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LEVELLERS' DAY 2009

10.30am to 6pm. Saturday 16th May 2009. Burford, Oxfordshire.

THE ENERGY POVERTY CRISIS:

What's the solution and can we afford to ignore it?

 
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The 35th annual Levellers' Day with speeches, debate, stalls, entertainment, procession through Burford, the ceremony in the churchyard music and more.

Tickets £12/£8 concessions (all day), £7.50/£5 concessions (after 1pm)

Day ticket (full price): http://www.wegottickets.com/event/47682

Day ticket (concessions): http://www.wegottickets.com/event/47683

Afternoon ticket (full price): http://www.wegottickets.com/event/47684

Afternoon ticket (concessions): http://www.wegottickets.com/event/47685

Under 14s FREE.

Download the 2009 programme here.

Download a poster here.

 
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Hear and question the following speakers
DR. BRENDA BOARDMAN
Environmental Change Institute
Oxford University Centre for the Environment
http://www.eci.ox.ac.uk/people/boardmanbrenda.php
 
DR. ANTHONY WEBSTER
Department of Theory & Modelling
UKAEA/Euratom Fusion Association, Culham Science Centre
http://www.fusion.org.uk/
 
and
 
JOHN MALONE
Development Director
Energy4All
www.energy4all.co.uk
 
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Chaired by
DENIS GREGORY
International Labour and Trade Union Studies, Ruskin College, Oxford
www.ruskin.ac.uk
 
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Leading the churchyard ceremony
PROFESSOR CHRIS ROWLAND
Queen's College, Oxford.
http://resources.theology.ox.ac.uk/staff.phtml?lecturer_code=Crowland
 
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In the afternoon
TONY BENN and ROY BAILEY present
THE WRITING ON THE WALL
an anthology of dissent in words and music from the fourteenth to the
twenty-first century
 
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followed by entertainment from
TRACEY CURTIS
www.traceycurtis.com
 
LEATHERAT
www.leatherat.com
 
and
 
VALE ISLANDERS
dancers and musicians who perform English country dances of the ordinary people of the seventeenth century in period costume, will appear in venues throughout Burford during the afternoon.
http://www.vale-islanders.org.uk/
 
 
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ABOUT THE LEVELLERS & LEVELLERS' DAY

On 17 May 1649, three soldiers were executed on Oliver Cromwell’s orders in Burford churchyard, Oxfordshire. They belonged to a movement popularly known as the Levellers, with beliefs in civil rights and religious tolerance.

During the Civil War, the Levellers fought on Parliament’s side, they had at first seen Cromwell as a liberator, but now saw him as a dictator. They were prepared to fight against him for their ideals and he was determined to crush them. Over 300 of them were captured by Cromwell’s troops and locked up in Burford church. Three were led out into the churchyard to be shot as ringleaders.

In 1975, members of the WEA Oxford Industrial Branch went to Burford to reclaim a piece of history that seemed to be missing from the school books. They held a meeting in remembrance of the Leveller soldiers. The following year, Tony Benn came and read in the church and in each succeeding year, people have come to Burford on the Saturday nearest to 17 May, debated, held a procession, listened to music and remembered the Levellers and the importance of holding on to ideals of justice and democracy.

 
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Archives
 

Visit our online Levellers' Day archive featuring photos from Levellers' Day over the past 33 years.

 
 
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Documents
Levellers' Day 2008 programme (pdf)
 
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LEVELLERS' DAY is a non-profit making event and is
organised by the Levellers’ Day Committee,
affiliated to the WEA (Workers’ Education
Association)
reg. charity no. 1112775
 
 
We are extremely grateful to the following for their support:
 
Unite the Union GPMS
 
RUSKIN COLLEGE OXFORD.
 
THE T & G 5/625 BRANCH, BMW OXFORD.