BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Mozilla.org/NONSGML Mozilla Calendar V1.1//EN VERSION:2.0 BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Atlantic/Canary X-LIC-LOCATION:Atlantic/Canary BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:WEST DTSTART:19700329T010000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;INTERVAL=1;BYDAY=-1SU;BYMONTH=3 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:WET DTSTART:19701025T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;INTERVAL=1;BYDAY=-1SU;BYMONTH=10 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Guernsey X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Guernsey BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:19700329T010000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;INTERVAL=1;BYDAY=-1SU;BYMONTH=3 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:19701025T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;INTERVAL=1;BYDAY=-1SU;BYMONTH=10 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:19700329T010000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;INTERVAL=1;BYDAY=-1SU;BYMONTH=3 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:19701025T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;INTERVAL=1;BYDAY=-1SU;BYMONTH=10 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20070802T144709Z LAST-MODIFIED:20070821T114252Z DTSTAMP:20070821T114252Z UID:8f617cd4-5841-401b-aaa4-07d067a54169 SUMMARY:?? Social Centre Opening Night PRIORITY:0 STATUS:TENTATIVE CLASS:PUBLIC DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20070915T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20070915T225500 DESCRIPTION:TIMES TO BE CONFIRMED. INFO TO FOLLOW END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20070802T145123Z LAST-MODIFIED:20070802T145531Z DTSTAMP:20070802T145531Z UID:0043dffa-6489-4b32-88d4-85c3f0a40772 SUMMARY:L'pool Social Forum PRIORITY:0 CLASS:PUBLIC RRULE:FREQ=MONTHLY;INTERVAL=1;BYDAY=2TU DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20070814T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20070814T210000 DESCRIPTION:Monthly meeting of activists\, groups & individuals. (Social Centre business may also be raised - but main Social Centre meeting is the 4th Tuesday of the month)\n'The Liverpool Social Forum (LSF) is an anti-capitalist group. We exist to bring about a fair\, free and sustainable society - without hierarchy\, discrimination or the exploitation of people\, animals and the planet for profit.'\nSecond Tuesday every month URL:http://www.liverpoolsocialforum.org.uk END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20070802T150402Z LAST-MODIFIED:20090728T071434Z DTSTAMP:20070802T150501Z UID:b15c13ca-5e1f-43f7-8365-522fcd18a924 SUMMARY:Social Centre monthly meeting PRIORITY:0 CLASS:PUBLIC RRULE:FREQ=MONTHLY;INTERVAL=1;BYDAY=4TU EXDATE:20071225T193000Z EXDATE:20081028T193000Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20070828T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20070828T220000 X-MOZ-GENERATION:3 DESCRIPTION:Monthly meeting organising development & use of the Liverpool Social Centre - anyone interested in being involved is welcome. The meeting is on the 4th Tuesday of every month. Entrance to the Liverpool Social Centre is next door to the bookshop\, ring the bell labelled 'basement'.\n\n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20081001T155452Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100728T044123Z DTSTAMP:20081001T155452Z UID:b15c13ca-5e1f-43f7-8365-522fcd18a924 SUMMARY:Social Centre monthly meeting PRIORITY:0 CLASS:PUBLIC RECURRENCE-ID;TZID=Europe/London:20081125T193000 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20081125T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20081125T213000 DESCRIPTION:Monthly meeting organising development & use of the Liverpool Social Centre - anyone interested in being involved is welcome. The meeting is on the 4th Tuesday of every month. Entrance to the Liverpool Social Centre is next door to the bookshop\, ring the bell labelled 'basement'.\n\n X-MOZ-GENERATION:3 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20070802T151016Z LAST-MODIFIED:20090112T093340Z DTSTAMP:20070802T151240Z UID:1306391a-b5b0-419b-82ee-185631e6f0f2 SUMMARY:Merseyside Anarchists monthly meeting PRIORITY:0 CLASS:PUBLIC RRULE:FREQ=MONTHLY;INTERVAL=1;BYDAY=3TH EXDATE:20080717T183000Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20070816T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20070816T210000 X-MOZ-GENERATION:2 DESCRIPTION:All anarchists or people interested in anarchism welcome. \n\nAnarchism - or libertarian socialism - is an increasingly strong political\ncurrent within society and has for a long time been championing the case for\na fair\, ecological and sustainable global community that may be our last\nbest hope for humanity.\n\nWhat is it and what can it offer us all? Best of all\, what can you do to\nbring it about. begin the journey here. \n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20070821T095222Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100728T044123Z DTSTAMP:20070905T191155Z UID:1306391a-b5b0-419b-82ee-185631e6f0f2 SUMMARY:Introduction to Anarchism (Merseyside Anarchists) PRIORITY:0 CLASS:PUBLIC RECURRENCE-ID;TZID=Europe/London:20070920T193000 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20070920T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20070920T210000 DESCRIPTION:Merseyside Anarchist Group presents speakers & discussion on the politics & history of anarchism. With speakers from the Anarchist Federation.\n\nAll anarchists or people interested in anarchism welcome. \n\nAnarchism - or libertarian socialism - is an increasingly strong political\ncurrent within society and has for a long time been championing the case for\na fair\, ecological and sustainable global community that may be our last\nbest hope for humanity.\n\nWhat is it and what can it offer us all? Best of all\, what can you do to\nbring it about. begin the journey here. \n\n(Merseyside Anarchists meet monthly on the 3rd Thursday of the month) END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20071014T110928Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100728T044123Z DTSTAMP:20071014T110928Z UID:1306391a-b5b0-419b-82ee-185631e6f0f2 SUMMARY:Anarchism & Feminisms (Anarchist Educational) PRIORITY:0 CLASS:PUBLIC RECURRENCE-ID;TZID=Europe/London:20071018T193000 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20071018T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20071018T210000 DESCRIPTION:(Part of monthly series of Anarchist educationals)\n\nWe will be focusing on anarchism and feminisms - discussing anarcha feminism\, radical feminism\, autonomist feminist and possibly other varieties and their relationship to anarchist thought and struggle.\n\nAll welcome! END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20071014T111058Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100728T044123Z DTSTAMP:20071014T111058Z UID:1306391a-b5b0-419b-82ee-185631e6f0f2 SUMMARY:Varieties of Anarchism (Anarchist Educational) PRIORITY:0 CLASS:PUBLIC RECURRENCE-ID;TZID=Europe/London:20071115T193000 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20071115T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20071115T210000 DESCRIPTION:(Part of monthly series of anarchist educational discussions) \n\nConfused about the way\nanarchists organise\, can't tell your syndicalists from your communists\,\nyour mutualists from your individualists? We'll try and unpack it all\ntogether\, describing the way anarchists have struggled historically and\ntrying to draw out the lessons for how we work today.\n\nAll welcome END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20071014T111215Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100728T044123Z DTSTAMP:20071014T111215Z UID:1306391a-b5b0-419b-82ee-185631e6f0f2 SUMMARY:The Limits of Community Struggle (Anarchist Educational) PRIORITY:0 CLASS:PUBLIC RECURRENCE-ID;TZID=Europe/London:20071220T193000 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20071220T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20071220T210000 DESCRIPTION:(Part of monthly series of anarchist educational discussions)\n\nThe most\nsuccessful struggles of recent years in the UK have generally been based\nin the community rather than the work place. Traditional class struggle\nin factories\, docks and so on appears on the decline\, whilst struggles\nmodelled on the fight against the Poll Tax\, road building and so on\nappear to be more and more the best option. What are the limits of this\,\nwhat is the role of workplace struggle today and how can we best\norganise to win?\n\nAll welcome END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20080112T095301Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100728T044123Z DTSTAMP:20080112T095301Z UID:1306391a-b5b0-419b-82ee-185631e6f0f2 SUMMARY:Trapese Collective talk about book \"Do It Yourself: A Handbook for Changing The World\" PRIORITY:0 CLASS:PUBLIC RECURRENCE-ID;TZID=Europe/London:20080117T193000 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20080117T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20080117T213000 URL:http://www.handbookforchange.org DESCRIPTION:\nTrapese is a popular education group who have produced this book as one way to make grassroots action more accessible in the struggles to tackle major issues like climate change. Kim\, Alice and Paul the book's editors will discuss the book's approach\, their work and answer any questions you may have.\n\n\n(sorry\, no Merseyside Anarchists monthly meeting due to this event - next month's talk as usual\, on eco-feminism)\n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20080318T095824Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100728T044123Z DTSTAMP:20080318T095824Z UID:1306391a-b5b0-419b-82ee-185631e6f0f2 SUMMARY:Firebrands of Liverpool - talk & discussion PRIORITY:0 CLASS:PUBLIC RECURRENCE-ID;TZID=Europe/London:20080320T193000 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20080320T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20080320T210000 DESCRIPTION:After February showing of The Last Firebrands - the film on Italian autonomist worker struggles in the 70s - we continue with a look on similar radical workers' practices on the Merseyside. Come and disscuss with the last generation of mass workers if and how their experience is relevant for us working in changed class composition of the 'post-fordist' period. \n\nTalks and discussion of one of the\nmost radical periods of industrial struggle on Merseyside: Wildcat Strikes\, Flying Pickets\, Factory occupations\, Rent Strikes\, when communities and workers resisted together. Fords\, Pressed Steel\, the Docks\, Kirkby Rent Strike: Liverpool 1960s - 1980s. Recalling the power and militancy of the working class and how we might get it back.\n\nWHO: Brian Ashton (Former Fords Shop Steward)\, Ritchie Hunter (long-Time\nActivist)\, John Bohanna (Founder Member\, Ford Shop Stewards Combine) END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20090112T092759Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100728T044123Z DTSTAMP:20090112T092759Z UID:1306391a-b5b0-419b-82ee-185631e6f0f2 SUMMARY:Greece On Fire! Music\, food & discussion - organised by Merseyside Anarchists PRIORITY:0 CLASS:PUBLIC RECURRENCE-ID;TZID=Europe/London:20090115T193000 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20090115T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20090115T210000 DESCRIPTION:Political corruption\, economic stagnation\, obscene inequalities and police and state repression made an explosive mixture that the killing of one teenage boy blew up in the face of the Greek ruling class. WHAT'S HAPPENING NOW?\nThe strikes\, occupations\, protests\, blockades and police violence has been going on for weeks with an increasing toll of arrested\, gaoled and disappeared. WHAT CAN WE DO?\nBecause many of the protesters are libertarians\, socialists and anarchists\, the Merseyside Anarchist Federation has organised a night of solidarity and fund raising for the victims of greek state brutality.\nVenue: The Liverpool Social Centre\, The Basement\, 96a Bold Street (below News From Nowhere Bookshop)\nDate: Thursday 15th January\nTime 7.30pm - 11pm\nA report and latest update on the Greek situation\, its origins and the forms of protest and repression will be followed by music performed for free by:\nAlun Parry\, Liverpool's (better than) Billy Bragg\nClaire Mooney\nThomas Western\nRefreshments available including mulled wine\, all to raise money for Greece\n\n\n X-MOZ-GENERATION:2 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20070802T151607Z LAST-MODIFIED:20070802T151951Z DTSTAMP:20070802T151951Z UID:f8da64f0-a7b4-45da-a2ea-fe7f5bb42e9e SUMMARY:Talk: Rebel Girls & Radical Suffragists - The Grassroots Votes For Women Campaign in the North PRIORITY:0 CLASS:PUBLIC DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20071006T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20071006T210000 DESCRIPTION:Writer & historian Jill Liddington talks about her book \"Rebel Girls: Their Fight for the Vote\". Admission £2.50. There will wine & nibbles. (Organiser: News From Nowhere Bookshop) END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20070803T181146Z LAST-MODIFIED:20070905T190744Z DTSTAMP:20070905T190744Z UID:9f76cfc9-20d4-4f18-b812-7ff8a9b9675f SUMMARY:(setting up for evening event) PRIORITY:0 STATUS:TENTATIVE CLASS:PUBLIC DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20070922T150000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20070922T190000 DESCRIPTION:Daytime - setup\n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20070821T082546Z LAST-MODIFIED:20070821T105713Z DTSTAMP:20070821T105713Z UID:7a816cfa-3121-4f64-a22c-e938b414af4b SUMMARY:Chiapas Solidarity Group Meeting PRIORITY:0 CLASS:PUBLIC DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20070823T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20070823T210000 DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome.\n\nRough agenda (open to suggestions!)\n\nZapatista info/film night Sat 22nd September\nWebsite\nNational gathering (October)\nNewsletter\nOther Campaign workshop(s) END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20070821T083308Z LAST-MODIFIED:20070821T083327Z DTSTAMP:20070821T083327Z UID:aec631b4-3081-40c5-9e19-f168da6a6979 SUMMARY:tidy-up day DTSTART;VALUE=DATE;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20070916 DTEND;VALUE=DATE;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20070917 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20070821T083620Z LAST-MODIFIED:20070824T185842Z DTSTAMP:20070824T185842Z UID:8f55f064-2f9c-4728-bd29-1174a88d9802 SUMMARY:Play: The Boy Who Dropped An Egg On The World PRIORITY:0 STATUS:CONFIRMED CLASS:PUBLIC DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20070921T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20070921T213000 DESCRIPTION:A 21st century 'mystery' play\, a morality tale of good and evil\, an allegory about the invasion of Iraq. Written by Julian Bond & performed by the Jack's Hard Rub Theatre Company. (The play lasts approx 1 hr & 20 minutes - there may or may not be an interval \n\nContact: Julian 07913 449 396 / info@jackshardrub.co.uk URL:http://www.jackshardrub.co.uk/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20070821T093922Z LAST-MODIFIED:20070821T094836Z DTSTAMP:20070821T094836Z UID:d7a61fcd-a3d5-4a45-9d5e-de3ca2d3e27a SUMMARY:Book Launch - Lindsey German / SWP PRIORITY:0 CLASS:PUBLIC DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20070926T200000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20070926T213000 DESCRIPTION:Book launch: Material Girls: Women\, Men and Work by Lindsey German (Socialist Workers Party/Stop The War Coalition). \"Why\, at the beginning of the 21st century are most women still at the bottom of the pile? Wherever we look - at work\, the family of attitudes to sexuality - women's lives have been transformed over the last half century. But the promise of equality - the dream of the women's liberation movement of the 1970s - remains unfulfilled.\" (Published by Bookmarks\, 2007) END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20070821T100149Z LAST-MODIFIED:20070905T191659Z DTSTAMP:20070905T191659Z UID:6f6c2a98-88f3-4f52-a4dd-f489cdd1c5f4 SUMMARY:Indymedia Info Night PRIORITY:0 STATUS:TENTATIVE CLASS:PUBLIC DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20070919T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20070919T210000 DESCRIPTION:Indymedia is a news website that anyone can contribute news stories to. If you want to get more involved in Liverpool Indymedia or simply find out what it's all about\, come along. The evening will start with a short presentation/film introducing Indymedia\, and then you can try out posting an article/photos etc to the website\, with Liverpool Indymedia volunteers on hand to help & advise. \n\n URL:http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/liverpool/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20070821T100530Z LAST-MODIFIED:20070905T191304Z DTSTAMP:20070905T191304Z UID:650a4e58-31fc-4663-8faa-7d2e43f1bb30 SUMMARY:Conspiracy Evening PRIORITY:0 STATUS:TENTATIVE CLASS:PUBLIC DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20070918T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20070918T220000 DESCRIPTION:From 9-11 and JFK to the Masons & the \"New World Order\" - why are there so many conspiracy theories & what should we do with them? END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20070821T103336Z LAST-MODIFIED:20070905T190552Z DTSTAMP:20070905T190552Z UID:9b35809e-c63f-4496-8701-77c545bdf4d9 SUMMARY:Free Screen - Film Night PRIORITY:0 STATUS:TENTATIVE CLASS:PUBLIC DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20070923T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20070923T230000 DESCRIPTION:The first of our regular film nights. Showing \"Osama\" - an Afghan film about life under the Taliban\, and \"Walkout\" - a drama based on anti-racist school struggles. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20070824T185924Z LAST-MODIFIED:20070824T192647Z DTSTAMP:20070824T192647Z UID:cecb74b6-358d-4a1e-beab-855a9e556adf SUMMARY:Animal Rights Film & Q&A session with activist Keith Mann PRIORITY:0 STATUS:CONFIRMED CLASS:PUBLIC DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20071013T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20071013T220000 DESCRIPTION:“Behind the Mask”\, is a full length documentary (72 mins) about why people risk prison to save animals from abuse - more info about film: http://www.uncagedfilms.com \n\nPlus Keith Mann talks about his animal rights activism and his book \"From Dusk 'til Dawn: An Insider's View of the Growth of the Animal Liberation Movement\" - more info about Keith: http://www.thethinkshop.co.uk/fdtd/keith.asp\n\nAll welcome! (likely to be admission fee & vegan buffet) END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20070824T192729Z LAST-MODIFIED:20081030T104230Z DTSTAMP:20070824T193003Z UID:fefea48f-f6f6-4236-8b31-d01502f51b12 SUMMARY:Merseyside Animal Rights - monthly meeting (first Tues of the month) PRIORITY:0 CLASS:PUBLIC RRULE:FREQ=MONTHLY;INTERVAL=1;BYDAY=1TU DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20070904T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20070904T210000 X-MOZ-GENERATION:1 DESCRIPTION:We are the campaigning body for animal rights in Liverpool. We campaign on a number of issues that involve the abuse and exploitation of animals. We hold regular fundraising stalls in the region and organise transport to national demonstrations. WANT TO KNOW MORE? WANT TO GET INVOLVED? \nThen come along to our friendly informal meetings and find out what's happening locally and nationally.\n URL:http://www.merseysideanimalrights.org/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20081030T104046Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100728T044123Z DTSTAMP:20081030T104046Z UID:fefea48f-f6f6-4236-8b31-d01502f51b12 SUMMARY:Merseyside Animal Rights - monthly meeting (first Tues of the month) PRIORITY:0 CLASS:PUBLIC RECURRENCE-ID;TZID=Europe/London:20081104T193000 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20081104T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20081104T210000 URL:http://www.merseysideanimalrights.org/ X-MOZ-GENERATION:1 DESCRIPTION:We are the campaigning body for animal rights in Liverpool. We campaign on a number of issues that involve the abuse and exploitation of animals. We hold regular fundraising stalls in the region and organise transport to national demonstrations. WANT TO KNOW MORE? WANT TO GET INVOLVED? \nThen come along to our friendly informal meetings and find out what's happening locally and nationally.\n\n(in small room/cafe area)\n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20070824T193338Z LAST-MODIFIED:20070824T194341Z DTSTAMP:20070824T194341Z UID:59b0047a-03dd-4a50-a462-1d3d6c7d03f8 SUMMARY:Zapatista Network Gathering DTSTART;VALUE=DATE;TZID=Europe/London:20071020 DTEND;VALUE=DATE;TZID=Europe/London:20071022 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20070905T184951Z LAST-MODIFIED:20071214T142744Z DTSTAMP:20070918T175301Z UID:c28bac52-4672-470e-a2cf-8f7102e140d1 SUMMARY:CANCELLED Vegan Taster Day PRIORITY:0 STATUS:CANCELLED CLASS:PUBLIC DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20071215T110000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20071215T160000 DESCRIPTION:Sorry this event has been cancelled END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20070905T185302Z LAST-MODIFIED:20071214T142813Z DTSTAMP:20070918T175318Z UID:8d4cd668-6bdb-496c-9a2b-7b34809f0ae0 SUMMARY:CANCELLED Vegan Taster Day PRIORITY:0 STATUS:CANCELLED CLASS:PUBLIC DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20071222T110000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20071222T160000 DESCRIPTION:Sorry this event has been cancelled END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20070905T185621Z LAST-MODIFIED:20071014T110557Z DTSTAMP:20071014T110557Z UID:7969c443-2998-49b6-aa14-9175128c507a SUMMARY:Oaxaca Info Night PRIORITY:0 CLASS:PUBLIC DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20070916T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20070916T220000 DESCRIPTION:Uk Zapatista's collective and others present a member of the Indymedia Oaxaca collective and of Jenpoj community radio - talking about the uprising\, police repression & protests happening in Oaxaca\, Mexico right now & presenting a documentary from MaldeOjotv \"TRUE TO MY PLEDGE\".\n\nThis video show the violation of human rights committed by the governor of Oaxaca and has been produce to rise funds to help the famiies ofmurdered activists. Our compañero will also talk about his journey through europe\, meeting & talking with other people involved in local struggles and resistance.\n\nAll welcome! Food will be available.\n URL:http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/liverpool/2007/09/380340.html END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20070905T190755Z LAST-MODIFIED:20070918T175010Z DTSTAMP:20070918T175010Z UID:7c99cf7d-05e7-4ff2-a201-6bda2b2b81e9 SUMMARY:SSAW Benefit Gig PRIORITY:0 CLASS:PUBLIC DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20070922T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20070922T230000 DESCRIPTION:School Students Against War present a showcase of four local bands: The\nLighters\, Fretless\, The Blackwood Articles and After Forever playing in aid\nof raising funds for the local campaigning of SSAW.\n\nDoors: 7.30pm\, £4 or £5 if 18+ \n\n\nSchool Students Against War are a self organised group of young people from\nacross Merseyside\, campaigning for the end of the illegal occupations in\nIraq\, Afghanistan and Palestine and for the end to army recruitment in\nschools and colleges.\n\nwww.ssaw.org.uk\n\n \n\n\n\ncontact: liverpool@ssaw.org.uk URL:www.ssaw.org.uk END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20070926T081705Z LAST-MODIFIED:20071003T183125Z DTSTAMP:20071003T183125Z UID:13734182-c6e1-4874-8499-39caf4bf8879 SUMMARY:Anarchist Educational PRIORITY:0 CLASS:PUBLIC DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20071004T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20071004T220000 DESCRIPTION:the first session of anarchist educationals down in the\nsocial centre. We'll be looking at libertarian education with a view to\nfiguring out exactly how we're going to run the sessions and working out a programme.\n\nAll welcome. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20070926T081953Z LAST-MODIFIED:20071003T172738Z DTSTAMP:20071003T172738Z UID:777db34d-fc01-478d-95c1-fb01103bc681 SUMMARY:Film Night: The Weather Underground / Dark Days PRIORITY:0 CLASS:PUBLIC DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20071007T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20071007T210000 DESCRIPTION:The latest film night in Liverpool Social Centre (Next To Nowhere) is\nbeing held this coming Sunday night\, starting a bit earlier this time\nat 5pm.\n\n2 more excellent films\n\n5pm - THE WEATHER UNDERGROUND\n\nThe Explosive Story Of America's Most Notorious Revolutionaries\n\n7pm - DARK DAYS\nAn incredibly compassionate look into the lives of a few of the many\nhomeless people who lived under New York City in abandoned railway\ntunnels for decades. Soundtrack by DJ Shadow\n\n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20070926T082434Z LAST-MODIFIED:20070926T082525Z DTSTAMP:20070926T082525Z UID:5d50e23b-43ee-48f8-9ac8-a9661fea4508 SUMMARY:Asylum Voice Meeting DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20070928T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20070928T193000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20070926T083537Z LAST-MODIFIED:20071001T082931Z DTSTAMP:20071001T082931Z UID:6b007e4a-02a7-48df-81b0-30a5ad61a201 SUMMARY:Che Anniversary Night PRIORITY:0 STATUS:TENTATIVE CLASS:PUBLIC DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20071009T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20071009T213000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20070926T083740Z LAST-MODIFIED:20071025T174105Z DTSTAMP:20071025T174105Z UID:de901515-d7dd-4812-8682-9b11f213e9ba SUMMARY:Punk Rock & Mayhem PRIORITY:0 STATUS:CONFIRMED CLASS:PUBLIC DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20071103T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20071103T230000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20070927T142101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20070927T142218Z DTSTAMP:20070927T142218Z UID:e184cdd4-f404-4839-8a16-532f370a827f SUMMARY:Conspiracy Practical Evening PRIORITY:0 CLASS:PUBLIC DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20071016T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20071016T213000 DESCRIPTION:Follow up to conspiracy discussion evenings in September & yesterday - focussing on practical ideas & action END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20070927T141732Z LAST-MODIFIED:20071003T154845Z DTSTAMP:20071003T154845Z UID:6108219b-0ad4-4542-aa56-058e46e3ebd8 SUMMARY:Conspiracy Discussion Evening PRIORITY:0 CLASS:PUBLIC DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20071015T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20071015T213000 DESCRIPTION:A follow-up to the conspiracy discussion evening in September. (Then tomorrow there is a session on practical actions in response to the conspiracy ideas we've discussed)\n\n\"what really happened on 7/7?\n\n was it just coincidence that london was targeted in the middle of the g8 summit\, when most of her finest boys in blue were busy babysitting protesters in scotland? is it likely that such a 'vicious terrorist group' would choose to detonate their bombs the day after the 2012 olympic winner was announced? if you were on your way to become a suicide bomber\, would you take your i.d. & documents that would lead back to the bomb making factory? why did 56 people die & 700 get injured? & why has there been no public inquiry into the worst uk bombings since wwii?\n\nif you would like to know more\, or share your knowledge with others\, then\ncome along to next to nowhere:liverpool social centre on monday oct 15th @\n7:30pm\, but be warned\, the truth can be detrimental to your wellbeing!\"\n\n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20070926T083618Z LAST-MODIFIED:20071003T160150Z DTSTAMP:20071003T160150Z UID:f88fcd35-a2df-466c-8114-3611a810481a SUMMARY:Class A Audio Gig PRIORITY:0 STATUS:TENTATIVE CLASS:PUBLIC DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20071014T140000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20071014T210000 DESCRIPTION:White Mice vs Shawn Greenlee aka Pleasure horse vs b.P.A.t.T. vs Monobrow\n\nwhile Djs include mr Dj Scotch Egg vs Big Dog Scary\n\nrahh ---> Donation (which means you aint coming in unless you donate :P)\nsorrrry.. dem da breaks.... i think it might be abit small for everyone\nalso so get there early to avoid not having your ears melted :) \n\nshow starts with global politics vs tea and cake at 3pm! URL: http://www.myspace.com/audiopusher END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20071001T083218Z LAST-MODIFIED:20071001T083937Z DTSTAMP:20071001T083937Z UID:e9ac413d-cf90-47d3-8771-15b3d7e00bec SUMMARY:Social Centre extra meeting PRIORITY:0 CLASS:PUBLIC DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20071002T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20071002T200000 DESCRIPTION:Extra organising meeting for Liverpool Social Centre volunteers - mainly sorting out practical things re hosting other groups/events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20070926T083934Z LAST-MODIFIED:20071210T091556Z DTSTAMP:20071001T083954Z UID:0835839c-7929-4698-a6ae-4bfc8ac48a8b SUMMARY:CANCELLED ?? Xmas Fundraiser STATUS:CANCELLED DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20071214T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20071214T233000 DESCRIPTION:see the Liverpool/Manchester Climate Camp Xmas Social on Dec 19th instead END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20071001T084211Z LAST-MODIFIED:20071028T150713Z DTSTAMP:20071025T174256Z UID:14cf527c-b822-41d5-ad4f-fad685376bac SUMMARY:Environmental Network for Central America Talk PRIORITY:0 STATUS:TENTATIVE CLASS:PUBLIC DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20071102T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20071102T220000 DESCRIPTION:Visiting speakers from Environmental Network for Central America talk about their recent trip to Honduras and Nicaragua to make links with community projects. All welcome!\n\nThe purpose of study tour was primarily to establish links with organisations in Honduras\, find out / learn about their struggles\, opportunities for funding small projects in future.\n\nThe talk will concentrate on the organisations / community groups / environments we visited\, namely:\n \nClinica Xochilt (Nicaragua) - A women's heath clinic which also helps banana and sugar cane plantation workers affected by the illneses caused by pesticide use. They work with very little equipment and support poor communities that would otherwise have no access to healthcare.\n \nPalm Oil Plantations (Honduras) - We visited Fundacion Prolansate who look after 3 national parks on the carribean coast of Honduras. We were able to visit the palm oil plantations and speak to farmers who have switched to growing plam oil trees. The area would otherwise be rainforest with a very valuable bio-diversity. Historically this coastal area of Honduras has been home to the Garifuna people\, an ethnic group formed over 200 years ago when escaped slaves from the British West Indies mixed with Carib groups along the coast of Central America.\n \nCOPINH (La Esperanza\, Honduras) - COPINH stands for Civic Council Of Popular and Indigenous Organisations. La Esperanza (Intibuca state of Honduras) is home to the Lenca indigenous group and COPINH stand up for the rights of indigenous people. They are very active and among other activities they run a community radio station called La Voz Lenca (the Voice of the Lenca) and seem to have a fantastic non-hierarchical way of working and are very much a grass routes organisation.\n \nThe Movimiento Ambientalista de Olancho (Honduras) - The MAO are a grass routes organisation which supports campesino communities affected by the damaging effects of illegal and excessive logging in the Olancho area of Honduras. The community groups have suffered 7 assassinations in the last 5 years (2 of which occured in December 2007). The assassinations are coordinated by the local logging companies with the collusion of local government officials. There is a lot of money to be made in logging\; but the local farming communities suffer from erosion of top soil\, the drying up of streams and natural spring water etc.\n \nThe Permaculture Institute of El Salvador (El Salvador) - The permaculture institute are part of the farmer to farmer movement and they help to promote organic agriculture to poor farming communities in El Salvador. Their aims are to improve peoples working conditions by reducing their reliance on agro-chemicals. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20071001T084458Z LAST-MODIFIED:20071001T085126Z DTSTAMP:20071001T085126Z UID:0174eb3b-3a8a-44c0-b110-6de250841146 SUMMARY:Outsiders Free Film Screening - Gay Scouse and Black Glory PRIORITY:0 CLASS:PUBLIC DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20071031T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20071031T210000 DESCRIPTION:Latest film from Sandi Hughes\, who's been documenting gay life in Liverpool for over 20 years. Part of the Outsiders Film Festival. Film is 45 minutes. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20071003T155709Z LAST-MODIFIED:20071003T160016Z DTSTAMP:20071003T160016Z UID:729ea80c-b0d6-419a-8f1e-cdd94e2894f2 SUMMARY:Press and Prejudice Workshop PRIORITY:0 CLASS:PUBLIC DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20071019T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20071019T210000 DESCRIPTION:Press and Prejudice - an exploration of bias in journalism and travel writing. A workshop presented by Hilda Reilly\, author of \"Prickly Pears of Palestine: The People Behind the Politics\" (an account of a six-month visit to the Occupied Territories) and \"Seeking Sanctuary: Journeys To Sudan\".\n\nAll welcome. Small entrance fee/donation. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20071003T155550Z LAST-MODIFIED:20071003T160028Z DTSTAMP:20071003T160028Z UID:c109f41a-0356-4512-bbdc-51e358e2a6d9 SUMMARY:Woodcraft Folk booking PRIORITY:0 CLASS:PUBLIC DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20071013T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20071013T180000 DESCRIPTION:Woodcraft Folk using the social centre to work on an art project. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20071003T171840Z LAST-MODIFIED:20071023T095326Z DTSTAMP:20071023T095326Z UID:5be577f7-32d0-4a64-a691-79f4799d0cb2 SUMMARY:Reclaim The Night Event PRIORITY:0 STATUS:CONFIRMED CLASS:PUBLIC DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20071130T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20071130T220000 DESCRIPTION:times & details to be confirmed END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20071003T172108Z LAST-MODIFIED:20071025T174235Z DTSTAMP:20071025T174235Z UID:71aa5d83-f215-430d-ade7-1711028fe687 SUMMARY:Halloween Party: \"Witches\, Hags and Whores - a celebration of radical women\" PRIORITY:0 STATUS:CONFIRMED CLASS:PUBLIC DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20071031T213000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20071031T235500 DESCRIPTION:Amazin' Women of Liverpool invite you to cast a spell in the company of:\n- After the Massacre (total killer crust apocalypse)\n- Backpack Bombers (female-fronted anarcho-punk band)\n- Town Bike (when good kids go bad!)\n\nentry by donation END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20071003T173424Z LAST-MODIFIED:20071003T173637Z DTSTAMP:20071003T173637Z UID:860bfa9a-90ec-45f8-aca7-ad396d04a2fa SUMMARY:Juliet's birthday/leaving do CLASS:PUBLIC DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20071110T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20071110T233000 DESCRIPTION:details to follow END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20071003T173730Z LAST-MODIFIED:20071119T092103Z DTSTAMP:20071023T095257Z UID:ddb35921-5baa-44f5-b3a1-3a57040ffca4 SUMMARY:CANCELLED - Buy Nothing Day Event PRIORITY:0 STATUS:CANCELLED CLASS:PUBLIC DTSTART;VALUE=DATE;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20071124 DTEND;VALUE=DATE;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20071125 DESCRIPTION:CANCELLED END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20071003T174409Z LAST-MODIFIED:20071104T213421Z DTSTAMP:20071003T174455Z UID:259d208f-af68-4c82-b785-0591c6a20686 SUMMARY:CANCELLED (Vegan Xmas Dinner) PRIORITY:0 STATUS:CANCELLED CLASS:PUBLIC DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20071225T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20071225T190000 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DESCRIPTION:sorry\, this event will not take place (unless someone else can organise it) END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20071011T081545Z LAST-MODIFIED:20071012T001700Z DTSTAMP:20071012T001700Z UID:818cddbf-606d-4138-b26b-70b6c11e6645 SUMMARY:AWOL meeting (Angry Women Of Liverpool) PRIORITY:0 CLASS:PUBLIC DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20071022T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20071022T213000 DESCRIPTION:Inaugural meeting of a new womens activism group - (women only) END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20071011T081924Z LAST-MODIFIED:20071114T173412Z DTSTAMP:20071011T081950Z UID:80d775c6-f2fc-42c6-a2fe-164aeb6ca987 SUMMARY:Chiapas Solidarity Meeting - films\, food & discussion PRIORITY:0 CLASS:PUBLIC DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20071120T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20071120T213000 DESCRIPTION:all welcome\n\ncontact: liverpoolchiapassolidarity@googlemail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20071011T082020Z LAST-MODIFIED:20071011T082304Z DTSTAMP:20071011T082304Z UID:b18c5c44-80e2-4e08-bb0a-0f2fb0f9caf3 SUMMARY:Anti-Columbus Day action brunch PRIORITY:0 CLASS:PUBLIC DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20071012T113000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20071012T133000 DESCRIPTION:1492 colombus sailed the ocean blue...\nhe arrived in the americas on october 12th\n\n& it's been drippin with the red blood of imperialism ever since!\n\nlet's celebrate\n\nlet's commemorate\n\nlets commiserate\n\nwhether it's the dia de la raza (the day of the race) or columbus\nday it's time to get yer gladrags on & join together to spread the\nword about how great it is to be an american.....\n\noh\, did you not realise? we are all american now....\n\nmeet at next to nowhere: 96a bold street 11:30 this friday\,\n\nfor a leisurely all american brunch of coffee & bagels\, preferably\ndressed as either an american (famous or otherwise) or an indigenous\nperson who has benefited under the mentorship of neo-liberalism .\n(& don't forget folks indigenous just means 'originating where it is\nfound' i.e. original inhabitant)\n\nwe will have access to the mighty dollar\, & if we feel up to it we may\nwant to go & distribute this wealth to the indigenous scousers who\noccupy habitats located nearby our vantage point.... END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20071014T104800Z LAST-MODIFIED:20071014T105734Z DTSTAMP:20071014T105734Z UID:fa8c2820-ce71-404e-95b5-ea6c9a0585db SUMMARY:Soc Centre Facilities Group Meeting PRIORITY:0 CLASS:PUBLIC DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20071017T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20071017T213000 DESCRIPTION:Meeting to sort out boring but necessary practical details about running the centre - e.g. cleaning\, keys & keyholders\, equipment and facilities for meetings and events. Anyone interested in talking about these kind of things please come along. (It does NOT of course mean people at this meeting be the only ones taking on doing all the boring necessary things\, just that we'll sort out how they get done) END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20071014T105738Z LAST-MODIFIED:20071014T105803Z DTSTAMP:20071014T105803Z UID:ba6d372c-112d-4cd5-b77a-078370187e6f SUMMARY:Woodcraft Folk working on art project DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20071017T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20071017T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20071014T110151Z LAST-MODIFIED:20071014T110423Z DTSTAMP:20071014T110423Z UID:9cabb255-eb4f-402a-8d2b-cfa216576e9a SUMMARY:Oaxaca Benefit Night PRIORITY:0 CLASS:PUBLIC DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20071020T210000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20071020T235500 DESCRIPTION:Music\, poetry & food.\n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20071023T094649Z LAST-MODIFIED:20071023T094950Z DTSTAMP:20071023T094950Z UID:f31840e9-d023-4d75-aae4-2d5901b7fd31 SUMMARY:Nerve Magazine Launch PRIORITY:0 CLASS:PUBLIC DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20071208T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20071208T230000 DESCRIPTION:TIMES & DETAILS TO BE CONFIRMED\n\nLaunch night for the new issue of Nerve Magazine - the excellent free magazine promoting grassroots arts & culture on Merseyside \n URL:http://www.catalystmedia.org.uk/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20071023T095056Z LAST-MODIFIED:20071210T091859Z DTSTAMP:20071023T095148Z UID:ea48abbe-15f7-4424-8a34-f972cf256f25 SUMMARY:CANCELLED ?? Class A Audio Gig PRIORITY:0 STATUS:CANCELLED CLASS:PUBLIC DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20071215T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20071215T235500 DESCRIPTION:Sorry\, cancelled END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20071023T101334Z LAST-MODIFIED:20071023T101419Z DTSTAMP:20071023T101418Z UID:8ded8965-b7d1-430f-9e89-3d38c1ca2ade SUMMARY:?? extra Social Centre meeting PRIORITY:0 CLASS:PUBLIC DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20071030T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20071030T213000 DESCRIPTION:booking requested END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20071023T101437Z LAST-MODIFIED:20071104T214411Z DTSTAMP:20071023T101557Z UID:2680a8ae-1854-4a6c-85bd-0bdfaf91502d SUMMARY:?? Class A Audio gig PRIORITY:0 CLASS:PUBLIC DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20071115T210000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20071115T230000 DESCRIPTION:booking requested (depends anarchist group ok with overlap) - details to follow END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20071023T102025Z LAST-MODIFIED:20071119T092134Z DTSTAMP:20071023T102243Z UID:5dac949c-d13a-4954-8808-ef311b46b003 SUMMARY:CANCELLED- Class A Audio gig PRIORITY:0 STATUS:CANCELLED CLASS:PUBLIC DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20071124T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20071124T220000 DESCRIPTION:CANCELLED END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20071023T102250Z LAST-MODIFIED:20071023T102314Z DTSTAMP:20071023T102314Z UID:b7e21435-5cda-4561-aa89-8daabfc98e7c SUMMARY:?? Woodcraft folk group leaders meeting DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20071114T200000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20071114T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20071104T211911Z LAST-MODIFIED:20071104T212231Z DTSTAMP:20071104T211911Z UID:a36e38fe-e626-4900-beec-9265771405da SUMMARY:Film: Dear Camilo (about Camilo Mejia\, consciencious objector in the US army) DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20071110T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20071110T193000 DESCRIPTION:Dear Camilo is the story of Camilo Mejia\, the first American soldier in the Iraq war to have deserted the military and publicly declared himself a conscientious objector. His two high school friends from Costa Rica\, after ten years of no contact with him\, learn of his whereabouts and confrontation with the U.S. military through the international news headlines.\n\nThis documentary is their exploration of Camilo's transformation of conscience during the war and its consequences.\n\nGenre: Documentary\nDuration: 52 minutes\nOriginal format: HDV\nDirected by Daniel Ross Mix and Julio Molina\nProduced by DOCTV Iberoamerica\, LaTica de Pelicula and SINART\nA Brazilian - Costarican Coproduction 2007 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20071104T212407Z LAST-MODIFIED:20071104T212930Z DTSTAMP:20071104T212407Z UID:760f5ec6-734d-487d-a5c7-b70d62e0d8f5 SUMMARY:When Bill Danced The War (Concert) DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20071201T200000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20071201T220000 URL:http://www.frakture.org/concerts.htm DESCRIPTION:Canadian writer & activist Sarah Murphy has collaborated\nwith Huddersfield's The Word Hoard to devise a performance version of her fierce anti-war story When Bill Danced The War. Musicians Shaun Blezard and Keith Jafrate have created a strange\, powerful hybrid of jazz\, improv and n sound-art to surround Sarah's vital text\, which concerns the horrors witnessed by her Choctaw father Bill\, a sailor who was involved in 3 American wars.\n\n /Sarah Murphy spins her tales of the tragedies of everyday life the\n way Bob Dylan used to write songs. In her beguiling\, savage and\n sometimes witty style\, she prods her readers to look into worlds\n they prefer to ignore./* The Ottawa Citizen*\n\n /...written so close to the bone you can hear the scraping./ The\n Saskatoon Star Phoenix\n\n /Funny\, angry\, passionate\, joyful\, Sarah is a true storyteller\, and\n her fiction shows a profound understanding of our need to make\n stories\, to communicate\, to confirm ourselves and our understanding\n of the events that make us who we are\, and the world what it is./\n Dianne Darby\n\nAdmission £5 / £3 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20071104T214103Z LAST-MODIFIED:20071104T214308Z DTSTAMP:20071104T214103Z UID:284d89a1-e83f-4a6b-9e1f-8273eff6f5cd SUMMARY:Killer Coke (Film) DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20071123T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20071123T213000 DESCRIPTION:details to follow END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20071104T214624Z LAST-MODIFIED:20071104T214821Z DTSTAMP:20071104T214624Z UID:919e8f14-4380-49f5-9f7f-e93cb002b7e5 SUMMARY:AWOL women's group meeting DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20071119T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20071119T213000 DESCRIPTION:Angry/Amazin' Women of Liverpool - feminist activism/discussion group. Women only\, all women welcome. