Bookmarks Fair - Full Progamme

11:00am - 9:00pm Saturday 23 May 2009
Augustine Church, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh

Browse and purchase from more than 2000 new and second hand books.

TALKS

• 11am: 'Won't get fooled again' - Video about the G8 demonstration in Scotland in 2005. Against the background of an escalating and menacing police presence, the film documents the journey of a group of young people - many of them veterans of the anti-war school strikes of 2003 - through the G8 demonstrations in Edinburgh and at Gleneagles.
• Noon: 'Afghanistan – why we say troops out now' - Edinburgh Stop the War Coalition
• 12.30: 'Is neo-liberalism over? Capitalism after the crash' - Neil Davidson
• 1pm: 'Neglected diseases - the problem of little research and a lack of access to medicines' - Pascal Geldsetzer, UAEM
• 1.30pm: 'Looking ahead to the UN talks: Can we stop climate change without controlling the world economy?' - Matthew Crighton
• 2pm: 'Nukes and NATO' —Edinburgh CND/ 2.30pm: Justice for Palestine - Edinburgh University SPSC
• 3pm: 'Poverty in Scotland and the Economic crisis' - Carlo Morelli.

MUSIC

• 4pm Alistair Hulett www.alistairhulett.com
• 4.30pm Fiona Keenan http://www.myspace.com/fionakeenan
• 5pm Maggie Holland http://www.myspace.com/maggieholland
• 5.30pm Stevie Palmer
• 6pm Confushian http://www.myspace.com/fraserdrummond6.30pm Penny Stone

REFRESHMENTS AVAILABLE ALL DAY

sponsored by Bookmarks
Part of the Edinburgh World Justice Festival 18 May - 31 May
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