Newsletter Issue 9 June-July 2002
This issue’s features:
End of the Worldcom as we know it
Corporate America is in trouble.
The PRIVATE Sector
White Gold
Privatisation of water utilities in South Africa.
UN-sustainability
+ BASDards at the World Summit on Sustainable Development
News In Brief...
Occidental gives up on U’wa land, Road rot continues,
MuckDollars news, BNFL’s nuclear waste storage ‘unsatisfactory’, says report
Babylonian Times
- the CW tabloid section...

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Diary

JULY

Wed 10 - Wed 14 August
Ecotopia Bike Tour

B eginning in Dover and culminating at the Ecotopia Festival in Ireland. With actions, workshops and lots of fun along the way. More info: +44 (0)7870 467231, btour2002@yahoo.com, www.thebiketour.net

Fri 19-Sun 28
No Border-Action-camp in Strasbourg.
A ten-day laboratory of creative resistance and civil disobedience to demand freedom of movement. www.noborder.org, UK mailing list: strasbourgcamp@yahoogroups.com

Mon 22 - Sun 28
Farnborough Air show,

A ctions planned - contact: Keith Parkins keithpp@hotmail.com

Wed 24
No to GM Crop commercialisation.
Deliver your message to DEFRA. Meet 12 noon Victoria Tower Gardens, next to Houses of Parliament, 2pm DEFRA, Smiths Square, Nearest tube: Westminster, Contacts: 01273 628441 or 020 7272 1586.

Wed 24 - Sun 28
The Big Green Gathering
01932 229911 info@big-green-gathering.com www.big-green-gathering.com

Sat 27
Skate Attack and Critical Mass, Manchester.
Meet 1pm in St Peters Square by the Central Library, anyone with wheels, without an engine is welcome to join in. 07763 740453

Sat 27- Sat 3 August
Events in support of sweatshop workers around the world, Manchester

Demanding the Commonweath Games organisers in Manchester make a stand against exploitation. Contact: Manchester No Sweat 0161 861 7160 manchester@nosweat.org

AUGUST

Sun 4 - Mon 19
Trident Ploughshares Disarmament camp at Peaton Glen Wood

Near Coulport, 15 days of direct action and campaign workshops at the Faslane and Coulport nuclear weapon bases. Contact: 0845 45 88 366, davidmc@enterprise.net www.tridentploughshares.org

Fri 9 - International Day of Indigenous People
www.ifad.org

Sat 10 - Sat 24
Ecotopia 2002
A two-week environmental festival in the Dingle Peninsula, Ireland. www.ecotopia2002.org

Thu 22 - Mon 26
Northern Green Gathering, West Yorkshire.
www.ngg.org.uk info@ngg.org.uk

26-4 September
United Nations World Summit on Sustainable Development, Johannesburg, South Africa.

Thu 29 - Sat 31
Eastern Green Gathering near Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk

Contact: 01284 728253

Sat 31
Global Day of Action Against a Corporate UN

Stop big corporations and their lobby groups from influencing the World Summit in Johannesburg. Join the day of action and organise something locally! www.aseed.net UK contact: earthsummit02@yahoo.co.uk.

Sat 31
Close Campsfield (refugee) Detention Centre, Kidlington, Oxford.
12-2pm. www.CloseCampsfield.org.uk
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