Workers bike co-op • New anarchist publishers • The Cunningham Amendment periodical • campaign to save public woodland
Bike Workshop
Birmingham Bike Foundry is a workers’ co-operative. We offer maintenance and cycle training to members of the public, schools and businesses. We offer workshop repairs, wheel building, and a tool club where you can come along and use our workshop. We aim to make a healthy, fun, affordable and environmentally friendly means of transport and leisure available to as many people as we can, however possible!
We run three Bike mechanics courses: Bike Basics, Home Mechanics and Wheel Building. We are also running a trailer building course in collaboration with Northfield Eco Centre in February, for booking details about that, please follow the link on our website.
Courses are run regularly for groups of up to four trainees, upstairs in our shop in Stirchley. We use Park professional mechanics’ tools and stands and all our courses are taught by our experienced staff. The advanced modules are delivered by Cyctech 2 qualified staff. Most importantly, we have tea and coffee making facilities.
Birmingham Bike Foundry
1539 Pershore Road
Stirchley
Birmingham B30 2JH
Website: http://birminghambikefoundry.org
Email: info@birminghambikefoundry.org
Tel: 0121 459 7276
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New anarchist publisher
LBC Books is a new publishing instance of a group who have been involved in anarchist publishing for nearly 10 years. Now, we are ready to take this project to the next level, and we introduce LBC Books – our publishing arm. We will be publishing at least one new book a month and will be helping a variety of other publishing groups with their material. Our project is an anarchism of many voices & attitudes.
- Occupy Everything: Anarchists in the Occupation Movement 2009-2011 – The first LBC Books title will be a survey of anarchist involvement in the Occupation Movement. This is a book where anarchists, in their own words, express how and why they engaged in this struggle, what methods they used and evaluates the success of working in the mixed crowds that the Occupy Movement attracted.
- Super Happy Anarcho Fun Pages – The snarkiest, meanest, kindest little comic zine around.
- Queer Ultraviolence: A Bash Back Anthology – This anthology takes a peek at the radical Queer tendency and/or (non) organization during the span from 2007 to 2011. It includes interviews, analysis, communiqués, and other documents relating to Bash Back! and the tendency that it spawned.
We hereby invite you to join us in this adventure. The Accomplices of LBC Books is the easiest way to participate in this project, and share in teh awesome.
Website: http://lbcbooks.com/
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Cunning anarchists
You know it’s an important day for anarchism when Ian Bone brokers a deal to patch up the 25 year old feud between Freedom and Peter Good, the man behind The Cunningham Amendment (TCA) magazine. A feud so lost in the mists of time no one can quite remember what it was about. For those who haven’t seen or read the TCA it is a beautifully put together mischievous celebration of anarchist ideas, with an artist’s eye, a draftsman attention to detail and a printers sense of design layout. It is both unique and an utter joy to read (and pleasure just to look at). Every surly anarchist should carry a copy in their back pocket just to remind themselves we can occasionally raise our expectations.
The Cunningham Amendment
Room 6
Tangleford House
The Street
Bawdeswell
Norfolk NR20 4RT
Where the magic happens: http://theprintproject.co.uk/category/the-cunningham-amendment/
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Parklands fight
Hi Friends, some local news in which an anarchist (me) is and has been involved for two decades. We have been fighting a massive housing development on an ancient deer park between Loughborough and Shepshed. Part of the irony for anarch’s is that this is private estate owned by Squire de Lise and we are constantly challenging his right to “own” this much loved recreational space (we have public bridal paths in parts of the estate). As you see from the leaflet we are testing the Tories right to bid legislation under the Localism Act 2011. Can I suggest lots of anarch’s look in their locality for ‘Community Assets’?
P.s. please don’t dismiss this as legalism. I fight on the ground which I find myself.
Leaflet text:
The members of The Garendon Park & Countryside Protection Group intend to Register the whole Estate as a Community Asset under the New Legislation which will allow us to be consulted when the Park and Estate is put on the open market for sale and development. The ultimate aim is to Buy the Estate and place it under the control of local people through the formation of a Community Land Trust [CLT].
The Localism Act requires local authorities to maintain a list of assets of community value which have been nominated by the local community. When listed assets come up for sale or change of ownership, the Act then gives community groups the time to develop a bid and raise the money to bid to buy the assets when it comes on the open market. This will help local communities keep much loved sites in public use and part of local life.
We hope to convince Charnwood Borough Council that the whole of Garendon Park and Estate is indeed a valued Community Asset and one which represents a green space for free leisure pursuits, and reduces footfalls on other local visitor attractions. It also produces local food with very little ‘food miles’ and could offer further employment to farming apprentices.
Background to the campign: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/loughborough/garendon/
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This article appeared in the February issue of Freedom newspaper see here
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