Newsletter Issue 14 July-August 2003
This issue’s features:

Shell Shocker
It is a mystery to which the authorities have turned a blind eye, and which evidence now suggests they may have conspired to suppress. By Chris Grimshaw.

HEALTH IS GOING... GOING... CORPORATE
Foundation Trusts and privatisation within the health service

DSEI
Europe's biggest arms fair happening in London's Docklands this September.

Iraq update
Rich pickings for vultures as the corporates move in.

Farms, Fascism and famine
Land reform and the politics of disintegration in Zimbabwe.

NIKE
Nike’s US court battle for free speech (or to supress it depending on your viewpoint).

UK News roundup
Network Rail's disapearing trees, Road protest latest, Nuclear Britain and Campsfield news

Book reviews
Web of Deceit by Mark Curtis investigating Britain's real role in the world and One No, Many Yeses - A Journey to the Heart of the Global Resistance Movement
by Paul Kingsnorth.

Diary

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August

1-3 SHAC actions in August.
Info: Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty. Tel: 0845 458 0630 www.shac.net

13–17 Earth First! Summer Gathering.
Near Ripon, Yorkshire. Costs £10 on the gate. C/O Cornerstone Resource Centre, 16 Sholebroke Ave, Leeds LS7 3HB. www.eco-action.org


September

3 Stonehenge Campaign
Open Meeting. 99 Torriano Ave, London NW5. 8pm. All welcome.

6-12 Shut Down DSEi!
Mass international protest against Europe’s largest arms fair. Info: C/O 11 Goodwin Street, London N4 3HQ. Tel: 0781 7652 029 www.dsei.org

14 National Vegan Festival at Conway Hall
Red Lion Square, London WC1.
Vegan food, speakers, music & more. Contact: 0208 670 9585.

20 Diaries of Despair: Uncaged Day of Action to call for an independent inquiry into Pig to Primate organ transplants.
Fight against this atrocious, useless torture. Lobby your MP’s surgery to support the campaign. Info: Dan Lyons on 0114 272 2220. www.uncaged.co.uk/

27 End the Occupation of Iraq.
Demo in Hyde Park 12 noon – march to Trafalgar Square.

October

16 McDonalds Campaign.
Global Day of Action to mark World Food Day. Adopt your store! Leaflets £10/750 from Veggies, 245 Gladstone Street, Nottingham NG7 6HX. Tel: 0845 458 9595


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