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SUMMARY:Feminist Fightback Organising Meeting
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.feministfightback.org.uk/event/feminist-fightback-organising-meeting-2/
LOCATION:The Common House\, The Common House Unit 5E (press the buzzer) 5 Pundersons Gardens\, Bethnal Green\, London\, E2 9QG.\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Organising Meeting
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ORGANIZER;CN="Feminist Fightback":MAILTO:feminist.fightback@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20150509T093000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20150509T120000
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SUMMARY:Pro-Choice Direct Action
DESCRIPTION:A religious anti-abortion group are planning a procession from their church to a nearby abortion clinic. We can’t let this go unchallenged – they might have a right to express their opinion\, but they don’t have a god-given right to stand outside a clinic\, peddle lies and intimidate and harass people. As well as making sure people can access the clinic safely\, we want to do a lively action that makes a stand against the religious right-wing and their anti-women views that are dressed up as concern and counselling. \nAbortion is a class issue! Spread the news to all your networks!\nAbortion is not just a ‘women’s’ issue. And not just about a woman’s individual ‘right’ or ‘choice’*\, which is hard to come by in a capitalist system\, especially for black and working class women who always bear the brunt of such policies – either by not being able to access abortions if they want one\, or being forced to have one because the state doesn’t want them to reproduce\, or having to have one because they can’t afford to have a baby. As communists/anarchists/socialists of various types\, we should all recognise the importance of reproductive justice\, linked as it is to capitalist production and control over working class bodies. We all have an interest in defending ourselves against the state and religious powers. \nTogether we can overcome! All genders welcome! ¡No pasarán! Click here for the FB event\nMeet at the steam engine outside Stratford tube station 09:30am sharp! \nLook for people in Feminist Fightback red t-shirts who will then give further instructions… \nBring pots and pans\, music/noise-making stuff\, pro-choice placards! \n \nFurther Reading / Watching / Listening / Distributing: \n\nSummary outlining the tactical debates about abortion clinic vigils (Sept 2013) \nAnalysis of the attacks on reproductive rights in relation to austerity (April 2013) \nResearch into the threat of privatisation to abortion rights (April 2012)
URL:https://www.feministfightback.org.uk/event/pro-choice-direct-action/
LOCATION:Stratford\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Direct Action
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ORGANIZER;CN="Feminist Fightback":MAILTO:feminist.fightback@gmail.com
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20150426
DTSTAMP:20150315T202742Z
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SUMMARY:Feminist Fightback National Gathering
DESCRIPTION:All self-defining women welcome to organising meetings\, this includes trans women and intersex women. \nPlease contact us if you need childcare. We can either fund it or arrange for you to bring along any small people to the meeting. \nIf you have any other access issues please get in touch! \n\n\n www.feministfightback.org.uk – feminist.fightback@gmail.com – @femfight\nwww.facebook.com/feministfightback – www.facebook.com/feministfightback
URL:https://www.feministfightback.org.uk/event/feminist-fightback-national-gathering/
LOCATION:TBC\, TBC\, Sheffield
CATEGORIES:Organising Meeting
ORGANIZER;CN="Feminist Fightback":MAILTO:feminist.fightback@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20150419T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20150419T213000
DTSTAMP:20150411T154824Z
CREATED:20150411T025324Z
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SUMMARY:Feminist Fightback Film Club: Made in India
DESCRIPTION:Come and join us. All welcome. \nSuggested donations £3 low/unwaged; £5 waged. \nJoin the Facebook event here. \n\n www.feministfightback.org.uk – feminist.fightback@gmail.com – @femfight\nwww.facebook.com/feministfightback – www.facebook.com/feministfightback \n\n 
URL:https://www.feministfightback.org.uk/event/feminist-fightback-film-club/
LOCATION:The Common House\, The Common House Unit 5E (press the buzzer) 5 Pundersons Gardens\, Bethnal Green\, London\, E2 9QG.\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Feminist Fightback Film Club
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ORGANIZER;CN="Feminist Fightback":MAILTO:feminist.fightback@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20150419T050000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20150419T180000
DTSTAMP:20150411T155014Z
CREATED:20150411T030418Z
