From leilasjunkmail at yahoo.com  Mon Jan  4 13:00:17 2010
From: leilasjunkmail at yahoo.com (Leila El-Qawas)
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 05:00:17 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [Anarchafeminists] Brighton anarchafeminist day
Message-ID: <547456.18424.qm@web30906.mail.mud.yahoo.com>



Links below are to a poster with details of upcoming anarchafeminist day at the Cowley Club in Brighton on Saturday 30th Jan. 

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3300048/AF%20event%20flyer.pdf
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3300048/flyer%20Tiled.pdf

There will be workshops and discussion during the day (cheap lunch and childcare facilities provided) and a gig in the evening to raise money for a new Brighton women's shelter.

We will have posterboard space and an info table... feel free to bring down flyers etc. for other initiatives and events.


If anybody fancies coming and helping on the day at all then we still have some roles that could be usefully filled!

Particularly, we could really do with some people with mediation experience to help us out with this. We also still need a few more men to help us out with the creche, and there are various other general duties (helping serve lunch, minding the craft space) that we haven't filled in names for yet.

We haven't so far organised any crash space for people to stay in Brighton, but if this is something that you need then get in touch and we'll see what we can do.

Also let us know if you'd like us to send you any physical copies of the flyer to display/distribute.


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From rhubarb at riseup.net  Tue Jan  5 22:37:46 2010
From: rhubarb at riseup.net (rhubarb at riseup.net)
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 14:37:46 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [Anarchafeminists] [Fwd: Call Out for the next FreeSchool Weekender]
Message-ID: <16b766466f28199538496686552bf822.squirrel@swift.riseup.net>




--- On Mon, 4/1/10, schlop at riseup.net <schlop at riseup.net> wrote:


From: schlop at riseup.net <schlop at riseup.net>
Subject: [Wominorganise] [Fwd: Call Out for the next FreeSchool Weekender]]
To: wominorganise at lists.aktivix.org
Date: Monday, 4 January, 2010, 11:08


Hello everyone

The London FreeSchool collective has decided to organise another week-end
of skillsharing (we thought about 5-7th March 2010). This will be the
fifth London FreeSchool event since september 2008. We had tons of
workshops, hosted in many different social centres scattered around london
and lots of very diverse people doing and attending workshops!

To know more about the project check our website:
http://londonfreeschool.wordpress.com

The collective started discussing the next FreeSchool weekender, and had
some very interesting and ambitious ideas. Mainly we would like the next
FreeSchool weekender to have a focus on feminism/gender/anti-sexism. But
at the same time, one of our main aim would be to get a wide range of
people coming, including some that have not been before in feminist spaces
or haven't had access to it. Basically we would like to use the FreeSchool
format to get everyone to think about feminism and anti-sexism issues in
the Freeschool context. But also, more generally, we would like to create
a space where people could feel safe and free to raise issues (sexism,
racism...) or to ask for help if they felt oppressed/threatened. This
would probably mean having a safer space policy for the whole event. It
would also mean trying not only to have a strong emphasis on sexism but a
sort of general background throughout the week-end about systems of
oppression, and make it open for racism, able-ism, age-ism, classism and
other issues to be brought up.

We are then trying to reach out people around us to organise this event
and make it successful! This is the very beginning and we would like you
to come and help shape this next FreeSchool weekender!

The next meeting will be on Thursday the 14th of January at 8pm, 195 Mare
Street in Hackney (bring some warm clothing!).

You are all invited to come and bring ideas and suggestions!


----------------
Only for your information, here are some ideas we had but that obviously
need more diScussion/critics:
- having regular workshops that we would have during a regular freeSchool
event but with a feminist angle/gender issues emphasis (for example:
housing with specific discussion on women's housing situation...),
- feminism/gender/sexism related workshops,
- maybe some non-mixed sessions/workshops for "highly gendered" topics
(bike fixing, electricity, plumbing, IT...) where some of us felt that it
would be much more empowering for women to be in a non mixed environment,
- emphasizing the questioning of genders,
- a small debrief at the end of each workshop (maybe with questions like:
did you feel you had enough space to express yourself during the workshop?
have you noticed any oppressive behavior/language during the workshop?),
- a daily debrief (during dinner) open to everyone and with at least the
facilitators of the day's workshops.








