BORN FREE & EQUAL: Compass Conference Announced
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This year's Compass National Conference Born Free and Equal will take place on Saturday 14 June 2008 at the Institute of Education in London. Held in association with Unite, The Guardian and New Statesman the conference will ask the question ‘How do we deliver equality in the 21st century?', high profile speakers include amongst others Ed Miliband, Douglas Alexander, Polly Toynbee, Jon Cruddas, Neal Lawson and Ruth Lister.
The wealthiest 1% of the population owns 21% of the nation’s wealth; the bottom 50% own 7%; recently it’s been shown that health inequalities have grown; the government faces controversy over abolition of the 10p tax rate; this year’s budget pledged an extra £1.7BN in the fight against child poverty: whilst a recent report warned that child poverty could double over the next 2 decades; 67% of ethnic minority communities live in the 88 most deprived wards; the median gender pay gap has reduced from 17.4% in 1997 to 12.6% in 2007. This is why it's time to make EQUALITY matter!
The purpose of this year’s COMPASS NATIONAL CONFERENCE will be to MAKE THE CASE FOR A MORE EQUAL SOCIETY and help change the terms of debate towards GREATER EQUALITY FOR ALL across a broad-range of policy areas.
Helping make the case for GREATER EQUALITY will be major speakers throughout the day including: NEAL LAWSON, DEREK SIMPSON, ED MILIBAND, RUTH LISTER, DOUGLAS ALEXANDER, BEATRIX CAMPBELL, DANNY DORLING, JOHN HARRIS, HELENA KENNEDY, POLLY TOYNBEE, JON TRICKETT, JON CRUDDAS and CHUKA UMUNNA who’ll be joined by other leading figures from across the left and wider progressive community.
With sessions organised by over 35 of the UK’s prominent progressive organisations all helping to debate how we deliver A FAIRER MORE EQUAL SOCIETY including: Fawcett, Searchlight, NUT, Socialist Health Association, UNISON, The Fabian Society, Progress, Crisis, NUS, Demos, Liberty, Unions Together, Child Poverty Action Group, Amnesty, ippr, nef, Migrants Rights Network, Barrow Cadbury Trust, Red Pepper, RENEWAL, Tribune, Friends of the Earth, Labour Left Briefing, Soundings, Age Concern, War on Want, Electoral Reform Society, Make Votes Count.
An event where you and 1000 others will come along to HELP MAKE THE CASE FOR GREATER EQUALITY, where you’ll debate how we create a new equal and fairer society fit for the 21st century, where you’ll get to bump into old friends and meet new ones.
THE COMPASS CONFERENCE IS RETURNING THIS JUNE: come and get passionate about GREATER EQUALITY at the political highlight of the summer, the biggest annual gathering of the left taking place after the local and London elections and before Labour conference, at a brand new venue, with new facilities including a modern air-conditioned 1000 seat auditorium.
This is BORN FREE AND EQUAL taking place on SATURDAY 14 JUNE 2008 at the Institute of Education, London.
TO BOOK YOUR PLACE ONLINE: do so before Friday 25 April and get £2 off ticket prices - visit the newly updated conference pages at: http://www.compassonline.org.uk/conference
A fairer more equal society is possible…we urge you to come and help debate it this summer!
The purpose of this year’s COMPASS NATIONAL CONFERENCE will be to MAKE THE CASE FOR A MORE EQUAL SOCIETY and help change the terms of debate towards GREATER EQUALITY FOR ALL across a broad-range of policy areas.
Helping make the case for GREATER EQUALITY will be major speakers throughout the day including: NEAL LAWSON, DEREK SIMPSON, ED MILIBAND, RUTH LISTER, DOUGLAS ALEXANDER, BEATRIX CAMPBELL, DANNY DORLING, JOHN HARRIS, HELENA KENNEDY, POLLY TOYNBEE, JON TRICKETT, JON CRUDDAS and CHUKA UMUNNA who’ll be joined by other leading figures from across the left and wider progressive community.
With sessions organised by over 35 of the UK’s prominent progressive organisations all helping to debate how we deliver A FAIRER MORE EQUAL SOCIETY including: Fawcett, Searchlight, NUT, Socialist Health Association, UNISON, The Fabian Society, Progress, Crisis, NUS, Demos, Liberty, Unions Together, Child Poverty Action Group, Amnesty, ippr, nef, Migrants Rights Network, Barrow Cadbury Trust, Red Pepper, RENEWAL, Tribune, Friends of the Earth, Labour Left Briefing, Soundings, Age Concern, War on Want, Electoral Reform Society, Make Votes Count.
An event where you and 1000 others will come along to HELP MAKE THE CASE FOR GREATER EQUALITY, where you’ll debate how we create a new equal and fairer society fit for the 21st century, where you’ll get to bump into old friends and meet new ones.
THE COMPASS CONFERENCE IS RETURNING THIS JUNE: come and get passionate about GREATER EQUALITY at the political highlight of the summer, the biggest annual gathering of the left taking place after the local and London elections and before Labour conference, at a brand new venue, with new facilities including a modern air-conditioned 1000 seat auditorium.
This is BORN FREE AND EQUAL taking place on SATURDAY 14 JUNE 2008 at the Institute of Education, London.
TO BOOK YOUR PLACE ONLINE: do so before Friday 25 April and get £2 off ticket prices - visit the newly updated conference pages at: http://www.compassonline.org.uk/conference
A fairer more equal society is possible…we urge you to come and help debate it this summer!
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