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SUMMARY:Abortion Rights Action Planning Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Over the last few years\, the space outside many abortion clinics in England has become contested. Right-wing religious groups have been making their presence felt outside clinics\, both with prayer vigils complete with hymns and religious icons\, and through the deployment of specially trained ‘pavement councillors’ who make great efforts to stop women going into clinics. \nFeminist Fightback has been one of the groups who have taken action against this growing anti-choice presence\, countering in particular the group ‘Helpers’ of God’s Precious Infants’. This is a comparatively new terrain of struggle\, and we have experimented with different strategies\, and initiated a series of conversations on tactics with other activists. We cannot ignore these groups and hope they will go away; we need to organise\, and refuse to let them take this space. \nThe defence of a woman’s right to choose should not just be an issue for the feminist movement\, but needs to involve others standing in solidarity with those seeking an abortion. The next big mobilisation of Helpers of God’s Precious Infants in East London will be on Saturday May 9th in Stratford. Feminist Fightback will be there\, providing a pro-choice presence and offering support to those using the clinic on the day. Please join us. \nAll genders very welcome to both the meeting and the action. \nYou can join the Facebook event here. \nIn solidarity\, \nFeminist Fightback \n \nFurther reading: \nRead our discussion piece on tactics \nReport back from our visit to Buckhurst Hill in February \n\n \nAll Welcome. \nPlease contact us if you need childcare. We can either fund it or arrange for you to bring along any small people to the meeting. \nIf you have any other access issues please get in touch! \n\n[/stextbox] \n\n www.feministfightback.org.uk – feminist.fightback@gmail.com – @femfight\nwww.facebook.com/feministfightback – www.facebook.com/feministfightback
URL:https://www.feministfightback.org.uk/event/abortion-rights-action-planning-meeting/
LOCATION:The Common House\, The Common House Unit 5E (press the buzzer) 5 Pundersons Gardens\, Bethnal Green\, London\, E2 9QG.\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Public Events
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ORGANIZER;CN="Feminist Fightback":MAILTO:feminist.fightback@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20150329T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20150329T170000
DTSTAMP:20150315T202803Z
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UID:1763-1427641200-1427648400@www.feministfightback.org.uk
SUMMARY:Feminist Fightback North Organising Meeting
DESCRIPTION:All self-defining women welcome to organising meetings\, this includes trans women and intersex women. \nPlease contact us if you need childcare. We can either fund it or arrange for you to bring along any small people to the meeting. \nIf you have any other access issues please get in touch! \n\n\n www.feministfightback.org.uk – feminist.fightback@gmail.com – @femfight\nwww.facebook.com/feministfightback – www.facebook.com/feministfightback
URL:https://www.feministfightback.org.uk/event/feminist-fightback-north-organising-meeting/
LOCATION:Costa Coffee\, Pinstone Street\, Sheffield\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Organising Meeting
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ORGANIZER;CN="Feminist Fightback":MAILTO:feminist.fightback@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20150213T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20150213T223000
DTSTAMP:20180720T222751Z
CREATED:20150202T222536Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180720T222751Z
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SUMMARY:Feminist Fightback Film Club Presents: Eyes of the Rainbow
DESCRIPTION:This month\, Feminist Fightback Film Club will be screening Eyes of the Rainbow\, Gloria Rolanda’s 1997 documentary about the Black Panther and Black Liberation Army activist Assata Shakur. There will be a post-screening discussion.\nDrinks and dancing to follow. Come and join us for this anti-Valentine’s day special. All welcome.\nSuggested donations £3 low/unwaged; £5 waged.
URL:https://www.feministfightback.org.uk/event/feminist-fightback-film-club-presents-eyes-of-the-rainbow/
LOCATION:The Common House\, The Common House Unit 5E (press the buzzer) 5 Pundersons Gardens\, Bethnal Green\, London\, E2 9QG.\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Feminist Fightback Film Club
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ORGANIZER;CN="Feminist Fightback":MAILTO:feminist.fightback@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20150123T080000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20150123T170000
DTSTAMP:20180720T223013Z
CREATED:20150120T222836Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180720T223013Z
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SUMMARY:Feminist Fightback Film Club Presents: United In Anger
DESCRIPTION:For January’s Film Club we will be screening United in Anger: A History of ACT UP\, jointly and in solidarity with the group\, who will be leading a discussion afterwards. \nUnited In Anger is a unique feature-length documentary that combines startling archival footage which puts the audience on the ground with the activists\, and remarkably insightful interviews from the ACT UP Oral History Project\, to explore ACT UP (the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) from a grassroots perspective – how a small group of men and women of all races and classes\, came together to change the world and save each other’s lives. \nACt UP is an international direct action advocacy group working to impact the lives of people with AIDS (PWAs) and the AIDS pandemic to bring about legislation\, medical research and treatment and policies to ultimately bring an end to the disease by mitigating loss of health and lives. \nWaged: £5\nUnwaged: £2.50 \n7.30pm @ Unit 5E Pundersons Gardens\, Bethnal Green\, E2 9QG \nOpen to all genders and none.
