The Libel Reform Campaign is hosting the official “Free Speech Hustings” of the General Election 2010 and you’re invited. We have a number of free tickets reserved especially for our supporters so you can see Dominic Grieve from the Conservatives, Evan Harris from the Liberal Democrats and a Labour representative go head to head over libel law reform and protecting our freedom of speech.
The Free Speech Hustings will bring together scientists, writers, human rights activists, journalists, bloggers and most importantly… voters – we want you to put the difficult questions to the candidates about free speech and libel reform, counter-terrorism, privacy and religious hatred.
21 April at 6.30pm at the Free Word Centre, 60 Farringdon Road, London, EC1R 3GA – to book email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or call 020 7324 2570.
If you can’t make it to London on Wednesday evening we are planning on organising satellite events in Manchester, Birmingham, Liverpool, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Westminster and other towns. Let us know if you would like to attend ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) one of these and check back to www.libelreform.org for more details soon.
Representing LABOUR… TBC
Representing the CONSERVATIVES… Dominic Grieve
And for the LIBERAL DEMOCRATS… Evan Harris
All three parties have included commitments to libel law reform in their manifestos, but will they really deliver?
And in other news…
The Libel Reform Campaign has just hit the 50,000 signature mark!
And yesterday, libel reform made it in the Conservative, the Labour and the Liberal Democrat party manifestos.
Please continue to back us. Your support got us this far. But the work we do in the next few months will make all the difference.
Thanks from everyone at the Libel Reform Campaign:
PS – make sure everyone you know has signed our petition at: www.libelreform.org/sign