Newsletter Issue 5 September - October 2001
Diary

October

Tues 9 - Wed 10 Business Association for Sustainable Development (see front page) meeting in Paris. Actions organised, contact Etienne, ecoropa@magic.fr, or Flip, flip@aseed.antenna.nl, +31-20-6682236 or +31-6-17836486 (mobile).
Thurs 11 - Fri 12 TransAtlantic Business Dialogue (TABD) meeting, Stockholm, Sweden. TABD’s mission is to 'remove obstacles to trade' between the EU and US. For details of protests planned www.tabd.nu.
Sat 13 March and rally for peace and justice called by CND. Assemble 12 noon in Hyde Park (Marble Arch end). March 1pm. The march takes place on the International Day of Protest to Stop the Militarisation of Space.
Sat 13 - Sun 14 Rising Tide UK national gathering for campaigning against climate change. Bridge 5 Mill, Manchester. Contact Rising Tide UK - 01865 241097, info@risingtide.org.uk.
Tues 16 Worldwide day of action against McDonalds to mark World Food Day. Leaflets £10 for 750 from McLibel Support Campaign / London Greenpeace 5 Caledonian Rd, London, N1 9DX, UK. 0207 713 1269 mclibel@globalnet.co.uk www.mcspotlight.org
Sat 20 No Star Wars. Organising against Bush's National Missile Defence Programme, Conference at University of Westminster 115 New Cavendish Street W1 10am-5pm. Contact London Region CND 0207 607 2302 www.londoncnd.fsnet.co.uk
Sun 21 Mass Sit-down for peace, organised by ARROW (Active Resistance to the Roots Of War) meet 1pm Temple Place, London WC2. Contact ARROW c/o NVRN, 162 Holloway Rd. London N7 8DQ 0845 458 9571
Mon 22 The Big October Blockade - Faslane Scotland, 6pm - 7am http://dspace.dial.pipex. com/cndscot/protest/okblok.html OKBLOK Action Line: 0141 423 122.
Mon 29 - Fri 9 Nov Climate Change Conference COP7, Marrakech, Morocco. Contact Rising Tide UK - 01865 241097, info@risingtide.org.uk, website www.risingtide.org.uk.
Tues 30 - Thurs 1 Nov. COPEX arms fair, Sandown Racecourse. Contact Campaign Against Arms Trade 020 7281 0297 enquiries@caat.demon.co.uk
Weds 31 Give Nike Hell !!! Protest against Nike using child and sweated labour. 6pm Nike Tower, Oxford Circus. Contact No Sweat: 07904 431 959 www.nosweat.org.uk

November

Fri 3 Trade Justice Carnival 12:30pm Geraldine Mary Harmsworth Park, Imperial War Museum, Lambeth Road, London.www.tradejusticemovement.org
Mon 6 - Mon 13 WTO Shrink or Sink: Week of Action against World Trade Organisation Meeting, Qatar Events are planned in London, Paris, Washington and Geneva alexandra.wandel@foeeurope.org. www.agp.org
Thurs 9 Picket of Qatar Embassy at the beginning of the World Trade Organisation meeting 11.30am, 1 South Audley Sreet,London W1. Contact IMF and World Bank wanted for Fraud Campaign 0208 749 7179 nkexplo@yahoo.co.uk
Fri 10 West Country Activist Gathering 2001 St Werburgh's Community Centre, Hurley Rd Bristol. Full disabled access. £3 donation on the door. No dogs. No alcohol. No hierarchies. www.geocities.com/westcountryactivist Contact 07810 117047
Sat 18 Leicester Radical Alliance one day conference on issues surrounding the privatisation of public services in particular through PPP and PFI schemes. Contact korin_craig@yahoo.com 01536 523 002
Thurs 22 Alternative Solutions Discussion around world/free trade issues 7-9pm, Friends Meeting House, Mount Street M2. Contact WDM (Jessica Mock 225 7321, wdm-manchester@jdc-web.org.uk)
Sat 24 Buy Nothing Day. Contact Enough 0161 226 6668
Sat 24 - SWEATSHOP LABOUR - JUST END IT Conference, University of London Union. Contact No Sweat, PO Box 36707, London SW9 8YA. 07904 431 959 admin@nosweat.org.uk www.nosweat.org.uk
Mon 26 - Sun 2 Dec Boycott Esso Tree Week. This is the week when climate killers Esso (Exxon-Mobil) stage one of its annual greenwash campaigns. Treesponsibility plan independent tree-planting and anti-oil campaign. Contact Treesponsibility 01422 843 22
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