From melvegan at googlemail.com  Fri Apr  2 19:03:24 2010
From: melvegan at googlemail.com (Mel Vegan)
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2010 22:03:24 +0300
Subject: [Anarchafeminists] Fwd: [climatecampscotland] Outdoor
	Skillshare//18-21 June, Scotland
In-Reply-To: <0d1c23d0ef4df5f6bbcdfb578f72b4f1.squirrel@swift.riseup.net>
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Date: 30 March 2010 19:56
Subject: [climatecampscotland] Outdoor Skillshare//18-21 June,Scotland
To:


**Please forward on to your networks, if you would like some
posters/flyers to display, please get in touch**

///Outdoor Skillshare/// 18-21 June

An exciting weekend of workshops and skillsharing in rural Scotland.

Come and learn:
climbing and rope access, building tree houses, tunnelling, cooking for
the masses, knot-tying, fire-lighting, wild foods and more!

At Mainshill Solidarity Camp we occupied land facing destruction. We lived
outside, grew as a community and took continuous targeted action.
We want to focus on the skills needed to occupy and defend land with a
weekend long event bringing people together to learn and share the skills
for living outdoors as a community, building defences, resisting evictions
and thinking about strategies for action.

These are transferable skills that can be taken away and used in a wide
range of campaigns and actions.

This skillshare will be a safe, inclusive and participatory environment
for learning new practical skills and is open to people of all abilities
and experiences. If you have any queries or special requirements, please
let us know - we will do our best to accommodate everyone's needs.

We will be asking for donations toward food and other costs from those
that can afford it.


If you want to find out more, or if you have skills you want to share then
please contact us at: outdoorskillshare at riseup.net

We'll be in touch with more information soon...

Http://outdoorskillshare.noflag.org.uk

















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From melvegan at googlemail.com  Fri Apr  2 19:07:06 2010
From: melvegan at googlemail.com (Mel Vegan)
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2010 22:07:06 +0300
Subject: [Anarchafeminists] Fwd: [climatecampscotland] Outdoor
	Skillshare//18-21 June, Scotland
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From: <outdoorskillshare at riseup.net>
Date: 30 March 2010 19:56
Subject: [climatecampscotland] Outdoor Skillshare//18-21 June,Scotland
To:


**Please forward on to your networks, if you would like some
posters/flyers to display, please get in touch**

///Outdoor Skillshare/// 18-21 June

An exciting weekend of workshops and skillsharing in rural Scotland.

Come and learn:
climbing and rope access, building tree houses, tunnelling, cooking for
the masses, knot-tying, fire-lighting, wild foods and more!

At Mainshill Solidarity Camp we occupied land facing destruction. We lived
outside, grew as a community and took continuous targeted action.
We want to focus on the skills needed to occupy and defend land with a
weekend long event bringing people together to learn and share the skills
for living outdoors as a community, building defences, resisting evictions
and thinking about strategies for action.

These are transferable skills that can be taken away and used in a wide
range of campaigns and actions.

This skillshare will be a safe, inclusive and participatory environment
for learning new practical skills and is open to people of all abilities
and experiences. If you have any queries or special requirements, please
let us know - we will do our best to accommodate everyone's needs.

We will be asking for donations toward food and other costs from those
that can afford it.


If you want to find out more, or if you have skills you want to share then
please contact us at: outdoorskillshare at riseup.net

We'll be in touch with more information soon...

Http://outdoorskillshare.noflag.org.uk

















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From gailchester at blueyonder.co.uk  Sun Apr  4 17:48:08 2010
From: gailchester at blueyonder.co.uk (Gail Chester)
Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2010 18:48:08 +0100
Subject: [Anarchafeminists] Anarchafeminist gathering NEXT WEEKEND
Message-ID: <9F23BAAD81BE468E8A0E785E3B877F01@Gail>

Dear all,

Now that the forces of capitalism have temporarily delayed the uprising of the working class, I am proposing to get a train to Manchester from London some time next Friday afternoon, and I will be returning on Monday.  As I have a disabled Railcard, I can take somebody else travelling with me at a discount.  If you are interested, get in touch with me off list as soon as possible, as I would like to book it very soon.

I am attaching the schedule for the weekend, to encourage anyone else to come who might still be thinking about it.

Love, Gail

PS I am doing the workshop on Sunday afternoon about a Caring campaign, and I will probably be doing some follow-up to that in London later on.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Emma Pooka 
To: anarcha-feminist_event at yahoogroups.co.uk ; Anarchafeminist Network 
Cc: sally.hyman at springhead.org.uk 
Sent: Sunday, April 04, 2010 5:27 PM
Subject: [anarcha-feminist_event] Schedule


  

Hi all,

Attached is the schedule for the Anarcha-feminist event, as it stands.  The grey text is unconfirmed workshops, everything else might be moved but is definitely happening.

I also have the cr?che schedule worked out, but there's still room on board if anybody wants to take some time out with the kids.

We're meeting up in Manchester on Friday to get a load of butties prepared for lunches - anybody willing to help with this, contact anarchafeminst at af-north.org. 

Cheers all,

Emma


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From purplepooka at blueyonder.co.uk  Sun Apr  4 16:27:45 2010
From: purplepooka at blueyonder.co.uk (Emma Pooka)
Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2010 17:27:45 +0100
Subject: [Anarchafeminists] Schedule
Message-ID: <004501cad413$c2aceba0$4806c2e0$@co.uk>

Hi all,

Attached is the schedule for the Anarcha-feminist event, as it stands.  The
grey text is unconfirmed workshops, everything else might be moved but is
definitely happening.

I also have the cr?che schedule worked out, but there?s still room on board
if anybody wants to take some time out with the kids.

We?re meeting up in Manchester on Friday to get a load of butties prepared
for lunches ? anybody willing to help with this, contact
anarchafeminst at af-north.org. 

