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From: "SchNEWS"
To: "SchNEWS Subscribers"
Date: Fri, 1 May 1998 18:31:54 +0000
Subject: SchNEWS 165, 1 May 1998 (Part 2 of 2)
SchGUIDE to SUMMERTIME 98
MAY
Fri 8
* London Anarchist Forum (LAF) Symposium on Anarchist Alternatives
@ Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London WC1 (Holborn Tube). 8pm, free.
Sat 9
* Reclaim The Streets @ 12noon, City Square, Leeds.
* Stop the Madness - Reclaim The Streets @ 12noon, St Peter's Square,
Wolverhampton. Info: 0961 838508
* Farcical Freedom of Speech Night, Inner Terrestrials, Head Jam etc.
@ Pembury Tavern, 90 Amhurst Road, Hackney, London E8.
8.30-1am, £3.50/£2.50. Benefit for GANDALF Support Campaign
and Russian Publishing Project, who translate previously unavailable
radical literature into Russian.
* Welfare Before Warheads - women's gathering @ atomic weapons base,
Aldermaston. Men's event @ Burghfield.
Sat 9 - Sun 10
* Young women's camp. [Hampshire] Info: 01703 554434;
Sun 10
* Save our Downs, public meeting. 2pm Brighthelm Centre, North Rd,
Brighton. (NB: people should be boycotting the Brighthelm Centre
because of their involvement in Project Work)
* Wild Thyme Vegan Cafe night, Cambridge to raise funds for
Animal Rescue service.
Wed 13
* Demonstrate outside British Field Sports Society AGM 1pm @ Royal Inst.
Chartered Surveyors, 12 Great George St, London SW1
(Westminster tube). Info 0171 2783068
Fri 15
*Conscientious Objectors Day - short Amnesty meeting @ Tavistock Square,
London WC1. Other events all over, call 0171 2784040.
* LAF talk, May 68 in Paris with participant Sebastian Hays @ Conway Hall,
London (as above). 8pm, free.
SATURDAY MAY 16 - GLOBAL STREETS PARTIES
While leaders of the most industrialised nations of the world meet in
Birmingham squillions of people will join the Global Street Party. From
Australia to Israel, Slovenia to Switzerland... 33 cities in 21 countries
(and counting!).
Full list: RTS, PO Box 9656, London, N4 4JY.
Telephone: 0171 281 4621
E-mail: rts@gn.apc.org
Web: http://www.hrc.wmin.ac.uk/campaigns/rts.html
Gyrate Not G8! Jubilee 2000 human chain around the International
Convention Centre in Birmingham, where the G8 summit is meeting
@ 2pm- followed by a Global Street Party. Meet 4pm, meet New St Station,
Birmingham. 0171 2814621
Fancy a bit of clowning around? Want to help incite outbreaks of
internationalist revolutionary optimism? People are needed to set up
affinity groups which can function as stewards/party game
organisers/performers during the party. No experience necessary,
there will be a workshop before hand. Call 0171 281 4621 and say you
want to become a clown, or e-mail
clown@persist.demon.co.uk
Sat 16
* Quakers Open Day @ Friends Meeting house, Brighton. 10-6pm, free.
* Levellers' Day - Burford, Oxfordshire - four speakers (on May 17th
1649, 3 Levellers were executed). 10.30-4.30pm, £5/£2.50.
Info: 01865 735360, E-mail:
levellers@btinternet.com
* Night Vigil at Hillgrove Laboratory Cat Farm, Dry Lane,
Witney, Oxon. 10pm. Info: 0121 632 6460
* Sustainable Lewes - debate + workshops @ All Saints Centre, Friars Walk,
Lewes 9.30 am - 4 pm. Info: 01273 477942
16-20 MAY - DAYS OF ACTION AGAINST WORLD TRADE ORGANISATION
GENEVA - After Birmingham, leaders of the G8 will be fly to Geneva
to join "celebrations" at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) Ministerial
Conference - those nice people who in their own words are writing the
constitution of the single global economy. Actions have been organised
including a street party on Saturday, which will be joined by unemployed
marchers from several French cities, bicycle caravans from Germany, a
special train from Italy, and up to three thousand small farmers
selling local food on the streets.
Monday is Peoples Trade Day where several symbols of global capitalism
(like banks and fast food restaurants) will be blocked by small scale
local traders. A candle procession to the WTO will take place on
Tuesday evening and on Wednesday people will walk with hands tied in an
attempt to enter and stop the conference. Other anti-WTO actions are
planned in India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Canada, Colombia,
Peru in addition to the 31+ street parties on the 16th.
