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Action Update
diary dates
issue 86 november 2002
November
21-22: NATO Summit, Prague, Czech
Republic. www.csaf.cz/english
23-24: Women Speak Out, national women activists’ gathering, Manchester.
To help organise, and/or offer a workshop, call 07753 606723, email wsomanchester@bellow.org.uk.
www.bellow.org.uk for details/updates.
23: No Sweat conference, speakers including trade unionists from Nike
Kukdong/Mexmode dispute in Mexico. Noon to 5.30, main building, SOAS,
Thornhaugh St, London WC1. £5 to No Sweat, PO Box 36707, London
SW9 8YA. 07904 431 959. www.nosweat.org.uk admin@nosweat.org.uk
23-30 Week of Action against the fur trade
29 Buy Nothing Day - www.fanclubbers.org, nomoney@eroding.org.uk
December
1 Global Day of Action against
vivisectors Huntington Life Sciences. Info: London Animal Action on 0845
458 4775 or 07796 774 200
1 International AIDS Day
4 'Threads' - film about life in Britain after a nuclear strike. Also
public information films about preparing for a nuclear explosion. 5:30pm
& 8pm, part of Fourth Tyneside Radical Film Festival. The Side Cinema,
near the Crown Posada pub on Dean Street, on Newcastle's Quayside. radical.filmfest@tesco.net
7-9th 10th anniversary gathering - resistance to road building at Twyford
Down, near Winchester
8 National demo against Huntington Life Sciences. www.shac.net or 0845
458 0630.
Fri 9 International Day Against Fascism (to commemorate Kristallnacht).
events tba www.twafa.org.uk, www.unitedagainstracism.org
10 Intl Animal Rights Day - Uncaged Campaigns, St Matthew's House, 45
Carver Street, Sheffield S1 4FT. 0114 2722220 or info@uncaged.co.uk, www.uncaged.co.uk
12-13 EU SUMMIT - in Copenhagen, Denmark. Info: www.aseed.net or Peoples'
Global Action - www.agp.org or Indymedia.
14 Jimmy McGovern talks about the film 'Dockers' he helped write with
the sacked Liverpool dockers. 5:30pm & 8pm (Fourth Tyneside Radical
Film Festival, see 4/12)
18 International Migrants Day
20-21 Two days of disobedience in solidarity with the Argentine popular
rebellion. To join email list email: list@raaf.be
28 International Human Rights Day - demo by the LASO Collective against
Plan Columbia: 07950 923448, lasocollective@hotmail.com
28 Christian CND prayer vigil at Albemarle nuclear weapons compound, near
Heddon-on-the-Wall. Meet 2.15pm Central Station for 3pm at North Gate
Ongoing
THURSDAYS Protest at Selfridges sale of fur in the run-up to Christmas.
400 Oxford St, W1, 6-8pm. (Bond/Oxford Circus tube). Or call Selfridges:
0870 837 7377. London Animal Action 0845 458 4775, or 07796 774 200.
FRIDAYS London Critical Mass - last Friday of each month, 6pm @ South
Bank, under Waterloo Bridge. 07801 703016 or criticalmass.london@virgin.net
or http://come.to/londoncm/
SATURDAYS DEMO outside Campsfield refugee detention centre last Saturday
of the month, Oxfordshire. Close Down Campsfield Noon-2pm. Info: 01865
558145
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