Cheers all,

Emma

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From itsme_jae at yahoo.co.uk  Sat Apr 10 15:03:26 2010
From: itsme_jae at yahoo.co.uk (jae ess)
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 15:03:26 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Anarchafeminists] Good books?
Message-ID: <870846.97379.qm@web25105.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>

Hey hey all,

One of the collective at Freedom Bookshop in London asked me if I could suggest any good books on women/gender/feminism-type issues that they could stock in order to improve their list - and I thought I'd throw it open to all of you. 

What are your old favourites and new discoveries?
What do you think other people might want to buy?
Feminist type stuff much welcomed, but equally any other really good reccomendations on other subjects (or even fiction) also appreciated.

Many thanks
Jae



      
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From purplepooka at blueyonder.co.uk  Sun Apr 11 23:57:50 2010
From: purplepooka at blueyonder.co.uk (Emma Pooka)
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 00:57:50 +0100
Subject: [Anarchafeminists] Good books?
In-Reply-To: <870846.97379.qm@web25105.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>
References: <870846.97379.qm@web25105.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <00d301cad9d2$cb8f34c0$62ad9e40$@co.uk>

Too many to list, but I just recently finished ?Caliban and the Witch? by Silvia Federici and can?t recommend it highly enough.  Really thorough analysis of how the shift from feudalism to capitalism required a drastic change in the social status of women and necessitated a campaign of mass persecution (the witch hunts) to create that social role.

Also, just offhand, ?How to Suppress Women?s Writing? by Joanna Russ.  She?s just so incisive and witty and wonderful.

Emma

 

 

From: jae ess [mailto:itsme_jae at yahoo.co.uk] 
Sent: 10 April 2010 16:03
To: a-fem list
Subject: [Anarchafeminists] Good books?

 

Hey hey all,

One of the collective at Freedom Bookshop in London asked me if I could suggest any good books on women/gender/feminism-type issues that they could stock in order to improve their list - and I thought I'd throw it open to all of you. 

What are your old favourites and new discoveries?
What do you think other people might want to buy?
Feminist type stuff much welcomed, but equally any other really good reccomendations on other subjects (or even fiction) also appreciated.

Many thanks
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From jamie.heckert at gmail.com  Mon Apr 12 22:30:48 2010
From: jamie.heckert at gmail.com (Jamie Heckert)
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 23:30:48 +0100
Subject: [Anarchafeminists] Good books?
In-Reply-To: <00d301cad9d2$cb8f34c0$62ad9e40$@co.uk>
References: <870846.97379.qm@web25105.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>
	<00d301cad9d2$cb8f34c0$62ad9e40$@co.uk>
Message-ID: <o2k28e6cb571004121530uf98096abtce839cfad4cb6ebd@mail.gmail.com>

I'd second Caliban! other books that have inspired by anarchist/feminist
imagination include

Fiction-wise:

Ursula le Guin - Always Coming Home, The Left Hand of Darkness, The
Dispossessed, and everything else :)

Octavia E. Butler - Parable of the Sower, Parable of the Talents, Wildseed

Marge Piercy - Woman on the Edge of Time, Body of Glass

Laurie J. Marks - The Elemental Logic series ( beautiful
Marxist/Buddhist/queer stories about occupation, identity and revolution)

Dorothy Allison - Bastard out of Carolina (autobiographical fiction -
beautiful and painful!)

Starhawk - The Fifth Sacred Thing

Non-Fiction:

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz's autobiographical works starting with Read Dirt.

Threads by Lisa (feminist health)

Undoing Gender by Judith Butler (bit heavy, maybe, but her most accessible
and certainly moreso than some things in Freedom :) )

Feminism without Borders by Chandra Mohanty

Wild: An Elemental Journy by Jay Griffiths (poetic anarcha-indigenous travel
writing)

Zeros & Ones by Sadie Plant (beautiful book on women and technology)

The Ecology of Everyday Life by Chaia Heller (anarcha-ecofeminist classic)

The Arts of the Possible by Adrienne Rich (as well as her other works).

Love,
Jamie





On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 12:57 AM, Emma Pooka
<purplepooka at blueyonder.co.uk>wrote:

>  Too many to list, but I just recently finished ?Caliban and the Witch? by
> Silvia Federici and can?t recommend it highly enough.  Really thorough
> analysis of how the shift from feudalism to capitalism required a drastic
> change in the social status of women and necessitated a campaign of mass
> persecution (the witch hunts) to create that social role.
>
> Also, just offhand, ?How to Suppress Women?s Writing? by Joanna Russ.
> She?s just so incisive and witty and wonderful.
>
> Emma
>
>
>
>
>
> *From:* jae ess [mailto:itsme_jae at yahoo.co.uk]
> *Sent:* 10 April 2010 16:03
> *To:* a-fem list
> *Subject:* [Anarchafeminists] Good books?
>
>
>
> Hey hey all,
>
> One of the collective at Freedom Bookshop in London asked me if I could
> suggest any good books on women/gender/feminism-type issues that they could
> stock in order to improve their list - and I thought I'd throw it open to
> all of you.
>
> What are your old favourites and new discoveries?
> What do you think other people might want to buy?
> Feminist type stuff much welcomed, but equally any other really good
> reccomendations on other subjects (or even fiction) also appreciated.
>
> Many thanks
> Jae
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Anarchafeminists mailing list
> Anarchafeminists at lists.aktivix.org
> https://lists.aktivix.org/mailman/listinfo/anarchafeminists
>
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From teastains at gmail.com  Tue Apr 13 11:30:33 2010
From: teastains at gmail.com (Jasper Murphy)
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 12:30:33 +0100
Subject: [Anarchafeminists] Good books?
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References: <870846.97379.qm@web25105.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>
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*Thanks Jamie.*

Here's one that I don't think anyone else will mention but in a way it's a
manual to genderqueerness in Science Fiction form, *Triton*, by Samuel
Delany <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triton_%28novel%29>     is worth
getting in, and would be a kind of interesting and weird addition.

I also think that any kind of accessible reader of Judith Butler, any kind
of easy enjoyable version of her ideas would be really important- more
important than having her actual books.  I have something called "Judith
Butler live theory" by Vicki Kirby but haven't really opened it up enough to
see if it's any good.

