The event is organised by London Social Forum as part of international
support for World Habitat Day on Monday 2nd October 2006.

Housing and Land Rights Campaign

DIVIDED CITY
Sunday 1st October
12.30pm - 6pm
Limehouse Townhall
646 Commercial Road
London E14 7HA

Admission free but Donations are most welcome to cover costs.

The Programme:

12.00 Doors Open Food and Refreshments

12.30 Key Note Panel Discussion
Doreen Massey (Open University) London as Financial Hub
Ana Sugranyes (Habitat International Coalition) Social Impacts on Habitat
Sebastian Mueller (Dortmund University) Impacts of privatisation and
speculation
Fred Harrison (Land Research Trust) The Property Bubble
Open discussion

14.00 Privatisation, Development and Large-Scale Speculation
Chris Shirley Smith (Independent Water Consultant) - Thames Water
Speaker from WDM (tbc)
Martin Slavin (Journalist) - Impact of 2012 Olympics on London
Knut Unger - European global investments
Open Discussion

14.45 Workshops
- The Lea Valley, impact of the Olympics, Gentrification and Displacement
- Networking on Housing Rights and Finance

15.45 Workshops
- London Effect on Property Markets
- A Right to Land

16.45 Open Forum (including ) :
- Introduction to Urban Watch and Mapping (Citymine(d), NodeL), L-Atlas,
Cartograhy of Resistance, Violation Database and Real Estate Corporate
Watch and Greek Initiative for the Right to the City.
- London Campaign Roundup
- The Democratic Deficit, including speakers on:
Democratic Audit (Manchester Open City) and London GLA, Sustainable
Communities Bill (Steve Shaw), Inclusive dialogue on rural inhabitants,
farmers and public lands and Perspectives from the South (Angie Balata)
and the North (Simon Fairley)

18.00 Summing Up and Close

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Then afterwards at rampArt,
15-17 Rampart Street, off Commercial Road, Whitechapel, E1 2LA
http://www.rampart.co.nr/

_____Divided City, films and discussion, 7.30pm to 11pm

Network and support for the World Habitat Day of direct action on Monday 2nd
October.

Film screenings as an aftermath to ‘Divided City: an open Forum on speculation,
housing, land, civil and social rights’ at Limehouse Townhall earlier the same
day.

Featuring films from Spectacle community-led documentary;

‘2012′
about the pre-olympic bid.

‘Olympic Stories. Clay’s Lane’
Clays Lane housing co-operative, situated in the future Olympic Village in
Newham, is facing an inevitable eviction. This is the story of Clays Lane
residents and their claim for fair treatment.

‘Despite the City’
A scurrilous and irreverent investigation of the City and its colonisation of
London’s docklands. Community based video at it’s best.

>From the Free Cinema Movement;

The Vanishing Street (dir. Robert Vas, UK, 1962)
Refuge England (dir. Robert Vas, UK, 1959)
O Dreamland (dir. Lindsay Anderson, UK, 1953)
more..

Plus feature length film -

‘London’ (1994) Directed by Patrick Keiller
A travelogue of London in 1992. Concentrating on locations and issues within
London precious to the commentator, and also on the political and social events
of the time. Shot mostly as stills of the locations visited, with a very well
observed commentary.

Open Forum
Achieving Civil and Social Rights
Towards a 21st Century Constitution
Wednesday 26th July 6.30pm
D2 - Diorama Arts Centre
3-7 Euston Centre, Regents Place, London NW1 3JG

nearest tubes: Warren Street, Euston

In the present climate of a failing British state and creeping authoritarianism we need to find a way to work together as individuals and groups to transform our political culture. Recent reports indicate that both the major political parties are now considering constitutional reform, and there are even hints of support for a written constitution. We propose a series of alternative events aimed at a grassroots campaign around:

1. an inclusive written constitution that embraces the aspirations of the powerless majority and
2. a civil and social rights mobilisation in support of its terms.

You are invited to attend the launch of our Open Forum on 26th July to debate these goals, share campaign stories and help plan future events together. We hope you will be free to come and join us.

Organisers and sponsors so far include: Mark Barrett (People in Common); A World to Win; Dr Ghayasuddin Siddiqui (Muslim Parliament of Great Britain in a personal capacity), The Creative Forum.

More information: info@aworldtowin.net 07871 745258 or marknbarrett@googlemail.com

An emergency picket outside the Mexican embassy has been organised for tomorrow, Friday July 14, from 1pm to 2pm to support the demand by social movements in Mexico to count each and every vote. These pickets are taking place in many different countries around the world.

