think there is a problem: submission deadline is on the [...]

Isle of Dog – Canary Wharf is a place where the new form of labor becomes dramatically evident – the workers have indeed left the factory, or  in this case – the docks, and the managerial and office class of the cognitariat has literally taken their place. This process is made visible in the centrifugal social/class [...]

Blake escapes from Scrubs

Posted: January 24, 2012 by project47convenors in The Political, The Prison

In 1961 George Blake was convicted of treason and espionage and was handed down a 42 year prison sentence, to be served out in H. M. Prison Wormwood Scrubs. In 1966 Blake escaped from Scrubs with the aid of the KGB and defected to Moscow.   As a space of incarceration the prison is society’s [...]

January 15, 2012 Iniva Manchester cotton, courtesy of Joss Graham. Social Fabric 19 January–10 March 2012 Press view: 18 January, 10am–12 noon, talk at 11am Preview: 18 September, 6.30–8.30pm Iniva at Rivington Place London EC2A 3BA www.iniva.org Iniva presents Social Fabric, an exhibition that uses textiles to explore colonial history, international trade, labour and militant [...]

Being locked up is grim at the best of times, being locked up over Christmas, away from friends and family, is always going to be an especially difficult time, so we urge all decent anarchists and radicals to send a letter, messages of support, of just a few lines to the five anti-fascist prisoners still [...]