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- NEWS
United Diversity News
More good news
Other recent news - VIDEOS
Third-World Wind Power: First Look
Seamless Freedom: The Wireless Revolution
NO VOLVERAN -The Venezuelan Revolution Now
John Jordan
It’s the end of the World as we know it #21
Mesh Network in Mahavilachchiya – English Version
EcoVillage Pioneers (movie trailer)
Peace Not War Manchester 2006
The Shock Doctrine by Alfonso Cuarón and Naomi Klein
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
Pistol Shrimp - EVENTS THIS WEEK
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- I had a lovely lunch with Passing Clouds on Friday and have booked Saturday December 15th, 2007 for the next United Diversity Gathering. Put it in your diaries now! More details next week.
- Eleanor says “It was a great pleasure and most enlightening to dine with you last week. We very much look forward to hosting your event here in December” :).
- Dougald Hine from School of Everything got in touch to see how we could work together. Dougald hooked up with the Grow Sheffield lot after reading commons on We Have Land” and went off to see Money as Debt as a result of last week’s guide.
- On Thursday Oli and I met up with Dougald and a bunch of schemers, artists, troublemakers, experimenters, dreamers, inventors, psychogeographers, prophets and surprises in a pub in Brixton for beer and plotting.
- We also have more land! Kinda sorta. Oli and I also went to Who Wants to Be? where is was collectively decided to buy some woodland!
- Lizi Jamel from BASE: Building a Creative Sustainable Environment who is “a permaculture designer,environmental artist,performer,parent,grandparent (who) initiated & co-created permaculture area at glastonbury fest. for 10 years” got in touch. Sounds like someone who could come in handy! 🙂
- Carl Swanson became the first person to sign up using the new paypay buttons on the Commons Creation! Nice one Carl!
- Dmytri Kleiner of Telekommunisten made some interesting points on The Open Co-op list and 6 new people joined to the United Diversity list since the last Guide.
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- First Oil Vulnerability Audits in Totnes Report Back.
- Bike Systems: Strikers Start Self-managed Production
- Peak moment for peak oil in Queensland
- New green guides for housing associations
- Eco village calls for shareholders
- Straw bale auction rooms nearing completion
- City gives bike rentals a spin
- Blog Action Day Blitzes Web With Green
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- Oil hits record high $86.79
- Kathleen Pender: Bank bailout plan doesn’t solve underlying problem
- Northern Rock bosses face grilling
- Ice Caps Melting Fast: Say Goodbye to the Big Apple?
- Food prices to take bigger bite out of European consumers’ budgets
- IMF’s Rato says US dollar overvaluedIMF’s Rato says US dollar overvalued
- Australian government report: Peak oil is real, get ready
- The time has come for drastic action
- ‘China-dependence’ going up for life in UK, as World as a whole goes into ‘ecological debt’
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- Third-World Wind Power: First Look
Interesting video about an innovative new wind power design that works like a wobbly bridge.
https://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1214137061/bctid1233395616 - Seamless Freedom: The Wireless Revolution
Peter Cochrane’s keynote presentation to The Wireless Event, London, 18 May 2006.
https://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3406019666922870382 - NO VOLVERAN -The Venezuelan Revolution Now
Behind the bold policies of Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez is a revolutionary mass movement that is saying NO to capitalism, and attempting to change the course of Latin American history.