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20071104T214924Z LAST-MODIFIED:20071104T215046Z DTSTAMP:20071104T214924Z UID:c4b4244c-5591-4176-9841-9e13437b9226 SUMMARY:(setup for concert) DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20071201T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20071201T200000 DESCRIPTION:set up for concert at 8pm END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20071114T173422Z LAST-MODIFIED:20071114T173508Z DTSTAMP:20071114T173422Z UID:efc1a252-4d41-4ddc-b4b7-07691f696cfe SUMMARY:North West Feminists meeting DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20071118T140000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20071118T160000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20071119T091614Z LAST-MODIFIED:20071119T091953Z DTSTAMP:20071119T091614Z UID:c82875dd-ff4e-4e7e-9d5f-7d3dc995fdbd SUMMARY:?? Activism in Post Soviet Union Countries - Film & Discussion DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20071205T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20071205T220000 DESCRIPTION:TIMES/DETAILS TO BE CONFIRMED\n\nFilm & discussion on activism in post-Soviet Union countries\, including speakers from Belarus and Slovakia END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20071119T092505Z LAST-MODIFIED:20071119T092558Z DTSTAMP:20071119T092505Z UID:a63643c3-260b-4585-bc41-62130589634e SUMMARY:Woodcraft Folk booking DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20071121T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20071121T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20071119T092601Z LAST-MODIFIED:20071119T092648Z DTSTAMP:20071119T092601Z UID:c8d088fe-99cc-46f5-a084-fe8c092fadfa SUMMARY:Social Centre group meeting DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20071121T200000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20071121T230000 DESCRIPTION:extra meeting for social centre collective END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20071119T092901Z LAST-MODIFIED:20071119T093210Z DTSTAMP:20071119T092901Z UID:084709d2-7db8-4cc3-9dc7-20278cb60acc SUMMARY:Solidarity Federation - Liverpool launch meeting DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20071129T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20071129T213000 URL:http://www.solfed.org.uk DESCRIPTION:The Solidarity Federation aims to create revolutionary unions and\ncommunity organisations to spread anarchist ideas today and to act as the\nbasis of a future libertarian society\n\nWe are holding a meeting to launch a Liverpool branch of the organisation\non Thursday 29th November at 7.30pm in the Social Centre. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20071126T092250Z LAST-MODIFIED:20071126T092336Z DTSTAMP:20071126T092250Z UID:d93e2fe3-0aaf-470d-af61-2d54313f4e63 SUMMARY:Zapatista Info Afternoon DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20071216T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20071216T170000 DESCRIPTION:TIMES & DETAILS TO BE CONFIRMED END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20071126T092403Z LAST-MODIFIED:20071126T092455Z DTSTAMP:20071126T092403Z UID:14ef6084-8c6f-403c-b591-f79e769ce06e SUMMARY:Chiapas Solidarity Group Meeting DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20071218T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20071218T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20071126T092508Z LAST-MODIFIED:20071126T092541Z DTSTAMP:20071126T092508Z UID:fa49d7f4-cffc-4e82-9031-68ff8cf46ef8 SUMMARY:Chiapas Solidarity Group meeting DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20080115T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20080115T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20071130T163601Z LAST-MODIFIED:20071130T163626Z DTSTAMP:20071130T163601Z UID:b2dfb71a-8b76-498c-b455-80e65b661506 SUMMARY:Woodcraft Folk DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20071219T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20071219T203000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20071130T164638Z LAST-MODIFIED:20071130T164802Z DTSTAMP:20071130T164638Z UID:31438178-8a95-4c37-8702-bbcd94fa38be SUMMARY:Solidarity Federation Meeting DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20071210T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20071210T213000 DESCRIPTION:The Solidarity Federation aims to create revolutionary unions and\ncommunity organisations to spread anarchist ideas today and to act as the\nbasis of a future libertarian society\n\nThis is the second meeting of the new Liverpool branch of the organisation END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20071130T170510Z LAST-MODIFIED:20071130T171702Z DTSTAMP:20071130T170510Z UID:0c339257-7c7c-46ef-ad8e-deba0e374a83 SUMMARY:Soc Centre Group mediation follow-up meeting DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20071206T200000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20071206T220000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20071210T090653Z LAST-MODIFIED:20080112T095452Z DTSTAMP:20071210T090653Z UID:253e896d-ba47-4ca2-80db-3a73110f9c81 SUMMARY:Talk/Book Launch: \"Provincial Queens: Gay & Lesbian Community in the North-West of England\" by Mike Homfray DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20080219T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20080219T210000 URL:http://www.newsfromnowhere.org.uk DESCRIPTION:News From Nowhere Bookshop welcomes Dr Mike Homfray to talk about his new book \"Provincial Queens: Gay & Lesbian Community in the North-West of England\" (Peter Lang\, 2007). All welcome. The book will be available at a special discount at this event (usual retail price £34)\n\nWhat do we mean by 'the gay community'? What is the state of 'gay and lesbian politics' in contemporary Britain? Have 'communitarian' ideas provided a framework for change? And what is the view from outside the capital? Recent years have seen both significant legal and social reform benefiting lesbian and gay people under a government whose communitarian political credo has stressed the importance of 'community' and 'rights and responsibilities'. What effect has this had? What is the influence of identity\, space and location\, politics\, and community itself? On the basis of qualitative research with gay men and lesbians working for change in Liverpool and Manchester\, the author examines whether gay and lesbian equality and the idea of 'the gay community' can be understood and furthered within a framework of communitarian ideas. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20071210T091602Z LAST-MODIFIED:20071210T091641Z DTSTAMP:20071210T091602Z UID:7e72991b-da98-4ca6-babd-85f359d34db7 SUMMARY:Climate Camp Xmas Social DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20071219T203000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20071219T235500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20080102T124208Z LAST-MODIFIED:20080102T124408Z DTSTAMP:20080102T124208Z UID:dcaa91cd-9ea7-49a7-9e72-cb85a3ec1892 SUMMARY:Hands Off Iraqi Oil public meeting DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20080118T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20080118T213000 DESCRIPTION:Ewa Jasewiesz from Hands Off Iraqi Oil will talk about the latest developments in the oil companies attempt to grab Iraqi oil and the campaign that is being fought by Iraqi people to oppose privatisation (and maybe show a film). She will also talk about a day of action coming up in February. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20080102T124955Z LAST-MODIFIED:20080102T125728Z DTSTAMP:20080102T124955Z UID:70a48ea8-c37e-456e-b94f-b8c2e2494911 SUMMARY:Free Shop/Crafty/Skill-share Day DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20080113T130000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20080113T180000 DESCRIPTION:Looking for an alternative to the January Sales? Need to save some money after Christmas? Do something creative\, fun and free to counteract the commercialism of the season! \n\nFree Shop - Give away\, swap\, repair or alter your old clothes\, furniture\, electricals\, materials or anything you don't need that someone else could use. All donations welcome!\n\nLearn new skills\, share your expertise or just enjoy a friendly space to be. All welcome! END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20080102T125732Z LAST-MODIFIED:20080102T131023Z DTSTAMP:20080102T125732Z UID:8b5d65e2-edd8-4082-9550-bb96da90b064 SUMMARY:Sunday Brunch - Soup & Film DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20080106T140000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20080106T180000 DESCRIPTION:Film-lovers and soup addicts are invited to join us at Liverpool Social Centre (Next To Nowhere) on Bold Street at 2pm this coming Sunday January 6th for a showing of 'This Is England' accompanied by bowls of vegan soup at a very reasonable price. If there is sufficient demand we may show another film afterwards\n\nTHIS IS ENGLAND (2006)\nRoland Rat\, Margaret Thatcher\; Rubik's Cubes\, the Royal Wedding\; aerobics\, skinheads... It's 1983\, and the schools are breaking up for summer. Shaun is 12 and a bit of a loner\, growing up with his mum in a grim coastal town\, his dad killed fighting in the Falklands\nWar. On his way home from school where he's been tormented all day for wearing flares\, he runs into a group of skinheads\, who against expectations turn out to be friendly and take him under their wing. Soon Shaun discovers parties\, girls and snappy dressing\, and finds\nsome role models in Woody\, Milky and the rest of the gang. But when an older\, overtly racist skinhead returns home from prison\, the easy camaraderie of the group is broken\, and Shaun is drawn into much more uncomfortable territory. Based largely on his own experience as a youngster\, this is Shane Meadows' most mature and fully realised film. Handling the complexities of masculinity\, violence and race with sensitivity and a lightness of touch\, it's hard to imagine a film that would better capture the mood of the time\, or that could\nhave any greater an understanding of the allure of being part of a gang. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20080102T125956Z LAST-MODIFIED:20080119T100039Z DTSTAMP:20080102T125956Z UID:bce8fd62-0df6-42ef-8ce4-bdfe0db2a4ca SUMMARY:Peter Gelderoos: Talk - How Non-violence Protects The State DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20080125T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20080125T210000 DESCRIPTION:Peter Gelderoos\, author of the book \"How Nonviolence Protects the State\" (see \nhttp: //ww.southendpress.org/2007/items/87729\n) gives a talk on his book and experiences within the anarchist movement. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20080112T092537Z LAST-MODIFIED:20080203T222858Z DTSTAMP:20080112T092537Z UID:2e5af36d-e4d0-42d7-a82c-f190d25f7b1f SUMMARY:Introduction to Hacktivism DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20080305T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20080305T220000 URL:http://www.faze.demon.co.uk/gigs/gigs.html DESCRIPTION:An introduction to the world of hackers and hacktivists. Free event\, all welcome. Will be a half hour break. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20080112T093140Z LAST-MODIFIED:20080112T093352Z DTSTAMP:20080112T093140Z UID:10aaf99b-6a14-4a5f-b5e9-108f8cc615cb SUMMARY:Ken Worpole & Jimmy McGovern - Talk about book \"Dockers & Detectives\" DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20080306T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20080306T213000 DESCRIPTION:LIBER8\" (News From Nowhere's 08 Events Programme - under which banner anyone else is welcome to put on/promote author/literary events throughout the year\, by the way!)\nKen Worpole (author of \"Dockers & Detectives\"\, a study of 20th Century working-class writing & reading\, with special emphasis on Liverpool) END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20080112T095457Z LAST-MODIFIED:20080112T095623Z DTSTAMP:20080112T095457Z UID:1ac16133-3e59-4990-9d0f-84c882ab62a1 SUMMARY:POSTPONED TO FEBRUARY - Mike Homfray book launch DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20080114T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20080114T203000 DESCRIPTION:Sorry\, the book launch for Mike Homfray's book \"Provincial Queens\" about the lesbian & gay community in the North West\, has been rearranged for Tues 19th Feb - apologies for any inconvenience END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20080121T150345Z LAST-MODIFIED:20080121T150543Z DTSTAMP:20080121T150345Z UID:235d35be-37b7-43b4-bd8d-b3f2fc33a9d7 SUMMARY:Sunday Brunch: Film & Soup RRULE:FREQ=WEEKLY;COUNT=5;INTERVAL=2 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20080127T140000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20080127T170000 DESCRIPTION:Soup addicts & film lovers are invited to join us from 2pm for vegan soup & cakes in return for a small donation\, to be followed at 3pm by a film END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20080121T150716Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100728T044123Z DTSTAMP:20080121T150716Z UID:235d35be-37b7-43b4-bd8d-b3f2fc33a9d7 SUMMARY:Sunday Brunch: Film & Soup RECURRENCE-ID;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20080127T140000 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20080127T140000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20080127T170000 DESCRIPTION:Soup addicts & film lovers are invited to join us from 2pm for vegan soup & cakes in return for a small donation\, to be followed at 3pm by a film - this week: Pan's Labyrinth END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20080121T151028Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100728T044123Z DTSTAMP:20080121T151028Z UID:235d35be-37b7-43b4-bd8d-b3f2fc33a9d7 SUMMARY:Sunday Brunch: Film & Soup RECURRENCE-ID;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20080210T140000 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20080210T140000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20080210T170000 DESCRIPTION:Soup addicts & film lovers are invited to join us from 2pm for vegan soup & cakes in return for a small donation\, to be followed at 3pm by a film - this week: Crash END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20080121T172413Z LAST-MODIFIED:20080121T172819Z DTSTAMP:20080121T172413Z UID:fc408955-c5ea-42f4-8b48-08be71e8dc7c SUMMARY:Woodcraft Folk District Meeting DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20080123T200000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20080123T220000 URL:http://www.woodcraft.org.uk/ DESCRIPTION:For Woodcraft Folk organisers.\n\nAnyone who wants to get involved with empowering young people through educational activities themed around\nequality\, justice\, freedom\, peace and international friendship and gain experience of working with young people and other skills\, please come along. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20080121T173325Z LAST-MODIFIED:20080209T091819Z DTSTAMP:20080121T173325Z UID:c6b5b89f-1d71-4f78-8893-3b410e7adbea SUMMARY:North West Animal Rights Gathering DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20080330T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20080330T170000 DESCRIPTION:details to follow END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20080121T173714Z LAST-MODIFIED:20080121T174043Z DTSTAMP:20080121T173714Z UID:ad83f010-9132-49b0-8288-8f8c416ed2bf SUMMARY:Claimants Action Group DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20080124T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20080124T210000 DESCRIPTION:first organising meeting for a Merseyside & Wirral claimants action group. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20080121T174210Z LAST-MODIFIED:20080130T001927Z DTSTAMP:20080121T174210Z UID:51721772-565e-466c-af23-1175d9ede2ad SUMMARY:The Last Firebrand - Film & Discussion DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20080207T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20080207T220000 DESCRIPTION:About the struggle of workers in the petrochemical industry in Italy\, near Venice - pollution & health hazards - in the 1970s. (1hr 18 mins)\n\nIt is the story of a wave of struggles that shook the industrial and political landscapes of Italy in the 60s and 70s.A story told by those who took part in Porto Marghera's Autonomous Assembly.The Assembly not only coordinated the struggles in the factories\,but also squatted houses\,formed neighbourhood committees\,organised price reductions in supermarkets\,and together with thousands of workers burned their electricity bills.They were also the leading element in the fight against environmental pollution in the Veneto region. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20080130T001348Z LAST-MODIFIED:20080203T220356Z DTSTAMP:20080130T001348Z UID:43e2f418-d25c-44da-8b9c-d3585b6d8a23 SUMMARY:Merseyside Animal Rights Fundraiser DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20080322T200000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20080322T235500 DESCRIPTION:Live music & vegan food\, a benefit night for Merseyside Animal Rights\n\nTIMES & DETAILS TO BE CONFIRMED END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20080130T002826Z LAST-MODIFIED:20080130T002909Z DTSTAMP:20080130T002826Z UID:74805975-6d61-4f67-b950-be4b1035c6c2 SUMMARY:private party DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20080329T200000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20080329T235500 DESCRIPTION:Dave's party END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20080130T003422Z LAST-MODIFIED:20080130T003632Z DTSTAMP:20080130T003422Z UID:8572b173-468e-4e36-b1da-006cd54c9246 SUMMARY:Anarchist Educational - Eco Feminism DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20080206T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20080206T213000 DESCRIPTION:An extra session in the series of anarchist educationals\, on the subject of eco-feminism. All welcome END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20080102T124955Z LAST-MODIFIED:20080209T092502Z DTSTAMP:20080203T220021Z UID:90eb6489-93b5-4451-9b6c-8858e3691511 SUMMARY:Free Shop/Crafty/Skill-share Day DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20080302T103000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20080302T170000 DESCRIPTION:Do something creative\, fun and free! \n\nFree Shop - Give away\, swap\, repair or alter your old clothes\, furniture\, electricals\, materials or anything you don't need that someone else could use. All donations welcome!\n\nLearn new skills\, share your expertise or just enjoy a friendly space to be. All welcome! \n\nFor more info email: purplepooka@blueyonder.co.uk \n\n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20080203T220642Z LAST-MODIFIED:20080203T221459Z DTSTAMP:20080203T220642Z UID:6dba5b6a-00ce-4fa1-b5bb-1f56d9565984 SUMMARY:ALTER (Action For Land Value Tax and Economic Reform) meeting DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20080308T130000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20080308T140000 DESCRIPTION:Group meeting\n\nALTER aims to socialise the rent value of land\, so that the community benefits from land values\, rather than individuals. This would lead to a massive redistribution of wealth as currently 70% of the land in Britain is owned by just 1% of the population. This policy would replace the Council Tax system (which falls so heavily on the lower paid) and raise the income tax threshold so lower paid workers are freed from the burden of income tax. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20080203T223149Z LAST-MODIFIED:20080203T223551Z DTSTAMP:20080203T223149Z UID:a112ecb2-6b98-413b-96d7-3c32860997e8 SUMMARY:LSC Tech Collective meeting DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20080205T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20080205T193000 DESCRIPTION:The tech collective looks after the social centre computer facilities.\n\nIf you have computer skills & experience and want to get involved\, come along. Interested ordinary computer users also very welcome. \n\nContact: tech@liverpoolsocialcentre.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20080223T090242Z LAST-MODIFIED:20080223T090402Z DTSTAMP:20080223T090242Z UID:2d7a0b23-c9a7-4291-bdd4-acaa8b8e6962 SUMMARY:May Day Event DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20080501T200000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20080501T235500 DESCRIPTION:details to follow END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20080223T090519Z LAST-MODIFIED:20080223T091353Z DTSTAMP:20080223T090519Z UID:ae2e27d0-e399-428f-b361-aa6b83468e1a SUMMARY:Film \"Zapatistas\"\, & food - Chiapas Solidarity Event DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20080316T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20080316T200000 DESCRIPTION:Liverpool Chiapas Solidarity group presents a new updated version of the film 'Zapatistas: Chronicle of a Rebellion' introduced by Mario Viveros from the Canal Seis de Julio in Mexico\, one of the people who have made the documentary\, as part of his UK tour.\n\nPlus vegan food with a Mexican theme. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20080223T091600Z LAST-MODIFIED:20080223T091705Z DTSTAMP:20080223T091600Z UID:53d555c3-bc6e-4ac8-8052-a808b418284b SUMMARY:Education Workers Network meeting DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20080329T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20080329T160000 DESCRIPTION:Group meeting - for more info & contact details see http: //ewn.rbgi.net/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20080318T092812Z LAST-MODIFIED:20080318T092953Z DTSTAMP:20080318T092812Z UID:29821823-20bc-4cdc-af02-2a63001cc88d SUMMARY:LSC Policy Day DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20080405T103000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20080405T170000 DESCRIPTION:Liverpool Social Centre Collective meeting to discuss our policies re using and running the centre END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20080318T093136Z LAST-MODIFIED:20080318T095038Z DTSTAMP:20080318T093136Z UID:23a7f10a-4a34-41b6-aae6-fd96255eadb6 SUMMARY:Smash EDO Film & Discussion DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20080414T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20080414T223000 URL:http://www.smashedo.org.uk/ DESCRIPTION:Showing of \"On The Verge\"\, film about the campaign against Brighton-based arms manufacturers EDO.\n\nIn 2004 a group of Brighton peace campaigners began to bang pot and pans outside their local arms manufacturers EDO MBM in disgust of their part in the Iraq war. This has grown into the Smash EDO campaign\, which has cost the company millions\, been the subject of large scale police operations and has tested the right to protest in the UK.\n\nUsing activist\, police and CCTV footage plus interviews with those involved in the campaign\, 'On The Verge' tells the story of one of the most persistent and imaginative campaigns to emerge out of the UK's anti-war movement and direct action scene. \nhttp://www.schnews.org.uk/schmovies/index-on-the-verge.htm END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20080318T095042Z LAST-MODIFIED:20080318T095314Z DTSTAMP:20080318T095042Z UID:2fe0d373-554f-41d9-bc29-654b154decff SUMMARY:Nerve Magazine AGM DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20080327T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20080327T193000 URL:http://www.catalystmedia.org.uk/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20080330T212146Z LAST-MODIFIED:20080506T084233Z DTSTAMP:20080330T212146Z UID:ae936506-d42a-4d40-96f9-93fbf4380340 SUMMARY:Movement for Justice in El Barrio - Talk & Social DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20080509T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20080509T233000 X-MOZ-GENERATION:2 DESCRIPTION:Movement for Justice in El Barrio community activists from East Harlem\, New York\, are visiting the UK to talk about their fight against profit-driven \"gentrification\" & to make links with communities here that are resisting similar threats\n\nTalk & short films\,plus speakers from local campaigns\, followed by a social. All welcome!\n\n(If you're a local campaign group interested in meeting up with the visiting MJB activist during his stay in Liverpool\, get in touch! info@liverpoolsocialcentre.org) END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20080401T114330Z LAST-MODIFIED:20080401T114457Z DTSTAMP:20080401T114330Z UID:f5adb271-5020-47fb-8190-0dd2e894f946 SUMMARY:Sunday Brunch: Film & Food - this week's film: \"Themroc\" DTSTART;TZID=Atlantic/Canary:20080406T140000 DTEND;TZID=Atlantic/Canary:20080406T170000 TRANSP:OPAQUE DESCRIPTION:Join us for vegan soup & cakes from 2pm\, followed by the film at 3pm. Free entry\, food by donation\, all welcome!\n\nThis week's film: \"Themroc\" (FRANCE 1973)\n\nThemroc is a man who lives a repetitive life\, constantly dealing with the everyday struggles of work and no play\, until he breaks from his routine to turn in to a free man/monster who breaks down all barriers (quite literally) and brings a feeling of liberty to his community despite the police trying their best to stop him. When the pressures of the daily grind get too much for Themroc and he is reprimanded by his employer\, he snaps. When he gets home\, he sets about sealing himself into his bedroom and smashing down the outside wall to create a cave.\nHis anarchy is catching - soon his neighbours from across the street are doing the same and it's not long before the media and the police are taking an interest. Because he is breaking the rules of society\, the authorities must find a way of containing Themroc before he starts a trend.\n\nThere are some very memorable scenes\, such as the community barbecue of a policeman (although the carcass shown is amusingly a pig's) and the scene where Themroc knocks a hole in his apartment wall and starts throwing all of his mod cons out into the street.\n\nIn this alternately disturbing and humorous film\, controversial director Claude Faraldo paints a bleak picture suggesting that a reversion to the Stone Age may be preferable to living the stale sanitised existence which modern society offers. It is clearly a product of its time – the late 1960s and early 1970s was a period of great societal and cultural upheaval in France. This sense of rebellion and the embracing of anarchistic notions made its presence felt in many French films of this period\, and Themroc is probably the most famous example of this. This film is hilarious and inspiring. It captures the absurdity of everyday life in a repressive social order\, and portrays the infectious\npoetic revolt of one man who 'goes mad' against authority in every form. The film is in a way a dream-like rendition of the Situationist vision of changing life.\n\nWith no intelligible dialogue (all characters speak in either a non-recognisable corruption of French or neanderthal grunts)\, the film relies entirely on its visuals for impact. It is obvious that words and profound lessons are not needed in a film in order for it to pass its messages across toits viewers. Themroc is a movie with no dialogue so that it can be seen by any\nhuman around the world and still understand how authority has separated us and divided us in order to use us. More than that\, Themroc examines the limitations modern society has set for us thus limiting our life experience and happiness.\n\n\n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20080401T114510Z LAST-MODIFIED:20080724T081515Z DTSTAMP:20080401T114510Z UID:37798ef1-e813-4e8e-bac5-4178d810f1b3 SUMMARY:Sunday Matinee: Film & Food RRULE:FREQ=WEEKLY;COUNT=10;INTERVAL=2;BYDAY=SU DTSTART;TZID=Atlantic/Canary:20080420T160000 DTEND;TZID=Atlantic/Canary:20080420T190000 TRANSP:OPAQUE X-MOZ-GENERATION:10 DESCRIPTION:Delicious vegan food available from 4pm followed by a film at 5pm. Free entry\, food by donation\, all welcome! END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20080416T165245Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100728T044123Z DTSTAMP:20080416T165245Z UID:37798ef1-e813-4e8e-bac5-4178d810f1b3 SUMMARY:Sunday Brunch: Film & Food - \"Favela Rising\" RECURRENCE-ID;TZID=Atlantic/Canary:20080420T160000 DTSTART;TZID=Atlantic/Canary:20080420T140000 DTEND;TZID=Atlantic/Canary:20080420T170000 DESCRIPTION:Join us for vegan soup\, chilli & cakes from 2pm\, followed by the film at 3pm. Free entry\, food by donation\, all welcome!\n\n'FAVELA RISING' (BRAZIL 2005)\n\nFavela Rising documents a man and a movement\, a city divided and a favela (Brazilian squatter settlement) united. Haunted by the murders of his family and many of his friends\, Anderson Sá is a former drug-trafficker who turns social revolutionary in Rio de Janeiro's most feared slum. Through hip-hop music\, the rhythms of the street\, and Afro-Brazilian dance he rallies his community to counteract the violent oppression enforced by teenage drug armies and sustained by corrupt police. At the dawn of liberation\, just as collective mobility is overcoming all odds and Anderson's grassroots Afro Reggae movement is at the height of its success\, a tragic accident threatens to silence the movement forever.\n\n \n\nLike ‘City Of God’\, Anderson Sa talks about how the people of the favelas were desensitized because death was an every day occurrence. He talks about the police corruption\, and how the communities were so immobilized by drugs and gangs that you couldn't visit family members in other Favelas. Unlike ‘City of God’\, Anderson Sa's grassroots movement AfroReggae provides solutions to the anger and hopelessness and transforms the hopeless and most times angry youth (girls as well as boys) into vibrant\, viable\, caring community loving individuals.\n\nFavela Rising is a documentary about the slums of Rio\, the favelas\, specifically the most violent one\, Vigário Geral. According to this film\, a lot more kids have died violently in Rio's favelas over the last decade or so than in Israel/Palestine during the same period -- a fact astonishing if true\, which shows how under-recognized this social problem is in the rest of the world. This is an important topic\, especially for those who see hope in grassroots efforts to marshal the neediest and most at risk through a vibrant cultural program.\n\n\nThe performance arts aren't everything\, just the focal point. GCAR is also a movement for broader social change Gathering public awareness through such performances\, the centers also provide training in information (newspaper\, radio\, Internet\, e-mail links)\, hygiene and sex education\, to seek to bridge gaps between rich and poor\, black and white\, and to offer workshops in audio-visual work\, including production of documentaries. The program is currently active in four other favelas.\n\n \n\nFor once a story of hope highlighted over the tragic reality our youth face. Favela Rising draws one into a scary\, unsafe and unfair world and shows through beautiful color and moving music how one man and his dedicated friends choose not to accept that world and change it through action and art. An entertaining\, interesting\, emotional\, aesthetically beautiful film. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20080429T081801Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100728T044123Z DTSTAMP:20080429T081801Z UID:37798ef1-e813-4e8e-bac5-4178d810f1b3 SUMMARY:Sunday Brunch: Film & Food RECURRENCE-ID;TZID=Atlantic/Canary:20080504T160000 DTSTART;TZID=Atlantic/Canary:20080504T140000 DTEND;TZID=Atlantic/Canary:20080504T170000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20080515T081603Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100728T044123Z DTSTAMP:20080515T081603Z UID:37798ef1-e813-4e8e-bac5-4178d810f1b3 SUMMARY:Sunday Brunch: Film & Food RECURRENCE-ID;TZID=Atlantic/Canary:20080518T160000 DTSTART;TZID=Atlantic/Canary:20080518T140000 DTEND;TZID=Atlantic/Canary:20080518T170000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20080529T110001Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100728T044123Z DTSTAMP:20080529T110001Z UID:37798ef1-e813-4e8e-bac5-4178d810f1b3 SUMMARY:Sunday Brunch: Film & Food RECURRENCE-ID;TZID=Atlantic/Canary:20080601T160000 DTSTART;TZID=Atlantic/Canary:20080601T140000 DTEND;TZID=Atlantic/Canary:20080601T170000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20080611T065607Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100728T044123Z DTSTAMP:20080611T065607Z UID:37798ef1-e813-4e8e-bac5-4178d810f1b3 SUMMARY:Sunday Matinee: Film & Food RECURRENCE-ID;TZID=Atlantic/Canary:20080615T160000 DTSTART;TZID=Atlantic/Canary:20080615T160000 DTEND;TZID=Atlantic/Canary:20080615T190000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20080626T080506Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100728T044123Z DTSTAMP:20080626T080506Z UID:37798ef1-e813-4e8e-bac5-4178d810f1b3 SUMMARY:Sunday Matinee: Film & Food: \"Czech Dream\" RECURRENCE-ID;TZID=Atlantic/Canary:20080629T160000 DTSTART;TZID=Atlantic/Canary:20080629T160000 DTEND;TZID=Atlantic/Canary:20080629T190000 DESCRIPTION:Delicious vegan food available from 4pm followed by a film at 5pm. Free entry\, food by donation\, all welcome!\n\nCZECH DREAM (2005)\n\nEveryone with any opinion about advertising (which\, in this hyper-mediated world\, is pretty much anyone) has at least a half-aware understanding of the ability of advertising to affect their lives. Czech Dream is a movie about just that\, as two student filmmakers design an ad campaign for a product that doesn't even exist\, a hypermarket that advertises its opening day by saying such things as\, 'Don't come!' and 'Don't spend!' Two thousand people arrive anyway.\n\n \n\nThis documentary is most effective in its complete simplicity. The filmmakers and crew take no time trying to hide their judgment or view from the movie - the idea here is NOT to create a so-called objective documentary but to show much more directly and personally the power of advertising over people. This power is something everyone perceives\, but not as many people really believe in\, until something like this occurs and two thousand people are left on a field with nothing in it but a banner.\n\nCzech Dream is full of wonderful details. Vit and Filip spend little time detailing the actual process\, focusing more on the message that the ads are trying to create\, and allows most of the film's time to settle on people's comments about it. The self-serving dialog of the advertisers ('Oh\, I think this is a horrible thing\, but we're professionals and so we'll do it. It's like a doctor who has to save a rapist' 'I like being an advertiser\, you know\, I like going out with my friends and knowing that I am the one that moves the world' 'Filmmakers lie\, advertisers don't lie') is well foiled by the reactions of the crowd of people who actually arrived\, whose opinions range from 'Hey\, I know what this is\, this is two people trying to get us outside for once! Let's have a picnic!' to 'I'm going to take you to court for this!' and who\, amazingly\, take very little time in connecting the event to its political meaning.\n\n \n\nAfter the Velvet Revolution of 1989\, which led to the formation of the Czech Republic\, and Slovakia\, people basically wanted the same things that their neighbours in the West wanted: basic creature comforts. A lot of Czechs actually became angry at the makers of this movie - they felt betrayed - but it also shows very well how new western style economies can be vulnerable and that appearances rule our lives. The dream the two students made up for people was just like a bubble. Eventually it would disappear.\n\n \n\nThis is a film I would recommend to anyone who is familiar with pranksters such as 'The Yes Men'. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20080724T081514Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100728T044123Z DTSTAMP:20080724T081514Z UID:37798ef1-e813-4e8e-bac5-4178d810f1b3 SUMMARY:Sunday Matinee: Film & Food RECURRENCE-ID;TZID=Atlantic/Canary:20080727T160000 DTSTART;TZID=Atlantic/Canary:20080727T160000 DTEND;TZID=Atlantic/Canary:20080727T190000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20080401T142656Z LAST-MODIFIED:20080401T145212Z DTSTAMP:20080401T142656Z UID:c164841a-bd10-4cc3-9ba2-46622cab4425 SUMMARY:Nerve - Vision meeting STATUS:TENTATIVE DTSTART;TZID=Atlantic/Canary:20080429T180000 DTEND;TZID=Atlantic/Canary:20080429T200000 URL:http://www.catalystmedia.org.uk/ TRANSP:OPAQUE DESCRIPTION:Facilitated meeting to plan the future of Nerve magazine. Food available.\n\nLimited places - to attend\, please email catalystmedia@mersinet.co.uk or phone 0151 709 9948 during office hours END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20080401T143804Z LAST-MODIFIED:20080401T144247Z DTSTAMP:20080401T143804Z UID:99052c90-5d5f-41b9-8a97-ae8ffa5ee1a1 SUMMARY:Fair Trade event (TIMES & DETAILS TBC) STATUS:TENTATIVE DTSTART;TZID=Atlantic/Canary:20080510T170000 DTEND;TZID=Atlantic/Canary:20080510T180000 URL:http://www.liverpoolfairtrade.org TRANSP:OPAQUE DESCRIPTION:TIMES & DETAILS TO BE CONFIRMED\n\nDiscussion on fair trade to follow on from showing of film Black Gold at FACT\, including tasting and possible photography exhibition. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20080416T163729Z LAST-MODIFIED:20080416T164113Z DTSTAMP:20080416T163729Z UID:d7bfa049-3f9a-42d4-817e-cc897be2cbde SUMMARY:Amicus Merseyside Gazette Group meeting DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20080423T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20080423T203000 URL:http://www.amicusunitygazette.org.uk/ DESCRIPTION:Meeting for Merseyside members of Amicus broad left group END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20080416T164129Z LAST-MODIFIED:20080416T164356Z DTSTAMP:20080416T164129Z UID:c455c417-8b82-4eb5-a5eb-9697424f1530 SUMMARY:Soc Centre Tech working group meeting DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20080417T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20080417T193000 DESCRIPTION:Informal meeting of social centre group responsible for centre's computing facilities. Anyone interested in this is welcome\, relevant skills/knowledge useful but not essential.\n\nContact: tech@liverpoolsocialcentre.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20080416T164636Z LAST-MODIFIED:20080515T081224Z DTSTAMP:20080416T164636Z UID:5abd3ac9-6b13-43f5-bc7f-792245aa0237 SUMMARY:POSTPONED - Punk Gig - Animal Rights Fundraiser STATUS:CANCELLED DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20080529T200000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20080529T235500 X-MOZ-GENERATION:1 DESCRIPTION:Sorry\, this event has been postponed - new date not yet arranged. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20080416T164820Z LAST-MODIFIED:20080529T105745Z DTSTAMP:20080416T164820Z UID:0f539aaf-bfe5-4691-bda4-3e108e5ee2d7 SUMMARY:CANCELLED - Women's Poetry Night STATUS:CANCELLED DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20080530T200000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20080530T233000 X-MOZ-GENERATION:2 DESCRIPTION:sorry\, event cancelled\, will be at another venue at later date END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20080102T124955Z LAST-MODIFIED:20080422T180237Z DTSTAMP:20080422T180047Z UID:6e8c9294-653c-4937-8da1-3feea8126bad SUMMARY:Skill-share\, Crafty & Free Shop Day DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20080511T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20080511T180000 DESCRIPTION:Learn new skills\, share your expertise or just enjoy a friendly space to be. All welcome! \n\n\n\nFree Shop - Give away\, swap\, repair or alter your old clothes\, furniture\, electricals\, materials or anything you don't need that someone else could use. All donations welcome!\n\n\n\nFor more info email: purplepooka@blueyonder.co.uk \n\n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20080429T082202Z LAST-MODIFIED:20080429T082358Z DTSTAMP:20080429T082202Z UID:e1a936ae-c794-45dc-87a3-15ddeeb90b1e SUMMARY:SSAW Benefit Gig DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20080524T200000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20080524T235500 URL:http://www.ssaw.org.uk DESCRIPTION:Fundraiser for School Students Against the War - TIMES & DETAILS TO BE CONFIRMED\n\nContact details:\nEmail: liverpool@ssaw.org.uk\nTelephone: 07901623165 (Lewis)\n\nAbout SSAW: School Students Against the War is a self organised group of young people\, based all around the country\, campaigning against Bush and Blair's so-called \"War on Terror\"\, and for peace END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20080429T083420Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100616T144745Z DTSTAMP:20080429T083420Z UID:9c3c6949-b4f0-4e00-bc25-ffc33f0692ee SUMMARY:Saturday Vegan Cafe RRULE:FREQ=WEEKLY;INTERVAL=1 EXDATE:20091226T120000Z EXDATE:20100102T120000Z EXDATE:20100529T110000Z EXDATE:20100619T110000Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20080503T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20080503T170000 X-MOZ-GENERATION:7 DESCRIPTION:Saturday afternoon drop-in at the Liverpool Social Centre \nVegan food\, tea & coffee\, by donation \nFree use of computers & wifi internet access.\n\n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20080520T084153Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100728T044123Z DTSTAMP:20080520T084153Z UID:9c3c6949-b4f0-4e00-bc25-ffc33f0692ee SUMMARY:Vegan Food Fair - Food & Climate Change PRIORITY:0 CLASS:PUBLIC RECURRENCE-ID;TZID=Europe/London:20080531T120000 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20080531T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20080531T160000 DESCRIPTION:Free food & information day\, all welcome. Part of a national weekend of action on food & climate change.\n\nThe connection between climate change and the food we eat has been well documented in the national press recently and with a global food crisis looming\, our choice of diet will have an increasing impact not only on the planet but on other people around the world.\n\nMany people understand the environmental issues connected to food\; that a highly\nprocessed\, meat based diet is carbon intensive whilst locally bought plant-based (vegan) organic foods have a much lower impact\, so these events will focus on showing people how to go about making such changes and that it need not be a sacrifice. By thinking about and taking control of what we eat\, instead of reaching for a ready meal\, we can not only improve both our own health and that of the planet\, but also begin to address issues of global food inequality and animal welfare\, and save money too!\n\n Network for Climate Action in co-operation with the Rising Tide Network and the Camp for Climate Action are calling for Days of Action on Climate Change throughout the year. So far this year days have been themed around false capitalist solutions\, biofuels (and their associated problems) and a Fossil Fools day on the 1st of May highlighting the foolishness of the fossil fuels industry’s failure to change course.\nwww.daysofclimateaction.org.uk END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20090917T123930Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100728T044123Z DTSTAMP:20090917T123930Z UID:9c3c6949-b4f0-4e00-bc25-ffc33f0692ee SUMMARY:Birthday Day! Cafe 12 - 5pm & entertainment 3pm till late RECURRENCE-ID;TZID=Europe/London:20091010T120000 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20091010T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20091010T170000 DESCRIPTION:Saturday afternoon drop-in at the Liverpool Social Centre \nVegan food\, tea & coffee\, by donation \nFree use of computers & wifi internet access.\n\nIt's our 2nd birthday celebration\, all day long! Cafe open as usual 12-5pm.\n\n3pm-7pm family entertainment\n\n7pm onwards - Quiz & Dance Night - thought provoking competition\, diverse party music\, band & reggae system & more food! Donations on entry\, thanks\n\n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20080506T081740Z LAST-MODIFIED:20080506T082449Z DTSTAMP:20080506T081740Z UID:686de5aa-b85e-4623-ac23-1656e52aebc7 SUMMARY:Liverpool LETS info drop-in DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20080517T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20080517T160000 URL:http://www.liverpool-lets.com DESCRIPTION:An open day for Liverpool LETS - drop in & find out more about the LETS scheme\n\nThe Liverpool Lets is a mutual-credit\, time-pound system. It supports a gift economy which is fundamentally different from a cash economy. The system is based on human capital - your skills and energies - and on trust.\n\nUnlike the cash economy your capital is not restricted to the numbers on your bank statement. So long as you have something to offer another person (and everyone does)\, you have capital. Since participants don't need to compete for scarce resources\, it is a fundamentally cooperative trading endeavor.\n\nThe goods and services you can obtain are not limited to a single trading partner\, as with barter\, but rather encompass the offerings of the entire trading network. You can see the goods and services currently available in our Members Directory. You must become a member in order to trade. See How Do I Join for information on joining Liverpool Lets.\n\nThe possibilities are limited only by your imagination and energy.\n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20080506T082459Z LAST-MODIFIED:20080506T082823Z DTSTAMP:20080506T082459Z UID:8fba98f4-5910-4930-a517-bfa6b326af15 SUMMARY:Tiananmen Anniversary - Liverpool Amnesty Public Meeting DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20080604T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20080604T210000 DESCRIPTION:The meeting will commemorate the anniversary of the protests in Tiananmen Square (4th June 1988) and highlight continued human rights abuses in China\n\nThere will be short films\, talks\, quizzes and activities END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20080515T081250Z LAST-MODIFIED:20080515T081407Z DTSTAMP:20080515T081250Z UID:76b4daf9-9249-4905-9e15-e732d24164fc SUMMARY:Streets Ahead booking DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20080525 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20080527 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DESCRIPTION:Centre in use 9am-5pm as base for the Streets Ahead performers END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20080515T081641Z LAST-MODIFIED:20080515T081948Z DTSTAMP:20080515T081641Z UID:cc488b23-191c-4a72-8129-0467e1034c45 SUMMARY:Love Lane Lives - film & discusson about Liverpool & Tate sugar DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20080522T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20080522T220000 DESCRIPTION:Love Lane Lives: The Boys and Girls from the Whitestuff\n\nFilm screening and discussion with the authors\, 7.30 p.m.\n\nProduced and directed by Leon Seth\n\nThe film traces how Liverpool experienced transatlantic take off with sugar and slaves. It explores how Henry Tate became Britain's Rockefeller not with oil but white gold. Historian Ron Noon says: \"This project has lots of historical curiosity value but it has wider ramifications for ongoing debates on the politics of food and globalization. It's also a vital record of the people who struggled against a major multinational to protect not just their own livelihoods but a whole community.\"\n\n\n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20080527T190136Z LAST-MODIFIED:20090706T071820Z DTSTAMP:20080527T190136Z UID:6e3cd8fe-affa-48b0-9a87-bbb87355d39d SUMMARY:Feminist Educational RRULE:FREQ=MONTHLY;INTERVAL=1;BYDAY=1MO EXDATE:20090803T190000Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20080602T200000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20080602T220000 X-MOZ-GENERATION:4 DESCRIPTION:Informal feminist discussion group - women-led & women-centred\, but feminists / womanists / pro-feminists / may-be-feminists of any sex are welcome.\n\n\n\n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20081030T104336Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100728T044123Z DTSTAMP:20081030T104336Z UID:6e3cd8fe-affa-48b0-9a87-bbb87355d39d SUMMARY:Feminist Educational - The Beauty Myth RECURRENCE-ID;TZID=Europe/London:20081103T200000 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20081103T200000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20081103T220000 DESCRIPTION:First session of new feminist discussion group. Format will be short talk/presentation followed by discussion. The first meeting will be an introduction to feminism\, and the topics for the next few months will be decided\, depending on what the group wants to cover. Our intent is that the sessions be women-led & women-centred\, but feminists/womanists/pro-feminists/may-be-feminists of any sex are welcome.