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United Diversity Guide: October 9th, 2007

Josef Davies-Coates

Oct 9, 2007 • 10 min read

Hello all,

Welcome to the lovingly prepared first edition of the all-new United Diversity Guide!

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CONTENTS

NEWS
United Diversity News
More good news
Other recent news
VIDEOS
Rammed Earth
New Light Bulbs in Plain English
It’s the End of The World As We Know it #20
Rob “The Rub” at Stop the war demo in trafalgar square
Fuel shortage grips Nepal – 07 Oct 07
Reparations: Portland Village Building Convergence 2006 Pt1
Sunrise Festival 2007 Peace Not War Bad Science Gig
The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community
The Climate Change Despair and Empowerment Roadshow
EVENTS THIS WEEK
Tues | Weds | Thurs | Fri | Sat | Sun | Mon | Tues
JOBS
LINKS

NEWS

Lots of good stuff is happening! 🙂

United Diversity news

We got some great comments on We Have Land! 🙂
Stephen Watts from Grow Sheffield says “would love to offer my help in any way”
Graham from Energy Development Co-op adds “count on the support of our co-op and help regarding clean, positive energy for any “commons” land projects.”.
Sam Duby from Pura Vida got in touch to offer support and the potential to take some people down to Spain from the UK in a sail boat!
Thats offers of help with food and energy on the land, and low carbon transport for a future tour! 🙂
On Friday I’m meeting the crew at Passing Clouds (a lovely venue in Dalston – upstairs is a bit like Candid Cafe but bigger and with live music, downstairs is a big hall) about holding regular United Diversity gatherings there.
The contract for Tom and Joerg’s OpenCoin funding is getting drawn up by the funders.
The first MUST.tv promo should be ready by next week! Watch this space…

More good news

Sharon from Land Roots (a project very similar to United Diversity’s land project) informs me they are very nearly ready to start raising investment! They’ve sorted their legal structure and have a couple of benefits coming up soon (more details in future edition of the Guide)
Rob Hopkins reports that The Transition Network are celebrating the first official transition initiative in Australia
Our frirend Dmytri Kleiner and his comrades at Telekommunisten launch their IPO! You can now invest your labour in this exciting collectively owned communications company!
Puck Markham has launched a Community Lottery in London. He also organises a monthly networking event in London for social, ethical and environmental enterprise and has just launched an online network to complement it 🙂
Burma Solidarity Actions

Other recent news

UK firms pay dearly for surging oil prices
https://business.guardian.co.uk/economy/story/0,,2186246,00.html
Fuel, Grain Prices Spur Food Price Hikes
https://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jiEc6AcqnEaNlptkata5Ah2nTueAD8S57T4G1
Dollar falls to record lows on housing worries
https://uk.reuters.com/article/usDollarRpt/idUKN2733033120070927
A Swiftly Melting Planet
https://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/04/opinion/04homer-dixon.html
Treasury attempts to lift savers’ confidence
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2007/10/09/cnsave109.xml

VIDEOS

Rammed Earth
Making a home from mud in Spain.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NvKDNWwZbg
New Light Bulbs in Plain English
The latest in the excellent “in Plain English” series on the Common Craft show.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26DLW3ktGvI
It’s the End of The World As We Know it #20
Check out the latest addition to this already classic series.
https://www.youtube.com/submedia
Rob “The Rub” at Stop the war demo in trafalgar square
Classic-political-rapping-with-a-cycle-sound-system stuff
https://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6842880662018308585
Fuel shortage grips Nepal – 07 Oct 07
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrnN6GXO_aA
Reparations: Portland Village Building Convergence 2006 Pt1
A project very similar to our proposed “Building Man” Festivals
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRGY75s_CI8
Sunrise Festival 2007 Peace Not War Bad Science Gig
https://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=2768114125886132605
The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community
A great collection of talks and video mash-ups based on David Korten’s fantastic book, The Great Turning
https://uniteddiversity.com/the-great-turning/
The Climate Change Despair and Empowerment Roadshow
Peak Moment 77: After summarizing the essential facts of deepening global climate chaos, Australian Kelly Tudhope notes that our psychological response is often overlooked.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5q-cP-t_m7c

EVENTS THIS WEEK

Tuesday October 9, 2007

Random: Who Wants to Be? II @ The Albany
Douglas Way, London SE8 4AG
https://whowantstobe.co.uk/?p=46
The “Ask the Audience” gameshow where you ask the questions and set the rules!
7:30 pm to 9:30 pm
£10
Music: One Taste Classic Upstairs @ The Distillers
64 Fulham Palace Road, London W6 9PH
https://onetaste.co.uk
https://www.myspace.com/onetaste
https://www.myspace.com/thedistillerspub
Loads of great lives acts in a intimate surrounding.
8.30 pm to 11 pm
£5
Film: Money as Debt @ Bread & Roses
68 Clapham Manor St SW4 6DZ
https://unreportedworld.blogspot.com/2007/08/bread-roses_19.html
A must see movie. If you can’t make it, watch it online now at https://uniteddiversity.com/money-as-debt/
9pm
FREE
Music, Art, Food: Gallery Yujiro birthday party @ Gallery Yujiro
Studio Unit A502,Tower Point Tower Bridge Business Complex, 100 Clements Road London SE16 4DG
https://www.galleryyujiro.com
A night in celebration of one of Londond’s top Contemporary Art Galleries.
Featuring sounds of Brazil, dance, VJs, Djs and fantastic Japanese food.
7pm til late
20 free tickets (quote f-ire collective) then £20
+44 (0)20 7394 8591