In front of half a million supporters last Saturday, the Democratic Revolution Party (PRD) presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador formally challenged the July 2 election results, charging fraud and citing other irregularities with the electoral process.

Without a doubt, the elections were rigged to prevent the PRD from winning the elections. The Mexican ruling elite are prepared to go to any lengths to prevent Lopez Obrador from becoming the next president of Mexico.

We must protest against this attack on democratic rights. Please join the picket of the Mexican embassy tomorrow and pass this info on to anyone else you think might be interested. The Mexican Embassy is situated at 16 St George Street, Hanover Square, London W1 (nearest tube: Oxford Circus).

Letters of protest should be sent to the embassy at mexuk@easynet.co.uk - and see www.gregpalast.com and www.narconews.com for the latest news from Mexico.

Then this Saturday July 15 from 1pm to 7pm there is the Radical Activist Network conference on Latin America: Social movements fight back, at the University of London Union, Malet Street, London WC1 (nearest tube: Goodge Street).

Oscar Olivera, spokesperson for the Coalition in Defence of Water and Life in Cochabamba, Bolivia, will be speaking, as will Hilary Wainwright (Red Pepper), Andy Higginbottom (Frontline Latin America and Colombia Solidarity Campaign), Sue Branford (Latin America Bureau and War on Want) and Jorge Martin (Hands Off Venezuela).

Sessions and workshops will include: Social Movements and Left Governments, Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution, Social movements in Bolivia, Brazil’s Landless movement and the continuing Zapatista revolt in Mexico. Entry by donation (£2 suggested), more info: http://www.radicalactivist.net/latinamerica

Finally, next week’s Wednesday meeting will be from 6.45pm at The Inn On the Green, 3-5 Thorpe Close (under the Westway), Portobello Green, W10 (nearest tube: Ladbroke Grove), where we will be holding the British premier of the new documentary Five Factories, about workers’ control in Venezuela, followed by a debate and social. We hope you can make this special event, more info at
http://www.handsoffvenezuela.org/index.php?option=com_events&task=view_detail&Itemid=&agid=4&year=2006&month=07&day=19

Best Bolivarian wishes everyone from the London Hands Off Venezuela crew.
Via the Creative Forum list

A free-to-attend conference looking at many aspects of Peak Oil is taking place on Saturday 15 July 2006 at the BedZed development in Hackbridge, just outside London. The event, Peak Speak 2, is the follow up to the successful Peak Speak 1, held at the same location last year.
Organised by PowerSwitch.org.uk, and run in a friendly and informal manner, it is designed to give plenty of opportunity to discuss an issue that will dominate the 21st century – the ongoing decline
of global oil supplies, how it will affect all lives and what we can do about it. Along with Climate Change, it will make this century very different to the last.

As Jeremy Leggett wrote in the Independent, January 2006, “We have allowed oil to become vital to virtually everything we do. Ninety per cent of all our transportation, whether by land, air or sea, is
fuelled by oil. Ninety-five per cent of all goods in shops involve the use of oil. Ninety-five per cent of all our food products require oil use. Just to farm a single cow and deliver it to market requires six barrels of oil, enough to drive a car from New York to Los Angeles.” Meanwhile there is a quickly growing acceptance of the concept of imminent Peak Oil. Notable figures such as Bill Clinton and Al Gore believe we are at Peak Oil while the oil company Total sees it as occurring around 2020. The challenges that Peak Oil and Climate Change presents are stark indeed, and it is important for individuals, businesses and government to begin addressing this as soon as possible.

For some, Peak Speak 1, which had seventy people in attendance, was a life changing experience.
“Peakspeak-1 motivated me to take the plunge and change direction so that in the year that followed I have almost completed an MSc in Renewable Systems Energy Engineering, and hope to make a career in that area going forward, and contribute to the coming problems in some way,” wrote a previous attendee.

The speakers include:

• Donnachadh McCarthy, author of Saving The Planet Without Costing The Earth (3acorns.co.uk);
• Chris Vernon, of PowerSwitch and OilDrum UK, with analysis of UK power supply; Norman Church with his follow up to Systems and Interdependencies;
• Doly Garcia speaking about Peak Oil Action in Brighton, and Naresh Giangrande who will be discussing Biofuels on the back of Hubbert’s Curve.

The emphasis, however, will be on everyone participating.There will also be an opportunity to see and discuss “The Power of Community : How Cuba Survived Peak Oil” as well as a workshop in learning how to “ Build Networks and Relationships for a Post Peak
World.” And as last year, there will be the PeakNik’s Picnic.