URL:https://www.feministfightback.org.uk/event/feminist-fightback-film-club-presents-united-in-anger/
LOCATION:The Common House\, The Common House Unit 5E (press the buzzer) 5 Pundersons Gardens\, Bethnal Green\, London\, E2 9QG.\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Feminist Fightback Film Club
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ORGANIZER;CN="Feminist Fightback":MAILTO:feminist.fightback@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20141221T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20141221T180000
DTSTAMP:20150315T203957Z
CREATED:20150315T203914Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20150315T203957Z
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SUMMARY:Feminist Fightback Organising Meeting
DESCRIPTION:We’ll be discussing feminist responses to the HPV vaccine in the UK and\nIndia. \n \nAll self-defining women welcome to organising meetings\, this includes trans women and intersex women. \nPlease contact us if you need childcare. We can either fund it or arrange for you to bring along any small people to the meeting. \nIf you have any other access issues please get in touch! \n\n\n www.feministfightback.org.uk – feminist.fightback@gmail.com – @femfight\nwww.facebook.com/feministfightback – www.facebook.com/feministfightback
URL:https://www.feministfightback.org.uk/event/feminist-fightback-organising-meeting/
LOCATION:The Common House\, The Common House Unit 5E (press the buzzer) 5 Pundersons Gardens\, Bethnal Green\, London\, E2 9QG.\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Organising Meeting
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ORGANIZER;CN="Feminist Fightback":MAILTO:feminist.fightback@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20141212T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20141212T220000
DTSTAMP:20150315T203449Z
CREATED:20150315T203307Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20150315T203449Z
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SUMMARY:Feminist Fightback Film Club: Paris is Burning
DESCRIPTION:A Christmas/Hanukkah/solstice/communist social \nIncluding film showing of Paris is Burning\, followed by a 1980s themed queer\ndance disco. \nCome and join us. All welcome. \nSuggested donations £3 low/unwaged; £5 waged. \nJoin the Facebook event here. \n\n www.feministfightback.org.uk – feminist.fightback@gmail.com – @femfight\nwww.facebook.com/feministfightback – www.facebook.com/feministfightback \n\n 
URL:https://www.feministfightback.org.uk/event/feminist-fightback-film-club-paris-is-burning/
LOCATION:The Common House\, The Common House Unit 5E (press the buzzer) 5 Pundersons Gardens\, Bethnal Green\, London\, E2 9QG.\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Feminist Fightback Film Club,Organising Meeting,Public Events
ORGANIZER;CN="Feminist Fightback":MAILTO:feminist.fightback@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20141115T103000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20141115T163000
DTSTAMP:20180325T152051Z
CREATED:20150316T061707Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180325T152051Z
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SUMMARY:What is working?
