The theme is Protest, Power and Change. There is a Peace Trail and a play, 'This Evil Thing' on Friday 9th www.facebook.com/thisevilthing.
Frank Cottrell Boyce, children’s novelist and screenwriter, will open the conference. Among topics on the programme will be ‘Fewer Bombs, More Jobs: The Lucas Aerospace Combine Shop Stewards’ Alternative Plan 1976’ and ‘Lysistrata in the Rainforest: the women’s nonviolent campaign which ended the civil war in Liberia’.