Wednesday evening saw the first of our regular organising assemblies which was well attended and rather fruitful. Here follows a brief run down of what went down.

Procedure for putting on events at the space:

It was decided that events other than free uni workshops should be presented to the assembly on Wednesdays to be given the thumbs up by the group. Free uni workshops can be submitted spontaneously. Should someone wish to put on an event at shorter notice it can be proposed to folks at the free uni on Saturday.

Event Proposals:

Conflict resolution – mid November

Regular film night – every Tuesday, film starts 7.30 next week’s film to be decided at the end of the previous week. First film: Living Utopia – a film about Spanish anarchist organising in the 1930′s.

Independent media group – a get together to create independent media – every Thursday 5pm

Letter writing to those imprisoned for their participation in current struggles – every Thursday 5pm

Legal observer training – Date TBA (before November 9th)

Regular English as foreign language lessons – Every Saturday @ the free uni

Gender chat club – two sessions – Monday’s 5.30pm (self identified women only) Saturday @ Free Uni men and women welcome.

Publicity:

pegging people on the street

stickers

mailing list

focus publicity materials on the Saturday Free Uni events

Folks take initiative on publicising wherever possible

Safer Space Policy

Everyone take responsibility for being vigilant of sexist, racist, etc. behaviour

Living space/social centre divide: folks living @ Plebs’ make decisions about people staying the night.

Draft safer spaces policy to be brought to next Wednesday’s assembly for discussion/amendment by the group.

Anonymous box to be put out for folks to leave concerns about the space or interactions they’ve had to be seen and discussed by the assembly.

Fundraising

Potential offer of funding for specific needs from Solfed

Fundraiser gig for OARC + Plebs – folks volunteered to find bands and sort venue

Opening hours

Request for folks to come and (wo)man day time drop in hours to ease burden on residents.

Chairs

tables

cushions

decorative items – posters, material, paints

Paper

blackboard paint

white external paint

boardgames/amusements

Thankyou!

xxx

Organising assembly.

Come down with ideas on how to use and run the space, workshops you’d like to take part in or events you’d like to see here.

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SATURDAY 12pm

Free Uni and meal

Bring yourselves n’ your skillz. If you’d like to run a workshop or have a debate or discussion on a particular subject drop us an e-mail so we can schedule things.

We are now on

51 Union Street,
(behind Tesco, through the green gates next to East Oxford Primary school)

We are holding a FREE UNIVERSITY and MEAL on Monday from five.

Feel free to drop in before that for a chat. we’ll be around. Any new ideas about how to use the space are welcome.

Oh, and if you see any spare chairs lying around, bring them along!

(in fact any decorative item or furniture at all would be greatly appreciated….)

Much love

Plebs
x

In the meantime here’s a  short film about what we got up to

Much love x

THIS THURSDAY at 5pm
Come in fancy dress if you fancy it

There will be:
balloons
pet spiders of a size you have never seen before…(this is optional)
spectacular dance moves
pizza

xx

It will be epic

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‘In prison my whole life’

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A documentary film about the life imprisonment of black panther activist Abu Jamal

Trailer:

More info:

http://www.inprisonmywholelife.com/intro

Wednesday 7pm

If you haven’t heard about Dale Farm check out:

http://dalefarm.wordpress.com

Starting at 7pm it’ll be an evening of discussion (and possibly some films too) about the situation at Dale Farm; the largest Traveller community in the UK, now facing a brutal eviction.

Don’t forget that there’ll be

another

WONDERFUL

Free University

////on SATURDAY 12-4///

The last one was amazing with heated debates on demographic change and anarchism continuing late into the night and workshops and classes on stand-up comedy, composing photographs, film-making, and abstract journalism, neuroscience and Italian during the day…

If you would like to run a workshop on Saturday, email oxsquat@riseup.net, so we can put it out there, or just turn up!

Circus workshop from 4pm followed by a screening of the film ‘Man on Wire’ at 7pm.

WEDNESDAY

Talks followed by discussion:

-Trade Union responses to the rise of the far right (Tracy Walsh)

-Critique of the media portrayal of the riots (Kieron Walsh)

Keep checking, there’ll be more!