Newsletter Issue 15 September-October 2003
This issue’s features:

ONCE UPON A TIME IN MEXICO
Lucy Michaels pulls apart the threads of the Cancun story and weaves a tapestry of downright bullying, outright resistance and tentative hope.

NEWS
Do you want the government to medicate you without your consent? Should Unocal be prosecuted? Tricky questions... Plus: Green Gloves save the planet; Nike saves itself; a fascinating insight into the House of Commons, and the latest on UN attempts to curb the corporations.

EXCUSE ME, BUT ARE YOU GOING TO THE ARMS FAIR?
Corporate Watch at DSEi, talking to people making money in ways they wouldn't want to explain to their children (unless they disliked them intensely).

ART SCHMART
“Stick a can of Carslberg in that cornfield, will you, Vincent?” Justin Schamotta investigates corporate artists.

BABYLONIAN TIMES
it's funnier than you think.

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OCTOBER

31-2 Nov Mad Pride weekend @ The Sanctuary Café, Hove www.madpride.org.uk

NOVEMBER

1 November - Pyramid of Shoes in Parliament Square to highlight landmine
victims and mark the start of Landmine Action Week.

3-9 Landmine action week.For an action pack contact 020 7820 0222 info@landmineaction.org

19/20/21 E NEW KING OF BABYLON (acccording to the Jesus Christians). GEORGE W BUSH VISITS THE UK” For flags, bunting, patriotic songs of welcome, prayers for continued success in genocide etc see www.stopwar. org www.indymedia.or.uk

22 Beyond TV, 4th annual video activist festival, Swansea Environment centre, Pier Street, Swansea. Contact helen@videonetwork.org or 01792 455900 www.undercurrents.org/beyondtv/index.htm

29 Buy Nothing Day http://buynothingday.co.uk www.mydadsstripclub.com/bnd02.htm

29 Campsfield: 10 Years Too Long! Tenth anniversary demonstration at Campsfield Detention Centre, Langford Lane, Kidlington, Oxfordshire with guest speakers and music. Bring drums, whistles, etc to make sure the detainees hear us! 01865 558145 or 01993 703394 info@closecampsfield.org.uk www.closecampsfield.org.uk
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