DESCRIPTION:What is the connection between day-to-day workplace organising and wider anti-capitalist struggle? \nWhat is our role as ‘revolutionaries’ in our own workplaces? \nWhat kinds of workplace struggles open up possibilities for wider and more fundamental social and political change\, and what kinds simply reproduce existing hierarchies and end up containing class struggle? \nThis discussion event is for anyone involved in\, or interested in having an open debate about\, our varied experiences of workplace organising. There have been a number of high profile struggles recently: the Tres Cosas campaign by cleaners at the University of London\, the Brighton hospitality workers\, the Tube strikes organised by RMT\, big one-day public sector strikes. \nBut they leave many open questions: \n– If the union cannot struggle for different sections of workers e.g those on temporary contracts\, even within the same workplace\, what good is the union? And what forms of struggle that bring different types of workers together can\, or are\, emerging in its place? \n– What actions\, apart from largely symbolic one-day strikes\, actually put pressure on the bosses and the state? \n– How can our political activity help to build worker’s collective self-organisation? \n– How does a particular workplace affect the type of struggle and form of organisation? For example\, the University of London (Tres Cosas) cleaners have been helped in their success by a number of factors including things like: they work in a high-profile university campus with a ready supply of left-wing student activists to support them\, they have strategic and translation support from the IWGB\, and the majority of workers speak Spanish as a first language and share a common cultural/national identity. With these particular circumstances\, what can other workers in different situations then learn from their experience? \n– If an organisation proclaims victories to recruit members to its organisation\, how can we have an honest discussion about what didn’t work and more open and collective reflections on strategy and conclusions? \n– And crucially\, why is this important? Why do we bother with workplace organising? Obviously it is an integral part of our politics within the left/communist milieu\, perhaps for different reasons. But at the very least\, the processes and content of our organising efforts should somehow connect to our particular analyses of how capitalism is working and how we move beyond it. But in practice\, does it? \nThis event is an attempt to explore these questions. We think that we urgently need to review our struggles so that we can critically reflect on what worked\, what didn’t and why. While individual organisations might have these discussions behind closed doors\, we invite people across the revolutionary left with different political analyses and experiences in workers’ organisation to come together to share experiences\, critically reflect on our role as militants in our workplaces and crucially\, to think about how our decisions connect to our wider vision of political transformation. We hope to start a fruitful exchange that will bring us closer to the question of what (new) forms of organisation are emerging that can bring workers together and build a strong\, international working class movement. \nAs part of the discussion we’ll be hearing from a few different people about their experiences of organising: \nSomeone from an anarcho-syndicalist organisation will talk about their experiences of organising with precarious workers and organising strikes in FE colleges in London. She also has years of experience of working within more traditional union structures. There will also be someone to talk about organising Brighton hospitality workers. \nWe will have someone talking about their experiences of organising as precarious teaching assistants at SOAS without the support of the union who refused to back them because they were already in a dispute about the pay of permanent lecturers. We will also have someone talking about organising HPLs in universities. \nAngryWorkers and Workers Initiative in Poland will talk about their experiences of organising within the warehouse sector in West London. \nWe will have someone from the Tres Cosas cleaners campaign. \nWe will have someone to talk about the recent tube strikes as militant union representatives within the RMT union and about the ‘Tubeworker’ workplace bulletin as members of Workers’ Liberty. \nWe hope\, that by bringing different peoples’ experiences and political perspectives together\, we can debate the possibilities and feel encouraged to try different approaches. \nEmail feminist.fightback@googlemail.com to register. \nTake a look at the Facebook event \nSee you there! \nSuggested Reading:\nDo we only love unions when they strike?\nUnion Question\nMarxism and Trade Unions\nWorkers’ Organisations\nOrganisation\nCrisis in the Cleaning Sector 
URL:https://www.feministfightback.org.uk/event/what-is-working/
LOCATION:The Common House\, The Common House Unit 5E (press the buzzer) 5 Pundersons Gardens\, Bethnal Green\, London\, E2 9QG.\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Public Events
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ORGANIZER;CN="Feminist Fightback":MAILTO:feminist.fightback@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20141114T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20141114T223000
DTSTAMP:20180720T223606Z
CREATED:20141102T223445Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180720T223606Z
UID:3072-1415993400-1416004200@www.feministfightback.org.uk
SUMMARY:Feminist Fightback Film Club presents: 12th & Delaware
DESCRIPTION:For November’s Feminist Fightback Film Club\, we’ll be screening 12th and Delaware: a documentary revolving around a ‘pregnancy care centre’ set up across the road from an abortion clinic in suburban Florida. \nPregnancy care centres/crisis centres are unregulated clinics set up to look like providers of medical advice for pregnant women\, with the aim of convincing them not to access abortion. They are widespread across the US\, and are on the rise in the UK. Director Heidi Ewing has referred to them as ‘the number one tactic of the pro-life movement’. \nThis installation of film club follows on from our workshop at the Anarchist Bookfair on tactics for countering rising anti-choice activism. We hope to continue conversations started there following the film\, and welcome new thoughts and contributions to move forward with. \nWaged: £4.50\nUnwaged £2.50 \nOpen to all genders and none
