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Dear all,
This meeting (on the 29th of April) seems to be an interesting and
potentially-productive one. I'm eager to hear the outcome of the meeting
from those who attend.
-Rania
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Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 12:12:20 -0700
From: Hugh <justice@easynet.co.uk>
To: * * * Justice! * * * <justice@easynet.co.uk>
Subject: * * * BIRMINGHAM ACTIVISTS MEETING * * * Preparations in full
swing * * *
independent network action
MEETING IN BIRMINGHAM
Saturday April 29 2000. 2.00 to 5.00 p.m.
The national meeting of activists in peace, environment, solidarity and
anti-racist movements will see participants from at least 6 local
campaiging groups from different parts of the country, including from
Manchester, Liverpool, Cambridge, Bristol, Chilterns, Essex, etc., etc.,
and people are also expected form many other towns besides, hopefully
including Sheffield, Essex, etc.
The meeting is public and anyone can attend, but if you wish for further
information, phone one of the numbers given at the end of this message.
The aim of the meeting is to strengthen the network of local campaigns in
accordance with the statement below. Details of the meeting are as
follows:
Carrs Lane Church Centre, Carrs Lane. (Near Birmingham New Street station;
follow the signs to Moor Street station.) with John Catalinotto,
Representative of the International Action Centre, New York (founded by
Ramsey Clark, former US Attorney General)
This meeting is being called by activists in local peace, anti-sanctions,
environmental and other campaigns who are concerned to maximise the
potential of their work by exchanging ideas and experience on how to
influence public opinion, gain access to local media, and conduct
informational and protest activities. Britain is the principal ally of the
US on the world scale, and this meeting in particular provides an
opportunity to exchange experience with a US campaigner from the
International Action Centre.
Called by:
Joanne Baker, Bristol [out-dated or no-longer relevant
Jean Hatton, Chilterns phone numbers removed from archive
Janet Ganguli, Cambridge on 2005-03-2. --CASI webmaster]
Jimmy Johns, Essex
Hugh Stephens, London
Janet Moir, Birmingham
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