'We Are An Image From The Future': speakers from Greece, Italy and Iceland @ Common Place, Leeds, 28 February 2009

from email, updated 24 February 2009:

An afternoon of talks, discussions and ideas, with speakers from Greece, Italy and Iceland.

Saturday 28 February 2009 @ The Common Place, Leeds

3.30pm - 7;00pm - followed by Greek food and a benefit gig

An uprising in Greece: An uncontrollable wave of refusal spreading from Italian schools and colleges - Widespread unrest threatening to topple the Icelandic government - Rioting in Latvia and Bulgaria...

How does all this relate to the current global crisis, and to rising debt and spiraling unemployment in the UK?

How is it connected to struggles here in Leeds against deportations, in defence of the social wage, against climate change?

And how does it fit into a wider resurgence of struggles for autonomy, such as action around the upcoming G20 summit and April Financial Fools Day?

FOLLOWED BY

7pm a Greek meal to raise money for Greek prisoners (£3-£5 suggested donation, including wine)

8pm Benefit gig featuring (£3/£4 entry):

A talk on the recent Greek uprising

Fieldhead
Ambient elctronica from Forest of Soundster

Gareth S. Brown
Oddball post-minimalist composition from one man false ensemble

7 Hertz
Chamber trio (violin, double bass, clarinet) playing music that is one part folk, one part improv, and one part miscellaneous.

www.thecommonplace.org.uk
23 Wharf Street
Leeds LS2 7EQ
0845 345 7334

www.wewontpayfortheircrisis.org.uk

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