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Archive of LARC events: 2006 2005 2004 2003 JANUARY 2005 Wombles Meeting: Tuesday 4th January,
7.30pm. LARC Meeting: Thursday 6th January,
7.30pm. London Rising Tide: Thursday 6th January, 7.30pm. Weekly meeting...everyone more than welcome...'Rising Tide is a network of small groups and individuals dedicated to taking local action and building a movement against climate change'. See www.londonrisingtide.org.uk Zapatista Support Group: Friday 7th
January, 7.30pm. 'THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW': Sunday 9th
January, 5.30pm. Collective Vision: Monday 10th January. Rehearsals for Collective Vision film-makers network. Iraq Procurement: Thursday 13th January, 7.30pm. Action planning meeting against procurement, i.e. the selling off of Iraq. 'Semilla Rebelde': Friday 14th January, 7pm. London Zapatista Support Group meeting. RoR Teach-in: Saturday 15th January, all dayer. Rhythms of Resistance is a drum band that plays at demonstrations and direct actions that fall within the broad definition of 'anti-capitalist'... Check the Rhythms website for more info: www.rhythmsofresistance.co.uk UK Food Group: Tuesday 18th January, 2-5pm. Sustainable Agriculture strategy meeting. London PGA meeting: Tuesday 18th January, 7.30pm. Peoples' Global Action (PGA) is a network for spreading information and coordinating actions between grassroots movements around the world. See: PGA and the Infopoint page. Counter-FIT: Thursday 20th January, 7.30pm. Meeting to discuss ways to deal with the police 'Forward Intelligence Team'. You know, the cops who chat you up and take your picture. More details to come.. Stuff The Bid!: Friday 21st January, 7.30pm. "The Olympic 2012 bid, that is. The idea is to start doing things against it now and to organise a sort of ripples-in-the-pool series of meetings to draw in wider and wider circles of the many people opposed to the bid. Time is short. The decision will be made in July 2005, but the olympic assessment team will be visiting London 16-18th February. A very influential factor, which they will be assessing, is how much support the bid does or doesn't have amongst people in London. That's why Seb Coe & Co. are now blahing up 70% support on some rigged poll or other. The more people are told about the implications of the bid (not much up to now), the less support it gets. So the aim is to get some really kicking opposition to it being manifest big in the middle of February." See: www.nolondon2012.org/ and: enrager.net page Burns Night!: Tuesday 25th January, 7pm. south london radical history group presents a BURNS NIGHT special celebrating the life and work of Scots poet, radical and freethinker ROBERT BURNS featuring readings from Burns’ finest works, roistering tales of his life and notoriety, plus finest scotch whisky and other tasty beverages... ALL WELCOME! Reclaim the Future: Thursday 27th January, 7pm. More info to come hopefully... Precarity Assembly: Saturday 29th January, 12 - 7pm. More info to come hopefully... check out: www.wombles.org.uk FEBRUARY 2005 LARC Meeting: Thursday 3rd February,
7.30pm. Fuck the Bid!: Friday 4th Feb, 7.30pm. Rising Tide Film Night: Sunday 6th
February, from 5.30pm.
LONDON RISING TIDE FILM NIGHT presents G8 Publicity: Monday 7th February. Meeting of the South East G8 regional publicity group. See www.dissent.org.uk Semilla Rebelde: Friday 11th February, 7pm. London Zapatista Support Group group meeting. Disarm DSEi: Sunday 13th Feb, 3pm.
Planning meeting for the International Day of Action and DSEi 2005 plus
film showing.