E-mail: playfair@asta.rwth-aachen.de
Web: http://www.agp.org/
Fri 22 - Mon 25
* National Animal Rights Gathering, workshops & action.
* Vegan-Fruitarian Gathering in Leicester. Info: 01902 711935
Fri 22 - Tue 26
* Earth Spirit Spring Awakening Camp. [Sussex] Info: 01273 814490
Fri 22
* LAF (London Anarchist Forum) General Discussion @ Conway Hall,
London (as above). 8pm, free
* National Gathering to Defend Council Housing, (also Sat 23rd)
East London. Info: 0171 2542312 (call now)
Sat 23
* Fight Poverty Pay - Demonstrate against Polygram - Glenfield Park,
Blackburn. Meet 11am. It's one year since Nigel Cook was sacked for
trying to organise a trade union at M&S Packaging, who package CDs for
Polygram. Workers are paid as little as £3 an hour, for 12 hour shifts
with no sick or holiday. Organised by the Re-instate Nigel Cook Campaign.
Info: 01254 679605 Picket Info/travel: 0171 8371688
* Reclaim The Streets in Lancaster. Meet 12noon, Dalton Square.
Sat 23 - Sun 24
* Occupy a Genetix Test site, somewhere in East Anglia.
Info: 01603 768235
Sun 24
* International Women's Day for Peace and Disarmament.
Contact (Geneva) +41 22731 6429
E-mail: ipb@gn.apc.org
Mon 25
* A Tea Party is planned @ The Flat Oak at the end of the new Thanet Way
in Kent, in contrast with the official fun run all-for-charity-mate
opening. Info: 01227 720183
* Green Fair @ Canbury Gardens, Kingston, Surrey. 11am-9pm, 3.
Info: 0181 9745621
* Maidstone Green Fair, Mote Park, Maidstone, Kent.
FREE. 01622 750543
Thur 28
* London Gandalf Support Campaign meeting 7 pm Conway Hall, Red Lion Sq.
London WC1
Fri 29
* LAF Symposium on Anarchism and Science Fiction @ Conway Hall,
London (as above). 8pm, free
Sat 30
* Roots Reggae Night @ the Lott, 382 Mentmore Tce, London E8. 9pm-6am,
5/4. Benefit for Advisory Service for Squatters & Asylum Seekers
* Liverpool Dockers 2nd March for Social Justice @ Thames Embankment
(Temple Tube), London. Meet 12noon. Info: 0181 4420090
* No Open Cast Action (proposed) in the north. Info: 0181 7673142
Sun 31
* National Demo against cat breeding for vivisection @ Hillgrove Farm,
Witney (as above), 12noon. Info: 0121 632 6460
JUNE
June 98-99
* Interfaith Pilgrimage retracing the journey of slavery.
Walk from Liverpool to Senegal. Info: 0171 2289620
Mon 1 - Wed 3
* Close Down Eurosatory Arms Fair @ Le Bourget, near Paris.
Non-violence training, protest at fair, day of action in Paris.
Info: 00-31 2061 64684
Mon 1 - Sun 7
* National Vegetarian Week. 0161 928 0793
Fri 5
* Blyth Power + Dole Claimers + Judge Trev etc. Benefit gig for
London Animal Action and Reclaim The Streets @ Pembury Tavern, London
(as above). 9-1am, 3.50/ 2.50.
* LAF General Discussion @ Conway Hall, London (as above). 8pm, free
* 25th Anniversary of London Greenpeace, gathering and reunion @
Conway Hall, London (as above) 6.30pm. Info: 0171 7131269
Sat 6
* London Reclaim The Streets, meet 12noon outside Euston Station.
Evening: parties, North and South. Info: 0171 2814621
* Rage Against the Cage (food, exhibition, workshop, kids stuff) - 11am-5pm @
Devonshire Green, Sheffield, inc. National March Against Vivisection -
1pm. Info: 0114 2530020
* Strawberry Fair, Midsummer Common, Cambridge, free.
Info: 01223 350542
* Real Peoples Europe conference 10am-6pm, University of London,
Malet St. 0171 6079615
Sun 7
* Vegfest, Castle Field, Manchester. Info: 0161 9280793
9-16 JUNE - RECLAIM EUROPE!
Radical alternative to Eurosummit and its corporate agenda in Cardiff.
Mass cycle blockade, demos, workshops, street events, parties and
other surprises. Info: 0171 2729333,
E-mail: europ@globalnet.co.uk
Web: http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/5581/
Sat 13
* Massive demonstration "No to a big business Europe - Yes to
Jobs, Public Services and Democracy", Cardiff at 1.30pm.
