[Alt-sheff-organising-group] No Platforming of Radical Feminists - A talk by Julie Bindel

[Chris Croome]

Hi

The talk mentioned below, has been re-scheduled for Saturday, updated
details below, it could be added to Alt-Sheff?

All the best

Chris

- No Platforming of Radical Feminists - A talk by Julie Bindel

  Saturday, June 6, 2015
  1:00pm - 4:00pm 

  Following on from the successful event on 28 February in Nottingham,
  Julie Bindel will again be talking about the No Platforming of Radical
  Feminists, followed by more than an hour of questions and discussions. 

  The event is organised by RadFem Collective and Miranda Yardley and
  will take place Saturday 6 June 2015 between 1 and 4pm.

  This is a mixed event and everyone is welcome, whatever your views. 

  We are trying to make this event as inclusive and productive as
  possible and get as many people involved in this as we can, with all
  viewpoints. To do this, it is incredibly important that we can have a
  respectful dialogue with each other and not resort to name-calling or
  personal attacks. Please respect this.

  The venue we are using for the talk is fully wheelchair accessible. If
  you have any other accessibility needs, please let us know about them
  and we will do our very best to meet them.

  The ticket price is purely to cover costs such as room and PA hire.
  Everyone involved are volunteers. 

  Buy a ticket (£5 each):
  https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/no-platforming-of-radical-feminists-tickets-16168985872

  Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/383481701831348/

  http://www.radfemcollective.org/


On Tue 20-Jan-2015 at 09:28:28PM +0000, Chris Croome wrote:
> 
> On Tue 20-Jan-2015 at 08:06:35PM +0000, Alt-Sheff Collective wrote:
> > 
> > I've listed an event which might be controversial, just want to check
> > everyone's happy we continue to list this:
> > 
> > Feb 21st - a talk
> > here's the link
> > http://alt-sheff.org/events/3814
> > 
> > Julie Bindel was apparently "No Platformed" after writing an article which
> > offended many people. That's when activists turn up to try to stop someone
> > from speaking in public. It was probably this article:
> > http://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/jan/31/gender.weekend7
> > I understand she has since apologised for what she wrote, and received a lot
> > of abuse. So this meeting could be a historically useful look back moment in
> > left/feminist understanding. Or it could be more controversy.
> > 
> > OK to list it? All replies welcome :)
> 
> I mentioned this event and Jonathan suggested listing it, I have since
> brought a ticket and asked them if I can make a mp3 recording of the
> event for Indymedia.
> 
> I don't agree with Julie Bindel or the organisers about sex work or
> trans issues but I support their right to speak and support it being
> listed.

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