PEDAL Launch Pad

Workshop Weekend, 'Pathways through Utopias' Special Preview & Critical Mass
Grow Heathrow, Sipson 19th-21st of March

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PEDAL begins its 100 day journey to the West Bank on the 19th & 20th of March at the squatted community garden Grow Heathrow, in Sipson, with a series of workshops to explore the themes around PEDAL’s journey- such as the Boycott Divestment Sanctions movement, Art & Permaculture, Environmental Justice, Consensus decision-making and Storytelling.

Political (or positive) resistance is when “politically oppressed groups fight back against the powers that oppress them” and “aims at change“. Lennard Davis

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PEDAL Workshop Timetable

Grow Heathrow, Sipson
 http://www.transitionheathrow.com/grow-heathrow/

Saturday 19th March

10.30am-1pm ‘Introduction to Consensus Decision-making’ with Seeds for Change
 http://www.seedsforchange.org.uk/

1-2pm Lunch

2-4pm ‘Art & Permaculture’ with the Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination
 http://www.labofii.net/

4.30-6.30pm ‘Discussion: How to support Palestinian & Israeli Popular Resistance movements’

6.30-7.30 Dinner

7.30pm Special Film Preview of ‘Paths Through Utopias’ by Isabelle Fremeaux, John Jordan & Kypros Kyprianou
 http://lessentiersdelutopie.wordpress.com/

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Sunday 20th of March

10.30am-11.30am ‘Carrying stories across Europe: A talk about walking from England to Istanbul’ by Adam Weymouth

12pm-1.30pm ‘Environmental Justice from Heathrow to Palestine’ with So We Stand
 http://sowestand.com/

1.30pm-2.30pm Lunch

2.30pm-5pm ‘Facilitation for Consensus Decision-Making’ with Seeds for Change
 http://www.seedsforchange.org.uk/

Preparations for Critical Mass

Dinner

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PEDAL invites you to join us at the beginning of our story; to participate in the jam-packed workshop weekend and to pedal with us in a critical mass through London.

Please e-mail  pedal@100daystopalestine.org if you plan to come for the weekend or any workshops so we can plan for catering.

If you plan to stay for the weekend it would be great to arrive on Friday evening so we can have breakfast and start the workshops. Alternatively pick and choose the sections that interest you!

Space is available for camping so bring a sleeping, bag, tent and warm clothes if you plan to stay over. (Let us know if you have any special requirements)

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Special Preview of PATHS THROUGH UTOPIAS

Grow Heathrow Greenhouses 7.30pm

Saturday the 19th of March

Blurring the fluid boundaries between present and future, documentary and fiction, Paths Through Utopias is a utopian road movie exploring a post-capitalist Europe. Shot during a 7 month journey in 2008 visiting ten utopian experiments, the film is half of the book-film project published in France by Editions Zones. From the direct action Climate Camp set up illegally besides Heathrow airport to a hamlet squatted by French art punks, occupied self-managed Serbian factories to a free love commune in an ex Stasi base, this magicorealist travelogue transports us to a parallel universe where money is worthless and private property has been abolished.

Film by Isabelle Fremeaux, John Jordan and Kypros Kyprianou. Music by Isa Suarez. Book by Isabelle Fremeaux and John Jordan.

"A passionate anarchist road-movie " Le Monde

"A magnificent multi-media object...it makes the promises of another world possible." Les Inrockuptibles

 http://lessentiersdelutopie.wordpress.com/

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PEDAL Critical Mass through London
Speaker Tour
Meet at Speakers' Corner, Hyde Park
Monday 21st of March
11.30am

PEDAL will be leaving Grow Heathrow and heading into London to begin a critical mass at Speaker’s Corner, Hyde Park, for 11.30am on Monday the 21st of March.

We will visit locations relevant in the struggle to end the occupation of Palestine with speakers on the route, and also previous sites of resistance in the capital city.

Come and join us!