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Newsletter Issue 1 Jan - Feb 2001 |
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Diary January Weds 24th – Sun 28th Blockades and days of action against World Economic Forum, including demo on the 27th. www.ecn.org/agp/index1 Thurs 25th – Tues 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 Choose between this and: Thurs 25th – Sun 28th ‘Public Eye in Davos’ Conference. Counter-summit to the World Economic Forum’s annual knees-up of corporate bosses and heads of state in Switzerland. www.davos2001.ch February Mon 5th Second runway opens at Manchester Airport Mon 12th Blockade of Faslane Nuclear Base by Trident Ploughshares 7am - Big Blockade Action Line: 0141 433 2859 Sun 18th – Sat 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 Tues 27th The Construction Safety Campaign day of action to coincide with a Health and Safety Crisis in Construction Conference at Queen Elizabeth Conference Centre. In the first six months of this year there have been twice as many construction workers killed than in the same period last year. London Hazards Centre 020-7794-5999 construction.safetycampaign@talk21 March Sat 3rd – Sun 4th People’s Global Action meeting, Milan, contact caravan99@list.free.de Thurs 8th International Women’s Day and second Global Women's Strike, contact International Wages for Housework Campaign, Crossroads Women's Centre, 230A Kentish Town Road, London NW5 2AB 020-7482 2496; http://womenstrike8m@server101.com email womenstrike8m@server101.com; Weds 14th International Day of Action Against Dams and for Rivers, Water & Life, organised by International Rivers Network, 1847 Berkeley Way, Berkeley, CA 94703 USA, phone: 510 848 1155 email: dayofaction@irn.org, www.irn.org/dayofaction Weds 21st Day of Action on Climate Change, contact info@risingtide.org.uk PO Box 9656 London N4 4JY April Sun 1st ( April Fools Day ) till May 1st ( Mayday ) International Month of Pie-rect action against Capital and State – Dessert the State in the Lead up to Mayday www.dessertstorm.org Fri 20th – Sun 22nd Summit of the Americas, Quebec, 34 heads of state from North, South and Central America and the Caribbean (except Cuba, of course) meet to discuss regional issues and the proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas agreement (effectively an extension of NAFTA). Mass demonstrations are promised culminating in a mass day of action on April 20th. e-mail: clac@tao.ca www.quebec2001.net, phone: +1 514 526-8946, post: 2035, St-Laurent Boulevard, 2nd floor Montreal, Quebec H2X 2T3 CANADA www.tradewatch.org/FTAA/ftaahome Fri 27th – Tues May 1st Peoples’ Global Action international meeting in Cochabamba, Bolivia www.agp.org |
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