Fake News, Foreign Interference, and the Future of Democracy: Keynote speech by Damian Collins
Damian Collins will be summarising his historic Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee report into Fake News with a response from Tom Watson MP, Shadow Secretary for Culture, Media and Sport
With Q&A chaired by Peter Jukes
Fearless Cities: The Promise of Municipalism
Carolina García Cataño (co founder of Take The Squares, original member of the 15M movement, pioneer in the Spanish free software movement who is currently taking part in the refugee movement),
Bernardo Gutierrez (Part of Ahora Madrid and MediaLab Prado, journalist, author and
original member of the 15M movement),
Claudia Delso Carreira, (Member of Marea Atlántica, a municipalist group running the town of A Corunha, in Galicia),
Peter Macfadyen, (co-creator of Independents for Frome, the pioneering municipalist group in the UK running Frome town council since 2011, mayor of Frome 2014-2015).
Panel to be chaired by Birgitta Jonsdottir (Original member of Wikileaks and producer of the Collateral Murder film, co-founder of the Icelandic Pirate Party and member of parliament, internationally renowned advocate for digital rights and published poet)
IN ASSOCIATION WITH NEW INTERNATIONALIST
Making Black Lives Matter: with bonnie greer
With Jacob Crawford, co founder of Copwatch, Asim Qureshi from Cage, Amy Hall and Bonnie Greer, OBE chaired by Lord Victor Adebowale, CBE (TBA)
A Civil Rights Lawyer Saved My Life
Chaired by Asim Qureshi (research Director at CAGE and author of 'Virtue of Disobedience'), Cori Crider, Moazzam Begg (Outreach Director of CAGE) and Denise Le Beouf (ACLU America).
Exit Brexit: Do We Need a People's Vote on the Final Deal?
With June Sarpong (MBE) , Anthony Barnett (co-founder of OpenDemocracy), Rushanara Ali (Labour Party MP), Peter Geoghagen, Geraint Davies (MP) and chaired by Lord Victor Adebowale.
The New Age of Consent: What #MeToo Means to Millennials
Amna Saleem is a freelance writer with words featured in places such as Glamour, BuzzFeed and Huck. You can also hear her on the BBC discussing mental health and sexual harassment. She is an obnoxious Scottish Pakistani intersectional feminist and not even a tiny bit sorry for it.
Jasmine Andersson is PinkNews' investigations reporter, and writes about LGBT rights, women's rights and working class issues for the website and as a freelancer for several national titles. At the end of last year, she co-founded the Second Source, an organisation that promotes awareness of the problem of sexual harassment in the media, informs people of their rights, and works with organisations to create change.
Emily Reynolds is a freelance journalist and author specialising in mental health, gender and science. She regularly writes for The Guardian, NY Mag, Stylist, the TLS and many more. Her first book, A Beginner's Guide To Losing Your Mind, came out last year; she is currently working on her second. At the end of last year, she co-founded the Second Source and is also a co-founder of the Words by Women Awards.
Robyn Vinter is founder and editor of The Overtake, an investigative news website for millennials, launched in October 2017. Robyn has written for the Guardian, BuzzFeed, the i paper, the New Statesman and a number of other national and international publications. In 2016, she was one of the founders of Words by Women, an awards for women in journalism and, in 2017, joined the founding team of the Second Source