{"title": "Decolonizing Money: The Promise of Abolishing the US Dollar, by Julio Linares", "start": "2026-11-04T20:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-04T22:00:00Z", "place": "maydayrooms", "address": "88 Fleet Street, EC4Y 1DH London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://events.maydayrooms.org/e/116/decolonizing-money-book-launch-author-talk-and-discussion", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/economics"], "description": "An evening conversation at MayDay Rooms about the book 'Decolonizing Money: The Promise of Abolishing the US Dollar' and what abolishing the dollar could make possible. Its author Julio César Linares, a community organizer and economic anthropologist from the territories known today as Guatemala who lives in Berlin, presents an anarchist theory of money. Drawing on anarchist, abolitionist and anti-colonial feminist traditions, he argues for a grassroots democratic movement to abolish the imperialist US dollar as a step towards cancelling debt and a worldwide basic income. The discussion explores forms of direct action people can take from London to dismantle the US dollar empire.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/decolonizing-money-the-promise-of-abolishing-the-us-dollar-b-70038/", "official_url": "https://events.maydayrooms.org/e/116/decolonizing-money-book-launch-author-talk-and-discussion", "image": "https://noky.io/images/35193264fbd80c4e4464c0f62a4a36cf1cbeb7df65e18b7d354e7b45866da3bb-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-04T20:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-04T22:00:00Z", "place": "maydayrooms", "address": "88 Fleet Street, EC4Y 1DH London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Panel Discussion: Finance and the Sacred", "start": "2026-11-05T18:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-05T21:00:00Z", "place": "The Showroom", "address": "Penfold Street 63, London", "price": "£5", "price_from": "5.00", "price_to": "5.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rites-to-the-city-violence-finance-and-the-sacred-tickets-2002995355026?aff=oddtdtcreator", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/contemporary", "society/finance"], "description": "A panel discussion titled Finance and the Sacred, exploring the systems at play between the debt regime and speculative imagination. It is convened by The Otolith Collective and brings together artist Bahar Noorizadeh, Adam HajYahia, Max Haiven and Lama El Khatib. The conversation acts as a live meditation on Noorizadeh's research, examining gamification as a mechanism of control, information as an urban medium, sacrifice as the social form of finance, and conspiracy as a mode of navigating this terrain.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/panel-discussion-finance-and-the-sacred-39707/", "official_url": "https://theshowroom.org/events/rites-to-the-city-violence-finance-and-the-sacred", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e53158629982927ae9789dec56fa781d2bd788ffa1524afd5aa24ea628559879-1200.webp"}, {"title": "All About the Money", "start": "2026-11-05T18:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Garden Cinema", "address": "Parker Street 39-41, WC2B 5PQ London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/gifts/", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary"], "description": "A screening of the film \"All About the Money\" followed by a question-and-answer session. Director Sinéad O'Shea will join for the Q&A. The film follows Fergie Chambers, who rebels against everything his family represents by funding an anarchic, anti-capitalist collective in rural Massachusetts, yet it is the privilege of his background that lets him escape when the group gets into trouble. O'Shea explores the contradictions of life among the 1% and questions whether one can ever really escape such wealth and power.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/all-about-the-money-39232/", "official_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/all-about-the-money-qa/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/37a31299ee687b3ac01654605725afd1cbb8bdc63b356fdb40ddc6f17aa3f865-600.webp"}, {"title": "2026 BRISMES Annual Lecture: Beyond Bearing Witness: Palestine, Knowledge Production and the Political Economy of the Future", "start": "2026-11-12T17:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "SOAS University of London", "address": "", "price": "Free, registration required", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/book-talk-twelve-days-shook-middle-east", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/politics/israel-palestine", "history/colonialism"], "description": "A public lecture, also streamed online, discussing what forms of knowledge and analysis are needed beyond documenting conditions in Palestine. The British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES) presents its 2026 Annual Lecture with Rafeef Ziadah, co-hosted at SOAS by the Centre for Palestine Studies and the SOAS Middle East Institute, chaired by Dina Matar. It examines the political and economic projects being assembled around Palestine, including infrastructures of regional integration, energy, logistics, reconstruction and normalisation. Admission is free, but registration is required and seating is first come, first served.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/2026-brismes-annual-lecture-beyond-bearing-witness-palestine-50444/", "official_url": "https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/2026-brismes-annual-lecture-beyond-bearing-witness-palestine-knowledge-production-and", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e938b9debef8b95d6129d3c305ce4e2fbad2471ae52b2b6be8eef06b5002bc31-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Book launch: 'Decolonizing Afghanistan: Countering Imperial Knowledge and Power'", "start": "2026-11-10T17:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "SOAS University of London", "address": "", "price": "Free to attend, but registration is required", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/let-record-show-storytelling-genocide-and-palestinian-liberation", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/colonialism", "society/media"], "description": "A book launch for 'Decolonizing Afghanistan: Countering Imperial Knowledge and Power', hosted by the SOAS Middle East Institute and the SOAS South Asia Institute at SOAS University of London. The book, published by Duke University Press, is edited by Wazhmah Osman and Robert D. Crews and offers cross-disciplinary, ground-up perspectives on colonial projects in Afghanistan, focusing on the US intervention that began in 2001. Contributors Dawood Azami, Marya Hannun and Wazhmah Osman will discuss media narratives, information warfare and knowledge production, and how visual tropes and ideologies shape portrayals of Afghanistan. Attendance is free but registration is required, with seating allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/book-launch-decolonizing-afghanistan-countering-imperial-kno-43667/", "official_url": "https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/book-launch-decolonizing-afghanistan-countering-imperial-knowledge-and-power", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5a3032d06453f61472b5faf6331ace0c9f76c3a2e2be8952a7d176992e71c768-2000.webp"}, {"title": "The Threat of Capitalism Without Democracy, with Martin Wolf", "start": "2026-11-12T19:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-12T20:30:00Z", "place": "Conway Hall", "address": "Red Lion Square 25, WC1R 4RL London", "price": "Premium Seating £49.99, Standard £34.99, Concession £19.99 (each +£2 venue levy)", "price_from": "34.99", "price_to": "49.99", "tickets_url": "https://conwayhall.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/shows/1173677311", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/economics"], "description": "An in-person talk titled \"The Threat of Capitalism Without Democracy, with Martin Wolf\", part of the Intelligence Squared series at Conway Hall. Martin Wolf, the chief economics commentator at the Financial Times, marks the launch of an updated edition of his book The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism. He argues that democratic capitalism, the pairing of free markets and free elections, is under attack, citing Donald Trump's tariffs, Elon Musk's alignment with far right parties and the rise of extreme parties worldwide, and makes the case for why the combination of both democracy and capitalism is needed more than ever. The audience can ask questions in a live Q&A.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-threat-of-capitalism-without-democracy-with-martin-wolf-35425/", "official_url": "https://www.conwayhall.org.uk/whats-on/event/the-threat-of-capitalism-without-democracy-with-martin-wolf/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ed9f82dfdf88b3014c3d50be2174fc63d970a6c47988f1ed827d294a99e05d06-600.webp"}]}