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Reclaim the Future 5 - RTF 5

Reclaim the Future 5 was a vast all day party event in a liberated, self-managed occupied venue somewhere in London on Saturday 5 September 2009 (Note: new date).

A big thank you to crew and public who made this event possible. All the rooms were given the normal RTF clean up and decoration. Thanks for the loan of some wonderful banners!

Thanks to the bands and PAs and to Food Not Bombs for the great food, much appreciated after being stuck in the building for days... Great job security (you know who you are)...Thanks to all the stallholders and peeps who did the workshops...Cheers to the bar crew... And lets seriously not forget the people who managed to get the water turned on and the bog cleaners who make our event just that little bit special... Also a big up to one and all who turned up and stuck their hands in their pockets and helped us raise money for many a good cause!

All money raised goes to groups and organisations: none of the people working get a penny! We do however all have our favourite causes and the people who do the work (and bands) have a say in where this goes. I would like to tell you, However this might not be beneficial to ourselves or the groups involved...

Once again thank you
RTF crew

Indymedia presents: Short report with photos and Photos from around the venue

Photos © Fil Kaler

Location:

454-490 Mile End Road (old car showroom)
London E1 4PE (map)
opposite St Mary's university, just West of the Regent Canal, on the south side of Mile End Road

tube Mile End (Central Line line only running) 5 min walk
bus 25 Oxford Circus - City - Mile End - Stratford - Ilford (24 hour)
bus 205 Paddington - King's Cross - Mile End - Bow (24 hour)
bus 277 Highbury - Hackney Central - Mile End - Limehouse (24 hour)

Doors open 1pm

Phone numbers for location on the day:

07 758 119 655
07 729 178 836

At least two rooms of live bands 9pm-4am
- Bands already confirmed:
  - Gertrude
  - Rabies Babies
  - Headjam
  - 52 Commercial Road [no, not the RTF address]
  - KADT (album launch)
  - Dropping Bombs
  - Defcon Zero
  - Bottle Job
  - King Salames and the Cumberland 23
  - Refusal
  and likely...
  - Bug Central
  - Babaluck
DJs 4am-7am
Cabaret stage:
- Live cabaret
- 2 Up Sound System
- Drum and Bass DJs
Live internet radio broadcast by Dissident Island Radio
Cafe area, vegan food
Bar
Cinema all day and night
Art spaces, exhibitions
Workshops 1:30 - 7pm
- 1.30-3pm Dissident Island Radio – how to do internet radio
- 1.30-6pm London Campaign Against Arms Trade
- 1.30-6pm Bike repair workshop - 56a and Bicycology(?)
- 3pm-4pm Zoe – filmmaker with Indymedia, on rethinking finance and networking alternative media using open source software'
- 4pm-5.30pm Corporate Watch - Olympics
- 4pm-5pm Anarcha feminists - title tbc
- 5pm-6pm International Times archive
- Q & A with Mike Lesser – former editor of radical fortnightly International Times (1966-1986) on its complete archive recently launched on www.internationaltimes.it
- 5.30-6pm London No Borders Calais camp report back
- 6pm-7pm Corporate Watch - NETCU (National Extremism Tactical Coordination Unit)
- 6pm-7pm Bristol Commutiny on Bristol Co-Mutiny event 12-18 September comutiny.wordpress.com
STALLS 1pm-7pm
- Active Distribution – radical literature, T-shirts, merchandise
- Corporate Watch
- London No Borders
- In Defence of Ancient Forests
- East London Hunt Sabs
- Advisory Service for Squatters (A.S.S.)
- Haringey Justice for Palestineans (tbc) – Palestinean handicrafts for sale
- FITWATCH
- Schnews
- Past Tense Publications/ Radical History Group
- Haringey Solidarity Group
- NO ID gallery – T-shirts, screenprints
- Smash EDO
- Freedom Bookshop
- London CAAT
- Animal Rescue
- Dissident Island Radio

Help wanted - volunteers
Tat wanted - Lights, kitchen tat, tables, chairs, banner materials, paint, banners and arts, displays, cleaning stuff, basic tools, brooms, fire extinguishers, first aid kits, polyprop, gaffer tape...

It's a benefit for anti-capitalist and anti-miliarist causes and prisoner support. ("This time we're really, really skint.")

Contact: reclaiminfo@yahoo.co.uk

Enquiries about workshops and stalls: rtfworkshops@yahoo.co.uk

Black'n'white flyers to print:

Click for 8MB PDF

Click for 2MB PDF

For more on previous RTF parties, see:

The previous Reclaim the Future
	Reclaim the Future IV: Saturday 31 March 2007 52 Holloway Road London N7 8JL


	Ultimately it is in the streets that power must be dissolved: for the streets where daily life is endured, suffered and eroded, and where power is confronted and fought, must be turned into the domain where daily life is enjoyed, created and nourished.

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Reclaim the Future 5 - RTF 5

Location:

Phone numbers for location on the day:

Black'n'white flyers to print:

The previous Reclaim the Future