https://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=368302323300507208 - John Jordan
An insight into the mind of activist John Jordan from the film maker who helped create the excellent Another End of the World is Possible series to help publicise Climate Camp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IplY53oaAeo - It’s the end of the World as we know it #21
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJB0i2ZCDdY
Another fantastic episode from SubMedia. - Mesh Network in Mahavilachchiya – English Version
This video is about the mesh network project in Mahavilachchiya, Sri Lanka. Visit https://www.horizonlanka.org/news/mesh/launch/index.html for more information.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSNrD6lYfTI - EcoVillage Pioneers (movie trailer)
Exploring wonderful and beautiful environmental places to live. Inexpensive ecohome made from oak, cobwood and recycled window walls, straw-insulated turf roof, with solar power for electricity, compost toilet and reed beds for grey water.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9rZOFh7qV8 - Peace Not War Manchester 2006
Peace Not War, Collective join pro-peace people, parades & propa-gandas in Manchester. Mashed up Music & Visual of wot we do. sometimes – when we’re not at home knitting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0tmqfOg36M - The Shock Doctrine by Alfonso Cuarón and Naomi Klein
Alfonso Cuarón, director of “Children of Men”, and Naomi Klein, author of “No Logo”, present a short film from Klein’s book “The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism.” https://www.shockdoctrine.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kieyjfZDUIc - The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
Talk by Naomi Klein author of “The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism” given September 27, 2007 at Town Hall Seattle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNzcJImX4Ew - Pistol Shrimp
Pistol shrimp blowing a blast of water a speed of 100km/h with temp 9900C.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKPrGxB1Kzc
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- Music: Synergy Tuesday @ The Synergy Centre
220 Farmers Road, London SE5 0TW
https://www.thesynergycentre.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=24&Itemid=75
Acoustic music and poetry
7pm – late
£5/3 - Music: One Taste Classic Upstairs @ The Distillers
64 Fulham Palace Road, London W6 9PH
https://onetaste.co.uk
https://www.myspace.com/onetaste
https://www.myspace.com/thedistillerspub
Loads of great lives acts in a intimate surrounding.
8.30 pm to 11 pm
£5 - Film: BANG! BANG! in Da Manor @ Bread & Roses
68 Clapham Manor St SW4 6DZ
https://unreportedworld.blogspot.com/2007/08/bread-roses_19.html
Exposes the disproportionate level of violence and murder suffered by the black community of Britain.
9pm
FREE - Seminar and Networking: Web 2.0 – The What? The Why? The How? @ Centre for Charity Effectiveness
Cass Business School, 106 Bunhill Row, London EC1Y 8TZ
https://sounddelivery.eventbrite.com/
More and more organisations are taking the plunge into Web 2.0. While the world has gone YouTube / MySpace / Facebook-crazy, the Third Sector is experiencing a mild flurry of excitement. This interactive seminar will provide an introduction to Web 2.0 and most importantly show practical applications for charities of all sizes. Using case studies from third sector organisations you will hear how Web 2.0 technologies are being incorporated into charities’ communications strategies. Book tickets online now.
6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
£30.00
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- Workshop: Survival Challenge Kingston
https://www.bryonyandor.co.uk
https://hijack.guerrillazoo.com/
Known as “guardians of the river” the people of Kingston Upon Thames live a dangerous and secluded life in their part of the wider London jungle. Survival Challenge Kingston takes a small group of explorers out into Kingston to look at the way other people live and ask questions about how we live. This is a kind of workshop. It is for those who want to challenge both mind and body and surprise themselves with what they are capable of. We set serious challenges for the individual while keeping humour close to hand. Suitable for ages 16 + and all fitness levels. This event is hosted by experienced survival artist Bryony Henderson who has hosted similar challenges in Rome, Rotterdam, Devon and other boroughs in London. Her work is influenced from her time spent with tribes in East Africa, 9 years of directing durational performance and working 9-5. She says “Survival Challenge has been my whole world for the last four years and it’s the most important thing in my life right now. It’s a series of events and workshops about people, places, time and culture. I hope is it also entertaining, because I want people to get involved and enjoy, especially people who wouldn’t normally get involved in this kind of thing, I also hope we can communicate something important to the world”
9am – 5pm
£5 per person
Booking: bryonyhenderson@gmail.com / 07900391923
Equipment: waterproofs, digital camera - Film: Bicycle Film Festival @ Rich Mix
35-47 Bethnal Green Road, London E1 6LA
https://bicyclefilmfestival.com/2007_site/london/
The Bicycle Film Festival 2007 comes to London this week, Oct 17th – 21st. Check the website for full details.
6pm – 12am daily, Oct 17th – 21st
Admission price per program is £7.
The festival pass is £21 and gets you into as many programs as you can handle. Still first come first serve so get there early. Available at Rich Mix Box Office - Music: Heads High @ Jrink
62 Frith Street, Soho,, London, W1D 3JN
https://www.myspace.com/headshighmusic
Every Wednesday, Heads High residents Cal Jada and Duke Etienne will be serving up a quality mix of jazz, afro beat, disco, boogie, (the deeper side of) house, hip hop, reggae and some yet to be classified material – for your pleasure only. Joined by guest DJs and a full live band complied of various musicians, producers, emcees and vocalists once a month, these Wednesday sessions are set to be so much more than just your regular drinking hang out.
