Diary

March
All Month, Veggie Month Animal Aid 01732 364 546
Fri 1, National Rail Passenger Strike Day
Fri 1 - Mon 18, The Cubans are coming: Kenia Serrano and Nancy Coro, of the Union of Young Communists in Cuba, will be touring Britain with Rock Around the Blockade. Contact: Rock Around the Blockade, 020 7837 1688 www.boycottbacardi.com
Sat 2, Stop the War Protest, Hyde Park, London, 'Stop Bush & Blair's War', 'Stop US torture of prisoners', and 'Hands off Somalia & Iraq'.
Mon 4 - Sun 17 Fair Trade Fortnight 'Share the Passion' is this year's theme 020 7405 5942. www.fairtrade.org.uk
Fri 8 Global Women's Strike on International Women's Day, Contact: the International Wages for Housework Campaign, Crossroads Women's Centre, 230a Kentish Town Rd, London NW5 2AB Tel 020 7482 2496 womenstrike8m@server101.com http://womenstrike8m.server101.com
Sat 9, Last Chance rally to oppose the GM trial in Long Marston, speakers, discussions, information, entertainment videos and displays organic food at Stratford Upon Avon Town Hall. 10.30am for a 12pm start Coaches to the field trial from 2pm 020 7272 1586.
Tue 12, Palestinian Blood on British Hands House of Commons; Grand Committee Room 7.30 Britain is still selling arms to Israel, and even components which are being used in weapons systems against Palestinian civilians. Contact the Palestinian Solidarity Campaign 0207 700 6192, www.palestinecampaign.org
Mon 18- Fri 22, EU Summit, Barcelona, Spain.
Sat 23 'Long March for the Climate'. One year after Bush dumped Kyoto. Starts 7am at the ESSO HQ, Ermyn Way, near Leatherhead -ends US embassy, Grosvenor Square 5.30 pm. Final leg starts 3.30 pm, Imperial War Museum, Lambeth Road. Tel 020 88 55 33 27/07903 316 331 www.campaignagainstclimatechange.net
Mon 25- Thu 28th, Blockade of the Peat Works adjacent to Hatfield Moor, near Doncaster. Contact: peat alert, c/o CRC, 16 Sholebrook Avenue, Leeds, LS7 3HB, info@peatalert.org.uk (0778) 778 2259.
Sat 30 Close down Yarl's Wood. Demonstration at the asylum camp.12noon-1.30pm. Demonstration Bedford town centre from 2-4pm against the government's attacks on asylum seekers. Tel 07786 517379

April
Sat 7 - Fri 19, UN Convention on Biological Diversity (COP 6), Den Haag, The Netherlands. Actions, workshops and festivities planned. Tackling issues of food, agriculture and biodiversity in the age of economic globalisation. Includes a Common Ground conference (13th -14th). Contact: rif@gn.apc.org , RIF, c/o ASEED Europe, PO Box 92066, 1090AB, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, www.resistanceisfertile.org
Wed 17, Global Day of Farmers' Struggle - protests against GMO's and patents www.viacampesina.org
Fri 19- Sat 20 The End Of The Road. Direct action gathering in Nottingham to build resistance to the new roads program and the corporate dominance it fuels. Starts Friday 7pm. Arrivals will be met at the Sumac Centre, 245 Gladstone street, Nottingham, NG7 6HX (for directions check www.multimap.com) contact: 07813 505480, endoftheroad@hushmail.com. Accommodation provided.