Magazine Issue 11 Summer 2000


DIARY

JUNE
16th – 26th National Anti-Angling Week. Contact 020 7278 3068
17th Day of Women’s Initiatives. Contact marchfem@ras.eu.org
17th The Global Marketplace – a conference at Conway Hall, London. Contact 020 8444 4322 or see www.amisuk.btinternet.co.uk
18th Sun Day – energy festival around the UK. See www.sundayeurope.com
19th – 23rd Eurosatory 2000 – arms fair in Paris. Contact CAAT on 020 7287 0297 or enquiries@caat.demon.co.uk
20th – 21st Summit of the European Union, Oporto, Portugal. See www.ras.eu.org/marches/
22nd – 25th Social summit of NGOs in Geneva. Contact attc@attac.org
23rd Take 2000 – one day RTS conference. Contact 07930 327248
24th World Development Movement conference. London School of Economics, 1 – 5pm. FREE. Contact 020 7738 3311 or groups@wdm.org.uk
26th – 28th Mobilisation against Conference of New World Economy. Participants include OECD, WTO and multinationals. Paris. Contact obs-mond@globenet.org
26th – July 2nd National Vegetarian Week. Contact VegSoc 0161 928 0793 or info@vegsoc.org
30th – July 2nd Big Blether - Scottish Activists Gathering. Contact 0131 557 6242 or bigblether@j12.org

JULY
1st Mardi Gras march and party, London. Details to be confirmed
1st - 2nd Conference on Campaign against Depleted Uranium. Contact 0161 834 8301 or gmdcnd@gn.apc.org
1st – 2nd Global Capital and Global Struggles. International conference at University of London Union, London. See www.gn.apc.org/cse
6th Hiroshima Day. Contact 0161 834 8301 or gmdcnd@gn.apc.org
7th – 9th Ecological Design Association annual gathering. See www.greenandaway.freeserve.co.uk
8th – 15th Mad Pride World Week. Worldwide celebration of survivors of the mental health service, London. See www.madpride.net
9th Nagasaki Day. Contact 0161 834 8301 or gmdcnd@gn.apc.org
9th – 10th G7 Foreign Affairs Ministers’ meeting, Japan.
12th The Gory Twelve – Start of grouse sabbing season. Contact 0161 283 6104.
13th – 16th Centres for Change annual conference. See www.greenandaway.freeserve.co.uk
14th Bastille Day A long weekend of events against the prison industry. Bring camping gear, inspiration and people. Meet Golders Green station, London. 9am. Contact 07931 401962 or CAGE PO Box 68, Oxford, OX3 1RH or see www.veggies.org.uk/cage
21st – 30th Fifth Anarchist Summer camp. Contact 030 4201 7286 or see http://travel.to/acamp
24th – 30th Farnborough Air Show. Contact Campaign Against the Arms Trade on 020 7281 0297 or enquiries@caat.demon.co.uk
26th – 30th Big Green Gathering. Contact 020 8941 6674 or www.big-green-gathering.com
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 AUGUST
1st Blockade of Faslane & Coulport nuclear weapons bases. Contact 01324 880 744
1st – 16th Ekotopia 2000 in Finland. Contact ekotopia@kulma.net
3rd – 6th Tools for Self-Reliance gathering. See www.greenandaway.freeserve.co.uk
7th Vigil and Action for Iraq. Contact 01865 243232 or voices@viwuk.freeserve.co.uk
10th – 13th The Soil Association gathering. See www.greenandaway.freeserve.co.uk
10th – 15th Northern Green Gathering. Contact 0113 224 9885
17th – 20th Resurgence Magazine Readers Weekend. See www.greenandaway.freeserve.co.uk
19th CIA: Cambridge in August actions. Co-ordinated actions targetting multinationals, GM crops and animal labs. Contact 07776 497005/6
23rd – 27th World Voices Annual Gathering. See www.greenandaway.freeserve.co.uk
23rd – 3rd Sept GAGATU Biotech camp/conference in Cologne. Contact: gagatu@genethisches-netzwerk.de
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 SEPTEMBER
6th March in New York to coincide with UN Millennium Assembly
9th & 10th Melting Point - Climate Change Gathering, Manchester. Contact 04325 355 773.
20th – 27th 10 days of activites around the 55th annual summit of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, including nonviolent direct action and Festival of Art and Resistance, Prague. First time these institutions have met in Eastern Europe. Transport being arranged from several points in UK. Contact: Prague2000_cz@hotmail.com or see www.destroyimf.org