Entries from Londonist tagged with 'londonunion'
November 21, 2007
There have been many suggestions for women's safety at night: travel in groups, don't get minicabs, always walk facing traffic, carry a rape alarm, make sure you're home before it gets dark and stay indoors until daylight. All really helpful - for putting sexual equality back to the dark ages (so to speak). Women should be able to be out and about at night without fear of being attacked, raped or sexually harrassed which......
Continue Reading "Reclaim The Night This Saturday"November 16, 2007
We've seen you racing down Rainbow Road in the queue at Sainsbury's. We've also noticed you desperately arranging tetrominoes on the tube and catching Pokémon at the bus stop, so we know you're just as addicted to playing Nintendo DS as we are. For over a year now, DS:London has been organising frequent pub meetups where fans of the handheld console can gather for competition and conversation over pints. If you've been playing alone,......
Continue Reading "Gaming For Charity At ULU"March 3, 2007
If you go out to a 14+ gig today, you’re sure of a big surprise. If you go out to a gig today, you’d better go in disguise (white berets are where it’s at, peeps). For every kid that ever there was, will gather there for certain, because, today’s the day the 14+ have their post-mix-pop-fuelled sugar-rushed amateur crowd-surfing with vertical-face-plants-into-the-sweaty-morass * riotous mayhem! Catching the end of Bombay Bicycle Club’s set at a......
Continue Reading "Londonist Live: Bombay Bicycle Club @ Dingwalls"November 25, 2005
With night falling ever earlier ("would madam like some dusk with her mid-afternoon tea?"), Londoners can be forgiven for feeling apprehensive whilst on their own, in dark streets and cold temperatures. Women in particular have been urged to take care when getting from A to B in London - it is sad but true that special campaigns for women's safety while travelling at night still have to be created. Today is International Elimination of......
Continue Reading "Women: Reclaim The London Night"