DIARY

1st-2nd April - G20: 2 days of action in London's City
The G20 summit is coming to London to attempt to 're-build confidence in global financial markets'. Two days of direct action are planned in the City under the slogans:
- Capitalism isn't in crisis - Capitalism IS crisis; and
- Don't bail-out the banks, SINK THEM!
For more details, see here.

Tuesday 24th February - Sunday 1st March - *Splash EDO: Artists Against EDO* - Smash EDO are organising a week of events, including music, art and poetry celebrating four and a half years of community resistance against EDO MBM.
For more information see www.smashedo.org.uk/news.htm

Thursday 26th February - 1-3pm - *Free West Papua demonstration* - In response to increased Indonesian military operations against the Papuan population these demonstrations will be held twice monthly.
Location: Indonesian Embassy, 38 Grosvenor Square, London
For more information and to sign up to the Free West Papua campaign's e-bulletin visit www.freewestpapua.org

Thursday 26th February - 4.30pm - 6.00pm - *LAMPEDUSA'S BURNING* - Protest at the Italian embassy in London for an end to detention and forced expulsion and in solidarity with the hunger strikers and all the migrant prisoners held on the Lampedusa island, Italy, which is being turned into one huge concentration camp.
Location: Italian Embassy: 14 Kings Yard, London, W1K 4EH

Friday 27th February - 12pm - *SHAC City Shakedown* - Protest will meet at the Bank of England and proceed to march through the financial districts of London, finishing at the New York Stock Exchange.
Location: Bank of England, London
For more information see www.shac.net/action/demos/city_shakedown/

Friday 27th February to Sunday 1st March - 9.30am - 5.30pm - *The Baby Show* - Clarion Events, organizers of the world's largest arms fair, DSEi, are hosting The Baby Show at ExCeL. Activists will be there to let parents know that when Clarion isn’t “provid[ing them] with everything [they] need for pregnancy, birth, baby and beyond”, it’s busy providing other parents with death and destruction. Join them!
Location: ExCeL London, One Western Gateway, Royal Victoria Dock, London, E16 1XL
For more information, see www.dsei.org/baby-show

Thursday 5th March - 7pm - Film night: Dealing and Wheeling in Small Arms
NSPM presents a revealing documentary about the global trade in small arms, plus short pro- and anti-gun films, introduced by a speaker from Notts Anti-Militarism.
Location: Training Room, lower ground floor, Portland Building, University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RD.

Thursday 5th -14th March - Tamar Katz, a 19 year old Israeli war-refuser jailed for 51 days last year, will be doing a speaker tour of Britain.
For more information, see www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/02/422596.html
Email: centre_stage_red[at]yahoo.co.uk

Saturday 7th - Sunday 8th March - from 10.30am on Saturday until 5pm on Sunday - National Climate Camp Gathering - Getting down to the work in hand! All welcome.
Location: Sumac Centre, 245 Gladstone Street, Nottingham, NG7 6HX
For more information see www.climatecamp.org.uk/node/471

Saturday 14th to Sunday 15th March - *National Squat Meetup* - In Defence of Autonomous Spaces. The "cracks are appearing... We can work together to change our world from the bottom up... New spaces and opportunities are opening all around us...there is a growing potential for more widespread recognition of the need for autonomous housing action. Now is the time to build a stronger network of resistance... Come get involved!"
Location: Bristol Area
For more information see http://squatmeet09.wordpress.com/ or contact squatmeetup[at]gmail.com

On the revolutionary horizon:

G20 Meltdown-Financial Fools Day-Fossil Fools Day

Wednesday 1st April - 12 noon - *G-20 Bank of England Reclaim the Streets Party* - Reclaiming the City, thrusting into the very belly of the beast: the Bank of England.
*We can't pay, we won't pay and we are taking to the streets.*
"Capitalism has been heating up our world for years, melting the icecaps, burning up the rainforests, pushing the planet to tipping point. Now we're going to put the heat on them. At the London Summit , the G20 ministers are trying to get away with the biggest April Fools trick of all time. Their tax-dodging, bonus-guzzling, pension-pinching, unregulated free market world in meltdown, and those fools think we're going to bail them out. They've gotta be joking!"
Location: The Bank of England, London
For more information see www.g-20meltdown.org

And for the follow up...
Thursday 2nd April - early a.m. - "We're going to bang on their hotel doors, @ the Excel Centre, Canning town to deliver our message of a world beyond capitalism."
For more information see www.g-20meltdown.org or email info[at]g-20meltdown.org

Also on Wednesday 1st April - 12 noon - *Climate Camp hits the City of London...* Stopping Carbon Trading... Because nature doesn't do bailouts. On April Fools Day, the eve of the G20 leaders' London Summit, Climate Camp 2009 takes to the streets of London. "Bring a pop-up tent if you've got one, sleeping bag, wind turbine, mobile cinema, action plans and ideas...let’s imagine another world."
Location: European Climate Exchange, Hasilwood House, 62 Bishopsgate, EC2N 4AW.
For more information see www.climatecamp.org.uk/g20 or email g20[at]climatecamp.org.uk.

And....Wednesday 1st April - Fossil Fools Day - escaping the centripetal force of Londinium take local, autonomous action and "take aim at your local fossil fool and help speed up the end of the fossil fuel empire, and the beginnings of a more just and sustainable world".
For more information see www.fossilfoolsdayofaction.org/2009/

Friday 3rd- Saturday 4th April - Mobilisation Against NATO 60th Anniversary Summit - Strasbourg, France and Kehl, Germany

Friday 24th April – www.veggies.org.uk/arc/event.php?ref=7> World Day for Animals in Laboratories

Monday 4th May - 12 noon - *Mayday Mayhem* - "Mayday! Mayday! Mass Street Party Against War and Greed. Smash EDO/ITT. Smash Capitalism. Bring passion, drums, sound systems."
Location: Brighton, see SmashEDO website (below) for details
For more information see www.smashedo.org.uk/mayday-09.htm