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Friday 15th October

Experimental subject: The Square Mile/ East End.

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Breakfast Briefing #1

at The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination.

A big beautiful breakfast and Preparatory Workshop for creative public actions in the afternoon.

Unfortunately due to the laws of physics, space in the Lab is limited. Book a place for breakfast on breakfast@labofii.net or 07910082234

Venue: rampART social centre, 17 rampart street, Whitechapel E1 2LA

Time: 10.30am

Cost: Free/donations

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Pay Back, part 1 - Chris Graham

1.30 pm
Chris Graham expresses his negativity towards capitalist modes of production and consumption by demonstrating the art of eating and shitting money. Part 1 - The consumption.

www.cgraham.net

Cup and Mouth - Save Our Starbucks (s.O.s)

Time: 1.40pm

Starbucks has just stepped up their crack down on those who dare to disagree with their vision of uniform sanitised cities, where creativity simply consists of adding caramel syrup to a decaf skinny latte. They already had political prankster Reverend Billy banned from every Starbucks coffee shop around the world, they are now trying to take the domain name www.starbuckscoffee.co.uk off art activist, The Vacuum Cleaner. The spoof website shows how armed with a green pen anyone can transform the logo to read "Fuck Off". Starbucks says it "tarnishes" their brand and "goodwill".

"Cup and mouth" is an act of solidarity for all those being told to shut up by corporations.

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Unreality TV

2.30pm

Don't be passively observed by our surveillance society, be an active actor in your own movie. Reject anonymous life and expand to the dimensions of cinema life each time you walk down your local high street.
Unreality TV organises and encourages actions/performances designed to amuse, bemuse, and confuse those who watch over us!

www.rupture.co.uk/unrealitytv/

 

Parallel Actions

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The Big Flyposter Draw – Richard Dedomenici

Time:3.15pm

Defacing something illegally stuck to a wall theoretically isn’t illegal. Dedomenici invites participants to help him paint the town.

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Important Information for all Tourists of London - The Institute of Nomadology

Time:3.15pm

We kindly request your attention concerning a new legislation on tourists. The new law, implemented by the authorities of London from the beginning of Oct. 2004, says that all foreigners who can not truly identify themselves as tourists will be deported to north african camps in order to do social work with rejected african asylum seekers.

www.nomadology-institute.org

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An Introduction to the Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army

Time: 5pm - 7pm


The Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army (CIRCA) is looking for fools and rebels, radicals and rascals, tricksters and traitors, mutineers and malcontents to join its ranks.
You could be part of a fighting force armed with ruthless love and fully trained in the ancient art of clowning and non-violent direct action. You could learn ingeniously stupid tactics that baffle the powerful. You could uncover your inner clown and discover the subversive freedom of fooling.
The workshop will be a training taster for all potential recruits.

Venue: The Marquee, Middlesex University, Tottenham campus, White Hart Lane, N17 8HR.

www.clownarmy.org

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Planka

Time: 6.00pm

In Stockholm, Gothenburg and Helsinki commuters are taking the initiative in public transport. Buses, trams, commuter trains and subways are necessary for us to get around in society. Public transport should be like the sidewalk - paid by all, free to walk on. It would be as absurd to charge for it, as is charging for public transport.

United we stand strong! "P-kassan" - the free riding insurance - is a cooperation between people in similar situations. You pay a small amount to the fund and if you get caught freeriding your bill is paid. During the workshop held on the tube we will share our experiences with the planka.nu (freeride.now) campaign. We believe that our experiences are universal and applicable to almost all European cities. We hope to spread the practice of free riding insurance, and the idea of creating urban commons.

www.planka.nu

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Tea, Theory and Tactics

Time: 7pm

Afternoon Tea, cakes and enquiry into the nature of language, and the art of dissemination/description used and refused by insurrectionary imaginations.
Venue: rampART social centre, 17 rampart street, Whitechapel E1 2LA

Cost: Free/donations

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Screening of Imaginative Insurrection

Time: 7.30pm - 8pm

Indymedia Space @ The Camden Centre. A Screening of works from those in the lab, with a brief update on the Starbucks Case.

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Cost: Free/donations