Action Reports – Page 135

Nuclear Power Conferences in London Hit by Protests

Tuesday, 18 May 2010 – CAMPAIGNERS from London and SE England Stop Nuclear Power [1] protested outside the Financing Nuclear Power and Nuclear Interim Storage conferences in central London today. They invited delegates to invest in a green future instead of nuclear energy and demanded an end to nuclear waste production.

The first port of call for the three protesters, two of whom were dressed in white overalls, was the Financing Nuclear Power conference at the plush Crowne Plaza hotel near St James’s Park. They held up a banner that read “Green Solutions Not Nuclear Greenwash” and leafleted delegates and passing members of the public outside the main entrance to the hotel for over an hour and a half, closely watched by hotel security staff throughout.

Two of them then moved on to the Nuclear Interim Storage conference, which was taking place at Dexter House at Royal Mint Court, adjacent to Tower Bridge. Standing in the courtyard outside the entrance/exit to the building hosting the conference, they held up a larger banner that read “Green Our Future, No to Nuclear” and exchanged banter with delegates and other users of the building on their lunch break. Security guards were called and the protesters were told they were on private property and had to leave, but the protesters stood their ground. A Police Community Support Officer then appeared and also tried to get the protesters to leave, but they refused. Further back up was called, but the protesters left before it arrived, having been there for an hour.

The incoming Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government has said it will continue with the Labour government policy of allowing ten new nuclear power stations to be built in England and Wales. Ministers have said that no direct public subsidies will be offered for new nuclear build, although a carbon floor price is proposed. Nowhere in the world has a nuclear power station ever been built without public subsidy.

For five decades, the nuclear industry has failed to find a permanent solution for its radioactive waste, which remains dangerous for tens of thousands of years. [2] With current waste storage facilities at Sizewell B in Suffolk nearly full, plans are in place to build a new “temporary” store where waste from the reactor will be kept indefinitely in the absence of a permanent solution. This is before considering the waste from any new reactor(s), which would be more radioactive and remain too hot to transport for 160+ years.

Campaigner Daniel Viesnik, 35, from London, says: “Contrary to the nonsense that you hear from the nuclear spin doctors and their political mouthpieces, nuclear power is a dirty, dangerous and expensive technology that diverts essential investment from genuine green alternatives like energy efficiency and renewable and decentralised energy. It carries the risks of nuclear weapons proliferation, nuclear terrorism and a Chernobyl-type catastrophe [3,4]. Why waste money on nuclear white elephants and dump more nuclear waste on local communities when we could build a genuinely sustainable, nuclear-free, zero carbon future?”

All images may be reproduced free of charge for non-commercial use if credited to D. Viesnik. Please e-mail for high res versions.

Notes:

1. London and SE England Stop Nuclear Power is part of the Stop Nuclear Power Network, a UK-based non-hierarchical grassroots network of activists taking action against nuclear power and supporting sustainable alternatives.
http://stopnuclearpoweruk.net
network[at]stopnuclearpoweruk.net

2. Nuclear Decommissioning Authority’s Oxide Fuel Topic Strategy (2010) indicates that serious questions remain within the nuclear industry itself over whether any solution for permanent disposal of radioactive waste will ever be found.
http://www.nda.gov.uk/documents/upload/draft-oxide-fuel-topic-strategy-gate-0.pdf

3. EDF nuclear reactor carries ‘Chernobyl-size’ explosion risk – Guardian, 7 March 2010
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/mar/07/edf-nuclear-reactor-chernobyl-risk

4. Academics demand independent inquiry into new nuclear reactors – Guardian, 11 March 2010
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/mar/11/independent-inquiry-nuclear-power-stations

vd2012-imc [at] yahoo.co.uk
http://stopnuclearpoweruk.net

Thousands of Tibetans mobilize to defend Sacred Mountains

May 18, 2010
A massive police crackdown may be imminent in the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR), where thousands of Tibetan villagers have mobilized to defend their sacred mountains from exploitation.

According to reports from Radio Free Asia (RFA), the villagers are attempting to halt three separate gold mines in Tsongshen, Choeten, and Deshoe in Markham county, TAR.

As many as five thousand Chinese troops have been called in to make sure the mining operations proceed.