\n\nThis month: What is feminine beauty? Who gets to decide? How are we taught what we\nshould look like\, and how do we break out of our moulds? X-MOZ-GENERATION:2 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20090706T071616Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100728T044123Z DTSTAMP:20090706T071616Z UID:6e3cd8fe-affa-48b0-9a87-bbb87355d39d SUMMARY:Feminist Educational RECURRENCE-ID;TZID=Europe/London:20090706T200000 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20090706T200000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20090706T220000 DESCRIPTION:Informal feminist discussion group - women-led & women-centred\, but feminists / womanists / pro-feminists / may-be-feminists of any sex are welcome.\n\nThis month: an informal introductory discussion specifically inviting partners & friends of feminists to come & find out what the feminist in your life is on about! Food available\, donations appreciated. BYOB.\n\n\n\n X-MOZ-GENERATION:4 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20080529T110429Z LAST-MODIFIED:20080620T223238Z DTSTAMP:20080529T110429Z UID:4082d775-bd74-4de3-9eb2-9ae0d43b26ce SUMMARY:Nerve Magazine Launch Party DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20080628T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20080628T230000 URL:http://www.catalystmedia.org.uk/ X-MOZ-GENERATION:1 DESCRIPTION:Launch event for the new issue of Nerve\, Liverpool's acclaimed arts\, cultural and social issues magazine. There will be 'urban punk' from Post War Wage Slaves\, multi-instrumental indescribable stuff from Slow Motion Stranger\, and whatever The Kings Of Oblivion get up to. Free entry END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20080529T123400Z LAST-MODIFIED:20080529T123456Z DTSTAMP:20080529T123400Z UID:49bdf601-a913-4b0e-8de4-435cfbad89e2 SUMMARY:Oral History Online Exhibition Launch DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20080916T103000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20080916T160000 DESCRIPTION:details to follow END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20080529T123733Z LAST-MODIFIED:20080529T125041Z DTSTAMP:20080529T123733Z UID:fdabeab2-47a3-4a2c-9cc1-05b9e1e7a327 SUMMARY:Raw Food - talk & book signing by Kate Wood DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20080706T130000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20080706T160000 URL:http://www.rawliving.eu/ X-MOZ-GENERATION:1 DESCRIPTION:time to be confirmed - 1 or 2pm start.\n\nKate is one of the leading raw food promoters in the UK. She has fifteen years of experience of raw eating\, and is raising a family of three boys on a predominantly raw diet. She is the author of 'Eat Smart\, Eat Raw'\, the UK's best selling raw food recipe book\; and 'Raw Living'\, a recipe book and guide to the raw lifestyle\, both published by Grub Street. She has just put the finishing touches to her third book\, 'Raw Magic'\, a ground-breaking book of superfood recipes. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20080529T124440Z LAST-MODIFIED:20080529T124906Z DTSTAMP:20080529T124440Z UID:94ec5ca3-4fd2-4c24-adcf-c6c855d80806 SUMMARY:Film: On The Verge - the Smash EDO Campaign DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20080613T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20080613T230000 URL:http://www.smashedo.org.uk/ DESCRIPTION:A second showing of the brilliant & inspiring documentary \"On the Verge\" (90 mins)\, followed by a social. (Also the launch of the latest News Not Profit local newsletter).\n\nIn 2004 a group of Brighton peace campaigners began to bang pot and pans outside their local arms manufacturers EDO MBM in disgust of their part in the Iraq war. This has grown into the Smash EDO campaign\, which has cost the company millions\, been the subject of large scale police operations and has tested the right to protest in the UK.\n\nUsing activist\, police and CCTV footage plus interviews with those involved in the campaign\, On The Verge tells the story of one of the most persistent and imaginative campaigns to emerge out of the UK's anti-war movement and direct action scene. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20080611T064133Z LAST-MODIFIED:20080620T220703Z DTSTAMP:20080611T064133Z UID:510c21ae-50f3-4c66-95d9-f0f2c57884b7 SUMMARY:Film: \"Sicko\" - Keep Our NHS Public DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20080627T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20080627T223000 URL:http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/KeepOurNHSPublicMerseyside/ X-MOZ-GENERATION:1 DESCRIPTION:Merseyside Keep Our NHS Public present a screening of Michael Moore's \"Sicko\" (Film to start at 8pm)\n\nThe words \"health care\" and \"comedy\" aren't usually found in the same sentence\, but in Academy Award winning filmmaker Michael Moore's new movie 'SiCKO\,' they go together hand in (rubber) glove.\n\nOpening with profiles of several ordinary Americans whose lives have been disrupted\, shattered\, and—in some cases—ended by health care catastrophe\, the film makes clear that the crisis doesn't only affect the 47 million uninsured citizens—millions of others who dutifully pay their premiums often get strangled by bureaucratic red tape as well.\n\nAfter detailing just how the system got into such a mess (the short answer: profits and Nixon)\, we are whisked around the world\, visiting countries including Canada\, Great Britain and France\, where all citizens receive free medical benefits. Finally\, Moore gathers a group of 9/11 heroes – rescue workers now suffering from debilitating illnesses who have been denied medical attention in the US. He takes them to a most unexpected place\, and in addition to finally receiving care\, they also engage in some unexpected diplomacy.\n\nWhile Moore's 'SiCKO' follows the trailblazing path of previous hit films\, the Oscar-winning BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE and all-time box-office documentary champ FAHRENHEIT 9/11\, it is also something very different for Michael Moore. 'SiCKO' is a straight-from-the-heart portrait of the crazy and sometimes cruel U.S. health care system\, told from the vantage of everyday people faced with extraordinary and bizarre challenges in their quest for basic health coverage.\n\nIn the tradition of Mark Twain or Will Rogers\, 'SiCKO' uses humor to tell these compelling stories\, leading the audience conclude that an alternative system is the only possible answer. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20080611T071034Z LAST-MODIFIED:20080620T225200Z DTSTAMP:20080611T071034Z UID:ab2a937b-8cfb-4d41-b184-5d8770b8ab8e SUMMARY:Truth and Justice for Collusion Victims - talk & film DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20080623T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20080623T213000 X-MOZ-GENERATION:2 DESCRIPTION:The campaign for the truth about collusion between British state agencies and unionist death squads in the murder of citizens of Ireland\n\nSpeaker ~ Robert McClenaghan from An Fhirinne (The Truth). Robert's Grandfather\, Philip Garry\, was one of 15 people murdered in the McGurks Bar explosion on 4th December 1971 \n\nCollusion between British state forces and unionist paramilitaries to murder ‘undesirable’ nationalists and republicans from the north of Ireland has been British government policy for many years. The relatives of those murdered through this policy have come together to demand the truth from the British government. Please support their demand. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20080620T220924Z LAST-MODIFIED:20080704T070951Z DTSTAMP:20080620T220924Z UID:80600a61-ee05-4f47-a8aa-3d66d9644a2b SUMMARY:CHANGED DATE TO 11th JULY - Save Tara DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20080705T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20080705T220000 URL:http://www.tarapixie.net X-MOZ-GENERATION:3 DESCRIPTION:Talk by people from the Tara Solidarity Vigil Camp\, about direct action to oppose the routing of the twice-tolled motorway through the Gabhra (Skryne) Valley in Co. Meath\, Ireland’s oldest and most revered national monument.\n\n** DATE HAS CHANGED TO FRIDAY 11th JULY **\n\n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20080620T221824Z LAST-MODIFIED:20080620T222203Z DTSTAMP:20080620T221824Z UID:3a2d64ca-aa6f-4fab-9f11-8495e4ac1084 SUMMARY:Climate Camp Info Night & Social DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20080702T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20080702T230000 URL:http://www.climatecamp.org.uk/ DESCRIPTION:There will be food\, film-showing of last year's camp\, question and answer session with people who are involved in planning this year's camp\, chance to meet others who are coming to the camp (possibility of arranging travel down there together etc). All welcome. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20080620T222403Z LAST-MODIFIED:20080620T222504Z DTSTAMP:20080620T222403Z UID:af075e3c-3e11-43be-94e7-3d67c095d3a3 SUMMARY:Maria H's birthday party DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20080719T200000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20080719T235500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20080620T230056Z LAST-MODIFIED:20080704T071741Z DTSTAMP:20080620T230056Z UID:fd11826b-daf3-4252-a32a-3666e4314212 SUMMARY:Move 9 - Film & letter-writing STATUS:TENTATIVE DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20080717T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20080717T210000 URL:http://www.onamove.com/ X-MOZ-GENERATION:3 DESCRIPTION:Film about the justice for the Move 9 - political prisoners for 30 years in the USA. Letter-writing in support of getting them released.\n\n(PLEASE NOTE: this event is instead of this month's Merseyside Anarchists meeting)\n\n\"The MOVE Organization is a family of strong\, serious\, deeply committed revolutionaries founded by a wise\, perceptive\, strategically minded Black man named JOHN AFRICA. The principle of our belief is explained in a collection of writings we call \"The Guidelines\,\" authored by JOHN AFRICA. ... JOHN AFRICA taught us that Life is the priority. Nothing is more important or as important as Life\, the force that keeps us alive. All life comes from one source\, from God\, MOM NATURE\, MOMA. Each individual life is dependent on every other life\, and all life has a purpose\, so all living beings\, things that move\, are equally important\, whether they are human beings\, dogs\, birds\, fish\, trees\, ants\, weeds\, rivers\, wind or rain. To stay healthy and strong\, life must have clean air \, clear water and pure food. If derived of these things\, life will cycle to the next level\, or as the system says\, \"die.\"\n\n\n\"The MOVE 9 are innocent men and women who have been in prison since August 8\, 1978\, following a massive police attack on us at our home in Powelton Village (Philadelphia). This was seven years before the government dropped a bomb on MOVE\, killing 11 people\, including 5 babies. The August 8\, 1978 police attack on MOVE followed years of police brutality against MOVE and was a major military operation carried out by the Philadelphia police department under orders of then-mayor\, Frank Rizzo\, whose reputation for racism and brutality is well known ... During this attack\, heavy equipment was used to tear down the fence surrounding our home\, and cops filled our home with enough tear gas to kill us and our babies\, while SWAT teams covered every possible exit. We were all in the basement of our home\, where we had 10 thousand pounds of water pressure per minute directed at us from 4 fire department water cannons (for a total of 40 thousand pounds of water pressure per minute). As the basement filled with nearly six feet of water we had to hold our babies and animals above the rising water so they wouldn't drown. Suddenly shots rang out (news reporters and others know the shots came from a house at 33rd and Baring St.\, not our home\, because they actually saw the man shooting) and bullets immediately filled the air as police through-out the area opened fire on us. Officer James Ramp\, who was standing above us on street-level and facing our home\, was killed by a single bullet that struck him on a downward angle. This alone makes it impossible for MOVE to have killed Ramp\, since we were below street level\, in the basement. MOVE adults came out of the house carrying our children through clouds of tear gas\, we were beat and arrested. Television cameras actually filmed the vicious beating of our brother Delbert Africa (3 of the 4 cops that beat Delbert went to trial on minor charges). Despite the photographic evidence\, the trial judge (Stanley Kubacki) refused to let the jury render a verdict and himself acquitted the cops by directed order. Nine of us were charged with murder and related charges for the death of James Ramp. Within a few hours of our arrest\, our home (which is supposed to be the \"scene of the crime\" and therefore evidence) was deliberately destroyed\, demolished\, by city officials when they were legally obligated to preserve all evidence\, but we were held for trial anyway. We went to trial before Judge Edward Malmed who convicted all nine of us of third degree murder (while admitting that he didn't have \"the faintest idea\" who killed Ramp) and sentenced each of us to 30 - 100 years in prison. \" END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20080626T080836Z LAST-MODIFIED:20080724T074930Z DTSTAMP:20080626T080836Z UID:b15f2d49-4254-4dc6-8d44-5c0dab0ab3b4 SUMMARY:Art Wars Launch Night DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20080801T200000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20080801T235500 URL:http://www.myspace.com/artytolley X-MOZ-GENERATION:1 DESCRIPTION:Private view & live music\, launching of Art Wars - Madeleina vs D Tolley\, raising funds & awareness for Fibromyalgia and MS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20080626T083604Z LAST-MODIFIED:20080626T083909Z DTSTAMP:20080626T083604Z UID:56f5b697-43d7-4d05-8bfc-907b3a08f63e SUMMARY:Publicity/Website meeting for social centre DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20080708T173000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20080708T193000 DESCRIPTION:Meeting to brainstorm & organise publicising the social centre\, including the website & other online ways to promote the centre\n\nAll welcome. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20080626T083919Z LAST-MODIFIED:20080626T084156Z DTSTAMP:20080626T083919Z UID:d1b4760d-ebbe-4894-ae12-93ffce4f67ce SUMMARY:Work Weekend DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20080719T110000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20080721T170000 DESCRIPTION:Continuing with improvement work on the social centre - volunteers with building-work & related skills to share especially welcome\, but everyone can lend a hand! END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20080620T220924Z LAST-MODIFIED:20080704T070514Z DTSTAMP:20080704T070250Z UID:e1a78de8-6d0b-4248-bbf6-4b4dfb5b7905 SUMMARY:Save Tara - talk DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20080711T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20080711T220000 URL:http://www.tarapixie.net X-MOZ-GENERATION:2 DESCRIPTION:Talk by an activist from the Tara Solidarity Vigil Camp\, about direct action to oppose the routing of the twice-tolled motorway through the Gabhra (Skryne) Valley in Co. Meath\, Ireland’s oldest and most revered national monument.\n\nThe archaeological importance of this area is beyond question. After seven years surveying the Hill of Tara and its 80km² hinterland as director of the government funded Discovery Programme\, Conor Newman said: “Tara is one of the most important and famous archaeological complexes in the world.… all of our researches point to the valley between Tara and Skryne as an area of paramount importance throughout the history of Tara.” Yet it is through the very heart of this landscape\, that Meath County Council\, the NRA and the Irish Government wish to build a motorway\, which will impact at least 141 known sites. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20080724T074945Z LAST-MODIFIED:20080724T075308Z DTSTAMP:20080724T074945Z UID:b050a35e-d705-4f4e-8d7b-edb544ca2023 SUMMARY:Art Wars Exhibition open DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20080802T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20080802T160000 URL:http://www.myspace.com/artytolley DESCRIPTION:Art Wars: Madeleina vs D Tolley - art exhibition raising funds & awareness for Fibromyalgia and MS. \n\nOpen 12 till 4pm\, Wed - Sun from 1st - 15th August. (late opening Thurs\, Fri\, Sat) END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20080724T074945Z LAST-MODIFIED:20080724T075333Z DTSTAMP:20080724T075321Z UID:a219c78f-716d-44d4-b3dd-a6271e5b2718 SUMMARY:Art Wars Exhibition open DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20080803T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20080803T160000 URL:http://www.myspace.com/artytolley DESCRIPTION:Art Wars: Madeleina vs D Tolley - art exhibition raising funds & awareness for Fibromyalgia and MS. \n\nOpen 12 till 4pm\, Wed - Sun from 1st - 15th August. (late opening Thurs\, Fri\, Sat) END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20080724T074945Z LAST-MODIFIED:20080724T075340Z DTSTAMP:20080724T075321Z UID:ad03e601-4122-4cbb-85d5-2ab78ac968d9 SUMMARY:Art Wars Exhibition open DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20080806T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20080806T160000 URL:http://www.myspace.com/artytolley DESCRIPTION:Art Wars: Madeleina vs D Tolley - art exhibition raising funds & awareness for Fibromyalgia and MS. \n\nOpen 12 till 4pm\, Wed - Sun from 1st - 15th August. (late opening Thurs\, Fri\, Sat) END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20080724T074945Z LAST-MODIFIED:20080724T075344Z DTSTAMP:20080724T075321Z UID:8b8b39ed-6caf-4a86-ada8-b6d060da2310 SUMMARY:Art Wars Exhibition open DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20080807T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20080807T160000 URL:http://www.myspace.com/artytolley DESCRIPTION:Art Wars: Madeleina vs D Tolley - art exhibition raising funds & awareness for Fibromyalgia and MS. \n\nOpen 12 till 4pm\, Wed - Sun from 1st - 15th August. (late opening Thurs\, Fri\, Sat) END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20080724T074945Z LAST-MODIFIED:20080724T075348Z DTSTAMP:20080724T075321Z UID:4e3d8e81-af14-439c-8307-89ebf6ca7ffc SUMMARY:Art Wars Exhibition open DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20080808T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20080808T160000 URL:http://www.myspace.com/artytolley DESCRIPTION:Art Wars: Madeleina vs D Tolley - art exhibition raising funds & awareness for Fibromyalgia and MS. \n\nOpen 12 till 4pm\, Wed - Sun from 1st - 15th August. (late opening Thurs\, Fri\, Sat) END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20080724T074945Z LAST-MODIFIED:20080724T075354Z DTSTAMP:20080724T075321Z UID:78024d18-bd59-424a-96b4-c0857fe2a841 SUMMARY:Art Wars Exhibition open DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20080809T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20080809T160000 URL:http://www.myspace.com/artytolley DESCRIPTION:Art Wars: Madeleina vs D Tolley - art exhibition raising funds & awareness for Fibromyalgia and MS. \n\nOpen 12 till 4pm\, Wed - Sun from 1st - 15th August. (late opening Thurs\, Fri\, Sat) END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20080724T074945Z LAST-MODIFIED:20080724T075359Z DTSTAMP:20080724T075321Z UID:972d0eb0-ab2f-46b9-93fb-70834bf03038 SUMMARY:Art Wars Exhibition open DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20080810T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20080810T160000 URL:http://www.myspace.com/artytolley DESCRIPTION:Art Wars: Madeleina vs D Tolley - art exhibition raising funds & awareness for Fibromyalgia and MS. \n\nOpen 12 till 4pm\, Wed - Sun from 1st - 15th August. (late opening Thurs\, Fri\, Sat) END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20080724T074945Z LAST-MODIFIED:20080724T075405Z DTSTAMP:20080724T075321Z UID:fc599e3c-5dfe-48d0-a7f5-24edf76fe11b SUMMARY:Art Wars Exhibition open DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20080813T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20080813T160000 URL:http://www.myspace.com/artytolley DESCRIPTION:Art Wars: Madeleina vs D Tolley - art exhibition raising funds & awareness for Fibromyalgia and MS. \n\nOpen 12 till 4pm\, Wed - Sun from 1st - 15th August. (late opening Thurs\, Fri\, Sat) END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20080724T074945Z LAST-MODIFIED:20080724T075409Z DTSTAMP:20080724T075321Z UID:33298e2d-3b0e-4817-b6fd-26112833280e SUMMARY:Art Wars Exhibition open DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20080814T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20080814T160000 URL:http://www.myspace.com/artytolley DESCRIPTION:Art Wars: Madeleina vs D Tolley - art exhibition raising funds & awareness for Fibromyalgia and MS. \n\nOpen 12 till 4pm\, Wed - Sun from 1st - 15th August. (late opening Thurs\, Fri\, Sat) END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20080724T074945Z LAST-MODIFIED:20080724T075414Z DTSTAMP:20080724T075321Z UID:5529b019-51c1-4641-9330-38a053e86269 SUMMARY:Art Wars Exhibition open DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20080815T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20080815T160000 URL:http://www.myspace.com/artytolley DESCRIPTION:Art Wars: Madeleina vs D Tolley - art exhibition raising funds & awareness for Fibromyalgia and MS. \n\nOpen 12 till 4pm\, Wed - Sun from 1st - 15th August. (late opening Thurs\, Fri\, Sat) END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20080724T083050Z LAST-MODIFIED:20080724T083338Z DTSTAMP:20080724T083050Z UID:6cf8303f-8c98-4abf-8c80-368b9cd02c12 SUMMARY:Anarchy Alive - Uri Gordon (Author event) DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20080815T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20080815T213000 URL:http://www.newsfromnowhere.org.uk DESCRIPTION:News From Nowhere Bookshop presents a talk & booksigning by Uri Gordon\, author of Anarchy Alive! Anti-authoritarian Politics from Practice to Theory (Pluto Press\, 2007\, £15.99). All welcome.\n\nAnarchist politics are at the heart of today's most vibrant and radical social movements. From squatted social centres and community gardens to acts of sabotage and raucous summit blockades\, anarchist groups and networks are spreading an ethos of direct action\, non-hierarchical organizing and self-liberation that has redefined revolutionary struggle for the 21st century.\n\nAnarchy Alive! is a fascinating\, in-depth look at the practice and theory of contemporary anarchism. Uri Gordon draws on his activist experience and on interviews\, discussions and a vast selection of recent literature to explore the activities\, cultures and agendas shaping today's explosive anti-authoritarian revival. Anarchy Alive! also addresses some of the most tense debates in the contemporary movement\, using a theory based on practice to provocatively reshape anarchist discussions of leadership\, violence\, technology and nationalism.\n\nThis is the ideal book for anyone looking for a fresh\, informed and critical engagement with anarchism\, as a mature and dynamic political force in the age of globalisation.\n\nUri Gordon has been tear-gassed in several major European cities. An Israeli activist and journalist\, he wrote his PhD on anarchist politics at Oxford while organising with the Dissent! network\, Indymedia\, Peoples' Global Action and Anarchists Against the Wall.\n\n\n\n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20080724T083506Z LAST-MODIFIED:20080724T083608Z DTSTAMP:20080724T083506Z UID:db466fea-2500-4b7e-bca9-6a535c37b01a SUMMARY:extra Social Centre meeting DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20080729T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20080729T213000 DESCRIPTION:extra social centre collective meeting - organising development & use of the Liverpool Social Centre - anyone interested in being involved is welcome. (The usual meeting is on the 4th Tuesday of every month). Entrance to the Liverpool Social Centre is next door to the bookshop\, ring the bell labelled 'basement'. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20080401T142656Z LAST-MODIFIED:20080825T211740Z DTSTAMP:20080825T211413Z UID:891ab24f-be8c-4515-a015-a09bb7cad94f SUMMARY:Nerve - Vision meeting STATUS:TENTATIVE DTSTART;TZID=Atlantic/Canary:20080930T180000 DTEND;TZID=Atlantic/Canary:20080930T200000 URL:http://www.catalystmedia.org.uk/ TRANSP:OPAQUE DESCRIPTION:Facilitated meeting to plan the future of Nerve magazine. \n\nLimited places - to attend\, please email catalystmedia@mersinet.co.uk or phone 0151 709 9948 during office hours X-MOZ-GENERATION:2 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20080416T163729Z LAST-MODIFIED:20080825T211957Z DTSTAMP:20080825T211815Z UID:065df48f-f47d-44d8-8ba4-893e1b1d9090 SUMMARY:Amicus Merseyside Gazette Group meeting DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20080828T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20080828T203000 URL:http://www.amicusunitygazette.org.uk/ DESCRIPTION:Meeting for Merseyside members of Amicus broad left group END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20080416T163729Z LAST-MODIFIED:20080825T212353Z DTSTAMP:20080825T212346Z UID:aa4b41f3-ee11-4c96-99cc-86164e9b2cb2 SUMMARY:Amicus Merseyside Gazette Group meeting DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20080925T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20080925T203000 URL:http://www.amicusunitygazette.org.uk/ DESCRIPTION:Meeting for Merseyside members of Amicus broad left group END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20080825T214003Z LAST-MODIFIED:20080825T214052Z DTSTAMP:20080825T214003Z UID:42bb965c-77dd-4b5c-97f2-22550e648eab SUMMARY:Punk Gig - Animal Rights Fundraiser DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20080829T200000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20080829T235500 URL:http://www.merseysideanimalrights.co.uk/ DESCRIPTION:Fundraiser for Merseyside Animal Rights END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20080825T214427Z LAST-MODIFIED:20080825T215005Z DTSTAMP:20080825T214427Z UID:6a7ecca4-49fa-43ed-bc01-88965c1d9ffb SUMMARY:Climate Camp - Film & Discussion (Transition South Liverpool) DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20080925T200000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20080925T223000 URL:http://transitiontowns.org/Liverpool-South/Liverpool-South DESCRIPTION:How effective was the Climate Camp this year?\n\nA film relating to the ‘climate camp’ mass action this year\, will be shown. The film will be then followed by a discussion relating to the effectiveness of the Camp\, and how it was received by the media.\n\nOne of a series of film/discussion nights presented by ‘Transition South Liverpool’ - an unfunded group who are trying to create local community groups across the city\, which will deal with the onset of both climate change and Peak Oil\, through local community initiatives END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20080825T214427Z LAST-MODIFIED:20081001T135032Z DTSTAMP:20080825T215013Z UID:01dadeac-1dea-4265-9499-12970272b4c1 SUMMARY:* CANCELLED * - An Inconvenient Truth - Film & Discussion (Transition South Liverpool) STATUS:CANCELLED DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20081001T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20081001T220000 URL:http://transitiontowns.org/Liverpool-South/Liverpool-South X-MOZ-GENERATION:3 DESCRIPTION:Sorry\, this event has been cancelled & will be rescheduled for a future date.\n-------------------------------------------------\n\n‘An Inconvenient Truth’\n\nHumanity is sitting on a ticking time bomb. If the vast majority of the world's scientists are right\, we have just ten years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet into a tail-spin of epic destruction involving extreme weather\, floods\, droughts\, epidemics and killer heat waves beyond anything we have ever experienced.\n\nIf that sounds like a recipe for serious gloom and doom -- think again. From director Davis Guggenheim comes the Sundance Film Festival hit\, AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH\, which offers a passionate and inspirational look at one man's fervent crusade to halt global warming's deadly progress in its tracks by exposing the myths and misconceptions that surround it. That man is former Vice President Al Gore\, who\, in the wake of defeat in the 2000 election\, re-set the course of his life to focus on a last-ditch\, all-out effort to help save the planet from irrevocable change. In this eye-opening and poignant portrait of Gore and his \"traveling global warming show\,\" Gore also proves himself to be one of the most misunderstood characters in modern American public life. Here he is seen as never before in the media - funny\, engaging\, open and downright on fire about getting the surprisingly stirring truth about what he calls our \"planetary emergency\" out to ordinary citizens before it's too late.\nhttp://www.climatecrisis.net/\n\nOne of a series of film/discussion nights presented by ‘Transition South Liverpool’ - an unfunded group who are trying to create local community groups across the city\, which will deal with the onset of both climate change and Peak Oil\, through local community initiatives END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20080825T214427Z LAST-MODIFIED:20081112T170757Z DTSTAMP:20080825T215405Z UID:aee1aa94-8f50-49c2-91f9-3c76476326c4 SUMMARY:POSTPONED - The End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of The American Dream - Film & Discussion (Transition South Liverpool) STATUS:CANCELLED DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20081112T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20081112T220000 URL:http://transitiontowns.org/Liverpool-South/Liverpool-South X-MOZ-GENERATION:4 DESCRIPTION:\nSORRY\, THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED - NEW DATE TO BE CONFIRMED\n\n---------------------------------------\n\nThe end of Surburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of The American Dream\n\nSince World War II North Americans have invested much of their newfound wealth in suburbia. It has promised a sense of space\, affordability\, family life and upward mobility. As the population of suburban sprawl has exploded in the past 50 years\, so too the suburban way of life has become embedded in the American consciousness. Suburbia\, and all it promises\, has become the American Dream. But as we enter the 21st century\, serious questions are beginning to emerge about the sustainability of this way of life. With brutal honesty and a touch of irony\, The End of Suburbia explores the American Way of Life and its prospects as the planet approaches a critical era\, as global demand for fossil fuels begins to outstrip supply. World Oil Peak and the inevitable decline of fossil fuels are upon us now\, some scientists and policy makers argue in this documentary. The consequences of inaction in the face of this global crisis are enormous. What does Oil Peak mean for North America? As energy prices skyrocket in the coming years\, how will the populations of suburbia react to the collapse of their dream? Are today's suburbs destined to become the slums of tomorrow? And what can be done NOW\, individually and collectively\, to avoid The End of Suburbia?\n\nhttp://www.endofsuburbia.com/\n\nOne of a series of film/discussion nights presented by ‘Transition South Liverpool’ - an unfunded group who are trying to create local community groups across the city\, which will deal with the onset of both climate change and Peak Oil\, through local community initiatives END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20080825T214427Z LAST-MODIFIED:20081203T173011Z DTSTAMP:20080825T220129Z UID:dba9ecba-080d-4c72-957d-86fbd44a7eb9 SUMMARY:CANCELLED The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil - Film & Discussion (Transition South Liverpool) STATUS:CANCELLED DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20081203T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20081203T220000 URL:http://transitiontowns.org/Liverpool-South/Liverpool-South X-MOZ-GENERATION:4 DESCRIPTION:SORRY THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED\n------------------------------------\n\nThe Power of community: ‘How Cuba Survived Peak Oil’\n\nWhen the Soviet Union collapsed in 1990\, Cuba's economy went into a tailspin. With imports of oil cut by more than half – and food by 80 percent – people were desperate. This film tells of the hardships and struggles as well as the community and creativity of the Cuban people during this difficult time. Cubans share how they transitioned from a highly mechanized\, industrial agricultural system to one using organic methods of farming and local\, urban gardens. It is an unusual look into the Cuban culture during this economic crisis\, which they call \"The Special Period.\" The film opens with a short history of Peak Oil\, a term for the time in our history when world oil production will reach its all-time peak and begin to decline forever. Cuba\, the only country that has faced such a crisis – the massive reduction of fossil fuels – is an example of options and hope.\n\nhttp: //www.powerofcommunity.org/cm/index.php\n\nOne of a series of film/discussion nights presented by ‘Transition South Liverpool’ - an unfunded group who are trying to create local community groups across the city\, which will deal with the onset of both climate change and Peak Oil\, through local community initiatives END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20080825T214427Z LAST-MODIFIED:20080825T220755Z DTSTAMP:20080825T220637Z UID:8e019241-2837-4d94-83b4-ee960bbe2368 SUMMARY:What Would Jesus Buy? - Film & Discussion (Transition South Liverpool) DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20081216T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20081216T220000 URL:http://transitiontowns.org/Liverpool-South/Liverpool-South X-MOZ-GENERATION:5 DESCRIPTION:What Would Jesus Buy?\nWhat Would Jesus Buy? follows Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping Gospel Choir as they go on a cross-country mission to save Christmas from the Shopocalypse: the end of mankind from consumerism\, over-consumption and the fires of eternal debt!\n\nhttp://wwjbmovie.com/\n\nOne of a series of film/discussion nights presented by ‘Transition South Liverpool’ - an unfunded group who are trying to create local community groups across the city\, which will deal with the onset of both climate change and Peak Oil\, through local community initiatives END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20080906T125808Z LAST-MODIFIED:20080906T130017Z DTSTAMP:20080906T130017Z UID:4077c206-50a4-45b4-80ab-4e92199df628 SUMMARY:Vegan Fayre - A Celebration of Raw Food PRIORITY:0 CLASS:PUBLIC DTSTART;TZID=Atlantic/Canary:20080913T120000 DTEND;TZID=Atlantic/Canary:20080913T160000 DESCRIPTION:Liverpool Vegan Fayre - a celebration of raw food. Free entry. Recipies\, food sampling & nutritional information. For more info contact Katy: 07765 522460\n\n(The vegan cafe is open as usual too!)\n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20080906T130023Z LAST-MODIFIED:20080906T130510Z DTSTAMP:20080906T130510Z UID:f16cc58f-a181-417f-9735-3e939f2ab3ca SUMMARY:LSC Policy Day PRIORITY:0 CLASS:PUBLIC DTSTART;TZID=Atlantic/Canary:20080927T103000 DTEND;TZID=Atlantic/Canary:20080927T160000 DESCRIPTION:Discussion & decision-making on policies to do with running the social centre. Gathering at 10.30am for coffee\, starting discussion at 11. Ending at 3.30 followws by half an hour to review items to take forward to next social centre meeting/next policy day.\n\n(Meeting will be in the main room - the Saturday cafe is open as usual) END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20080906T130547Z LAST-MODIFIED:20080906T131907Z DTSTAMP:20080906T131907Z UID:b105e52c-3837-4241-aa56-66981087f3c4 SUMMARY:Campaign for Free Speech / Campaign on Fuel Rights PRIORITY:0 CLASS:PUBLIC DTSTART;TZID=Atlantic/Canary:20080920T130000 DTEND;TZID=Atlantic/Canary:20080920T170000 DESCRIPTION:Meeting called to co-ordinate the defence of the right to campaign & protest in Liverpool city centre\, in the wake of recent harrassment of a campaign group stall & arrest of an activist\, and past similar incidents. Also to discuss a campaign against fuel bill rises. \n\nAll welcome - it would be helpful if you could email research@catalystmedia.org.uk to confirm attendance & if possible send only a couple of people per campaign group \n\n(Saturday cafe open as usual) END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20080906T130547Z LAST-MODIFIED:20080927T080337Z DTSTAMP:20080927T075430Z UID:3f604a40-ab3d-495f-94f7-08341a5e84a8 SUMMARY:Campaign for Free Speech meeting PRIORITY:0 CLASS:PUBLIC DTSTART;TZID=Atlantic/Canary:20081004T130000 DTEND;TZID=Atlantic/Canary:20081004T170000 X-MOZ-GENERATION:3 DESCRIPTION:Meeting to continue co-ordinating the defence of the right to campaign & protest in Liverpool city centre\, in the wake of recent harrassment of a campaign group stall & arrest of an activist\, and past similar incidents. \n\nIncluding discussing stalls & leafleting in Church St on Saturday 11th October for Freedom Not Fear Day - see: \nhttp: //www.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/content/view/242/144/ \n\nAll welcome \n\nMore info: research@catalystmedia.org.uk \n\n(Saturday cafe open as usual) END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20080927T080347Z LAST-MODIFIED:20080927T080604Z DTSTAMP:20080927T080347Z UID:5a50a810-e4a8-41e7-866f-61e551b11801 SUMMARY:Next To Nowhere Birthday Party DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20081004T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20081004T235500 DESCRIPTION:Celebrating the social centre's 1st birthday! Free entry. You're welcome to bring vegan food to share and favourite music on cd for the DIY disco. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20080927T080952Z LAST-MODIFIED:20080927T082533Z DTSTAMP:20080927T080952Z UID:61410617-6959-485b-afff-e747d1ba4eac SUMMARY:MI.40 - THE NEW CONCEPT - Art Exhibition Launch DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20081003T200000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20081003T220000 X-MOZ-GENERATION:1 DESCRIPTION:Opening night for the exhibition of pop-art paintings of Marin 'MICHO' Vardolov. The paintings will be on display in the social centre for the next few weeks. \n\nBands and performers: Joel Morton\, Sheepy\, The Dead Class\, Scarface&The Pig END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20080927T083706Z LAST-MODIFIED:20080927T083819Z DTSTAMP:20080927T083706Z UID:98b775ea-fd32-4b52-9deb-ae931996a8e8 SUMMARY:Under 18s Gig DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20081011T200000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20081011T230000 DESCRIPTION:Local young bands - times & details to be added END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20080416T163729Z LAST-MODIFIED:20081001T140712Z DTSTAMP:20081001T135244Z UID:9efc07d3-bc68-47c4-84f2-c724e0f502a5 SUMMARY:Amicus Merseyside Gazette Group meeting DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20081022T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20081022T200000 URL:http://www.amicusunitygazette.org.uk/ X-MOZ-GENERATION:4 DESCRIPTION:Meeting for Merseyside members of Amicus broad left group END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20081001T135811Z LAST-MODIFIED:20081001T140619Z DTSTAMP:20081001T135811Z UID:b408fd5f-fefd-4643-9923-750da6c52324 SUMMARY:Critical Mass Film Night ATTACH:http://critical-mass.info/ DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20081010T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20081010T220000 X-MOZ-GENERATION:1 DESCRIPTION:Film about the Critical Mass phenomenon - Critical Mass is a monthly bicycle ride to celebrate cycling and to assert cyclists' right to the road. \n\nFree entry. Doors at 7 with film at 7.30. Free vegan soup & cakes (though donations gratefully accepted!)\n\nhttp: //critical-mass.info/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20081001T141827Z LAST-MODIFIED:20090112T092749Z DTSTAMP:20081001T141827Z UID:198089d7-1297-422a-b071-9202480e159a SUMMARY:Sunday Film & Food RRULE:FREQ=WEEKLY;UNTIL=20090419T150000Z;INTERVAL=2;BYDAY=SU EXDATE:20090111T160000Z EXDATE:20090125T160000Z EXDATE:20090208T160000Z EXDATE:20090222T160000Z EXDATE:20090308T160000Z EXDATE:20090322T160000Z EXDATE:20090405T150000Z EXDATE:20090419T150000Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20081005T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20081005T190000 X-MOZ-GENERATION:14 DESCRIPTION:Fortnightly free film screening. Vegan soup & cakes from 4pm (donations for food appreciated). Film starts at 5. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20081001T142124Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100728T044123Z DTSTAMP:20081001T142124Z UID:198089d7-1297-422a-b071-9202480e159a SUMMARY:Sunday Film & Food - \"Carla's Song\" RECURRENCE-ID;TZID=Europe/London:20081005T160000 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20081005T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20081005T190000 DESCRIPTION:Fortnightly free film screening. Vegan soup & cakes from 4pm (donations for food appreciated). Film starts at 5. \n\nThis week: \nCarla's Song \n(Ken Loach\, 1996)\n\nIn 1987 a Glasgow bus driver meets an emotionally scarred Nicaraguan dancer and helps her confront her traumatic past and the war continuing in her homeland. \n\nCarla's Song Carla's Song is a love story\, but because it's also a Ken Loach film\, most of the passion here is about human rights and political awakening. This mishmash of love and war means it doesn't go down as one of his top films\, but it does live up to its noble intentions of putting a human face on the little-discussed civil war in Nicaragua (and also firmly placing the blame on the US government for much of the horror). X-MOZ-GENERATION:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20081017T121815Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100728T044123Z DTSTAMP:20081017T121815Z UID:198089d7-1297-422a-b071-9202480e159a SUMMARY:Sunday Film & Food : \"Priest\" RECURRENCE-ID;TZID=Europe/London:20081019T160000 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20081019T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20081019T190000 DESCRIPTION:Fortnightly free film screening. Vegan soup & cakes from 4pm (donations for food appreciated). Film starts at 5. \n\nPriest (Jimmy McGovern\, 1994)\n\nPriest arrived as the Catholic Church was under intense media scrutiny\, with an ongoing 'paedophile priest' scandal and the 'outing' of a number of allegedly homosexual priests by gay pressure group Outrage. Priest\, though\, had a tortured 12-year history behind it\, beginning as a rejected storyline for Brookside (Channel 4\, 1982-2003)\, on which lapsed-Catholic writer Jimmy McGovern served his TV apprenticeship\, before expanding to a ten-part take on the Ten Commandments. In 1991\, the BBC commissioned a three-part (later four-part) series\, only to axe the project after some eight drafts. It was thanks to that rejection that McGovern threw himself so ferociously into Cracker (ITV\, 1993-95)\, and it was thanks to that series' success that the BBC suddenly rediscovered its interest in Priest\, now proposed as a cinema feature.\n\nDuring his research\, McGovern interviewed a gay priest\, whose sexual and spiritual torment was exacerbated by his extreme political and moral conservatism. His story became that of Father Greg\, who arrives in inner-city Liverpool when his predecessor is unceremoniously 'retired' and soon clashes with the older\, Guardian-reading Father Matthew\, who scandalises Father Greg with his openly political stance on poverty and deprivation and his relationship with housekeeper Maria\, in breach of his vows of celibacy. Greg's moral outrage\, however\, is undermined when he finds himself charged with public indecency after a gay fling.\n\nFather Greg's faith\, meanwhile\, is tested when he learns of a young girl's incestuous abuse but is powerless to stop it thanks to the sacred seal of the confession. Helpless and desperate\, he looks to Christ\, but sees in His crucified form not salvation but \"a naked man\, utterly desirable.\" The truth is finally revealed thanks not to divine intervention but human weakness\, when Greg\, distracted\, ends a church meeting early\, allowing the girl's mother to return home and discover her husband's abuse. The revelation\, however\, only isolates Father Greg further.\n\nWith its powerful themes\, Priest was bound to provoke. Barred from Liverpool churches\, director Antonia Bird (who had shown a taste for confrontational material with her 1993 homelessness drama\, Safe) filmed some scenes in London. The American Catholic League issued an 11-page condemnation of the film\, accusing it of attempting \"to convince the public of the Catholic Church's malevolence\,\" and launching a boycott against Disney\, parent company of Priest's US distributor\, Miramax. The UK's Catholic newspaper The Tablet\, however\, thought it \"well-made\, honest\, courageous and sensitive\". X-MOZ-GENERATION:2 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20081030T091357Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100728T044123Z DTSTAMP:20081030T091357Z UID:198089d7-1297-422a-b071-9202480e159a SUMMARY:Sunday Film & Food RECURRENCE-ID;TZID=Europe/London:20081102T160000 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20081102T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20081102T190000 DESCRIPTION:Fortnightly free film screening. Vegan soup & cakes from 4pm (donations for food appreciated). Film starts at 5. \n\nTo coincide with the week of the US Presidential election we present for your entertainment ‘Homecoming’\, the first Iraq War themed zombie movie\, followed by ‘George Carlin – Jammin’ In New York’\, one of the greatest performances by the comedy legend who sadly died earlier this year.\n\nHOMECOMING (2005)\n\nThe first Iraq War zombie movie! Dead US soldiers return from the grave to vote against the President that sent them to their deaths\n\n \n\nDuring the campaign for the re-election of the President of USA\, the political consultant David Murch wishes live in a television talk show that a deceased soldier could come back from his grave to vote in the election as a marketing tool to promote his candidate. The president uses his idea in a speech and wishes that all the deceased soldiers could return from their graves to tell everyone how glad they were to die for their government. Somehow his wish is granted and the soldiers who died in the last war return\, except with the objective of voting in opposition to the government. They want their voices heard. When the result of the election is manipulated and the president is re-elected\, all the soldiers deceased in pointless wars return to exile the members of the administration.\n\n \n\nThis isn't your typical zombie movie. Zombies are generally précised as flesh eating\, mindless creatures\, but here in Homecoming it's a neat and provoking twist. What if 'Johnny' came home\, looking like he did when he died\, but is still the same Johnny you knew and grew up with? He could have a chance to tell people how the war was for him\, with no glossy pictures\, or cover-up\, but just how he felt.\n\n \n\n\"Homecoming\" is so far the best episode of \"Masters of Horror\". Joe Dante (the director of Gremlins\, Piranha and The Howling) uses worldwide known facts of the present administration of the USA to satirize the government\, pointless wars and the process of re-election in an original tale of zombies. Bottom of ForBotPolitics and horror meet and combine into something very disturbing indeed in this episode! The creators did not compromise by using a fake war with fake politicians - using the war in Iraq as a theme gives it lots of relevance and makes it far more disturbing to watch. Why not use the US dead from the war to make a powerful anti war statement? The US military wounded and especially the dead are carefully hidden from the media\, as if they are just anonymous numbers who fade away in history\, happy to have done their country a service by being used as cannon fodder in a war of lies. Using satire to expose the current political power as morally bankrupt and uncaring about the lives it destroys is painfully to the point.