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This Saturday 18th: Stand Up for Your Rights festival

A World 2 Win | 15.10.2008 19:37 | Education | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements

Stand Up for Your Rights Festival - Saturday October 18th, 2.00-8.30pm, with guest speakers and panelists includuing Paul Feldman (author of Unmasking the State), John McDonnell MP, Rahila Gupta (Southall Black Sisters), Kevin Smith (Carbon Trade Watch), Global Women's Strike, The Gypsy Council, Coalition for Independent Action, & John Stewart (HACAN-Clearskies). Also, new plays about the Levellers and the Chartists - 'The Putney Principles' and 'Unfinished Business', plus live music. Organised by 'A World to Win'
Venue: Waterloo Action Centre, 14 Baylis Road, London SE1 7AA
Public Transport: Waterloo tube station, Buses: 1, 59, 68, 168, 171, 172, 176, 188

Don't pay for the bankers' crisis...Stand Up for Your Rights festival

With John McDonnell MP, Paul Feldman (author of Unmasking the State, a rough guide to real democracy), human rights lawyer/activist Bill Bowring, Rahila Gupta (Southall Black Sisters), Kevin Smith (Carbon Trade Watch), Global Women's Strike, The Gypsy Council, Coalition for Independent Action, and John Stewart (HACAN-Clearskies). The Putney Principles and Unfinished Business - New plays about the Levellers and the Chartists. Performance by NOMADS art group. Live music with Peyoti for President, Corneilius & David Goo.

Questions and Answers on the Credit Crunch

Timeline exhibition & film. Organised by A World to Win. More info/registration at:  http://www.aworldtowin.net/about/standup.html

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A World to Win

www.aworldtowin.net

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Programme:


Stand Up for Your Rights festival


1.30: Doors open for registration

2.00: Introduction by Corinna Lotz, secretary A World to Win

2.15: Listen and debate: Bill Bowring (human rights lawyer & activist), Global Womens' Strike, John McDonnell MP (chair Labour Representation Committee), Grattan Puxon (Gypsy Council) and Paul Feldman (author, Unmasking the State),

3.45: Refreshment break

4.15: Play - The Putney Principles. The Levellers of 1647 demand equal
political rights

4.45: Kevin Smith (Carbon Trade Watch), John Stewart (HACAN-Clear Skies),
National Coalition for Independent Action Rahila Gupta (Southall Black Sisters), Ted Knight (former surcharged leader, Lambeth Council).

5.45-7.15: Music by Peyoti for President, David Goo, Corneilius & Giuseppe Nieddu and the Talking Trees

NOMADS installation and performance of The Preston Riots

Refreshments - Bar

Film and timeline exhibition showing the Struggle for Rights over the last 200 years

7.15: Play - Unfinished Business. The Chartist movement of the 19th century

7.45-8.15: The Crash of 2008 - A Way Forward. Presentation by Gerry Gold, author A House of Cards - from fantasy finance to global crash + questions

8.30: Close

A World 2 Win
- Homepage: http://www.aworldtowin.net

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