Love Lane Lives - Film and discussion Thu 22/05/08
leo | 14.05.2008 21:39 | Workers' Movements | Liverpool
A film about Liverpool's transatlantic slave and sugar trade. How Henry Tate became Britain's Rockefeller of the white gold. Rise and fall of the sugar industry and the response of the working class.
Thursday the 22nd May, 7.30 p.m.
Next to Nowhere, Liverpool Social Centre, 96 Bold Street, Liverpool
Thursday the 22nd May, 7.30 p.m.
Next to Nowhere, Liverpool Social Centre, 96 Bold Street, Liverpool
Love Lane Lives: The Boys and Girls from the Whitestuff
Film screening and discussion with the authors Leon Seth and Ron Noon
The film traces how Liverpool experienced transatlantic take off with sugar and slaves. It explores how Henry Tate became Britain's Rockefeller not with oil but white gold. It shows how after the devastation of the Vauxhall community, the phoenix eventually rose from the ashes in the guise of the Eldonian Housing Cooperative, an model of community-led urban regeneration.
Historian Ron Noon: "This project has lots of historical curiosity value but it has wider ramifications for ongoing debates on the politics of food and globalization. It's also a vital record of the people who struggled against a major multinational to protect not just their own livelihoods but a whole community."
Thursday the 22nd May, 7.30 p.m.
Next to Nowhere, Liverpool Social Centre, 96 Bold Street, Liverpool
(the basement beneath the News from Nowhere bookshop)
Film screening and discussion with the authors Leon Seth and Ron Noon
The film traces how Liverpool experienced transatlantic take off with sugar and slaves. It explores how Henry Tate became Britain's Rockefeller not with oil but white gold. It shows how after the devastation of the Vauxhall community, the phoenix eventually rose from the ashes in the guise of the Eldonian Housing Cooperative, an model of community-led urban regeneration.
Historian Ron Noon: "This project has lots of historical curiosity value but it has wider ramifications for ongoing debates on the politics of food and globalization. It's also a vital record of the people who struggled against a major multinational to protect not just their own livelihoods but a whole community."
Thursday the 22nd May, 7.30 p.m.
Next to Nowhere, Liverpool Social Centre, 96 Bold Street, Liverpool
(the basement beneath the News from Nowhere bookshop)
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