7pm – 1am
FREE - Debate: Teen Rage – Anarchy in the UK? Channel 4 Education debate @ RSA
8 John Adam Street, London WC2N 6EZ
https://channel4cypnteenrage.eventbrite.com/
This event will attempt to make sense of what is happening to our teenagers, and examine what we can do to improve their well being.
6 – 8.30pm
FREE (SOLD OUT)
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- Workshop: Peer Education briefing @ St Martins Innovation Centre
Procter Street, Opposite Red Lion Square (closest tube – Holborn Station),London,WC1B 4A
https://nm-x.com/event/2007/10/peer-education-briefing
tel:07941255210
One of the most inspiring aspects of the Free Software movement has been its educational ethos: users teach each other and themselves, and share their experiences doing so. There is a rich history of peer education, which is now being re-examined and adapted by forward thinking organisations in light of new technologies and possibilities for self- directed learning.
This briefing introduces some ground-breaking ideas and projects in the field of knowledge sharing, distributed learning and teaching.
6:30 PM until 8:30 PM
FREE - Workshop: live to create: Consumer or creator? You decide @ Behaviour & Business
61 Mortimer Road N1 5AR
https://livetocreate.net/
In this first session, we will show you how you can communicate without speaking with someone you dont know. Guaranteed! We will also explore the effect you are having on the world around you by not developing your creativity, and how you can change your behavior for the better by increasing your awareness and commitment to creative living and working – right now.
6 – 9pm
£10 - Film: Manga Film Screening @ Toilet Gallery
151 Clarence Street Kingston upon Thames Surrey KT1 1QT
https://hijack.guerrillazoo.com/
Screenings throughout the day of cult classics such as Akira and Ghost in a Shell 1 & 2, and new releases from IG Plus / Production I.G amongst many other legendary animated Manga films.
1pm til LATE!
FREE - Music and Film: Kalabash Nigeria @ The Salmon and Compass
58 Penton Street, Angel, N1 9PZ
https://www.myspace.com/kalabashworld
https://www.kalabashmovement.com
A fantastic awareness raising night with documentary films and music.
7pm – 2am
FREE - Music: This Is Music London and Sweeet! present @ The Machbeth
70 Hoxton Street, N1 6LP
https://myspace.com/thisismusiclondon
https://www.chillifried.com
https://www.fusingnakedbeats.co.uk
https://www.antehc.co.uk
Live music from Popup, Favour for Sailors, 4 or 5 Magicians and Glamour Soundsystem. DJs Adam and Chris K DJ (Merok Records)
8pm
£5 / £3
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- Music: Needle and Thread presents… {yet another} dirty great big night out @ Jamm
261 Brixton Road, London, SW9 6LH
https://pecknam.com/blog/2007/10/14/dirtyness-at-the-jamm/
https://myspace.com/needleandthreaddotorg
https://www.brixtonjamm.org/events.asp?eventID=816
Loads of live acts and DJs for not much money 🙂
£6/£5, or £4 before 9pm - Music: Oxjam Live @ The Grey Horse
46 Richmond Road, Kingston, KT2 5EE
https://www.grey-horse.co.uk/
https://www.oxfam.org.uk/get_involved/fundraise/oxjam/aud_event.php?ref=1066
The line up includes The Heroic Doses, Jono McCreery and Charles Bowyer. Headlining will be the Loudshirts.
7pm
£6 - Music: Guerrilla Zoo present Performance Art Evening @ Toilet Gallery
151 Clarence Street Kingston upon Thames Surrey KT1 1QT
(Located in-between The Kings Tun Pub and Starbucks, opposite Oceana nightclub) The nearest station is Kingston. Trains go directly from Waterloo, Vauxhall and Clapham Junction and take 20-30 mins. The gallery is 2 mins walk away from Kingston Station.
https://hijack.guerrillazoo.com
https://www.guerrillazoo.co.uk
Featuring Sea Suite: Ultraviolet (a mix of spoken word, dance, film, electronic, soundscape and musicians) and other acts to be announced. https://www.myspace.com/eishakarol
Come learn the fundamentals and experience the magic of Tribal belly dance with Moirai https://www.myspace.com/moiraitribal
6pm
Donations - Film: “The battle of Chile” Screening of first and second parts @ Bolivar Hall
54 Grafton Way, WC1E
https://www.handsoffvenezuela.org/
34 years ago, on September 11, 1973, the Chilean army led by its recently appointed chief of staff, Augusto Pinochet, overthrew, with the active support of its national bourgeoisie and the government of the United States, the democratic government of Salvador Allende.