Wednesday Oct 10th, 2007

Workshop: Beyond the Free Market @ Toilet Gallery
151 Clarence Street Kingston upon Thames Surrey KT1 1QT
https://hijack.guerrillazoo.com
Starting with a guerrilla field trip to new Covent garden market & culminating in a shared free meal. This workshop/presentation will explore free-market policies and their effects on the food trade, various trends within industrial food production & their alternatives using discussion, film & presentations by various people involved in the industry. All food consumed, will being entirely safe & intact, will have been deemed unfit to trade – illustrating some of the contradictions inherent in the system.
Cost – Donations / Time – Please contact gallery@guerrillazoo.co.uk
Debate: Authors & Advocacy for Monetary Justice @ The John Marshall Hall, Christ Church
Blackfriars Rd, London SE1 8DP
https://www.letslinkuk.net/home/events.htm
A debate about monetary reform and justice
6-9pm
£5: RSVP to peterchallen@googlemail.com
Music: One Taste Collective @ Jazz Cafe
5 Parkway Camden Town London NW1 7PG
https://onetaste.co.uk
https://www.myspace.com/onetaste
An amazing line-up of acts fresh from returning from the One Taste Festival Tour
7pm – 2am
£12.50 / £5 with flyer
Film: Siren Cinema @ Dame Colet House
Ben Jonson Road, Stepney London E1 3NH
https://www.siren-net.co.uk/
The first in a new fortnightly film night.
This weeks films: Pan’s Labyrinth (8pm) & Severance (10.30pm)
8pm – late
FREE (donations are always welcome but not expected)
Music: Raison D’Etre Open mic @ The Pelican
All Saint St, Westbourne Grove, Notting Hill, W11
https://www.reason2b.net/events/event.2006-10-05.9935389224
Some nice live music
8pm – 11pm
Free
Music: Heads High @ Jrink
62 Frith Street, Soho,, London, W1D 3JN
https://www.myspace.com/headshighmusic
Every Wednesday, Heads High residents Cal Jada and Duke Etienne will be serving up a quality mix of jazz, afro beat, disco, boogie, (the deeper side of) house, hip hop, reggae and some yet to be classified material – for your pleasure only. Joined by guest DJs and a full live band complied of various musicians, producers, emcees and vocalists once a month, these Wednesday sessions are set to be so much more than just your regular drinking hang out.
7pm – 1am
FREE

Thursday Oct 11th, 2007

Workshop: Ad Busting – A culture jamming workshop @ Toilet Gallery
151 Clarence Street Kingston upon Thames Surrey KT1 1QT
https://hijack.guerrillazoo.com
Beginning with an introduction and history of culture jamming by The Creative Hub, this workshop will explore the techniques and motivations of a growing number of subvertisers – those who use public billboards & advertisements as the basis of politicised urban art. Cost – Donations / Time – Please contact gallery@guerrillazoo.co.uk
Music: Chilli Fried Presents Urban Asia @ Darbucka
182 St John Street, London, EC1V 4JZ
https://www.darbucka.com
https://www.chillifried.com
https://www.fusingnakedbeats.co.uk
https://www.antehc.co.uk
Fusing Naked Beats (live) plus guest DJs Zico & DJ Antehc and resident DJ Jamie Renton
Chilli Fried North,
8pm – 12am
020 749087712
£5 / £3

