Line-up revealed: LC at Compass conference
7:22 pm - June 22nd 2011
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Liberal Conspiracy is proud to announce an excellent line-up for our event at the annual Compass conference this weekend.
The one-day conference will feature nearly a 100 speakers and over 40 sessions covering a wide range of topics.
Details on the LC session:
From Discussion to Strategy: which debates does the Left need to win over the next 5 years?
11:15am / Room 541 (fifth floor)
I decided to focus on related topics (activism / environmentalism and development economics), while leaving other groups to focus on their area of expertise.
These speakers aren’t going to bore you with long talks. They will focus on how activists could take campaigning forward; what the strategy could be; how other activists have mobilised hundreds of people and achieved victories.
Speakers
ANNA ROSE is co-founder and Chair of the Australian Youth Climate Coalition (AYCC). She previously worked with the National Union of Students (in Australia) across 37 Universities to win clean energy victories. As she saw campus after campus reduce energy and enact ambitious climate change policies.
She co-authored the book ‘Future by Us’, is a former editor of Australia’s largest student paper and is a Fellow of the International Youth Foundation. She was named one of Sydney’s 100 Most Influential People by the Sydney Morning Herald and is currently traveling in the United States, UK and China on a Churchill Fellowship researching innovative climate change policies, social movements and progressive movement infrastructure.
JOHN CHRISTENSEN is a development economist and former economic adviser to the UK and Jersey governments. John has researched tax havens and tax policy for many years. He was a collaborator on the highly acclaimed book by Nick Shaxson – Treasure Islands.
John has also played a leading role in campaigning for tighter regulation and control of tax havens and offshore finance centres. He is a fellow of the RSA and is based at the New Economics Foundation, London.
JOSS GARMAN joined the environmental movement at 14. He has since been arrested over 20 times and was a founder member of the group Plane Stupid.
He is now a campaigner for Greenpeace UK and described as one of the “50 people who could save the planet” by The Guardian and as a “champion of the green movement” by The Sunday Times. In August 2007 ahead of the Camp for Climate Action, he was named in a High Court injunction by airport operator BAA in a bid to prevent environmental protests at Heathrow.
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There are many other sessions being held by other organisations that will cover a range of other topics.
These include sessions by: Action Aid, Centre for Responsible Credit, Child Poverty Action Group; Compass Youth, CORE, The Co0perative Party, 38 Degrees, The Electoral Reform Society, The Equality Trust, The Fabian Society, Friends of the Earth, The Green Party, Greenpeace, Human City Institute Index on Censorship, Jubilee Debt Campaign, LabourList, Left Foot Forward, Liberal Conspiracy, New Political Economy Network, nef, NUT, NUS, One Society, Oxfam, Philosophy Football, Progress, Red Pepper, RSA, Searchlight, Shelter, Robin Hood Tax Campaign, Social Liberal Forum, Socialist Health Association, Soundings, UK Feminista, UK Uncut; Unlock Democracy, War On Want, World Development Movement
We hope you’ll join us this Saturday.
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Sunny Hundal is editor of LC. Also: on Twitter, at Pickled Politics and Guardian CIF.
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Reader comments
Are you sure this is safe? Are you making any contingency plans for the resultant intellectual vacuum this would create?
“and is based at the New Economics Foundation, London.”
Ah, that does explain a lot.
Oh look, “libertarians” who spend whole day trolling left-wing blogs make snarky comments again.
The above says more about you than the panel.
I spent the day helping a friend get his business started and then I went for a nice lunch with the family in the local greasy spoon cafe.
Occasionally, I like to pop my head around the door to see what the nutters are up to and here they are organising a little party.
Well, at least we can organise something. You guys organised a party and elected Chris Mounsey as the founding leader! So who’s laughing now?
It’s your ability to organise into self affirming mobs that concerns me.
Grouping libertarians is like herding cats – far too inclined to think for themselves.
I look forward to hearing how you had your ideas challenged at Compass.
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Joel Pearce
@regant1 Here's the details of the LibCon event on saturday http://t.co/210KBbc #goodsociety
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Liberal Conspiracy
Don't forget there is an awesome Libcon session at the Compass conference tomorrow! Details here: http://bit.ly/jWykWD
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