5.30 – 10pm
Free entry on a first come first served basis. - Music: The Heatwave Affair @ The Pool
104 Curtain Road, Shoreditch EC2A 3AH
https://theheatwave.co.uk/
Live bashment/grime PA from Riko Dan (Roll Deep)
8pm – 2am
FREE
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- Workshop: Creative Writing with Rosy Carrick @ Toilet Gallery (followed by Open Mic Night)
151 Clarence Street Kingston upon Thames Surrey KT1 1QT
https://hijack.guerrillazoo.com
https://www.guerrillazoo.co.uk
Rosy has been organising creative writing and poetry workshops at cornerstone centre in Hove, focusing on exercises, styles and techniques which can aid the development of a writer’s talent. Here she will be introducing and discussing these, as well as outlining trends which have emerged in modern literature in an informal setting while encouraging those who participate to experiment & gain a greater understanding of their creativity.
https://www.rosycarrick.co.uk
£5 - Digital Design: Cut & Paste @ The Old Truman Brewery
91 Brick Lane, London E1 6QL
https://www.cutandpaste.com/events/london.html
The international Digital Design Tournament comes to London.
Doors open at 7PM
Competition from 8 – 11PM
After party from 11PM – 4AM
£10 advanced tickets / £12 at the door
Must be 18+ - Music and Cabaret: Dr. Dimaglio’s Secrets @ The Bloomsbury Theatre
15 Gordon Street, London WC1H 0AH
https://www.drdimaglios.com/
A one-off extravaganza. Book online now.
Show starts at 7:30pm precisely
£15/12 - Music: Mucha Marcha Goes East @ 93 Feet East
150 Brick Lane, E1 6QL
https://www.myspace.com/muchamarcha
Captain Black (Live)
https://www.myspace.com/captainblack
The Daze (LIVE)
https://www.myspace.com/thedazeofficial
Turbowolf (LIVE)
https://www.myspace.com/turbowolfband
Dead Kids (LIVE)
https://www.myspace.com/youaredeadkids
Louis Enchenté (Real Gold)
https://www.myspace.com/wearerealgold
DJ Maigret Junior
Mucha Marcha Coalition
7pm – 1am
£7 all night - Music: Open Mic Session @ Toilet Gallery
151 Clarence Street Kingston upon Thames Surrey KT1 1QT
https://hijack.guerrillazoo.com
https://www.guerrillazoo.co.uk
Open Mic Sessions
Inua Ellams, James Elphick, Rob Hill, Dorna Aslanzadeh, Carlo Taylor, Marvin Haglar, Ernesto, more to be announced…
Start 6pm
Donations (£3)
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- Workshop: Tribal Belly Dance Workshop @ Toilet Gallery
151 Clarence Street Kingston upon Thames Surrey KT1 1QT
https://hijack.guerrillazoo.com
https://www.guerrillazoo.co.uk
American Tribal Style belly dance is a modern dance form developed in San Francisco based on traditional dances from India, Spain and the Middle East. The distinguishing feature of ATS is its use of group improvisation as cues are used to change movements rather than memorized choreography. Using a ‘lead and follow’ format and an agreed vocabularly of movements, a whole group is able to improvise and yet dance with amazing synchronicity. The flavor is dynamic and unique, conveying the power of flamenco with the fluidity of belly dance. Come learn the fundamentals and experience the magic of ATS with Moirai, a London based tribal belly dance troupe.
https://www.myspace.com/moiraitribal
2pm
£5 - Music: OxJam All Dayer @ JAMM
261 Brixton Road, London, SW9 6LH
https://www.brixtonjamm.org/events.asp?eventID
Live Acts & DJs: Death Can Dance, Consort With Romeo, Symbo, Drop The Act, She Calls Home, Stay Away From Paris, Hungry Ghosts
3pm – 9pm
£6
- Music: Stuff and Things @ Jamm
261 Brixton Road, London, SW9 6LH
https://www.brixtonjamm.org/events.asp?eventID=794
Short Circus Stuff & Things, brought to you by the kind people at NeedleandThread, and Stubborn Sounds with Uncle Smutfist, Jones Deviation, and Mr Hovis. Expect breaks, bleeps, and electronical shenaniganry! We’ve got cheap beer, good vibes, and free added jugglers!
