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Newsletter Issue 4 July - August 2001 |
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| Diary AUGUST Fri 27th July - Fri 11th August Trident Ploughshares summer camp, Peaton Wood, Coulport. Bring sleeping bags and ‘disarmament tools’! 01324 880744 mobile 07775 711054 e-mail davidmc@enterprise.net Wed 1st - Sun 5th Earth First Summer Gathering, Derbyshire, www.eco-action.org/gathering 0845 4589595 summergathering@yahoo.co.uk Sun12th - 18th National Week of Action against sanctions, including a mass demonstration on the first weekend. Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq www.casi.org.uk fax 0870 063 5022 or email voices@viwuk.freeserve.co.uk Voices in the Wilderness Sun 12th - Smokey Bear’s Picnic, Southsea Common, Portsmouth, from 2pm. Last year the police arrested a man for commenting on a bald officer’s wig, and had to pay him £1,200 compensation afterwards, (hee, hee!), so picnickers are being encouraged to wear brightly coloured daft wigs! www.smokeybearspicnic.com Sat 18th - Anti-GM crops march and fun day - Inverness Thur 23rd - Sun 27th - Green Up North. Acoustic successor to the Northern Green Gathering, with workshops and exhibitions themed around climate change. Tickets £30/£5 kids. http://www.vis.u-net.com/ngg/ SEPTEMBER Sat 1st - ‘3 headed’ demonstration against Porton Down. Meet at the Maltings, Salisbury 1.30pm for a march and demo in the town and on to Porton Down front and rear entrances. For map send SAE to Jenny Pothecray, Lemerle, Amesbury Road, Salisbury, SP4 0HN. Sat 8th - Norwich Street Carnival. Day of peaceful protest against globalisation, McDollars, Starbucks, GM trials... Direct Action Forum, PO Box 487, Norwich, NR2 3AL 0794487393 Tue 11th - Fri 14th DSEi Arms Fair. Guns, tanks, landmines or cluster bombs get them all at Defence Systems and Equipment International arms fair (DSEi) London Docklands. Fiesta for Life Against Death on the first day - 020-72810297, Disarm DSEi, PO Box 9656, London N4 4JY www.disarm-trade.org. Sun16th - Worldwide day of action against McDonalds to mark World Food Day. Adopt YOUR store. Leaflets £10 for 750 from veggies 0845 458 9595 Sun16th - Mon 24th Third International Conference of Peoples Global Action, Cochabamba, Bolivia www.agp.org Fri 20th - Car Free Day www.carbusters.ecn.cz Sun 22nd European Car Free Day Sat 28th - Fri October 4th IMF/World Bank AGM Washington. Call out for activists from all over the world to protest and expose the illegitimacy of the institutions and officials who continue to claim the right to determine the course of the world economy. 50 Years Is Enough Network www.50years.org |
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