by Paul Cudenec

I am greatly looking forward to two public appearances I have lined up in the UK for the weekend of June 17 and 18.

The first is in Worthing on the Saturday morning, at the premiere of a short but inspiring documentary by Ma’at Films called Spirit of the Downs: Perseverance brings Success.

This celebrates a very unusual phenomenon – a protest campaign that achieved its aims!

The struggle in question was one of which I was part, a decade ago now, when I lived and worked in West Sussex.

We found out that Worthing council was selling off publicly-owned downland at Cissbury Ring and together managed to mobilise large numbers of people in a short space of time to force them to stop.

Not only that, but the land in question was eventually given official “public access” status, which was a big win for the people of Worthing.

More info can be found here, with a teaser for the documentary here.

I say a few words in the film and will be taking part in the panel discussion and Q&A session at the event, which will run from 10.20am to 12.30pm at The Studio, Connaught Theatre, Union Place, Worthing BN11 1LG.

Entry is free/donation, but you have to reserve your place in advance.

The following day I will be heading to London for an event kindly organised for me by my friends at Real Left, whose anti-WEF conference I addressed in March.

June the 18th seems like the perfect day to visit the city, as I still cherish fond memories of the Carnival Against Capital, held there on that date in 1999.

“An evening with Paul Cudenec“, which starts at 5pm at Angel Church in Chadwell Street, Islington, London, EC1R 1XA, will see me reading from my latest work, The Great Racket, which is now available not just as a pdf but also as an actual book, and also from 2022’s The Withway.

The Great Racket examines, as its subtitle sets out, “the ongoing development of the criminal global system”.

It effectively charts a year of intense research and reflection in the course of which I identified and described, with increasing certainty, the existence and nature of a deeply unpleasant global network or entity whose centre was difficult to identify but whose key institutions clearly included the United Nations, the WHO, the WEF, the World Bank and the Bank for International Settlements, as well as the BlackRock/Vanguard financial empire.

In The Withway I write about the way in which we need to embrace values which represent the opposite of the grim future of slavery offered by this system and I frame this in terms of re-establishing connections – social, natural and metaphysical – which have been stolen from us over a long period of time.

There will be a chance to ask questions and buy signed books and we will then decamp to a local pub to continue the conversation over a pint or two.

Like the Worthing event, it is free/donation but you are asked to reserve a place in advance – see the Real Left website.

Hope to see some of you there!

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