Progressive Students

Progressive Students Conference 2011
Saturday 22nd October 10am–6pm
University of London Union,
Malet Street, Central London

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Register in advance: email info@progressivestudents.co.uk with your name and
university/college to guarantee your place. Registration costs £4.

Speakers include:
Jeremy Corbyn MPJody McIntyre, Equality Movement • Josie Long, Comedian • Owen Jones, author of best-selling book Chavs: The Demonisation of the Working ClassJon Trickett MPVicki Baars, NUS LGBT Officer • Ash Haynes, Young Greens co-chair • Sabby Dhalu, One Society Many Cultures • Seanna Walsh, former political prisoner during 1981 Irish Hunger Strike and close friend of Bobby Sands • Cat Smith, Next Generation Labour • Tony Kearns, Communication Workers’ Union • Deborah Maccoby, Jews for Justice for Palestinians • Sarah Colborne, Palestine Solidarity Campaign • Kate Hudson, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament • Estelle Hart, NUS Women’s Officer • Kanja Sesay, NUS Black Students’ Officer • Rupy Kaur, NUS Disabled Students’ Officer • Lindsey German, Stop the War Coalition • Aaron Kiely, NUS NEC and Student Broad Left Co-convenor • Sean Rillo Raczka, Vice President ULU • Kofi Klu, PANAFRIINDABA • Adam Ramsay, People and Planet • Dannie Grufferty, NUS Vice President Society & Citizenship • Francisco Dominguez,
Venezuela Solidarity Campaign • Mick Burke, Socialist Economic Bulletin

Themes include:
Resist the cuts: alternatives to austerity! • Turning back the racist tide: opposing Islamophobia and the fascist BNP and EDL • Taking on the Tory bigotry: advancing women, disability, Black and LGBT rights • Peace not war: Cancel Trident, stop the wars and end the siege of Gaza • Power to the people: supporting social progress and democracy in Latin America and the Middle East • Stop climate chaos: investing in a greener future

Organised by the Student Broad Left and National Black Students’ Alliance