30 January 2018 — Housmans
NEWS
1. Queer Between The Covers
2. NHS In Crisis – Day of Protest, Saturday 3rd February
INSTORE EVENTS
3. Control and Repressive Technologies: ’Tear Gas: From the Battlefields of WWI to the Streets of Today’ and ‘The Politics of Borders: Sovereignty, Security, and the Citizen after 9/11’ Anna Feigenbaum in conversation with Matthew Longo
4. ‘Countering youth militarisation in the Czech Republic, Finland, Turkey and the UK’ with War Resisters’ International
5. ‘Don’t Panic, I’m Islamic! How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Alien Next Door’ with Bidisha, Esther Manito and Yumna Mohamed
6. ‘Europe’s Fault Lines: Racism and the Rise of the Right’ with Liz Fekete
7. ‘Your Silence Will Not Protect You. Celebrating Audre Lorde’
8. LOCOMOTRIX EVENT ‘The Fountain in the Forest and the French Republican Calendar’ with Tony White and Dr Sanja Perovic
9. ‘A Party with Socialists in It: A History of the Labour Left’ with Simon Hannah
10. ‘There was just this enormous sense of solidarity’: London and the 1984/85 Miners’ Strike
11. ‘The Water-Watcher’s Tale’ with Nancy Charley
12. ‘Progress of this Storm: Nature and Society in a Warming World’ with Andreas Malm
13. ‘The End of Policing’ with Alex S. Vitale
14. ‘Wobblies of the World: A Global History of the IWW’ with Peter Cole
READING AND DISCUSSION GROUPS
15. Fuse Book Club – forthcoming titles
16. Feminist Sci-fi Book Club at Housmans
17. London Pacifism and Nonviolence Discussion Group
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NEWS
1. Queer Between The Covers
Solidarity plug! Queer Between the Covers is a new exhibition and event season at Senate House Library which explores over 250 years of Queer Literature. With an installed exhibition and one-off events running through to June, check out the programme here:
http://www.senatehouselibrary.ac.uk/exhibitions-and-events/exhibitions/queer-between-covers/events
2. NHS In Crisis – Day of Protest, Saturday 3rd February
Health Campaigns Together & The People’s Assembly have called for a Day of Protest on Saturday 3 February in response to the worsening Winter Crisis. Ambulances queuing for hours to hand over seriously ill patients, patients left in corridors waiting for beds, operations postponed, and mental health patients taken hundreds of miles to find a bed.
Theresa May & Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt issued a hollow apology and deny any crisis! But the problem comes from deliberate government policy of cuts, bed closures, pay restraint and privatisation. Our NHS has been starved of funding with inadequate investment in staff and resources. 8,000 front line beds and 20% of mental health beds have closed. Eight years of below inflation pay settlements have contributed to 100,000 vacant posts for health professionals – leaving no spare capacity for peaks of demand & increasing the pressure on the dedicated staff who remain.
Full details: https://keepournhspublic.com/events/nhs-in-crisis-fix-it-now-3rd-february-2018/
IN-STORE EVENTS
3. Control and Repressive Technologies: ’Tear Gas: From the Battlefields of WWI to the Streets of Today’ and ‘The Politics of Borders: Sovereignty, Security, and the Citizen after 9/11’ Anna Feigenbaum in conversation with Matthew Longo
Wednesday 31st January, 7pm
Entry £3, redeemable against any purchase
How are citizens are imagined through controlling and repressive technologies? Join Anna Feigenbaum, author of Tear Gas, in conversation with Matthew Longo, author of The Politics of Borders. An engrossing century-spanning narrative, Tear Gas is the first history of this weapon, and takes us from military labs and chemical weapons expos to union assemblies and protest camps, drawing on declassified reports and witness testimonies to show how policing with poison came to be.
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4. ‘Countering youth militarisation in the Czech Republic, Finland, Turkey and the UK’ with War Resisters’ International
Monday 5th February – Free Entry
Activists from the Czech Republic, Finland, Turkey and the UK come together for a public discussion on countering youth militarisation. Find out what is happening and how you can get involved.
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5. ‘Don’t Panic, I’m Islamic! How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Alien Next Door’
with Bidisha, Esther Manito and Yumna Mohamed
Wednesday 7th February, 7pm – Tickets essential! Please buy from http://www.housmans.com/events.php
Contributors to this provocative and at times laugh-out-loud funny collection of subversive pieces challenge preconceptions of what it is to be a Muslim. Comedians Esther Manito and Yumna Mohamed, join journalist, author and broadcaster Bidisha, for a lively look at what the arts and comedy can do to combat stereotypes and regressive identity politics. Advance tickets essential, available from http://www.housmans.com/events.php
A Sunday Times Best Humour Book of the Year 2017
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6. ‘Europe’s Fault Lines: Racism and the Rise of the Right’ with Liz Fekete
Wednesday 14th February, 7pm
Entry £3, redeemable against any purchase
Liz Fekete of the Institute of Race Relations discusses her brilliant new book, Europe’s Fault Lines, which maps the shifting terrain of racism and right-wing populism in Europe, as well as continued forms of resistance to it.