A local Tibetan source, who spoke to RFA on condition of anonymity, says at least five protesters have already been injured in the protests, while numerous others have been beaten and tear-gassed by the troops. One also “attempted to kill himself with a broken bottle, the source said.”

Almost exactly one year ago, the same Tibetan villagers organized an indefinite roadblock to protect one of their sacred mountains, known locally as “Ser Ngul Lo.”

Translated into English as “Year of Gold and Silver”, Ser Ngul Lo has been worshipped by the Tibetans for centuries and it is the site of important ceremonies conducted in times of drought.

Government officials at the time granted a Chinese company permission to operate a gold mine in the region–most certainly, without consulting the Tibetans or gaining their consent.

In addition to protecting the Mountain, the villagers were also deeply concerned that their drinking water would be contaminated by the mine. And with a tense stand-off that ensued, the peaceful villagers declared that they were “ready to die” to protect the sacred site. The Tibetans feared the worst.

But then, as the international community watched on, the unimaginable happened: Government officials sat down with the Tibetans and reached a peaceful accord.

For their part, the officials agreed to completely abandon the gold mine and withdraw all troops in the area. In addition, they agreed to build a concrete barrier to stop any old mining waste from leaching into the local water system.

In return, the Tibetans agreed to end their 24-hour blockade and return home.

Hounslow squatted community land project

New land project occupied

Come and get stuck in at squatted Hounslow Community Land Project, on the Hanworth rd nxt to Gurdwara temple, ideas so far are allotments, sustainable living, creative workshops, recycled sculpture garden, spiritual space, sports pitches, adventure playground and nature trail! Come and be part of this! site phone kat on 07812 774110 or just turn up betwn 12 and dusk any day.

TATE MODERN 10TH BIRTHDAY SEES ACTION AGAINST SLICK BP SPONSORSHIP

DEAD FISH AND OIL-DRENCHED BIRDS HANG FROM TURBINE HALL

Tate Modern was forced to close down parts of its No Soul For Sale tenth anniversary exhibition on Saturday (15 May) while it struggled to remove dozens of dead fish and oil-soaked birds (1) hanging from huge black balloons let loose in the Turbine Hall.

DEAD FISH AND OIL-DRENCHED BIRDS HANG FROM TURBINE HALL

Art activists from LIBERATE TATE, a growing network dedicated to ensuring the museum drop its sponsorship deal with BP, infiltrated Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall and released dozens of helium-filled black balloons with dead animals attached. Crowds of tourists and art lovers gathered to watch the balloons rise up in the air until they filled the ceiling of the Turbine Hall.

Josephine Buoys, who took part in the art action, said: “We took this action whilst Tate sponsor BP is creating the largest oil painting in the world. Across the Gulf of Mexico ecosystems and livelihoods are being devastated by their oil spill. Every day Tate scrubs clean BP’s public image with the detergent of cool progressive art. Yet there is nothing
cool about a corporation that cares more about its profits than life or the future of our fragile world.”

By late afternoon Tate staff had burst some the oil bubble-like black balloons by climbing onto a high gantry, but many remained out of reach and the rotting fish and seabirds hovered above the evening’s celebrations headlined by Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth. Rumours circulated that Tate would commission a marksman to shoot the remaining balloons down from the top of the former power station.

LIBERATE TATE said: “Every time we step inside the museum Tate makes us complicit with acts that are harming people and creating environmental destruction and climate change, acts that will one day seem as archaic as the slave trade. We call on Tate to become a responsible, ethical and truly sustainable organisation for the 21st century and drop its
sponsorship by oil companies. As a public institution the Tate’s Trustees, chaired as they are by an ex-CEO of BP, must abandon its association with BP. All visitors to the Tate must be able to enjoy great art with a clear conscience about the impact of the museum on society and the environment.”

LIBERATE TATE distributed a communiqué (online here http://bit.ly/9RFfxJ) throughout the Tate Modern 10th anniversary promising further actions to ‘free art from oil’ by artists and activists across Britain until Tate ends its association with BP.

LIBERATE TATE have issued an open invitation for artists, activists, art lovers and other concerned members of the public to act to ensure that Tate ends its oil sponsorship by the end of 2011 ahead of Tate Modern’s expansion into its cleaned-out underground oil tanks.

