This Saturday Night 24 Sep 2011 at the Land & Freedom Camp
Just north of Holy Trinity Church, Clapham Common Northside, London SW4 0QZ
A Rare Opportunity to share viewing and discussion of the biopic of the
Great English Revolutionary Pamphleteer and Digger
Gerrard Winstanley
Join us under the spreading London planetrees, and enjoy reclaiming our C17 radical history, the better to empower ourselves for ensuring C21 continues to be a century of radical history in the making.
Culture with Real Content onna Saturday Night
If you’re raised in Britain, it’s more likely than not that you have heard of the English Civil War, fought between King Charles I and Oliver Cromwell*. But since Cromwell’s money-grubbing class won, and stamped its skewed perspective on our history, it’s much less likely that you’re aware of the English Revolution, and our home-grown revolutionaries known as Levellers, Ranters, and Diggers – who are actually way more important and tremendously more inspiring than the entire officer class of Cromwell’s New Model Army and the nouveau riche money men paymasters to whom they owed their allegiance. The film Winstanley (1976) aims to redress the historical disservice done to the Diggers, their commune on St George’s Hill, Weybridge in Surrey, and their leading pamphleteer Gerrard Winstanley – and it may inspire YOU to join in the C21 revolutionary struggles of our generation, to help complete the farsighted political programme envisioned by Winstanley and the Diggers, begun in 1649 and yet to be completed.
• 18:55 Sunset
• 19:45-20:00 – “Gerrard Who, Now?” (an introduction)
• 20:00-21:32 – ‘Winstanley’, the film showing
• 21:32-21:45 – Refreshment / Comfort Break
• 21:45-22:30+ – Winstanley open forum: discussion, readings, inspiration
• 22:30-23:18 – Optional: ‘It Happened Here Again’, the Making of… documentary
We’d planned to show Winstanley last Sunday, but evil Cromwellian gremlins thwarted our desires, and instead we chose to watch The Battle of Algiers (1966), as covered at Indymedia London:
• Cinema Democratica @ Land & Freedom Camp, Sun 18 Sep 2011
» pix-&-vid-led report – Indymedia London | Articles | Show | Cinema Democratica @ Land & Freedom Camp
» video, 1:11 – Cinema Democratica: ‘The Battle of Algiers’ Screening at Land & Freedom Camp – YouTube
So come along on Saturday evening, under the spreading London planetrees, and enjoy reclaiming our C17 radical history, the better to empower ourselves for ensuring C21 continues to be a century of radical history in the making.
Up the Revolution,
Peace & Love,
Tim Dalinian Jones
LOCATION
Land & Freedom Camp
Just north of Holy Trinity Church, Clapham Common Northside, London SW4 0QZ
• Location & Public Transport Map
» custom Google Map – Land & Freedom Camp – Google Maps
The Land & Freedom Camp continues to at least Sun 25 Sep and is posting activities and events on its website:
» Website – landandfreedom | This Earth divided we will make whole so that it can be a common treasury for all
» Phone contact – 07 963 475 195 for any questions
» Facebook event webpage – Log In | Facebook
» Follow L&FC on Twitter – @freetheland
» Email – landandfreedomcamp[at]aktivix[dot]org
Public Transport
• Tube: Clapham Common, Northern Line
• Buses: Clapham Common (Bus Stop D)
• Bus Routes: 50 | 88 | 155 | N155
• Buses: Clapham Common Old Town (Bus Stop T)
• Bus Routes: 88 | 322 | 417
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