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  London (UK) - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about London (UK)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
London's long-established Jewish community, the majority of whom arrived in the East End at the end of the 19th century to escape the pogroms (massacres) in Russia, is now mainly concentrated in the northern suburbs of Golders Green and Stamford Hill.
London is the hub of the UK rail network; seven main lines converge on the capital, and their principal termini are within easy reach of any part of the inner London area.
London is also the headquarters of the British Film Institute (BFI), established in 1931, and the National Film Theatre (1951), centre of London's annual film festival in November.
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 London Action Resource Centre - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
The London Action Resource Centre(LARC) is run by a private limited company, offering space and resources including; offices, computer and internet facilities, roof garden, library, banner-making space, and meeting rooms for certain individuals and groups taking direct action on social and ecological issues, or enagaging in other radical projects.
LARC was conceived as an idea by a group of friends in 1999.
LARC is in Whitechapel, in the East End of London, an area with a long history of radical and anarchist activity.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/London_Action_Resource_Centre   (244 words)

  
 London Action Resource Centre
The London Action Resource Centre is a collectively run building providing space and resources including: offices, computer and internet facilities, roof garden, an "anti-systemic library" (i.e.
London Action Resource Centre was conceived as an idea by a group of friends in 1999.
Most had a history of involvement in direct action from the anti-roads movement, through Reclaim the Streets, to the Carnival against Capitalism June 18th 1999 who had come to feel that the one-off spectacular actions weren't enough to build the 'creative alternatives' which were often talked about in propaganda.
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 Encyclopedia: London Action Resource Centre
picture of London Action Resource Centre and Anti Systemic Library File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version.
A focus group is a form of qualitative research in which a group of people are asked about their attitude towards a product, concept, advertisement, idea, or packaging.
Whitechapel is a neighbourhood in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/London-Action-Resource-Centre   (493 words)

  
 Encyclopedia entries starting with LON   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The principal route is: London to Pontes to Calleva to Spinae to Cunetio to Aquae Sulis.
London E16 is the London postal district covering the Victoria Dock and Beckton areas of East London on the north bank of the River Thames between the River Lea and Gallions Reach.
London N10 is a London postal district In the alphabetical assignment of districts, N10 corresponded to Muswell Hill.
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 Reclaim the Streets   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Reclaim the Streets often stage non-violent direct action street reclaiming events such as the 'invasion' of a major road, highway or freeway to stage a party.
While this may obstruct the regular users of these spaces such as car drivers and public bus riders, the philosophy of Reclaim the Streets is that it is vehicle traffic, not pedestrians who are causing the obstruction, and that by occupying the road they are in fact opening up public space.
Reclaim The Streets (London) UK part of the movement that seeks to dissolve power through street action, with events, ideology and how-to guide.
www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Reclaim_the_Streets.html   (479 words)

  
 London Action Resource Centre
The Nursery Social Centre Bournbrook nursery social centre in Birmingham is a place where a dynamic group of people are working to create a space for the local community and a resource centre for activists.
The Autonomous Centre of Edinburgh (ACE) is a self-funded community resource centre for grassroots organisation, encouraging people to take more control of their lives.
The main aim of the social centre is to engage local people in running the space, dealing with the issues that affect there community and enjoying community events of their own making.
www.londonarc.org /social_centre_network.html   (1368 words)

  
 RTS (London) Babylon is falling - reclaim the streets!
London saw some huge street parties, attracting up to 10,000 people, and the idea quickly took off, with street parties happening all over the world; Dublin, Bratislava (Slovakia), Montevideo (Uruguay) and Zurich (Switzerland) to give a few recent examples.
With the J18 1999 action, there was a move away from street parties towards a more overtly political, openly anti-capitalist type action - towards Carnivals against Capitalism.
The material damage inflicted on the City of London on J18 brought a considerable amount of 'heat' down on RTS from the cops and the media.
rts.gn.apc.org /whatnow.htm   (777 words)

  
 Festival of Alternatives: Workshops, Talks & Discussions, Mayday 2002, anti-capitalist protest, London
From the Chinese straits, Mediterranian, Atlantic and Caribbean, to the streets of Philly, Bonn, Delhi and London, this workshop charts the rise and fall of gender-bending pirates, radical fl eco-warriors, gun slinging bandit queens, freedom fighters and beatnik bomb girls - critically.
Venue: Social Centre - phone: 07786 716 335 on Friday 26th April for details of venue.
Venue: London Action Resource Centre, 62 Fieldgate Street, E1 (corner of Fieldgate St and Parfett St).
www.urban75.org /mayday02/workshops.html   (1432 words)

  
 imc admin | Social Centre News Update
This follows similar previous actions (1 : 2) and an ongoing camapaign in the borough, where Socialist Alliance candidate Paul Foot is to stand for Mayor in October.
Not to be mistaken for 'LARC' (the London Action Resource Centre in Whitechapel) the Lancaster Re-Source Centre in Penny St has a literature section and internet access and is open on Wednesdays from midday to 7pm.
The Carnivalisas and are part of the growing London Social Centres Network which includes Emmaz and the Radical Dairy (020 7249 6996 for summer events).
www.indymedia.org /es/2002/08/504799.shtml   (232 words)