From bwrap at dircon.co.uk  Fri Jan  8 19:11:30 2010
From: bwrap at dircon.co.uk (BWRAP)
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 19:11:30 -0000
Subject: [Anarchafeminists] Public Meeting: Detention & deportation,
	women's uncensored experiences
Message-ID: <EE8CACC2C4BA41FDA310D6B3639F146B@c3>

Dear sisters,

If you haven?t already done so, could you please circulate the information 

below to your network?

Many thanks.

Cristel and Maria


For immediate Release: 020 7482 2496 or 07980 659 831


Public Event: Can You Hear Us? 
Women?s uncensored experiences of detention and deportation
All speakers will be available for interview.  

Date: 14 January
Time: 6-8pm
Venue: Committee Room 5, House of Commons

While the brutal detention of children has been finally condemned, little
has been said about the detention of mothers and its impact on families,
including children, and other vulnerable people.  

Over 70% of women seeking asylum are rape survivors [1]. Many are detained
in prison-like conditions throughout Britain, including in Yarl?s Wood
Removal Centre which holds over 400 women and their families.  This is in
breach of national guidelines and international agreements. 

Women will testify about their struggles against an increasingly punitive
immigration system, and their demands for change.  They include rape
survivors, mothers separated from their children, lesbian women, and several
women who were recently released from Yarl?s Wood.  Some have been involved
in hunger strikes and protests against the brutal, profit-orientated regime
run by SERCO [2] and against violent deportations by privatised security
companies.  

Ms Idri Jawara is one of the speakers.

Ms Idri Jawara was married in Gambia in October 1991 and her husband
insisted she adopt his family?s tradition of carrying out female genital
mutilation.  As a victim of this practice herself, Ms Jawara refused to
inflict it on her daughters and other girls.  As her marriage began to
deteriorate, Ms Jawara began a lesbian relationship with a close friend.
When her husband found out he raped and beat her daily and eventually took
her to a Sharia court where he accused her of having a forbidden
relationship.  The court found her guilty and sentenced her to death by
stoning on 11 May 2009.

On 13 May, Ms Jawara fled to Britain.  She was entitled to claim asylum
under the Refugee Convention because of the persecution she suffered and
because she couldn?t rely on the Gambian government to protect her.  In
June, when she submitted her claim, she was detained in Yarl?s Wood IRC.
Despite having explained she was a victim of rape, her case was put into the
fast-track process which allows only two days for an asylum application to
be made and a further six days to appeal a refusal.  This leaves no time for
people to gather the medical and other expert reports essential to
corroborate a claim of persecution.  Like 98% of other applicants considered
under the fast track, Ms Jawara was refused.  Like hundreds of other women,
Ms Jawara was then left without legal representation as her lawyer
concluded, without having gathered any of the key evidence, that her case
had no merit.  She tried to represent herself at her appeal hearing but was
too embarrassed to speak about her sexuality and her appeal was rejected.
Faced with imminent removal, she found a new lawyer who put in a Judicial
Review and commissioned an expert report from Black Women?s Rape Action
Project.  Her removal was suspended after the Gambian authorities refused to
issue a travel document.  She was finally released shortly before Christmas.
  

What makes people angry is the lack of money to help the vulnerable. 

There are 42 million displaced people worldwide [3].  Women and children are
80% of the casualties of wars [4]. The role of the British government in
fomenting and supporting many of these wars remains hidden.  Instead we are
bombarded with political and religious ?leaders? claiming, without any
concrete evidence, that people blame immigration for a scarcity of
resources.  Yet recent research confirms the positive contribution immigrant
people make to society. [5]  
 

Over six years ago women seeking asylum in the UK founded the All African
Women?s Group.  They describe that when people hear directly about the
suffering and injustice they have experienced, both in their countries of
origin and since their arrival in the UK, there is often an outpouring of
sympathy, compassion and outrage.  

?What we see that makes people angry is the lack of money to help the
vulnerable.  Women and children are left destitute by government policies
while billions are squandered on war.  We never hear from government that
there?s no money for these wars which kill and maim, force us to flee our
countries and drain the vital services everyone needs to survive.  Of
course, we also experience hostility and discrimination from some people,
especially those in authority.  But racist attacks increase every time the
government launches another witch-hunt against us as ?bogus? or ?scroungers?
? we are held up as scapegoats for people?s frustration at political and
economic priorities which undermine most of us, whether we were born here or
not.?  


But despite being isolated, denied access to dependable lawyers, subjected
to slave labour and negligent healthcare, abused and assaulted during
deportations, and terrorised by the threat of being sent back . . . women
continue to organise creatively in their own defence. 

