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FRIDAY 15th OCTOBER:

@ Camden Centre
Judd Street
Kings Cross
London WC1

Friday explores the emergence of the resistance to technologies of control, looking at tactics, tools and techniques, focusing on Infowar and Signal Jamming, Electronic Commons, IP and Bio Piracy, Biometric ID Cards, Gender and Technology, and Tactical and Alternative Media.

Friday night will see an evening of entertainment with comedy, music, films and a special set of presentations and performance from migrant networks, sans papiers, and people from the global south.

9.00 - 12.00 From Genoa to Guantanamo
Confronting and discussing human rights abuses across the world, from Genoa through to Guantanamo. Including: Garethe Peirce, Camp X-ray Detainee Lawyer; Heidi Giuliani, Mother of Carlo Giuliani; Massimo Pastore, Genoa Legal Forum Lawyer; Rachel Shabi, Journalist; Gwyn Rodgers, Chair; with more to be confirmed.

12 - 1.00 FILM Weapons of Mass Deception : Danny Schecter's New Film
Documentary revealing the collusion between the military and the medias "coverage" of the Iraq war.

1.00 - 2.30 Inforwar: Media Deception & Disinformation Vs. Dissent & Direct Democracy
The corporate media, propaganda and how grassroots action can interpret the truth beyond the lie. Speakers from: Indymedia uk and Ireland, Venezuela Solidarity Campaign, Quebec media activists and others.

2.30 - 4.00 Resisting the Security State and Technologies of Control
Campaigns of resistance against the erosion of identity, public space and freedom of movement and protest. Speakers from: No2ID, Privacy International, Defy ID and others.

4.00 - 4.30 FILM BREAK (film tbc)

4.30 - 5.30 Intellectual Property and Electronic Commons
Opposing corporatisation and ownership, and exploring the alternative strategies for managing our knowledge. Speakers from: AMARC, Genewatch, UK Food Group and others.

5.30 - 6.30 The Media Circus - Networking Resistance
How Indymedia and other activists are reclaiming the commons and building networks of resistance.

6.30 - 7.30 FILM: XXI CENTURY: PART 3 of 7 "...and nothing but the truth"
How the mainstream media sold their souls and worked as the propaganda machine of the iraq war. Interveiws with: Noam Chomsky, Gore Vidal, Howard Zinn, Greg Palast, Amy Goodman and many others.
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7.30 - 8.00 Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination
Reports and video highlights from theatrical interventions on the streets so far.

8.00 - 9.00 Comedy from Mark Thomas tbc

9.00 - 12.00 No Vox: The Evening of "Have Nots"
Film, music, bands and presentations of the struggles of the 'Have Nots' in the ESF / WSF processes. Speakers and short films from: Untouchable Dalits (India), MNLM Brazil, Unemployed movements, Homeless groups, Intergalactic network, and Sans Papiers.

WORKSHOPS AT:

The Bartlett School
Wates House
22 Gordon Street
London WC1

(ten minutes walk from camden centre - rooms capacity 40-50 people)

1300 - 1700 CRIS / GGP Workshop: Networking Communication Rights in the EU (Room 433)

1700 - 1900 Thistuesday.org: Migration, Labor, and Transnational Organising (Room 433)
Developing Thistuesday.org - a transnational website platform tracking the struggles of migrant workers.
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