Friday 22nd June from 5.0 – 6.0pm
Bread and Circuses
What’s wrong with the Olympics
Speakers: Julian Cheyne, Mike Wells and John Hilary
1-2 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London WC2A
bread and circuses
Monday 25th June, 5.30pm
Class, Corruption and the London Olympics‘
Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU
Speakers include David Renton
livesrunning
Monday 25th June, 6.0 – 9.0pm
Defence of the Public Realm
The privatisation of our public spaces along with arbitrary restrictions and controls – backed up with state of the art monitoring systems – is not only a threat to individual liberty, it also reveals a fundamental democratic deficit for society as a whole.
Speakers include Anna Minton, Andrew Altman, Oliver Priestley
Great Hall, Bishopsgate Institute,
230 Bishopsgate, London, EC2M 4QH
Defence of the public realm
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Tuesday 26th June, 7pm – 9pm
Defend the Right to Protest Meeting: The Olympics and Beyond
Harmony Hall, Truro Road, London E17 7BY
Speakers include:
Simon Moore: Campaigner and recipient of Olympic ASBO
Alfie Meadows: Student charged with violent disorder after his skull was fractured by police
Caroline Day: Save Leyton Marsh Group
Speaker from Newham Monitoring Project
Brian Richardson: Barrister & author of ‘Tell it Like it is – How Schools Fail Black Children’
Defend the Right to Protest
27th June (day) time and place to be announced
Drop Dow Now – International Events – one in central London
Saturday 30 June 12 noon Mile End Park
STOP THE MISSILES DEMO
Saturday 7 July 12-5pm East Ham
FATTYLYMPICS
Accessible to people with all kinds of bodies and abilities
Sunday 8 July 3.30pm
EAST END FILM FESTIVAL – Films on the Olympics
Including Olympicpisstake by Jonathan Brind and Gold Dust by Mike Wells at Stratford Picture House
Wednesday 11th July – to be confirmed
Private view of photographs of what is now the Stratford and Hackney Olympic
site
Green Lens Studios/Gallery, 4a Atterbury Road, London, N4 1SF
Green Lens Studios
Thursday 12th July, 6.30 – 8.30pm
Politics & Olympics: Incursions and Subversions
Hilary Powell and Isaac Marrero present a series of creative critical responses to the iconography and language of the forthcoming games from their book ‘The Art of Dissent: London’s Olympic State’ (June 2012, published by Marshgate Press and designed by See Studio).
Free Word Lecture Theatre, 60 Farringdon Road, EC1R 3GA
Art of Dissent
Tuesday 17th July, 6.0 – 8.0pm
Celebration Capitalism: The London Olympics and Its Discontents
Speaker: Jules Boykoff is the author of Activism and the Olympics: Dissent at the Games in Vancouver and London (Rutgers University Press, forthcoming
Room 532, Main Building, Birkbeck Institute for Social Research, Malet Street, Bloomsbury
London WC1E 7HX
Celebration Capitalism
Monday 23rd July at 2pm
AUSTERITY GAMES Hackney Marshes
Saturday 28 July 12 noon
Mass Mobilisation – NO LIMOS NO LOGOS
Counter Olympics Network family friendly demonstration
Assemble Mile End Park
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Solidarity T-shirts! Sold in support of the Save Leyton Marsh Campaign. Different colours and sizes. Contact us if you would like some/one. 