8pm – at least midnight
FREE - Film: No Borders @ The Good Ship
289 Kilburn High Road, NW6 7JR
https://www.thegoodship.co.uk/whatson.shtml
Free film night from No Borders, exploring the getting rid of all national borders.
- Oct 23rh Music: Movimientos @ Notting Hill Arts Club
https://www.movimientos.org.uk - Oct 23rh Music and Benefit: Gua Africa fundrasing event for child soldiers @ @ 100 Club, Oxford Street, London W1
https://www.guaafricaonline.com - Oct 27th Books, Workshops and Networking: London Anarchist Bookfair @ Queen Mary & Westfield College
https://www.anarchistbookfair.org/ - Oct 27th Music and Benefit Anarchist Bookfair After Party/No Borders/rampART Benefit @ rampART
- Oct 27th Music and Benefit Saharawi @ The Synergy Centre
https://www.thesynergycentre.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=53&Itemid=101 - Oct 30th – Nov 4th Photography Exhibition CLIMATE CAMP 07 @ The Foundry
https://www.minimouse.me.uk/show - Oct 31st SAVE TARA!: Tara Celtic New Year Samhain @ Tara Hill
https://www.savetara.com - Oct 31st Halloween: Blackout Halloween
https://www.blackoutbritain.org.uk/ - Oct 31st Halloween: March of the Dead in Dalston (then Party @ Passing Clouds)
https://myspace.com/halloweenmarch - Oct 31st Halloween: Halloween Party @ The Spike, Peckham
- Nov 1st – 2ndDinner, Free software, Tech, Innovation, Networking: Free Software as Social Innovation @ The Hub
https://fsfeurope.org/projects/stacs/london.en.html - Nov 3rd – 4th Climate Change: National Climate Camp Gathering @ East Oxford Community Centre
https://climatecamp.org.uk - Nov 8th Networking: w00t! 7 @ The Dog Star
- Nov 15th Music and Film: Kalabash South Africa @ The Salmon and Compass
https://www.myspace.com/kalabashworld - Nov 15th – 17th Conference and Networking: The Sky’s The Limit – 3 days towards a blueprint for a sustainable future. Be The Change @ Central Hall, Westminster
https://www.bethechange.org.uk/ - Nov 15th – 29th Art: Artists for 2012 @ 491 Gallery
https://af2012.org/ - Nov 16th Tech: 48 Hour Web App Framework Shootout @ London/Berlin/
https://challenge48.espnow.com/ - Nov 16th – 18th Conference: Shared Planet @ University of Sheffield
https://peopleandplanet.org/events/sharedplanet - Nov 23rd Club and Music: The Synergy Project @ SeOne
https://thesynergyproject.org - Nov 24th Music: The Little Green Planet Full Moon Adventure
https://www.thelittlegreenplanet.co.uk - Dec 8th Demonstration: London Climate Change Demonstration @ Grosvenor Square
https://campaigncc.org/
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- Position Vacant: Transition Network Office Administrator.
- Intern at Worldchanging!
- There is an exciting opportunity to join The Hub team in Angel, 20K+
e-mail london.jobs @ the-hub.net for more details (I’ve included this again because I previously gave an incorrect e-mail).
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- Journa-list
Journa-list is an independent, not-for-profit website that makes it easy for people to find out more about journalists and what they write about. - The World’s Most Important Links
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Pity I won’t be in London for the Dec 15th UD gathering, but great work with the Guide! Thanks!
Thanks tav 🙂
You’ll have to just come along to the Gathering after that!
See you soon I hope!
ez jo!!!
put out a big shout for saturday parliament square
how can i make a shoutbox like this? do you get the comments in your own database?