Also if it hasn't been mentioned a really well written and accessible and
thorough Introduction to Feminism would be essential of course.

Jamie

On 13 April 2010 12:28, Jamie Heckert <jamie.heckert at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey Jasper,
>
> I think this came just to me rather than whole list...
>
> Warmly,
> Jamie
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 10:35 AM, Jasper Murphy <teastains at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Here's one that I don't think anyone else will mention but in a way it's a
>> manual to genderqueerness in Science Fiction form, *Triton*, by Samuel
>> Delany <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triton_%28novel%29>     is worth
>> getting in, and would be a kind of interesting and weird addition.
>>
>> I also think that any kind of accessible reader of Judith Butler, any kind
>> of easy enjoyable version of her ideas would be really important- more
>> important than having her actual books.  I have something called "Judith
>> Butler live theory" by Vicki Kirby but haven't really opened it up enough to
>> see if it's any good.
>>
>> Also if it hasn't been mentioned a really well written and accessible and
>> thorough Introduction to Feminism would be essential of course.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 12 April 2010 23:30, Jamie Heckert <jamie.heckert at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I'd second Caliban! other books that have inspired by anarchist/feminist
>>> imagination include
>>>
>>> Fiction-wise:
>>>
>>> Ursula le Guin - Always Coming Home, The Left Hand of Darkness, The
>>> Dispossessed, and everything else :)
>>>
>>> Octavia E. Butler - Parable of the Sower, Parable of the Talents,
>>> Wildseed
>>>
>>> Marge Piercy - Woman on the Edge of Time, Body of Glass
>>>
>>> Laurie J. Marks - The Elemental Logic series ( beautiful
>>> Marxist/Buddhist/queer stories about occupation, identity and revolution)
>>>
>>> Dorothy Allison - Bastard out of Carolina (autobiographical fiction -
>>> beautiful and painful!)
>>>
>>> Starhawk - The Fifth Sacred Thing
>>>
>>> Non-Fiction:
>>>
>>> Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz's autobiographical works starting with Read Dirt.
>>>
>>> Threads by Lisa (feminist health)
>>>
>>> Undoing Gender by Judith Butler (bit heavy, maybe, but her most
>>> accessible and certainly moreso than some things in Freedom :) )
>>>
>>> Feminism without Borders by Chandra Mohanty
>>>
>>> Wild: An Elemental Journy by Jay Griffiths (poetic anarcha-indigenous
>>> travel writing)
>>>
>>> Zeros & Ones by Sadie Plant (beautiful book on women and technology)
>>>
>>> The Ecology of Everyday Life by Chaia Heller (anarcha-ecofeminist
>>> classic)
>>>
>>> The Arts of the Possible by Adrienne Rich (as well as her other works).
>>>
>>> Love,
>>> Jamie
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 12:57 AM, Emma Pooka <
>>> purplepooka at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>>>  Too many to list, but I just recently finished ?Caliban and the Witch?
>>>> by Silvia Federici and can?t recommend it highly enough.  Really thorough
>>>> analysis of how the shift from feudalism to capitalism required a drastic
>>>> change in the social status of women and necessitated a campaign of mass
>>>> persecution (the witch hunts) to create that social role.
>>>>
>>>> Also, just offhand, ?How to Suppress Women?s Writing? by Joanna Russ.
>>>> She?s just so incisive and witty and wonderful.
>>>>
>>>> Emma
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> *From:* jae ess [mailto:itsme_jae at yahoo.co.uk]
>>>> *Sent:* 10 April 2010 16:03
>>>> *To:* a-fem list
>>>> *Subject:* [Anarchafeminists] Good books?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hey hey all,
>>>>
>>>> One of the collective at Freedom Bookshop in London asked me if I could
>>>> suggest any good books on women/gender/feminism-type issues that they could
>>>> stock in order to improve their list - and I thought I'd throw it open to
>>>> all of you.
>>>>
>>>> What are your old favourites and new discoveries?
>>>> What do you think other people might want to buy?
>>>> Feminist type stuff much welcomed, but equally any other really good
>>>> reccomendations on other subjects (or even fiction) also appreciated.
>>>>
>>>> Many thanks
>>>> Jae
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>> Anarchafeminists mailing list
>>>> Anarchafeminists at lists.aktivix.org
>>>> https://lists.aktivix.org/mailman/listinfo/anarchafeminists
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Anarchafeminists mailing list
>>> Anarchafeminists at lists.aktivix.org
>>> https://lists.aktivix.org/mailman/listinfo/anarchafeminists
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> click, whir.
>>
>> Jasper Murphy
>>
>
>


-- 
click, whir.

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From teastains at gmail.com  Tue Apr 13 11:31:19 2010
From: teastains at gmail.com (Jasper Murphy)
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 12:31:19 +0100
Subject: [Anarchafeminists] Good books?
In-Reply-To: <s2nae218a4f1004130430mfa045942k23f8c1a5d9a77808@mail.gmail.com>
References: <870846.97379.qm@web25105.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>
	<00d301cad9d2$cb8f34c0$62ad9e40$@co.uk>
	<o2k28e6cb571004121530uf98096abtce839cfad4cb6ebd@mail.gmail.com>
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Message-ID: <v2pae218a4f1004130431ibc703f2al44586ac67ebc92bf@mail.gmail.com>

*I also accidentally signed that Jamie.  I am Jasper, not Jamie, sorry
Jamie.*

On 13 April 2010 12:30, Jasper Murphy <teastains at gmail.com> wrote:

