Tent city university at the Occupy LSX protest is the most amazingly progressive force for education in Modern Britain – The agenda for tomorrow is like a living, breathing Sociology/ Politics A2 level class…. but probably with a bit more life in it….
As it says on the web site –
This is a space to learn, share knowledge and develop skills through a wide series of workshops, lectures, debates, films, games, praxis and action. As formal education becomes more and more commodified and inaccessible, here we have an opportunity to explore alternatives. Because between us we have all the resources we need.
Anyone can teach, everyone can learn – and the two go hand in hand. Feel free to propose sessions, listen to new ideas and share with others what you know or want to know.
All events are free, open to everyone, and take place in the ‘University Tent’, (next to the ‘Info Tent’), at the OccupyLSX camp, outside St. Paul’s Cathedral, the library next door or in the ‘Uni Yurt’ at Occupy Londons second site at Finsbury Square.
Just look at the list of events for Friday (tomorrow)
11.00 – poverty in the uk and the debts of the poor – Rev. Paul Licolson –
12.00 Why Anti-Capitalism? Speakers include Selma James, Global Women’s Strike, author of Marx and Feminism and Sex, Race and Class; Sam Weinstein, Assistant to the National President, Utility Workers Union of America, Payday Men’s Network.
14.00 Morality and Finance: A response to the St Paul’s Institute Report – A Panel discusion in response to the recent release of the report by the St Paul’s Institute indicating city professionals feel their wages are out of proportion with those in other employment. Speakers will include James Meadway senior economist at the New Economics Foundation, Richard Murphy, Director of Tax Research LLP and The Tax Gap Limited, one of the report’s author’s Bishop Peter Selby, the retired Bishop of Worcester, as well a members from our own working groups dedicated to exploring matters of economics.
15.00 ‘Offshore finance: a realm beyond the imagination’ – Liam Connell
16.00 – Judith Orr speaking on “Women, work and walk-outs: fighting for liberation today” – looking at the effect of the global crisis, cuts and austerity on women and what can be done to fight these, drawing in part from past womens struggles but looking in the context of today. Judith has written on these matters and also spent time in Tahrir Square during the revolution in Egypt