  
 Festival of Alternatives: Workshops   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The aim of the day is to transform a disused building into a vibrant social centre, and to learn and share new skills.
The London Street Medics are a group of activist first-aiders who will be providing medical support on May Day.
The Parkhurst riots (1969), Grisley Risley victory (1989) and Strangeways uprising (1990) plus the shape of future resistance (i.e Detention centre uprisings Yarl's Wood,UK and Woomera, Australia) are all explored and their origins and impact on prison life evaluated.
www.nadir.org /nadir/kampagnen/ourmayday/workshops.html   (2620 words)

  
 London Action Resource Centre
Apart from the various meetings and events, LARC is open for dropping in for a browse round the library, free broadband internet access, a chat and a cup of tea (if you're lucky) every Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday afternoon from 2pm.
LARCing about: the resources of the building include office space, computer and internet facilities, a roofgarden, a growing radical reference library, banner-making and tool space, as well as meeting and event rooms.
Activists from County Mayo, Ireland, touring UK social centres throughout November, will be at Ramparts to talk about the struggle against Shell on the North West coast of Ireland, where Shell are trying to build a raw gas pipeline and huge refinery on bog land.
www.londonarc.org   (1107 words)

  
 Poplar, London -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Poplar is an area of the (additional info and facts about East End of London) East End of London in the (additional info and facts about London Borough of Tower Hamlets) London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
A sports centre stands on the site of Poplar (A poorhouse where able-bodied poor are compelled to labor) workhouse, where local politician (additional info and facts about Will Crooks) Will Crooks spent some of his earliest years (a nearby council housing estate is named after him).
Poplar was the location, in 1921, of the (additional info and facts about Poplar Rates Rebellion) Poplar Rates Rebellion, led by (additional info and facts about George Lansbury) George Lansbury.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/po/poplar,_london.htm   (527 words)

  
 Beyond ESF: 5 Days & Nights of Anti-Authoritarian ideas and action
WOMBLES have decided to organise outside of the ESF process and will be putting on a 5 day and night event at a north london university, with presentations, workshops, discussions from groups all over Europe as well as live bands, cinema and food everynight.
During the past decades, struggles involving millions of people against the regime of capitalism and the state, have shown a rejection of the old leftist aspirations of seizing the state power, and continue to go beyond the limits of those struggles by questioning the very existence of the state and hierarchically organised power.
Beyond ESF will be part conference, part direct action, part celebration of cultures of resistance - an opportunity to create an alternative; a social movement with infinite imagination and creativity against the apathy of capitalist culture.
www.globalproject.info /art-2230.html   (625 words)

  
 London Rising Tide |
London Rising Tide (LRT) takes creative action on the root causes of climate chaos, and promotes socially just, ecological alternatives to fossil fuel madness.
London action shows solidarity with 'Bogoni' of County Mayo, Ireland
Some London Rising Tide people helped out with this action on Friday September 30th 2005, which also drew attention to the link between the struggle of the 'Bogoni' in County Mayo, and the Ogoni (and other groups) in the Niger Delta.
www.londonrisingtide.org.uk   (445 words)

  
 London Action Resource Centre   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The London Action Resource Centre is a collectively run building providing space and resources including: offices, computer and internet facilities, roof garden, an "anti-systemic library" (i.
a library that doesn't have a catalogue or hierarchical arrangement), banner-making space, meeting and event rooms for people and groups working on self-organised, non-hierarchical projects for radical social change London Action Resource Centre was conceived as an idea by a group of friends in 1999.
May 11.--Upon moving away this morning, I kept behind the sea shore along seen a-head of us.
www.termsdefined.net /lo/london-action-resource-centre.html   (327 words)

  
 Indymedia UK - What London Reclaim the Streets is up to on November 9th   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
What London Reclaim the Streets is up to on November 9th
It’s a benefit to fund London RTS' 9th November-related spoof 24 page tabloid newspaper, put together in record time, so there are probably at least a couple of typos in there somewhere.
London Action Resource Centre is on the corner of Fieldgate St and Parfett St, London E1.
www.indymedia.org.uk /en/2001/11/15705.html   (280 words)

  
 [Imc-london] Indymedia meeting ay LARC 21/07   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Hi all A couple of us will be in the London Action Resource Center on Wednesday for an Indy-london meeting.
There are some more concrete developments for LondonIndy and the ESF-autonomous spaces projects and media centre!!
Also it would be good to have a general catch-up and chat about the roles and ideas that folks have on Indymedia London throughout the summer!
lists.indymedia.org /pipermail/imc-london/2004-July/0719-cz.html   (156 words)