> *Thanks Jamie.*
>
>
> Here's one that I don't think anyone else will mention but in a way it's a
> manual to genderqueerness in Science Fiction form, *Triton*, by Samuel
> Delany <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triton_%28novel%29>     is worth
> getting in, and would be a kind of interesting and weird addition.
>
> I also think that any kind of accessible reader of Judith Butler, any kind
> of easy enjoyable version of her ideas would be really important- more
> important than having her actual books.  I have something called "Judith
> Butler live theory" by Vicki Kirby but haven't really opened it up enough to
> see if it's any good.
>
> Also if it hasn't been mentioned a really well written and accessible and
> thorough Introduction to Feminism would be essential of course.
>
> Jamie
>
>
> On 13 April 2010 12:28, Jamie Heckert <jamie.heckert at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hey Jasper,
>>
>> I think this came just to me rather than whole list...
>>
>> Warmly,
>> Jamie
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 10:35 AM, Jasper Murphy <teastains at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Here's one that I don't think anyone else will mention but in a way it's
>>> a manual to genderqueerness in Science Fiction form, *Triton*, by Samuel
>>> Delany <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triton_%28novel%29>     is worth
>>> getting in, and would be a kind of interesting and weird addition.
>>>
>>> I also think that any kind of accessible reader of Judith Butler, any
>>> kind of easy enjoyable version of her ideas would be really important- more
>>> important than having her actual books.  I have something called "Judith
>>> Butler live theory" by Vicki Kirby but haven't really opened it up enough to
>>> see if it's any good.
>>>
>>> Also if it hasn't been mentioned a really well written and accessible and
>>> thorough Introduction to Feminism would be essential of course.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 12 April 2010 23:30, Jamie Heckert <jamie.heckert at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'd second Caliban! other books that have inspired by anarchist/feminist
>>>> imagination include
>>>>
>>>> Fiction-wise:
>>>>
>>>> Ursula le Guin - Always Coming Home, The Left Hand of Darkness, The
>>>> Dispossessed, and everything else :)
>>>>
>>>> Octavia E. Butler - Parable of the Sower, Parable of the Talents,
>>>> Wildseed
>>>>
>>>> Marge Piercy - Woman on the Edge of Time, Body of Glass
>>>>
>>>> Laurie J. Marks - The Elemental Logic series ( beautiful
>>>> Marxist/Buddhist/queer stories about occupation, identity and revolution)
>>>>
>>>> Dorothy Allison - Bastard out of Carolina (autobiographical fiction -
>>>> beautiful and painful!)
>>>>
>>>> Starhawk - The Fifth Sacred Thing
>>>>
>>>> Non-Fiction:
>>>>
>>>> Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz's autobiographical works starting with Read Dirt.
>>>>
>>>> Threads by Lisa (feminist health)
>>>>
>>>> Undoing Gender by Judith Butler (bit heavy, maybe, but her most
>>>> accessible and certainly moreso than some things in Freedom :) )
>>>>
>>>> Feminism without Borders by Chandra Mohanty
>>>>
>>>> Wild: An Elemental Journy by Jay Griffiths (poetic anarcha-indigenous
>>>> travel writing)
>>>>
>>>> Zeros & Ones by Sadie Plant (beautiful book on women and technology)
>>>>
>>>> The Ecology of Everyday Life by Chaia Heller (anarcha-ecofeminist
>>>> classic)
>>>>
>>>> The Arts of the Possible by Adrienne Rich (as well as her other works).
>>>>
>>>> Love,
>>>> Jamie
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 12:57 AM, Emma Pooka <
>>>> purplepooka at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>  Too many to list, but I just recently finished ?Caliban and the
>>>>> Witch? by Silvia Federici and can?t recommend it highly enough.  Really
>>>>> thorough analysis of how the shift from feudalism to capitalism required a
>>>>> drastic change in the social status of women and necessitated a campaign of
>>>>> mass persecution (the witch hunts) to create that social role.
>>>>>
>>>>> Also, just offhand, ?How to Suppress Women?s Writing? by Joanna Russ.
>>>>> She?s just so incisive and witty and wonderful.
>>>>>
>>>>> Emma
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> *From:* jae ess [mailto:itsme_jae at yahoo.co.uk]
>>>>> *Sent:* 10 April 2010 16:03
>>>>> *To:* a-fem list
>>>>> *Subject:* [Anarchafeminists] Good books?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Hey hey all,
>>>>>
>>>>> One of the collective at Freedom Bookshop in London asked me if I could
>>>>> suggest any good books on women/gender/feminism-type issues that they could
>>>>> stock in order to improve their list - and I thought I'd throw it open to
>>>>> all of you.
>>>>>
>>>>> What are your old favourites and new discoveries?
>>>>> What do you think other people might want to buy?
>>>>> Feminist type stuff much welcomed, but equally any other really good
>>>>> reccomendations on other subjects (or even fiction) also appreciated.
>>>>>
>>>>> Many thanks
>>>>> Jae
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>>> Anarchafeminists mailing list
>>>>> Anarchafeminists at lists.aktivix.org
>>>>> https://lists.aktivix.org/mailman/listinfo/anarchafeminists
>>>>>
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From melvegan at googlemail.com  Wed Apr 14 10:29:12 2010
From: melvegan at googlemail.com (Mel Vegan)
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 13:29:12 +0300
Subject: [Anarchafeminists] Fwd:  Good books?
In-Reply-To: <p2m434a5b21004110302lc7f080bjac4156e905250ca9@mail.gmail.com>
References: <870846.97379.qm@web25105.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>
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hey thought i'd forward the list i sent to share with others  :)

great to hear everyone's suggestions

XXX

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Mel Vegan <melvegan at googlemail.com>
Date: 11 April 2010 13:02
Subject: Re: [Anarchafeminists] Good books?
To: jae ess <itsme_jae at yahoo.co.uk>


Hi,

here's a random list that I immediately think of:

non-fiction:
Arm the Spirit by Diane Block
Outlaw Culture AND Ain't I a Woman both by bell hooks
Backlash AND Stiffed both by Susan Faludi
Threads by Lisa, email threadsbook at riseup.net
Quiet Rumours: an Anarcha-Feminist Reader
Redefining our Relationships by Wendy O'Matik

fiction:
Vida AND Braided Lives AND Woman on the Edge of Time all by Marge Piercy
You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down by Alice Walker
The Carhullan Army by Sarah Hall

will send more when I think of them.  Think it's great that Freedom does
this because I've noticed a total vacuum on their shelves in the past, have
asked them to stock certain books and they've not done it, so am really keen
for them to move forward on this.