Queeruption: Friday 11th February, 7pm. 'A meeting for queers of all sexualities'. See: queeruption Collective Vision: Saturday 12th February, 10am-6pm. Audition day's for Collective Vision new film-makers network. Continues Monday to Friday. See: collectivevision Counter-FIT: Tuesday 15th February,
7.30pm. Meeting to discuss ways to deal with the
police 'Forward Intelligence Team'. You know, the cops who chat you up
and take your picture... For a dated but useful introduction see: Precarity Assembly: Sunday 20th February, 12noon. Three initiatives came out of the first assembly: a research group, a media/web/magazine group and a infopoint group (looking at the use of advice style-centres combined with self-organised direct action). For background info see: Wombles News MARCH 2005 PGA meeting: Tuesday 1st March, 7pm. Report back from the Linz (Austria) winter meeting of Peoples' Global Action in Europe. PGA is a network for spreading information and coordinating actions between grassroots movements around the world. See: PGA, and the Infopoint page. And download the new 'worldwide resistance roundup inspired by Peoples' Global Action' here: PGA Leaflet (250KB). LARC Meeting: Thursday 3rd March,
7.30pm. Disarm DSEi: Thursday 3rd March, 7pm. Planning meeting for DSEi 2005. DSEi (Defence Systems and Equipment International) is the world’s biggest weapons fair selling everything from battleships and attack helicopters to cluster bombs and machine guns. It takes place from 13-16 September, 2005 at the ExCeL Centre, London Docklands. For info see: www.dsei.org Rising Tide Film Night: Sunday 6th
March, from 5.30pm. LONDON RISING TIDE FILM NIGHT
presents Queeruption meeting: Monday 7th March, 7pm. 'A meeting for queers of all sexualities'. email info @ queeruption.net queeruption CounterFIT: Saturday 12th March, 1pm. WATCHING THEM, WATCHING US! A Public Meeting to launch strategies of resistance to Scotland Yard's campaign of politically motivated harassment, intimidation and surveillance by the Forward Intelligence Team of the Public Order Intelligence Unit. Meet 1pm for lunch (bring ideas and food to share). Meeting begins promptly at 2pm ending at 5pm. For a dated but useful introduction see: On Being Watched Direct Action Trainers Workshop: Fri/Sat/Sun 18/19/20th March. This workshop is aimed at people with experience in direct action or civil disobedience willing to organise and run direct action workshops in their own communities and networks to stimulate effective action at the G8! see: seedsforchange.org.uk Seedy Sunday: Sunday 20th March, 3pm
onwards. Blessings of the Earth - a seedy sunday @
larc. SEEDS (social equity in environmental decisions) is Collective Vision: APRIL 2005 Semilla Rebelde: Friday 1st April,
7pm. Rising Tide Film Night: Sunday 3rd
April, from 5.30pm. LONDON RISING TIDE FILM NIGHT
presents Queeruption meeting: Monday 4th
April, 7pm. Corporate Pirates: Tuesday 5th
April, 7pm. LARC Meeting: Thursday 7th April,
7.30pm. Collective Vision: Wednesday 13th
April, 7.30pm. CounterFIT: Saturday 16th April, 1pm. Queeruption: Monday 18th April,
7.15pm. NoLondon2012: Wedneday 20th April,
7.30pm. Disarm DSEi: Thursday 21st April, 7pm. DSEi (Defence Systems and Equipment International) is the world’s biggest weapons fair selling everything from battleships and attack helicopters to cluster bombs and machine guns. It takes place from 13-16 September, 2005 at the ExCeL Centre, London Docklands. For info about the day of action and the arms trade see: www.dsei.org MAY 2005 For regular meetings and events see the weekly and monthly listings towards the bottom of the page. For a chronology of events since January 2003 see the Archive. Apart from the various meetings and events, LARC is open for dropping in for a browse round the library, free broadband internet access, a chat and a cup of tea (if you're lucky) every Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday afternoon from 2pm. LARC Meeting: Thursday 5th May,
7.30pm. Disarm DSEi: Thursday 5th May, 7pm. DSEi (Defence Systems and Equipment International) is the world’s biggest weapons fair selling everything from battleships and attack helicopters to cluster bombs and machine guns. It takes place from 13-16 September, 2005 at the ExCeL Centre, London Docklands. For info about action days and the arms trade see: www.dsei.org NoLondon2012: Friday 6th May, 7.30pm. Rising Tide Film Night: Sunday 8th
May, from 6.30pm. LONDON RISING TIDE FILM NIGHT
presents LARC 'de-tatting' Day: Thursday 12th
May. BiFest: Saturday 14th May, from 1pm. Music Practise: Monday 16th May, 7pm. Homocrime Acoustic Show: Friday 20th