LIBERATE TATE contact details:
web: www.twitter.com/liberatetate email: liberatetate@gmail.com

(1) – the ‘seabirds’ were made by members of Liberate Tate

Blockade of Monsanto office in The Netherlands (& GM being grown this year in the UK)

Update: no arrests made, Monsanto closed for whole day, workers sent home, and some of the corporate sculptures got a re-paint!

On Monday 17 May a group of 50 people from the group “Roundup Monsanto” blockaded the Monsanto office at Bergschenhoek in the Netherlands.

Update: no arrests made, Monsanto closed for whole day, workers sent home, and some of the corporate sculptures got a re-paint!

On Monday 17 May a group of 50 people from the group “Roundup Monsanto” blockaded the Monsanto office at Bergschenhoek in the Netherlands.

Verdelg Monsanto

Press Release: Blockade of Monsanto’s Bergschenhoek Location in The Netherlands

Bergschenhoek, Monday, May 17 – Since 6 o’clock this morning, 50 persons of the action group ‘Roundup Monsanto’ are blocking both gates of the Monsanto seed company near Rotterdam. ‘Roundup Monsanto’ wants Monsanto to back out of the seed market, and demands an end to patents on seeds and living organisms. Monsanto and other agro-chemical multinationals are lobbying the Dutch government and the EU for legislative changes that would make it easier for large companies to take control of the seed market and food production.[1]

The blockade is taking place at the former De Ruiter Seeds, acquired by Monsanto in 2008, where research laboratories, offices, greenhouses, and a central storage for seeds and seedlings are to be found.

The chemical company Monsanto has 23% of the worldwide market of commercial seeds in its hands. In the last 5 years, the company has bought up three large internationally active seed companies in the Netherlands: De Ruiter Seeds, Western Seeds, and Seminis. As a result, Monsanto now dominates the world market for vegetable seeds and seedlings. In addition, Monsanto is the market leader in genetically engineered soy, corn, sugar beets, and cotton, and has a large market share in pesticide sales. “Farmers and vegetable growers are becoming increasingly dependent on these big seed companies and patented seeds will make the situation even worse,” says Flip Vonk, an organic farm employee present at the action.

Monsanto is a chemical company which has grown large due to the production of pesticides, Agent Orange, and PCBs. [2] After countless scandals revolving around these chemical substances, the company found a new market strategy: development and sales of genetically manipulated crops. These crops are cultivated in enormous monocultures, with excessive use of fertiliser and pesticides. Monsanto represents a destructive model of chemical agriculture.

The current system of agriculture, based on mass import and export, is completely dependent on the consumption of fossil fuels. Chemical agriculture is responsible for a quarter to a third of the release of all the greenhouse gases. Over 80% of the cultivated GMOs are pesticide resistent, the remaining 20% produce insecticide inside the plant. This form of food production is extremely harmful to people, nature, and the climate. Genetical engineering will not contribute any solution to climate change.

Genetic engineering is often presented as a solution to the global food question. But in spite of 15 years of cultivation of genetically manipulated crops, 2009 witnessed a record amount of starvation. GM crops have not increased yields. “The food problem requires completely different solutions. We need to drastically change course, away from large-scale chemical agriculture, towards local food production in harmony with nature, without pesticides and without genetically manipulated crops. A world without Monsanto is a good step in that direction,” according to Miranda de Boer from ‘Roundup Monsanto’.

The two most important access doors to the Monsanto terrain have been closed off. The action group put up banners with the message “Imagine, monopoly of food, poisonous agriculture, The World according to … Monsanto”, adbusting the company’s logo. It has also adjusted the giant cucumber and tomato on the lawn to Monsanto’s manipulated reality. Employees and customers are greeted with coffee, tea, and background information on arrival.

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to the editors:
action location: Leeuwenhoekweg 52, Bergschenhoek (North of Rotterdam)
contact: verdelg-monsanto@riseup.net

[1] For further information about the development of patent law and breeders’ rights, consult a press release from A SEED Europe about the subject: http://www.aseed.net/kwekersrecht-vs-patentrecht

[2] See the film ‘The World According to Monsanto’

More background information can be found at:
– http://www.gentech.nl
– http://www.gmwatch.org
– http://www.no-patents-on-seeds.org
– http://www.aseed.net/monsanto
– http://www.combat-monsanto.co.uk
– http://www.toxicsoy.org

Action video – http://www.vimeo.com/12529960

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Two GM potato trials this year

The UK government in their GM madness have just (7.4.10) approved a new GM potato trial to go ahead at the Leeds University farm near Tadcaster. It is also likely that they will approve a second, different trial by the Sainsbury Laboratory at the John Innes Centre, Norwich.

