Festival Picket at Denmark Hill Monday 28 February 10am – 1:30pm

A picket line festival hosted by Denmark Hill strikers, featuring: all day cakes, collaborative bunting writing, chalk art, poems, live music, talks, a quiz and a lot of rage!

Location: Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IOPPN) Main Building, 16 Decrespigny Park, SE5 5AF https://goo.gl/maps/HDApnR5D7drmZSNN9

  • 10:00 Picket Percussion & Update from Queen Mary – Miriam Fine
  • 10:15 Picket Poems! – Amy De’Ath & others
  • 10:45 Captain Swing, Match Girls and Martyrs: A Potted History of Trade Unions and Pickets in the UK – Alan Simpson
  • 11:00 Striking with Theatre – River Újhadbor
  • 11:30 It’s time to talk about exploitation in  Mental Health Research – Stan Papoulias
  • 11:45 What the hell is going on with mental health & wellbeing in the higher education sector? – Felicity Callard
  • 12:00 Show me the money: a quiz on the KCL accounts – Sita Balani
  • 12:15 Strikes and Mad Rights; What kind of union do we want to be? – Len Demetriou & Rachel Rowan Olive
  • 12:30 Resisting the Asylum Process – Sohail Jannesari
  • 12:45 Words of Solidarity: Dave Lewis from Lesbians & Gay men Support the Miners, Reps from Unison & KCL Marxist Society
  • 13:00 Live Music Medley & Open Mic