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Indymedia Film Festival 7th – 15th July

Via Indymedia London [https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/london/] > Not been invited to the G8 this year? Never mind, indymedia’s hosting an eight day film festival in London venues with no obligation to buy a gallon of Coke or a bucket of popcorn. Please note the

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Spitalfields Green Fair - 16th July

uniteddiversity ran our book stall [https://uniteddiversity.com/shop/] at this fair last year. It was as a lovely day, but suprisingly little people and virtually no sales. Hopefully more people will show up this year… > A date for your diaries – the Spitalfields Green Fair is happening on Sunday

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Peace Not War Album Launch - Thursday 6 July @ Cargo - In memory of the victims of the London Bombings

The Peace Not War Creative Collective [https://peace.fm] are proud to present the launch of their new mixtape on Thursday 6 July in memory of all those victims of the London Bombings on the 7 July 2005. The CD will be launched at a unique event at Shoreditch’s

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Amsterdam prepares for global warming…

Ceridwen on Amsterdam and global warming [https://ceridwen.wordpress.com/2006/06/28/amsterdam-prepares-for-global-warming/] : > [https://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3197/2256/1600/37364.jpg] [https://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3197/2256/1600/37385.jpg]…in the Jordaan, one of the favourite tourist spots of the city. This man’s

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Interdependence Day, 1st July 2006

Interdependence Day, 1st July 2006, Royal Geographic Society, London Renga Platform Poetry A renga is a series of short verses linked into one long poem, composed collaboratively by a group. It is a wonderful, reflective experience which draws inspiration from the seasons and our changing relationships with the natural world.

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Peace takes courage

> [https://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5326/384/1600/avaabout.jpg]Everytime I read about the war in Iraq my stomach hurts so much I have to skip the reading. Same thing with images about Iraq. Same thing, no. It is worse with images. Can’t face it. I know

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Quotes of the day

Treacle on relationships, and why Internet news is better. > “Wool sweaters are so warm and comfortable, but itchy. Relationships are wool sweaters. That or hair shirts, I haven’t decided.“ > “Newspapers are dull, lifeless things that always seem to leave my fingers ink stained and my face smudged.

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Dancing with Systems: What to do when systems resist change

What to do when systems resist change; an excerpt from Donella Meadows’s unfinished last book. By Donella Meadows (Whole Earth Winter 2001) Quick Summary of Points. 1. Get the beat. 2. Listen to the wisdom of the system. 3. Expose your mental models to the open air. 4. Stay

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'Voices of Latin America': The Left in Mexico and the Other Campaign.

Via Creative Forum [https://creativeforum.org] list [https://lists.riseup.net/www/info/creativeforum] —–Original Message—– From: Danniela Uribe Sent: 22 June 2006 18:58 To: Daniel Lewenstein Subject: Voices of Latin America Dear all, We have now organised the third in the series of Latin American seminars under the

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Movimientos - 6th July

Via the Latin America Network [https://uniteddiversity.com/www.movimientos.org.uk] Thanks to all those that came to the last event, LAB for presenting “Favela Rising”, DJ Cliffy for smashing the dancefloor, and those who participated in the acoustic jam upstairs. We also raised £150 which will go towards

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Sonia's media empire

In her effort to try out all the best blogging tools (and steadily grow her presence in the blogosphere) Sonia [https://shorno.net/] has recently added a Pickled Politics journal, creatively called Sonia’s Diary [https://sonia.pickledpolitics.com/], a livejournal blog called The Desert and The Sea [https://soniaafroz.

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Support THE SQUARE this FRIDAY 9AM or earlier

Hello everyone, Please go to: THE SQUARE [https://www.londonsocialcentre.org.uk] Occupied Social Centre, 21 Russell Square, London WC1B 5EA (North west Side of Russell Square) Map: https://tinyurl.com/mhuby on FRIDAY MORNING BEFORE 9AM (but do still come later if you really can’t make it by

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Tools for Change

uniteddiversity started giving out Tools for Change cd-rom’s at our “Sessions of Spontaneity” events back in 2001. The latest version was produced as part of our project to help launch The Open Co-op. Look out for a new version coming out later this summer, Tools for Change 2.

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new economics foundation cd-rom

uniteddiversity produced a cd-rom for nef (new economics foundation) to take to the 2002 Earth Summit in Johannessburg.

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The Merton Rule

uniteddiversity built and manages https://themertonrule.org [https://themertonrule.org] The ‘Merton Rule [https://themertonrule.org]‘ is the groundbreaking planning policy, pioneered by the London Borough of Merton, which requires the use of renewable energy onsite to reduce annual carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in the built environment. Hundreds of local

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Composting Toilet Project

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Legal Structures for Community Land groups

I was recently lucky enough to find myself being cc’d in a fascinating and informative discussion about legal structures for Community Land groups… Sharon Pollitt from Land Roots [https://www.landroots.co.uk] wrote: > Please find attached a legal status questionaire, sound really boring and your probebly gonna

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We Will Not Be Silenced

Rowly recently posted this link on the Synergy [https://www.thesynergyproject.org] list… Check it out: https://www.djpauledge.com/wewillnotbesilenced/

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Mucha Marcha in conjuction with Peace Not War at Cargo

via Peace.fm [https://peace.fm] Bank Holiday Sunday 28th May 2006 Mucha Marcha in conjunction with Peace Not War @ Cargo Club [https://www.cargo-london.com/info.php] 83 Rivington St, Shoreditch EC2A 6pm – Midnight : £5 When you’ve got a Monday buffer zone to recover, you can sack in

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Visit to Yelnow Farm

The weekend before last I went up to Bedford to visit Shane (one of the founders of the Creative Forum [https://creativeforum.org]). For the last couple of years Shane has been working for himself running a landscape gardening business. He recently realised that he’s working his arse off

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Belief is circumstantial…

A poem by Poet-Treeman [https://www.myspace.com/poettreeman] I heard at Sunday Sounds [https://www.myspace.com/sundaysounds] 6 a couple of weeks ago. Made me think of Gloria [https://treaclestravels.blogspot.com] and Dave [https://malung-tv-news.blogspot.com] because of her concept of “real love” and his “I

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TONIGHT: Another World Is Blossoming

Another World Is Blossoming [https://uniteddiversity.com] Benefit Gig Friday 31st March @ The Synergy Centre 7pm – 3am, £10 / £7 adv/concs – Buy Tickets Now! [https://uniteddiversity.com] A Fundraiser for The Synergy Centre and uniteddiversity with Live Music from Joe Driscoll, The Pistachios, Jamie Woon, DJ Rubbish, The Rub, United

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The Corporation, Zapatista, Space Hijackers and Lab of ii...

Film and Food @ The Synergy Centre Another World Is Blossoming Screening Thursday March 23rd from 6pm Entry by donation The Synergy Centre is located at: 220 Farmers Road London SE5 0TW Click here to see a map [https://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?client=public&X=531500.106746092&

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Permaculture

> Permaculture (permanent agriculture) is the conscious design and maintenance of agriculturally production ecosystems which have the diversity, stability, and resilience of natural ecosystems. It is the harmonious integration of landscape and people providing their food, energy, shelter, and other material and non-material needs in a sustainable way. Without permanent

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Invisible Children

I came across this [https://www.invisiblechildren.com] via this [https://www.amoration.org/], though I’m not sure how I ended up there… It is a film about childen who are abducted from their homes to become soldiers in Uganda. Made me think Gloria [https://treaclestravels.blogspot.com/] (and