Info: 01222 220347
E-mail: reclaim.Europe@btinternet.com
- Should be fun!!
Wed 10
* Anti-hunt Demo @ Houses of Parliament, London. 12noon. Info: 0171 2783068
Fri 12
* LAF symposium, Does Social Class Matter? @ Conway Hall, London
(as above). 8pm, free
Sat 13 - Sat 20
* Nottingham Green Transport Week. 0115 9585666
Sun 14
* It's Not Fayre, Midsummer Meadow, Northampton. FREE. 01604 232295
Tue 16
* International Refugee Day. Events all over, contact refugee
support and human rights groups
Thu 18
* Farcical Freedom of Speech II and Pre-Solstice Night with Revolutionary Dub
Warriors, Ruby Throat + Tragic Roundabout @ The Garage, 20-22 Highbury Corner,
London, N8. 8-12midnight, £5/4. Benefit for GANDALF Support Group...
Fri 19
* LAF talk, 'What I Want is Facts' by Nicholas Walter @ Conway Hall,
London (as above). 8pm, free
* McLibel Anniversary Day of Action. 0171 7131269
Fri 19 - Mon 22
* Solstice Eco-Festival, Lincolnshire Wolds. #10:
Info: 01522 887169
Fri 19 - Sun 28
* Stonehenge Free Festival, Wiltshire. Bring what you expect
to find! (wot - like some wirecutters and a polevault?)
Sat 20
* Hackney Show, London. FREE. details to be confirmed
* Salisbury Reclaim The Streets, 12 noon, Train Station
Sat 20 - Sun 21
* Leamington Peace Festival - Pump Rooms, Warwickshire.
FREE 01926 421830
Fri 26 - Sun 28
* Glastonbury. Only £80!(or maybe free!!??) 01179 767868
Fri 26
* LAF General Discussion @ Conway Hall, London (as above). 8pm, free
JULY
Fri 3 - Sun 5
* Bracknell Festival, South Hill Park, Berkshire.
Info: 01344 484123
Sat 4
* Pride 98, Clapham Common, London. Free
* Lewisham Peoples Day, London. Free, details to be confirmed
Sun 5
* Lazy Sunday, St Mary's Gardens, Bedford. 01234 360601
Sat 11
* Greenwich Anti-Racist Festival - Plumstead Common, London. Free
* Rainbow Festival, Watford. details to be confirmed
Fri 10 - Sun 12
* Winchester Hat Fayre, Hampshire. 01962 863966
* Larmer Tree Festival, near Tollard Royal (A354), Wiltshire.
£45/£27/£6. Info: 01722 415223
Wed 15 - Sun 19
* Buddhafield Festival, near Shepton Mallet, Somerset, #25.
0181 6779564
Fri 17 - Sun 19
* Music in the Sun Festival, Don Valley Grass Boll, Sheffield.
£4 a day, £9.50 weekend. 0114 2754504/2763727.
E-mail: admin@solis.co.uk
Web: http://www.solis.co.uk/
Sat 18
* Music in the Square, Portsmouth. 12noon-11pm FREE. 01705 834142
Sat 18 - Sun 19
* Bristol Community Festival, Ashton Court FREE. 0117 9042275
Sun 19
* Festival of Global Rights, Hackney Marshes, London. FREE
Wed 29 - Sun 2 Aug
* Big Green Gathering, West Wiltshire, £50/concs.
Info: 01747 870667
Fri 31 - 2nd Aug
* Taunton Green Fair, Somerset. To be confirmed - watch this space.
AUGUST
Sun 2
* Sundaze Festival, Rushton Hall, Kettering, Northants.
£7/£5. 01536 710002
Sun 9
* Smokey Bears Picnic, Southsea Common, Portsmouth. 2pm FREE
Tue 11 - Tue 25
* 2-week disarmament camp at Trident base, Faslane,
bonnie Scotland. 01603 611953
Fri 14 - Sun 16
* Megadogs Lizard Festival becomes the Beach Party - Carlyon Bay,
St Austell, Cornwall. 60 (!!).
tel: 0181 8012662; fax: 0181 8088161
Sat 15 - Sun 16
* Day of Protest @ Faslane Peace Camp - street campaigning
in Helensburgh, a march to, and rally at the base, food and a Ceildh
Wed 19 - Sun 23
* Northern Green Gathering, near Pontefract, W.Yorks.
0113 224 9885;
* Vegan Summer Gathering (TBC). 01395 270280
Mon 31
* Sutton Green Fair, Carshalton Park, Ruskin Rd, Surrey. FREE.
0181 647 7706
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