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Diary, March 2001
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This is a long list - but most of these activities are in London. Tell us about activities in other areas.
| 3 to 10 March | � |
Protests
at Gap�- Nationwide Hundreds protested nationally at Gap's use of sweatshops - reportbacks and photos on out Gap page. |
| Monday 5 March | Protests
against
GlaxoSmithKline - Nationwide Drugs company GSK are leading a court case in South Africa to impose patents on their HIV treatments. This would hike the price, and condemn thousands of South Africans to death. Feedback from local protests on 5 March on our GSK page. |
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| Saturday 24 March | � | Demonstration
- Keep Racism Out of the Election - London 1pm, Trafalgar Square (Charing Cross tube). Called by Speak Out against Racism - Defend Asylum Seekers. More information here. |
| Saturday 24 March | Campaign to Free Vanunu
Vigil - London 1200-1400, Israeli Embassy, Kensington High St (High St Kensington tube) Mordachai Vanunu was imprisoned by Israel for revealing that they had nuclear weapons. More info from 020 7378 9324 Every Saturday |
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| Saturday 24 March | Vigil
and Meeting to Commemorate NATO Attack on Yugoslavia - Cambridge 2.30pm, McCrum Lecture Theatre, Bene't St (Next to the Eagle pub) - Speakers Marko Gasic of the British-Serbian Alliance for Peace and David Chandler of Leeds Metropolitan University |
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| Saturday 24 March | Establishing
Jubilee Scotland - Edinburgh Special general meeting to confirm the new constitution and elect the Campaign Co-ordinating Group. This will take place from 11am in the Friends Meeting House, Victoria Terrace, Edinburgh. |
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| Sunday 25 March | UN
Association Conference on Disarmament - Edinburgh City Chambers, High Street, Edinburgh from 10.30am, cost �5/�3. Call 0131 661 4276 for more info. |
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| Monday 26 March | End Sanctions on Iraq
Vigil - London 5.30-7pm, Foreign Office, King Charles St (Westminster tube) Every Monday |
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| Monday 26 March | Art
Tendency Against Capitalism - London Artists and cultural workers meet to organise a section for the protests in Genoa. Your ideas and creativity are required! ATAC are also organising meetings in art colleges to build for Genoa. 7pm, Conway Hall, Red Lion Square (Holborn tube.) More info - [email protected].� |
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| Monday 26 March | Air
Traffic Control: The Case Against Privatisation - London Speakers: John Edmonds (GMB), Mark Serwotka (PCS), John Macdonald (Lab MP), John Stewart (Heathrow Anti Noise Group)� 6pm, Jarvis International Hotel, Bath Road/ Cranford Lane, Cranford� (Nearest Tube Hounslow West on the Piccadilly Line but it's a 1 mile walk) |
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| Tuesday 27 March | Global
Development Forum - London Has the Status of Women Changed? 7-8.30pm, St James Church, Piccadilly (Piccadilly Circus tube). �5. More details from their website. |
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| Wednesday 28 March | Free
Tibet Vigil - London 6-8pm, opposite Chinese Embassy, 49 Portland Place (Regent's Park/Great Portland St tubes.) More info from the Free Tibet Campaign website. Every Wednesday. |
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| Wednesday 28 March | Globalise Resistance Counter Conference
- Canterbury 3pm-8.30pm, University of Kent at Canterbury� Speakers include: Jess Mock (Labour Behind the Label), Barry Coates (WDM), Annna Bragga (Green Party), Lindsey German (Socialist Review), People and Planet and more. Phone 07870 409 706 or e-mail [email protected] for details and tickets (�5/�3). |
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| Wednesday 28 March | Blockade
Balfour Beatty: Stop the Dam: Hands off the Tube - London Balfour Beatty are involved in the Ilisu Dam, the privatisation of the tube, PFI in hospitals and track repairs on the privatised railways. Protest the day before the next strike against tube privatisation - more here. |
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| Thursday 29 May | GATS-Free