\n\n \n\nGEORGE CARLIN – JAMMIN’ IN NEW YORK (1992)\n\nGeorge Carlin has only become more angry and bitter\, making his comedy all the more funny. It also makes his comments on humanity\, such as the state of the earth\, all the more insightful and cutting. You can hear a pin drop during some of this show\, people are not sure if it is safe to laugh. The best comedians can do this. The heavy war and earth stuff is counterweighted with lighter fare such as the stupidity of airline safety speeches.\n\n \n\nHe isn't one to shy away from telling it like it is for better or for worse. He begins his routine by immediately going political: about the Persian Gulf War\, he says\, \"It's the first war we've had that was on every news channel\, plus cable. We like war because we're a war-like people (...) We're good at it. And it's a good thing we are\, we're not very good at anything else anymore!\" With this he begins his attack on how we as a nation can bomb other countries\, especially \"brown people\" (except Germans\, and only because they were trying to 'cut in on our action.'). He talks about being his own person\, someone who thinks for himself\, and about how war is about \"prick-waving\" and nothing else. And seeing it today as yesterday it makes sense: all he's pointing the finger at is on the general situation and where we're headed\, and no one is better than he in making war as a concept a sexual thing and an issue of manhood.\n \n\nBut he soon gets the political stuff out of the way\, and goes into dissertations on embarrassing situations -- the trivial things we go through -- which are flat-out funny. No one better than Carlin to talk about how when there are times when you're coming up the stairs and think there is one extra step\, or when you've woken up and not known which day it was. And of course\, his forte: language\, and our misuse or over use of it for things that don't need such technicality. Who better than he to talk about the minutiae of airplane instructions? Carlin\, with his wonderful language and powerful wit\, makes it happen. Often\, it's funny\, sometimes\, a little cringe-inducing\, but give me someone who does not like his humor and his incursions into the darker side of humanity and I will give you a liar.\n\n \n\n X-MOZ-GENERATION:3 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20081112T173633Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100728T044123Z DTSTAMP:20081112T173633Z UID:198089d7-1297-422a-b071-9202480e159a SUMMARY:Sunday Film & Food: \"Provoked: A True Story\" RECURRENCE-ID;TZID=Europe/London:20081116T160000 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20081116T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20081116T190000 DESCRIPTION:Fortnightly free film screening. Vegan soup & cakes from 4pm (donations for food appreciated). Film starts at 5. \n\nProvoked: A True Story (2006)\n\nProvoked is the journey of an emotionally\, psychologically and physically battered woman from the depths of despair to the glory and grace of emancipation. It is the true story of Kiranjit Ahluwalia\, a Punjabi woman who moved to London after her arranged marriage with Deepak Ahluwalia. Her husband soon began to subject her to violence and rape. He started drinking a lot and sleeping around with other women. He also prevented her getting the education she hoped for. In 1989\, after ten years and having two children with him\, out of fear\, she sets him on fire while he is sleeping\, two hours after another scene of domestic violence. He succumbs to the injuries and she is sentenced to prison for life for premeditated murder. However the Southall Black Sisters\, an NGO which fights against domestic violence gives her support and eventually wins her release after 3 1/2 years in jail.\n\nProvoked is very psychological\, when we first meet Kiranjit\, she is a woman of very little words\, so the audience has to do the extra work of reading meaning into her gestures\, expressions and angst. Her face implores the camera\, beckoning\, daring even for you put yourself in her shoes.\n\nA series of catastrophic events (stemming from corrupt police officials\, lazy barristers\, evil mother-in-law and shady witnesses just to mention a few) land Kiranjit in jail. If she decides to appeal\, what would be the grounds - as she herself believes that she has committed an unforgivable crime. It is in prison\, in this new kind of hell\, that she truly is liberated. This film shows the challenges faced in being a mother from within a cell\, battling innate customs and expectations to come out from within a shell and into the open\, not only to try and save oneself\, but to be a beacon of hope for many others in the same boat.\n\nIn jail\, she meets Veronica Scott (played by Miranda Richardson)\, her cell mate who becomes one of the best-friends and sort of a guardian angel who helps her find herself and achieve so much as an independent woman. Robbie Coltrane turns in a great performance as Kiranjit’s second barrister and Steve McFadden of Eastenders makes an appearance\n\nIt's bawdy\, it's brilliant\, it's gritty\, it's raw\, it's realistic and most importantly it does not glamorize the story it is telling.\n\n X-MOZ-GENERATION:4 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20081128T095130Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100728T044123Z DTSTAMP:20081128T095130Z UID:198089d7-1297-422a-b071-9202480e159a SUMMARY: Sunday Film & Food: About Schmidt RECURRENCE-ID;TZID=Europe/London:20081130T160000 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20081130T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20081130T190000 DESCRIPTION:Fortnightly free film screening. Vegan soup & cakes from 4pm (donations for food appreciated). Film starts at 5. \n\nABOUT SCHMIDT (2002)\n\nThe movie is an extremely stark\, black humour piece that is frighteningly true to life. About Schmidt is the story of a man left with the curious task of trying to find meaning in his life at age 66. Most people by this age would have hopefully figured out how and why they make a difference on this Earth\, but Warren Schmidt suddenly realizes he is insignificant after all these years. He feels his life has had no meaning...no purpose...and that nothing he has ever done has made a difference in the world. He is forced to re-evaluate his values and feelings which he expresses in letters to the African foster child he sends money to.\n\n \n\nWe see Schmidt sitting in his office on his last day of work before retirement from the Woodman insurance company. He sits alone and quietly waits until the last seconds of the work day tick off and he's then presumably a free man. However\, once the clock strikes five\, nothing special happens! In most films\, we might expect bells to go off\, or music to start playing as the character joyfully begins his new life. Not here. Schmidt has no grand plans for the rest of his life.\n\n \n\nJack Nicholson plays Warren Schmidt whose life crashes down on him when\, shortly after he retires\, he loses his wife of many years. Does he even know his wife? Even though they've been married for 42 years\, they are on different wave lengths.\n\n \n\nWarren\, being in his own world\, discovers a dark secret that challenges the happy memory of his wife. In one particularly touching scene\, he resolves to do one important thing before he leaves this earth. And that thing will be to break up his daughter's wedding. She is planning to marry a simpleton who sells water beds for a living and comes from an odd\, new-age family of losers. Schmidt drives out to Denver on a mission\, feeling as strong and focused as ever. He finds himself on a quest to make a difference in life before its over.\n\n \n\nNicholson gives his best performance since \"One flew over the cuckoos nest\". He has let his body age for the role\, which makes him even more real.\n\n \n\nKathy Bates was Oscar-nominated for her portrayal of Roberta Herzel.\n\n \n\nAt first\, this appears to be a comedy\, but it is soon revealed to be a beautifully poignant film. Throughout\, it questions mortality\, what you can achieve in life\, and how to cope with loss\, or change. Only in the film's last frame to we see any redemption to this tragic man's life. And a very touching moment it is\n\n \n\nAnd this is the film's premise: The American dream\, when realized\, can have little to do with happiness. Schmidt has yet to achieve contentment\, even after years of hard work and dedication. Eventually he will stumble upon it through his tears\, but not before he takes us for a hysterical ride in his RV with short stops at cynicism\, loneliness\, and desperation\, and finally home again to Omaha\, meaning\, and newly realized contentment.\n\n \n\nFor Jack Nicholson watchers\, just wait for the last sequence of the film after he gets home to understand we are watching is a lesson in acting. Warren Schmidt at last connects with reality in a manner that only this great actor only could. X-MOZ-GENERATION:5 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20081213T181858Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100728T044123Z DTSTAMP:20081213T181858Z UID:198089d7-1297-422a-b071-9202480e159a SUMMARY:Sunday Film & Food - \"Liberty for Us\" RECURRENCE-ID;TZID=Europe/London:20081214T160000 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20081214T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20081214T190000 DESCRIPTION:Fortnightly free film screening. Vegan soup & cakes from 4pm (donations for food appreciated). Film starts at 5. \n\nLIBERTY FOR US (RENE CLAIR 1931)\nTwo prisoners escape from custody and one reaches the top of the ladder while the other clings onto the bottom rung. Though initially the harshness of industrialisation keeps them poles apart\, they both come to realise that friendship and being honest to oneself is far more rewarding than any sort of financial gain. \n \nClair makes his feeling about capitalism clear by showing how the worker under the capitalist is as much a prisoner as the people locked in the jail. Both systems seek to stamp out or rigidly order humanity\, turn people into socially acceptable machines. With humanity so thoroughly contained\, it is not surprising that it should be a fundamental human emotion - love - that causes anarchic chaos in this system. \n \nThe film is a satirical comment\, almost a control experiment from one viewpoint\, focusing on the ideology of big business\, and in regard particularly to newly gestated industrial technology\, just how the individual is viewed as little more than a means to an end. A resource to be used and no more. Clair pulls no punches in portraying everyone who doesn't work on the shop floor as greedy capitalist schemers\, one sequence literally see the elite grasping for Francs strewn by the mounting storm. Clair also dabbles with the thought that wealth\, power\, and inanimate objects only bring trouble and disaster\, while having merely a few coins in your pocket will keep your friends closer. \n \nClair also links capitalism with criminality - the Big Boss in the film\, the man who engenders the new technocratic society\, who unites workers and the wealthy\, past (his own\, his friend\, his blackmailers)\, present and future (the new machines)\, is an escaped convict. Despite the rigid heaviness of the buildings and machines\, and the system they uphold\, the status quo is ultimately transitory and fragile. It's easy to climb the social ladder\, but just as easy to fall\, as Emile shows with remarkably good grace. No such system - and capitalism claims to be natural - can ever offer stability or genuine security for the exploiters who need it most: capitalism carries within itself the seeds of its own destruction. Clair is also canny or prescient in linking the new capitalism with emerging fascism throughout Europe - Emile's factory is ordered on crypto-military lines\, with uniforms\, symbols and leader's iconography.\n \nBut any political overtones are not so much that they interrupt with the comic narrative and the film merrily continues with its chases\, bottom-kicking and all manner of good-natured silliness. In addition to obvious social satire\, the movie itself takes the form of a light musical or operetta at one time\, and farcical Three Stooges madcap at another\, and winds up with the happy wanderers on the road again. \n\nThe humor betrays its thirties origins\, nevertheless at its core the observations made still hold true. \n \nThe premise of \"A Nous La Liberte\" was undoubtedly \"lifted\" and used by Chaplin in his revered MODERN TIMES. \n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20081001T154822Z LAST-MODIFIED:20081128T101703Z DTSTAMP:20081001T154822Z UID:dd488f3f-7bea-49f6-a9ef-e1817e7167de SUMMARY:POSTPONED - Turn it Down Gig STATUS:CANCELLED DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20081129T200000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20081129T235500 X-MOZ-GENERATION:1 DESCRIPTION:SORRY THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED - NEW DATE TO BE CONFIRMED\, POSSIBLY 6th Dec\n\nAn eclectic mix of local acts\, raising awareness of racial hate music in the UK & globally \n(proceeds donated to the social centre)\nhttp://turnitdown.newcomm.org/\n\n(TIMES TO BE CONFIRMED) END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20081001T155605Z LAST-MODIFIED:20081001T161140Z DTSTAMP:20081001T155605Z UID:bec194d8-b000-49bc-accf-5eebade2313a SUMMARY:Social Centre monthly meeting *CORRECT DATE* DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20081028T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20081028T213000 X-MOZ-GENERATION:1 DESCRIPTION:Monthly meeting organising development & use of the Liverpool Social Centre - anyone interested in being involved is welcome. The meeting is on the 4th Tuesday of every month. Entrance to the Liverpool Social Centre is next door to the bookshop\, ring the bell labelled 'basement'. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20081001T155748Z LAST-MODIFIED:20081001T160156Z DTSTAMP:20081001T155748Z UID:859bddad-f377-4bf8-8369-47c854d6dea5 SUMMARY:*NOTE RE: CALENDAR ERROR* DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20081027T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20081027T210000 DESCRIPTION:*CALENDAR ERROR*\nThe website calendar mistakenly shows the monthly social centre meeting this month to be Mon 27th when it is in fact Tues 28th. \n\nThe meeting has been re-entered on the correct day but the wrong date is also still showing on the calendar & we've not been able to remove it - sorry for any confusion. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20081017T122259Z LAST-MODIFIED:20081017T122643Z DTSTAMP:20081017T122259Z UID:c62aa0d8-7f62-4b3f-9a47-f29e74605e7d SUMMARY:Work Weekend DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20081025 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20081027 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DESCRIPTION:Continuing with work on improving the centre - come along if you can help. Various tasks to do\, no particular skills required but if you have relevant handy skills even better. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20081017T122714Z LAST-MODIFIED:20081017T123819Z DTSTAMP:20081017T122714Z UID:4cb22383-8901-4943-adc2-be4c93f327b7 SUMMARY:Merseyside CND group meeting ATTACH:http://www.mcnd.org.uk/ DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20081029T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20081029T203000 X-MOZ-GENERATION:1 DESCRIPTION:group meeting\n\nMerseyside CND info: http://www.mcnd.org.uk/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20081017T123100Z LAST-MODIFIED:20081017T123319Z DTSTAMP:20081017T123100Z UID:d5c3f1d4-7be1-469d-9e81-779a13654338 SUMMARY:Gender Violence in Guatemala - Film & Talk DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20081123T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20081123T190000 DESCRIPTION:AWOL feminist group presents a film about violence against women in Guatemala & a talk by a visiting speaker from Guatemala. \n\nFood from 4pm\, film/talk starts at 5pm END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20081017T123343Z LAST-MODIFIED:20081017T123928Z DTSTAMP:20081017T123343Z UID:e897d306-0756-420d-a3a3-797669cea121 SUMMARY:Buy Nothing Day Free Shop DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20081129T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20081129T150000 X-MOZ-GENERATION:2 DESCRIPTION:(Times to be confirmed)\n\nFree shop - bring things to give away!\n\nMore info about Buy Nothing Day:\nhttp: //www.buynothingday.co.uk/\n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20081001T154119Z LAST-MODIFIED:20081030T091721Z DTSTAMP:20081030T091717Z UID:5846bf6a-d95c-49f3-ab61-f3baa62b7840 SUMMARY: Punk Gig - Fundraiser for the social centre DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20081114T200000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20081114T235500 X-MOZ-GENERATION:1 DESCRIPTION:A benefit for the social centre (TIME TO BE CONFIRMED)\n\n- folk-punk band Fake Problems\, from Florida\n- pop-punk band All Or Nothing\, from Birmingham\n- local folk-punk band Just Panic \n- local band The City Rats. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20081030T092345Z LAST-MODIFIED:20081115T093658Z DTSTAMP:20081030T092345Z UID:10d5355d-beeb-4b98-8f50-bfc071de793e SUMMARY:POSTPONED - Jethro McDonald - Acoustic Folk & Storytelling - (TIME TBC) DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20081121T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20081121T220000 X-MOZ-GENERATION:2 DESCRIPTION:SORRY\, THIS EVENT IS POSTPONED TO 24th NOVEMBER\n------------------------------------\n(TIMES TO BE CONFIRMED)\n\nJethro McDonald is a leftfield acoustic folk singer & storyteller - his material can be heard at http://www.myspace.com/jetfly and http:// www.myspace.com/pencilsnap END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20080906T130547Z LAST-MODIFIED:20081030T104247Z DTSTAMP:20081030T104036Z UID:ce76de90-4f13-424e-8629-5a061fd30fbf SUMMARY:L'pool Freedom of Expression meeting PRIORITY:0 CLASS:PUBLIC DTSTART;TZID=Atlantic/Canary:20081104T193000 DTEND;TZID=Atlantic/Canary:20081104T210000 X-MOZ-GENERATION:5 DESCRIPTION:Meeting to continue co-ordinating the defence of the right to campaign & protest in Liverpool city centre\, in the wake of harrassment of activists & campaign stalls. \n\nMore info: research@catalystmedia.org.uk \n\n(meeting in the main room)\n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20081112T171744Z LAST-MODIFIED:20081112T172005Z DTSTAMP:20081112T171744Z UID:bcd8dce3-663c-4508-9e63-a92d33e569a5 SUMMARY:Buy Nothing Day Meeting DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20081115T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20081115T210000 DESCRIPTION:Preparing for Buy Nothing Day (Sat 29th Nov) - all welcome\n\nfor anyone interested in gettin involved\, need people to source items\, collect & deliver\, ideas storm & discussion on pros/cons of bnd\n\nhttp://www.buynothingday.co.uk/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20081112T172718Z LAST-MODIFIED:20081112T172913Z DTSTAMP:20081112T172718Z UID:160adabb-42c2-4c62-b4c3-1f29796b7095 SUMMARY:Setting up for Buy Nothing Day DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20081128T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20081128T180000 DESCRIPTION:Help transform the social centre into a commercialism-free zone for Buy Nothing Day on Sat 29th. Collecting & preparing food\, skipping-run\, banner-making etc.\n\nhttp://www.buynothingday.co.uk/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20081112T173423Z LAST-MODIFIED:20081128T100649Z DTSTAMP:20081112T173423Z UID:3437df69-7b46-43ab-a1cb-dbacf765a424 SUMMARY:Film - When The Wind Blows - presented by Merseyside CND DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20081207T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20081207T200000 X-MOZ-GENERATION:1 DESCRIPTION:Merseyside CND present the classic animated film\, When The Wind Blows\, a powerful and affecting film about ordinary people struggling on in the aftermath of a nuclear attack.\n\nhttp: //www.mcnd.org.uk/ mcnd@care4free.net \n\nWHEN THE WIND BLOWS \n\nThere's going to be a war\, and Jim and Hilda Bloggs intend to prepare for it with the aid of official government guidelines. Their plucky spirit and stiff upper lip helped defeat the Nazis. Now they'll do it again. Only\, this is a different kind of war altogether\, fought at a distance\, by an unseen enemy\, with terrifying consequences. And sadly for Jim and Hilda\, no amount of camaraderie or steadfastness can defeat it...\n\nThis is TVC's adaptation of Raymond Briggs' courageous picture book. The original work was a tough read\, produced at the height of the Cold War with Ronnie Reagan's finger hovering over the Big Red Button and our own government issuing woefully inept documentation to steer us all through the effects of nuclear war. If anything\, the animated version is even tougher than the book. The filmmakers animate the Bloggs in traditional cel form\, overlaying them against a blend of three-dimensional sets and photo-art backgrounds which heightens the surreal reality of the Bloggs' decline. Their escapist thoughts are presented in free-flowing sequences\, their wedding memories are a sepia vignette. What a contrast with the reality of their situation. Their bright little home has the colour blown out of it\, a grey mist descends\, and their own cheery faces mottle and turn like time-lapsed fruit.\n\n Critics appear to be united about the film's impact and integrity\, whilst directing any criticism at its lack of commercial prospects. They're probably right. But this was never conceived as a Disney film. There are no Happy Ever Afters here\, no fluffy sidekicks to deflect the mood. The Bloggs are dying\, and we're going to watch them die. The fact that it's two 'sweet' hand-drawn and painted cartoon characters being subjected to these horrors makes it even more affecting.\n\nJim and Hilda take to their makeshift shelter. They get sick. They get lesions. Their hair falls out. But right up to the end they never once complain. Their optimistic belief that The Powers That Be will see them through is heartbreaking to watch. But the film makers don't want us to be too sad or sentimental for these two old-timers. Roger Waters' bitter score urges us to respond\, to reproach the authorities who let this happen. For this is supposed to be a warning - as that edgy title track from David Bowie says - this is what will happen\, when the wind blows... END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20081112T173958Z LAST-MODIFIED:20081112T174047Z DTSTAMP:20081112T173958Z UID:608bbd60-dc45-4558-8d0b-61ad2b21894f SUMMARY:Planning meeting for Vegan Xmas Fayre - TIMES TO BE CONFIRMED DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20081118T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20081118T210000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20080416T163729Z LAST-MODIFIED:20081112T175017Z DTSTAMP:20081112T174911Z UID:23a3a362-4cf6-4fc3-afc9-a3cfa977d90f SUMMARY:Amicus Merseyside Gazette Group meeting DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20081126T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20081126T203000 URL:http://www.amicusunitygazette.org.uk/ X-MOZ-GENERATION:5 DESCRIPTION:Meeting for Merseyside members of Amicus broad left group END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20081030T092345Z LAST-MODIFIED:20081115T090758Z DTSTAMP:20081115T090610Z UID:2db98b7e-5494-4d54-897f-69b1943da628 SUMMARY:Jethro McDonald - Acoustic Folk & Storytelling DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20081124T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20081124T220000 X-MOZ-GENERATION:2 DESCRIPTION:Jethro McDonald is a leftfield acoustic folk singer & storyteller - his material can be heard at http://www.myspace.com/jetfly and http:// www.myspace.com/pencilsnap\n\nall welcome - entry by donation END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20081115T092057Z LAST-MODIFIED:20081115T093515Z DTSTAMP:20081115T092057Z UID:125e16e6-5fc9-4955-b83a-f4a7923211e9 SUMMARY:Film: Taking Liberties DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20081122T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20081122T213000 DESCRIPTION:Liverpool Defy ID and NO2ID present a free screening of the documentary \"Taking Liberties\" - all welcome\nhttp: //www.noliberties.com/ \n\nFILM SYNOPSIS\nThe shocking truth about the erosion of our fundamental civil liberties by Tony Blair’s government is exposed in TAKING LIBERTIES\n\nRight to Protest\, Right to Freedom of Speech. Right to Privacy. Right not to be detained without charge\, Innocent Until Proven Guilty. Prohibition from Torture. TAKING LIBERTIES will reveal how these six central pillars of liberty have been systematically destroyed by New Labour\, and the freedoms of the British people stolen from under their noses amidst a climate of fear created by the media and government itself.\n\nTAKING LIBERTIES uncovers the stories the government don’t want you to hear – so ridiculous you will laugh\, so ultimately terrifying you will want to take action. Teenage sisters detained for 36 hours for a peaceful protest\; an RAF war veteran arrested for wearing an anti-Bush and Blair T-shirt\; an innocent man shot in a police raid\; and a man held under house arrest for two years\, after being found innocent in court. Ordinary law-abiding citizens being punished for exercising their ‘rights’ – rights that have been fought for over centuries\, and which seem to have been extinguished in a decade.\n\nIrreverent but revelatory\, outrageous but true\, TAKING LIBERTIES combines these real stories of liberty loss with never-seen-before footage\, cheeky stunts and comment from Mark Thomas\, leading politicians\, celebrities\, human rights organisations\, academics and lawyers. Narration from Ashley Jensen (EXTRAS\, UGLY BETTY)\; a pumping soundtrack with tracks by Oasis\, Radiohead\, Stranglers and Franz Ferdinand\; and the presence of Kurt Engfehr\, producer of FAHRENHEIT 9/11 and BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE add up to make TAKING LIBERTIES the most explosive and controversial film to hit screens.\n\n\n\n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20081128T104857Z LAST-MODIFIED:20081128T112147Z DTSTAMP:20081128T104857Z UID:b3e8feb5-af41-4121-b41d-90ff8781e0d3 SUMMARY:Guerilla Gardening for Clowns - 2 day workshop (TIMES & DETAILS TO BE ADDED) RRULE:FREQ=DAILY;UNTIL=20081214T110000Z;INTERVAL=1 EXDATE:20081214T110000Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20081213T110000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20081213T160000 X-MOZ-GENERATION:2 DESCRIPTION:(TIMES & DETAILS TO BE ADDED) END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20081209T133419Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100728T044123Z DTSTAMP:20081209T133419Z UID:b3e8feb5-af41-4121-b41d-90ff8781e0d3 SUMMARY:Guerilla Gardening for Clowns - 2 day workshop RECURRENCE-ID;TZID=Europe/London:20081213T110000 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20081213T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20081213T180000 DESCRIPTION:The world of permaculture meets rebel clowning.\n\nThis is a two-day workshop where people can learn the ancient art of clowning and methods of direct action in the context of permaculture design.\n\nWhere and When\nSaturday 13th and Sunday 14th December\nNext to Nowhere Social Centre\, 96 Bold Street\, Liverpool\, L1 4HY\n10am to 6pm Saturday & 10am to 4pm Sunday\n\nThe intention is threefold.\n1. Exploring ways to reclaim a sense of community and openness with each other\, fostering group intelligence.\n2. Reclaiming our bodies\, spontaneity and natural creativity through clowning.\n3. Reclaiming land on a local scale and beginning a community garden somewhere in Liverpool using plants\, trees and seeds reclaimed from land that is being built on.\n\nWe will be working with games and exercises involving rebel clowning as well as permaculture design and guerilla gardening.\n\nWho is facilitating the workshop\nI have facilitated some 30 or so workshops in clowning and taken part in numerous workshops in fooling (which has given me a wealth of experience working with people creatively in groups). I have also taken part in a permaculture design course.\n\nThe workshop is run on a donations basis. Please donate what you feel the cost of such a workshop would normally be - obviously within the limits of what you feel you can afford.\n\nIf you are coming to the workshop\, please email me on\nkugi@rebelclown.net to let me know so I have some idea of the number of people who will be turning up.\n\nAlso\, please bring food to share for lunch. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20081213T181139Z LAST-MODIFIED:20081213T182134Z DTSTAMP:20081213T181139Z UID:1e92d4fb-9f8b-49e9-9615-f5f608eafd8e SUMMARY:Next to Nowhere Festive Social DTSTART;TZID=Atlantic/Canary:20081223T203000 DTEND;TZID=Atlantic/Canary:20081223T235500 DESCRIPTION:Xmas party for social centre users & volunteers. Bring your own booze\, vegan food to share if you have the time to make and/or money to buy (doesn't have to be homemade) and your favourite music to have a boogie to :-) \n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20081213T181405Z LAST-MODIFIED:20081213T181511Z DTSTAMP:20081213T181405Z UID:10a8a796-3bdb-47ca-adc5-4f2b69053c8d SUMMARY:Merseyside Animal Rights Seasonal Social DTSTART;TZID=Atlantic/Canary:20081219T193000 DTEND;TZID=Atlantic/Canary:20081219T235500 DESCRIPTION:Merseyside Animal Rights Group party. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20081017T122714Z LAST-MODIFIED:20081213T182049Z DTSTAMP:20081213T182032Z UID:ba1690ff-c426-45eb-93b3-e3d7915b05f4 SUMMARY:Merseyside CND group meeting ATTACH:http://www.mcnd.org.uk/ DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20090128T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20090128T200000 X-MOZ-GENERATION:1 DESCRIPTION:group meeting\n\nMerseyside CND info: http://www.mcnd.org.uk/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20090214T092130Z LAST-MODIFIED:20090304T164730Z DTSTAMP:20090304T164730Z UID:04651919-cbee-479b-8741-4f6073cea993 SUMMARY:Critical Mass Film Night: \"The Flying Scotsman\" (2006) PRIORITY:0 CLASS:PUBLIC DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20090313T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20090313T220000 DESCRIPTION:After this month's Critical Mass bike ride (meet at the Chinese Arch\, Berry St at 6pm\, 2nd Friday of the month) to go for a mass cycle ride - to promote cycling\, reclaim the road\, or just for the fun of it)\, come to the social centre for an cycling themed film night:\n\nFilm: The Flying Scotsman 2006\n\nThe Flying Scotsman is the true story of Graeme Obree\, who built his own bike out of scrap metal and a washing machine\, and took on Chris Boardman to win the Track World Cup in 1993. Cycling's governing bodies didn't like a winner using bike that didn't cost thousands of pounds and went after him with all the rules and regulations they could think up. The film follows his achievements\, battles with the UCI and also with his own personal daemons. Not purely a sports film\, which will be enjoyed by cyclists and non-cyclists alike.\nhttp://www.liverpoolcm.org.uk\n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20090219T203927Z LAST-MODIFIED:20090304T164832Z DTSTAMP:20090304T164832Z UID:d62af449-5720-43a0-867b-8a68894c831a SUMMARY:Documentary Film Night: \"Manufactured Landscapes\" PRIORITY:0 CLASS:PUBLIC DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20090312T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20090312T220000 DESCRIPTION:A new regular film night. Free entry\, all welcome. Teas & coffees available by donation\n\nMANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES (2006) is the striking documentary on the world and work of renowned artist Edward Burtynsky. Internationally acclaimed for his large-scale photographs of “manufactured landscapes”—quarries\, recycling yards\, factories\, mines and dams—Burtynsky creates stunningly beautiful art from civilization’s materials and debris. The film follows him through China\, as he shoots the evidence and effects of that country’s massive industrial revolution. With breathtaking sequences\, such as the opening tracking shot through an almost endless factory\, the filmmakers also extend the narratives of Burtynsky’s photographs\, allowing us to meditate on our impact on the planet and witness both the epicenters of industrial endeavor and the dumping grounds of its waste.\n\nIn the spirit of such environmentally enlightening sleeper-hits as AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH and RIVERS AND TIDES\, MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES powerfully shifts our consciousness about the world and the way we live in it\, without simplistic judgments or reductive resolutions.\n\nAWARDS\nBest Documentary Feature - Toronto Film Critics Association\nBest Canadian Feature - Toronto Film Critics Association\nBest Canadian Feature - Toronto Film Festival\nBest Documentary - Genie Awards\n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20090304T165051Z LAST-MODIFIED:20090304T165204Z DTSTAMP:20090304T165204Z UID:faaea01a-c9ba-4182-b21d-10844799a1ba SUMMARY:Intro to Housing Co-ops - plus food\, music & a quiz PRIORITY:0 CLASS:PUBLIC DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20090306T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20090306T230000 DESCRIPTION:Social living is the best! \n Dinner\, Quiz Music and an intro to housing co-ops\, why and how. Raising funds for\nthe Liverpool Sustainable communities group. All welcome. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20090318T173744Z LAST-MODIFIED:20090318T174337Z DTSTAMP:20090318T174337Z UID:acb1b897-1b4a-42d2-af3d-555c2e1f6048 SUMMARY:Film & Discussion on the work of Alan Watt: \"Reality Check Part One\" PRIORITY:0 CLASS:PUBLIC DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20090320T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20090320T220000 DESCRIPTION:Discussing the work of Alan Watt\, the \"thinking person's David Icke\" & showing his video \"Reality Check Part One\". All welcome.\n\nhttp://www.cuttingthroughthematrix.com/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20090318T174351Z LAST-MODIFIED:20090318T174448Z DTSTAMP:20090318T174448Z UID:08ec6d19-5994-4f17-a422-8130d9ebe23d SUMMARY:Sustainable Communities group meeting PRIORITY:0 CLASS:PUBLIC DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20090330T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20090330T190000 DESCRIPTION:Open to new people interested in being in a housing co-op. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20090219T203927Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100707T100717Z DTSTAMP:20090401T134446Z UID:7c4e4e72-38a3-4969-90bb-eeaea4a5d83a SUMMARY:Documentary Film Night PRIORITY:0 CLASS:PUBLIC RRULE:FREQ=MONTHLY;INTERVAL=1;BYDAY=2TH EXDATE:20091112T200000Z EXDATE:20091210T200000Z EXDATE:20100114T200000Z EXDATE:20100211T200000Z EXDATE:20100311T200000Z EXDATE:20100408T190000Z EXDATE:20100513T190000Z EXDATE:20100610T190000Z EXDATE:20100708T190000Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20090409T200000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20090409T223000 X-MOZ-GENERATION:25 DESCRIPTION:Regular film night\, 2nd & 4th Tuesdays of the month. Free entry\, all welcome. Teas & coffees available by donation\n\n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20090401T134548Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100728T044123Z DTSTAMP:20090401T134548Z UID:7c4e4e72-38a3-4969-90bb-eeaea4a5d83a SUMMARY:Documentary Film Night: \"Sir! No Sir\" PRIORITY:0 CLASS:PUBLIC RECURRENCE-ID;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20090409T200000 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20090409T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20090409T220000 DESCRIPTION:A new regular film night. Free entry\, all welcome. Teas & coffees available by donation\n\n\"SIR! NO SIR!\" (2005)\n\nTells the long suppressed story of the GI movement to end the war in Vietnam. This is the story of one of the most vibrant and widespread upheavals of the 1960’s- one that had a profound impact on American society yet has been virtually obliterated from the collective memory of that time.\n\nhttp: //www.sirnosir.com/\n X-MOZ-GENERATION:3 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20090509T161209Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100728T044123Z DTSTAMP:20090509T161209Z UID:7c4e4e72-38a3-4969-90bb-eeaea4a5d83a SUMMARY:Documentary Film Night: \"Girls Rock!\" PRIORITY:0 CLASS:PUBLIC RECURRENCE-ID;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20090514T200000 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20090514T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20090514T220000 DESCRIPTION:A new regular film night\, 2nd & 4th Tuesdays of the month. Free entry\, all welcome. Teas & coffees available by donation\n\nTonight: GIRLS ROCK! (2007) (89 mins)\n\nAt Rock 'n' Roll Camp\, girls ranging in age from eight to 18 are taught that it's OK to sweat like a pig\, scream like a banshee\, wail on their instruments with complete and utter abandon\, and that \"it is 100% okay to be exactly who you are.\" The girls have a week to select a band\, an instrument they may have never played before\, and write a song. In between\, they are taught by indie rock chicks such as Carrie Brownstein from Sleater-Kinney various lessons of empowerment from self-defense to anger management. At the end of the week\, all the bands perform a concert for over 700 people. The film follows several campers: Laura\, a Korean adoptee obsessed by death metal\; Misty\, who is emerging from a life of meth addiction\, homelessness and gang activity\; and Amelia\, an eight-year-old who writes experimental rock songs about her dog Pipi. What happens to the girls as they are given a temporary reprieve from being sexualized\, analyzed and pressured to conform is truly moving and revolutionary.\n\n(If you're thinking of bringing young people & were wondering about the rating\, it's rated PG - \"for themes & language\")\n\n\n X-MOZ-GENERATION:4 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20090607T195109Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100728T044123Z DTSTAMP:20090607T195439Z UID:7c4e4e72-38a3-4969-90bb-eeaea4a5d83a SUMMARY:Documentary Film Night: \"CHILDREN OF THE CLOUDS\" - Occupied Western Sahara - film and discussion PRIORITY:0 CLASS:PUBLIC RECURRENCE-ID;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20090611T200000 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20090611T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20090611T220000 DESCRIPTION:A regular film night\, 2nd & 4th Tuesdays of the month. Free entry\, all welcome. Teas & coffees available by donation\n\nFilm and discussion on the subject of Morocco's repression of\nthe Sahrawi people in the occupied territories of Western Sahara. There will be the\nopportunity to ask questions about this little-known subject. \n\n\nCHILDREN OF THE CLOUDS (HIJOS DE LAS NUBES)\n\nA documentary by Carlos Gonzalez about Morocco's campaign of repression against Sahrawi students in the occupied territories of Western Sahara.\n\n \n\nThe film explains the situation that exists in the occupied area of the Western Sahara. It shows the repression in the occupied towns and the military state controlling the Sahrawi people in their homes\, in the streets\, in the schools\, the lack of information\, etc. It shows 34 years of suffering\, war\, exile and anonymity and contains secretly filmed footage of the Moroccan police violently suppressing any suggestion of dissent.\n\n \n\nIn the past few years\, many Sahrawis\, especially youth and students\, have been subject to systematic human rights violations committed by the Moroccan authorities simply because they demanded a basic human right: self-determination. \n\nIn May 2005\, after 30 years of Moroccan occupation\, Sahrawi students initiated a series of peaceful demonstrations demanding their right to the United Nations-mandated referendum on Western Saharan independence. The Moroccan authorities responded with a brutal campaign of repression\, detaining and torturing human rights activists as well as Saharawi students and children as young as eight years\n\n \n\nOne year after the Intifada began\, Carlos González travels to El Aaiún (Layoune)\, Western Sahara\, to make a documentary about the wave of oppression unleashed on Sahrawi students by Moroccan security forces. Unfortunately\, very few people have been able to cover the actual situation as reporters. Accompanied on his journey by human rights activist Hmad Hammad\, Carlos interviews students and activists about their experiences living under occupation—but not without interference. Put under\nsurveillance by the Moroccan police shortly after his arrival in El Aaiún\, he is eventually detained\, interrogated for eight hours\, and expelled from the Western Sahara. On June 6th\, the Assabah newspaper of Casablanca publishes a fabricated confession in which Carlos admits to being an agent of Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20090706T065652Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100728T044124Z DTSTAMP:20090706T065652Z UID:7c4e4e72-38a3-4969-90bb-eeaea4a5d83a SUMMARY:Documentary Film Night: \"Bus 174\" PRIORITY:0 CLASS:PUBLIC RECURRENCE-ID;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20090709T200000 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20090709T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20090709T220000 DESCRIPTION:A regular film night\, 2nd & 4th Tuesdays of the month. Free entry\, all welcome. Teas & coffees available by donation\n\nBUS 174 (2002)\n\nOn June 12\, 2000 Sandro de Nascimento stepped onto a bus in Rio de Janeiro\, brandished a handgun and demanded money from its patrons. It was just another day in Rio. Well\, it was\, until an unnecessarily prompt response time by police turned the simple robbery into a complex hostage situation destined to be botched through incompetence. Toss in virtually unrestricted media coverage throughout the five-hour ordeal and what followed was a sequence of dramatized misfortunes to rival the wet dreams of any reality TV producer.\n\nBus 174\, is a documentary by Jose Padilha\, focusing on the \"how's\" and \"why's\" of the avoidable tragedy that was this day-long fiasco. Padilha inter-cuts the events of June 12 with the story of Sandro's life as a doomed street kid shunned from society. In so doing\, Padilha addresses that age-old ideological argument of nurture vs nature. Did Sandro instigate the events leading to this tragedy of police incompetence simply because it was bred into him? Or might there be more to the story?\n\nUsing original footage from Global TV and interviews with former hostages\, friends and relatives of the hijacker\, sociologists\, and police who participated in the standoff\, Padilha focuses not only on the events as they took place but on the circumstances that may have triggered it. Padilha said in an interview\, \"There was a lot of press coverage\, but it was cloudy\, it wasn't complete. It was focused on the police\, and on the political side of the issue. I felt like I was missing something\, I was missing the hijacker.\" What he finds does not justify Sandro's actions\, but makes them more comprehensible. Padilha reveals that Sandro\, at age 6\, witnessed his mother being stabbed to death in a robbery.\n\nUnable to come to grips emotionally with the tragedy\, he became a street kid in the Copacabana area. By the time of the hijacking\, Sandro had been in prisons and juvenile detention centres where\, according to Padilha\, inmates are regularly brutalized. In 1993\, he was involved in an incident in front of the Candelaria Church where he often slept in which plainclothes policemen intentionally gunned down eight street children\, many who were his friends\, an incident Sandro recalls emotionally when shouting at the police from inside the bus.\n\nAnd so we are told the story of a child who was destined for a life on the streets where crime is simply a means of survival. We are told of the socio-economical issues in Brazil\, where its class system has divided the nation to a point where the rich ignore the poor (unless it's to drop slabs of rock on their heads while they sleep). We are told of a government whose brutal attitude towards street kids helped instigate the Candelaria massacres (where Sandro again got to witness the slaying of the people he called family). And we are told of a penal system so inhumane and violent\, people would rather die than go to jail. What we are told is that violence begets violence.\n\nThousands of homeless children walk the streets and are systematically murdered by police and people who are aggravated by their presence. To many people\, killing off the homeless children is the only solution to a staggering social problem.\n\n\"We treat those kids as though they are invisible\,\" Padilha says. \"They're always trying to get your attention\, to get your money. And they realized they could get your attention through violence\, because violence attracts the media.\" Bus 174 attracts our attention immediately and the tension is palpable until its moving conclusion. Like City of God\, Bus 174 does not provide any solutions but shines some light on a problem many would prefer to keep hidden\, perhaps in the process making the invisible a little less so.\n\nThe film also reveals the connection many of the hostages felt for their tormentor\, though deeply afraid for their lives. Some felt that they were participating in a made for TV movie because of the times Sandro would tell them to pretend that they were in danger\, although he yells at the police that \"this ain't no action movie but some serious shit\".\n\nThe opening sequence is especially powerful and revealing: it's one uninterrupted aerial shot of Rio's beautiful shoreline\, leading to the imposing mansions of the wealthy\, then up to the forest on top of Vidigal hill -- and suddenly the camera tilts downwards and\, like a punch in the jaw\, we see the immense favela of Rocinha\, the largest in Latin America\, with some 200\,000 inhabitants -- all of that part of the same neighbourhood\, high-profile wealth and destitute poverty co-existing side by side\, sharing the same few square miles.\n\nWe are not force-fed opinions and told what to believe\, nor is Sandro portrayed as some sort of martyr for equal-rights\, we are simply given the full story and are then left to draw our own conclusions.\n\nThe movie condemns Brazil's society for creating Sandro\, then ignoring him\, and then punishing him brutally when he breaks the law. It's the kids against the police\, and the police are just adult versions of the kids: poor\, desperate angry males given a job with no training.\n\nThe system can't cope and nothing is more emphasized than a telling of Brazil’s prison system. The filmmakers decide to visit a prison where they overexpose the film showing nothing but a glaring white with grey outlines of the objects involved. A caption simply reads\, ‘any prison in Rio'. Prisoners are interviewed\, telling of the horrific conditions they are in\, but they are nonetheless in this whitewash already dead. It's as if the camera shows that their souls have been taken.\n\nThere is no doubt Sandro realized what was awaiting him. He knew he could not escape fate\, no matter what. But in his brief countrywide televised coverage\, eventually global\, he stuck a middle finger to all of Brazilian life\, that this tragic street kid\, born of violence\, ignored in life\, would not be denied attention in death\, that his ultimate personal victory was that people knew he was alive\, that he breathed\, that he lived\, just before he died at the hands of police.