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SCHNEWS DIRECT ACTION CONFERENCE AND PARTY THIS SATURDAY

SchNEWS | 13.10.2004 12:55 | European Social Forum | London

"HOW DIRECT ACTION CAN SAVE THE WORLD"
SCHNEWS TENTH BIRTHDAY CONFERENCE
SATURDAY 16TH OCTOBER 2004, 2PM – 7PM
CAMDEN CENTRE, EUSTON ROAD, LONDON (Kings Cross tube)
SPEAKERS ● DISCUSSION ● FILMS ● FOOD ● BAR ● ALL WELCOME ● FREE!


Direct action works. Active, popular opposition to oppressive rulers has been the motive force of change throughout history and it still is. If you think nicer politicians are gonna save the world and your job is to cheer them on – well, you’ll be a long time waiting for change.

SchNEWS, the weekly direct action newsletter, has been providing information for action to anti-capitalists since 1994. We’ve put this conference together as an opportunity to discuss, plot and organise resistance to the suicidal onward march of capitalism. From the occupation of Iraq to criminalising dissent, from the growth of sweatshop economies to creeping privatisation of basic services, capitalism is attacking more and more people. And more and more people are resisting.

This conference is a chance to hear about that resistance first hand and find out how you can get involved in it.

WORK
2pm Our lives, their profits – how we fight exploitation
* Anne Jones, mother of Simon Jones and campaigner for workplace safety
* Edgar Paez, international secretary of Columbian trade union SINALTRAINAL

WEATHER
3pm Climate change - capitalism's legacy to the world
* Rising Tide, grassroots network taking action on the root causes of climate change

WAR
4pm The warmongers and how to oppose them
* Mark Curtis, director of the World Development Movement and author of Web of Deceit
* Ewa Jasiewicz, human rights activist and journalist imprisoned by Israeli government
* Jo Wilding, activist, writer and witness to the seige of Falluja

WINNING
5-7pm How direct action can save the world
* SchNEWS
* A call for direct action against the G8 visit to Scotland in 2005
* Anne, Edgar, Mark, Ewa, Jo and everyone else!

BOOK LAUNCH
SchNEWS at Ten – our book looking back at ten years of anti-capitalist direct action from the inside – will be launched at this conference. You can get a copy for £8 on the day or £9.50 from SchNEWS, PO Box 2600, Brighton BN2 0EF.

THEN PARTY!
After the conference we’ll be celebrating ten years of party and protest with a BRILLIANT PARTY -featuring Freq Nasty, Top Cats, VJamm Allstars with Matt Black (Coldcut), Babyhead, Innerfield, Flannel, Groovy Movie Picture House, PirateTV, Schmovies and more - from 10pm to 6am at the Coronet, 28 New Kent Road (Elephant and Castle Tube). £8 in advance/ESF delegates, £10 on the door. This event helps keeps SchNEWS free.

SchNEWS
- e-mail: schnews@brighton.co.uk
- Homepage: http://wwwschnews.org.uk

Comments

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14.10.2004 16:46

So hang on a minute

what justifies ten quid on the door in a fairly corporate venue with shitty security? and 250 for a beer?

and a discount to esf delegates when no one i know in the anticapitalist movement is even thinking of going to the esf??

were doing the autonomous stuff or even nothing at all....

as for the world developement movement id be pretty skeptikal of their anticapitalist credentials?

i understand its not always possible to squat buildings (though the decision to rent was taken ages ago), but i mean spending several thousand pounds on renting commercial venues is not in the spirit of direct action is it

coming to an end??


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