NATIONAL OCCUPY CONFERENCE
Sat 21-Sun 22 Jan 2012
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Digg- Arrival, introductions and live music.
- 11am-12 Talk:Chaos Theory
- 12-1pm Talk: Co-operatives and mutuals (2012 is the UN Year of the Co-op)
- 1pm RALLY OF THE 99% outside Sheffield Town Hall, to raise awareness of the issue of disadvantaged and marginalised people and communities
- Speakers including:- Tom Redfean (Occupy Sheffield)
- Colin Hampton (Unemployed Workers Union, Chesterfield)
- Dawn Hunt (on behalf of people with additional needs)
- Alan Thorpe (entrepreneur with a visual impairment)
- Jillian Creasy (Green party) speaking up for Surestart
- Julia O'Dwyer on the threat of extradition to the USA faced by her son
- Barry Biddulph (trade unionist)
- Maxine Bowler (Sheffield Anti-Cuts Alliance)
- Alistair Tice (Socialist Party)
- Richard Brown will chair and introduce speakers.
- 2pm-3pm Kindness is Catching - tea and cakes event at Church Street
- 3pm-4pm Talk: Alan Easter of Positive Money, on the current banking system
- 4pm-5pm Talk: Richard Murphy on UK Tax
- 5pm-6pm Talk: Richard White on Economic Geography
- 6pm-7pm Talk: Equality
- Evening Benefit Gig: Roy Bailey
- Events focussing on national and international agendas for Occupy.
- 7pm. The Invisible Circus and Friends. Performers from Bristol, London and Sheffield come together to present a Circus Theatre extravaganza in support of the National Occupy Conference at the Citadel of Hope. Admission free or by donation
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