QPSW host Putney Debate

The first Occupy London Putney Debates took place at Friends House

The first of Occupy London’s Putney Debates, Crash, Cuts, Crisis – Causes, Consequences, Solutions was hosted by Quaker Peace & Social Witness (QPSW) on Monday 27 October at Friends House.

Suzanne Ismail, QPSW economic issues programme manager, welcomed the audience and panel. The panel included campaigner, journalist and author Owen Jones, emeritus professor and economist Victoria Chick, and journalist Izabella Kaminska. Land activist, author and filmmaker Fred Harrison; Carlo Nero, an activist and filmmaker; and conservationist Peter Smith also took part. Julie Timbrell of Occupy London facilitated the discussion.

The debate took place in ‘The Light’, the newly refurbished Large Meeting House in Friends House. As the inaugural discussion, it laid out the issues for the Putney Debates. These are intended to provide ‘a platform to overturn discredited narratives of the political mainstream and examine democratic pathways to social, economic and ecological justice’, according to Occupy London.

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