URL:https://www.feministfightback.org.uk/event/feminist-fightback-film-club-presents-12th-delaware/
LOCATION:The Common House\, The Common House Unit 5E (press the buzzer) 5 Pundersons Gardens\, Bethnal Green\, London\, E2 9QG.\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Feminist Fightback Film Club
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ORGANIZER;CN="Feminist Fightback":MAILTO:feminist.fightback@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20141003T073000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20141003T213000
DTSTAMP:20150317T111339Z
CREATED:20150317T103946Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20150317T111339Z
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SUMMARY:Feminist Fightback Film Club: Mothers' Strike
DESCRIPTION:Inspired by the current Focus E15 Mothers struggle for social housing in Newham\, London\, and past and present housing struggles in the UK and abroad\, this month’s Feminist Fightback Film Club takes housing as its theme. \nMothers’ Strike (22′\, Szum TV/ Feminist Think Tank Poland\, 2010) – introduced by Magda who made the film \nBehind the Rent Strike (50′\, Nick Broomfield\, UK\, 1974) \nScreening followed by a discussion with Sam and Jasmin from Focus E15 Mothers. \nAll welcome. \nWe are planning on holding the event at the E15 Open House occupation\, 60-68 Doran Walk\, Carpenter’s Estate\, E15 (Stratford tube/overland). The back-up venue is The Common House\, Unit E\, 5 Pundersons Gardens\, E2 (Bethnal Green tube/overland). Please check back for venue confirmation nearer the time. \n \nAditya Chakraborrty’s Comment is Free Piece \nJasmin Stone’s Comment is Free Piece \n\nwww.feministfightback.org.uk – feminist.fightback@gmail.com – @femfight\nwww.facebook.com/feministfightback – www.facebook.com/feministfightback
URL:https://www.feministfightback.org.uk/event/feminist-fightback-film-club-mothers-strike/
LOCATION:The Common House\, The Common House Unit 5E (press the buzzer) 5 Pundersons Gardens\, Bethnal Green\, London\, E2 9QG.\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Feminist Fightback Film Club,Public Events
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ORGANIZER;CN="Feminist Fightback":MAILTO:feminist.fightback@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20140627T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20140627T223000
DTSTAMP:20180720T223913Z
CREATED:20140620T223720Z
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SUMMARY:Feminist Fightback Film Club Presents: Kate Bornstein is a Queer and Pleasant Danger
DESCRIPTION:At the next installment of Feminist Fightback Film Club\, we will be presenting: \n“Kate Bornstein is a Queer and Pleasant Danger” \nFor decades\, performance artist and writer\, Kate Bornstein\, has been exploding binaries and deconstructing gender—and her own identity. Trans-dyke. Reluctant polyamorist. Sadomasochist. Recovering Scientologist. Pioneering gender outlaw. \nKate Bornstein Is a Queer & Pleasant Danger joins her on her latest tour\, capturing rollicking public performances and painful personal revelations as it bears witness to Kate as a trailblazing artist-theorist-activist who inhabits a space between male and female with wit\, style and astonishing candor.By turns meditative and playful\, the film invites us on a thought-provoking journey through Kate’s world to seek answers to some of life’s biggest questions. \nWe will also be presenting: \n– Popcorn! \n– Drinks! \n– Solidarity! \n– Real authentic French Crepes! \n******Doors Open at 7pm. Tickets will be sold on a first come first serve basis*********
URL:https://www.feministfightback.org.uk/event/feminist-fightback-film-club-presents-kate-bornstein-is-a-queer-and-pleasant-danger/
LOCATION:The Common House\, The Common House Unit 5E (press the buzzer) 5 Pundersons Gardens\, Bethnal Green\, London\, E2 9QG.\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Feminist Fightback Film Club
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ORGANIZER;CN="Feminist Fightback":MAILTO:feminist.fightback@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20140214T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20140214T223000
DTSTAMP:20180720T224054Z
CREATED:20140202T223945Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180720T224054Z
UID:3077-1392406200-1392417000@www.feministfightback.org.uk
SUMMARY:Feminist Fightback Film Club: Valentines Day Edition
DESCRIPTION:Its Valentines Day! Come to Feminist Fightback’s film screening of She’s a Punk Rocker UK by Zillah Minx and celebrate your love of mohawks\, badass women\, the 80’s\, swearing\, neon\, drums and so forth. \nMusic\, dancing and chat to follow. \nZillah Minx ( from the band Rubella Ballet) tells the story with the women of the UK’s budding punk scene – the women before the Sex Pistols appeared on TV and revealed an underground punk world to the public. \nIt is an insight into female punk rock – a culture that has been greatly misunderstood and misrepresented in the media. Their stories explore the experiences of being a punk rocker\, life stores\, gigs\, fashion\, music\, Politics\, friends\, relationships and events. \nThe present media interest in punk rock is a male dominated vision of the era. This documentary specifically reassesses womens roles in a dynamic movement that irreversibly changed the face of society\, politics\, art and music. \nFeaturing women punk rockers from bands of the era including Poly Styrene of X-Ray Spex\, Vi Subversa of Poison Girls\, Eve Libertine & Gee of Crass\, Gaye Black of The Adverts\, Michelle of Brigandage\,Ruth & Janet of Hagar The Womb and journalists\, authors and photographers Julie Burchill and Caroline Comb and more. \nTickets on the door\nWaged = £4.50\nUnwaged = £2.50 \nWe’ll be selling popcorn\, beer\, wine and juice. \nThe last film we showed was 80’s revolutionary sci-fi Born in Flames\, which was a huge success. Thanks to everyone who turned up\, enjoyed the awesome soundtrack\, and made it fun. \nFilm club will take place every month and is open to all genders and none. \nNext time we’ll be showing Salt of the Earth\, which details the 1951 miners strike against the Zinc empire in New Mexico\, particularly focusing on the role of women within the strike\, and was blacklisted by the Hollywood establishment. Watch this space!