\n\nBut the stark clarity of the contrast in Rio society is revealed at the end with a pauper's grave greeting the simple coffin\, pushed by a grave digger\, with one person in mourning. Along the crude furrows\, the newest resident is set along all the crammed rows of anonymous wooden crosses. No names are recorded\, as no lives here are even noted. Just for a few brief hours\, Sandro escaped his anonymity but eventually\, as in all Rio's street lives\, invisibility returns\, and descends into permanence.\n\nDo not watch this if you're in search of light entertainment! On the other hand\, if you want to know a little bit about what it's like to live in a big city in the Third World -- where the rich and the poor are simultaneously so close (geographically) and far apart (in human and social rights) at the same time -- don't miss it!! X-MOZ-GENERATION:6 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20090813T111917Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100728T044124Z DTSTAMP:20090813T111917Z UID:7c4e4e72-38a3-4969-90bb-eeaea4a5d83a SUMMARY:Documentary Film Night: \"Crass - There is No Authority But Yourself\" PRIORITY:0 CLASS:PUBLIC RECURRENCE-ID;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20090813T200000 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20090813T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20090813T220000 DESCRIPTION:A new regular film night\, 2nd & 4th Tuesdays of the month. Free entry\, all welcome. Teas & coffees available by donation\n\nTHERE IS NO AUTHORITY BUT YOURSELF (2006)\n\nThere Is No Authority But Yourself is a Dutch film directed by Alexander Oey documenting the history of anarchist punk band Crass. The film features archive footage of the band and interviews with former members Steve Ignorant\, Penny Rimbaud and Gee Vaucher. As well as reflecting on the band's past the film focuses on their current activities\, and includes footage of Rimbaud performing with Last Amendment at the Vortex jazz club in Hackney\, a compost toilet building workshop and a permaculture course held at Dial House in the spring of 2006.\n \nThe title of the film is derived from the final lines of the Crass album Yes Sir\, I Will\; \"You must learn to live with your own conscience\, your own morality\, your own decision\, your own self. You alone can do it. There is no authority but yourself.\"\n \nCrass were an English punk band\, formed in 1977\, which promoted anarchism as a political ideology\, way of living\, and as a resistance movement. Crass popularized the seminal anarcho-punk movement of the punk subculture\, and advocated direct action\, animal rights\, and environmentalism. The band both utilised and advocated a \"DIY\" approach\, producing sound collages\, graphics\, albums and films. Crass also criticized and attempted to subvert the dominant culture with messages promoting feminism\, anti-racism\, anti-war\, and anti-globalization.\n \n\nThe anarchist punk band Crass was very different from their contemporaries. The Sex Pistols and The Clash sold their souls to big record labels\, whereas Crass stayed true to their anti-corporate ideals. Crass still exists today as a commune just outside of London named 'Dial House'- a safe haven for those individuals of principle who still live by the old punk slogan 'Do it yourself'\n\n \n\nCrass practiced their \"direct action\" philosophy by spray-painting stencilled graffiti messages around the London Underground system and on advertising billboards\, coordinating squats\, and organising political action. The band also expressed its ideals by dressing in black\, military surplus-style clothing and using a stage backdrop which amalgamated several \"icons of authority\" (including the Christian Cross\, the swastika and the Union Flag) and an Ouroboros.\n \n\nThe band were critical of the punk movement itself\, as well as wider youth culture in general. Crass promoted the type of anarcho-pacifism that eventually became more common in the punk music scene. They are also considered part of the art punk genre due to their use of tape collages\, graphics\, spoken word releases\, poetry and improvisation. \n\n \n\n\n X-MOZ-GENERATION:9 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20090902T161146Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100728T044124Z DTSTAMP:20090902T161146Z UID:7c4e4e72-38a3-4969-90bb-eeaea4a5d83a SUMMARY:Documentary Night: SHAC Fundraiser PRIORITY:0 CLASS:PUBLIC RECURRENCE-ID;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20090910T200000 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20090910T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20090910T220000 DESCRIPTION:Fund-Raiser for Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC)\n\nDocumentary: Time for Action - History in the Making\n\nSoup and cakes served from 7pm. Documentary Starts 8pm\n\n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20091007T214038Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100728T044124Z DTSTAMP:20091007T214038Z UID:7c4e4e72-38a3-4969-90bb-eeaea4a5d83a SUMMARY:Documentary Film Night: \"Harlan County\" PRIORITY:0 CLASS:PUBLIC RECURRENCE-ID;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20091008T200000 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20091008T200000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20091008T223000 DESCRIPTION:Thursday Documentary Night at Liverpool Social Centre (Next To Nowhere\, 96 Bold St) this week features the Oscar-winning 'Harlan County USA' starting at 8pm. Free entry and all welcome. Hope to see you there!\n \n\nHARLAN COUNTY USA (BARBARA KOPPLE 1976)\n\nCovering the efforts of 180 coal miners in Harlan County\, Kentucky in 1973 who went on strike for safer working conditions\, fair labour practices\, and decent wages\, while living without basics like running water. The film crew spent years with the families in the film and captured incredible footage of all the drama & tension\, and the pivotal role played by the women of the community\n\n \n\nFlorence Reece makes a key appearance in the movie. Old as she is — she remembers when Harlan County was known as \"Bloody Harlan\" in the days of the Great Depression — Florence delivers a touching\, throaty rendition of her most famous labour song\, \"Which Side Are You On?\"\n \n\nThe sense of dread and danger of Harlan County USA elevates it to a whole new level\, making it perhaps the most watchable documentary ever made as well - its tense subject matter and the incredible footage captured by Kopple and her crew make it play as a feature film. Kopple's intimate participatory style makes the film even more poignant. The film crew was there with the strikers\, amidst the bullets and beatings\, at one point being singled out for attack and were beaten by the mining company militants. That they were there meant that they got some absolutely incredible footage\, such as the scene described above\, and when they catch the main strike breaker pointing his gun at them on film.\n\nHarlan County USA is also an important social document\, now housed in the national film registry for preservation. Scenes such as children being washed in buckets\, in the 1970s\, in the \"beacon of freedom and democracy\" the USA\, really get beyond the rhetoric and show how the government and the big business agenda often trumps the rights of workers - its about maximizing profits not lives\n\n \n\nWhat's so great about Harlan County USA?\n\n* The clarity of the portrayal of the grotesque power of monopoly capital\n* The way Kopple and crew are right in there\, every day\, every night - totally committed to the struggle\, not just observers They're not your back to the city at 5pm chroniclers - they're in there for the long haul.\n* The way that representatives of Duke Power so eloquently state their sheer nastiness and lack of basic humanity\n* The evocative portrayal of the tensions amongst the strikers and the ebbs and flows of enthusiasm\, optimism\, despair\, pessimism\, solidarity\, and opportunism.\n* The way it captures the dimension of violence in US labour relations - in the land of the gun.\n* The emergence of strong women and the pivotal role they played.\n* The haunting music of Hazel Dickens.\n* The moving songs of black-lung affected Nimrod Workman.\n* The dramatic juxtaposition of the beauty of the woods and hollows and the grinding poverty and deplorable living conditions.\n* The broader chronicling of the conditions in the \"Other America\".\n* The trip to New York to put their case and a great conversation between a Kentucky miner and a police officer.\n\nAbove all this is a film that can inspire the powerless to take on the mighty - because working people do have tremendous bargaining power\, if they stay resilient and united.\n\n\n X-MOZ-GENERATION:10 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20090318T174351Z LAST-MODIFIED:20090401T135925Z DTSTAMP:20090401T135905Z UID:6e9a0940-3dc5-4a71-99f7-d97374a13642 SUMMARY:Sustainable Communities group meeting PRIORITY:0 CLASS:PUBLIC DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20090427T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20090427T190000 X-MOZ-GENERATION:1 DESCRIPTION:Open to new people interested in being in a housing co-op. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20090401T140023Z LAST-MODIFIED:20090401T140238Z DTSTAMP:20090401T140023Z UID:b4265052-d0aa-42b0-adc3-baffac844424 SUMMARY:Merseyside Animal Rights Fundraiser Meal (TIMES & DETAILS TO FOLLOW) DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20090417T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20090417T230000 DESCRIPTION:Vegan meal fundraiser - entry will be by ticket in advance\n\nACTUAL TIMES & DETAILS TO BE CONFIRMED END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20090401T141629Z LAST-MODIFIED:20090607T200818Z DTSTAMP:20090607T200818Z UID:c7bfced9-1997-4883-a3b2-2db47db2b545 SUMMARY:Anarchist Hip Hop: Entartete Kunst (USA) + The Edger (UK) + The Dub Droids PRIORITY:0 CLASS:PUBLIC DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20090608T200000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20090608T235500 DESCRIPTION:CRUNCH THE CREDITORS TOUR - anarchist hip hop from both sides of the atlantic in Liverpool for one night only. Pure class (war) !ENTARTETE KUNST are a musical collective from San Francisco who produce and distribute hip-hop\, various electronic stylings and radical literature\, that promote class consciousness and the ideas of anarchism.\n\nThey have released 20 cds and records over the past few years.\n\nThey are bring two of their finest acts...\n\nAtmospheric and intelligent hip hop - check em out..\n\nDROWNING DOG http: //www.myspace.com/drowningdog\nnd DJ MALATESTA http: //www.myspace.com/djmalatesta\n\n+ representing UK Anarchist Hip Hop we have\n\nTHE EDGER http://www.myspace.com/theedgerhiphop\n\n+ The Dub Droids\n\nPlus a bookstall from Natterjack Press\n\n£3.50 including fantastic vegan food! Bring your own drink. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20090425T093929Z LAST-MODIFIED:20090425T094149Z DTSTAMP:20090425T093929Z UID:7de572c6-b6b3-4f0d-81d7-85fdd02569b8 SUMMARY:Visteon Workers Solidarity Fundraiser DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20090501T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20090501T230000 DESCRIPTION:A May Day solidarity fundraiser for the Visteon workers currently in occupation in London and Belfast.\n\nWe will be showing clips of the occupations and the Naomi Klein documentary film about Argentinian factory occupations 'The Take'\,\nhttp: //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Take_(2004_film)\n\nThere will also be food\, refreshments and discussion\, so come along and show your support on international workers day\n\nVisteon workers will also be joining the Merseyside May Day March on the Wirral on Saturday May 2\n\n For more info on the occupation and fundraising appeal http: //www.socialistunity.com/?p=3867\n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20090425T094248Z LAST-MODIFIED:20090427T125553Z DTSTAMP:20090425T094248Z UID:993f00ec-ec09-4350-afc1-2886d0fb80a6 SUMMARY:The True Purpose of The Modern Education System: Born to Work... DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20090430T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20090430T223000 X-MOZ-GENERATION:1 DESCRIPTION: The true purpose of the modern education system\n born to work\n indoctrinated to serve\n a good slave is a happy slave\n\nThere will be a brief look into the history of education leading up to the industrial revolution. How and why the education system changed with the rise of the factory. Who some of the key players were and there beliefs from philosophers\,\nPolititians\, bankers\, major industrial fat cats and the aristocratic elites. The techniques used to mould the minds of the people through school to serve the elite.\n\nThe Tripartite system and a look at the situation at present in the schools from the big brother style control methods in use cameras\, finger printing\, iris scanning to utterly absurd practices like the school in childwall Valley primary Who\n Recently were taking away fruit juices\, flavoured waters\, Crisps and biscuits from lunchboxes while serving ice cream and chocolate cookies in the canteen. They say\nits part of the schools campaign to teach children how to eat healthily. The contraband was given back at the end of the day. I wonder what the children did\nwith it. Mmm? \n\nThere will be a PowerPoint presentation followed by some videos (to be decided which ones due to technical reasons. Ha computers.) and a discussion afterwards.\n\n Andrew Ure doctor and chemist (advocated the great benefits of industrial capitalism) Wrote in 1835:\n“That it was “nearly impossible to convert persons pass the age of puberty\, whether drawn from rural or from handicraft occupations\, into useful factory hands.” \n\nBenjamin Disraeli\, British prime minister wrote in 1874: \n“Wherever is found what is called a paternal government\, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.” \n\nClinical psychologist Bruce E. Levine wrote in 2001:\n“I once consulted with a teacher of an extremely bright eight-year-old boy labelled with oppositional defiant disorder. I suggested that perhaps the boy didn't have a disease\, but was just bored. His teacher\, a pleasant woman\, agreed with me. However\, she added\, \"They told us at the state conference that our job is to get them ready for the work world…that the children have to get used to not being stimulated all the time or they will lose their jobs in the real world.\"\n\n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20090425T095807Z LAST-MODIFIED:20090706T071929Z DTSTAMP:20090527T223809Z UID:f0eef673-b1bc-44b8-aee9-3caacfa4004d SUMMARY:Sunday Film & Food PRIORITY:0 CLASS:PUBLIC RRULE:FREQ=WEEKLY;COUNT=5;INTERVAL=2;BYDAY=SU EXDATE:20090614T170000Z EXDATE:20090531T170000Z EXDATE:20090517T170000Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20090517T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20090517T210000 X-MOZ-GENERATION:4 DESCRIPTION:Fortnightly free film screening. Vegan soup & cakes from 6pm (donations for food appreciated). Film starts at 7. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20090425T110752Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100728T044124Z DTSTAMP:20090425T110752Z UID:f0eef673-b1bc-44b8-aee9-3caacfa4004d SUMMARY:Sunday Film & Food PRIORITY:0 CLASS:PUBLIC RECURRENCE-ID;TZID=Europe/London:20090517T160000 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20090517T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20090517T190000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20090425T111036Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100728T044124Z DTSTAMP:20090425T111036Z UID:f0eef673-b1bc-44b8-aee9-3caacfa4004d SUMMARY:Sunday Film & Food PRIORITY:0 CLASS:PUBLIC RECURRENCE-ID;TZID=Europe/London:20090531T160000 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20090531T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20090531T190000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20090527T223651Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100728T044124Z DTSTAMP:20090607T202143Z UID:f0eef673-b1bc-44b8-aee9-3caacfa4004d SUMMARY:Sunday Film & Food: \"Winstanley\" PRIORITY:0 CLASS:PUBLIC RECURRENCE-ID;TZID=Europe/London:20090614T160000 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20090614T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20090614T210000 DESCRIPTION:Fortnightly free film screening. Vegan soup & cakes from 6pm (donations for food appreciated). Film starts at 7. (note\, we're now on our later summer start time).\n\nWINSTANLEY (1975)\n\nA truly stunning and hauntingly beautiful film\, telling the little-known story of Gerrard Winstanley and the Diggers\, a short-lived radical movement that emerged during the British Civil Wars/Revolution in the late 1640s. It is an example of a remarkable integration of form and content: an independent film\, made on the tiniest of budgets with an almost entirely amateur cast (and yet sticking to rigorous standards of authenticity)\, its makers’ philosophy and methods resonantly match the story they tell - as does their subsequent obscurity despite critical acclaim. Of course\, it is a film of its time (but what film isn’t?). The release date is probably slightly misleading on that score: it took the best part of a decade to make\, and is in fact a child of the late 1960s\, of student revolution\, socialist idealism and activism. The collaboration between Kevin Brownlow and Andrew Mollo had already produced one film\, It Happened Here (1966)\, which historians now would describe as ‘counterfactual’\; it imagined a world where the Nazis had successfully invaded Britain in the 1940s. Included in a recent BFI video/DVD release of the film is a documentary about its making (It Happened Here Again\, Eric Mival\, 1976)\, a glimpse of the passions driving the making of Winstanley\, the near-obsessive attention to detail and accuracy and\, equally\, the principles of collaboration and shared effort\, making use of anything and everything\, and the intense idealism of the venture.\n\nThe story: in April 1649 (just months after the execution of Charles I) Winstanley led a band of Diggers (aka ‘True Levellers’) in cultivating unused common land on Saint George’s Hill in Cobham\, Surrey according to the principles of his own writing: all should be equal in status and labour\, all property to be shared according to needs. They aroused crushing hostility: physical attacks\, law-suits\, prosecutions\; the tiny community lasted only a year\, although it did not perish without planting other seeds around the country. But none of the Digger communities survived for long\, and they were forgotten until the twentieth century. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20090607T202449Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100728T044124Z DTSTAMP:20090607T202449Z UID:f0eef673-b1bc-44b8-aee9-3caacfa4004d SUMMARY:Sunday Film & Food: \"Bandit Queen\" PRIORITY:0 CLASS:PUBLIC RECURRENCE-ID;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20090628T180000 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20090628T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20090628T210000 DESCRIPTION:Fortnightly free film screening. Vegan soup & cakes from 6pm (donations for food appreciated). Film starts at 7. \n\nBANDIT QUEEN (1994)\n\nBandit Queen (1994) was first banned by the censor board in India not so much for its acute language and the acute and frank depiction of the humiliation and brutality of rape\, but mostly for its politics. This was a country where a society and a government controlled by the higher castes saw it as a potentially subversive film that could lead to political disruption. And it did.\n\nPhoolan Devi\, whose life the main character in this film depicts\, was freed from prison\, came out and formed her own political party representing the lower castes\, galvanised oppressed women to vote for her\, and won a seat in India's parliament. All of this happened after the film was released.\n\nAnd so what was so incredible about that? Consider this: Devi was completely uneducated. She could not speak without using expletives that would make a grown man blush. She had spent her whole adult life as a bandit. She was married at 12 to man 18 years her senior\, subjected to child rape\, and she ran away. An outsider from that moment for breaking the demeaning cultural orthodoxy that puts young\, low-caste women in such a situation\, Devi became India's most famous outlaw\, gaining the loyalty and respect of low-caste villagers and communities\, and the hatred and resentment of higher castes. Her \"career\" ended when\, in retaliation to being gang-raped in a village\, she took every high-caste man from the village and shot down 24 of them. This act brought down the high-caste government in that state.\n\nFrom that day on Devi was hounded and\, ultimately\, she had to surrender\, but on the terms that she would be released after eight years in prison. When we made the film\, Devi was still in prison after eight years\, but was released by the time the film came out.\n\nWhen the film was first shown in India\, after a long battle with the censor board\, it threatened to become a huge box-office grosser. In a country dominated by so-called \"Bollywood\" cinema\, people cried foul – the film\, they said\, succeeded only because it had a woman full-frontal naked for the first time in Indian cinema.\n\nSo\, in deference to that sentiment\, the distributors of the film decided to do \"women only\" shows. These were even more popular\, until a few high-caste people got together launched a public litigation against both the film and the censor board. The film was once again withdrawn\, and would not be released for another six months while we all fought for it in India's supreme courts.\n\nIn the meantime\, Devi went against the film. Mostly she claimed that she was not gang-raped\, but later went against the very lawyers and activists who supported her and claimed that she was. But\, more importantly\, she won two terms in India's parliament. She was\, tragically\, gunned down in her second term\, outside her home in Delhi. The case is unresolved. \n\nhttp: //www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/phoolan-devi--th e-tragedy-of-a-real-bandit-836571.html END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20090622T075949Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100728T044124Z DTSTAMP:20090622T075949Z UID:f0eef673-b1bc-44b8-aee9-3caacfa4004d SUMMARY:Sunday Film & Food: \"Putney Swope\" PRIORITY:0 CLASS:PUBLIC RECURRENCE-ID;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20090712T180000 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20090712T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20090712T210000 DESCRIPTION:Fortnightly free film screening. Vegan soup & cakes from 6pm (donations for food appreciated). Film starts at 7. \n\nPUTNEY SWOPE (1969)\n\nAfter several years working along the margins of the underground film scene in New York\, director Robert Downey broke through to wider recognition with the arthouse hit Putney Swope\, a wildly irreverent satire of race and advertising in America. Putney Swope (Arnold Johnson) is the token African-American executive at an otherwise all-white advertising agency when the chairman of the board unexpectedly drops dead. Through a fluke in the chain of command\, Swope becomes the new head of the firm\, and decides its time to do things his way. He fires nearly all the staff (except for his one token white employee)\, renames the agency Truth and Soul\, Inc.\, and announces they'll no longer accept accounts advertising tobacco\, alcohol\, or war toys. The ads they do produce -- for acne remedies and breakfast cereal\, among other things -- are wildly successful\, and the iconoclastic ad agency (which only accepts payment in cash) is targeted by government operatives as a threat to the national security. Antonio Fargas and Allen Garfield lead the supporting cast\; Mel Brooks makes a cameo appearance. X-MOZ-GENERATION:3 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20090425T100430Z LAST-MODIFIED:20090425T101258Z DTSTAMP:20090425T100430Z UID:e1c7e807-fcd7-4037-b1b0-2ebf173e3f12 SUMMARY:May Day Fair DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20090502T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20090502T190000 X-MOZ-GENERATION:1 DESCRIPTION:Come to the Saturday Cafe & also celebrate May Day weekend - we'll have a bookstall\, a free shop\, music & table tennis\n\n(Followed at 7 by a fundraiser gig for the Visteon factory workers) END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20090425T100706Z LAST-MODIFIED:20090425T101121Z DTSTAMP:20090425T100706Z UID:7f96aaa9-235e-4b97-8b4a-bef670a8c5e4 SUMMARY:Fundraiser Gig for Visteon Factory Workers DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20090502T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20090502T200000 DESCRIPTION:Gig in support of the Visteon workers in Basildon & Belfast who are occupying their factories\n\nFor more info on the occupation and fundraising appeal http://www.socialistunity.com/?p=3867 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20090318T174351Z LAST-MODIFIED:20090430T192238Z DTSTAMP:20090430T192238Z UID:391d2947-4e08-4f1c-b90c-dc3b4820836d SUMMARY:Liverpool Low Impact Community group meeting PRIORITY:0 CLASS:PUBLIC DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20090505T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20090505T190000 X-MOZ-GENERATION:1 DESCRIPTION:Open to new people interested in being in a housing co-op. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20090430T192314Z LAST-MODIFIED:20090430T192342Z DTSTAMP:20090430T192342Z UID:64958d75-fece-44fe-9697-7f6ce220ea4a SUMMARY:ICC group meeting DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20090501T130000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20090501T160000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20090509T162108Z LAST-MODIFIED:20090509T162232Z DTSTAMP:20090509T162108Z UID:ff5aabb4-d75b-4a1b-8825-f9f668c09a62 SUMMARY:Merseyside Defend Education Campaign - Public Meeting DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20090513T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20090513T220000 DESCRIPTION:Where next after the march for education? How to unite the latest struggles of workers\, teachers & occupying parents? Come & discuss! END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20090527T222633Z LAST-MODIFIED:20090527T222749Z DTSTAMP:20090527T222749Z UID:93b5f820-37f9-497e-a28f-3e15b1608b7d SUMMARY:Liverpool Low Impact Communities PRIORITY:0 CLASS:PUBLIC DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20090610T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20090610T193000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20090612T213226Z LAST-MODIFIED:20090612T213516Z DTSTAMP:20090612T213226Z UID:e8579dcb-c4af-48c7-8659-04236e2fc96a SUMMARY:Red Pepper Feedback Discussion (TIME TO BE CONFIRMED) ATTACH:http://www.redpepper.org.uk/ DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20090626T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20090626T220000 DESCRIPTION:TIME TO BE CONFIRMED\n\n“Red Pepper has always always been – and will always be – a political project\, to nurture an independent minded\, internationalist\, and generous spirited left. It was founded as a shared and open source of knowledge and ideas to enable a plural left to create an appropriate kind of unity and strength. It was intended as a genuine forum for different parts of the left to both debate with each other and to exchange information and build solidarity.\n\n \n\nIn the face of a deep crisis of market driven politics\, we must assess where we have got to\, where we have fallen short\, and how we can steer the project more knowingly\, more fruitfully in the present political context. The state of the left – all of us – is woefully inadequate to grasp the quite dramatic opportunities and necessities that the present situation presents. And the dangers of failure are evident in the growth of the BNP and the fate of the left in some other European countries (though there are also very positive European experiences from which to learn too)\n\n \n\nHow can Red Pepper qualitatively and quantitatively 'up its game' to make a real difference to strengthening the left in the present context? This is what we want to discuss with you.\n\n \n\nWe would like your feed back on basic questions: \n\n * What is Red Pepper doing right?\n * Where do we fall short of what is needed?\n * What are your ideas about how the magazine and the website should develop in response to the challenges of the present context? \n\n \n\nWith the help of the Centre for Democratic Policy-making we are organising a process of local discussions between now and the beginning of September\, when we will convene a gathering of all Red Pepper’s supporters to consolidate the ideas we will hopefully develop together over the coming four months.\n\n \n\nWe are not thinking of big public meetings but small informal discussions to which one or more of the editorial team would come. This is a real opportunity for people to come together and discuss how Red Pepper responds in the current political climate. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20090612T220357Z LAST-MODIFIED:20090612T220953Z DTSTAMP:20090612T220357Z UID:52e963dc-8c63-45a9-a816-586a9199842d SUMMARY:Where the Other Half Lives - Lower Income Housing in a Neo-Liberal World - Talk & Discussion DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20090827T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20090827T210000 DESCRIPTION:Talk & discussion - News From Nowhere Bookshop presents Sarah Glynn\, one of the authors of new book: Where the Other Half Lives: Lower Income Housing in a Neoliberal World (Pluto Press) - the book includes material on Liverpool. Free entry\, all welcome. \n\n Housing is a hot topic. House prices have spiralled both in Britain and across the Western world\, alienating millions of people from the property market. At the same time\, social housing has disintegrated\, as properties have been sold off or neglected. Efforts to fill the gap through 'affordable housing' - shared ownership or housing associations - are barely adequate. With the collapse of the subprime mortgage market in the US and the collapse of Northern Rock at home\, what does the future hold?\n \nThis book is a radical overview of the housing crisis\, and the root causes of the current turmoil. The authors show how privatisation and commodification has encroached into all areas of our lives\, and most especially into housing\, with disasterous results.\n \nTaking an international perspective\, the book covers the housing sectors in many Western countries\, particularly the UK and the US. It examines the campaigns to defend social housing and the possibilities for reform. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20090612T221450Z LAST-MODIFIED:20090612T221532Z DTSTAMP:20090612T221450Z UID:6dd09a5d-6dfd-407f-8b06-50398355d810 SUMMARY:Ska/reggae gig night - TIMES & OTHER DETAILS TO BE ADDED DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20090725T200000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20090725T235500 DESCRIPTION:TIMES & OTHER DETAILS TO BE ADDED END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20090612T221626Z LAST-MODIFIED:20090622T080720Z DTSTAMP:20090612T221626Z UID:e0f83d33-a8ef-477d-bdb2-8d43e63fe200 SUMMARY:Northern Alliance Housing Co-op Launch DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20090708T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20090708T213000 X-MOZ-GENERATION:1 DESCRIPTION:An event to gather together those interested in joining or supporting/taking part in whatever way the Northern Alliance Housing Coop which intends to acquire disued properties in the Granby/welsh streets areas and eco renovate them. The Northern Alliance Housing Coop Limited is a fully mutual\, registered with the FSA.\n\nSpeakers to be arranged\, hopefully about 4\, maybe 5\, talking about what coops are\, some of the recent crazy history of the Welsh streets and Granby\, someone who maybe has experience of eco renovation and maybe someone who knows a lot about renewable energy\, solar panel etc\, microgeneration.\n\nWe will briefly introduce the aims of the coop before taking questions and dividing those who have attended into supporters and prospective tenants to do some more in depth chatting.\n\n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20090612T223155Z LAST-MODIFIED:20090612T223253Z DTSTAMP:20090612T223155Z UID:191377c2-da7d-4ce1-bf3f-5f51cb0a1ec7 SUMMARY:Merseyside CND meeting DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20090624T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20090624T193000 DESCRIPTION:group meeting\n\nhttp://www.mcnd.org.uk/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20090622T075621Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100722T160211Z DTSTAMP:20090622T075621Z UID:1a1a171a-1c71-4dc8-9f3d-916b8adcb13a SUMMARY:Documentary Night RRULE:FREQ=MONTHLY;INTERVAL=1;BYDAY=4TH EXDATE:20090827T190000Z EXDATE:20090924T190000Z EXDATE:20091022T190000Z EXDATE:20091126T200000Z EXDATE:20091224T200000Z EXDATE:20100128T200000Z EXDATE:20100225T200000Z EXDATE:20100325T200000Z EXDATE:20100422T190000Z EXDATE:20100527T190000Z EXDATE:20100624T190000Z EXDATE:20100722T190000Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20090625T200000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20090625T223000 X-MOZ-GENERATION:23 DESCRIPTION:A regular film night\, 2nd & 4th Thursdays of the month. Free entry\, all welcome. Teas & coffees available by donation END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20090622T075809Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100728T044124Z DTSTAMP:20090622T075809Z UID:1a1a171a-1c71-4dc8-9f3d-916b8adcb13a SUMMARY:Documentary Night: \"Maxed Out: Hard Times\, Easy Credit and the Era of Predatory Lenders\" RECURRENCE-ID;TZID=Europe/London:20090625T200000 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20090625T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20090625T220000 DESCRIPTION:A regular film night\, 2nd & 4th Tuesdays of the month. Free entry\, all welcome. Teas & coffees available by donation\n\nMaxed Out: Hard Times\, Easy Credit and the Era of Predatory Lenders ( James D. Scurlock 2006)\n\n \n\nWhen Hurricane Katrina ravaged America's Gulf Coast\, it laid bare an uncomfortable reality – America is not only far from the world's wealthiest nation\; it is crumbling beneath a staggering burden of individual and government debt. Maxed Out takes us on a journey deep inside the American debt-style\, where everything seems okay as long as the minimum monthly payment arrives on time. Sure\, most of us may have that sinking feeling that something isn't quite right\, but we're told not to worry. After all\, there's always more credit! Maxed Out shows how the modern financial industry really works\, explains the true definition of \"preferred customer\" and tells us why the poor are getting poorer and the rich getting richer. By turns hilarious and profoundly disturbing\, Maxed Out paints a picture of a national nightmare which is all too real.\n\n \n\nWhy do we feel the need to spend more than we make (or may ever make)? The tough answer is here in MAXED OUT\, writer/director James D. Scurlock's first feature length documentary.\n\nI think many of us know the answer but simply refuse to acknowledge it: we want to keep up with the Jones'. They have a new car\, we need a new car. They have a new washer/dryer\, we need a new one. It is a cycle being perpetuated by the credit industry and we\, the consumers\, have been drawn to it like moths to a flamethrower.\n\n \n\nIt's a well known fact that Americans are among the most consumer-oriented and debt-ridden people on the planet. It's perhaps less well known that banks and credit card companies actually make their largest profits by extending mass amounts of credit to the very people who can least afford to be in debt. By finally exposing this ironic truth to the light of day\, the documentary \"Maxed Out\" aims to hold the powers-that-be accountable for their actions.\n\n’Maxed Out’ gives us insights that should make one angry and fearful. Predatory lenders like MBNA\, Capitol One\, and other credit card companies target those that are least likely to be able to afford credit. Why? Because these are the people who max out their cards then pay the minimum monthly amounts until ...either bankrupt or death do them part. It's a marriage made in Hell and it continues to this day. College students who enter a new campus are likely to find tables set up near their dorms offering sign ups for new credit cards. Why? Again\, because they can't afford it (sadly these are the people who end up in the worst situations\, often dangling from their necks in dorm room closets).\n\n \n\nLending institutions also go after people who have previously filed for bankruptcy\, knowing that such individuals are not only spending-prone by nature but legally unable to file for bankruptcy a second time. Scurlock also interviews debt-collectors who seem all but indifferent to the plight of those they are going after\, as well as more humanistic economists who understand completely the depth of the problem.\n\n \n\nIn short\, this movie will show you a lot about the credit industry that you didn't know. If it serves any benefit\, it will hopefully scare you out of spending yourself into insurmountable debt. X-MOZ-GENERATION:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20090723T125939Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100728T044124Z DTSTAMP:20090723T125939Z UID:1a1a171a-1c71-4dc8-9f3d-916b8adcb13a SUMMARY:Documentary Night: \"Avenge But One of My Two Eyes\" RECURRENCE-ID;TZID=Europe/London:20090723T200000 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20090723T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20090723T220000 DESCRIPTION:A regular film night\, 2nd & 4th Tuesdays of the month. Free entry\, all welcome. Teas & coffees available by donation\n\nAVENGE BUT ONE OF MY TWO EYES (2005)\n \nIsraeli filmmaker Avi Mograbi’s latest documentary\, Avenge But One of My Two Eyes\,has an unabashedly provocative thesis. Throughout the film\, Mograbi juxtaposes footage of Palestinians being humiliated by Israeli guards with scenes of Jewish tourists being regaled by tales of their ancestors’ historical struggles for freedom. Focusing on the oft-retold stories of Samson (who\, after being blinded and humiliated by the Philistines\, knocked an entire temple down to crush his oppressors) and Masada (the site where over 900 Jews committed suicide to resist becoming slaves of the conquering Romans)\, the director highlights the hypocrisy of his fellow countrymen for celebrating these ancient tales as they simultaneously condemn the Palestinians for acting out in a similarly violent manner. In a way\, Samson was the first suicide bomber in history.\n \nThe title comes from Samson's famous last prayer asking God to give him the strength one last time to take revenge. In a surprising exercise of symmetry\, Avi Mograbi uses Jewish mythology to portray the Palestinian mindset. Against a backdrop of senseless daily persecution\, Mograbi shows us lost people\, clueless in a situation that nobody seems to make any sense out of. It is a fresh new approach void of the usual bloody violence and hatred\, with no commentary or voice-over\, where real-life people enact a macabre and surrealist play. Two peoples with so much in common entangled in a death embrace that will consume them both.\n \nIs it possible to understand the suicide of the zealots and not the suicide bombers who feel they have nothing much to lose? \n \nMograbi draws a potent parallel between the stories of Samson and Masada\, and the anger of Palestinians humiliated by the Israeli army. The idea sounds academic\, but there is nothing abstract in the way the filmmaker displays the Israeli soldiers' arrogance and arbitrariness toward civilians. The film is constructed around a phone call between Mograbi and a Palestinian friend. The friend insists that the army's intrusion into his daily life has become so overbearing and inescapable that life is barely worth living. He contends this feeling of being pushed to the wall with no way out is what makes the suicide bombers multiply. \n \nIn conjunction with this\, school kids and old women are shown waiting for hours to cross isolated checkpoints. Farmers\, who are prevented from ploughing their fields for no apparent reason\, also are shown\, and a businessman transporting goods and a woman being taken to the hospital in an ambulance are filmed being turned back by menacing tanks and disembodied voices from sinister control towers. \n \nIntercut throughout the film are shots of young American tourists visiting Masada\, the historic site where\, in 72 C.E.\, 960 Jews killed themselves rather than become slaves to the Roman conquerors. Coached by their zealous Israeli guides\, the tourists relive the moments of this collective suicide. The guides' intention is clearly to stoke the fires of patriotism toward the state of Israel\, but the film makes a very different connection to the humiliation of the Palestinians under the Israeli yoke. \n \nPhilippe Bellaiche's handheld DV camerawork is unpretentious\, often giving the impression of stolen footage captured at the risk of having the camera snatched out of his hands. Mograbi’s vérité-styled filmmaking effectively captures the turbulence\, humiliation\, and uncertainty of occupation\, presenting a thoughtful and incisive call to action for the return of humanity in increasingly entrenched and inhuman times.\n \nMograbi says “If some people see themselves as a fly on the wall\, I see myself as a fly in the soup! It is absolute engagement.”\n \n\n X-MOZ-GENERATION:3 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20090622T081936Z LAST-MODIFIED:20090625T084354Z DTSTAMP:20090622T081936Z UID:a49a8f07-cbf3-4754-8fd0-fc39e18437de SUMMARY:Palestine Solidarity Day - food\, films\, music & info DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20090627T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20090627T210000 X-MOZ-GENERATION:1 DESCRIPTION: \n\n12-4pm : vegan cafe with palestinian food\, short films\, music & info space\n\n6pm : showing the film 'Arna's Children'\n\nspace to chat & chill out afterwards\n\nall welcome END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20090706T070314Z LAST-MODIFIED:20090706T070447Z DTSTAMP:20090706T070314Z UID:5e5e51b1-9457-45dd-b375-b474dbbf46be SUMMARY:Workers' Fightback - monthly meeting RRULE:FREQ=MONTHLY;INTERVAL=1;BYDAY=1TU DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20090707T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20090707T190000 X-MOZ-GENERATION:1 DESCRIPTION:1st Tues every month\n\nCo-ordinating solidarity and exchanging information on independent\, rank and file working class resistance to the profit system.\n\nWe support rank and file workers' struggles against the chaotic profit system!\n\nWe believe workers know how to run our workplaces far better than business people\, the government\, or trade union leaders!\n\nWe aim for workers' control over our own jobs and our own lives! END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20090706T070605Z LAST-MODIFIED:20090713T071736Z DTSTAMP:20090706T070605Z UID:8cd3954a-a511-491c-8c27-db0601c619f7 SUMMARY:POSTPONED TO NEXT WEEK - May Day 2010 public meeting - Merseyside Anarchists DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20090713T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20090713T213000 X-MOZ-GENERATION:1 DESCRIPTION:POSTPONED TO 20/7/09 - SORRY!\n\nA public meeting to discuss & organise events for May Day 2010\, called by Merseyside Anarchists. All welcome. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20090713T070714Z LAST-MODIFIED:20090728T071035Z DTSTAMP:20090713T070714Z UID:17b26017-1b7a-48fc-a2e3-f691ad69bcac SUMMARY:Play: Marx in Soho (by Howard Zinn) DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20090802T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20090802T223000 X-MOZ-GENERATION:1 DESCRIPTION:Marx In Soho - by Howard Zinn\ndirected by Michael Fox Kennedy\nwith Jerry Levy as Karl Marx\n\nMarx is back! The premise of this witty and insightful \"play on history\" is that Karl Marx has agitated with the authorities of the afterlife for a chance to clear his name. Through a bureaucratic error\, though\, Marx is sent to Soho in New York\, rather than his old stomping ground in London\, to make his case. \n\nMarx in Soho is a brilliant introduction to Marx's life\, his analysis of society\, and his passion for radical change. Zinn also shows how relevant Marx's ideas are for today's world.\n\nHistorian and activist\, Howard Zinn is best known for his alternative portrait of American history\, “A People’s History of the United States.” Once again Zinn proves himself a talented playwright\, presenting a play that is both enlightening and entertaining and which sheds new light on Marx and his theories. The one man play has been touring successfully in North and South America and Europe for four years. \n\nLiverpool Social Centre now welcomes actor Jerry Levy for the latest leg in his UK tour.\n\nTickets £3.50 in advance - available from News From Nowhere Bookshop. Space is limited!\n\nhttp://www.levyarts.com/ | http: //www.marxinsoho.com/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20090713T071041Z LAST-MODIFIED:20090715T145606Z DTSTAMP:20090713T071041Z UID:c54b7828-6ec9-45c3-8e25-416ea8c00071 SUMMARY:Occupied Western Sahara Benefit - Film\, Music & Food DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20090718T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20090718T233000 X-MOZ-GENERATION:1 DESCRIPTION:In May 2005\, after 30 years of Moroccan occupation\, Sahrawi students initiated a series of peaceful demonstrations demanding their right to the United Nations-mandated referendum on Western Sahara independence. The Moroccan authorities responded with a brutal campaign of repression\, detaining & torturing human rights activists as well as Sahrawi students & children as young as eight.\n\n- Films & speaker\n- Music & poetry (including Tom George)\n- Food\n\n£2 entry - donation END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20090706T070605Z LAST-MODIFIED:20090715T145141Z DTSTAMP:20090713T071748Z UID:d0612cd1-4c38-4936-b994-926ff579bade SUMMARY:May Day 2010 public meeting - Merseyside Anarchists DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20090720T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20090720T213000 X-MOZ-GENERATION:3 DESCRIPTION:\nAn open meeting to discuss & organise an alternative May Day festival for 2010\, called by Merseyside Anarchists. All welcome.\n\nOur aims are :\n- Platforms for grassroots community and workers' groups - not VIP guests.\n- March where we will be seen and heard - not down empty side streets.\n- Organise together to create a festival for all of us - don't leave it to the TUC and political leaders to tell us how to celebrate our resistance.\n\nWe welcome all individuals and any grassroots workers'\, community and activist groups who want to get involved.