Nice one!

Mel

  On 10 April 2010 18:03, jae ess <itsme_jae at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

>    Hey hey all,
>
> One of the collective at Freedom Bookshop in London asked me if I could
> suggest any good books on women/gender/feminism-type issues that they could
> stock in order to improve their list - and I thought I'd throw it open to
> all of you.
>
> What are your old favourites and new discoveries?
> What do you think other people might want to buy?
> Feminist type stuff much welcomed, but equally any other really good
> reccomendations on other subjects (or even fiction) also appreciated.
>
> Many thanks
> Jae
>
>
> _______________________________________________
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> Anarchafeminists at lists.aktivix.org
> https://lists.aktivix.org/mailman/listinfo/anarchafeminists
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From tamsinotto at hotmail.com  Wed Apr 14 12:52:13 2010
From: tamsinotto at hotmail.com (Tamsin Otto)
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 12:52:13 +0000
Subject: [Anarchafeminists] Good books?
In-Reply-To: <s2nae218a4f1004130430mfa045942k23f8c1a5d9a77808@mail.gmail.com>
References: <870846.97379.qm@web25105.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>,
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Message-ID: <SNT126-W41EEBE110BE3113097C1D7C3100@phx.gbl>


Hi 
 
So this could become an endless list but I am just starting to read Feminism is for Everyone by Bell Hooks which is great and gives a really good race and class analysis of feminism in a very accessible format. Also Audre Lorde is fab, Zamie another spelling of my name is amazing. And Assata which is great too. The Clitoral Truth, Our Bodies OurSelves are also brilliant for info on health and sexuality. Hand me Down distro has an extensive list of books and zines on feminist health, gender and sexuality, can't get their web site right now as at work, but will look it up and email.
 


Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 12:30:33 +0100
From: teastains at gmail.com
To: anarchafeminists at lists.aktivix.org
Subject: Re: [Anarchafeminists] Good books?

Thanks Jamie.

Here's one that I don't think anyone else will mention but in a way it's a manual to genderqueerness in Science Fiction form, Triton, by Samuel Delany     is worth getting in, and would be a kind of interesting and weird addition.

I also think that any kind of accessible reader of Judith Butler, any kind of easy enjoyable version of her ideas would be really important- more important than having her actual books.  I have something called "Judith Butler live theory" by Vicki Kirby but haven't really opened it up enough to see if it's any good.

Also if it hasn't been mentioned a really well written and accessible and thorough Introduction to Feminism would be essential of course.

Jamie


On 13 April 2010 12:28, Jamie Heckert <jamie.heckert at gmail.com> wrote:

Hey Jasper,

I think this came just to me rather than whole list...

Warmly,
Jamie 





On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 10:35 AM, Jasper Murphy <teastains at gmail.com> wrote:

Here's one that I don't think anyone else will mention but in a way it's a manual to genderqueerness in Science Fiction form, Triton, by Samuel Delany     is worth getting in, and would be a kind of interesting and weird addition.

I also think that any kind of accessible reader of Judith Butler, any kind of easy enjoyable version of her ideas would be really important- more important than having her actual books.  I have something called "Judith Butler live theory" by Vicki Kirby but haven't really opened it up enough to see if it's any good.

Also if it hasn't been mentioned a really well written and accessible and thorough Introduction to Feminism would be essential of course. 







On 12 April 2010 23:30, Jamie Heckert <jamie.heckert at gmail.com> wrote:

I'd second Caliban! other books that have inspired by anarchist/feminist imagination include

Fiction-wise:

Ursula le Guin - Always Coming Home, The Left Hand of Darkness, The Dispossessed, and everything else :)

Octavia E. Butler - Parable of the Sower, Parable of the Talents, Wildseed

Marge Piercy - Woman on the Edge of Time, Body of Glass

Laurie J. Marks - The Elemental Logic series ( beautiful Marxist/Buddhist/queer stories about occupation, identity and revolution)

Dorothy Allison - Bastard out of Carolina (autobiographical fiction - beautiful and painful!)

Starhawk - The Fifth Sacred Thing

Non-Fiction:

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz's autobiographical works starting with Read Dirt.

Threads by Lisa (feminist health)

Undoing Gender by Judith Butler (bit heavy, maybe, but her most accessible and certainly moreso than some things in Freedom :) )

Feminism without Borders by Chandra Mohanty

Wild: An Elemental Journy by Jay Griffiths (poetic anarcha-indigenous travel writing)

Zeros & Ones by Sadie Plant (beautiful book on women and technology)

The Ecology of Everyday Life by Chaia Heller (anarcha-ecofeminist classic)

The Arts of the Possible by Adrienne Rich (as well as her other works).

Love,
Jamie









On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 12:57 AM, Emma Pooka <purplepooka at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:







Too many to list, but I just recently finished ?Caliban and the Witch? by Silvia Federici and can?t recommend it highly enough.  Really thorough analysis of how the shift from feudalism to capitalism required a drastic change in the social status of women and necessitated a campaign of mass persecution (the witch hunts) to create that social role.
Also, just offhand, ?How to Suppress Women?s Writing? by Joanna Russ.  She?s just so incisive and witty and wonderful.
Emma
 
 



From: jae ess [mailto:itsme_jae at yahoo.co.uk] 
Sent: 10 April 2010 16:03
To: a-fem list
Subject: [Anarchafeminists] Good books?



 


Hey hey all,

One of the collective at Freedom Bookshop in London asked me if I could suggest any good books on women/gender/feminism-type issues that they could stock in order to improve their list - and I thought I'd throw it open to all of you. 

What are your old favourites and new discoveries?
What do you think other people might want to buy?
Feminist type stuff much welcomed, but equally any other really good reccomendations on other subjects (or even fiction) also appreciated.

