4th September 2014 What’s On

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Until 19th December

The Great War – myths and realities uncovered
The Working Class Movement Library’s exhibition, The Great War: myths and realities, opens on Wednesday 6 August. It explores topics such as Salford’s response to the outbreak of war, the strength of the anti-war movement locally and nationally, what happened to the campaign which had gathered momentum by 1914 to get the vote for women – and the realities of trench warfare.
On this anniversary of the start of the First World War the Library wants to commemorate it, but to do so honestly. The exhibition introduction states: ‘We will not remember the “lost” or the “fallen”. We will remember 16 million dead whose lives were not given but were taken from them by politicians and generals’.
Veronica Trick, a member of the volunteer exhibition team, said: ‘By camouflaging this hideous event with heroic language we make the next war more likely. We believe that there is only one morally acceptable way to remember WW1 and that is to look honestly at past wars to develop strategies for the prevention of future wars.’
The exhibition is open during the Library drop-in times, Wed-Fri 1-5pm, until 19 December.
Working Class Movement Library, 51 The Crescent, Salford, M5 4WX
More info:
http://www.wcml.org.uk/events/world-war-one–myths-and-realities/

Friday 5th, Saturday 6th and Sunday 7th September

Coach from Manchester: http://gashcollective.com/dirtyweekend/

https://www.facebook.com/events/557593707648358

Tuesday 9th September

A talk on Alternative Currencies, Sovereignty Movements, Green Technologies & Social Movements in the UK, Central & South America and Oceania

7.00pm: Subrosa, 27 Lloyd Street South, Moss Side, M14 7HS

Please check for latest updates:
https://www.facebook.com/events/259904097536633

Friday 12th September to Sunday 14th September

FF14 is a weekend of discussions, plenaries, workshops, walking, climbing and socialising. We hope FF14 will contribute to building new relationships, new ideas, new energies and new strategies that help equip us to enact the future.

More info:
http://www.weareplanc.org/festival

Friday 12th September

Saturday 20th September

Inca Babies, A Witness and The Great Leap Forward (Acoustic)
The Ruby Lounge, 28-34 High Street, Northern Quarter, M4 1QB
https://www.facebook.com/events/321190178033914/

Monday 22nd and Tuesday 23rd September

Red Ladder Theatre presents We’re Not Going Back

Red Ladder Theatre’s new touring production –
We’re Not Going Back is about the 1984/85 miners’ strike… more or less.
But, in this hard-hitting musical comedy there are no miners. Instead, we follow the fortunes of three sisters in a pit village, hit hard by the Government’s war against the miners and determined to set up a branch of ‘Women Against Pit Closures’
Part of national tour. Nearest date to Manchester is Oldham University Campus

More info:
http://www.redladder.co.uk/wngb
https://www.facebook.com/events/654476944648038

Friday 26th September

Protag-Fest Day 1: Attila The Stockbroker, Andy T plus more TBC
7.30pm-Midnight
1 in 12 Club, Bradford

Saturday 27th September

Bradford & Leeds Anarchist Bookfair
10.30am – 4.30pm
1 in 12 Club, Bradford

Film
5.00pm-7.00pm
1 in 12 Club, Bradford

Protag-Fest Day 2: Zounds, Blyth Power, Nick Cliff, Mark Automaton and Mwstard
7.00pm-Midnight
1 in 12 Club, Bradford

https://www.facebook.com/events/1441129609469436/

Thursday 22nd October