These trials are experimental trials, and not part of an application to grow the potatoes on a commercial scale. The GM potatoes are still in the development stage and these trials are designed to find out whether the genetic manipulation works in field condition. If this is confirmed then they might go on to be developed for commercial growing.

Despite massive public resistance and growing evidence that GM does not increase yields, is extremely damaging to the environment and impoverishes farmers around the world, our government is pushing GM onto our plates. GM continues to be very lucrative for multinational biochemical corporations… while farmers around the world are rising up in protest against this technology of control.

The latest con promoted by the GM spinners is that GM will provide the answer to climate change. Rather than cutting carbon emissions, stupid…

Leeds trial:
The Centre for Plant Sciences at the University of Leeds has been given consent by Defra to conduct field trials of GM potatoes engineered to resist potato cyst eelworm or potato cyst nematode (PCN).

This is a different GM potato to the one previously trialled in 2008 and different to the potatoes proposed to be trialled in Norfolk, but many of the problems are the same.

The trials commence from 1 May to 3 November 2010 and continue for 3 years until 2012. They take place at the Leeds University Farm at Tadcaster, North Yorkshire covering not more than 1,000 square metres with up to 4,000 GM plants per year.

They are engineered to be resistant to nematodes, a pest affecting potatoes that can effectively dealt with through good farming practises

There is no need for GM to address this pest, nor is there any market for GM potatoes, so the trial should not go ahead.

Full details of the trial can be found here (including grid references)
http://www.defra.gov.uk/environment/quality/gm/regulation/registers/consents/index.htm

Norwich trial
The Sainsbury Laboratory at the John Innes Centre, Norwich has applied to Defra to conduct field trials of GM potatoes engineered to resist late potato blight. These potatoes contain genes from a potato relative from South America and have been engineered to be resistant to blight, a potato disease. They are different from the genes in BASF’s GM blight resist potatoes field tested near Cambridge in 2007 and 2008. The BASF trial was abandoned last year, for unknown reasons.

The release of GM potatoes would commence from 1 May 2010 and run to 30 November 2010 and continue for a further 2 years until 2012. The release would take place at the John Innes Centre, Norfolk, in an area of 1,000 square metres with 200 square metres used each year for GM potatoes with not more than 200 GM plants per year.

The decision is expected in the next couple of weeks.

A detailed briefing on the GM spuds can be downloaded from

http://www.gmfreeze.org/page.asp?ID=417&iType=1083

The full application to Defra can be found here (including grid references)

http://www.defra.gov.uk/environment/quality/gm/regulation/registers/applications/index.htm

Liberate the fields!

Coal Action Network website relaunched!

Check out http://coalaction.org.uk/ for the updated and re-vamped Coal Action Network website and detailed coal maps of the UK. It is hoped that this website will be a useful resource to anyone taking action – or thinking of taking action – to protect communities, environments and the climate system from coal projects.

The CAN website will be kept up-to-date with recent news from campaigns and the industry. Have a look at The Coal Maps – mapping coal across the UK, contacts page for campaigns and groups active on coal, useful resources for campaign groups, arguments against new coal, upcoming events and links to information and other issues. You can get in touch to contribute updates and information and sign up to the CAN email list.

Through this website we aim to help link community struggles and arm ourselves with the information we need to resist new open cast coal mines and coal-fired power stations.

party at the pumps

15 May 2010
The shell garage on upper street in islington was closed for several hours this afternoon by more than a hundred protestors.

at lunchtime around 50 people gathered at oxford circus, watched by quite a large police presence with several van-loads on stand-by. the station was briefly closed ‘due to sheer weight of numbers’ but re-opened after ten minutes, and they set off for highbury and islington.

meanwhile, around 40 cyclists met at marble arch and, followed by a couple of police vans, they took a circuitous route through hyde park, down past buck house, and then for a triumphal lap round parliament square, shouting out support over the mobile sound system to the democracy village and to the decade-long protest by brian haw.

the mass then carried on up to angel, and then along upper street to the shell garage, which had already been well and truly closed down by the foot-soldiers and by the rhythms of resistance samba band (mostly deputised by soas members).