Zone Now! Rally and Debate - Brighton Called by Brighton Green Party councillors, who are calling on Brighton and Hove City Council to make the city a GATS-Free Zone. More info here. |
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| Thursday 29 March | Meeting
with Journalist and Broadcaster John Pilger - London John Pilger will talk on the new updated edition of his book Heroes. 6.30pm at Bookmarks, 1 Bloomsbury St (Tottenham Court Rd tube.) More info at Bookmarks website. |
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| Thursday 29 March | Tube
Strike against Privatisation - London The courts ruled the last RMT strike illegal on a technicality - so the RMT has re-balloted, and 92% voted to strike against privatisation. Train drivers' union ASLEF is also striking. More details to come. |
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| Thursday 29 March | Trident
Vigil Outside High Court - Edinburgh Three law lords will give their ruling on Friday morning as to whether the Trident nuclear weapons system is illegal, and whether citizens have the right to break the law to stop the state committing war crimes. All night vigil starts at 5.30pm. More info here. |
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| Friday 30 March | Scottish
Law Lords Rule on Trident The ruling will be announced at 10am. Scottish CND are calling for everyone who can to attend. More info here. |
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| Friday 30 March | Black
Communities in Colombia: What's Going On - Edinburgh Plan Colombia, Land, Territory and Autonomy..... 7.30pm at Communication Workers Union, 15 Brunswick St, Edinburgh. Two speakers from Colombia: Jorge Arumburo from the PCN (Process of Black Communities) and Pacho Cortes from the peasant organisation ANUC-UR. Organised by ACE. |
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| Saturday 31 March | � | Resisting Privatisation
Conference - London Organised to co-ordinate the fight against privatisation, PFI and PPP. 12 noon to 4pm, South Camden Community School, Charrington Rd, NW1 (Euston, Kings Cross, Mornington Crescent tubes.) Called by Dudley UNISON, supported by ASLEF District Council No 8 London Underground. Speakers include Tony Benn MP; Bob Crow, RMT; Mark Serwotka, PCS; Liz Davies, ex-Labour Party NEC |
| Saturday 31 March | � | Stop the
Nazis Marching in Oldham Details of this protest, and the demo to Defend Asylum Seekers (now postponed till 7 April) here. |
| Saturday 31 March | Anti
Nazi Stall - Bermondsey, London ANL stall, Saturday 31 March, 10am until 1pm, The Blue, Southwark Park Road. Building next week's protest to stop fascists marching - more info here. |
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| Saturday 31 March | Campaign to Free Vanunu
Vigil - London 1200-1400, Israeli Embassy, Kensington High St (High St Kensington tube) Mordachai Vanunu was imprisoned by Israel for revealing that they had nuclear weapons. More info from 020 7378 9324 Every Saturday |
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| Saturday 31 March | Disability Rights Now
Rally and March - London Rights Now is holding a pre-election rally and march for disability rights. 1.30-4pm, assemble College Green (by Houses of Parliament, Westminster tube) for march to Trafalgar Square (Charing Cross tube.) Contact Brenda Ellis at Greater London Association of Disabled People on 020 7346 5814, or 020 7326 4554 for Minicom users. |
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| Saturday 31 March | Clydebank
Asbestos Group March - Glasgow Assemble 10.30am, Queens Square, Clydebank. March to the Rally at Clydebank Town Hall. Speakers include Tommy Sheridan MSP, Bill Speirs Gen Secretary STUC and Joan Baird, Clydebank Asbestos group. 5000 Scottish shipyard workers will die of asbestos related illness in the next ten years. The company due to pay them compensation has gone bust. |
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| Saturday 31 March | Debate:
GM Foods, Right or Wrong? - Edinburgh 3.30-5.30pm, Lecture Theatre, Royal Botanic Gardens, 20a Inverleith Row. �2, students free. Dr Arpad Pusztai and Prof Tony Trewavas will each speak for 30 minutes and then answer questions. Dr Pusztai has been barred from the Edinburgh Science Festival, so the McCarrison Society (who work around nutrition and health) have organised this instead. |
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