Jeremy Corbyn joins us this Levellers’ Day!
The Levellers’ Day Committee is delighted to announce that Jeremy Corbyn will be joining us live to introduce and take part in the panel session of our programme from 2pm – 3.45pm Saturday 15th May.
Please register here to attend our online festival. Admission is free but please donate – if you can – to help us build for next year’s event.
Our full programme of history, music, speeches and film starts at 10.30am
Welcome by TUCLESE
- Welcome by OxIBMComm
- Keynote speaker: John Rees: History of Levellers and Levellers Day
- Keynote speaker: Ciaran Walsh: History of Oxford Levellers
- Rev Mark Chapman and wreath Laying at Burford Cemetery
- Diggers March of St Georges Hill + Intro by David Chanter
- Sea Green Singers
- Keynote speaker: Megan Dobney IBMT Secretary
- Wreath Laying at Oxford International Brigades Memorial Oxford
- Mini Documentary on Volunteers of the International Brigades
Levellers Day 2021 panel session 2.05 – 3.45pm
Special guest: Jeremy Corbyn – MP for Islington North and long-term supporter of Levellers’ Day
Chair: Cathy Augustine – Levellers’ Day Committee
2.05pm Speech and welcome to panel session speakers from Jeremy Corbyn
2.20pm – speakers
Jabu Nala-Hartley – Mothers 4 Justice Ubuntu, Oxford Living Wage Campaign and Oxford Black Lives Matter (recently re-elected Oxford City Councillor for Barton & Sandhills)
Rabhya Dewshi – climate activist with Extinction Rebellion Oxford, mother and psychologist.
Lord John Hendy QC – Industrial Democracy– reinstatement of collective bargaining
Ellen Clifford Disabled People Against the Cuts DPAC (author of the war on disabled people, promoting the social model, ensuring people with disabilities have a powerful and organised voice)
Fenella Porter – Oxfam GB, Young Women’s Music Project and Womankind Worldwide
Ian Hodson – BFAWU (workers rights, McStrike, Zero Hours Justice)
Opportunity for contributions from the floor
Response from speakers
Film from Levellers’ Day 2019
The Internationale
Didcot Red Kites
Sieze the Day
Robb Johnson Special performance from Atilla the Stockbroker from 5-7pm