  
 TACT - Temporary Anti-Capitalist Team   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
A large section of it is based on non-hierarchical politics and direct action, both in terms of protest and in terms of constructing a better reality, a better now to live in.
This has been matched by worldwide successes such as the collective of Independent Media Centres; resource pages on the web such as The Anarchist Organisation (www.tao.ca), Urban 75 (www.urban75.com) and Action Medical (www.action-medical.net); and the use of newsgroups and lists such as http://lists.riseup.net or http://groups.yahoo.com for discussion and co-ordination.
Examples include, but are not limited to, the WOMBLE 7 trial in London and the victimisation of the Independent Media Centres, in more than one country - examples being Swizerland and the Netherlands, but there are other examples such as the pressures in the United States of America or even in this country.
www.red-star-research.org.uk /tact/portal.html   (716 words)

  
 [Imc-london] Volunteering   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
hi sysiddiq and fu_kinginheaven, to subscribe to the london list just go to http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/listinfo/imc-london and fill in your email address.
they usually take place on wednesdays in LARC but it's been kind of irregular of late.
sorry :-\} anyhow we usually meet at LARC (London Action Resource Centre) http://www.londonarc.org/ the address is 62 Fieldgate Street, Whitechapel, London E1 1ES map is here http://streetmap.co.uk/ newmap.srf?x=534401andy=181549andz=0andsv=E1+1ESandst=2andpc=E1+1ESandmapp=newmap.sr fandsearchp=newsearch.srf cheers andi
lists.indymedia.org /pipermail/imc-london/2004-July/0705-9v.html   (192 words)

  
 Action Day antiwar: arrestati in Inghilterra 8 disobbedienti : Italy imc
Arrests at Halloween Action: 8 people were arrested on Whitehall as police provoke a scuffle with demonstrators.
There will be a meeting at 2pm on Sunday 3rd November @ London Action Resource Centre, 62 Fieldgate Street, E1.
Which will be used to talk about the Halloween action and also where we want to go from here.
italy.indymedia.org /mail.php?id=103309   (170 words)

  
 :: Schnews :: Contacts and Links
Cornerstone Housing Co-op Have a resource centre open to local groups and individuals.
Dropseven T 07949 913123 team@dropseven.co.uk www.dropseven.co.uk/ Concerned with community led collective action and strives to develop active, sustainable solutions to community development, capacity building and regeneration.
T 0845 458 9595 F phone first sumac@veggies.org.uk www.veggies.org.uk/sumac Resource centre for local groups campaigning for human and animal rights, the environment, peace, etc.
www.schnews.org.uk /links/Community.htm   (365 words)

  
 WOMBLES News: Social Centres Project - Open organising meeting   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
This project is aimed at being a space for autonomous social, political and cultural activities, a place to socialise, conspire and create.
This meeting will be the first of a series of meetings to discuss practicalities as well as the concept of Social Centres.
The Social Centres section of the website will be updated with the minutes of those meetings as well as be the virtual publicity of the centre once it is open.
www.wombles.org.uk /news/article_2003_10_12_4904.php   (261 words)

  
 Sanford Conference 2004: Mark/ Wombles
I have worked with social centres such as the Radical Dairy (Stoke Newington), and Grand Banks (Tufnell Park); the London Social Centres Network (which came out of the Radical Dairy), which includes Use Your Loaf, London Action Resource Centre.
The idea of Social Centres (SC) is to turn disused buildings into SC, political spaces; rather than go through the beaurocracy.
In Italy, when SC attained legal status, they started getting sanctioned; it took their bite out and sucked them into the system that they were trying to change.
www.althousing.net /mark.html   (587 words)

  
 London Community Resource Centre   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Modelled on a community services building in Amsterdam, the London Community Resource Centre was established in 1974 by Mary Barber, a librarian at the London Public Library.
Since then, the Centre has flourished, housing more than 120 non-profit organizations and playing a major role in the development of the voluntary sector within the City of London.
The London Community Resource Centre is an incorporated, registered charity, which operates autonomously, with its core operating costs raised through fees for service, donations, events, publication sales, and other fundraising activities.
www.lcrc.on.ca   (144 words)

  
 Peace.Protest.Net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The Peoples’ Global Action European Conference, which took place in Belgrade in July 2004, has supported this call and is also calling for simultaneous actions in villages, towns and cities worldwide on the opening day of the Conference: Wednesday 6th July 2005.
The mobilisation to Scotland next year, and the Global Day of Action, is beginning to be networked and co-ordinated internationally.
It will be a chance to discuss and plan actions, and share and compare our experiences of past mobilisations.
pax.protest.net /event.cgi?ID=498985&state_values=SITE!.40   (506 words)

  
 LSCN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
A network of occupied and autonomous centres that are open, public, community focused and are run in a non-hierarchical and self-managed structure.
Other social centres not yet actively involved in the Network include The Poison Club, Limehouse Town Hall, 491 Gallery, Eton Mission, Green Angels, Carnivalistas, Blackstar.
Centre for social solidarity with meeting and office space, a fully equipped kitchen for catering for up to 40 people, a radical bookshop, infoshop, library/reading room, art workshop and a Mac and printer.
www.xsynthesisx.org.uk /londonscn.html   (631 words)

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