Beyoncé says ESCALATE

 TO THE LEFT - Beyoncé says STRIKE, ESCALATE, RETWEET: 30 June 2011

More info on the strike from Education Activist Network: "On June 30 nearly a million workers could be on strike together... Student protests alone caused a major crisis for this government. Students and workers together can take the resistance to cuts even further."

MORE: Escalate Collective, Deterritorial Support Group.

Some slightly less crucial ~events~

With, Laurie Penny, Dan Hind, and Jeremy Gilbert, down by the old school yard talking about The Age of Dissent, this Sunday 5 June, 4pm at the Stoke Newington Literary Festival.

With Owen Hatherley and Richard King on Domino Radio on the FM dial, Thursday 9 June, 4pm-5.30pm, playing riot grime and protest bashment and trying not to interrupt Owen talking about Pulp.

On BBC Radio 4 on Tuesday 14 June at 1.30pm, a documentary about sodcasting, inspired by my Guardian feature, featuring the poet Ian McMillan, me, and some frankly hilarious Hackney school-girls on the top deck of the 277 bus.

And a bit further off, my pamphlet Kettled Youth: The battle against the neoliberal endgame is published by Random House Thursday 28 July.