For interviews with Ms Jawara and others or more information:
Maria Kasaga, All African Women?s Group, aawg02 at googlemail.com 
Cristel Amiss, Black Women?s Rape Action Project, bwrap at dircon.co.uk
Crossroads Women?s Centre. 

Sponsoring organisations: Legal Action for Women, Women Against Rape, SOAS
Visitors group & Yarl?s Wood Befrienders.     

  _____  

[1] A Bleak House in Our Times: An investigation into women?s rights
violations at Yarl?s Wood Removal Centre, Legal Action for Women

[2] SERCO Group plc won an ?85 million contract to run Yarl's Wood initially
for three years, with optional extensions up to eight years. 

[3] UNHCR annual report, June 2009

[4] UNHCR Refugees Magazine Issue 126, April 2002

[5] Can Migrants Save the Global Economy?
http://www.counterpunch.org/kar12232009.html 

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From guditta at hotmail.com  Thu Jan 14 17:46:17 2010
From: guditta at hotmail.com (yodet gherez)
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 17:46:17 +0000
Subject: [Anarchafeminists] (no subject)
Message-ID: <SNT107-W210788816B98F129161226B16A0@phx.gbl>




hi all. elections are coming up and we need to plan and plot away the best course of action. A meeting is sceduled at the foundry (nearest tube old street) involving as many activists and groups such as wag, meltown, class war, climate camp lot, wombles etc etc. 

weekend of the 30th and 31st of january. 3-7pm. 

spread the word and hope to see you there. been awhile since we've all met. 

much love, yodet. 
 		 	   		  
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From gailchester at blueyonder.co.uk  Tue Jan 19 19:06:54 2010
From: gailchester at blueyonder.co.uk (Gail Chester)
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 19:06:54 -0000
Subject: [Anarchafeminists] Fw: Telling Tales About Dementia book event 21
	January 2010
Message-ID: <69132D7D68764DD0B40664D11C6FE77B@Gail>

This is now short notice, because I kept sending it to the wrong address.  But good news is that there may be a radical campaign being launched in the next few months about caring and carers, as opposed to the liberal hand-wringing that the media is stuffed full of.  Please contact me if you are interested in hearing more.

Gail

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Gail Chester 
To: anarchafem at aktivix.org 
Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 4:40 PM
Subject: Telling Tales About Dementia book event 21 January 2010


Not a feminist book as such, but both Lucy and I are feminists, as are other people connected with the book, and this is an issue that touches many of us, whatever our politics. Even if you cant make it to the meeting, the book is a very timely read. Also, other readings are being arranged in other parts of London and elsewhere.

Best, Gail
-----------------------------------
Telling Tales About Dementia: Experiences of Caring

Book event at City and Hackney Carers Centre

On Thursday 21 January at 2.30pm there will be a reading by contributors to the new anthology, Telling Tales About Dementia: Experiences of Caring which is published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. In this book, 30 carers from different backgrounds and in different circumstances describe their experiences of looking after someone with dementia.

The book is edited by Lucy Whitman, who cared for her mother when she developed vascular dementia. She will be joined by some of the other contributors including Gail Chester and Marylyn Duncan, reading extracts from their stories, followed by questions and discussion.

The book has been welcomed by family carers, carers' organisations and dementia professionals. The broadcaster John Suchet, who is caring for his wife Bonnie, who has dementia, says: 

 'These personal accounts by family carers, harrowing, distressing, but also inspiring and uplifting, will have you weeping one moment and laughing the next, as they describe struggling to manage situations that range from horrific to comical. The single most valuable achievement of this book is to tell carers they are not alone.' 

Thursday 21 January 2.30 - 4.30pm

City and Hackney Carers Centre

96-102 Springfield House

5 Tyssen Street, Dalston E8 2LZ

Further information from 020 7923 8750


Tea and coffee from 2.15pm
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From gailchester at blueyonder.co.uk  Tue Jan 19 19:09:13 2010
From: gailchester at blueyonder.co.uk (Gail Chester)
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 19:09:13 -0000
Subject: [Anarchafeminists] Fw: 2010 Anarchist Movement Conference planning
	meeting
Message-ID: <5CD2FFDE4224411D8B0B1C93799819AB@Gail>

Ditto about the short notice, but hopefully some of you will have heard about this from other sources.

