The StopG8 convergence centres will open on Saturday 8 June, and there will be welcome events and talks ahead of the action week that starts on Monday 10 June. On Saturday night we kick off with a benefit gig supporting the South London Solidarity Federation and the new Antiraids network, a network fighting immigration controls and raids in London. Full details below.
Come down to LimaZulu, north London, on 8th June for a night of excellent spoken word, poetry & international hip hop, with a headliner from Mexico! All in the name of an excellent cause, that being the Anti Raids Network (
https://network23.org/antiraids/) & SLSF (solfed.org.uk/?q=south-london/)
BOCAFLOJA – straight outta DF (Mexico City) via NYC, conscious, articulate & intellectual hip hop about race, migration and geopolitics. The HOTTEST ticket in bilingual hip hop is in the UK for 2 nights only, especially to support the Anti-Raids Network!
http://www.emancipassion.com/music.htm
DEAN ATTA – fresh from publishing his poetry collection, “I Am Nobody’s Nigga”, the “Gill Scott-Heron of his generation” will grace us with some of his work.
https://soundcloud.com/deanatta
WANDA CANTON – sharp & insightful feminist spoken word from East London
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Wanda-Canton-Performance-Poet/140322266132995?id=140322266132995&sk=info
OSA COLLECTIVE – at once breezily cool and redhot, South London’s ‘free poetry’ collective and NTS Radio stars bring rhymes and reason
https://www.facebook.com/OtherStateArt
OPEN MIC – got something you wanna say?
+ more acts & DJs TBC! Watch this space!
This event will be a joint benefit, with proceeds split equally between two initiatives:
Anti-Raids Network – a migrants right & detainee group, who support the undocumented and the invisible against the witchhunts of the UK Border Agency and Metropolitan Police alike. We are 100% dependent on donations and fundraising to keep our crucial work going!
https://network23.org/antiraids/
South London Solidarity Federation – the project to build a truly independent & revolutionary union for all workers, both in and out of employment. We’re currently over a year into a huge campaign against the government’s brutal Workfare regime, fighting to save Lewisham Hospital from the hatchet man, and plenty more:
http://www.solfed.org.uk/local/south-london
It’s also part of the Stop G8 Week of Action: https://network23.org/stopg8/week-of-action/
Come down early & show your support!
8pm-2.30am
@ LimaZulu, Unit 3j, Omega Works 167 Hermitage Rd, N4 1LZ
Tube: Manor House
http://www.limazulu.co.uk
£5 waged
£4/donation (what you can afford) unwaged
South London Solidarity Federation & Anti-Raids Network
e-mail: southlondonsf@riseup.net
Homepage: https://www.facebook.com/events/573633195991487/