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DIRECTION FOR THE DEMOCRATIC LEFT

Agenda - The Shape of Things to Come

09:45
Opening of 'The Shape of Things to Come'
Neal Lawson, Chair, Compass

09:55
Morning Keynote Addresses
Ed Balls MP
Derek Simpson, Amicus

10:30
Energy Debate:

This conference believes the UK Government should commit to switching to majority renewable energy within 20 years and favour renewable & bio-fuels over new nuclear power.

For: Jonathon Porritt   Against: TBC

11:15 Seminars (Part 1)

1. Comprehensive Education? Learning in the 21st Century
Run by: NUT
Speakers: Steve Sinnott, General Secretary, NUT; Emma Biermann, English Secondary Student's Association; Hazel Danson, NUT (chair)

2. Human Security: A new approach to Foreign Policy
Run by: LSE Centre for Global Governance
Speakers: Prof Mary Kaldor; lavor Rangelov

3. Pensions smenshions – who really cares about pension reform?
Run by: Age Concern
Speakers: James Purnell MP, Minister for Pension Reform; Neil Churchill, Age Concern England; Kat Fletcher, NUS

4. A Left political strategy for the future
Run by: RENEWAL
Speakers: Kitty Ussher MP; David McKnight, University of Technology, Sydney; Prof David Marquand; Steve Richards, The Independent; Neal Lawson (chair)

5. Reconnecting people to power: A new future for energy
Run by: The Green Alliance
Speakers: Stephen Tindale, Greenpeace; Hwyel Lloyd, SERA

6. Building Hope - the future for housing policy and social justice
Run by: Shelter
Speakers: Yvette Cooper MP; Adam Sampson, Shelter; Maggie Jones, Unison

7. Power failure: can Labour share power?
Run by: IPPR
Speakers: Ed Miliband MP; lan Kearns, IPPR; Stephen Twigg, Progress; Nick Pearce, IPPR (chair)

8. Left behind on climate change?
Run by: Friends of the Earth
Speakers: Elliot Morley MP; more tbc

9. Innovating new solutions to social challenges - past, present and future
Run by: The Young Foundation
Speakers: Geoff Mulgan, Young Foundation; Hilary Cottam, Designer of the Year 2005; Mustafa Sulerman, Trustee of Muslim Youth Helpline

10. Is the media the cause of our political malaise?
Run by: New Statesman
Speakers: Polly Toynbee, The Guardian; John Kampfner, New Statesman

11. Changing priorities in the World of Work
Run by: Unions21
Speakers: John Hannett, USDAW; David Coats, Work Foundation; Juliet Webster, Involvement & Particpation Association; John Lloyd, Unions 21 (chair)

12. Partying alone: what is the future of political parties?
Run by: New Politics Network
Speakers: Fiona Mactaggart MP; Steve Bullock, Mayor of Lewisham

13. Defining and Developing the Citizenship-rich Society: the role of Citizenship Education
Run by: The Citizenship Foundation
Speakers: Emily Robinson, New Politics Network; Prof John Annette, Centre for Citizenship and Lifelong Learning; Matt Burfield, The Charter School; Richard Wilson, Involve; Tony Breslin, Citizenship Foundation (chair)

14. The marketisation of public services – and the democratic alternative
Run by: Red Pepper
Speakers: Catherine Needham; Dexter Whitfield; Martin Mcivor; Hilary Wainwright

12:45 Lunchtime Plenary & Fringe events

'Dreaming of a progressive future':
Billy Bragg in conversation with John Harris

1. Taking crime seriously - from criminal justice to social justice
Run by: Crime and Society Foundation

2. A negative inheritance tax that will help to spread more widely the private ownership of wealth and bring about greater equality of opportunity
Run by: British Universal Inheritance
Speakers: Dane Clouston, Director, OPPORTUNITY; Julian Le Grand

3. A New Agenda: If not this, then what?
Run by: Open Democracy
Speakers: Anthony Barnett, Michael Wills, moderated by Sue Goss