Gail



----- Original Message ----- 
From: Gail Chester 
To: anarchafem at aktivix.org 
Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 7:09 PM
Subject: 2010 Anarchist Movement Conference planning meeting


Do you think they should have a bit of feminist input from the outset this time?
And Happy New Year all,
Gail

----- Original Message ----- 
From: ct015g4573 at blueyonder.co.uk 
To: HackneySolidarityNetwork at yahoogroups.co.uk 
Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 12:28 PM
Subject: [HackneySolidarityNetwork] Re: 2010 Anarchist Movement Conference planning meeting


  

Towards the end of December we emailed around saying we wanted to call a
meeting to discuss the idea of a London wide conference in 2010 similar to
the Anarchist Movement Conference 2009. See below for the text of the full
email we sent round.

We have now booked a venue for the first meeting to discuss the idea, and
would like as many people as possible to come along and have your say
about whether the event should happen or not and in what form. Obviously
the details will be worked out over a number of months if the general
feeling is the conference should go ahead.

So, please come along and have your say. The meeting is on THURSDAY 21st
JANUARY - starts 7pm. It will be in the function room at the Cock tavern
23 Phoenix Road, London NW1 1HB.

For details of getting to venue click on:
http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?x=529716&y=183016&z=0&sv=NW1+1HB&st=2&pc=NW1+1HB&mapp=map.srf&searchp=ids.srf

The nearest tube is Euston or if you are getting a bus it's any buss that
goes near Euston station.

Tony & Andy

-------------------------

Please forward to anybody you think will be interested in London

We are emailing you this as either somebody from London who attended the
2009 Anarchist Movement Conference or somebody who we know might be
interested in having a London Conference in 2010.

After the success of the 2009 Anarchist Movement Conference a few of us
thought we should build on what we started in 2009, and discuss the idea
of holding a similar events in future. Although no countrywide conference
seams possible next year we think a London Conference in late spring/
early summer will be a constructive step with a wider event in 2011.

Initiatives like Radical London and the Red & Black Co-ordination meetings
in 2009 show there is a positive desire to work together in London. We
hope to build on this by bringing together as many people from the London
area who define themselves as anarchists and libertarians over a weekend
to see how we can cooperate better. There is no preset agenda but please
come along having thought about what this conference can do towards making
our politics a real challenge to capitalism and the state.

So, to start of the process we have called a meeting from 7pm on the
evening of Thursday 21st January to see if people support this idea; what
they would like to see from such a conference; and who would be up for
helping organise it. We haven't booked a venue yet as the baby Jesus
birthday seems to have got in the way and all venues (rightly) are taking
a well earned rest. After the New Year we will book a venue fairly central
in London and let you all know where it is. This email is just to get the
ball rolling; get you all talking about the idea after slobbing out over
xmas; and to ask you to keep the 21st free.

Please e-mail us back if you think you can come to this initial meeting as
it helps with booking the right size venue.

Nice one

Tony & Andy



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From guditta at hotmail.com  Thu Jan 21 14:54:02 2010
From: guditta at hotmail.com (yodet gherez)
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 14:54:02 +0000
Subject: [Anarchafeminists] 2010 / ELECTION MOBILISATION MEETING
Message-ID: <SNT107-W1E5EE9EFEB65255AE4D81B1630@phx.gbl>



2010 / ELECTION MOBILISATION MEETING




You are cordially invited to attend an open meeting, groups and individuals looking to work together in 2010, for a new society. 
 
When: Saturday 30th and Sunday 31st January   /    3-7pm (both days)
Where:  Downstairs at The Foundry, Old Street tube, 80 Great Eastern Street, London, EC2A 3JL? 
 
Map: http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=the+foundry&hl=en&cd=1&ei=oY9HS6XvK6W8jAex34WLBA&sll=51.536192,-0.098019&sspn=0.067163,0.153637&ie=UTF8&view=map&cid=16345936610950487282&ved=0CCAQpQY&hq=the+foundry&hnear=&ll=51.528077,-0.068965&spn=0.011374,0.042186&z=15&iwloc=A
 
It's been suggested this meeting should be in the context of a joint campaign against the coming general election, and on the best strategy for a decentralised movement in response, but the agenda is open. All groups and individuals committed to a world free of oppression, racism and war, very welcome. WE have got to make the choice. WE have got to start doing it for ourselves. But what do we want and how do we do it? Come and have your say @ Foundry, last weekend of January, and bring your mates.
 
This won't be just talk: the action starts here...
 
'let us make the squares our palettes, the streets our brushes'
Mayakovsky
 
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From butterflea at riseup.net  Wed Jan 27 22:00:15 2010
From: butterflea at riseup.net (butterflea at riseup.net)
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:00:15 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [Anarchafeminists] This Sat 30th: Brighton Event!]
Message-ID: <2b05dbe8eb1f14efd703748da496532d.squirrel@swift.riseup.net>

This Saturday 30th Jan 2010 sees the new year welcoming...