Entry is free but you will need to register in advance as places are limited. Email
info@powerswitch.org.uk or call 020 8123 2500.

The event takes place at the eco-friendly BedZed Pavillion, BedZed, in Hackbridge, Surrey, 25
minutes by train from London Victoria. More details about BedZed can be found at www.bedzed.org.uk.

PowerSwitch.org.uk is dedicated to raising awareness of Peak Oil. More information can be found at www.powerswitch.org.uk and details on other Peak Oil events can be found (and added) at www.powerswitch.org.uk/peakoilevents

info@powerswitch.org.uk

Technorati Tags: peakoil london events energy post-carbon

Via the Creative Forum list

Another World Is Blossoming Screening
March 9th, 16th, 23rd, 30th from 6pm
Entry by donation

This month The Synergy Centre is hosting uniteddiversity’s series of Another World Is Blossoming events, including four weeks of screenings starting this Thursday 9th, and a big Centre fundraising party on Friday March 31st. It’s all taking place as part the NODE.London Season of Media Arts.

Thursday March 9th
Main Feature - 8pm Sharp
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
http://www.chavezthefilm.com/
International Jury: “The best television programme in the world this year”

Hugo Chavez, elected President of Venezuela in 1998, is a coulful unpredictable folk hero, beloved by his nation’s working class and a tough-as-nails, quixotic opponent to the power structure that would see him deposed. Two independent filmmakers were inside the presidential palace on April 11, 2002, when he was forcibly removed from office. They were also present 48 hours later when, remarkably, he returned to power amid cheering aides. Their film records what was probably history’s shortest-lived coup d’état. It’s a unique document about political muscle and an extraordinary portrait of the man The Wall Street Journal credits with making Venezuela “Washington’s biggest Latin American headache after the old standby, Cuba.”

Second Feature Film - 10pm
Network (1976)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074958/
Won 4 Oscars and Voted one of the best 100 films of all time.

Howard Beale (Peter Finch) is an ageing TV anchorman for UBS who is fired, effective in two weeks, after his ratings have been steadily deteriorating. He reacts to this by sensationally announcing on live television his intention to commit suicide on air. In doing so, Beale becomes a major TV icon and one of the most valuable assets to the Communications Corporation of America (CCA), the company that is gradually taking control of UBS. As a result he is given his own show as `the mad prophet of the air-waves’. He appears live on television every week-day evening to tell the real truth to the people of America. The programme is a huge success but Beale uses his power to make startling revelations about CCA, leaving the company executives with a serious problem.

Shorts - from 6pm

Real2Real
http://www.real2reel.co.nr

Founded as an off-shoot of Lifecycles (Pedal Powered Cinema And Multimedia Outreach Collective) in mid 2002, Real2Reel is a small group of video artists making short and occasionally amusing films about counter-cultural activities, social struggles and environmental concerns, all with a strong grassroots direct action bias.

Reclaim Love
http://www.o-i-l.org

Footage from the annual Reclaim Love event that takes place at the Eros Statue in Picadilly Circus each year. Check the website for more info and what its all about.

There will also be healthy food from the Synergy Sattva Cafe, served from 7pm.

Other Another World Is Blossoming events

Another World Is Blossoming Screening 2
6pm - 11.30pm, Thurs March 16th @ The Synergy Centre
http://wiki.uniteddiversity.com/AnotherWorldIsBlossoming

Creative Forum Open Space
2pm - 12am, Sun March 19th @ The Square
http://www.creativeforum.org

Another World Is Blossoming Screening 3
6pm - 11.30pm, Thurs March 23rd @ The Synergy Centre
http://wiki.uniteddiversity.com/AnotherWorldIsBlossoming

Another World Is Blossoming Screening 4
6pm - 11.30pm, Thurs March 30th @ The Synergy Centre
http://wiki.uniteddiversity.com/AnotherWorldIsBlossoming

Another World Is Blossoming Benefit Gig
7pm - 3am, Fri March 31st @ The Synergy Centre
Buy Tickets Now! http://uniteddiversity.com

The Synergy Centre is located at:
220 Farmers Road
London SE5 0TW
Map: http://tinyurl.com/adkgs

Farmers Road is off Wyndham Road,
which is off Camberwell New Road.
Nearest Tube is Oval.

http://uniteddiversity.com

Hope to see you all there,

Josef.

