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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.

2pm 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

3pm WEATHER Climate change - capitalism's legacy to the world

Rising Tide, grassroots network taking action on the root causes of climate change

4pm WAR The warmongers and how to oppose them

*this meeting is chaired by none other than yours truly*

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

5-7pm WINNING How direct action can save the world

Schnews,
Speaker on opposing the G8 visit to Scotland in 2005
Anne, Edgar, Mark, Ewa, Jo and everyone else!

This event receives no financial support from the government of London. As if.