May. JUNE 2005 Trains to G8 Tickets : Every Wed and
Thurs, 2pm til 8pm. NoLondon2012: Wednesday 1st June,
7.30pm. LARC Meeting: Thursday 2nd June,
7.30pm. G8 Film Night Extravaganza: Sunday
5th June 2005, 6.30pm. LONDON RISING TIDE FILM
NIGHT presents Collective Vision: Friday 10th June,
9-4pm. Anti-G8 Legal Group: Sunday 12th
June, 12-5pm. Disarm DSEi: Thursday 16th June, 7pm. DSEi (Defence Systems and Equipment International) is the world’s biggest weapons fair selling everything from battleships and attack helicopters to cluster bombs and machine guns. It takes place from 13-16 September, 2005 at the ExCeL Centre, London Docklands. For info about action days and the arms trade see: www.dsei.org Seeds For Change: Wednesday 22nd June, 1pm. Climate Campaign: Saturday 25th June, from 11am. Practical day, making props and banners etc... JULY 2005 “Feminist, Queer, Postcolonial Spaces and the ESF”: 4th July. Collective Vision: 4th - 10th July. Filmmakers collective rehearsals... LARC Meeting: Thursday 14th July, 7pm. Disarm DSEi: Thursday 14th July, 7pm. DSEi (Defence Systems and Equipment International) is the world’s biggest weapons fair selling everything from battleships and attack helicopters to cluster bombs and machine guns. It takes place from 13-16 September, 2005 at the ExCeL Centre, London Docklands. For info about action days and the arms trade see: www.dsei.org Wombles: Sunday 17th July, 7pm. Queeruption: Saturday 23rd July,
1-7pm. Plan Columbia: 26th July, 7pm. AUGUST 2005 Disarm DSEi: Monday 1st August, 7pm. Action planning meeting. DSEi (Defence Systems and Equipment International) is the world’s biggest weapons fair selling everything from battleships and attack helicopters to cluster bombs and machine guns. It takes place from 13-16 September, 2005 at the ExCeL Centre, London Docklands. For info about action days and the arms trade see: www.dsei.org Anti-Coke: Tuesday 2nd August, 6pm. LARC Meeting: Thursday 4th August, 7pm. Post G8 Debrief and Film Night: Sunday 7th August, 3pm. LONDON RISING TIDE FILM NIGHT presents Disarm DSEi: Thursday 11th August, 7pm. Planning meeting. See previous listings or: www.dsei.org “Feminist Spaces and the London ESF”: 18th August. Disarm DSEi Training Day: Saturday 20th August, 10am-5pm.. Introduction, info, discussions, etc. See previous listings or: www.dsei.org Disarm DSEi: Sunday 28th August, 10.30am-6pm. Affinity group training day. See previous listings or: www.dsei.org SEPTEMBER 2005 ...I was away and no-one quite got around to sending details but i'll archive Sept from the diary eventually...honest! I think there was a lot of DSEi related meetings and events though... OCTOBER 2005 Argentina Night: Saturday 1st October, 7pm onwards. Education Not 4 Sale: Monday 3rd October, 7.30pm. DSEi Meeting: Friday 7th October, 7pm. School Students Against War: Saturday 8th October, 12-5pm. Freedom to Protest: Wednesday 12th October, 7.30pm. Resisting the Prison State: Wednesday 12th Oct, 6.30pm. LAUDELINO IGLESIAS MARTINEZ SALHAKETA TALK... Laudelino Iglesias Martinez left prison in August 2004 after spending more than 23 years in Spanish jails. He is one of the well-known social rebels and anarchists to have been imprisoned in Spain, co-founder of the APRE Asociacion de Presos en Regimen Especial (reconstituida), an organisation of prisoners that at the beginning of the nineties -struggled against isolation and for their rights as human beings, and that was brutally repressed. Laudelino spent years in the infamous FIES-units, but never stopped struggling. For more info see: www.indymedia.org.uk No Borders: Tuesday 18th October, 7pm. Indymedia: Wednesday 19th October, 7pm. IWW: Saturday 22nd October, 7.30pm. Class War: Sunday 23rd October, 11am on. London CIRCA: Sunday 23rd October, 11am-6pm. No Borders: Thursday 27th October, 7pm. Peoples' Global Action: Sunday 30th October, 6pm. Film Show Benefit: Sunday 30th October, 5pm onwards. NOVEMBER 2005 Queer Mutiny: Wednesday 2nd Nov, 7.30pm. LARC Meeting: Thursday 3rd Nov, 7pm. Squatters' Wake: Saturday 12th Nov, 7pm. Iraq Occupation Focus: Monday 14th Nov, 7pm. Rural Community Project: Thursday 17th Nov, 7.15pm. Mayo Anti-Shell Evening: Thursday 17th Nov, 7.30pm. London Feminist Network: Friday 18th Nov, 6pm. Trapese Meeting: Friday 25th Nov, TBC. Film Night: Sunday 27th Nov, 5pm onwards. DECEMBER 2005 I was away from website update duty, but here's a retrospective outline from the desk diary... David Rovics and Robb Johnson: Saturday 3rd Dec, 7pm. Queer Munity: Monday 5th Dec, 7.15pm. 