PS - I’ve been a bit prolific on the uniteddiversity blog in the last few days… http://blog.uniteddiversity.com

Good Weekend, Busy Week
http://blog.uniteddiversity.com/?p=12

News from Caracas
http://blog.uniteddiversity.com/?p=13

An autonomous space initiative during the Athens ESF
http://blog.uniteddiversity.com/?p=14

An Introduction to Planet Earth
http://blog.uniteddiversity.com/?p=15

Dancing with Systems
http://blog.uniteddiversity.com/?p=16

Enjoy!
–
Josef Davies-Coates
http://open.coop
http://uniteddiversity.com

Another World Is Blossoming
http://wiki.uniteddiversity.com/AnotherWorldIsBlossoming
http://nodel.org/projects.php?ID=163

Part of United Diversity’s ‘Another World is Blossoming’ festival

You are invited to the Creative Forum this Sunday at Russell Square.

A collectively self-organised conference for linking with others, discussing, and planning. Use the event to reach people to help make your projects happen.

Everyone agrees to the ‘Law of two feet’: if you feel you are not contributing or gaining from a particular session it is fine to move on to another. This creates a focused, creative, informal environment to be in.

Add to the shared list of ‘wants and needs’, to tap into the skills and resources of those gathered for the event.

The event features a debate done in a Cogers-style on the ’state of the world now and the challenges that face us’, with speakers introducing alternative technologies and diverse business models. A debating method as way to negate the difficulties of networking and the meeting of minds.

Leap-frogging from this event there is to be much more public event at a later date specifically for expanding and actively promoting the projects.

Creative Forums are a gathering of capable and knowledgable people to pool our resources and create solutions. A creative, environmental, grass-roots, forward thinking atmosphere. Come to share your projects and to learn from others.

Current participants:
Solaroof/Ecoshelter
London Biennale self-organised art festival
EcoAction Sustainable communities Forum
The Conscious Fashion Week
Globalvision 2000
Art Not Oil
PeaceNotWar collective
A World to Win
Caracas Trollparty report and talk on open-source
A new model for Housing Co-ops
Deptford.tv
LETSlink
Open Capital
Sunday Soundz accoustics
…more

Networking and Creating Friendships
Economic Change Discussions
Practical Activism
Positive Change

There will be food, music, films and photography exhibition.

We ask for a non-compulsory donation to support our related projects.

To get involved and suggest a session:
info@creativeforum.org

Thanks and be great to see you and hear your ideas on Sunday!

The Creative Forum

wiki.uniteddiversity.com

creative visions of
another world: harmony;
inclusivity; participation;
empowerment;
authentic communication

The Creative Forum exists as a space for bringing together different and diverse groups and individuals to meet and share and network alternatives to the conventional way of thinking with regards to global political ecological and ethical relationships.

The systems and institutions upon which we rely for our well-being and survival are at risk of massive failure. Ecosystems everywhere are in decline. The age of cheap plentiful oil is over. Food and energy shortages are on the horizon.

Few are aware of the full nature and extent of our predicament and, of those that are, many feel powerless to do anything about it.

Corporate media manipulates our minds while the monetary system continues to fund plundering unelected presidents and plunge the world into an ever-increasing spiral of debt.

But all is not lost. There IS another way.

In fact, Another World Is Blossoming…

Communities across the World are beginning to self-organise and share resources in order to take back control of their lives and build hope for a sustainable future.

Another World Is Blossoming events will raise awareness about our predicament, inspire collective action for change and launch the Synergy Community Fund.

With films, music, debate and more participants will be empowered with knowledge about the state of the world, what pioneering groups are doing about it and how they can join in.

Together We Have Everything we need to Create the World We Want

Events taking place as part of Another World Is Blossoming:

For more info see:
http://wiki.uniteddiversity.com/AnotherWorldIsBlossoming and
http://www.nodel.org

* Sat 4th March: Creative Forum Visioning @ The Square

* Thursday 9th March: Another World Is Blossoming Screening: Film & Food @ The Synergy Centre

* Thursday 16th March: Another World Is Blossoming Screening: Film & Food @ The Synergy Centre

* Sunday 19th March: Creative Forum Open Space @ The Square

* Thursday 23rd March: Another World Is Blossoming Screening: Film & Food @ The Synergy Centre

* Thursday 30th March: Another World Is Blossoming Screening: Film & Food @ The Synergy Centre

* Friday 31st March: Another World Is Blossoming Benefit Gig @ The Synergy Centre with Live Music from Joe Driscoll, The Pistachios, The Rub, United Vibrations, DJ Rubbish, Bones of Contention, Jamie Woon, Sarah Bear & more plus a Screening of The Revolution Will Not Be Televised and Healthy Food from Synergy Sattva Cafe plus lots of info stalls and more! 7pm - 3am, £10 / £7 adv/concs - Buy Tickets Now from http://uniteddiversity.com!

