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dalinian
22nd September 2011, 22:30
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This Saturday Night at the Land & Freedom Camp
Just north of Holy Trinity Church, Clapham Common Northside, London SW4 0QZ

A Rare Opportunity to share viewing and discussion of the biopic of the
Great English Revolutionary Pamphleter and Digger
Gerrard Winstanley (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrard_Winstanley)

Join us under the spreading London planetrees, and enjoy reclaiming our C17 radical history, the better to empower ourselves for ensuring C21 continues to be a century of radical history in the making.

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Cinema al fresco, under the spreading London planetrees

Culture with Real Content onna Saturday Night
If you’re raised in Britain, it’s more likely than not that you have heard of the English Civil War, fought between King Charles I and Oliver Cromwell*. But since Cromwell’s money-grubbing class won, and stamped its skewed perspective on our history, it’s much less likely that you’re aware of the English Revolution, and our home-grown revolutionaries known as Levellers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levellers), Ranters (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranter), and Diggers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diggers) – who are actually way more important and tremendously more inspiring than the entire officer class of Cromwell’s New Model Army and the nouveau riche money men paymasters to whom they owed their allegiance. The film Winstanley (1976) (http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0073911/) aims to redress the historical disservice done to the Diggers, their commune on St George's Hill, Weybridge in Surrey, and their leading pamphleteer Gerrard Winstanley (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrard_Winstanley) – and it may inspire YOU to join in the C21 revolutionary struggles of our generation, to help complete the farsighted political programme envisioned by Winstanley and the Diggers, begun in 1649 and yet to be completed.

18:55 Sunset
19:45-20:00 – “Gerrard Who, Now?” (an introduction)
20:00-21:32 – ‘Winstanley’, the film showing
21:32-21:45 – Refreshment / Comfort Break
21:45-22:30+ – Winstanley open forum: discussion, readings, inspiration
22:30-23:18 – Optional: ‘It Happened Here Again’, the Making of... documentary

We’d planned to show Winstanley last Sunday, but evil Cromwellian gremlins thwarted our desires, and instead we chose to watch The Battle of Algiers (1966), as covered at Indymedia London:

Cinema Democratica @ Land & Freedom Camp, Sun 18 Sep 2011
pix-&-vid-led report – http://bit.ly/CDatLFCimcLDN (http://bit.ly/CDatLFCimcLDN)
video, 1:11 – http://bit.ly/CDatLFCvideo (http://bit.ly/CDatLFCvideo)

So come along on Saturday evening, under the spreading London planetrees, and enjoy reclaiming our C17 radical history, the better to empower ourselves for ensuring C21 continues to be a century of radical history in the making.

Up the Revolution,

Peace & Love,

Tim Dalinian Jones

LOCATION
Land & Freedom Camp
Just north of Holy Trinity Church, Clapham Common Northside, London SW4 0QZ
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Location & Public Transport Map (http://g.co/maps/evjwe)
custom Google Map – http://g.co/maps/evjwe (http://g.co/maps/evjwe)

The Land & Freedom Campcontinues to at least Sun 25 Sep and is posting activities and events on its website:

Website – http://landandfreedom.squat.net (http://landandfreedom.squat.net/)
Phone contact – 07 963 475 195 for any questions
Facebook event webpage – http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=281856581829845 (http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=281856581829845&ref=ts)
Follow L&FC on Twitter – @freetheland
Email – landandfreedomcamp[at]aktivix[dot]org

Public Transport

Tube: Clapham Common, Northern Line
Station Information (http://www.tfl.gov.uk/gettingaround/stations/1000050.aspx)
Journey Planner (http://www.transportdirect.info/Web2/JourneyPlanning/JourneyPlannerInput.aspx?x=14%3a41%3a50&am p;amp;amp;SID=2zqyq155ixpig055vwxnx2ad&amp ;amp;amp;IsJPLanding=true) – Transport Direct



Buses: Clapham Common (Bus Stop D)
Bus Routes: 50 | 88 | 155 | N155
Journey Planner (http://www.transportdirect.info/Web2/JourneyPlanning/JourneyPlannerInput.aspx?x=14%3a41%3a50&am p;amp;amp;SID=2zqyq155ixpig055vwxnx2ad&amp ;amp;amp;IsJPLanding=true) – Transport Direct



Buses: Clapham Common Old Town (Bus Stop T)
Bus Routes: 88 | 322 | 417
Journey Planner (http://www.transportdirect.info/Web2/JourneyPlanning/StopInformation.aspx?x=15%3a00%3a14&am p;amp;SID=2zqyq155ixpig055vwxnx2ad&amp ;amp;IsSILanding=true) – Transport Direct


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Our scientific forecasters say the Weather Gods are smiling down favourably upon our endeavour

* “the English Civil War, fought between King Charles I and Oliver Cromwell” – a deliberate satire on the vulgar “It's Great Men That Make History” bullshit of bourgeois historians.

RedTrackWorker
23rd September 2011, 00:23
What do people think of the film? I just requested it from the New York Public Library and will check it out. The description says something about "nonviolent resistance" which signals to me it may be a "liberal" vision of the revolution but description's can be very misleading of course.

Olentzero
23rd September 2011, 15:18
I won't be able to make it 'cos of being in Sweden and all, but where in hell did you guys score a copy of Winstanley? I'd love to get one for myself.