A DAY OF ANARCHA-FEMINISM

a completely free day and night of super feminism for all ages and genders
@ the cowley club, 12 london road, brighton

this event supports a new brighton womens homeless shelter and the launch
of the new anarcha-feminist group 'Organise!'- come along and get involved

DAY EVENT:
10.30am-6.30pm

including:

workshops n discussions (what is anarchfeminism?, feminist squats,
feminist childrearing, privilige, self-defense, men and anarchafem plus
many many more!)

skillshares n distros (DIY herbalism, zines, stencilling, subvertising,
radical knitting, plus so much more!)

PLUS!
-creche all day with kids workshops on storytelling n zines
-film sessions from 6.30-8.30pm
-yummy vegan lunch, tea n cake
-open to all, if you are new to anarchafeminism or an old hat!
-most workshops are wheelchair accessible and if not they can be adapted,
so please do ask the organising group for any particular needs you may
have: brightonanarchafeminists at lists.aktivix.org

NIGHT EVENT:
Fundraising gig, comedy, djs
7.30pm-2am

ALL FUNDS FROM THE DAY N NIGHT EVENT GO TO LATITUDE SAFE SPACE- A NEW
INITIATIVE FOR A BRIGHTON WOMEN'S HOMELESS SHELTER.

please support Latitude and get involved in the new brighton
anarchafeminist group ' Organise!' by coming to this event,

see you there!












From butterflea at riseup.net  Thu Jan 28 19:59:33 2010
From: butterflea at riseup.net (butterflea at riseup.net)
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 11:59:33 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [Anarchafeminists] [Fwd: [faf] call out for an article on sexist
	thoughts]
Message-ID: <d78e702ddb0cd2e087289502cd6c1ae0.squirrel@tern.riseup.net>

---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
Subject: [faf] call out for an article on sexist thoughts
From:    papidan at no-log.org
Date:    Thu, January 28, 2010 7:47 am
To:      papidan at no-log.org
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Hi


I'm Dan. I've been part of the London Profeminist Mens Group for a couple
of years now
http://londonprofeministmensgroup.blogspot.com/

We are planning to put out a zine together. The core idea is to show that
Feminism Helps Men! We strongly believe that as much as we have a dominant
position in society as men, fighting against patriarchy and the
deconstruction of gender roles will make everyone happier including men!

As part of the zine, I would like to include a text/list of sexist
thoughts that come to men's minds in everyday life. These sort of
automatic thoughts that just pop up without us controlling them. I first
thought about that when I read a text called "Going To Places That Scare
Me: Personal Reflections On Challenging Male Supremacy" by Chris Crass
http://colours.mahost.org/articles/crass15.html

This is (one of) the bit of the text that I found very interesting: "When
I think back to that conversation with Nilou and her explaining how sexism
operated. I remember trying not to shutdown and I tried to listen. The
word "But" repeated over and over again in my mind, followed by ?it was a
misunderstanding, I didn't mean it that way, I didn?t know you felt like
that, I wasn't trying to do that, I would love to see you participate
more, I don't understand, no one said they didn't want to hear what you
have to say, we all believe in equality, I love you and would never do
anything to hurt you, it was circumstances not sexism, I don't know what
to do.? Looking back ten years later, it?s amazing to me how often that
same list of ?buts? comes running to mind. I?m more like those ?other? men
that I?d like to admit."

These are examples of these automatic thoughts in a very specific context
(being challenged as a man for a sexist behavior). But I would like to get
a wide range of examples, including different contexts (looking at a woman
in the street, heterosexual seduction situation, seeing a woman fixing
electricity etc.). These examples are not random, they are ones where I
found myself having sexist thoughts popping into my mind!

So I'm basically asking to men to share these thoughts and to agree on
them being printed on a zine (I can share mine with whoever wants to
contribute if they want me to, and my thoughts will be included in the
text obviously!). Of course they will be anonymised (unless people dont
want to).

I know its a very difficult exercise, and can be even painful or shameful
at moments. But to me it is a very important issue to try and make these
things visible, to be honest and transparent about them, to notice how
much sexism is engrained in our personalities, to share these thoughts
with others and realise that we're not the only ones having them. Also to
realise that they come from a system of oppression and that they are
blurring and distorting our relationships with other people...

thanks lots in advance

love and rage!

daniel




