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Subject: How to be an Obstacle?
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 15:20:46 -0000
November 10th/11th
10am to 5pm
How to be an Obstacle? =A39/=A38/=A37 individual days; =
=A313/=A312/=A311 whole weekend
Direct action, street politics and antiglobalisation
A major weekend conference exploring the limits and opportunities =
offered by
direct action. While ballot box politics is reported to be in decline,
=
at
least in the West, the politics of popular protest is taking off: from
colourful spectacles to direct, and sometimes violent, confrontation =
with a
variety of political targets. =20
The conference will focus on new social movements (including the
antiglobalisation movement), actions on the internet, and individual
actions, as well as looking at the ambivalent response of the =
traditional
'left' to these emerging forms of political activity. We will also be
asking whether there are acceptable and unacceptable expressions of =
direct
action and what might be the future of the movement in the light of the
events of September 11th. Running alongside the conference there will =
be
film screenings, a workshop, and an exhibition of photographs.=20
Speakers will include Antonio Negri (specially commissioned video), =
Ricardo
Dominguez, from the Electronic Disturbance Theatre; George McKay, =
author of
DIY Culture; Bruce Kent, former vice-president of CND; Paul O'Connor,
founder of Undercurrents; Hilary Wainwright, editor of Red Pepper; Stan
Vincent; Head of Actions, Greenpeace; Sam Wild, Indymedia; John Jordan,
artist and antiglobalisation activist; and Gibby Zobel, founder of =
Schnews
and news editor, The Big Issue.
tickets and information: 0207 930 3647
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