Many thanks
Jae
 
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From butterflea at riseup.net  Mon Apr 19 19:29:32 2010
From: butterflea at riseup.net (butterflea at riseup.net)
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 12:29:32 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Anarchafeminists] [Fwd: [MujeresLibres] The Big Anarchist Survey]
Message-ID: <daa97296ac1b9e365781daee4a014b10.squirrel@tern.riseup.net>

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Subject: [MujeresLibres] The Big Anarchist Survey
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Date:    Mon, April 19, 2010 11:29 am
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Dear friends and comrades,

If you're an anarchist (of whichever persuasion), we humbly invite you to
complete our * anonymous *survey at http://www.anarchistsurvey.com/

The survey is a project by some friends in Johannesburg, South Africa, who
are interested in some of the ideas and backgrounds of modern day
anarchists. As far as we know, such a survey has never been conducted and
a lot of our ideas of anarchists are based only on assumptions. Many of us
have participated in informal surveys on Facebook and other social
networking sites; this one, however, could be much more useful.

The survey will take most people 10-20 minutes to complete and you don't
need to register or share any of your personal details (email, name, etc.)
to take part. *All questions are optional*.

Please pass this on to all your anarchist friends/comrades/groups/mailing
lists.

Thank you!


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From butterflea at riseup.net  Tue Apr 20 09:30:41 2010
From: butterflea at riseup.net (butterflea at riseup.net)
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 02:30:41 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Anarchafeminists] [Fwd: [anarchistsoflondon] 5PM. FRIDAY.
	LIVERPOOL STREET.]
Message-ID: <b8a5f1c057512701885d881deaa716cf.squirrel@tern.riseup.net>

THIS FRIDAY 5PM DEMO AGAINST UBS/FOR MIGRANT CLEANERS LIVERPOOL ST

The demo will take place from 5pm on the 23rd at 100
Liverpool Street, London: go to the McDonalds above the Tube entrance in the
station for 4.30pm. It follows the 19th March international day of action
which
saw lively protests outside UBS sites around the world. Migrant cleaners are
refusing to accept attacks on their conditions from this massively wealthy
bank, and need the solidarity of the whole movement.

Full background
http://thecommune.wordpress.com/2010/02/11/ubs-the-fight-for-justice-for-cleaners-continues/

This concerns:

Syndicalists, being a campaign initiated then carried
forward by the workers themselves long after the mainstream TU movement had
turned its back.

Migration and antiracist activists, being the start of a
fight against the superexploitation of workers screwed over on the basis of
their nationality and status.

Feminists, being a fight against the belittling of ?womens
work" and an industry made up mainly of women workers.

East London activists and residents, being the biggest grass
roots industrial struggle about to kick off on our doorstep.

Anticapitalists, being the most direct threat to the citys
banks this side of legality.

Trade Unionists, being the forefront of low-paid workers
struggle.

Anyone.

Everyone.

5PM. FRIDAY. LIVERPOOL STREET.

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2010/04/449376.html





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From gailchester at blueyonder.co.uk  Wed Apr 21 00:25:42 2010
From: gailchester at blueyonder.co.uk (Gail Chester)
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 01:25:42 +0100
Subject: [Anarchafeminists] Fw: URGENT Wherever you live,
	help defend Hackney's nurseries
Message-ID: <D41271D158D14BE4B956AC83A7827208@Gail>


----- Original Message ----- 
From: Friends of Hackney Nurseries 
To: hackneycommunitynews at yahoogroups.co.uk ; hackneysolidaritynetwork at yahoogroups.co.uk ; hackneybabies at yahoogroups.com ; hackneytuc at yahoogroups.co.uk ; deutschebabies at yahoogroups.de 
Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 1:10 AM
Subject: [HackneySolidarityNetwork] URGENT Wherever you live, help defend Hackney's nurseries


  

Please forward to interested people



Apologies for short notice -- we have only just heard that about these huge cuts to nursery budgets in Hackney, and we want to mobilise people to help try and save them, so we are organising an emergency public meeting THIS THURSDAY 22ND APRIL 6:30 P.M. -- further details below.  It is outrageous that Hackney Council/The Learning Trust should think that they can get away with attacking services to women and working-class people in this way, and just before the election. 

We have local elections in Hackney, including for our elected mayor, as well as the General Election.  Even if you don't live in Hackney, you can bring this up at any hustings meetings you go to, because this is part of a nationwide problem, and the Daycare Trust just published a report saying that childcare issues are almost the most important voting issue for women ? now there's a surprise!

If you would like to help, but cannot make this week's meeting, please send us an e-mail -- FHN at live.co.uk.

Thanks, Friends of Hackney Nurseries

(After successfully fighting against huge cuts to council and community nurseries in the 1990s and early 2000s, Friends of Hackney Nurseries is being re-activated to fight against Hackney Council and the Learning Trust's plan to impose cuts of upto 60% in this year's grant to community nurseries, and indeed to fight for even more and better childcare provision locally. JOIN US!)

============================

Media release -- 20th April 2010, for immediate release

>From Friends of Hackney Nurseries, FHN at live.co.uk 



Just a couple of weeks before the election, Hackney Council and the Learning Trust have delivered a devastating blow to Hackney's community nurseries



Despite Diane Abbott telling us in her election address that "Only a Labour government will protect our schools, hospitals and public services", community nurseries have been told in the last few days that, with immediate effect, they will be having cuts in their budget of up to 60%.  This means cuts of ?40 to ?50,000, which will lead to the serious threat of nursery closures, and hardship and distress for parents, workers and children. 



Jules Pipe, who is standing for re-election as Labour mayor of Hackney, has been boasting recently that ?For the fifth year in a row Hackney?s part of the Council Tax will not increase," and he claims that "Investment in services for Hackney residents is at the heart of spending plans for the coming financial year ? at no extra cost to the tax payer." 



The people of Hackney would like to know how he can square this with the devastation that is threatened to our nurseries. The withdrawal of public funds will affect all nurseries, and consequently our children's opportunities will be diminished, and nursery staff will have to spend valuable time struggling for their financial survival. Hackney's nurseries have always fought to remain inclusive, affordable, and professional, but it is impossible to achieve that by relying on parents' fees alone to meet all the costs. 





