Taking Control - West Midlands Gathering
Taking Control West Mids | 04.04.2011 14:01 | Birmingham
On May 14th and 15th Birmingham will play host to the Taking Control West Midlands Gathering, a weekend of workshops aimed at aimed at creating a more unified West Midlands community of people and groups interested in actively pursuing democratic and liberating social change.
There will be a wide variety of sessions on offer, with topics ranging from alternative media to gender and sexuality, from food politics to setting up co-operatives. We aim to provide the space for people to meet, discuss, and plan how to take action.
The gathering is open to all and will represent a wide range of opinions, groups and people, however, its’ aims are explicitly anti-authoritarian and non-party political.
Topics of workshops taking place over the weekend include:
- Organising in education
- Rural activism
- Setting up co-operatives
- Food politics
- Campaigning for Palestine
- Talking about migration
- LGBTQ rights
- Women’s lib today
- Campaigning against the arms trade
- Environmentalism
- Animal rights
- Fighting the cuts
- Class and exploitation
- Alternative media
- Activist technology
We will be providing yummy vegan food for a minimal cost, a Saturday night crash space, a Kids’ space, and a Saturday night gig at The Wagon and Horses – Digbeth for those inclined to hang about!
£4 minimum donation for the weekend.
The gathering will be running from May 14th 9.30am onwards, Friction Arts, The Edge, 79-81 Cheapside, Deritend, Birmingham, B12 0QH.
Please let us know if you have any access needs/ special sleeping space requirements.
http://takingcontrolwestmidlands.wordpress.com/
westmidsgathering@aktivix.org
07582734713
The gathering is open to all and will represent a wide range of opinions, groups and people, however, its’ aims are explicitly anti-authoritarian and non-party political.
Topics of workshops taking place over the weekend include:
- Organising in education
- Rural activism
- Setting up co-operatives
- Food politics
- Campaigning for Palestine
- Talking about migration
- LGBTQ rights
- Women’s lib today
- Campaigning against the arms trade
- Environmentalism
- Animal rights
- Fighting the cuts
- Class and exploitation
- Alternative media
- Activist technology
We will be providing yummy vegan food for a minimal cost, a Saturday night crash space, a Kids’ space, and a Saturday night gig at The Wagon and Horses – Digbeth for those inclined to hang about!
£4 minimum donation for the weekend.
The gathering will be running from May 14th 9.30am onwards, Friction Arts, The Edge, 79-81 Cheapside, Deritend, Birmingham, B12 0QH.
Please let us know if you have any access needs/ special sleeping space requirements.
http://takingcontrolwestmidlands.wordpress.com/
westmidsgathering@aktivix.org
07582734713
Taking Control West Mids
e-mail:
westmidsgathering@aktivix.org
Homepage:
http://takingcontrolwestmidlands.wordpress.com/
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