Luddite Bicentenary - Sheffield Anarchists Bookfair: Luddites Organising Forum

The talk was advertised with the following blurb:

From 1811 to 1813, thousands of textile workers in Nottinghamshire, Yorkshire and Lancashire rose up against the mill owners, by smashing the power looms which were throwing them into unemployment and starvation. In 2011, anarchists, labour organisers and green activists will be celebrating the 200th anniversary of the Luddite rebellion and planning resistance to the new industrial revolution we see today. This workshop will look at the expansion of corporate power through nanotechnology, biotechnology, surveillance, information and other technologies, and at how we can resist these developments in the spirit of our comrades 200 years ago.

http://sheffield.indymedia.org.uk/2011/04/477402.html#additions

The land magazine website is at http://www.thelandmagazine.org.uk/

For more information about the campaign see: http://www.luddites200.org.uk/

Chris

Homepage: http://www.luddites200.org.uk/

 

From: http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2011/05/479991.html