the shell garage looked great! several people held a huge “danger – keep out” banner across one access. a simple “closed” banner was strung across the other. above, another banner declared “stop shell’s tar sands hell”, and some activists found a route up to the roof to drop another “stop tar sands” banner from there.

a head-count numbered 125 at one point. an excellent turn-out on a day with when there were several other protests in town, and most encouraging, there were many new faces, keeping the fit team and police photographer, neil, busy.

police-wise, there were about a dozen officers around making notes, and one FIT team. down the road were another serial waiting in a van, and another van of TSG further out of sight.

activists handed out hundreds of fliers, and public response was overwhelmingly positive.

More photos

European Squatting Meeting

Next 17, 18, 19, and 20 of June, a European Squatting Meeting will be held in the “CSO La Forsa” (Avenida de la Fama, 41, Cornella de Llobregat – Barcelona), so we are contacting groups across Europe who are interested in participate.

To join the meeting and / or submitting information, you can get in contact with us at: jornadaskny010@riseup.net

Program

Wednesday 16 June

To join the meeting and / or submitting information, you can get in contact with us at: jornadaskny010@riseup.net

Program

Wednesday 16 June

Arrival & Welcome: Food, Drinks & Live Music (Txaranga)

Thursday 17 June

Morning Program

Opening: Presentation of the different squats presents
• Historical Context: Beginning of the squat movement in Europe
• Political Context: Legal framework, repression and response strategies (Contacts and agreements with the state, response on the street, assimilation of evictions … )
• Present and Future
• Connexions with other struggles

We´d like that every collective could make a little scheme of this to tackle it better.

Evening Program

Discussion:
We would like to expose different strategies against repression followed in different spaces and places and their long-term effects: legalizations, agreements, different kinds of direct response against evictions and its effects of the activities of the spaces (such as the reception of children, support groups outlawed …)

Friday 18 June

Morning Program

Speakings:
Exhibition of different particular cases of ways of acting against evictions trying to accommodate the existing diversity.
(To Be specified but we want cases sufficiently representative into the direct action)

Evening Program

Discussion:
Consequences of different types of reaction to evictions: Legal, personal and movements long-term effects?…

Saturday 19 June

Morning Program

Open Air: Food & Theater

Demonstration

Evening Program

Speakings:
Exhibition of different struggles with the squat movement as a catalyst or as a support for their development.

Sunday 20 June

Morning Program

Discussion:
Police repression and different methods of repression, see if there is an underlying political purpose at the European level and seek to form a general picture of it for a European legal perspective of the map and the national and local nuances (Commonalities and differences between countries and areas …) Any trends in common? Are they using the same methods of repression? (Increased penalties, penalties of areas not previously legislated sentences, fines penalties, tightening of the evictions, more or less aggressive or spectacular of these, proposals for legalization and recovery of the spaces …)

Evening Program

Speaking-Discussion:
Police and European police networks, how they affect us, development and effective action (DNA, databases, files police activists, agreed the closure of borders …)

Conclusions and future proposals

Closing Event: Drinks and Live Music

Both sessions in the morning as the afternoon will be divided into two blocks with a break in the middle. We provide simultaneous interpretation.

http://www.faunanocturna.net/press/jornadeseuropeesdokupacio

Robin Wood Protest at Unilever’s General Assembly

12 May 2010

Following protests in Rotterdam and Hamburg yesterday, ROBIN WOOD activists protested today during Unilever‘s general assembly in London against tropical rainforest destruction for palm oil. A banner with the message “Unscrupulous Destruction of Rainforest and Community for Palm Oil” was unfurled in front of the entrance to the Queen Elizabeth Conference Centre. The activists additionally distributed information to the shareholders and demanded that they not absolve the board of directors of their ethical responsibilities concerning company purchases.

12 May 2010

The Dutch-British company Unilever is the largest purchaser of palm oil worldwide, most coming from plantations in Indonesia. This cheap fat is an ingredient in products from Unilever brands such as Rama, Langnese and Knorr. Approximately 9.4 million hectares of land have already been transformed into palm oil plantations in Indonesia and this area is increased every year by approximately 600,000 hectares. The palm oil boom has drastic consequences due to the destruction of tropical rainforests which are irreplaceable for biodiversity and the worldwide climate.