\n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20090713T072252Z LAST-MODIFIED:20090713T072326Z DTSTAMP:20090713T072252Z UID:c63a6205-1ba6-42ae-863b-fb735b398ba4 SUMMARY:Green New Deal group meeting DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20090722T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20090722T210000 DESCRIPTION:group meeting END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20090527T222633Z LAST-MODIFIED:20090723T131537Z DTSTAMP:20090723T131459Z UID:a2bcbc32-198f-4f48-b6e3-d548d42aa2ad SUMMARY:Liverpool Low Impact Communities - group meeting PRIORITY:0 CLASS:PUBLIC DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20090728T173000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20090728T190000 X-MOZ-GENERATION:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20090713T070714Z LAST-MODIFIED:20090728T071056Z DTSTAMP:20090728T071053Z UID:00525712-6e0d-470e-a525-dc60d23d7481 SUMMARY:Play: Marx in Soho (by Howard Zinn) DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20090803T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20090803T223000 X-MOZ-GENERATION:1 DESCRIPTION:Marx In Soho - by Howard Zinn\ndirected by Michael Fox Kennedy\nwith Jerry Levy as Karl Marx\n\nMarx is back! The premise of this witty and insightful \"play on history\" is that Karl Marx has agitated with the authorities of the afterlife for a chance to clear his name. Through a bureaucratic error\, though\, Marx is sent to Soho in New York\, rather than his old stomping ground in London\, to make his case. \n\nMarx in Soho is a brilliant introduction to Marx's life\, his analysis of society\, and his passion for radical change. Zinn also shows how relevant Marx's ideas are for today's world.\n\nHistorian and activist\, Howard Zinn is best known for his alternative portrait of American history\, “A People’s History of the United States.” Once again Zinn proves himself a talented playwright\, presenting a play that is both enlightening and entertaining and which sheds new light on Marx and his theories. The one man play has been touring successfully in North and South America and Europe for four years. \n\nLiverpool Social Centre now welcomes actor Jerry Levy for the latest leg in his UK tour.\n\nTickets £3.50 in advance - available from News From Nowhere Bookshop. Space is limited!\n\nhttp://www.levyarts.com/ | http: //www.marxinsoho.com/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20090808T084403Z LAST-MODIFIED:20090808T084500Z DTSTAMP:20090808T084403Z UID:e719ff61-4796-403e-8be5-5b948420500c SUMMARY:private booking DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20090818T200000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20090818T235500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20090901T080942Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100621T082911Z DTSTAMP:20090901T080942Z UID:eb874ed7-d404-4c20-8a47-e776b8e61476 SUMMARY:Sewing Club RRULE:FREQ=MONTHLY;INTERVAL=1;BYDAY=2MO EXDATE:20100111T180000Z EXDATE:20100712T170000Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20090914T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20090914T210000 TRANSP:OPAQUE DESCRIPTION:Want to meet other people who are into sewing? Then join our sewing club for people of all abilities\, including show & tell\, problem solving\, inspiration and general sewing fun and of course a good old fashioned natter over a cuppa! \n\n(2nd & 4th Mondays of the month)\n\n\nFor More Information\, E-mail:\n Beth at beth@bethedmondson.co.uk \n\nhttp: //burdastyleclubs.ning.com/group/bscliverpooluk\n X-MOZ-GENERATION:3 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20090917T114644Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100728T044124Z DTSTAMP:20090917T114644Z UID:eb874ed7-d404-4c20-8a47-e776b8e61476 SUMMARY:Sewing Club RECURRENCE-ID;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20090914T180000 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20090914T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20090914T210000 DESCRIPTION:Want to meet other people who are into sewing? Then join our sewing club for people of all abilities\, including show & tell\, problem solving\, inspiration and general sewing fun and of course a good old fashioned natter over a cuppa! \n\n(2nd & 4th Mondays of the month)\n\n\nFor More Information\, E-mail:\n Beth at beth@bethedmondson.co.uk or Jacqui at Jacqui.stan@tiscalli.co.uk\n\nhttp: //burdastyleclubs.ning.com/group/bscliverpooluk\n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20090917T112519Z LAST-MODIFIED:20091018T195650Z DTSTAMP:20090917T112519Z UID:cdfa62c4-9aff-4b56-93ed-2f2ab4c09325 SUMMARY:CANCELLED Amnesty fundraiser gig DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20091017T200000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20091017T235500 X-MOZ-GENERATION:2 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20090917T120440Z LAST-MODIFIED:20090926T154853Z DTSTAMP:20090917T120440Z UID:9e9430b4-2c12-4a1f-8aa7-86fc2dedf284 SUMMARY:Honduras Solidarity: speaker\, food & films DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20090924T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20090924T230000 X-MOZ-GENERATION:6 DESCRIPTION:Solidarity meeting with guest speaker Calvin Tucker\, who has reported on the Honduras coup for the Morning Star. Plus food & films - all welcome\n\nOn 28 June a military coup removed elected Honduran President Manuel Zelaya. Since then a large scale protest movement has paralysed the country. This has received little coverage in the media here and most of what there is has been misleading. \n\nThe coup has been universally condemned internationally and Honduras has been excluded from the Organisation of American States. An unprecedented popular mobilisation has since built up based on workers\, peasants and students. They have blockaded main highways and demonstrated in the cities. Their efforts have been met with violence including at least 100 murders and many more beatings. The Honduran army has been on a \"rape spree\" and brutally beaten women activists. More than 3\,600 arbitrary arrests have been made. \n\nThe Honduran popular movements need our solidarity & support as they begin the third month of mobilisation. \n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20091002T215741Z LAST-MODIFIED:20091002T220120Z DTSTAMP:20091002T215741Z UID:fee95145-87e1-452f-a264-1c0a6ee69f76 SUMMARY:Climate Swoop Meeting DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20091011T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20091011T190000 URL:http://www.example.comhttp: //www.climatecamp.org.uk/actions/climate-swoop-2009 DESCRIPTION:'This country is run by people over forty. They may not be here to see the mess they've created. Their children may be protected by wealth but everyone else will be up to their necks. Old people can't get their heads round climate change and some people are just trained to be\nthick. If you think this is for real then do something. Don't wait for permission. Help shut down this poisonous and outdated technology. Join us and you'll find that courage is contagious.'\n\nKILL COAL BEFORE IT KILLS US - HELP SHUT DOWN RATCLIFFE-ON-SOAR POWER STATION AT\nTHE GREAT CLIMATE SWOOP 17-18TH OCTOBER.\n\nA meeting for everyone who's interested. Get the facts\, get inspired and plan transport. With visiting speakers.\n\n\n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20091002T221342Z LAST-MODIFIED:20091018T194037Z DTSTAMP:20091002T221342Z UID:b35f53d5-8937-4475-a604-8941185493e3 SUMMARY:Hunt Sabs Fundraising Meal DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20091023T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20091023T235500 X-MOZ-GENERATION:2 DESCRIPTION:Please come along for a lovely evening of delicious autumnal wholesome hearty grub and support your local hunt sab group who are out every week saving animals' lives in the field while the police ignore the hunt ban. \n\nSoup\, Roast\, Pudding (all vegan) - Meal served at 8pm\n \nTickets £10 - available from Food From Nowhere cafe on Saturdays or from News From Nowhere Bookshop\n \nThere will also be a raffle with some great prizes including some Lush hampers as they have recently launched a soap/campaign in support of hunt sabs.\n\nPlease note you are free to bring your own alcohol. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20091002T221527Z LAST-MODIFIED:20091002T221757Z DTSTAMP:20091002T221527Z UID:eda09b7b-f2a7-4297-90f0-8f87f23034af SUMMARY:Critical Mass Film Night DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20091009T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20091009T230000 URL:http://www.liverpoolcm.org.uk DESCRIPTION:After this month's Critical Mass bike ride (meet at the Chinese Arch\, Berry St at 6pm\, 2nd Friday of the month) to go for a mass cycle ride - to promote cycling\, reclaim the road\, or just for the fun of it)\, come to the social centre for a film night\n\n(FILM DETAILS TO BE ADDED) END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20091002T221843Z LAST-MODIFIED:20091018T201724Z DTSTAMP:20091002T221843Z UID:6d0e6ad3-d4cc-4e9c-966a-7d1e5d5c5c8e SUMMARY:Bristol Alt-Folkers On Tour: Jetfly & Fingerless Hoodlum DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20091029T200000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20091029T235500 X-MOZ-GENERATION:3 DESCRIPTION:A beat mix of leftfield folk music and live storytelling from \"Jetfly\" and looped fingerstyle folk guitar from \"Fingerless Hoodlum\"\n\nhttp://www.myspace.com/jetfly\nhttp: //www.myspace.com/mrfingerless\n\nEntry by donation. You're welcome to bring something to drink. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20091014T101743Z LAST-MODIFIED:20091014T101912Z DTSTAMP:20091014T101743Z UID:6eb82c2a-c9ae-4f59-9d1d-10d81eb587eb SUMMARY:Doundounba Workshop (Drumming) DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20091129T103000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20091129T163000 DESCRIPTION:A great chance to learn the djembe and dundun phrases for the most important and traditional of all the Malinke rhythms\, the 'dounduonbas'......this 'dance of the strong men' is a life times work!\n\nSuitable for more experienced players\; Vieux and Ibro will guide you through phrasing for djembe and dunduns and demonstrate the complex relationship between them and help you to understand the solo and its placement within the rhythm.\n\nVieux is an outstanding player and his knowledge of doundounba is exceptional having travelled and played throughout Mali and Guinea as both a doun player and a soloist for many prominent troupes. \n\nIbro is an exceptional dundun player who wowed everyone through the summer at festivals across the UK. Originally from Guinea Conakry\, Ibro is the UK’s leading dundunfola and an inspiring teacher. \n\nVieux and Ibro have worked together in one of Senegal’s premiere ballets “Bougarabou\,” and are re-united for this exciting opportunity.\n\nBooking Information\n\nThe workshop costs just £25 for the day. \n\nAdvanced booking is essential to guarantee a place\, please contact Anna by telephone: 07754 410 541\nor email: anna@ibrosoumah.com\n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20091018T195352Z LAST-MODIFIED:20091018T195550Z DTSTAMP:20091018T195352Z UID:a68177e5-6127-4ead-9f61-616a01d160e9 SUMMARY:Sunday Film & Food: Ararat DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20091018T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20091018T210000 X-MOZ-GENERATION:1 DESCRIPTION:Fortnightly free film screening. Vegan food from 6pm (donations for food appreciated). Film starts at 7.\n\nARARAT (2002)\n\nA director makes a film about the 1915 Armenian Genocide in Turkey from the fictionalised point of view of a genuine survivor\, the painter Arshile Gorky. Meanwhile\, an art historian’s son is forced to explain the history to a suspicious customs agent. Ararat examines the nature of truth and its representation through art. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20091018T195801Z LAST-MODIFIED:20091018T195836Z DTSTAMP:20091018T195801Z UID:e72d0e34-e248-4d8f-a4e1-6ccc48aa4c91 SUMMARY:Documentary Night: THE BASQUE BALL: SKIN AGAINST STONE DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20091022T200000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20091022T223000 DESCRIPTION:A regular film night\, 2nd & 4th Tuesdays of the month. Free entry\, all welcome. Teas & coffees available by donation\n\nTHE BASQUE BALL: SKIN AGAINST STONE (2003)\n\nAn attempt to create a bridge between the Basque nationalist movement and the Spanish government. Julio Medem interviews politicians\, novelists\, musicians\, and many other commentators in his efforts to explain both sides of the complex situation. He edits interviews together to give a sense of dialogue between parties that refuse to sit down and talk to each other\n\n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20091018T201911Z LAST-MODIFIED:20091029T173209Z DTSTAMP:20091029T173209Z UID:7c0fa2ca-79b8-4778-a759-00b45d2546c0 SUMMARY:POSTPONED TO NEXT WEEK DUE TO CLASH WITH ANTI-HOMOPHOBIA VIGIL (Sunday Film & Food: \"Finn's Girl\") PRIORITY:0 CLASS:PUBLIC DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20091101T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20091101T213000 DESCRIPTION:Sorry\, the screening of \"Finn's Girl\" has been moved to next Sunday\, 8th November\, instead.\n\nThis is so that people can go to the vigil in Stanley Street at 8pm called in protest against the homophobic attack last Sunday that left a young gay man in critical condition. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20091018T202053Z LAST-MODIFIED:20091018T202132Z DTSTAMP:20091018T202053Z UID:27b92eea-55c8-4a3d-ad62-a6a081c8099a SUMMARY:Sunday Film & Food: \"Salaam Bombay!\" DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20091115T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20091115T213000 DESCRIPTION:Fortnightly free film screening. Vegan food from 6pm (donations for food appreciated). Film starts at 7.\n\nSALAAM BOMBAY! (1988)\n\nSalaam Bombay! chronicles the day-to-day life of children living on the streets of Mumbai (mostly played by actual street children). A boy struggles to earn money to repay his brother and achieve his dream of returning to his mother but is thwarted at every step END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20091018T202449Z LAST-MODIFIED:20091018T202721Z DTSTAMP:20091018T202449Z UID:6bd4c823-c2f7-47c2-8960-a282ce9d6343 SUMMARY:(centre being used for filming) DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20091108T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20091108T180000 DESCRIPTION:Social centre being used by film maker. (times to be confirmed) END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20091018T202829Z LAST-MODIFIED:20091023T124606Z DTSTAMP:20091018T202829Z UID:f176a1fa-3865-47ae-96bc-69c05108bb7c SUMMARY:Hunt Sabs Skillshare Workshop DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20091031T130000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20091031T150000 X-MOZ-GENERATION:3 DESCRIPTION:\nThink hunting is a thing of the past? Think again!\n\nEvery week North West Hunt Sabs go out to stop illegal hunting and protect our wildlife\n\nWe are holding a workshop on hunting and sabbing tactics\n\nEverybody welcome!\n\n(Snacks and drinks available from the cafe)\n\n\nContact Daz 07931 521 690 for more information END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20091018T203019Z LAST-MODIFIED:20091018T203046Z DTSTAMP:20091018T203019Z UID:4b13f9ff-31aa-4b6d-b2ae-812a0814f2be SUMMARY:private party (TO BE CONFIRMED) DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20091107T200000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20091107T235500 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20091018T203111Z LAST-MODIFIED:20091109T214924Z DTSTAMP:20091018T203111Z UID:07a4a72a-060e-4e0a-9f98-3257b58f3012 SUMMARY:Hunt Sabs Benefit Evening ATTACH:http://www.nwhsa.org.uk/ DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20091114T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20091114T235500 X-MOZ-GENERATION:1 DESCRIPTION:Think hunting is a thing of the past? Think again! \n\nNext to Nowhere presents a benefit evening for North West Hunt Sabs\, with music by\n- Mashemon\n- Rattlebus\n- Post Romantics\n& discotheque sounds\n\nDoors at 7.30pm\, first band at 8.30pm\n£3 donation on door. Bring your own drink. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20091023T123235Z LAST-MODIFIED:20091023T123628Z DTSTAMP:20091023T123235Z UID:391990f2-42d5-4617-8649-c7200d62016e SUMMARY:Documentary Night: \"Welcome\" & \"Reel Bad Arabs\" DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20091112T200000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20091112T223000 X-MOZ-GENERATION:1 DESCRIPTION:A regular film night\, 2nd & 4th Thursdays of the month. Free entry\, all welcome. Teas & coffees available by donation\n\nWELCOME (CAMCORDER GUERILLAS) (2004)\n\nHundreds of refugees are being put out of their Glasgow flats with no benefits and no right to work. Unable to return to their countries\, they're in a stateless limbo on the streets. Local people are outraged at the treatment of asylum seekers while the police call for anyone who has a spare room to take in a refugee to keep them off the streets and out of danger.\n\nREEL BAD ARABS (2006)\n\nAn analysis of the way Arabs have been shown in Hollywood films\, perpetuating stereotypes of them as violent\, greedy\, and oversexed. It includes a number of films that have been made with the cooperation of the Department of Defence\, and several recent films that begin to break down the stereotypes END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20091023T123415Z LAST-MODIFIED:20091023T123550Z DTSTAMP:20091023T123415Z UID:fff4d7e6-1af2-49a7-b4fd-6d3b48ba3bb4 SUMMARY:Documentary Night: \"Black Power Salute\" DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20091126T200000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20091126T210000 DESCRIPTION:A regular film night\, 2nd & 4th Thursdays of the month. Free entry\, all welcome. Teas & coffees available by donation\n\nBLACK POWER SALUTE (2008)\n\nA film about one of the most iconic images of the 20th century. Two men made a courageous gesture that reverberated around the world\, and changed their lives forever. This film is about Tommie Smith and John Carlos' protest at the 1968 Olympics. This documentary asks what inspired them to make their protest\, why it carried such a powerful message and what happened to the unlikely revolutionaries following the Games. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20091018T201911Z LAST-MODIFIED:20091029T172912Z DTSTAMP:20091029T172909Z UID:55c0d8a0-4ee8-442c-8ce0-94fdd094bc0a SUMMARY:Sunday Film & Food: \"Finn's Girl\" DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20091108T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20091108T213000 DESCRIPTION:Fortnightly free film screening. Vegan food from 6pm (donations for food appreciated). Film starts at 7.\n\nFINN’S GIRL (2007)\n\nDr. Finn Jeffries is stepmother to her deceased lover's angry teenage daughter Zelly. She has also taken over her lover's abortion clinic which is being protested by violent ‘pro-lifers’. The movie covers teenage angst\, death threats and love as Finn grapples with her new role as working single-parent END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20091109T213950Z LAST-MODIFIED:20091109T214433Z DTSTAMP:20091109T213950Z UID:93e27a14-aef4-45aa-add7-7af873f81cbd SUMMARY:\"'Not Forgotten: the Men Who Wouldn't Fight\" - Film & Discussion - Merseyside CND DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20091111T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20091111T193000 DESCRIPTION:For Remembrance Day\, Merseyside CND hosts a screening of the Channel 4 documentary about conscientious objectors\, followed by a discussion. All welcome.\n\nNot Forgotten: the Men Who Wouldn't Fight\n\"Ian Hislop meets the descendants of some of the 'Conchies' - conscientious objectors - and hears how they have dealt with the social stigma of their relatives' refusal to fight. He also explores the experiences of volunteers who\, on witnessing the horrors of the battlefield\, became committed COs\, and uncovers stories of imprisonment\, physical abuse\, tragedy and extreme bravery.\" END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20091109T220258Z LAST-MODIFIED:20091114T133317Z DTSTAMP:20091109T220258Z UID:4b6ee0cf-c3de-4d39-83e1-98c1f3c63e62 SUMMARY:DIY with collective knowledge - skillshare DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20091115T143000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20091115T173000 X-MOZ-GENERATION:1 DESCRIPTION:Come & learn/share how to make & fix things -\n\nThe idea being that if you have anything which needs fixing\, be it clothes\, a bike\, a computer whatever\, bring it along and try to fix it yourself. All going well there will be other people there who have either experience in something similar\, or keen to help out and together we will work it out.\n\nFor those of you who have nothing to fix (surely you have something thats been broken for ages and you just haven't had the energy or time to fix it)\, there will be an project of making something.\n\nBecause of the short notice\, and my lack of planning\, this week I will be building a bike trainer stand\, and we can talk about\, or even attempt to make one between us.\n\nParts for a bike trainer stand needed are \n- 3 lenghts of 0.5 meter threaded bar (like a really long bolt without the head\, any fixings shop should sell these) with 6 nuts to fit. 10mm thick would be a good size if buying it\, if finding/stealing/using existing stuff then any size may be workable.\n- 5x4mm wood at 3 meter length ideally\, but any wood you have lying around with lengths over half a meter may do. I am going to try and make one out of pallets.\n- old handlebars from a dumped bicycle\n\nI will bring tools needed for this\, but if anybody is coming along to fix something else and is unsure of what tools would be needed and if they have them\, e-mail me on eg0u8065@student.liv.ac.uk as I may have what is needed\n\nHoping to have finished by 5-5:30ish\, stick around for a chat\, then enjoy the usual sunday food at 6pm and film at 7\, which this week is SALAAM\nBOMBAY! END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20091111T180044Z LAST-MODIFIED:20091111T180339Z DTSTAMP:20091111T180339Z UID:f2c7678b-b748-4458-924f-e006393be80f SUMMARY:Critical Mass Film Night PRIORITY:0 CLASS:PUBLIC DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20091113T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20091113T223000 DESCRIPTION:Critical Mass monthly bike ride Friday 13th November 6.00 pm - Meet @ The Chinese Arch\, Nelson Street\, Liverpool\n\nFollowed by a Film Night at Next from Nowhere\, Bold Street (next to News from Nowhere)\n \nFree vegan soup and cakes. Films from 7.30\n \n\"We aren't blocking traffic. We are traffic\"\n\n\nA Critical Mass is a group of cylists\, wheelchair users\, roller skaters\, skateboarders\, in fact anyone on self-propelled transport is welcome to join.\n \nWe travel around the city on a random route following whoever is in front - to celebrate non-polluting transport. Sometimes it's just for fun and sometimes it's to campaign for better transport facilities.\n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20091114T135236Z LAST-MODIFIED:20091114T135555Z DTSTAMP:20091114T135236Z UID:a4c4a661-6182-4e48-ae29-f45be8c16541 SUMMARY:Talk & Discussion on Environmental Capitalism DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20091127T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20091127T220000 DESCRIPTION:Talk and discussion about environmental capitalism with its fascist eugenic policies - all welcome\n\nIt was reported last week that Al Gore is set to become the worlds first carbon billionaire but what was not reported is that how the leading capitalists and global corporations and their top share holders will profit collectively in the trillions\, while leaving behind in their wake a trail of death\, disease and starvation.\nPromoted through NGO’s influence in creating international treaty’s which are and will be (the climate conference in Copenhagen) signed into law.\n\nThe talk will Highlight how big business will profit from carbon trading and offsetting carbon\, and still pollute the land and the people that live on it LEADING TO DEBILITATING DISEASES AND DEATH. \n\nHow through carbon tax people will be unable to afford basic necessities of food\, water\, gas and electricity leading to more people living in abject poverty.\n \nHow these same billionaires fund through philanthropic foundations\, various none governmental organizations to promote their causes. \n\nHow some of these NGO’s are promoting population reduction mainly aimed at third world populations through methods such as family planning (abortion) and how this will undoubtedly in the third world countries lead to more girls being aborted than boys.\n\nHow the promotion of bio fuels is taking valuable agricultural land from growing food which will affect the third world more\, leading to STARVATION AND DEATH.\n\nAlso looking at how governments are using anti-terrorism laws to snoop and prosecute people who don’t meet all the new environmental laws (and other laws) and how councils are RECURITING CHILDREN AND ADULTS AS COUNCIL INFORMERS. Slowly turning this country and many others into the most fascist\, big brother type regimes the world has ever known.\n\nHere are a few quotes from these philanthropists and their benevolent helpers who only have our best interests at heart:\n\n\"Global Sustainability requires the deliberate quest of poverty\,\nreduced resource consumption and set levels of mortality control.\"\n- Professor Maurice King\n\n\"I don't claim to have any special interest in natural history\, but as a boy I was made aware of the annual fluctuations in the number of game animals and the need to adjust the cull to the size of the surplus population.\" \n- Prince Philip\, preface of Down to Earth\n\n\"A total population of 250-300 million people\, a 95% decline from present levels\, would be ideal.\"\n- Ted Turner\, founder of CNN and major UN donor\n\n\"One America burdens the earth much more than twenty Bangladeshes. This is a terrible thing to say. In order to stabilize world population\, we must eliminate\n350\,000 people per day. It is a horrible thing to say\, but it's just as bad not to say it.\"\n- Jacques Cousteau\,\nUNESCO Courier\n\n\"The only hope for the world is to make sure there is not another United States. We can't let other countries have the same number of cars\, the amount of industrialization\, we have in the US. We have to stop these Third World countries right where they are.\"\n- Michael Oppenheimer\,\nEnvironmental Defence Fund\n\n\"If I were reincarnated I would wish to be returned to earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels.\"\n- Prince Philip\, Duke of Edinburgh\,\npatron of the World Wildlife Fund\n\n\"Childbearing should be a punishable crime against society\, unless the parents hold a government license. All potential parents should be required to use contraceptive chemicals\, the government issuing antidotes to citizens chosen for childbearing.\"\n- David Brower\, first Executive Director of the Sierra Club\n\n\"Human beings\, as a species\, have no more value than slugs.\" \n- John Davis\, editor of Earth First! Journal\n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20091114T135639Z LAST-MODIFIED:20091114T135819Z DTSTAMP:20091114T135639Z UID:cfc22e20-05be-44dd-8d7f-f49325740b43 SUMMARY:Sunday Film & Food: \"Born in Flames\" DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20091129T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20091129T210000 DESCRIPTION:Fortnightly free film screening. Vegan food from 6pm (donations for food appreciated). Film starts at 7.\n\nBORN IN FLAMES (1983)\n\nTen years after a socialist revolution in the USA\, there are still problems with sexism & violence against women. In New York City\, a group of women decide to organise & mobilise through direct action\, to take the revolution farther than any man - and many women - ever imagined in their lifetimes. Truly radical science fiction. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20091114T135838Z LAST-MODIFIED:20091212T091359Z DTSTAMP:20091114T135838Z UID:4653db0e-840f-4314-9e90-d8d003018276 SUMMARY:Sunday Film & Food: \"Persepolis\" DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20091213T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20091213T210000 X-MOZ-GENERATION:1 DESCRIPTION:Fortnightly free film screening. Vegan food from 6pm (donations for food appreciated). Film starts at 7.\n\nPERSEPOLIS (2007)\n\nIn 1970s Iran\, young Marji watches the long-awaited Iranian revolution taking place. However\, as she grows up\, she witnesses first hand how the new Iran has become a repressive tyranny. Refusing to remain silent at this injustice\, her parents send her abroad to Vienna to study for a better life. When she returns home\, Marji finds that both she and her homeland have changed too much\, and she must decide where she truly belongs. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20091207T184751Z LAST-MODIFIED:20091207T184844Z DTSTAMP:20091207T184751Z UID:5f4f91a4-1bd0-461c-b872-90b1f269f3e4 SUMMARY:CAFE CLOSED FOR XMAS DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20091226T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20091226T170000 DESCRIPTION:(Saturday cafe returns 9th January) END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20091207T184751Z LAST-MODIFIED:20091207T184849Z DTSTAMP:20091207T184847Z UID:3b6ea546-8d43-4068-8153-f3eff8a84910 SUMMARY:CAFE CLOSED FOR XMAS DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20100102T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20100102T170000 DESCRIPTION:(Saturday cafe returns 9th January) END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20091207T184854Z LAST-MODIFIED:20091207T190257Z DTSTAMP:20091207T184854Z UID:df1a900b-3a42-40f9-8f24-1ad1a74b1086 SUMMARY:Xmas Party & Fundraiser for Animal Welfare in Egypt (Merseyside Animal Rights) DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20091219T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20091219T235500 X-MOZ-GENERATION:1 DESCRIPTION:PLEASE join us in this Christmas party\, a time to all get together and let our hair down whilst raising money for a very worthy cause! Egyptian theme - fancy dress is optional\; give it a go - a prize will be given to the best outfit!!\n\n£3 suggested donation on the door. Bring your own drink. \n\nA couple of months ago two people connected to the Liverpool Social Centre went to Egypt and were horrified by the number of street dogs in the area they were staying. Local authorities cull the dogs every few months. Following this\, we have decided to hook up with an Egyptian animal welfare group and fundraise to neuter the street animals and show the Government over there that this is the answer\, not poisoning or shooting them\, leaving them to suffer and die in pain.\n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20091207T190347Z LAST-MODIFIED:20091207T190542Z DTSTAMP:20091207T190347Z UID:f2bc8033-3ea4-40cf-904a-702568552613 SUMMARY:Documentary Film Night: \"Peaceable Kingdom\" DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20091210T200000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20091210T223000 DESCRIPTION:Regular film night\, 2nd & 4th Tuesdays of the month. Free entry\, all welcome. Teas & coffees available by donation\n\nA riveting story of transformation and healing\, PEACEABLE KINGDOM: THE JOURNEY HOME (2009) explores the awakening conscience of several people who grew up in traditional farming culture and who have now come to question the basic premises of their inherited way of life. \n\nPresented through a woven tapestry of memories\, music\, and breathtaking accounts of life-altering moments\, the film provides insight into the farmers' sometimes amazing connections with the animals under their care\, while also making clear the complex web of social\, psychological and economic forces that have led them to their present dilemma.\n\n\n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20091014T101743Z LAST-MODIFIED:20091212T090615Z DTSTAMP:20091212T090557Z UID:3a88b358-e4d6-4e0e-b827-d26c61fe6e2d SUMMARY:Doundounba Workshop (Drumming) DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20100110T103000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20100110T163000 DESCRIPTION:A great chance to learn the djembe and dundun phrases for the most important and traditional of all the Malinke rhythms\, the 'dounduonbas'......this 'dance of the strong men' is a life times work!\n\nSuitable for more experienced players\; Vieux and Ibro will guide you through phrasing for djembe and dunduns and demonstrate the complex relationship between them and help you to understand the solo and its placement within the rhythm.\n\nVieux is an outstanding player and his knowledge of doundounba is exceptional having travelled and played throughout Mali and Guinea as both a doun player and a soloist for many prominent troupes. \n\nIbro is an exceptional dundun player who wowed everyone through the summer at festivals across the UK. Originally from Guinea Conakry\, Ibro is the UK’s leading dundunfola and an inspiring teacher. \n\nVieux and Ibro have worked together in one of Senegal’s premiere ballets “Bougarabou\,” and are re-united for this exciting opportunity.\n\nBooking Information\n\nThe workshop costs just £25 for the day. \n\nAdvanced booking is essential to guarantee a place\, please contact Anna by telephone: 07754 410 541\nor email: anna@ibrosoumah.com\n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20091014T101743Z LAST-MODIFIED:20091212T090638Z DTSTAMP:20091212T090557Z UID:bad09cad-f7b1-4667-80bb-2a89e18364c9 SUMMARY:Doundounba Workshop (Drumming) DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20100207T103000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20100207T163000 DESCRIPTION:A great chance to learn the djembe and dundun phrases for the most important and traditional of all the Malinke rhythms\, the 'dounduonbas'......this 'dance of the strong men' is a life times work!\n\nSuitable for more experienced players\; Vieux and Ibro will guide you through phrasing for djembe and dunduns and demonstrate the complex relationship between them and help you to understand the solo and its placement within the rhythm.\n\nVieux is an outstanding player and his knowledge of doundounba is exceptional having travelled and played throughout Mali and Guinea as both a doun player and a soloist for many prominent troupes. \n\nIbro is an exceptional dundun player who wowed everyone through the summer at festivals across the UK. Originally from Guinea Conakry\, Ibro is the UK’s leading dundunfola and an inspiring teacher. \n\nVieux and Ibro have worked together in one of Senegal’s premiere ballets “Bougarabou\,” and are re-united for this exciting opportunity.\n\nBooking Information\n\nThe workshop costs just £25 for the day. \n\nAdvanced booking is essential to guarantee a place\, please contact Anna by telephone: 07754 410 541\nor email: anna@ibrosoumah.com\n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20091014T101743Z LAST-MODIFIED:20091212T090712Z DTSTAMP:20091212T090557Z UID:8e652ae8-3520-4683-a750-01264a4bbe64 SUMMARY:Doundounba Workshop (Drumming) DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20100307T103000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20100307T163000 DESCRIPTION:A great chance to learn the djembe and dundun phrases for the most important and traditional of all the Malinke rhythms\, the 'dounduonbas'......this 'dance of the strong men' is a life times work!\n\nSuitable for more experienced players\; Vieux and Ibro will guide you through phrasing for djembe and dunduns and demonstrate the complex relationship between them and help you to understand the solo and its placement within the rhythm.\n\nVieux is an outstanding player and his knowledge of doundounba is exceptional having travelled and played throughout Mali and Guinea as both a doun player and a soloist for many prominent troupes. \n\nIbro is an exceptional dundun player who wowed everyone through the summer at festivals across the UK. Originally from Guinea Conakry\, Ibro is the UK’s leading dundunfola and an inspiring teacher. \n\nVieux and Ibro have worked together in one of Senegal’s premiere ballets “Bougarabou\,” and are re-united for this exciting opportunity.\n\nBooking Information\n\nThe workshop costs just £25 for the day. \n\nAdvanced booking is essential to guarantee a place\, please contact Anna by telephone: 07754 410 541\nor email: anna@ibrosoumah.com\n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20091014T101743Z LAST-MODIFIED:20091212T090747Z DTSTAMP:20091212T090557Z UID:3255d619-2376-4af3-819c-5c7d8277493d SUMMARY:Doundounba Workshop (Drumming) DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20100502T103000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20100502T163000 DESCRIPTION:A great chance to learn the djembe and dundun phrases for the most important and traditional of all the Malinke rhythms\, the 'dounduonbas'......this 'dance of the strong men' is a life times work!\n\nSuitable for more experienced players\; Vieux and Ibro will guide you through phrasing for djembe and dunduns and demonstrate the complex relationship between them and help you to understand the solo and its placement within the rhythm.\n\nVieux is an outstanding player and his knowledge of doundounba is exceptional having travelled and played throughout Mali and Guinea as both a doun player and a soloist for many prominent troupes. \n\nIbro is an exceptional dundun player who wowed everyone through the summer at festivals across the UK. Originally from Guinea Conakry\, Ibro is the UK’s leading dundunfola and an inspiring teacher. \n\nVieux and Ibro have worked together in one of Senegal’s premiere ballets “Bougarabou\,” and are re-united for this exciting opportunity.\n\nBooking Information\n\nThe workshop costs just £25 for the day. \n\nAdvanced booking is essential to guarantee a place\, please contact Anna by telephone: 07754 410 541\nor email: anna@ibrosoumah.com\n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20091014T101743Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100605T230103Z DTSTAMP:20091212T090557Z UID:9b096700-9f4d-4c6f-a2f3-91ca37aa1cf2 SUMMARY:CANCELLED - Doundounba Workshop (Drumming) DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20100606T103000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20100606T163000 DESCRIPTION:Sorry\, this month's workshop has been cancelled due to lack of participants - to book for the next one on 4th July \nplease contact Anna by telephone: 07754 410 541\nor email: anna@ibrosoumah.com\n X-MOZ-GENERATION:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20091014T101743Z LAST-MODIFIED:20091212T090824Z DTSTAMP:20091212T090557Z UID:384a0830-2611-418d-8ba0-f4ec2ba3f0c5 SUMMARY:Doundounba Workshop (Drumming) DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20100704T103000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20100704T163000 DESCRIPTION:A great chance to learn the djembe and dundun phrases for the most important and traditional of all the Malinke rhythms\, the 'dounduonbas'......this 'dance of the strong men' is a life times work!\n\nSuitable for more experienced players\; Vieux and Ibro will guide you through phrasing for djembe and dunduns and demonstrate the complex relationship between them and help you to understand the solo and its placement within the rhythm.\n\nVieux is an outstanding player and his knowledge of doundounba is exceptional having travelled and played throughout Mali and Guinea as both a doun player and a soloist for many prominent troupes. \n\nIbro is an exceptional dundun player who wowed everyone through the summer at festivals across the UK. Originally from Guinea Conakry\, Ibro is the UK’s leading dundunfola and an inspiring teacher. \n\nVieux and Ibro have worked together in one of Senegal’s premiere ballets “Bougarabou\,” and are re-united for this exciting opportunity.\n\nBooking Information\n\nThe workshop costs just £25 for the day. \n\nAdvanced booking is essential to guarantee a place\, please contact Anna by telephone: 07754 410 541\nor email: anna@ibrosoumah.com\n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20091212T091829Z LAST-MODIFIED:20091212T091924Z DTSTAMP:20091212T091829Z UID:5cd95892-3aab-4cfd-8e1f-0a65fc9f2728 SUMMARY:(private booking) DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20091213T123000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20091213T160000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20100105T214241Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100105T214709Z DTSTAMP:20100105T214241Z UID:11b1997b-e2f0-4eb5-9bb9-b8048a72ca4c SUMMARY:Sunday Film & Food: \"Give Us The Moon\" (NOTE: EARLIER START TIME) DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20100110T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20100110T200000 DESCRIPTION:Fortnightly free film screening. Vegan food from 5pm (donations for food appreciated). Film starts at 6. \n\n*PLEASE NOTE NEW EARLIER START TIME*\n\nGIVE US THE MOON (VAL GUEST 1944)\n \nSet in a time of general euphoria at having won the war\, with full employment and general happiness for all (or nearly all). Peter\, the young wastrel son of a hard working hotel owner doesn't like the idea of having to work for a living. He discovers a society of ‘White Elephants’ who are quite willing to be poor as long as they don't have to work. They are protected and guided by Nina (Margaret Lockwood) and her precocious sister Heidi (Jean Simmons). The serious political undertones which Val Guest gave to the comedy pointed the way to the issue-based cinema he would develop a decade later\, and the situationist/anarchist cinema of the 1960s-1970s.\n \nDespite his father's insistence\, Peter refuses to do anything resembling work\, preferring instead to live a carefree life of extravagance\, subsidised - of course - by his father. He discovers a club of eccentric misfits known as the ‘White Elephants’\, whose common bond is their refusal to work\, or to do anything that might make them a valuable member of society. The white elephants prefer to make a living by devising unusual and hilarious ways to rip off members of the public\, or ‘suckers’ as they are called within the club.\n\nThe script is as eccentric as they come\, and the dialogue is very witty. The best things about this film though\, are the wonderful characters and their strange and sober logic. For example\, Nina tells Peter that she wants her daughter to go to school\, because school is where people are taught to be stupid. She wants her daughter to become stupid\, she says\, because only stupid people are happy. Thus the White Elephants provide an oblique and refreshing view of the world - a cynical picture of humanity from a fencesitter's perspective. The cares of the world do not bother this family of oddballs and by the end of the film\, one feels as though there is something to be said for avoiding work and contributing nothing to society. The microcosm of the White Elephants Club seems like a much more pleasant place than the world around it. This weird and wonderful film\, which is playfully directed\, should not be missed! END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20100105T214745Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100105T214807Z DTSTAMP:20100105T214745Z UID:05acacfd-7c0c-425e-bdb2-ab88bec480e8 SUMMARY:CANCELLED - Liverpool Linux User Group monthly meeting DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20100106T210000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20100106T220000 DESCRIPTION:SORRY\, MEETING CANCELLED DUE TO THE WEATHER CONDITIONS - next meeting 1st Wed in February\n\nLiverpool Linux User Group are a group of Linux and open source software users that meet on the first Wednesday of the month. If no talk is organised then we will usually organise a \"open stage\" for people to discuss projects\, current news\, or just to rant. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20100105T225243Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100105T231440Z DTSTAMP:20100105T225243Z UID:bbe35dfe-2d71-40ed-845c-00216d1db6ac SUMMARY:Liverpool Antifascists Benefit Gig DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20100116T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20100116T225500 DESCRIPTION:Fundraiser\n\nLocal bands: The Wasters\, Just Panic\, Chief\, Mashemon\n\nPlus punk/reggae DJ\n\nentry donation £3.50 / £4 waged. Bring your own drink. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20100110T223049Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100110T224836Z DTSTAMP:20100110T223049Z UID:ce6101ae-5657-466e-bc22-fac7c8abf043 SUMMARY:CANCELLED - no sewing club tonight\, sorry DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20100111T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20100111T210000 DESCRIPTION:SORRY\, SEWING CLUB CANCELLED DUE TO THE WEATHER - NEXT MEETING IS 25TH JAN\n\nWant to meet other people who are into sewing? Then join our sewing club for people of all abilities\, including show & tell\, problem solving\, inspiration and general sewing fun and of course a good old fashioned natter over a cuppa! \n\n(2nd & 4th Mondays of the month)\n\n\nFor More Information\, E-mail:\n Beth at beth@bethedmondson.co.uk or Jacqui at Jacqui.stan@tiscalli.co.uk\n\nhttp: //burdastyleclubs.ning.com/group/bscliverpooluk\n\n\n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20100110T223418Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100110T223619Z DTSTAMP:20100110T223418Z UID:760f3a96-51ad-4811-8d05-810b99a719d9 SUMMARY:Documentary Night: \"Who Killed The Electric Car?\" DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20100114T200000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20100114T220000 DESCRIPTION:A regular film night\, 2nd & 4th Thursdays of the month. Free entry\, all welcome. Teas & coffees available by donation\n\nWHO KILLED THE ELECTRIC CAR? (2006)\n\nIt was among the fastest\, most efficient production cars ever built. It ran on electricity\, produced no emissions and catapulted American technology to the forefront of the automotive industry. The lucky few who drove it never wanted to give it up. So why did General Motors crush its fleet of EV1 electric vehicles in the Arizona desert? \n\nWHO KILLED THE ELECTRIC CAR? chronicles the life and mysterious death of the GM EV1\, examining its cultural and economic ripple effects and how they reverberated through the halls of government and big business. \n\nThe year is 1990. California is in a pollution crisis. Smog threatens public health. Desperate for a solution\, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) targets the source of its problem: auto exhaust. Inspired by a recent announcement from General Motors about an electric vehicle prototype\, the Zero Emissions Mandate (ZEV) is born. It required 2% of new vehicles sold in California to be emission-free by 1998\, 10% by 2003. It is the most radical smog-fighting mandate since the catalytic converter. \n\nWith a jump on the competition thanks to its speed-record-breaking electric concept car\, GM launches its EV1 electric vehicle in 1996. It was a revolutionary modern car\, requiring no gas\, no oil changes\, no mufflers\, and rare brake maintenance (a billion-dollar industry unto itself). A typical maintenance checkup for the EV1 consisted of replenishing the windshield washer fluid and a tire rotation.\n\nBut the fanfare surrounding the EV1’s launch disappeared and the cars followed. Was it lack of consumer demand as carmakers claimed\, or were other persuasive forces at work? \n\nFast forward to 6 years later... The fleet is gone. EV charging stations dot the California landscape like tombstones\, collecting dust and spider webs. How could this happen? Did anyone bother to examine the evidence? Yes\, in fact\, someone did. And it was murder. \n\nThe electric car threatened the status quo. The truth behind its demise resembles the climactic outcome of Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express: multiple suspects\, each taking their turn with the knife. WHO KILLED THE ELECTRIC CAR? interviews and investigates automakers\, legislators\, engineers\, consumers and car enthusiasts from Los Angeles to Detroit\, to work through motives and alibis\, and to piece the complex puzzle together. \n\nWHO KILLED THE ELECTRIC CAR? is not just about the EV1. It’s about how this allegory for failure—reflected in today’s oil prices and air quality—can also be a shining symbol of society’s potential to better itself and the world around it. While there’s plenty of outrage for lost time\, there’s also time for renewal as technology is reborn in WHO KILLED THE ELECTRIC CAR?