Columbia Peace: Wednesday 7th Dec, 7pm til 10pmish. London Feminist Network: Friday 9th Dec, 7pm til 10pmish. Dockers: Tuesday 13th Dec, 7pm. No Sweat: Sunday 18th Dec, 12pm - 5pm. Film Night: Sunday 18th Dec, 6pm. LARC AGM: Wednesday 21st Dec, 7pm. |
LONDON RISING TIDE FILM NIGHT presents 'THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW' and
'Cheeky Apocalypse'. The Day After Tomorrow is Hollywood's highly
melodramatic take on climate chaos - does it work as a wake-up call, or
is it just entertainingly hysterical popcorn-fodder? Cheeky Apocalypse
is an explosive short film highlighting the way UK television dealt
with the record-breaking heatwave of August 2003. The screening is
free, and will be followed by a discussion and food. This will be a
space to learn, debate and share ideas for action on issues raised by
the film, as well as on climate change itself - probably the greatest
threat humanity has ever faced. See 
opposed to the bid. Time is short. The decision
will be made in July 2005, but the olympic assessment team will be
visiting London 16-18th February. A very influential factor, which they
will be assessing, is how much support the bid does or doesn't have
amongst people in London. That's why Seb Coe & Co. are now
blahing up 70% support on some rigged poll or other. The more people
are told about the implications of the bid (not much up to now), the
less support it gets. So the aim is to get some really kicking
opposition to it being manifest big in the middle of February." See: 
a radical Undercurrents documentary on
aviation, airport expansion and climate change. The film also looks at
why we need to take action on these issues, and why the battle to save
the planet from climate chaos is far from over. And 
Get involved, plan actions, eat food, watch
films. International groups are calling for a day of direct action
against the arms trade on 21st March 2005 to coincide with the second
anniversary of the start of war on Iraq. DSEi (Defence Systems and
Equipment International) is the world’s biggest weapons fair
selling everything from battleships and attack helicopters to cluster
bombs and machine guns. It takes place from 13-16 September, 2005 at
the ExCeL Centre, London Docklands.
Form an affinity group and start planning early for DSEi 2005. For info
about the day of action and the arms trade see: 
This new documentary examines the link between oil interests and
current U.S. military interventions. It includes original footage shot
over a four-month period in Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan as well as
many interviews with a large array of personalities including Bush
administration officials. Plus 'Don't Worry' - Some highly
impressionable puppets investigate oil industry greenwash. And Two
short films... 'Art Not Oil' (3mins) - LRT try out lock-ons at the
BP-sponsored National Portrait Gallery. And... 'The Conspiracy of
Traffic' by Leo Murray (3mins) (Scary and brilliant!). All are welcome
to the free screening, followed by a discussion and something to eat.
This will be a space to learn, debate and share ideas for action on
issues raised by the films. If you have a short film focussing on oil
climate change or a related issue please get in touch and we'll try to
screen it at a future film night. See 
shamelessly copying the wildly successful 'seedy
sundays' events from brighton to bring you a homegrown seedswap at
larc.... bring seeds to swap, or come and help yourself to some of ours
(lovingly gathered from our organic roof garden) plus organic
catalogues, cuttings, compost tea, propagation and seed saving lessons
(with fact sheets to take home), fine conversation and a cuppa or two,
then downstairs for vegan grub, a splendid seedy, sprouty slide show
and two or three fine films made by totally organic activists from
around the world. 'The Leech and the Earthworm' (int Indigenous
Peoples) 'Rebel with a Real Cause' (Assembly of the Poor Thailand.)
starts mid afternoon, turn up when you want to, food and films from
7pm, donations welcome and not an easter egg in sight.
