[Anarchafeminists] Meeting: Celebrating the 200th Anniversary of the Luddite Uprisings: Technology Politics Then and Now

[nickdrake]

 now with a speaker from the CWU on how new technology is replacing 
 workers!

 helen



 Celebrating the 200th Anniversary of the Luddite Uprisings: 
 Technology Politics Then
 and Now


 Date: Wednesday June 8th, 7pm

 Venue: Feminist Library meeting room, 5a Westminster Bridge Road, 
 London SE1 7XW,
 Nearest tube Lambeth North,

 http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=154817494584557

 Organised by: Luddites200 Organising Forum luddites200 at yahoo.co.uk
 www.luddites200.org.uk

 No admission charge, donations welcome.  Please contact organisers 
 about disabled
 access.

 In 1811-12 artisan cloth workers in the Midlands and North of England 
 rose up
 against factory owners who were imposing new machines and putting 
 them out of work.
 Since the 1950s the Luddites have been painted as fools opposed to 
 all technology
 and progress, but in fact the Luddites were very selective in their 
 attacks,
 breaking only machines they thought were 'hurtful to Commonality'.

 What can the Luddites teach us about the ongoing use of technology to 
 replace
 workers' jobs, as well as issues like GM food, nuclear power, 
 reproductive
 technology and surveillance?  Can we escape the myth that technology 
 always brings
 progress?  On the anniversary of the first action against a GM crop 
 site in Britain,
 come and discuss the issues with speakers from the Luddites200 
 Organising Forum,
 Stop GM, a trade union activist, and the Stop Nuclear Network.

 PLUS! Luddite entertainment and CAKE