\n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20100110T223724Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100110T224035Z DTSTAMP:20100110T223724Z UID:2f023148-28e2-4150-8f59-394f346334e9 SUMMARY:Documentary Night: \"Beyond Hatred\" DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20100128T200000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20100128T220000 DESCRIPTION:A regular film night\, 2nd & 4th Thursdays of the month. Free entry\, all welcome. Teas & coffees available by donation\n\nBEYOND HATRED (2005)\n\nOn the night of Sept. 13\, 2002\, in Leo Legrange Park in Rheims\, France\, three neo-Nazi skinheads\, the youngest no more than 16\, the oldest in his early 20s\, beat and killed 29-year-old François Chenu. The three had made a habit of roaming the city to beat up Arabs\, Jews\, \"fags\" — anyone they deemed different and \"subhuman.\" That night\, they'd been searching for an Arab but instead came upon François\, who\, when asked\, answered without hesitation that he was gay. He fought back against his attackers and\, after being savagely beaten\, he called them cowards. This set off a second wave of beating that led to François' death by drowning in a nearby creek. \n\nThe story of Beyond Hatred is hauntingly expressed by filmmaker Olivier Meyrou in the absence of photos or home movies of the murdered young man. It begins more than two years after the crime\, as the trial of the confessed killers approaches. For a non-French audience\, the film offers a surprising snapshot of the French way of justice. But mostly\, Beyond Hatred is the story of François' parents and siblings and their struggle to understand what they cannot excuse and to rise above hatred and the desire for revenge. The Chenus fight not only to save themselves from bitterness\, but also to uphold the principles of tolerance for which François lived and died.\n\nShot in direct-cinema style\, with dark tones and long\, evocative takes\, Beyond Hatred forgoes third-party narration to let the story be told by those who must deal with the crime's aftermath — the lawyers and prosecutors as they seek justice through the courts\, those who knew the victim and his murderers and even the father of one of the perpetrators. Most of all we hear from the Chenus: François' father\, Jean-Paul\, and mother\, Marie-Cecile\, and his two brothers and two sisters\, as they try to reconstruct what happened and face the horror of François' last minutes.\n\nMeyrou has made adept cinematic choices that let us feel the family's experience — such as the long\, still shot of the park at night shown while in voice-over François' sister Aurelie describes how the family learned of the murder. What is even more striking than the Chenu family's effort to know what happened is their desire to understand why it happened. They want justice\, certainly\, and do not equate understanding with excusing. Yet it is clear that for the Chenus\, understanding that such a crime does not come out of nowhere is a way of preventing the killers from wiping out the family's own humanist values along with their son and brother.\n\nIn an expression of forbearance that may bewilder some\, Jean-Paul sets the tone from the very beginning of Beyond Hatred when he describes the senseless murder of his son as \"a failure of the society I live in and am part of.\" This is an exceptional family. Its members are acutely aware of what they describe as their \"humanist values\,\" as well as the emotional and psychic trauma they have been dealt by the crime. The Chenu family could not be further in spirit from the three youths who killed François.\n\nIn such an environment\, when everyone from the Chenus to the lawyers wants to understand the true nature of the crime\, the facts quickly spill out. This crime certainly did not come out of nowhere. The three accused (never seen in the film)\, Michael Regnier\, Fabien Lavenus and Franck Billette (the youngest)\, came from eerily dysfunctional families in which neo-fascist beliefs and activities had been tolerated or encouraged. (Franck's parents eventually are sentenced to 30 months in prison for their dereliction of duty toward their son.) The poor state of the young men's education\, their exposure to familial violence and disorder and their vulnerability to older mentors with ideologies of hate and violence are chillingly exposed.\n\nWith such revelations\, the trial ultimately turns on two questions: whether the three skinheads intended to murder or \"lost control\,\" and even more importantly\, whether any of them\, especially the youngest\, has the potential to redeem himself. As the trial progresses\, the young men's awareness of their crime's gravity and the matter of whether they feel any genuine remorse\, become subjects of intense conversation between the lawyers and the Chenus.\n\nThe murderers receive stiff sentences — though they are not stiff enough for some of the family\, and by American standards they may seem light. (There is no death penalty in France and none of the Chenus believe in the death penalty.) And there is hope\, especially for Franck\, that he may emerge from prison and redeem his life.\n\nFrançois' parents write an open letter to the convicted killers\, which they read on camera in Beyond Hatred. They tell the imprisoned men how\, during the trial\, they \"attempted to decipher your logic of hate but were unable to do so.\" They point by contrast to their son's trust in others because \"he believed in man\, whatever his color\, religion or customs.\" And yet\, \"we also heard from your lips words that suggested that something was changing inside you.\" The Chenus close with an extraordinary wish for the men's success in forging \"a future . . . without hatred and violence.\"\n\nThe Chenus' struggle to be true to their values in the face of great injustice and tragedy is a stunning testament to humanity's power to find a way past the violence that plagues modern society. Their story is an attempt to throw light into the dark\, hollow center left by François' murder.\n\n\"I wanted to show how\, In the course of the trial proceedings\, the family changes\,\" says director Olivier Meyrou. \"The grief is gradually replaced by a desire to understand the murderers\, who come from socially and culturally underprivileged families and have been exploited by right-wing\, radical groups. The film testifies to the family's effort to forgive them. This is a humanistic film about a very complex theme — hatred and the need for justice and forgiveness to combat it.\" END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20100110T224314Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100110T224646Z DTSTAMP:20100110T224314Z UID:7c8ced32-3694-4b18-9182-4e1cd5cd854d SUMMARY:Sunday Film & Food: \"Inside I'm Dancing\" DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20100124T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20100124T200000 DESCRIPTION:Fortnightly free film screening. Vegan food from 5pm (donations for food appreciated). Film starts at 6.\n\nINSIDE I'M DANCING (2004)\n\n\"It'll all end in tears\,\" mutters Siobhan (Romola Garai) as she accepts a job caring for the disabled heroes of Irish comedy-drama Inside I'm Dancing. True enough\, director Damien O'Donnell adds a healthy dose of saline sentiment to his engaging tale of disadvantaged Dubliners striking out on their own. Thanks to strong performances and some bracing one-liners\, O'Donnell makes a convincing case for equality for disabled people in society\, though casting able-bodied actors as his wheelchair-driving protagonists unavoidably weakens his argument.\n\nMichael (Steven Robertson) has cerebral palsy and has spent all his life in residential care. Disowned by his successful lawyer father (Gerard McSorley)\, he knows nothing beyond the walls of the Carrigmore Home for the Disabled (\"a special home for special people\") and its kind but firm staff of nurses. Until\, that is\, he meets new resident Rory (James McAvoy)\, a wise-cracking rebel who will not allow his Duchenne muscular dystrophy to sap his spirit.\n\nRory and Michael become firm friends and eventually persuade the authorities to give them a personal living allowance. After the soul-crushing regime at Carrigmore\, their ground-floor flat on a rundown housing estate is\, in Rory's words\, \"cripple heaven\". But problems start when Michael falls hopelessly in love with Siobhan\, the brassy young woman they've hired as their personal assistant.\n\nComparisons to Rain Man and My Left Foot are inevitable\, especially with the latter's Brenda Fricker turning up in a supporting role. Yet O'Donnell’s film doesn't suffer from these parallels\, making a virtue of its familiar theme of indomitable individuals rising above cruel circumstance. Bright Young Things star McAvoy capably conveys Rory's immobile frustration\, while newcomer Robertson flawlessly essays Michael's mangled limbs and unintelligible speech. Both\, however\, are bested by Garai\, who manages to be infinitely more moving and credible with only a fraction of her co-stars' technique END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20100110T224934Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100110T230527Z DTSTAMP:20100110T224934Z UID:08c5576b-12bb-42c9-bc84-42978a092f9f SUMMARY:Sunday Film & Food: \"The Nasty Girl\" DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20100207T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20100207T200000 DESCRIPTION:Fortnightly free film screening. Vegan food from 5pm (donations for food appreciated). Film starts at 6.\n\nTHE NASTY GIRL (1990)\n\n[A] really remarkable film by German filmmaker\nMichael Verhoven--called\, somewhat inaccurately in English\, \"The Nasty Girl.\" A closer translation would be the horrible or terrible or perhaps better yet the terrifying girl\, because it is terror that she strikes in the hearts of her fellow citizens of Pfiltzling when she starts writing an essay entitled \"My Hometown During the Third Reich.\" The film's chilling depiction of how patriarchal institutions and the powerful individuals who control them will use any means to neutralize serious threats against them will also strike terror in the hearts of feminists and others who work for radical change.\n\n Oddly enough this is a film that has been touted in ads as a comedy. That's either a misunderstanding or a misrepresentation of the film\, but one which\, at first\, the film invites. It starts out with a seemingly happy and successful young woman narrating\, in flashback\, a rather good-natured\, ironic\, satire of life in a conservative\, Catholic\, small Bavarian city in the 1950s and '60s when our heroine was a bright and a very good young girl\; it pokes fun at the hypocrisy that won't allow a pregnant married woman to teach high school students\, for fear they would \"ask questions\" while sex is the major preoccupation of most of her students not to mention the up-standing\, up tight adult population.\n\n The films turns much more serious\, however\, when Sonja (played by Lena Stoltze) begins to ask questions of a different sort for her essay which\, she assumes\, will show how the Church in her town heroically resisted the Nazis.\n\n Only a few people will talk to her and nearly everybody\nscapegoats the former Mayor as the only real Nazi. But a few people drop hints of a cover up. So some people are doubtless relived when she misses the essay deadline\, and\, distracted by graduation\, romance\, marriage and young children\, drops the project--for several years. She goes back to it in a much more mature fashion\, however\, when she enrolls at the university to study history with one of the most respected figures in the town\, who also publishes the local newspaper. In her research she discovers an incident in which two unidentified priests had denounced a Jewish merchant as an enemy of the Reich and sent him to a death camp. To find out who they were she needs access to the town archives and runs into a bureaucratic stone wall\, even after winning several law suits to gain access. By this time neo-Nazi hate groups and many of the \"good citizens\" of this ever-so-gemutlich little town are leaving hate messages and threats on her and her family's lives on her answering machine\, not to mention heaving bombs through her window.\n\n This is the only film I have ever seen in which a woman is depicted as being single-mindedly obsessed by the pursuit of the truth. That's a discourse that has always been reserved for the male hero. Several times Sonya is almost diverted from her quest by the temptations society dangles in front of women to keep us in our places. Her husband does the prudent thing and moves away\, but though she loves him she does not follow him. She wrestles with the fact that she's exposing her kids to real life-threatening danger\, but she presses on. She's afraid for her own life and longs to live to a ripe old age\, but still she continues. The most tempting snare of all comes when the town stops trying to destroy her and instead tries to coopt her by doing an about face and honoring her as it's fearless heroine. She almost buys it\, but then\, in a scene that's perhaps unique in film history\, as she is being immortalized--that is\, immobilized--at the dedication of a statue in her honor\, she realizes it's just another way of silencing her and she cuts loose with a tirade that will make feminist hearts swell with pride. Yet that ringing discourse of resistance is short-lived as we see her\, in the final sequence\, fleeing with her daughter to the tree which has frequently been her solace\, on the outskirts of town. The look in her eyes is one of terror. She knows\, perhaps\, that her outburst of truth-telling\, however empowering it might have been\, gives the patriarchy yet another tool to use against her. Now they can say she is mad. See this film. It speaks truths\, terrible\, terrible truths.\n\nReview from:\nhttp: //www.mith2.umd.edu/WomensStudies/FilmReviews/nasty-girl-mcalister\n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20100113T142740Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100113T142952Z DTSTAMP:20100113T142740Z UID:32c5edd2-13ff-4d6c-bbf1-a91171a58e73 SUMMARY:CANCELLED - Merseyside CND meeting DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20100113T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Guernsey:20100113T190000 DESCRIPTION:CANCELLED DUE TO ICY WEATHER - monthly group meeting for Merseyside CND END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20100118T133012Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100118T133505Z DTSTAMP:20100118T133012Z UID:ff36e0de-031d-4400-bc85-dde71b80e14e SUMMARY:Anti-Tory Meeting (Merseyside Animal Rights) DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20100119T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20100119T213000 DESCRIPTION:There many reasons to be anti-Tory so we can campaign against them for any reason. They plan to overturn the anti-hunting bill which is why the animal rights group is holding\nthis meeting\, everyone is welcome so if you want to stop Tory power\, come along! \n\nhttp: //www.merseysideanimalrights.co.uk\n TRANSP:OPAQUE END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20100118T132826Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100118T133523Z DTSTAMP:20100118T132826Z UID:39df7e89-fddd-4907-acb9-9562328720bb SUMMARY:Cafe Collective Meeting DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20100126T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20100126T193000 DESCRIPTION:social centre meeting for cafe volunteers to discuss running the cafe & providing food for events TRANSP:OPAQUE END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20100121T195502Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100121T200350Z DTSTAMP:20100121T195502Z UID:e9ba0b40-b7de-43b5-aa07-40bf9e5d89ad SUMMARY:Book Group DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20100123T140000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20100123T160000 DESCRIPTION:Book group meeting - for more info contact Jo - \n07810887471\n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20100121T195502Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100206T093624Z DTSTAMP:20100206T091239Z UID:3c6342c8-d238-4a3d-913a-eb00a307924c SUMMARY:Book Group: discussing \"How To Be Free\" by Tom Hodgkinson DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20100227T130000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20100227T150000 DESCRIPTION:Book group meeting\, all welcome - for more info contact Jo 07810887471\n\nthis month discussing: \n\nHow To Be Free\nby Tom Hodgkinson\n\nbook details: \n\"BACK IN 1983\, in an inter view with broadcaster Brian Walden\, Mrs Thatcher caught the public imagination with her promotion of “Victorian values”:\n\nWalden: You’ve really outlined an approval of what I would call Victorian values. The sort of values\, if you like\, that helped to build the country throughout the 19th century. Now is that right?\n\nThatcher: Exactly. Very much so. Those were the values when our country became great\, but not only did our country become great internationally\, also so much advance was made in this country.\n\nNow what did the Victorians value\, exactly? Well\, the 19th century was the era of hard work\, exploitation\, greed\, chimney sweeps\, 16-hour days\, tall black hats\, money-worship and strict discipline in the home. It was the era when the dark Satanic mills destroyed the cottage industry and lives began to be lived around the clock rather than by the seasons. It was the era of steam\, coal and gas. It was the era that introduced the notion of the earth as a resource to be mined. It was the era of competitive living. It was the era of soul-deadening machinery. Anyone who doubts this has only to read Dickens.\n\nThese values motivated the Eighties and they are still the dominant ones today. Well\, I for one am thoroughly fed up with Victorian values which is why in my new book\, called How To Be Free\, I propose instead a return to medieval values.\n\nOn first sight\, this idea seems bonkers. Surely the medieval age was a time of bad diets\, corrupt priests and abject serfdom? Well\, no. This view is actually a calumnious caricature. When I started to write How To Be Free\, I decided to read Mutual Aid by the great 19th- century anarchist Prince Petr Kropotkin\, described by Oscar Wilde as one of the most cheerful men he had ever met. In Mutual Aid\, published at the same time as Darwin’s Origin of Species\, Kropotkin argues that cooperation is an essential part of animal and human life and development. He also reminds us that it was in the medieval age when the great free city-states such as Florence were created. The medievals\, he says\, valued craftsmanship\, cooperation and justice. Mutual Aid led me to read other books on medieval customs and culture\, and what I found was a society that made a sustained and conscious attempt to live fairly and justly.\"\nRead more at: http: //idler.co.uk/books/how-to-be-free/\n\n(It is of course in stock at News From Nowhere Bookshop! It's £7.99. Call into the shop or phone or email to order: 0151 708 7270 nfn@newsfromnowhere.org.uk )\n\n\n X-MOZ-GENERATION:2 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20100209T085243Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100209T085511Z DTSTAMP:20100209T085243Z UID:03545c42-d860-4b48-a2b2-f994f78e0cdb SUMMARY:Documentary Night: \"Erased - Wiped Off The Map\" (Gaza) DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20100211T200000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20100211T230000 DESCRIPTION:Regular film night - 2nd & 4th Thursdays every month @ 8pm. Free entry. \n\nTonight's film features Ewa Jasiewicz who spoke about her experiences in Gaza on a visit to Liverpool last\nsummer. l\n\nERASED – WIPED OFF THE MAP (2009)\n \nOn December 19th 2008 a group belonging to International Solidarity Movement\n(I.S.M.) departed from Cyprus bound for Palestine. Their objective was to break\nthrough the Israeli blockade on the Gaza strip.\n\nThey were the last group of foreigners that were able to enter in the territory.\nNone of them dreamt what they were going to live through in the following weeks.\nThey were there during Israel's murderous assault on a civilian population. \n \nAlberto Arce (the film-maker) travelled with the Free Gaza Movement as part of this\ngroup. He worked in solidarity with the Gazan people\, accompanied fishermen and\nfarmers to deter violence from Israeli forces\, and documented the daily impacts of\nthe siege on Gazans. Arce was in Gaza during ‘Operation Cast Lead\,' where he\nvolunteered with medical ambulances. He witnessed the devastating attacks on the\nGazan people and recorded Israeli forces shooting a medic.\n \nThe film begins with the entry of the fifth and last boat to make it to Gaza\, before\ncovering the impact of the siege and harrowing events during the 22-day assault\nincluding attacks on Civil Defence centres\, paramedics\, children\, and the UN HQ.\n\n \n\nIt is a record of a people being wiped out in front of the eyes of the world with\nAmerican money and American support\n \n X-MOZ-GENERATION:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20100217T131843Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100217T131910Z DTSTAMP:20100217T131843Z UID:af2d0b7f-f2cb-4d26-bfb7-5dff946364bc SUMMARY:Sunday Film & Food: \"3-Iron\" DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20100221T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20100221T210000 DESCRIPTION:Fortnightly free film screening. Vegan food from 5pm (donations for food appreciated). Film starts at 6.\n\n3-IRON (2004) \n \nA young loner who stays in strangers’ homes while they are away begins an unconventional non-verbal relationship with a battered wife he meets in one of the houses. After he is arrested\, he finds a creative way to outwit his prison guards. A beautiful and ethereal exploration of human relationships and communication TRANSP:OPAQUE END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20100217T132018Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100217T132124Z DTSTAMP:20100217T132018Z UID:131a6a71-916f-476c-8597-075acacc9000 SUMMARY:Sunday Film & Food: \"Norma Rae\" DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20100307T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20100307T210000 DESCRIPTION:Fortnightly free film screening. Vegan food from 5pm (donations for food appreciated). Film starts at 6.\n\nNORMA RAE (1979)\nNorma Rae Webster (Sally Field) is a minimum-wage worker in an Alabama cotton mill with Dickensian working conditions. After hearing a speech by a New York union organizer\, Norma Rae decides to join the effort to unionize her shop\, causing conflict at work and at home with her husband Sonny (Beau Bridges). The story of a woman with the courage to risk everything for what she believes is right\n\n TRANSP:OPAQUE END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20100217T132138Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100217T132232Z DTSTAMP:20100217T132138Z UID:3b2d3353-ab37-4a13-bbbf-2af3d23e05dd SUMMARY:Sunday Film & Food: \"Bicycle Thieves\" DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20100321T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20100321T210000 DESCRIPTION:Fortnightly free film screening. Vegan food from 5pm (donations for food appreciated). Film starts at 6.\n\nICYCLE THIEVES (1948)\n \nIn post-war\, poverty-stricken Rome\, a man with a wife and children to support is delighted to at last get a job\, the only condition being he must have a bicycle. On his first day the bike is stolen and he is forced to roam the streets with his young son searching for it. Filmed with non-professional actors to capture a vivid\, emotional and documentary-like depiction of the tragic misfortunes and harsh existence forced upon Italy’s citizens TRANSP:OPAQUE END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20100217T132327Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100217T132407Z DTSTAMP:20100217T132327Z UID:251d85bf-3272-4e18-b7d2-4fd9e59c25ea SUMMARY:Documentary Night: \"We Feed The World\" DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20100225T200000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20100225T220000 DESCRIPTION:A regular film night\, 2nd & 4th Thursdays of the month. Free entry\, all welcome. Teas & coffees available by donation\n\nWE FEED THE WORLD (2005)\nA film about food and globalisation\, fishermen and farmers\, long-distance lorry drivers and high-powered corporate executives\, the flow of goods and cash flow. It illustrates how the overriding pursuit of profit affects the nutritional values\, chemical and genetic hazards in our food and answers the question of what world hunger has to do with us. \n TRANSP:OPAQUE END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20100217T132450Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100217T132620Z DTSTAMP:20100217T132450Z UID:a425e6af-4322-4f0f-afc7-b41d77721cf4 SUMMARY:Documentary Night: Films & Speaker\, on Afghanistan DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20100311T200000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20100311T223000 DESCRIPTION:Regular film night\, 2nd & 4th Tuesdays of the month. Free entry\, all welcome. Teas & coffees available by donation\n\n2 Afghan films\, \"View From A Grain Of Sand\" & \"Circus For Life\"\, plus visiting speaker TRANSP:OPAQUE END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20100217T135100Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100217T135124Z DTSTAMP:20100217T135100Z UID:c33a6eb9-8854-453a-bb7d-560c58ab6b9f SUMMARY:Skill Share Day DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20100321T110000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20100321T150000 DESCRIPTION:All welcome. Skill share days are a free opportunity to learn new things from people who know how to do them. This skill share will mainly be vegan cooking\, plus knitting & sewing\, and possibly bike maintenance. If you have a skill you want to share\, you're very welcome to do so. TRANSP:OPAQUE END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20100217T135623Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100217T135649Z DTSTAMP:20100217T135623Z UID:f09c2bca-bdd0-4339-82b0-723492c86c1b SUMMARY:Skill Share Day DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20100221T110000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20100221T150000 DESCRIPTION:All welcome. Skill share days are a free opportunity to learn new things from people who know how to do them. This skill share will mainly be vegan cooking\, plus knitting & sewing\, and possibly bike maintenance. If you have a skill you want to share\, you're very welcome to do so. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20100217T135725Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100217T135755Z DTSTAMP:20100217T135725Z UID:5cbac182-08f4-480b-87bb-443d0d673d9d SUMMARY:Tidying/clearing in the social centre DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20100221T150000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20100221T170000 DESCRIPTION:Organising\, clearing & tidying up the social centre\, particularly storage areas. Please come & help if you are able! (Don't forget there'll be food from 5pm & a film at 6pm!) END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20100118T132826Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100222T214404Z DTSTAMP:20100222T214357Z UID:541cdc9b-1672-4d0d-ab0a-2738b8fd9ea4 SUMMARY:Cafe Collective Meeting DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20100223T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20100223T193000 DESCRIPTION:social centre meeting for cafe volunteers to discuss running the cafe & providing food for events TRANSP:OPAQUE END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20100225T124151Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100225T124349Z DTSTAMP:20100225T124151Z UID:659e7dc9-c356-4611-b260-a061f851b0c5 SUMMARY:Haiti Benefit Gig DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20100306T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20100306T235500 DESCRIPTION:Fundraiser for Haiti\, featuring local punk bands \n\n- Flaccid\n- The Wasters\n- Just Panic\n- Chief\n\nEntry £4 donation. Doors at 7.30pm TRANSP:OPAQUE X-MOZ-GENERATION:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20100227T182306Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100227T182510Z DTSTAMP:20100227T182306Z UID:fc8acb30-f340-46b7-ac94-b64be11753bd SUMMARY:BDS (Boycott & Divest in Israel) group meeting DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20100309T173000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20100309T183000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20100227T182849Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100227T183152Z DTSTAMP:20100227T182849Z UID:0a57eadc-c243-400f-8ed2-ad832c7481aa SUMMARY:Lpool Uni student presentations re Barcelona visit DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20100304T130000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20100304T150000 DESCRIPTION:Students from Liverpool University School for Environmental Science making presentations re their trip to Barcelona\, which included visiting social centres END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20100312T231237Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100325T180935Z DTSTAMP:20100312T231237Z UID:7f3e2836-3af3-4980-8f9c-aa48291ca00b SUMMARY:Women's Drum Circle DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20100328T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20100328T200000 DESCRIPTION:Women's monthly West African Drumming Circle led by Anna Soumah and Jan Billington. No experience or drum necessary!\n\nCome and drum\, sing\, dance (only if you want too!)\, and relax and rejuvenate both body and spirit with us!\n\nPlease bring a candle or two\, and some nibbles to share. Cost £5.\n\nSpaces are limited\, so please contact Anna to reserve your place!\n\n\ncontact Anna by telephone: 07754 410 541\nor email: anna@ibrosoumah.com\n TRANSP:OPAQUE X-MOZ-GENERATION:2 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20100227T182306Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100312T231951Z DTSTAMP:20100312T231705Z UID:5fb07628-de44-4e8a-8ca8-4f00fbee26b3 SUMMARY:BDS (Boycott & Divest in Israel) group meeting DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20100316T173000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20100316T183000 DESCRIPTION:The Boycott & Divest in Israel group campaigns for consumer\,academic etc.boycott of Israel whilst it has an apartheid constitution & continues to evict Palestinians from their land & keeps them under military\noccupation(E.Jerusalem\,W.Bank) & blockades Gaza.\n\ncontact barb50s@yahoo.co.uk TRANSP:OPAQUE END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20100318T091626Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100318T091821Z DTSTAMP:20100318T091626Z UID:2d238815-3652-427e-b986-aa41c7776f85 SUMMARY:NO FILM TODAY DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20100404T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20100404T200000 DESCRIPTION:No fortnightly film today due to Easter holiday weekend - postponed to Sun 11th April\, then on Sun 18th April as per usual schedule TRANSP:OPAQUE END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20100227T182306Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100318T091831Z DTSTAMP:20100318T091507Z UID:403a8725-89b6-4271-9e9a-253907cbfb3e SUMMARY:BDS (Boycott & Divest in Israel) group meeting (TIME TO BE CONFIRMED) DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20100417T110000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20100417T120000 DESCRIPTION:(NOTE - TIME OF MEETING NOT YET CONFIRMED)\n\nThe Boycott & Divest in Israel group campaigns for consumer\,academic etc.boycott of Israel whilst it has an apartheid constitution & continues to evict Palestinians from their land & keeps them under military\noccupation(E.Jerusalem\,W.Bank) & blockades Gaza.\n\ncontact barb50s@yahoo.co.uk TRANSP:OPAQUE X-MOZ-GENERATION:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20100318T092109Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100325T183518Z DTSTAMP:20100318T092109Z UID:32a8ddf4-53a1-42e2-894b-5517ad07214d SUMMARY:Sunday Film & Food: \"The Ruling Class\" DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20100411T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20100411T200000 DESCRIPTION:Fortnightly free film screening. Vegan food from 5pm (donations for food appreciated). Film starts at 6.\n\n(If you would like food\, please arrive well before 6 so that we can start the film on time\, thanks)\n\n(this occurrence postponed from Easter Sunday)\n\nTHE RULING CLASS (1972) \nPeter O’Toole plays the heir to a member of the House of Lords who inherits his estate. Unfortunately\, he is a mental patient who thinks he is Jesus Christ. The other members of their family plot to steal the estate from him. Murder and mayhem\nensues. A scathing and ruthless satire on Britain's social and political institutions.\n \n TRANSP:OPAQUE X-MOZ-GENERATION:2 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20100320T181921Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100325T172518Z DTSTAMP:20100320T181921Z UID:089d5ace-daaf-42a2-9eb9-ab91d5ae3857 SUMMARY:Documentary Night: \"The Soviet Story\" DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20100325T200000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20100325T220000 DESCRIPTION:A regular film night\, 2nd & 4th Thursdays of the month. Free entry\, all welcome. Teas & coffees available by donation\n\n“The Soviet Story” is a story of an Allied power\, which helped the Nazis to fight\nJews and which slaughtered its own people on an industrial scale. Assisted by the\nWest. Its crimes were made taboo\, and the complete story of Europe’s most murderous\nregime has never been told. Until now. \n\nHighlighting how early socialists advocated killing people they believed to be unfit\nfor their society and how now in Russia today there is a rise in neo Nazi fascist\ngroups which even post killings of immigrants on the internet. \n\nThe mass murder committed by the communists has been almost completely erased from\nmodern history. Communism today is commonly portrayed as rebellious\,\nanti-establishment\, and 'cool.' This film tells the real story of the communist’s\natrocities and goes deep into their eugenics philosophy.\n\nThe Soviet Story also discusses the impact of the Soviet legacy on modern day\nEurope. Listen to experts and European MPs discussing the implications of a\nselective attitude towards mass murder\; and meet a woman describing the burial of\nher new born son in a GULAG concentration camp.\n\nRare footage shot in 1990\, the last year of the USSR\, shows an abandoned Soviet\ndeath-camp in Magadan\, Siberia\, where the KGB had carried out medical experiments on\nprisoners.\n\nThe Soviet Story was filmed over 2 years in Russia\, Ukraine\, Latvia\, Germany\,\nFrance\, UK and Belgium. Material for the documentary was collected by the author\,\nEdvins Snore\, for more than 10 years. As a result\, The Soviet Story presents a truly\nunique insight into recent Soviet history\, told by people\, once Soviet citizens\, who\nhave first hand knowledge of it.\n\nThe documentary\, based on video records\, facts\, and documents\, as well as the\nopinions of history experts\, compels the international public to review the image of\nthe Soviet Union once more. The Soviet Story has already incited a stormy debate in\nthe European political milieu\, having been bitterly condemned by Russia\, which has\neven threatened to take revenge on the film’s director.\n\nHowever\, as the film makes Clear\, none of those who did (and still do) the Soviet\ndirty work has never faced justice for their crimes. The film crew interviewed more\nthan 20 experts - leading Western and Russian historians\, members of the European\nParliament\, a Soviet Secret agent\, a Soviet military intelligence colonel\, Soviet\ndissidents\, GULAG inmates\, as well as victims of the Famine-Genocide\, deportations\nand of other Soviet crimes.\n\nThe Soviet Story is a story of pain\, injustice and “realpolitik”. \n X-MOZ-GENERATION:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20100121T195502Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100325T172749Z DTSTAMP:20100320T182008Z UID:3a275a4b-eb99-4a01-81be-d34b0c2b16d1 SUMMARY:Book Group: discussing \"A Thousand Splendid Suns\" by Khaled Hosseini DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20100327T140000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20100327T160000 DESCRIPTION:Book group meeting\, all welcome - for more info contact Jo 07810887471\n\nthis month discussing: \n\nA Thousand Splendid Suns \nBy Khaled Hosseini \nISBN: 9780747585893 \n\nbook details: \nA riveting and powerful story of an unforgiving time\, an unlikely friendship and an indestructible love\n\n\nMariam is only fifteen when she is sent to Kabul to marry Rasheed. Nearly two decades later\, a friendship grows between Mariam and a local teenager\, Laila\, as strong as the ties between mother and daughter. When the Taliban take over\, life becomes a desperate struggle against starvation\, brutality and fear. Yet love can move a person to act in unexpected ways\, and lead them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with a startling heroism. \n\n\n X-MOZ-GENERATION:4 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20100325T183421Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100325T184828Z DTSTAMP:20100325T183421Z UID:caeca00a-0e77-4f89-955d-501aabc242f0 SUMMARY:Sunday Film & Food: \"It Happened Here\" DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20100418T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20100418T200000 DESCRIPTION:Fortnightly free film screening. Vegan food from 5pm (donations for food appreciated). Film starts at 6. (If you would like food\, please arrive well before 6 so that we can start the film on time\, thanks)\n\nIT HAPPENED HERE (1966)\nA realistic depiction of an alternate history in which Nazi Germany successfully invades and occupies the United Kingdom during WW2. An apolitical district nurse is relocated to London and reluctantly becomes a collaborator until her eyes are opened to the horrors of fascism. The film was made over 8 years by two teenagers with a cast of volunteers. A war film about civilians. \n (96 mins) X-MOZ-GENERATION:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20100325T183711Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100325T183811Z DTSTAMP:20100325T183711Z UID:5c4f41a0-e929-43e1-a9cc-40d0bba51c9c SUMMARY:Sunday Film & Food: \"Human Resources\" DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20100502T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20100502T200000 DESCRIPTION:Fortnightly free film screening. Vegan food from 5pm (donations for food appreciated.). Film starts at 6. \n\nPlease arrive well before 6 if you want food\, so that film can start on time\, thanks\n\nHUMAN RESOURCES (1999)\nLaurent Cantet's first film shows the dehumanizing effect of mechanical labour on the relationship between a father and his son in rural France. A business school graduate returns to his provincial hometown to take a management position in the\nfactory where his father has been working for 30 years. Filmed in a working factory with real workers and union leaders. A deeply felt human drama about class mobility\, corporate morality and the human price of contemporary economic transformations.\n(100 mins)\n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20100325T183924Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100325T184159Z DTSTAMP:20100325T183924Z UID:f36415ad-fdee-41b9-a894-f5180d4ed54d SUMMARY:Documentary Night: \"Sharkwater\" (food at 7\, film at 8) DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20100408T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20100408T210000 DESCRIPTION:Regular film night\, 2nd & 4th Tuesdays of the month. Free entry\, all welcome. Teas & coffees available by donation\n\nCome early at 7pm for vegan fish & chips! Film will start at 8pm as usual\n\nSHARKWATER (2006)\nA visually stunning portrayal of the oldest oceanic life form. Sharkwater debunks stereotypes of sharks as blood-thirsty man-eaters and exposes how they are being driven to extinction. Sharks have gone from predator to prey\, despite their central role in preventing the overconsumption of plankton by other fish\, thereby moderating global warming.\n \nPaul Watson and Sea Shepherd confront the corrupt hunting industry in Guatemala\, Ecuador and Costa Rica\, complete with police chases\, boat ramming and corrupt court systems \n \n7PM - VEGAN FISH & CHIPS\n8PM - FILM\n X-MOZ-GENERATION:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20100419T080005Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100419T080345Z DTSTAMP:20100419T080005Z UID:1f84a2c9-912e-4db9-a974-c84396ce83ab SUMMARY:Documentary Night: Taking Liberties DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20100422T200000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20100422T220000 DESCRIPTION:A regular film night\, 2nd & 4th Thursdays of the month. Free entry\, all welcome. Teas & coffees available by donation\n\nTAKING LIBERTIES (2007)\n\nRight to Protest\, Right to Freedom of Speech. Right to Privacy. Right not to be detained without charge\, Innocent Until Proven Guilty. Prohibition from Torture. TAKING LIBERTIES will reveal how these six central pillars of liberty have been systematically destroyed by New Labour\, and the freedoms of the British people stolen from under their noses amidst a climate of fear created by the media and government itself.\n\nTAKING LIBERTIES uncovers the stories the government don’t want you to hear – so ridiculous you will laugh\, so ultimately terrifying you will want to take action. Teenage sisters detained for 36 hours for a peaceful protest\; an RAF war veteran arrested for wearing an anti-Bush and Blair T-shirt\; an innocent man shot in a police raid\; and a man held under house arrest for two years\, after being found innocent in court. Ordinary law-abiding citizens being punished for exercising their ‘rights’ – rights that have been fought for over centuries\, and which seem to have been extinguished in a decade.\n\nIrreverent but revelatory\, outrageous but true\, TAKING LIBERTIES combines these real stories of liberty loss with never-seen-before footage\, cheeky stunts and comment from Mark Thomas\, leading politicians\, celebrities\, human rights organisations\, academics and lawyers. X-MOZ-GENERATION:1 TRANSP:OPAQUE END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20100419T075130Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100419T080356Z DTSTAMP:20100419T075130Z UID:da96fb2d-65e2-45ab-bf77-a0f2f132fadf SUMMARY:Flix with Dick & Diane - Film Night DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20100424T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20100424T203000 DESCRIPTION:Liverpool's first and only ALTERNATIVE FILM CLUB (Cult/Underground—Trash—Horror—Exploitation—B-Movie—Camp Classics)... featuring the best in alternative and transgressive cinema. Brought to you by your friends at Chew Disco :-) TRANSP:OPAQUE END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20100419T074338Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100419T080732Z DTSTAMP:20100419T074338Z UID:34f6c652-58fa-4271-b2da-3117075d3616 SUMMARY:Dub n' Grub benefit night/Hooligan's Return DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20100423T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20100423T230000 DESCRIPTION:Donations on the door\n\nBring & share cake\nFree vegan soup - all ingredients skipped from local supermarkets\nDrinks - mix of hot\, cold & alcoholic beverages\nMusic - Dave & Joe on the mix\nDisinfo - up to date info on Huntington Lane Open Cast protest site http: //defendhuntingtonlane.wordpress.com/\, near\nTelford plus undercurrents projections\n TRANSP:OPAQUE X-MOZ-GENERATION:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20100312T231237Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100506T074347Z DTSTAMP:20100506T072427Z UID:5a218da6-2d23-454a-9b17-509434554451 SUMMARY:Women's Drum Circle DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20100509T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20100509T200000 DESCRIPTION:Women's monthly West African Drumming Circle led by Anna Soumah and Jan Billington. No experience or drum necessary!\n\nCome and drum\, sing\, dance (only if you want too!)\, and relax and rejuvenate both body and spirit with us!\n\nPlease bring a candle or two\, and some nibbles to share. Cost £5.\n\nSpaces are limited\, so please contact Anna to reserve your place!\n\n\ncontact Anna by telephone: 07754 410 541\nor email: anna@ibrosoumah.com\n TRANSP:OPAQUE X-MOZ-GENERATION:4 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20100227T182306Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100510T134537Z DTSTAMP:20100510T134448Z UID:7c06ec46-8c6e-477c-b98a-453c1bb998b4 SUMMARY:BDS (Boycott & Divest in Israel) group meeting DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20100511T173000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20100511T183000 DESCRIPTION:The Boycott & Divest in Israel group campaigns for consumer\,academic etc.boycott of Israel whilst it has an apartheid constitution & continues to evict Palestinians from their land & keeps them under military\noccupation(E.Jerusalem\,W.Bank) & blockades Gaza.\n\ncontact barb50s@yahoo.co.uk TRANSP:OPAQUE END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20100510T134551Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100517T081326Z DTSTAMP:20100510T134551Z UID:61d3f8ad-9fa5-4730-a72a-404deceadb4b SUMMARY:Acoustic Punk Gig: Fucked By Thieves / Sam Solo / Al Baker DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20100519T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20100519T235500 DESCRIPTION:Top notch vegan music and acoustic food! Feat: xfuckedbythievesx (that's the name of his myspace page) and Sam Solo\, ambitious US vegan punks touring the world. Also special guest\; punk folk Manc - Al Baker!! making up for his no show on mayday. Also - brilliant food. Bring a drink if you want. Donations\, thanks.\n\nhttp: //www.myspace.com/xfuckedbythievesx \n\n(doors & food from 7.30pm) TRANSP:OPAQUE X-MOZ-GENERATION:2 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20100510T134755Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100517T080649Z DTSTAMP:20100510T134755Z UID:99e858de-afe3-45ad-9f0e-e00fc323fd99 SUMMARY:Merseyside Animal Rights Fundraiser Dinner ATTACH:http://www.merseysideanimalrights.co.uk/ DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20100521T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20100521T230000 DESCRIPTION:3 course vegan meal\, fundraiser for Merseyside Animal Rights\n\nTickets £10\, available from News From Nowhere Bookshop\n\nPlus a raffle\, 5 tickets for £1.\n\n TRANSP:OPAQUE X-MOZ-GENERATION:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20100510T134718Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100510T135203Z DTSTAMP:20100510T134718Z UID:a1d02059-e57c-4432-ab06-0630af5cf5f6 SUMMARY:Sunday Film & Food: \"Waltz With Bashir\" DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20100516T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20100516T200000 DESCRIPTION:Fortnightly free film screening. Vegan food from 5pm (donations for food appreciated.). Film starts at 6. \n\nPlease arrive well before 6 if you want food\, so that film can start on time\, thanks\n\nWALTZ WITH BASHIR (2008)\n\nOne night at a bar\, an old friend tells director Ari Folman about a recurring nightmare in which he is chased by 26 vicious dogs. Every night\, the same number of beasts. The two men conclude that there’s a connection to their Israeli Army mission in the first Lebanon War of the early eighties. Ari is surprised that he can’t remember a thing anymore about that period of his life.