And when everyone was committed to transformation, we all moved forward’ Sarah Schulman.

Join us for a screening of United in Anger (2012) and UK launch reading of Sarah Schulman’s book  Let the Record Show along with a World Cafe style event on cabaret tables where everyone gets to mass-mingle and discuss specific topics / action plans to continue the struggle for healthcare for all then party!

All profit goes to Pos UK Hardship Fund and Icebreakers Uganda – ‘We work towards a Uganda of total justice devoid of discrimination based on sexual orientation and free of HIV/AIDS and its disastrous effects’.

We are hyped to welcome Sarah Schulman back to London for a 2-day event on coalition-building and the power of grassroots radical organizing based on her most recent book. The two events will explore how to harness the power of coalition politics, what makes grassroots radical organizing work, and how different people with different circumstances and resistances can elevate each other and save each other’s lives. Please also join us on Monday 22 November 2021, 12.00 – 13.00 for a reading and discussion at the Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster (Boardroom, Regent St Campus).

The events will be based on Sarah’s latest book Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP, New York (2020) which is the result of more than 200 interviews conducted over 18 years. Rejecting the whitening of AIDS history, and examining the movements’ mistakes as well as victories, Let the Record Show is a revelatory exploration – and long-overdue reassessment- of the coalition’s inner workings, conflicts and achievements, and ultimate fracture. The book aims to reinstate women and people of colour ‘back at the heart of history’ (The Guardian) and reconfigure the way we tell history away from the ‘heroic individual’ towards the community.

The evening includes a special exhibition with rare pictures and artefacts from Greg Ellis at Ward 5b, Guy Burch and Gordon Rainsford.

The timetable for the evening:

• 17.00 – Welcome
• 17.05 – United in Anger screening
• 18.45 – Let the Record Show reading and panel discussion
• 19.30 – Break / Food
• 20.00 – World Cafe style event on cabaret tables where everyone gets to mass-mingle and discuss specific topics / action plans to continue the struggle for healthcare for all (in the spirit of this amazing quote ‘Given how many different kinds of people are under attack, the idea of one strategy, interpretation or approach is absurd. Let’s aim to elevate each other in our different circumstances and resistances, while retaining basic common values of justice’.)
• 21.00 – Music / DJ’s. Performances by Crystal Rasmussen and DJ by LeaSuwanna
• 23.00 – Close

Facebook event page here. For further information contact actuplondonfighttilltheend@gmail.com.

Doors open at 16.00 for a 17.00 start.

Refreshments will be available in our licensed cafe/bar.

TICKETS & PRICING

Limited tickets: £10 waged, £5 unwaged, £2 solidarity, available from OutSavvy.