For more info see:
http://wiki.uniteddiversity.com/AnotherWorldIsBlossoming and
http://www.nodel.org

Leading into a month of events in United Diversity’s
‘Another World is Blossoming’

On March 4th the Creative Forum invites you to share your visions and plans for the future. Come to swap ideas and contacts, have a chat and suggest workshops/sessions for the Creative Forum Open Space to be held on Sunday March 19th.
Socialising renovation… contribute to the Square alongside us by helping them decorate, though it is not compulsory!
An opportunity to relax and contemplate with like-minded thinkers.

Venue is The Square social centre, 21-22 Russell Square, London, on Saturday 4th March 12pm to 5pm

Then, at 5pm, we will be depart to the Docklands for a practical skillshare forum on sustainable communities. For more information see below.
‘Sustainable Communities in Practice’, Saturday 4th March 6-8pm
@ St. Matt’s Centre, Bullivant Street, All Saints E14

creative visions of
another world: harmony;
inclusivity; participation;
empowerment;
authentic communication

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Sustainable Communities Action Forum London
Saturday 4th March 6pm
St Matthias Centre, Bullivant St, London E14 0ER.
DLR: All Saints. Buses: 15, 108, 115, 277, D6, D7, D8.

Peak Oil. System dependency. Corporate war for resources. From corporate denial to greenwash and capitalist co-option. ?..

2nd meeting of a new forum in London promoting eco skillsharing and positive action.

This meeting is to get the ball really rolling with practical projects.

To learn positive low impact skills from organic gardening, low impact building, alt. energy, alt community living, and action skills.

To put people in touch with schemes that need volunteers and vice versa. To help with sustainable projects and communities and for us to start new ones both urban and rural.

To campaign / be involved in campaigns against greenwash, and its unsustainable ?green? consumerist/capitalist disguises. i.e the root causes of climate change and social misery are inherent in the capitalist system and it?s need for market/production growth.

To promote non-hierarchical campaigning and community building through building of genuine skills and skill-sharing. And everybody gets their hands dirty. i.e promotion of DIY culture over voyeuristic / consumerist/capitalist activities.

To connect urban and rural.

To make this available for all i.e. not economically, physically or socially prohibitive.

More info:- mailto:ecoactionforum@hushmail.com

http://positiveglobalmovements.org.uk

‘Our task is not to overthrow globalisation, but to capture it, and to use it as a vehicle for humanity’s first global democratic revolution.’

‘Nuestra tarea no es derrocar la globalizacion, si no capturarla y utilizarla como el vehiculo para lanzar la primera revolucion democratica de la humanidad’
from ‘The Age of Consent’, by George Monbiot

Positive Global Movements started with a 6 day event at Rampart Social Creative Centre and part of the Creative Forum in St.George’s theatre.

Globalisation, in the hands of the corporations, is a means of colonising the new territories opened up by communication technology. In the hand of the people, it can be a medium to unite and put to work new global laws that preserve the livelihood of the people instead of securing profit for inhuman corporations.

A travelling show of lateral design concepts & pictures of an imaginary futuristic megalopolis with conceptual designs of portable dwellings and shelters deploying retractable and folding prefab modular systems, developed for nearly 35 years at Hololand Laboratories for lateral design concepts – some of it over the past few years at Area Ten in Peckham, London, UK

Pim Conradi

Innovator of construction systems, such as:

- Portable holography optics systems, dedicated as a fixed recording medium for 3-d arts and sculpture.
- Portable units for survival or folding nomadic shelters
- Development of modular D.I.Y.-construction/design systems, utilising simplified physical properties of regular geometric solids resulting in orbicular shaped enclosures.

I’d like to introduce you to a friend of mine currently residing in Peckham, South London.
He is an artist and designer who believes in living in environments that are abstract to the conventional square-boxed room. His environments are very inspiring to be inside and fractures the views of how we should be living.

Below are some photos I took of his installations at Area10 in Peckham, I recommend a visit if you get the chance.

Steps up to Ludopolis workshop

Hatchway entrance of Ludopolis.

Front space of the workshop.

Designs exhibited.

Workshop view.

Pim’s thoughts, in his dome camp.

Have a look at his website for his writing on his philosophy and methods, it is very comprehensive.
Hololand Laboratories
His email is pim(AT)ludopolis.it if you wish to contact him.
Alan