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Category error: an error in which “things of one kind are presented as if they belonged to another” or, alternatively, a property is ascribed to a thing that could not possibly have that property.
We live in anomalous times in more ways than one. A time that rewards failure and turns poachers into gamekeepers. A time when errors, assessments and warnings go unheeded, and where willful blindness leads the way. A time when, in an environment designed to promote economic union and member solidarity, fear, suffering and despair are left to grow unchecked, and finance is discussed in religious terms. A time that absolves brutality in the name of freedom, seeks to silence in the name of civilisation, and preaches progress by choosing myths over facts.
Whether in the streets or on the steps, at pubs, kitchens, community centres and town halls, outside fire stations, in Mayfair or Canary Wharf, at demonstrations, assemblies and bookfairs, meeting online, while camping or face-to-face, we invite you to come and join us in exploring saner and more humane ways of living. Compassionate, vocal and reasonable futures. Futures of confidence, care and hope.
This is what democracy looks like.
= Event Calendar =
New events are being added all the time. Events might also be cancelled, relocated or rescheduled. Check our calendar for updates.
Local
Wednesday 1st May 2013
5:45 pm – 8:00 pm
How to continue the fight for Lewisham A&E
A film night at New Cross Learning
Thursday 2nd May 2013
9:00 am – 5:00 pm
UK Uncut vs HMRC/Goldman Sachs
http://occupylondon.org.uk/events/may-2nd-uk-uncut-vs-hmrc-goldman-sachs
Friday 3rd May 2013
8:00 am
Campaign for 33 London Underground members of staff
Edgware Rd Station (Circle Line)
www.rmtlondoncalling.org.uk/trainpeople
Friday 3rd May 2013 – Saturday 4th May 2013
8:00 pm – 12:00 am
Read It Out Loud: Roald Dahl at Steps of St Paul’s Cathedral
Saturday 4th May 2013
6:00 pm – 9:30 pm
‘The Secret City’ – Free viewing
Sunday 5th May 2013
2:30 pm – 8:00 pm
The People’s Kitchen at Passing Clouds
Monday 6th May 2013
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Pointing the finger of guilt towards the banks
Tuesday 7th May 2013
6:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Radical Anthropology Talks with David Graeber and others
Saturday 11th May 2013
10:00 am – 5:00 pm
London Radical Bookfair
11:30 am
Catford Town Hall
Come in outlandish garb if you want, bring pots and pans
www.CarnivalAgainstCuts.org.uk
2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Occupy Tour of Mayfair
Saturday 11th – Sunday 19th May 2013
Open House
Open House will run from Saturday 11th to Sunday 19th May at a London location to be revealed closer to the time. Whether you’re a council tenant facing the bedroom tax or a squatter threatened with eviction, a private renter dealing with a dodgy landlord or a member of a housing co-op fighting to survive – this space is for you.
Sunday 12th May 2013
2:30 pm – 8:00 pm
The People’s Kitchen at Passing Clouds
Monday 13th May 2013
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Feed the MP’s – 10 Downing Street
Tuesday 14th May 2013
6:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Radical Anthropology Talks with David Graeber and others
Wednesday 15th May 2013
7:00 pm
Democracy Cafe
Cittie of Yorke pub, 22 High Holborn WC1V 6BN (by Chancery Lane tube)
NHS, Democracy and People Power
Dr Louise Irvine, chair of the Save Lewisham Hospital
https://www.facebook.com/events/461587183920638/?context=create
Thursday 16th May 2013
1:00 pm – Canary Wharf
End bank welfare! Break up the mega-banks!
Meet at the west entrance of the tube station (Jubilee line)
Almost a year since the LIBOR scandal broke, an argument is brewing about what to do with Britain’s banks.
Mega-banks are still holding society hostage – and rinsing us for all we are worth. These banks enjoy
£10s of billions of taxpayer support each year. These are the future wages of fire-fighters, anesthetists and lollipop ladies.
Banks are drinking the bank dry, and putting it on our tab. Now the new Archbishop of Canterbury has challenged George Osborne:
‘You continue to defend the idea of a small group of absolutely colossal banks… Is that lack of will to break them up not simply a recipe for a repetition of the disasters?’
The Archbishop tells it as it is. Come to Canary Wharf on the 16th and call time on the freeloading mega-banks.
6:30 pm
Brixton fire station, Gresham Road
March to Lambeth Town Hall for consultation meeting.
http://lambethsaveourservices.org/category/stallspetitioningleafletting/
For more, please visit:
www.lambethsaveourservices.org
Saturday 18th May 2013
12:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Defend London’s NHS Demonstration
http://occupylondon.org.uk/events/defend-londons-nhs-demonstration-18-may-loncon-keep-our-nhs-public
Sunday 19th May 2013
2:30 pm – 8:00 pm
The People’s Kitchen at Passing Clouds
http://occupylondon.org.uk/events/the-peoples-kitchen-at-passing-clouds-2013-05-19
Tuesday 21st May 2013
6:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Radical Anthropology Talks with David Graeber and others
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm, SOAS
Building a Solidarity Network for London
http://socialmovement2013.wordpress.com/
Sunday 26th May 2013
>2:30 pm – 8:00 pm
The People’s Kitchen at Passing Clouds
Tuesday 28th May 2013
6:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Radical Anthropology Talks with David Graeber and others
National
Saturday 4th May 2013
All day
The 99% Against Austerity
Nation-wide initiative (see also events in Cardiff and Edinburgh). Not organised by Occupy London but we welcome such initiatives!
http://occupylondon.org.uk/events/the-99-against-the-coalition
Friday 10th – Sunday 12th May 2013
6:00 pm
Camp Frack 2
http://occupylondon.org.uk/events/camp-frack-2
International
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= Food for Thought =
Post-democracy
“social democracy will require either a partial withdrawal from the international economy, with all that this entails, or a radical transformation of how the international economy works”
http://www.aeonmagazine.com/living-together/henry-farrell-post-democracy/
Economics to Save our Civilisation
“To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” – R. Buckminster Fuller