| DIARY
OCTOBER
21st Keep the tube public – demonstration against privitisation of tube. Info: 020 8533 1477 or publictube@aol.com
21st Sheffield Youth and Student Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament networking day. Info: 020 7607 3616
22nd – 29th One World Week. Theme "...as if people and the earth matter". Info: 0118 939 4933 or oneworldweek@gn.apc.org.
NOVEMBER
1st World Vegan Day. Info: 01424 427393
1st Fox Hunt Sabbing season starts. Info: 01273 622827.
4th Mass Action against Beaufort Hunt (royal hunt). Info: 07715 779843.
4th – 5th CADU Conference – International conference against depleted uranium. Info: 0161 834 8301 or gmdcnd@gn.apc.org
4th – 5th Shared Planet 2000 – annual conference of People & Planet (student network on environment, development and human rights. Info: 01865 245678 or www.peopleandplanet.org/sharedplanet
6th Campaign Against the Arms Trade's Second Annual Lecture. Info: 020 7281 0297.
10th Actions against Shell on 5th Anniversary of 'judicial murder' of Ken Saro-Wira and 8 other Ogoni activists. Info: 020 8678 9605 or mosopgb@aol.com
10th – 13th Protest camp outside Aldermaston atomic weapons establishment.
11th Defend Asylum Seekers conference. South Bank University, London. Info: 020 7247 9907 or www.defend-asylum-seekers.freeserve.co.uk
11th – 12th Amnesty International Student Conference. Manchester University SU. Info: 020 7417 6360 or student@amnesty.org.uk.
11th – 24th UN Climate Change Convention (COP6), The Hague, The Netherlands
COP6 is supposed to take forward climate change agreements made at Kyoto in 1997. It is likely to be dominated by attempts, driven by the 'energy' corporations, to continue 'business as usual' without addressing the real issues - the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, end our reliance on fossil fuels, and build links with communities in the South already facing consequences of Northern lifestyles. Governments are unable to take the decisions, corporate lobbyists are uninterested. Don't leave it to them - come to the Hague.
Info: info@risingtide.org.uk 16b Cherwell St, Oxford OX4 1BG (The UK contact address for getting to the Hague and for activity in the UK during the conference). Contact in the Netherlands is risingtide@egroups.com/ crosswinds@aseed.antenna.nl; PO Box 92066, 1090 AM Amsterdam, The Netherlands
22nd UN Lobby by Campaign Against the Arms Trade. Info: 020 7281 0297.
24th Buy Nothing Day. Info: www.adbusters.org/campaigns/bnd
JANUARY 2001
25th -30th World Social Forum, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
WSF is a new international arena for organising against neoliberal policies and for building economic alternatives that prioritise social justice. Takes place every year at same time as World Economic Forum in Switzerland. Info: Fsm2001@uol.com.br
FEBRUARY
18th – 24th Nonviolence and Social Empowerment conference, Orissa, India.
Testing assumptions on nonviolent social empowerment; looking at ways people transform their experience into a source of motivation and power; and analysing nonviolent modes of organising.
Participation is limited to secure an international discussion. Info: War Resisters International Nonviolence & Social Empowerment Project c/o Patchwork, Kaiserstrasse 24, D-26122 Oldenburg, Germany, tel: +49-441-17111, WRI-NVSE-Project@edu.oldenburg.de
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