Mayday 'Festival of Alternatives' social centre open!!


10 Great Eastern Street
Shoreditch
London EC2A 3NI

tel: 07786 716 335 or 07960 973 847

 http://www.ourmayday.org.uk

(it's a pink/purple building which used to be a Tapas bar at the shoreditch end. Nearest tubes: Old Street, Shoreditch, Liverpool Street)


there are many workshops and events happening in London over the next few days as part of the May Day Festival of Alternatives. Full details available on the website. Some of the events at the social centre this weekend include:

SATURDAY

Advisory Service for Squatters talk - 3pm
Help and legal advice for squatters.

London Social Centres Network talk - 5.30pm

The dutch experience of squatting - 7pm
Differences in law, police repression, defence, activist community mobilisation and cultural representation of the scene.

Venue for all of the above social centre workshops: Temporary social centre - phone: 07786 716 335 for details.

SUNDAY
Workshops - A series of workshops with a focus on useful skills for mass actions:

Legal workshop on 'dealing with public order situations', including 'Section 60'. Essential if you're going to Mayday. (2 1-hour workshops from 2-3pm and 5-6pm).

Medical Workshops: First Aid on Demonstrations (3 one-hour basic first aid sessions from 2-3pm, 3-4pm, 4-5pm).
These workshops will provide an introduction to medical support for demonstrators. They will be interactive, with hands-on workshops, and focus on the how to deal with simple trauma (physical, mental and spiritual) as well as the recognition of serious injury.

There will be more detailed information available about medical care and medical support from the London Street Medics. For further information, contact:  londonmedics@bigfoot.com or come along on the day!

London Street Medics
The London Street Medics are a group of activist first-aiders who will be providing medical support on May Day. There will be Street Medics on all of the actions who will be able to give support or advice or, in a worst-case scenario, summon further help. Look out for them!!

Banner-making workshop - 12pm onwards

Circus skills workshops - come along & join the 'Anarchist Travelling Circus'
Juggling & juggling-ball making - 11am - make your own juggling balls & learn to use them.
Poi Spinning & poi-making - 1pm
Marching band - 3pm - bring a drum, tambourine, flute, trumpet, rice shaker or other portable instrument.

'Gender & women-only spaces' - all genders are welcome. 4pm.
Why do radical groups sometimes become Boyz clubz? How can we acknowledge and address stuff like sexism, patriarchy, male female differences in our movement without it being divisive?

'The War on Terrorism' - discussion hosted by Anarchist Youth Network- 6pm

Discussion hosted by Pere Manel from the Campaign Against the Europe of Capital, Barcelona - CANCELLED.

Venue for all of the above workshops: Social Centre - phone: 07786 716 335 for details.

Evening:
Café in Social Centre - phone: 07786 716 335 for details.