Peter Tatchell, renowned for his ceaseless and determined campaigning for civil rights, is coming to the Lewes All Saints Centre on 19th June 2007 to address the issue of biometric ID cards and the ‘Surveillance State'.

Many people are concerned at the ever-increasing government-sanctioned invasions of privacy in British society, and the Lewes-based Changing Times organisation, which has recently been holding packed events on a number of challenging topics, has invited Peter Tatchell to give a presentation entitled ‘Big Brother is Watching You'.

In his lecture, Tatchell will be exposing the underhand methods being used to sell the concept of expensive and much open-to-abuse biometric ID cards to the public, and questioning why Britain has more CCTV cameras and surveillance systems than any other nation in the world. In his powerful style, Tatchell will inform the audience as to what can be done about these and other related developments, inspiring people to stand up for their rights – while they still can.

Tatchell made a name for himself with a number of controversial protests for gay rights from the 1970s onwards and was even at one point branded ‘public enemy number one' by the Sunday Times. However, changing attitudes and Tatchell's tireless work in campaigning for human and civil rights in many arenas has won him wide respect, culminating in his being described recently by the same Sunday Times as ‘a national hero', and by the Daily Mail as ‘heroic – an example to us all'.