URL:https://www.feministfightback.org.uk/event/feminist-fightback-film-club-valentines-day-edition/
CATEGORIES:Feminist Fightback Film Club
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20130919T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20130919T210000
DTSTAMP:20180720T224308Z
CREATED:20150316T071251Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180720T224308Z
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SUMMARY:Feminist Fightback Film Club: Born In Flames
DESCRIPTION:Made in 1983\, ‘Born in Flames’ (dir. Lizzie Borden) is an incredible docu-drama/ sci fi film set in the future\, ten years after a social democratic revolution which has established American Socialism. \nHowever\, Black and working-class women are not happy with this form of reformism and start arming themselves and forming the women’s army to bring about real revolutionary change (and beat up a few rapists on the way…). \nIt’s an incredible insight into the Women’s Liberation Movement at a moment of intense artistic and political creativity\, while also providing fascinating footage of pre-gentrification New York. \nPlus an ace soundtrack. \n£2.50 donation (free for unwaged) \nOpen to all genders and none. \nwww.feministfightback.org.uk – feminist.fightback@gmail.com – @femfight\nwww.facebook.com/feministfightback – www.facebook.com/feministfightback
URL:https://www.feministfightback.org.uk/event/feminist-fightback-film-club-born-in-flames/
LOCATION:The Common House\, The Common House Unit 5E (press the buzzer) 5 Pundersons Gardens\, Bethnal Green\, London\, E2 9QG.\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Feminist Fightback Film Club,Public Events
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ORGANIZER;CN="Feminist Fightback":MAILTO:feminist.fightback@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20130718T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20130718T210000
DTSTAMP:20150317T115703Z
CREATED:20150317T115607Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20150317T115703Z
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SUMMARY:Public Meeting on Feminism\, Childcare and Reproductive Labour
DESCRIPTION:If you require childcare for this meeting please email feminist.fightback@gmail.com. \nAs the Coalition government forces more and more mothers to return to work while their children are still very young\, a growing right wing lobby argues conversely that staying at home to look after the children should be valued and supported. \nThe feminist movement has long grappled with the problem of how to argue for women’s right to combine motherhood and a career\, without devaluing the crucial work of raising children. In the 1970s the Wages for Housework movement argued that the people who perform the reproductive labour of the home (cooking\, cleaning and caring for children) should receive a wage. \nOther feminists opposed this\, arguing that this would simply trap women in their role as housewives. In the context of today’s cuts\, how can we as feminists work together to imagine better ways to organise reproductive labour in our society? \nHow can we challenge the gendered imbalance of this work and improve the conditions under which it’s performed? \nwww.feministfightback.org.uk – feminist.fightback@gmail.com – @femfight\nwww.facebook.com/feministfightback – www.facebook.com/feministfightback
URL:https://www.feministfightback.org.uk/event/public-meeting-on-feminism-childcare-and-reproductive-labour/
LOCATION:The Common House\, The Common House Unit 5E (press the buzzer) 5 Pundersons Gardens\, Bethnal Green\, London\, E2 9QG.\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Public Events
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ORGANIZER;CN="Feminist Fightback":MAILTO:feminist.fightback@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20130613T070000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20130613T210000
DTSTAMP:20180324T024630Z
CREATED:20150317T120226Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180324T024630Z
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SUMMARY:Feminists Responses to Attacks on the Welfare State!