Dawn Primarolo, Minister of State for Children, Young People and Families, said recently, "We are spending a billion pounds a year on early years education, and even in these tough times we have said we will sustain this over the next three years, because that's how crucial we think excellent early years provision is for children and families, and for our economy." In which case, we would like to know why our share of the money is not coming to Hackney?s nurseries.




Friends of Hackney Nurseries is organising an emergency meeting to campaign against these cuts. If you want to help us defend good quality, affordable childcare in the borough, for our children now, and for future generations, please come to our meeting at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday 22nd April at The Bath House Children's Community Centre, The Old Warm Baths, 76 Shacklewell Lane, London E8 2EY.  You can contact Friends of Hackney Nurseries at fhn at live.co.uk 


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From gailchester at blueyonder.co.uk  Wed Apr 21 15:26:24 2010
From: gailchester at blueyonder.co.uk (Gail Chester)
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 16:26:24 +0100
Subject: [Anarchafeminists] =?iso-8859-1?q?Fw=3A_=5Bfeministaction=5D_Fw?=
	=?iso-8859-1?q?=3A_Irish_women_need_CASH=2C_not_ASH!_-___Urgent_AS?=
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Message-ID: <E52DC52C532E4BBCA66EA1CB343D10E7@Gail>


----- Original Message ----- 
From: Deborah 
To: feministaction at lists.riseup.net 
Cc: Women Against Fundamentalism 
Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 12:51 PM
Subject: [feministaction] Fw: Irish women need CASH, not ASH! - Urgent ASN Appeal


Whether it's a shortage of mange tout at the supermarket or a friend stranded abroad, we've all been affected by the cloud of ash from Iceland. But imagine if you had only a few weeks to navigate your way to England for a safe and legal abortion.

This week, we've heard from a number of women who were due to have travel to the UK this week for terminations, including a very young teen who is extremely close to the 24 week time limit for abortions in the UK. She had to miss her appointment earlier this week and is now coming next week by ferry and train - a roundtrip journey of more than 24 hours. Her mother solely supports her and her siblings with a part time job and now has to cover costs of ?2,300 (procedure + money lost on cancelled flights + last minute ferry and train tickets).

Due to these extraordinary and extremely difficult circumstances, ASN has made a pledge to fund this young woman ?500, much more than we usually commit to a single case. This is less than half of the costs she is facing. We would like to help more. If you would like to help cover more costs for her and women like her, please pledge to make a donation today. 

You can do this by donating via PayPal ( http://www.abortionsupport.org.uk/donate/ ), writing a cheque (email info at abortionsupport.org.uk for our postal address), or by making an online transfer (HSBC/Abortion Support Network/Sort Code: 40-11-18/Account Number: 64409302).

Please mark the donation "Iceland".

Thank you in advance for any amount you can give - your donation will make a real difference to this family or to one of the other women who have had to re-purchase tickets to travel to England.

With best regards,

Mara

Mara Clarke
Abortion Support Network
+44 (0) 7897 611 593
mara at abortionsupport.org.uk

Abortion Support Network (ASN) is an all-volunteer organisation that provides accommodation and financial assistance to women forced to travel from Ireland and pay privately for abortions in England. The cost ranges between ?400 and ?2000 depending on circumstance and stage of pregnancy. While other organisations campaign for law reform, ASN is the only group on record providing women travelling for abortions with the thing they need the most: money. www.abortionsupport.org.uk 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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From anarchafeminist at af-north.org  Thu Apr 22 08:07:42 2010
From: anarchafeminist at af-north.org (Anarchafeminist Weekend Manchester)
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 09:07:42 +0100
Subject: [Anarchafeminists] FW: feminist speakers' event, manchester
Message-ID: <008c01cae1f2$e9326650$bb9732f0$@org>

Hi all,

Received this request at short notice, and pretty sure I won't be able to do
it as I'm in frantic Mayday organising mode.  Anybody interested?  It would
be good to have a voice for anarcha-feminism there.

Emma

 

From: chloegathome at aol.com [mailto:chloegathome at aol.com] 
Sent: 21 April 2010 10:09
To: anarchafeminist at af-north.org
Subject: feminist speakers' event, manchester

 

 

Hi,

 

Manchester University's feminist collective 'the Riveters' and Manchester
SWP are co-hosting a speakers' event on Thursday 29th April at 6pm at the
Manchester  University Union and are looking for speakers with different
views to come speak and participate in a discussion about theories of
women's oppression and women's liberation in the 21st century. We hope that
this will be an important event in the run up to the general election. We
were wondering if you would like to come speak on the issues, which will be
to an audience of roughly 90-100 people?

 

we plan to have three speakers, each talking about a different topic for
15-20minutes which will be followed by an audience Q&A and
discussion/debate. After the speaker event we will be hosting a feminist
themed pub quiz and a live music session with local female musicians.

 

I know that this is short notice but if you could let us know asap whether
this would be of interest to you that would be great.

 

Thanks,

 

UMSU Riveters and Manchester SWP

 

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From marknbarrett at googlemail.com  Sun Apr 25 11:02:22 2010
From: marknbarrett at googlemail.com (Mark Barrett)
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2010 12:02:22 +0100
Subject: [Anarchafeminists] May2nd Fem Manifesto Fwd: Family / Sex Work etc
Message-ID: <h2od4aab7e1004250402ha0fd1f52m1e9eac7b6ba4b716@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Everyone

Some might be interested in exchange below.

Hopefully many people will attend the May2nd event (the day after
coming to Meltdown!) see, for more information
http://www.counterfire.org/index.php/theory/133-counterforum/4676-public-event-a-feminist-manifesto-for-the-21st-century
and then we may even get some extra feminist revolutionary campers for
Parliament Square..