Saturday 26th March, 4pm til Late.
COLLECTIVE VISION FINALLY RETURNS! "OPEN CINEMA". An open forum for
anyone, of any walk of life, to bring short films and screen them to
others. Everything gets shown, please try and keep them around fifteen
minutes if possible, and the formats shown are: Mini DV, VHS and DVD
(All regions). COME AND ENJOY NEW FILMS AND THE FILMMAKERS THAT MADE
THEM! You don't get to see independent short films like these in the
cinema anymore... (Donations). See:
From the front-lines of conflicts in Mexico,
Argentina, South Africa, Palestine, Korea, 'the North' from Seattle to
Genoa, and the 'War on Terror' in New York, Afghanistan, and Iraq. It
is the story of men and women around the world who resist being
annihilated in this war. While our airwaves are crowded with talk of a
new world war, narrated by generals and filmed from the noses of bombs,
the human story of this global conflict remains untold. "The Fourth
World War" 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.
"Green Gold" - This film tells the story of Sajida Khan, a South
African woman with a hazardous dumpsite on her doorstep. Her neighbours
are dying but the World Bank calls the dump a "world class example of
an environmental project". How can this be? And why does the new Carbon
Emissions Trading Scheme play a major role? The film maker will be
present. All are welcome to the free screening, followed by a
discussion and something to eat. This will be a space to learn, debate
and share ideas for action on issues raised by the films. If you have a
short film focussing on oil climate change or a related issue please
get in touch and we'll try to screen it at a future film night. See 
Iraq. Films
and much more. Windrush Communications were the British company
responsible for organising the Iraq Procurement Conferences. These
regular events gather together multinational corporations and the US
puppets that represent occupied Iraq, to "realise the enormous trade
and investment potential of Iraq". That is, to plan and discuss the
sell-off of Iraq's assets, properties and resources. Iraq Procurement
conferences are sponsored by arms dealers, mercenaries and oil giants
such as Erinys, Raytheon, Shell, Chevron and Bayer who meet to discuss
the future of Iraqi "agriculture, comunications, construction,
education, energy, finance, healthcare, IT, Oil & Gas,
security, transport and water" For more info see:
minute
comedy classic 'Hercubush' plus a short G8 Surprise!.
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. The
consequences of inaction in the face of the global environmental 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? All are
welcome to the free screening, followed by a discussion and something
to eat. This will be a space to learn, debate and share ideas for
action on issues raised by the films. If you have a short film
focussing on oil climate change or a related issue please get in touch
and we'll try to screen it at a future film night. See 
"Why Shut The G8?"
London premiere (we think) "June 18th 1999" The road blockades... the
Carnival Against Capitalism... the office and bank occupations on this
day in London... and the media coverage? "Crowd Bites Wolf" Coverage of
the dynamic protests surrounding the IMF and World Bank meetings in
Prague in 2000, "Marici Weu" ("We Will Win!") Examines the mobilisation
around the conference on climate change (COP-10) in Buenos Aires,
December 2004. Free entry! See: 
‘A Letter to the Prime Minister’. Highly acclaimed film following the experiences of activist Jo Wilding during her time in Iraq. Narrated as a letter to Tony Blair, Julia Guest's documentary serves as a witness to the destruction of the lives of ordinary people during the bombing and occupation of Iraq. Suggested Donation £6/£3. Fundraiser for IOF teach-in on 26 Nov. For more info see: 
increase awareness of the struggle to prevent a giant Shell Consortium from building a dangerous, raw gas pipeline and huge refinery on unstable bog land, raising serious public health and safety issues and devastating remote conservation areas on the north west coast of Ireland. This event will be hosted by London Rising Tide and begins with an introduction to the London Rising Tide campaign, then a talk about the struggle against Shell by the Mayo activists with films, Q&A/discussion, followed by a social and bar. See