Sat 23rd May 2009. Practical Economics: radical alternatives to a failed economic system: 10am-6pm Conway Hall, London. Keynote speaker Paul Mason economics editor at BBC Newsnight. Also Liz Cox from the New Economics Foundation on sustainable community economics, Rufus Pollock, Mead Fellow in Economics, Emmanuel College, Cambridge and co-director of the Open Knowledge Foundation on the economics of producing and distributing open information, Chris Cook of Open Capital on innovative legal structures and financing. We hope also to have speakers from the Permaculture Association, Transition Towns Inititiative, West Midlands New Economics Forum and many more.  Workshops are likely to cover gift economies, local currencies, co-ops and collectives, property in common ownership, anarchist economics, income sharing, etc. We will be holding the Rootstock AGM during the course of the day.  At the same time and again after the conference, we will show the newly released film, 'Age of Stupid', starring Pete Postlethwaite. This event is supported by the New Economics Foundation and by other supporters, and is organised by Rootstock and Radical Routes. Free: followed by Gig £8/4, or £11/£6 +food - booking essential.