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SATURDAY 16th OCTOBER
@ Camden Centre
Judd Street
Kings Cross
London WC1
Saturday will include the 10th anniversary celebration of the respected alternative media project www.SchNEWS.org.uk with a full afternoon conference. Schnews was borne out of the movement against the infamous UK Criminal Justice Act of 1994, an act that sought to criminalise everyone from travellers to free partygoers to those doing direct action. Schnews has since become an internationally respected newsletter of the anti-capitalist movement providing information for action to activists across the world. On the web or in print, it's free, written entirely by volunteers, and is funded by donation. Later that evening they kick off their birthday fundraiser party in a venue south of the river.
PROGRAMME:
0900 - 1000 Indymedia / Alt Media Roundtable Discussion and Breakfast
1000 - 1200 Community and Alternative Media
Debate, strategy, organising and exchange around creating media alternatives in Europe and at different levels.
1200 - 1300 WSF and ESF Communication Priorities, Methadologies and Strategies
Social Forums use of commuication technologies and the relationship to wider movements around Communications Rights
1400 - 1900 "How Direct Action Can Save the World": Schnews 10th Birthday Conference
Organised by
http://www.schnews.org.uk - the weekly direct action newsletter
Direct action works. Active, popular opposition to oppressive rulers has been the force of change throughout history. This conference provides an opportunity to hear about resistance first hand, find out how you can get involved, to discuss, plot, and organise serious resistance to the suicidal onward march of capitalism.
1400 - 1500 WORK: 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
1500 - 1600 WEATHER: Climate change - capitalism's legacy to the world.
Speakers from Climate Change campaigns
1600 - 1700 WAR: 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
1700 - 1900 WINNING: How direct action can save the world.
Speaker on opposing the G8 visit to Scotland in 2005;
SchNEWS?; Anne, Edgar, Mark, Ewa, Jo and everyone else!
WORKSHOPS AT:
The Bartlett School
Wates House
22 Gordon Street
London
WC1
(ten minutes walk from camden centre - rooms capacity 40-50 people)
1030 - 1200 Indymedia Women Workshop (Room 129)
Women only workshop. A space for discussion and collaboration for women activists working on Indymedia.
1200 - 1400 Resisting the Clash (Room 129)
Actions against false 'cultural' divisions, proposed by grassroots speakers from Palestine, Iraq, Lebanon, Israel
1400 - 1600 Community Media Strategy Workshop (Room 101)
Building on the previous two days of communications rights discussion to develop common strategies.
1400 - 1600 Activist Research and Copy-left (Room 129)
Examining the potential of research, from and for, social movements. Open research for free use.
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