Upcoming Humanist Events
Event
- Title:
- Peter Tatchell on Multiculturalism and the subversion of human rights
- When:
- 17/06/2009 18:30 - 20:00
- Where:
- Conway Hall - London
- Category:
- Talk Lecture
Description
A little quiz...
Who in 1999, with three others, ambushed the President of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe's car in a London street and attempted to perform a citizen's arrest. He opened the car door and seized Mugabe. He then called the police. Instead of Mugabe being arrested, all four activists were arrested, on charges including criminal damage, assault and breach of the peace; these charges were dropped on the opening day of their trial. Mugabe responded by describing him and his colleagues as "gay gangsters".
Who attempted a citizen's arrest of the same President Robert Mugabe when he visited Belgium?
Who got arrested for disrupting the Easter sermon by the then Archbishop of Canterbury, George Carey, by mounting the pulpit to denounce Carey's opposition to legal equality for lesbian and gay people?
Who was prosecuted under the little-used Ecclesiastical Courts Jurisdiction Act 1860 (formerly part of the Brawling Act 1551) which prohibits any form of disruption or protest in a church?
Who was thwarted in his attempt to summon Carey as a witness and was convicted, with the judge fining him the token amount of £18.60, which most commentators assumed was a wry allusion to the year of the statute used to convict him?
Who helped stage a 'kiss in' on the upper balcony of Methodist Central Hall in response to a prominent personality of the time, Malcolm Muggeridge, who said he didn't like homosexuals?
Who was detained by the police under the Terrorism Act after displaying a banner on the occasion of the marriage of Prince Charles reading "Charles can marry twice! Gays can't marry once."
For many people Peter Tatchell provides the 'human' in 'human rights'
Peter Tatchell is a one-person human rights organisation - see www.petertatchell.net
Venue
- Venue:
- Conway Hall - Website
- Street:
- 25 Red Lion Square
- ZIP:
- WC1R 4RL
- City:
- London
- Country:
-
Description
In 1926 they built new premises, Conway Hall at 37 Red Lion Square, Bloomsbury, on the site of a tenement, previously a factory belonging to James Perry, a pen and ink maker. Coincidently this was the birth place of the prominent occultist, Harry Price[1]. However the name of the society reflects the original location.
Conway Hall is named after an American, Moncure Conway, who led the Society from 1864-1885 and 1892-1897, during which time it moved further away from Unitarianism. Conway spent the break in his tenure in America, writing a biography of Thomas Paine. In 1888 the name of the Society was changed from South Place Religious Society to South Place Ethical Society under Stanton Coit's leadership.
The organisation is a member of the International Humanist and Ethical Union.
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