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1990 - 1999

 
Levellers Day 1999
Democratic Rights at home
and abroad.

 

Chair:
Brian Hodgson

Speakers:
Tony Benn MP,
Eithne McNulty - (Northern Ireland Women's Coalition)
and
Michael Mansfield QC.

Afternoon music from
Rev Hammer and Velvet Fist.

 

 
Levellers Day 1998
The Future of Work
(Is the World Working?
Who is the World Working For?)

 

Chair:
David Ransom - Editor, New Internationalist Magazine.

Speakers:
Frieder Otto Wolf - Green MEP, Germany
Grace Scrimgeour (Oxford Claimants Union),
Stephen Marks (Executive Director, Alter-Europe).

Afternoon:
Velvet Fist (Women's a cappella voices)

 

 
Levellers Day 1997
Towards A Just Society.
 

Chair:
Janet Bloomfield (former Chair CND).

Speakers:
Tony Benn MP,
Caroline Lucas (Green Party County Councillor),
Fran Bennett (Writer on Social Policy & Poverty).

Afternoon:
Roy Bailey (Political song and comment).

 

 
Levellers Day 1996
Is Democracy Compatible with Market Forces?
 

Chair:
Bill Heine (Radio Oxford).

Speakers:
Tariq Ali (Writer and International Political Campaigner),
George Monbiot (Journalist and Environmental Activist),
Helen Morgan (Newbury Bypass Protester).

Music from

Henry Marten's Ghost (Celtic rock band)
and

Robb Johnson (Political comment in song).

 

 
Levellers Day 1995
Civil Liberties - The Criminal Justice Act
and The Decline of Democracy.

 

Chair:

Cllr. Rhonda Riachi.

Speakers:

Mark Chadwick (Singer from The Levellers),
Ken Coates MEP
Andrew Puddephat (Liberty),
Tony Billinghurst (Woodcraft Folk)

Woodcraft Folk 70th Anniversary Celebration

Children's Rights Festival
at the Recreation Ground, Burford.

Entertainment
Leon Rosselson
and Ian Savile (Music, Song and Magic)

 

 
Levellers Day 1994
The Welfare State Under Threat.

Chair:
Sarah Grylls (WEA District Secretary).

Speakers:

Tony Benn MP
Jack Jones (National Pensioners Convention)
and
Lord Soper

Afternoon:
Children's Activity Workshops,
The Brock Band
The Clarion Choir.

 

 
Levellers Day 1993
The Levellers and Ireland
(Past and Present Problems).

Chair:

Peter Hain MP.

Speakers:
Dr.Mary Cullen (Historian, Kildare, Eire)
Bob Purdie (Ruskin College, Oxford)
Damian Gorman (Irish Poet).

Afternoon:
Pauline Bradley (Songs with Guitar).

 

 
Levellers Day 1992
Europe and the Social Charter.

Chair:

Nuala Young.

Speakers:
Bill Morris (T&G),
Tony Banks MP
Cilla Elsworthy

Afternoon:

Roger Woddis (Poet)

and for the first time since 1976, the singer,

Roy Bailey.

 

 
Levellers Day 1991
For a New Parliament
by the Agreement of the People.


Chair:

Cllr. John Tanner.

Speakers:
Bruce Kent
Tony Benn MP
Andrew Smith MP
Mike Woodin
Stephen Yeo
and
John Plaskitt

Afternoon performances by
Peggy Seeger
Irene Scott
Nick Gill

and Roger Woddis.

 

 

 
The World Turned Upside Down.

 

Chair:
Liz Kearney (Oxfordshire Council for Voluntary Service).

Speakers:

Ann Clwydd MP,
Betty Heathfield (Leader of Miners' Wives),
Ken Livingstone MP
and
Linden West (WEA District Secretary).