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Conference Agenda 1st November

11 – 11.30 am Registration:
Registration desk will be inside the foyer of the main SOAS Building. If you have not yet paid you will be asked for a £5 fee to receive your ticket

11.30 – 12.30 pm Opening Session: Education in a Neoliberal World:
Room G2 (on left handside of SOAS reception desk)

• Paul Mackney, former joint General Secretary of University and College Union
• Italian Student, activist from the occupation of Rome University. Witness to the wave of occupations and protests sweeping Italy.
• Alex Callinicos, Author of “Education in a neoliberal world”
• Stalin Vermudez, victimised cleaners leader and SOAS Unison branch chair

12.30 – 1pm Lunch break: Home made Ugandan food will be served for a suggested price of £4. All proceeds will gotowards the cost of educating refugee children.

1 – 2.30 pm Workshops:

Fighting Racism and Fascism (Room G2)

• Brian Richardson, ‘Tell it like it is’ campaign on racism in education.
• MC’s Lo Key and Bashy, leading UK grime artists involved in Love Music Hate Racism
• Assed Baig, Staffordshire Student Union Exective

Stopping Climate Chaos (Room G50)

• Phil Thornhill, Campaign against Climate Change
• Alison Smith, VP Education and Welfare Plymouth SU

Anti war, Troops Out Now (Room G51)

• Andrew Murray, Stop the War coalition
• George Solomou, Former Soldier involved in Military Families against the War
• Noreen Fatima, Student at London Met University

Recession and Resistance (Room G52)

• Ben Sellers, SOAS Justice for Cleaners and Co President SOAS SU
• Sean Vernell, UCU Left activist and member of UCU National Executive (pc)
• PCS branch secretary on how we can support the PCS strikes

2.45 – 4.15 The future of the student movement - What sort of NUS do we need?
Room G2
Wes Streeting, NUS National President Vs Rob Owen, NUS National Executive

4.30 – 5.30: Closing Session: Building a democratic, campaigning student movement
Room G2, Chair: Ben Sellers