4. Making Politics Matter
Run by: NUS

5. THE VOICE OF LABOUR – the grassroots take on Labour in power
Run by: LabOUR Commission
Speakers: Michael Meacher MP; Professor Stuart Weir

6. Does Britain need nuclear weapons? The case against Trident replacement
Run by: CND
Speakers: Jon Trickett MP; John Holmes; Kate Hudson, CND

13:30 Seminars (Part 2)

1. From Clone Town to Home Town: winning back where we live
Run by: nef
Speakers: Stewart Wallis, nef; Guy Rubin, nef; Lindsay Mackie, nef; David Boyle, nef associate; Jack Dromey, Transport and General Workers Union; Saskia Sassen, Chicago University

2. Mortal Enemies: will the private sector kill democracy in public services?
Run by: POWER
Speakers: Neal Lawson; Julian Le Grand; Prof David Marquand

3. Will the EU still be relevant in 2020?
Run by: Centre for European Reform
Speakers: Dr Denis MacShane MP; Polly Toynbee, The Guardian; Gary Titley MEP; Charles Grant, CER (chair)

4. Britain in 2020: A Sustainable Future?
Run by: Forum for the Future

5. The UN's responsibility to protect - how can we prevent another Rwanda?
Run by: Foreign Policy Centre
Speakers: Oona King; Stephen Twigg, FPC (chair); John Kampfner, New Statesman; James Smith, Aegis Trust; Mike Gapes MP

6. Is this the beginning of feminism's 3rd wave?
Run by: Fawcett Society
Speakers: Natasha Walter, The Guardian-Professor Haleh Afshar, University of York; Catherine Redfern, The F Word; Katharine Rake

7. Open Futures - Science, Technology & Everyday Democracy
Run by: Demos
Speakers: Steven Rose; Jim Giles, Nature; Ben Goldacre, The Guardian

8. Can the National Health Service be mutual?
Run by: The Co-operative Party
Speakers: Peter Hunt, Director, Mutuo; Karen Wilkie, Assistant General Secretary, The Cooperative Party; Geraint Day, Institute of Directors

9. Narrowing the gap: how can we make Britain more equal?
Run by: The Fabian Society
Speakers: Ed Miliband MP, Parliamentary Secretary to the Cabinet Office; Carey Oppenheim, Chair, London Child Poverty Commission; Louise Bamfield, Lead Researcher, Fabian Commission on Life Chances and Child Poverty; Martin Bright, New Statesman; Sunder Katwala, General Secretary, The Fabian Society (chair)

10. How do we successfully sustain a Left Political Party?
Run by: Tribune
Speakers: Lucy Anderson, deputy leader, Camden Labour Group; John Cruddas, MP for Dagenham; Angela Eagle, MP for Wallasey

11. Make Poverty History one year on: what next?
Run by: War on Want
Speakers: Rt Hon Hilary Benn MP; Hugh Lanning, Deputy General Secretary, PCS; John Hilary, Director of Campaigns and Policy, War on Want

12. Voting reform - the missing piece of the jigsaw?
Run by: Electoral Reform Society; Make Votes Count and Labour Campaign for Electoral Reform

13. 'Still no black in the union jack?' re-imagining English identity
Run by: Soundings
Speakers: Bilkis Malek; Roshi Naidoo; Ejos Ubiribo; Nira Yuval-Davis

14. Human Rights: opportunity or embarrassment?
Run by: Liberty
Speakers: Kevin Maguire, Daily Mirror; Francesca Klug, Centre for the Study of Human Rights; Jago Russell, Liberty; Doug Jewell, Liberty (chair)

15. The Importance of the trade union link
Run by: Amicus

14:45 Plenary Question Time

Rt Hon Hazel Blears MP, Labour Party Chair; Greg Dyke; Jon Trickett MP; Polly Toynbee, The Guardian; Fiona Millar; Shami Chakrabarti, Liberty
Chaired by: John Kampfner, New Statesman

15:45 Afternoon Keynote Addresses

Prof Richard Sennett
Baroness Helena Kennedy QC

16:15 Closing Remarks

Meg Russell, Vice Chair, Compass

Enjoy the day and remember to add your voice to the debate!!!

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