\n\nIntrigued by this riddle\, he decides to meet and interview old friends and comrades around the world. He needs to discover the truth about that time and about himself. As Ari delves deeper and deeper into the mystery\, his memory begins to creep up in surreal images …\n TRANSP:OPAQUE X-MOZ-GENERATION:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20100510T135313Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100520T081410Z DTSTAMP:20100510T135313Z UID:096bd69f-c57d-4497-8ed2-8a570f83f547 SUMMARY:Honduras Info Night DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20100526T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20100526T223000 DESCRIPTION:Social Movements in Honduras have been growing in importance and relevance over a\nnumber of years.\nThen on 28 June last year the country experienced a military-backed coup\, prompting\na political crisis and a severe deterioration in respect of human rights and the\nrule of law.\n\nDominic McCann was part of a group of 4 people from the UK who travelled to Honduras\nduring the March 2010 in order to visit organisations and individuals involved in\nthe resistance to the coup.\n\nDominic will report on the key groups involved in the resistance\, the background to\nthe coup and the events of the past 11 months in Honduras. International Solidarity\nis also an important factor and the presentation will also report back on how funds\nfrom the Liverpool Social Centre have been donated to the Afro-Honduran community\nradio project called Radio Faluma Bimetu (Radio Sweet Coconut).\n\nThe presentation will include photos and audio interviews recorded in Honduras as\nwell as a short video from the Real News Network.\n\nVegan food will be served\, with proceeds going to Radio Falum Bimetu TRANSP:OPAQUE X-MOZ-GENERATION:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20100510T135730Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100510T135811Z DTSTAMP:20100510T135730Z UID:af4062c8-6159-4e50-895f-b70e81e4b85f SUMMARY:Documentary Night: \"Bill Hicks: United States of Advertising\" DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20100513T200000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20100513T220000 DESCRIPTION:Regular film night\, 2nd & 4th Tuesdays of the month. Free entry\, all welcome. Teas & coffees available by donation\n\n\"Bill Hicks: United States of Advertising\"\n\nThis is Bill Hicks' LIVE final televised interview where he appeared on the Austin\, Texas public access television show CapZeyeZ\, hosted by Metal Dave. He appeared on this interview prior to his performance at the Laff Stop at which his album \"Rant in E Minor\" was recorded. With this interview we are privileged with some of Hicks' intuitive criticisms and \"fresh\" material\, by which I mean stuff that isn't included in the video and audio recordings of his stand-up acts\, including his perspective toward his censored performances on Letterman which were deemed \"unsuitable\" for the audience- due to jokes he made about pro-life (who advertise during Letterman's show- hence the name...United States of Advertising). In the latter half of the show Hicks takes call-in questions from audience members most of who ask the same damn question\, though a couple ask questions that illicit some hilarious\, critical and intuitive responses from Hicks. Some (like the guy from metal band Ed Gein) prove that Texans are among the most ignorant of all Americans\, with Hicks being an exception of course. A comment near the beginning of the interview and jokes about his friends from Austin provide evidence for his resentment of being considered a \"Texan\" (or American in general). This is an amazing and entertaining interview that can't be missed by any Hicks fan. He truly is the most brilliant comic to have ever lived and graced humanity with his thoughts. TRANSP:OPAQUE END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20100510T135822Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100510T135848Z DTSTAMP:20100510T135822Z UID:49d268a6-f947-4b0e-a0f6-965ba8fe078f SUMMARY:Group meeting: Red Rope DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20100618T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20100618T170000 TRANSP:OPAQUE END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20100510T135905Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100510T135929Z DTSTAMP:20100510T135905Z UID:4fda4856-da67-46d8-9264-53ba45fe3581 SUMMARY:Group meeting: Liverpool Roller Birds AGM DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20100711T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20100711T150000 TRANSP:OPAQUE END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20100227T182306Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100526T220201Z DTSTAMP:20100526T215952Z UID:1277240c-7afa-4747-a9e3-92893165115c SUMMARY:BDS (Boycott & Divest in Israel) group meeting DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20100615T173000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20100615T183000 DESCRIPTION:The Boycott\, Divest & Sanctions group campaigns for consumer\,academic etc.boycott of Israel whilst it has an apartheid constitution & continues to evict Palestinians from their land & keeps them under military\noccupation(E.Jerusalem\,W.Bank) & blockades Gaza.\n\ncontact barb50s@yahoo.co.uk TRANSP:OPAQUE X-MOZ-GENERATION:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20100526T221203Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100526T221429Z DTSTAMP:20100526T221203Z UID:11e97494-5898-49dd-8d03-801d49fb88fe SUMMARY:Sunday Film & Food: \"Orlando\" DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20100530T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20100530T200000 DESCRIPTION:Fortnightly free film screening. Vegan food from 5pm (donations for food appreciated.). Film starts at 6. \n\nPlease arrive well before 6 if you want food\, so that film can start on time\, thanks\n\nORLANDO (1993)\nYoung nobleman Orlando is commanded by Queen Elizabeth I to stay forever young. The film follows him as he moves through several centuries of British history\,\nexperiencing a variety of relationships along the way\, and even changing sex\, finding happiness in becoming transgender.\n\nBased on Virginia Woolf’s feminist novel about gender inequality in society and how it has changed and stayed the same over the years. Starring Tilda Swinton & Quentin Crisp.\n\n \n\nOrlando\, a man of ideal nobility starts his search for love\, poetry\, a place in society and a meaning in life\, in and around the court of historical England in the late 16th century. The blessing of eternal life from Queen Elizabeth I enables him a long and deep philosophical quest\, accompanied by the features of \"noble\" English\nlife with a good taste for irony. Both sides of the coin are shown when Orlando\, partly fed up and disgusted with how men think and act\, returns from his ambassadorship in the Far East as exactly the same person\, but as a woman. Orlando\, a woman of ideal nobility continues her journey to realize the truth about life\, love\, and approaching one's own sex in the late 18th century England. For one who lived four hundred years and haven't aged a day\, finding humanity's forgotten need\nfor androgynity as the key to the happiness of her own as well as her daughter's. Sally Potter's adaptation of Virginia Woolf's novel not only tells the story on film\nwith brilliant visual design\, but also tries to extend the plot as Woolf would have\, had she lived to the end of the twentieth century.\n\n \n\nArguably the greatest British novelist of the 20th century\, Virginia Woolf\, who invented ‘stream of consciousness’ writing\, composed the 1928 novel ‘Orlando: A Biography’ upon which director Sally Potter's exotic film is based. Woolf's novel was written for & about the famous cross-dressing British heiress\, poet\, gardener\, feminist\, wife & mother\; yet bisexual lover to many--Vita Sackville-West--who was one of Woolf's closest friends & perhaps her lover. Woolf & Sackville-West were of\nsimilar minds about gender inequality--outraged. Woolf rebels against it as Sackville-West did in real life by portraying Orlando as outraged\, transgender &\nbisexual. \n\n \n\n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20100526T221537Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100526T221735Z DTSTAMP:20100526T221537Z UID:dd62f0a3-726f-4e10-b880-ea30e0ef8f59 SUMMARY:Documentary Night: \"The Fourth World War\" DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20100527T200000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20100527T220000 DESCRIPTION:A regular film night\, 2nd & 4th Thursdays of the month. Free entry\, all welcome. Teas & coffees available by donation\n\nTHE FOURTH WORLD WAR (2003)\nFrom the front-lines of conflicts on five continents\, The Fourth World War tells the human story of this global conflict. It brings together the images and voices of the war on the ground. It is a story of a war without end and of those who resist. Produced through a global network of independent media and activist groups\, it is a truly global film from our global movement.\n \nFilmed in Mexico\, Argentina\, South Africa\, Palestine\, Korea\, and the North\; from Seattle to Genova\, and the War on Terror in New York\, Afghanistan\, and Iraq\, The Fourth World War is the story of men and women around the world who resist being annihilated in this war.\n \nWhile our airwaves are crowded with talk of war\, narrated by generals and filmed from the noses of bombs\, the human story of this global conflict remains untold.\n \nThe documentary is made by the same group which made the excellent documentary ‘This Is What Democracy Looks Like’\, and like that movie the producers say they are indebted to Indymedia and activist groups for their help in making this. Like that film\, this one pretty much lets events speak for themselves - you are in the streets with the people struggling\, this time not in Seattle\, but in Mexico\, Palestine\, Korea\, Argentina\, South Africa and so forth. It shows how all of them have\, at their core\, the very same struggle. \n \nThis film is a war cry for change. It has something valuable to say to everyone - that one's voice\, despite how small it may seem\, can actually rise up and be heard along with thousands of others\, as long as one has the motivation to shout loudly enough. It is a successful attempt to show the side that most people never see of so many conflicts throughout the world - Israel/Palestine\, the Zapatista movement in Mexico\, and all the protesting that surrounds the meetings of the WTO\, the IMF and the G8 conferences. And it inspires you to get out and say something yourself. \n \n \n X-MOZ-GENERATION:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20100526T222023Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100526T222316Z DTSTAMP:20100526T222023Z UID:8311007f-f2e0-4936-b48f-ae4903cb2316 SUMMARY:Talk: Nina Power - author of \"One Dimensional Woman\" (TIME TO BE CONFIRMED) ATTACH:http://www.newsfromnowhere.org.uk/ DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20101022T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20101022T210000 DESCRIPTION:ACTUAL TIME TO BE CONFIRMED\n\nBook event - talk by Nina Power\, author of \"One Dimensional Woman\".\n\nPart of \"Philosophy in the City Festival.\n\nCo-hosted by News from Nowhere & Angry Women of Liverpool.\n X-MOZ-GENERATION:3 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20100526T222642Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100526T222815Z DTSTAMP:20100526T222642Z UID:820b57e8-34cb-4999-b61e-713f117a7e9c SUMMARY:Vegan Food Day DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20100529T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20100529T170000 DESCRIPTION:For National Vegetarian Week\, we are having a Vegan food day in place of the usual Cafe\, with taster plates for a pound as well as our ever popular veggie burgers and\na soup too! There'll be loads of us around to answer any veggie/vegan questions people might have\, as well as free recipe cards to take away and it'll be a really fun day - all welcome!\n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20100526T220737Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100621T073431Z DTSTAMP:20100602T161357Z UID:e07f2298-3272-4543-82ac-3fe1622e0e00 SUMMARY:Honduras Fundraiser: Meal\, Talk & Party DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20100625T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20100625T230000 DESCRIPTION:another fundraiser for Radio Faluma Bimetu in Honduras\, to support the peaceful resistance of the military coup and associated human rights abuses. The coup began on June 28th last year\, so we'd like to mark a year of resistance and show the people of Honduras that they're still not alone in their fight.\n\nThe benefit part of the night\, from 7pm onwards will be £10 a ticket\, It'll be a three course meal\, with a veganised traditional Honduran Menu of Bahai Blackbean soup\, Baleadas (Honduran Burritos) served with rice and mango salsa\, and a banana cake dessert.\n \nThen at the free part of the night from 9pm onwards\, there'll be Honduran music\, a talk about what\, more specifically\, we're raising money for and an update of the latest information on the situation in Honduras. With Ponche de Pina !\, a hot Honduran Punch on sale for £1 a cup \n\nFor tickets to the Honduran meal\, you can either email toowipic@rocketmail.com\, or pop into News from Nowhere Bookshop\n X-MOZ-GENERATION:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20100602T161938Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100602T162444Z DTSTAMP:20100602T161938Z UID:fa07d031-8d50-40e0-b674-750aa6906e42 SUMMARY:Writing group meeting DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20100616T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20100616T200000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20100602T162742Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100602T162844Z DTSTAMP:20100602T162742Z UID:d7ceb374-7660-403c-9254-64c54bd680e2 SUMMARY:Documentary Night: \"The Armenian Genocide\" DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20100610T200000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20100610T220000 DESCRIPTION:Regular film night\, 2nd & 4th Tuesdays of the month. Free entry\, all welcome. Teas & coffees available by donation. \n\nTHE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE (2006)\n\nThe Armenian Genocide is the complete story of the first Genocide of the 20th century\, when over a million Armenians died at the hands of the Ottoman Turks during World War I – an event that is still denied by Turkey to this day. This film features interviews with the leading experts in the field\, such as Pulitzer Prize-winning author Samantha Power and New York Times best-selling author Peter Balakian. The documentary includes never-before-seen historical footage of the events and key players including Rafael Lemkin telling the story of how he invented the word Genocide in the 1940s. The Armenian Genocide is narrated by Julianna Margulies and includes historical narrations by Ed Harris\, Natalie Portman\, Laura Linney\, Jared Leto\, Lou Zorich and Orlando Bloom. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20100602T163059Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100602T163554Z DTSTAMP:20100602T163059Z UID:bfca4397-4f89-41b9-b7d3-735c13ee1404 SUMMARY:Sunday Film & Food: \"Fame Is The Spur\" DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20100613T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20100613T200000 DESCRIPTION:Fortnightly free film screening. Vegan food from 5pm (donations for food appreciated.). Film starts at 6. \n\nPlease arrive well before 6 if you want food\, so that film can start on time\, thanks\n\nFAME IS THE SPUR (1947)\n\nWhen a young man (played by Michael Redgrave) from an economically depressed area of England decides that his calling is to help the beleaguered workers in his area\, he takes as his symbol a sword passed down to him by an ancestor who picked it up at the Battle of Peterloo in 1819\, where it had been used against workers. Beginning as an idealistic defender of the oppressed workers\, he rises to power in the Parliament\, where he discovers that power corrupts and he becomes the very type of politician he had originally set out to displace. X-MOZ-GENERATION:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20100602T163612Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100602T163822Z DTSTAMP:20100602T163612Z UID:aa5d34b6-df31-41c3-876f-56d47ea53bd7 SUMMARY:Sunday Film & Food: \"In This World\" DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20100627T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20100627T200000 DESCRIPTION:Fortnightly free film screening. Vegan food from 5pm (donations for food appreciated.). Film starts at 6. \n\nPlease arrive well before 6 if you want food\, so that film can start on time\, thanks\n\nIN THIS WORLD (2002)\n\nBritish director Michael Winterbottom's ambitious road movie\, in which two young Afghani cousins travel overland from Pakistan to the United Kingdom in search of a better life.\n\n Beginning with footage from an Afghani refugee camp in Pakistan and with a voiceover establishing the socio-political background\, In this World initially appears to be a topical documentary. However\, the two protagonists - Jamal and Enayat - are in fact non-professional actors\, selected from casting sessions. Writer Tony Grisoni didn't come up with a traditional screenplay: instead\, having interviewed hundreds of individuals with first-hand experiences of people-smuggling\, he assembled an outline for a fictional reconstruction.\n\nThe four month journey made by the main characters is truly an epic undertaking. Travelling on trucks and buses they traverse the deserts of Pakistan to the mountains of Kurdish Iran\, and then from Turkey to Western Europe via a container ship. (The migrants could have been smuggled by air\, obviously a far more direct option but it is also much more expensive at £20\,000 per person).\n\nShot on digital video by Marcel Zyskind before being blown up to 35mm\, and accompanied by Dario Marianelli's orchestral score\, In This World has a cinematic sweep\, immersing us in the experiences of Jamal and Enaya. We share their boredom at the endless delays\, their distrust of the succession of fixers to whom they entrust their precious money\, their apprehension at the possibility of being turned-back by the authorities at checkpoints and borders.\n\nTwo sequences linger in the mind: a perilous night-time mountain crossing during a snowstorm (photographed in night-vision black and white)\, where the guards open fire\; and the 40 hour ferry trip\, where the refugees are locked into a cramped\, airless container. They bang on the metal walls in panic and desperation\, but no one can hear their screams.\n\nMichael Winterbottom bravely challenges the 'send them all back' bile of the tabloids. By focussing on the journey taken by two Afghani refugees he allows us to see them as human beings and not just as statistics. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20100616T144755Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100616T144942Z DTSTAMP:20100616T144755Z UID:c8173795-b23e-44fd-9605-cdb3209d349e SUMMARY:NO CAFE TODAY DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20100619T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20100619T170000 DESCRIPTION:Sorry\, but the Saturday cafe will not be running today\, as many regular volunteers are away and also because the Africa Oye festival is on in Sefton Park. TRANSP:OPAQUE END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20100621T073518Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100621T073734Z DTSTAMP:20100621T073518Z UID:fd5c2250-df9a-4acf-add2-dabd5b27681e SUMMARY:NO FILM TODAY! moved to next Sunday DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20100711T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20100711T200000 DESCRIPTION:Sorry\, no film today because it clashes with the World Cup Final! We'll be showing Spike Lee's \"Bamboozled\" next Sunday instead. TRANSP:OPAQUE END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20100621T081828Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100621T081856Z DTSTAMP:20100621T081828Z UID:ab98e877-c449-441b-b547-f3c57e248276 SUMMARY:Sewing Club DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20100628T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20100628T210000 DESCRIPTION:Want to meet other people who are into sewing? Then join our sewing club for people of all abilities\, including show & tell\, problem solving\, inspiration and general sewing fun and of course a good old fashioned natter over a cuppa! \n\n(2nd & 4th Mondays of the month)\n\n\nFor More Information\, E-mail:\n Beth at beth@bethedmondson.co.uk TRANSP:OPAQUE END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20100621T081903Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100621T081954Z DTSTAMP:20100621T081903Z UID:f51bac65-1b0c-4522-a180-00513c00e1a0 SUMMARY:CANCELLED - Climate Action Group meeting DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20100621T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20100621T200000 DESCRIPTION:The Liverpool Climate Action Network meeting will not be taking place\nthis weekend as the group is traveling to Scotland to the DIY outdoor\nSkill Share event. For further information on this event see\noutdoorskillshare.noflag.org.uk\n\nFor further details on the Climate Action Network\, please e-mail\nLiverpoolCAN@riseup.net\n TRANSP:OPAQUE END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20100621T082150Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100621T082248Z DTSTAMP:20100621T082150Z UID:a1ee7bf7-fcac-4695-be19-415022ad4dd2 SUMMARY:Sewing Club RRULE:FREQ=MONTHLY;INTERVAL=1;BYDAY=4MO DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20100726T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20100726T210000 DESCRIPTION:Want to meet other people who are into sewing? Then join our sewing club for people of all abilities\, including show & tell\, problem solving\, inspiration and general sewing fun and of course a good old fashioned natter over a cuppa! \n\n(2nd & 4th Mondays of the month)\n\n\nFor More Information\, E-mail:\n Beth at beth@bethedmondson.co.uk \n\nhttp: //burdastyleclubs.ning.com/group/bscliverpooluk\n TRANSP:OPAQUE END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20100621T082713Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100621T082813Z DTSTAMP:20100621T082713Z UID:19342ab9-3c29-4373-9c4e-2133326a8c95 SUMMARY:Climate Action Network - monthly meeting RRULE:FREQ=MONTHLY;INTERVAL=1;BYDAY=3MO DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20100719T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20100719T213000 DESCRIPTION:3rd Monday every month - discussing & organising actions to help prevent catastrophic climate change\n\nAll welcome.\n\nContact: LiverpoolCAN@riseup.net TRANSP:OPAQUE END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20100621T082915Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100621T083127Z DTSTAMP:20100621T082915Z UID:eb131820-c094-49ae-a694-bbef39b6f3e0 SUMMARY:Sewing Club RRULE:FREQ=MONTHLY;INTERVAL=1;BYDAY=2MO DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20100712T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20100712T210000 DESCRIPTION:Want to meet other people who are into sewing? Then join our sewing club for people of all abilities\, including show & tell\, problem solving\, inspiration and general sewing fun and of course a good old fashioned natter over a cuppa! \n\n(2nd & 4th Mondays of the month)\n\n\nFor More Information\, E-mail:\n Beth at beth@bethedmondson.co.uk \n\nhttp: //burdastyleclubs.ning.com/group/bscliverpooluk\n TRANSP:OPAQUE X-MOZ-GENERATION:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20100623T134034Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100623T134213Z DTSTAMP:20100623T134034Z UID:0b1a381f-344c-44db-9d03-e68760974d85 SUMMARY:Documentary Night: 'Finally Got The News' & 'British Sounds' DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20100624T200000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20100624T220000 DESCRIPTION:A regular film night\, 2nd & 4th Thursdays of the month. Free entry\, all welcome. Teas & coffees available by donation. A double bill this week:\n\nFINALLY GOT THE NEWS (1970)\n\n(56 MINS)\n\nDetroit in the 1960s: the League of Revolutionary Black Workers believed that management and their union (United Auto Workers) had practically the same ends and were angry that the vast majority of UAW officials and all supervisors were white even though 85% of workers were black. Furthermore\, the black workers had the most difficult & dangerous jobs. But the League was concerned with more than eliminating this racism - it viewed itself as a revolutionary organization and emphasized the potential power of the working class. The film was made under the direct control of revolutionary working class blacks with the specific purpose of radicalizing other black workers.\n\n \n\nA film by Stewart Bird\, Rene Lichtman & Peter Gessner\n\nProduced in association with the League of Revolutionary Black Workers\n\n \n\nA time machine transporting us to the revolutionary movements of the late 1960s and early 1970s. The documentary begins with a montage of still photos and drawings from the days of slavery. We are eventually taken on a tour of auto struggles in Detroit & Flint\, Michigan\, including the Great Flint Sit-Down Strike\, often identified as the key movement in launching the unionisation drive that led to a powerful United Auto Workers (UAW). This once radical union hardly welcomes a new radical group such as the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement (DRUM) in its ranks.\n\n \n\nBy the close of the 1960s black workers began to organise independently of their UAW locals. They believed that management and their union had practically the same ends\, using the same rhetoric of cooperation. Company managers boast that cooperating with the UAW has meant no wildcat strikes and smooth production schedules.\n\n \n\nThis smoothness meant\, the black workers argued\, all white supervisors in a plant where 85% of the workers were black. Furthermore\, the black workers had the most difficult & dangerous jobs\, with a speed-up on the line. Three groups from separate plants eventually formed the League. “I don’t mind working but I do mind dying” became their unofficial motto.\n\n \n\nThis film is a classic because of its subject matter\, the League of Revolutionary Black Workers\, which\, like the Black Panthers\, exemplified the heyday of African American revolutionary activism in the late-1960s. Because the League largely confined its political activity to Detroit\, it never received the attention that the Panthers did. But its effect on Detroit\, indeed the entire auto industry\, was immense. One of the League's main aims was to address the racism of the union that represented autoworkers\, the UAW\, which officially stood for United Autoworkers\, but which the League\, with characteristic incisiveness\, said stood for U Aint White. At the time the League arose in numerous Detroit auto plants in the late 1960s\, the vast majority of UAW officials were white even though blacks constituted an increasingly large number of the plants' assembly line workers. By 1972\, the situation had changed dramatically. So rapid an opening up of the union hierarchy as well as of the ranks of management to African Americans would simply not have happened in the absence of the League\n\n \n\nBut the League was concerned with more than eliminating the racism that permeated so many aspects of Detroit's industrial and civic life. Like the Panthers\, the League viewed itself as a revolutionary organization and contributed to a late-1960s political climate in which revolution was in the air. However\, unlike the Panthers who frequently stressed the revolutionary potential of the ‘brothers on the block’\, the League emphasized the potential power of the working class. Among the smorgasbord of revolutionary\, would-be revolutionary\, and/or self-proclaimed revolutionary organizations that dotted the political landscape in the late-1960s\, none had the kind of roots among blue-collar workers that the League had. That the League failed to achieve its revolutionary goals is no more reason for minimizing its experience than there is reason to minimize the experience of the Panthers\, who\, of course\, also failed to achieve their goals.\n\n \n\nA distinctive feature of the film is that it was made under the direct control of revolutionary working class blacks with the specific purpose of radicalizing other black workers.\n\n \n\nOne major problem faced by the film-makers was the attitude of the League itself. A majority of the leadership wanted to maintain a low public profile. They feared that workers would be frightened off by film-makers covering their meetings and demos\, especially white film-makers. They were also worried that the film might be used by the company\, union & police to gather intelligence about their activities. In order to overcome this\, the decision was made to aim the film particularly at black workers\, rather than the usual white audience.\n\n \n\nThe film is also a classic because of what it says about the filmmakers themselves. As well as any film made during that time\, the film reflects the world view--warts and all-- of those who aspired to be revolutionaries: how they thought about capitalism\, racism\, and imperialism\; and the way they tried to weave that world view into the choice of people who they interviewed\, the issues they covered\, and the footage they shot. Some of the downsides of this world view are also evident from the film. Most notable\, perhaps\, is the footage dealing with black women that appears virtually as an afterthought\, an indication of the tardiness (to put it mildly) of much of the late-1960s (male-dominated) revolutionary left in understanding how the struggle against patriarchy and sexism was an integral part of the struggle against all that plagued\, and continues to plague\, the world.\n\n \n\nFinally\, the film is a classic cinematographically. No movie even comes close to portraying work on an assembly line as effectively as ‘Finally Got The News’ does. The roll of the assembly line in the body-in-white department (where pieces of sheet metal get welded together to make the car's body)\, the ubiquitous sparks from the welding guns\, and the economy of movement of one of the men manoeuvring his gun are simultaneously realistic\, poetic\, and lyrical.\n\n \n\nUnfortunately\, the film was never widely screened in Detroit due to political schisms within the League\n\n \n\nBRITISH SOUNDS (AKA SEE YOU AT MAO) (1969)\n\n(50 mins)\nA startling\, uncompromising attempt at Revolutionary Cinema\, designed as a political artifact in which Jean-Luc Godard contrives to assault the filmgoer's sensibility with a series of images and provocations. It's a bold and confrontational socialist screed made during the director's most divisive political period. Made for (and then banned from) London Weekend Television\, British Sounds is almost the purest example of agitprop in modern cinematic history.\n \nJean-Luc Godard's wildly polemical piece of political cinema\, British Sounds\, offers clear evidence at the end of the 1960s that the French nouvelle vague (New Wave) was anything but monolithic or even offered a coherent or unified philosophy of filmmaking practice and intent. Indeed Godard\, by this stage\, was at pains to distance himself from what he loudly and persistently referred to as an irrelevant and bourgeois tendency in contemporary French cinema. Godard was particularly down on any narrative cinema at this time and engaged in angry and polemical exchanges with a rather bewildered Truffaut (amongst others).\n \nCertainly British Sounds could have been made by no other director in world cinema at that time\, though Godard was opening the doors to a return to the agitprop cinema of the 1920s\, specifically that of the Soviet documentary filmmaker Dziga Vertov\, patron saint of Godard's own movie-making collective.\n \nBritish Sounds is\, in one sense\, a very long lecture (or harangue) by two filmmakers that is almost the purest example of agitprop in modern cinematic history. But it still makes fascinating viewing and sums up a period in the political life of cinema.\n \nThe street revolution of 1968 might have been over but the time was as right for a new revolutionary cinema for the new worker's movements as it was for more forceful theories like those behind Germany's Baader-Meinhof gang or Italy's Brigate Rosse (Red Brigades).\n \nThe film itself\, no longer than a TV documentary\, is certainly a startling\, uncompromising attempt at Revolutionary Cinema. It marked a new stage in the aesthetic evolution of modern cinema's most radical maverick. With this film\, Godard loosed a propagandistic audio-visual barrage on the senses\, which combined Maoism\, The Beatles\, multiple soundtracks\, a point zero of cinema style\, nudity (female\, of course)\, excerpts from Richard Nixon\, Georges Pompidou\, and The Communist Manifesto. Slogans flashed on the screen are sometimes humorous\, sometimes merely decorative\, though Godard would deny this bourgeois reading. Several extended scenes\, such as those where car factory workers discuss workplace relations\, are crisp\, simple and also an invaluable record of industrial rhetoric.\n \n\nIn the opening scene\, a ten minute long tracking shot along the MG (itself a bourgeois artifact) assembly line at Ford’s in Dagenham\, a narrator reads from The Communist Manifesto. This is followed by a woman wandering around her house naked while a narrator reads a feminist-tinged text (in what seems and purports to be an early attempt at ‘feminist cinema’\, though one constructed from a very male point of view)\, a news commentator reading a pro-capitalist rant that is repeatedly and abruptly cut off to show workers that contradict his statements\, and a group of young activists preparing protest banners while transposing communist propaganda to Beatles songs (\"You say Nixon/I say Mao\" to \"Hello Goodbye\"). It closes with a fist repeatedly punching through a British flag. It's a bold and confrontational socialist screed made during the director's most divisive political period and was banned from television.\n\n \n\nBritish Sounds is didactic and academic\, but not without artistic merit\, particularly the use of red and the jump-cutting fists that punch through the British flag repeatedly. It is also filled with speech\, whether it's a text from Engels read aloud or a newscaster talking about the necessities of burning women and children. A real agit-prop film\, but\, as Godard said\, also “a time piece.\"\n\n \n\n \n TRANSP:OPAQUE END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20100707T094905Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100728T045217Z DTSTAMP:20100707T094905Z UID:3575db04-1211-47fd-8699-08c67a621d67 SUMMARY:Sunday Film & Food RRULE:FREQ=WEEKLY;INTERVAL=2;BYDAY=SU EXDATE:20100718T160000Z EXDATE:20100801T160000Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20100718T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20100718T200000 DESCRIPTION:Fortnightly free film screening. Vegan food from 5pm (donations for food appreciated.). Film starts at 6. \n\nPlease arrive well before 6 if you want food\, so that film can start on time\, thanks X-MOZ-GENERATION:4 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20100707T095054Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100707T095232Z DTSTAMP:20100707T095054Z UID:7ecc378c-933d-419d-9589-4f5217465917 SUMMARY:Liverpool Linux User Group (1st Wed of the month) RRULE:FREQ=MONTHLY;INTERVAL=1;BYDAY=1WE DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20100707T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20100707T203000 DESCRIPTION:Liverpool Linux User Group are a group of Linux and open source software users that meet on the first Wednesday of the month. If no talk is organised then we will usually organise a \"open stage\" for people to discuss projects\, current news\, or just to rant. \n\nhttp: //livlug.org.uk/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20100707T095315Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100707T100030Z DTSTAMP:20100707T095315Z UID:a3555ff1-257d-4196-858e-816a2dcd77ad SUMMARY:Ideas for Freedom - Socialist Discussion Group (weekly till the autumn) RRULE:FREQ=WEEKLY;COUNT=8;INTERVAL=1;BYDAY=WE DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20100707T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20100707T210000 DESCRIPTION:\n\n\nhttp: //www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=157567292607&ref=ts\n\nliverpool@workersl iberty.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20100707T100054Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100707T100237Z DTSTAMP:20100707T100054Z UID:1e9d05a5-cd2d-4551-843b-c762acae377e SUMMARY:Merseyside CND - group meeting (2nd Wed every month) RRULE:FREQ=MONTHLY;INTERVAL=1;BYDAY=2WE DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20100714T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20100714T193000 DESCRIPTION:Group meeting\n\nMerseyside CND is part of the National and Worldwide Campaign to get rid of nuclear weapons and power. \n\nhttp: //www.mcnd.org.uk/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20100707T100723Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100707T100825Z DTSTAMP:20100707T100723Z UID:5181cee9-d4b4-4f9c-893a-54c68d7b3748 SUMMARY:Documentary Night: The Age of Stupid DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20100708T200000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20100708T220000 DESCRIPTION:Regular film night\, 2nd & 4th Tuesdays of the month. Free entry\, all welcome. Teas & coffees available by donation\n\nTHE AGE OF STUPID (2009)\n(89 mins)\n \nA future archivist looks at old footage from the year 2008 to understand why\nhumankind failed to address climate change. Starring Pete Postlethwaite as a man\nliving alone in the devastated world of 2055\, focusing on stories of six individuals\nwhose lives in the early years of the 21st century seem to illustrate aspects of the\nimpending catastrophe. These six stories take the form of interweaving documentary\nsegments that report on the lives of real people in the present facing the effects\nof our hunger for fossil fuels\, and switch the film's narrative form from fiction to\nfact.\n \nThe film begins in the year 2055 in a world ravaged by catastrophic climate change\;\nLondon is flooded\, Sydney is burning\, Las Vegas has been swallowed up by desert\, the\nAmazon rainforest has burnt up\, snow has vanished from the Alps and nuclear war has\nlain waste to India. An unnamed archivist (Pete Postlethwaite) is entrusted with the\nsafekeeping of humanity's surviving store of art and knowledge. Alone in his vast\nrepository off the coast of the largely ice-free Arctic\, he reviews archive footage\nfrom back ‘when we could have saved ourselves’\, trying to discern where it all went\nwrong. Archival news material and animated sequences are used to provide background\nand context\, but the focus is on documentary stories of real people.\n\n \n\nAs we explore the ageing archivist's question\, we encounter ‘not in my back yard’\nanti-wind farm protesters\, committed climate change activists and an entrepreneur\nwho dreams of ending poverty by starting India's third budget airline. Blame is\nultimately laid at the feet of our culture of consumerism\, and the implication is\nthat profound social changes will be required to survive the present age -\npoignantly exemplified in a sequence involving Alvin DuVernay\, a hurricane Katrina\nsurvivor who\, having lost all of his possessions\, philosophically reflects on what\nit took for him to realise what was actually important to him.\n \nThe Times called the film \"the most imaginative and dramatic assault on the\ninstitutional complacency shrouding the issue\"\, saying\, \"The power of this shameless\ncampaigning film is that it gives dates and deadlines. It explores options and\nideas. It names culprits...\"\n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20100707T102058Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100707T102843Z DTSTAMP:20100707T102058Z UID:7682a6b8-b94a-4299-9554-260cb09e7f26 SUMMARY:Sunday Film & Food: \"Bamboozled\" DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20100718T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20100718T200000 DESCRIPTION:Fortnightly free film screening. Vegan food from 5pm (donations for food appreciated.). Film starts at 6. \n\nPlease arrive well before 6 if you want food\, so that film can start on time\, thanks\n\nBAMBOOZLED (2000\, 135 mins)\n\nSatire written and directed by Spike Lee about a black television writer who deliberately tries to get sacked by pitching the most offensive show he can: a modern day minstrel show featuring racist jokes & black actors donning blackface makeup to perform racist stereotypes. But not only does the network love the idea\, the show becomes a horrifying success. \n\nPierre Delacroix (Damon Wayans) is an uptight\, Harvard-educated black man\, working for a television network known as CNS. At work\, he has to endure torment from his boss Thomas Dunwitty (Michael Rapaport)\, a tactless\, boorish white man. Not only does Dunwitty talk like an urban black male\, and use the word \"nigga\" repeatedly in conversations\, he also proudly proclaims that he is more black than Delacroix and that he can use the word \"nigga\" since he is married to a black woman. Dunwitty frequently rejects Delacroix's scripts for TV shows that portray black people in positive\, intelligent scenarios\, dismissing them as \"Cosby clones\".\n\nFacing the necessity of either coming up with a hit black-centric show or being fired\, Delacroix decides to aim for the latter. Delacroix would be in violation of his contract if he resigns\, but getting fired would release him from it and allow him to seek work at another network. With help from his personal assistant Sloan Hopkins (Jada Pinkett Smith)\, Delacroix decides to pitch a minstrel show. Mantan: The New Millenium Minstrel Show is complete with black actors in blackface\, extremely racist jokes and puns\, and even offensively stereotyped CGI-animated cartoons that caricature the leading stars of the new show. \n\nDelacroix and Hopkins decide to recruit two impoverished street performers\, Manray (Savion Glover) and Womack (Tommy Davidson) -- homeless squatters who regularly perform outside CNS' headquarters building -- to star in the show. While Womack is horrified when Delacroix tells him about the show\, Manray willfully agrees to star in the show\, seeing it as his big chance to become rich and famous.\n\nTo Delacroix's horror\, not only does Dunwitty enthusiastically endorse the show\, it also becomes hugely successful. As soon as the show premieres on television\, Manray and Womack end up becoming big stars while Delacroix\, contrary to his original stated intent\, defends the show as being satirical. Delacroix quickly embraces the show and his newfound fame\; he even wins awards for creating and writing the show\, while Sloan becomes horrified at the racist nightmare she has helped to unleash.\n\nIn the meantime an underground\, militant rap group called the Mau Maus\, led by Sloan's older brother Julius (Mos Def)\, becomes increasingly angry at the content of the show. Though they had earlier auditioned for the program's live band position and were rejected\, the group plan to bring the show down using violence. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED:20100722T160214Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100722T160434Z DTSTAMP:20100722T160214Z UID:84c207e3-568e-4f42-be31-dc9c668ee978 SUMMARY:Documentary Night: \"Stealing A Nation\" DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20100722T200000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20100722T220000 DESCRIPTION:A regular film night\, 2nd & 4th Thursdays of the month. Free entry\, all welcome. Teas & coffees available by donation\n\nSTEALING A NATION (2004) \n(56 mins)\nBetween 1967 and 1973 the entire population of the Chagos Islands in the Indian\nOcean were forcibly removed by the British government of Harold Wilson to Mauritius\,\n1\,000 miles away\, so that the principal island\, Diego Garcia\, could be used as an\nAmerican airbase. From there\, US planes have since bombed Afghanistan and Iraq.\n\n \n\nNo provision was made for the islanders and they were dumped on the dockside in\nMauritius\, where they have lived in poverty and sickness for four decades of\npoverty\, fighting for the right to return to their homeland. Despite legal appeals\nand British courts finding in their favour\, the government have refused to allow\nthem to go back\n\n \n\nA truly astonishing story of a horrifically abused and largely unheard-of population\nof British citizens \n\n \n\nThere are times when one tragedy\, one crime tells us how a whole system works behind\nits democratic facade and helps us to understand how much of the world is run for\nthe benefit of the powerful and how governments lie. To understand the catastrophe\nof Iraq\, and all the other Iraqs along imperial history's trail of blood and tears\,\none need look no further than Diego Garcia\n \nIn this special report John Pilger tells a story literally 'hidden from history'. In\nthe 1960s and 70s\, British governments\, conspiring with American officials\, tricked\ninto leaving\, then expelled the entire population of the Chagos islands in the\nIndian Ocean. The aim was to give the principal island of this Crown Colony\, Diego\nGarcia\, to the Americans who wanted it as a major military base. The story is told\nby islanders who were dumped in the slums of Mauritius and in the words of the\nBritish officials who left a 'paper trail' of what the International Criminal Court\nnow describes as 'a crime against humanity'.\n\n \n\nAnglo-American policy makers chose to so act due to their perception that the\nislands would be strategically vital bases for controlling the Indian Ocean through\nthe projection of aerial and naval power. At a time during the Cold War when most\nnewly independent post-colonial states were moving away from the Western orbit\, it\nseems British and American officials rather felt that allowing the islanders to\ndecide the fate of the islands was not a viable option. Instead they chose to effect\nthe wholesale forcible removal of the native population. The displaced Chagossian\ncommunity fell into decades of poverty\, and in these new circumstances\, beset by\nhomesickness\, they suffered substantially accelerated rates of death.\n\n \n\nThe story of Diego Garcia is shocking\, almost incredible. A British colony lying\nmidway between Africa and Asia in the Indian Ocean\, the island is one of 64 unique\ncoral islands that form the Chagos Archipelago\, a phenomenon of natural beauty\, and\nonce of peace. Newsreaders refer to it in passing: \"American B-52 and Stealth\nbombers last night took off from the uninhabited British island of Diego Garcia to\nbomb Iraq (or Afghanistan).\" It is the word \"uninhabited\" that turns the key on the\nhorror of what was done there. In the 1970s\, the Ministry of Defence in London\nproduced this epic lie: \"There is nothing in our files about a population and an\nevacuation.\" \n\n END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR