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The idea of the Peanut Gallery Social Centre is to create an open, friendly, welcoming autonomous space run for students by students. Look at our core values posted below.
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History
In March 2008, with help from Campaign and Democracy Support (CDS), a group of students at Leeds University Union (LUU) got together to create their very own social centre, now known as the Peanut Gallery. Like other social centres, the Peanut Gallery provides a space to discuss ideas, plan strategic and effective actions, nurture grass-roots campaigns and promote alternative ways of living based on autonomy, solidarity and mutual aid.
Uses
In the space you can use a kettle to make tea or coffee, warm up your food in a microwave, relax in the cafe, meet like minded people, use a photocopier to make campaign flyers, use the internet on the computers, use the meeting space, take clothes from the free shop, take books from the library and store campaign materials. The Peanut Gallery is run by a collective of student volunteers who you can join as an equal member and help steer the space based on consensus decision making. The Peanut Gallery we be rebuilt in a new, exciting space during the LUU Social Forum.
The space can be anything we want it to be, it currently boasts:
Projector and Screen;
3 Computers;
Library;
Comfy seating to hangout;
Tea and Coffee makin facilities including sink!;
Microwave to warm up yer lunch;
Freeshop - exchange yer tat;
Meeting Room;
Storage Room;
Notice Boards;
Wall Calender
Mailing List: peanutgallery@lists.riseup.net- to join send an email to peanutcentre@googlemail.com
Wiki Site: www.thepeanutgallery.org.uk
Filing Cabinet with campaigns resources Workshop/Skillshare/Talk space
But more ideas are encouraged (as long as you help make them happen).
Core Values
Inclusive
LUU Social Centre (LSC) will be open, friendly, safe and welcoming to everyone. In order to facilitate this it will have no leaders or hierarchy and all decisions will be based on consensus. It will be run by a collective of students. Anyone can volunteer to join this collective and play an equal role. To this end LSC will not be a space based on denominational politics but a decentralized space in which all people are able to relate to and respect each other as equal individuals.
Responsible
LSC will be a self managed space run by students for students. Responsibility and accountability for running the space will be shared by the collective. Labor will be split into working groups within the collective who will take responsibility for certain tasks. Meetings will occur to co-ordinate the working groups. LSC will be supported throughout this process by Democracy Support.
Ethical
LSC will embrace the full dignity of all human beings and will therefore reject all forms and systems of domination and discrimination. The space will aim to be both environmentally and socially sustainable. Everything in LSC will be first borrowed, found, donated or bought second hand before being bought new. The space will be run on a not-for-profit basis and ask only for a suggested donation in return for goods or services. All monies will go to the further development and maintenance of LSC.
Active
LSC will be a space to nurture student led, strategic and effective action. It will promote alternative ways of living based on autonomy, solidarity and mutual aid by providing a parallel space in which students have the freedom to make their own decisions collectively.
More Information
To find out more and get involved visit the LUU Social Forum at www.luuonline.com/luusocialforum and join the Peanut Gallery Facebook group on facebook!
See also:
www.thepeanutgallery.org.uk
Leeds University Union Societies
People and Planet Group
