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LEVELLERS'
DAY 2009
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10.30am
to 6pm. Saturday 16th May 2009. Burford, Oxfordshire.
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THE
ENERGY POVERTY CRISIS:
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What's
the solution and can we afford to ignore it?
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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 |
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| DR.
ANTHONY WEBSTER |
| Department
of Theory & Modelling |
| UKAEA/Euratom
Fusion Association, Culham Science Centre |
| http://www.fusion.org.uk/ |
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| 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 |
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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 |
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| LEATHERAT |
| www.leatherat.com |
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| 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
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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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| 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
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We
are extremely grateful to the following for
their support:
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Unite
the Union GPMS
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RUSKIN
COLLEGE OXFORD.
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THE
T & G 5/625 BRANCH, BMW OXFORD.
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