Additionally, landgrab for giant monocultural plantations threatens the livelihoods of millions of people. “We want to put a stop to the palm oil boom. Unilever is the largest purchaser of palm oil worldwide and therefore a key player” said Peter Gerhardt, ROBIN WOOD’s rainforest campaigner. “For this reason in an open letter to CEO Paul Polman we demanded that Unilever require its suppliers to immediately cease expansion of their palm oil plantations. Otherwise the company will remain complicit in environmental destruction, climate change, and human rights violations.”

One of Unilever’s largest suppliers of palm oil is Wilmar Intl. Wilmar Intl. owns huge palm oil plantations in Indonesia, plans to expand further, and doesn’t shy away from the use of violence in order to succeed in their expansion plans. “During our research trip to the Indonesian province of Jambi in 2009, local villagers told us of instances where Wilmar’s henchmen threatened them with weapons in order to get them to give up their land for new palm oil plantations,” reports Gerhardt. These are not isolated instances. The World Bank discontinued funding of palm oil plantations in part due to massive land conflicts between local villagers and Wilmar Intl. “We demand a ban on the establishment of new palm oil plantations,” said Nordin, an Indonesian environmental activist working together with ROBIN WOOD. “We are dependent on the forest for protection against flooding, ecosystem stability, and for our own livelihoods and food.”

Unilever attempts to appease its critics and customers with a promise to buy more RSPO-certified palm oil. Palm oil would be certified by the RSPO (Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil) when it is allegedly produced in a sustainable manner. However, the standards required to receive RSPO certification are unconvincingly lenient. For example, logging of rainforest for the establishment of new plantations is even allowed. Most palm oil companies which are involved with the RSPO follow an aggressive course of expansion to the detriment of unique natural ecosystems.

(The open letter to Unilever’s CEO and ROBIN WOOD’s report from the research trip to Indonesia can be found at http://www.robinwood.de/tropenwald)

Contact email: presse@robinwood.de

Manchester anti-arms-trade activities

On 17th January 2009, as the bombs rained down on Gaza, six people entered the EDO factory in Brighton, which makes parts for weapons that have been used against the people if Iraq, Afganistan and Palestine. They threw computers and filing cabinets out of the first floor window and took hammers to machinery used for weapons production. Their aim was to disable the war machine and to take action against those who profit from the aerial bombardment of Gaza. The offices were out of action for a month and hundreds of thousands of pounds of damage was reported.

The EDO Decommissioners always intended to go to trial – not as the accused but as the accusers making the case that their action was lawful because they were disarming an arms factory which is complicit in war crimes.

The trial date has been moved on a number of occasions, and it is now due to start on June 7th. In the run-up to this, Target Brimar are calling for solidarity with the EDO Decommissioners in Manchester. On Monday 17th May at 12.30 pm we’ll be leafleting outside Barclays on Mosley Street in Manchester City Centre; please join us.

There has been a five year long campaign of direct action against EDO MBM/ITT aimed at persuading them to stop producing weapons components in Brighton. EDO’s components are used by the US and UK in Iraq and Afghanistan and Israel in Palestine.

As ITT’s market maker, Barclays act as a ‘middle man’, purchasing shares from a seller and holding them until such a time as a buyer becomes available. This ensures the stability of ITT’s share price by allowing shareholders to sell off their assets at any time, even when a a buyer is not immediately available, and vice versa. Barclays also profits from this enterprise by selling ITT’s shares at a markup.

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We’d also like to remind people in the North West about our own home-grown arms component manufacturer, Brimar in Chadderton, which sells components to the Israeli air force and to the British and US for use in Iraq and Afghanistan . Target Brimar holds a vigil at the factory at 4pm on the first Wednesday of every month and it would be great to see you there on 2nd June, 7th July and 4th August.

We will also be holding a letter-writing session at Nexus Cafe on Dale Street in Manchester on Sunday June 20th, 11am-1pm. We’ll have form letters to local MPs, MEPs, councillors and newspapers raising the issue of an arms factory on their patch, so please drop by to sign up and send some off. There will also be materials if you want to write personal letters to some of the protesters who have been given unjust and racist sentences for demonstrating against the invasion of Gaza in January 2009.

For more information see:
http://www.targetbrimar.org.uk
http://www.smashedo.org.uk
http://gazademosupport.org.uk/
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