DESCRIPTION:Feminist Fightback has been thinking about the gendered effects of the benefit cuts\, holding ‘Women at the Cutting Edge’ in 2010\, authoring ‘Cuts are a feminist issue’ and being involved in the Save Hackney Nurseries Campaign. \nWe have long wrestled with the dilemma of how to defend services while refusing to be satisfied with the inadequacies of the existing welfare state. In an attempt to think beyond this\, we will be hold a discussion on the idea of a basic income and asking what might be the potential benefits of this as a feminist demand. \nA basic income is a guaranteed income for all. Unlike the current benefits systems that distinguishes between ‘deserving’ and ‘undeserving’ welfare recipients\, the basic income is unconditional and breaks the link between income and work. Rather than having to defend flawed institutions\, is it now time to make a brave and transformative demand such as this? \n \nThere is no need to read anything before the meeting\, but you might find the following texts of interest: \nKathi Weeks\, ‘Working Demands: From Wages for Housework to Basic Income’\, chapter 3 of her book The Problem with Work (2011). An argument for basic income which draws on Marxism\, feminism and antiwork politics. \nWildcat\, ‘Reforming the Welfare State for Saving Capitalism: The ‘Guaranteed Income’ and ew reformist illusions’\, Wildcat-Zirkular No. 48/49 (1999). An argument against basic income as demand written as part of a debate on basic income on the German left in the late 1990s.
URL:https://www.feministfightback.org.uk/event/feminists-responses-to-attacks-on-the-welfare-state/
LOCATION:The Common House\, The Common House Unit 5E (press the buzzer) 5 Pundersons Gardens\, Bethnal Green\, London\, E2 9QG.\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Organising Meeting
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ORGANIZER;CN="Feminist Fightback":MAILTO:feminist.fightback@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20130217T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20130217T190000
DTSTAMP:20180720T224556Z
CREATED:20130202T224345Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180720T224556Z
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SUMMARY:The S Word: A Conversation on Feminist Sex and Relationship Education
DESCRIPTION:We are a group from a diversity of backgrounds with an interest in the attitudes surrounding Sex and Relationships Education. We feel that a key reason why much SRE for young people is unsatisfactory is that as a society we have problems discussing\, and having\, sex and relationships in empowering ways. We therefore believe that in order to change attitudes\, to question and become more comfortable with our own relationships and sexuality\, and in short to build a society which is less squeamish about sex\, we need to start with ourselves. \nThese ideas have grown into planning a platform for educators – in the broadest sense – to meet. We are all potential learners and teachers of SRE throughout our lives. Whether you are a sex-educator\, campaigner\, parent\, carer\, teacher\, health worker\, or are simply interested in the subject\, you are welcome to join us. \nOn Sunday 17th February 2013\, we are holding a gathering in the Whitmore Community Centre\, near Old Street\, London. An informal opening session will lead to three sets of two parallel workshops. Topics will include ‘Communication and consent’; ‘Where do our sexual values come from/ is our sexuality our own?’; ‘body image and sexuality’; ‘The language of sex’; ‘Speed Debating’; ‘non-heteronormative sex’; and ‘A manifesto for my sexual values’. \nRegister to attend at http://feministsre.eventbrite.co.uk/ \nThere will be a creche and the venue is fully wheelchair accessible. Please specify any childcare or other needs you have when registering. \nSuggested donations of £5 waged or £3 low/ unwaged will be requested on the door to cover venue hire.
URL:https://www.feministfightback.org.uk/event/the-s-word-a-conversation-on-feminist-sex-and-relationship-education/
CATEGORIES:Public Events
ORGANIZER;CN="Feminist Fightback":MAILTO:feminist.fightback@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20121219T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20121219T230000
DTSTAMP:20180720T224836Z
CREATED:20121120T224634Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180720T224836Z
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SUMMARY:'Tis the Season to be Comradely
DESCRIPTION:Open to all genders and everyone else!\nJoin us for mince pies\, mulled wine\, gefilte fish balls\, music\, dancing and two great short films. \n‘Mothers’ Strike’: A film about a hunger strike for housing by single mothers in Poland (2008) \n‘People for Tomorrow’: A film by Selma James about reproductive labour and equal pay (1970)
URL:https://www.feministfightback.org.uk/event/tis-the-season-to-be-comradely/
LOCATION:London Action Resource Centre
CATEGORIES:Social
ORGANIZER;CN="Feminist Fightback":MAILTO:feminist.fightback@gmail.com
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