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7. ‘Your Silence Will Not Protect You. Celebrating Audre Lorde’ with speaker TBC
SOLD OUT!! SORRY NO MORE TICKETS AVAILABLE
8. LOCOMOTRIX EVENT ‘The Fountain in the Forest and the French Republican Calendar’
with Tony White and Dr Sanja Perovic
Thursday 22 February, 7pm – Tickets available soon
Tony White’s latest novel The Fountain in the Forest views the end of the UK Miners’ Strike through the lens of the French Revolutionary Calendar. Join us for readings and discussion with Tony White and Dr Sanja Perovic from the Department of French, King’s College London.
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9. ‘A Party with Socialists in It: A History of the Labour Left’ with Simon Hannah
Saturday 24th February, 7pm
Entry £3, redeemable against any purchase
Simon Hannah presents a history of the left within the British Labour Party, uncovering its deep internal divisions and shifting political positions, and asks whether these contradictions can ever be overcome.
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10. ‘There was just this enormous sense of solidarity’: London and the 1984/85 Miners’ Strike
Wednesday 14th March, 7pm – Free Entry
Launch of booklet of testimonies about the solidarities forged during the strike edited by Dave Featherstone and Diarmaid Kelliher, Glasgow University. Speakers: Terry Conway trade union activist, Islington North Labour Party LGBT officer, personal capacity, Hilary Wainwright, editor of Red Pepper (both were involved in solidarity movements with the miners during the strike), Diarmaid Kelliher, University of Glasgow, other speakers tbc.
11. ‘The Water-Watcher’s Tale’ with Nancy Charley
Friday 16th March, 7pm
Tickets £4/£5 on the door
Summoned to sentinel the shingle beach, the Water-Watcher sees mysteries of birds & people, shore & sea. Discover giants & spit sprites, alchemy & ancient rites. Follow the ebb & flow of the tide as it reveals the myths of the North Kent Coast. A poetry-telling show brought to you by Nancy Charley in which she weaves poems from Little Blue Hut (Smokestack Books, 2017) written following her residency at a beach hut on the Whitstable coast. This one-woman show will bring the sounds of the sea into the heart of London.
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12. ‘Progress of this Storm: Nature and Society in a Warming World’ with Andreas Malm
Saturday 17th March, 7pm
Entry £3, redeemable against any purchase
Andreas Malm launches his manifesto that argues that in a warming world it is more important than ever to distinguish between the natural and the social. Only with a unique agency attributed to humans can resistance become conceivable.
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13. ‘The End of Policing’ with Alex S. Vitale
Wednesday 21st March, 7pm
Entry £3, redeemable against any purchase
Drawing on groundbreaking research from across the world, and covering virtually every area in the increasingly broad range of police work, Alex Vitale demonstrates how law enforcement has come to exacerbate the very problems it is supposed to solve.
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14. ‘Wobblies of the World: A Global History of the IWW’ with Peter Cole
Saturday 31st March, 7pm
Entry £3, redeemable against any purchase
This book is the first to look at the history of the IWW from an international perspective. Bringing together a group of leading scholars, it includes lively accounts from diverse countries including Australia, Canada, Mexico, South Africa, Sweden and Ireland, which reveal a fascinating story of global anarchism, syndicalism and socialism.
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READING AND DISCUSSION GROUPS
15. The Fuse Book Club – forthcoming titles
Housmans has a monthly book club which usually meets on the second Thursday of the month, starting at 7pm in the shop. Forthcoming titles under discussion are:
Thursday 8th February Kill All Normies by Angela Nagle
Thursday 8th March Red Rosa by Kate Evans
If you would like to find out more about the reading group, please email catherine@housmans.com. The Fuse has its own web page with more info here: http://www.housmans.com/fuse.php
16. Housmans Feminist Sci-fi Book Club
Genderless societies, anarchist planets, polyamorous aliens, parthenogenesis, feminist militias, reproductive dystopias, cyborg families, and more at the Housmans Feminist Sci-Fi Book Club! Join us at the bookshop on the first Thursday of every month, 7pm-9pm. All genders welcome. Please bring drinks or snacks to share.
February: Everfair by Nisi Shawl
March: Carhullan Army by Sarah Hall
Book Club books available at 20% discount from Housmans. Any questions please email Hannah on scifi@housmans.com or check the book club page here.
17. London Pacifism and Nonviolence Discussion Group
Housmans has a regular Pacifism and Nonviolence Discussion Group, who meet on the second Tuesday of the month. All are welcome, but please be prepared to join in the discussion. Please try to turn up by 7pm sharp.
On Tuesday 13 February the topic will be DO PACIFISTS HAVE TO LOVE ONE ANOTHER?
For more information please visit: http://londonpacifismnonviolence.wordpress.com/
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