Luddites 200th anniversary - launch events

[Ned Ludd]

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Dear Friends,

As you will have seen in the update message that 
we sent you last Friday Luddites 200 is holding 
two events on November 4th, a film night/party in 
London and a meeting in Nottingham. We very much 
hope to see you at one or other of these events. 
Please help us publicise the events by 
circulating the flyers below to your friends and contacts.

Down with all Kings but King Ludd!

Ned

London

Celebrate the Luddites’ 200th Anniversary!
Film screening/200th Birthday Party
Housmans Peace Diary 2012 launch

November 4, 2011 7 pm London Action Resource 
Centre 62 Fieldgate St London E1 
1ES  www.luddites200.org.uk luddites200 at yahoo.co.uk
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Free, donations welcome

On the exact 200th anniversary of the first 
Luddite attack at Bulwell near Nottingham, 
(‘Mischief Night’ in the North of England), 
we will be screening two films.  The first is a 
drama-documentary about the Yorkshire Luddites in 
1812 that shows that the Luddites were not 
mindless vandals and opponents of progress as 
scientists have portrayed them - they broke only 
machines they thought ‘hurtful to Commonality’ ie. to the common good.

The second film, ‘New Technology: Whose 
Progress?’ is a documentary about industrial 
automation and workers’ responses in the 1980s, 
featuring Tony Benn and Mike Cooley of the Lucas 
Aerospace Shop Stewards.  The film is very 
relevant in the current austerity climate, in 
which technology is being used to cut the jobs of 
public sector workers, such as librarians.

We will also be launching the  2012 Housmans 
Peace Diary which contains a  special feature on 
the Luddites and current technology issues such 
as GM food, nuclear power, drones, reproductive 
technology, nanotechnology and 
‘geoengineering’.  The screenings will be 
followed by a 200th Birthday party for the Luddites.

The Luddites200 group is celebrating this 
anniversary to set the record straight about the 
Luddites.  We want to start an open debate about 
the politics of technology.  This event and a 
simultaneous event in Nottingham marks the launch 
of the Luddites200 celebrations.  For details of 
other forthcoming events see www.luddites200.org.uk.

Housmans Bookshop has published the Peace Diary 
since 1952.  This edition includes a World Peace 
Directory listing1500 national and international 
peace, environ-ment and human rights 
organisationsaround the world. www.housmans.com/diary.php.

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Help celebrate 200th anniversary of the Luddite uprising
November 2011 – January 2013 marks the 200th 
anniversary of the Luddite uprisings, in which 
artisan cloth workers smashed machines which were 
destroying their trades, undercutting wages and 
forcing them into unemployment and destitution.
Today, the industrial system that the Luddites 
were rebelling against has led to climate change 
and huge losses of biodiversity, and its new 
technologies, such as information technology, 
genetic engineering and nanotechnology raise 
equally profound issues. Yet anyone who raises 
concern about the price and side-effects of new 
technologies is harshly condemned as a 'luddite', 
someone supposedly irrationally opposed to technology and progress.
http://www.luddites200.org.uk/


Nottingham

Celebrate The Luddites' 200th Anniversary!

Friday November 4, 2011 7 pm Sumac Centre 245 
Gladstone Street, Nottingham NG7 6HX
www.luddites200.org.uk luddites200 at yahoo.co.uk
Free, donations welcome

On the exact 200th anniversary of the first 
Luddite attack at Bulwell near Nottingham, 
(‘Mischief Night'), the Luddites200 group is launching its celebrations.

Chris Weir of the Nottingham archives will tell 
the story of the 1811-12 uprisings and talk about 
what the Luddites were fighting for.

Michael Reinsborough of Luddites200 will talk 
about technology issues in the 21st century 
including the use of technology to cut jobs as 
part of the public sector cuts and issues like GM 
food, nuclear power and surveillance.

The discussions will be followed by a social event.

The Luddites200 group is celebrating this 
anniversary in order to set the record straight 
about the Luddites.  We want to start an open 
debate about the politics of technology.  For 
details of other forthcoming events contact 
luddites200 at yahoo.co.uk or visit www.luddites200.org.uk.




















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