Cheers

Mark

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Hi Mark, sorry I've taken so long?to get back to you. Was on holiday
when you wrote and it got stuck in a backlog. I tend to agree with you
about sex work _ of course people have rights but is it what people
should have to do in an unalienated and free society? Should our
highest aspiration be the unionisation of prostitutes or is there (as
Engels said ) the need for a society where women -and men for that
matter?- don't need to sell their bodies? And you're right that the
privatised family is at the centre of these questions.

We're having another feminist manifesto meeting on Sunday 2nd May 5pm
at SOAS room G2 if you're interested. You're very welcome.

best,

Lindsey

________________________________
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2010 21:32:03 +0100
Subject: Family
From: marknbarrett at googlemail.com
To: Lindsey German

Dear Lindsey

Just a quick note to follow our earlier exchange via Chris Knight, by
saying that personally I am ambivalent about sex work.

On the one hand people should be protected as workers, while on the
other for me the whole sex and porn world, like environmental
degradation?and cruelty in general are all signs that patriarchy and
the moral dead end capitalist mode of production it happily co-exists
with still exists, its salient features?being the objectification and
commodification of the natural world in general for the benefit of the
powerful few and to the disadvantage of the weak and those without the
power of arms / money /access to the corridors of power at their
disposal.?The sex industry - like all the industries based on
exploitative power relations - should be resisted, but at the same
time its workers - like mother nature as a whole- protected.

Is that too contradictory??I am still trying to work this out, I find
the issue immensely difficult - rather as with abortion. Perhaps the
two strands relate to the need for regulation and reform, but also at
the same time social revolution otherwise we end up with at best only
protection but no paradigmatic liberation.?Which is why, for me the
aim of?a historic break?with the privatised family - interestingly
students at the secondary school where I work instinctively understand
this point when I broach it with them - is by far the most interesting
and potentially pivotal prospect.

Interested to know where you are at with the Manifesto project, and
looking forward to being able to assist you in some way. Please do
keep me posted...


Best wishes

Mark
www.meltodown.uk.net
Watch this nice video about Election
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X92f7H1vrJU
And Bring Pop Up Tents!!


From annam.davies at yahoo.co.uk  Sun Apr 25 17:07:28 2010
From: annam.davies at yahoo.co.uk (Anna Davies)
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2010 17:07:28 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Anarchafeminists] And the Struggle Continues: Women's Liberation
	40 Years On
Message-ID: <842074.16038.qm@web28202.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>





And the Struggle Continues: Women's Liberation 40 Years On
 
www.feministfightback.org.uk

Sunday 2nd May, 2pm - 6pm
Marchmont Community Centre, 62 Marchmont St, London WC1N 1AB
 ?3 suggested donation waged/ ?1 low/unwaged
Creche provided, please contact us in advance if you will be bringing your child(ren)This venue is accessible.  
           Tubes: Russell Square, Kings Cross, Euston, Euston Square.  Rail: Kings Cross, St Pancras, Euston.

All genders very welcome.
  

In 1970 hundreds of women gathered for a free conference at Ruskin College that would launch the Second Wave of feminism. As men provided the childcare, women discussed and debated ideas and experiences, and identified what the aims of the Women's Liberation Movement as they saw it, should be.
 
Feminist Fightback invite you to an afternoon of film showings and discussions as we think about how far we have come, what feminism looks like today, how the struggle continues, and put the battles women fight today in the context of the history of the Women's Liberation Movement. 
 
Films will include:
Journeyman Picture's A Woman's Place (1970) 
Excerpts from the BBC's Women series (2010)
 
And then....Let's Dance!

join us for an evening of music, drinks andBBQing 
7 - 11pm @ Freedom Bookshop, Angel Alley, 84b Whitechapel High Street, London E1 7QX
small entrance fee will go towards struggle of the cleaners at UBS in the City who are organising against their exploitation at the hands of union-busting bosses.

Please call Laura on 07971 842027 or email feminist.fightback at gmail.com for more information

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From gailchester at blueyonder.co.uk  Tue Apr 27 01:15:09 2010
From: gailchester at blueyonder.co.uk (Gail Chester)
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 02:15:09 +0100
Subject: [Anarchafeminists] Fw: Children and Young People Hustings meeting
	THURSDAY 29TH APRIL, 6:30 P.M
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Come on, all you Hackney-based feminist activists! Now's the chance to make a bit of trouble!
Gail
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From: Friends of Hackney Nurseries 
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Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 1:23 AM
Subject: Children and Young People Hustings meeting THURSDAY 29TH APRIL, 6:30 P.M


FRIENDS OF HACKNEY NURSERIES INVITE YOU TO A HUSTINGS MEETING -

THURSDAY 29TH APRIL, 6:30 P.M., OLD FIRE STATION, LESWIN ROAD



In the last few days, under cover of the election, many community nurseries have been told that, with immediate effect, they will be having cuts in their budget of up to 60%.  This means cuts of ?40,000 to ?50,000, which will lead to the serious threat of nursery closures, and hardship and distress for parents, workers and children. Meanwhile, the Learning Trust and Hackney Council are denying that there is a programme of cuts to nursery provision.



Friends of Hackney Nurseries want to know the truth, and they want to know where all the different political parties stand on this issue, and others related to children and young people. 



So we have invited Rita Krishna, currently Cabinet Member of Hackney Council with responsibility for Children and Young People, who is standing for re-election as a Labour Party candidate in Stoke Newington Central ward, and all the other candidates who are standing in the elections on Thursday 6th May, to a hustings meeting to discuss their parties' policies regarding nurseries and young people generally.  



The meeting will be held at the Old Fire Station, 61 Leswin Road, London N16 7NX, at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday 29th April 2010.



All welcome -- come armed with your questions.  This is your chance to find out where all the political parties stand on the vital issues of concern to us and our children.



Contact Friends of Hackney Nurseries to find out more and join our campaign fhn at live.co.uk 



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From psybience at hotmail.co.uk  Wed Apr 28 11:56:37 2010
From: psybience at hotmail.co.uk (laura__ x)
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 11:56:37 +0000
Subject: [Anarchafeminists] Holy Queermunion! Brighton Queer Mutiny Event!
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