Friday Oct 12th, 2007

Workshop: Urban Grooves Music Production Workshop @ Toilet Gallery
151 Clarence Street Kingston upon Thames Surrey KT1 1QT
https://hijack.guerrillazoo.com
This workshop gives people a chance to explore making grooves from an exciting range of sounds. Looking at some drum and percussion techniques combined with cutting edge electronic equipment – drum pads, samplers, laptop to create various grooves including drum and bass, dance etc. Cost – Donations / Time – Please contact gallery@guerrillazoo.co.uk
Music: Merciless Records take over Alcatraz @ The Bunker Club
46 Deptford Broadway, SE8
Buses: 21, 53, 172, 177, 225, 453, N53, N89, N21
Stations: New Cross / Deptford Bridge DLR
https://myspace.com/speakerscorner
https://myspace.com/expectnomercy
Speakers Corner Quartet (live) plus DJs Snuff, Guide One, Dark playing dancehall earthquakes, crate dug funk breaks and UK hip-hop dub plates.
10pm – 2am
£3 w/flyer
Networking: Kendra “Almost EU Funded” Party @ Underbelly, Zigfrid
11 Hoxton Square
https://www.kendra.org.uk/meetings.php#meet32
https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=6359375811
We’ve known Daniel from the Kendra project since https://wiki.espians.com/WTF_1 and he has some nice ideas about how technology can empower people and stuff.
6pm – 1am
FREE
Music: The Rhizomes Rootical Chaos Collective Present Live Reggae @ The Star Pub
High Street, Guildford
https://www.myspace.com/rhizomesreggae
8pm – 1am
£4/3 NUS
Music: Globalista @ Barrio North
45 Essex Road, Islington, London, N1 2SF
https://www.myspace.com/barrionorth
Movimientos DJs Springfield & Pablo N present a night of fiery floor-filling Latin beats and way beyond…….With the 1970s NY Barrio sound as a starting point they will dip into Salsa and Hip Hop from Cuba, Reggaeton and Boricua broken beats from Puerto Rico, Cumbia and Mestizo beats from Mexico and Colombia and will touch down in Rio’s teeming Baile funk scene plus joining the dots worldwide with Reggae/Dancehall vibes, Rumba Catalan, Afrobeat, Arabic grooves and Balkan hotstep.
8pm – 2am
FREE
Music: Guerrilla Zoo @ Toilet Gallery
151 Clarence Street Kingston upon Thames Surrey KT1 1QT
(Located in-between The Kings Tun Pub and Starbucks, opposite Oceana nightclub) The nearest station is Kingston. Trains go directly from Waterloo, Vauxhall and Clapham Junction and take 20-30 mins. The gallery is 2 mins walk away from Kingston Station.
https://www.myspace.com/ggrn
https://www.gagarin.org.uk
https://www.myspace.com/robertlogan
https://hijack.guerrillazoo.com
https://www.guerrillazoo.co.uk
8pm
Donations (£3)
Music: Inner Terrestrials and Dr Green Band @ Dame Colet House
Ben Jonson Road, Stepney London E1 3NH
https://www.the-infidel.co.uk/
https://www.innerterrestrials.org.uk/
https://www.myspace.com/drgreenband
Skapunk plus Dub DJs
9pm – 1am
£5 – all funds raised to go to the ASS

Saturday Oct 13th, 2007

Music: Acid Jam XII @ The Synergy Centre
220 Farmers Road, London SE5 0TW
https://www.acid-jam.com/
Bring instruments, bring friends, dress fabulous and leave your inhibitions at the door. Both food and drink are served.
6pm – 6am
£3
Music: Party with a Purpose @ Private Venue
Manor House, N15
https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=5592720747
07888691737
Email zangr.childlife@gamil.com for guest list.
Great music, great visuals. Party to raise money for Childlife, Thailand – www.childlife-maesai.org. Every penny goes to charity and every artist is playing for free.
8pm – late
£10 donation (or what you can afford)

Sunday Oct 14th, 2007

Music: Green Party Party @ JAMM
261 Brixton Road, London, SW9 6LH
https://www.brixtonjamm.org/events.asp?eventID=804
London Green Party awareness gig. Raisingfunds for the party to continue their cause. One World, One Change. Vote Green!Come down and enjoy a full day of new and emerging bands alongside signedartists, stalls, food and films.
3pm – 9pm
£7

Monday Oct 15th, 2007

Tuesday Oct 16th, 2007

Film: BANG! BANG! in Da Manor @ Bread & Roses
68 Clapham Manor St SW4 6DZ
https://unreportedworld.blogspot.com/2007/08/bread-roses_19.html
Exposes the disproportionate level of violence and murder suffered by the black community of Britain.
9pm
FREE

JOBS

Exciting Job Opportunities at ID Spiral / Ekopia, Camden
Bar staff needed at The Good Ship, Kilburn
e-mail john @ thegoodship.co.uk for more details.
There is an exciting opportunity to join The Hub team in Angel, 20K+
e-mail londonjobs @ the-hub.net for more details.
eDemocracy Director, Hansard Society

LINKS

Freeconomy Community
Pura Vida
An inspiring project
SANE Community Exchange
A nice alternative to the Money as Debt system (see more links at https://uniteddiversity.com/money-as-debt/ )
Thinkature – Real-time collaboration for the web
An interesting looking tool that lets you collaboratively create mind maps and such like
Massive Change
The book and website
CD3WD (CD for 3rd World)
An amazing collection of online books about agriculture, farming and other essential skills
Hexayurt Project
Cheap and simple insulated cardboard structcures.
to Patagonia: a cycling expedition
Pangea Day
Uniting the world with film
Don’t Just Be the Change, Mass-Produce It
A great article by Alex Steffen
Ned.com
An all-volunteer, member-governed, online social network (in combination with real-world locations) that is made up of social entrepreneurs, activists, artists, social purpose enterprises, grassroots nonprofit, non-governmental, and community-based organizations, and is collaborating and taking action locally, nationally & globally, in order to make the world a better place.
The Travelling School of Life
An inspiring education project and tour
Permies Portal
A network of permaculture students

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