Celebrating the 365th year anniversary of the original Putney Debates, Occupy London is holding a series of events inspired by the Levellers’ and Diggers’ demands for social justice, civil rights and equal access to the land.
The programme of events is scheduled between 27 October and 11 November 2012, and the venue for some events will be St. Mary’s Church in Putney where the Debates started on 28 October 1647.
Contributors include Richard Wilkinson (The Spirit Level), Natalie Bennett (new Leader of the Green Party), Michael Mansfield QC, George Monbiot, Polly Higgins, Jeremy Leggett, John McDonnell MP, Halina Ward, Professor Conor Gearty, Annette Zera, Joseph Choonara, Hilary Koob-Sassen, and many other writers, theorists, artists, and activists.
Throughout the New Putney Debates there will be an emphasis on public participation, in the spirit of 1647, when it was said that England was “A Nation of Prophets”.*
To find out more about the Putney Debates listen to this excellent radio programme.
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*The World Turned Upside Down. Christopher Hill 1991
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A real turn up for the books! All participants in this debate should see if they can get access to Christopher Hill’s ‘Puritanism and Revolution’ (republished by Penguin 1984) for probably the best historical examination of the background of the original Debates, and in order to make a proper comparison with what is happening in out own era!
A very sensible suggestion.
Is it necessary to book, or are they just turn-up events?
No booking necessary apart from the from the event on Monday 29 October 6 p.m. Socially useful banking? Please register to attend in the link in the programme.
You can also reserve a place on the Occupy Law event on 3 November by sending an email to occupylawuk@gmail.com
Hi, I’ve just reactivated a dormant blog in an endeavour to make a personal response to the New Putney Debates. You can find it here:
http://merlinhedd.wordpress.com/2012/11/12/voices-of-albion-revisited-the-vision-of-wally-hope/
How do I find which events and where and what time? (Bit of a techno idiot and I dont tweet or Facebook)
have a look here http://thenewputneydebates.wordpress.com/programme/
Hi Henry – if you want to come to the law event on Saturday 3rd November it will be helpful if you can confirm by email: occupylawuk@gmail.com
Thanks
Melanie
Great initiative. The Diggers and Levellers inherited a long tradition of dissent that went back deep into the middle ages and intensified almost a hundred years before 1649 when some of the first really anti capitalist and anti money lending tracts and poems were written.
Hi, I’ve just reactivated a dormant blog in an endeavour to make a personal response to the New Putney Debates. You can find it here:
http://merlinhedd.wordpress.com/2012/11/12/voices-of-albion-revisited-the-vision-of-wally-hope/
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