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Dear Rania thanks so much for your encouraging message to the Birmingham meeting -- will relay it on to the participants, and may who have benefited so much over recent years from your wonderful work on e-mail will greatly appreciate hearing from you. the meeting consists very largely of the local groups who organised coaches for the national demosntration on Iraq one year ago, to plan how to continue their working together. wish you could be with us. lots of love, peace and solidarity yours ever, Hugh Sstephens -----Original Message----- From: Rania Masri <rrmasri@unity.ncsu.edu> To: soc-casi-discuss@lists.cam.ac.uk <soc-casi-discuss@lists.cam.ac.uk> Date: 25 April 2000 07:40 Subject: BIRMINGHAM ACTIVISTS MEETING * Preparations in full swing >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 > >---------- Forwarded message ---------- >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 0117 902 6534 >Jean Hatton, Chilterns 01494 774113 >Janet Ganguli, Cambridge 01954 719644 >Jimmy Johns, Essex 01245 420178 >Hugh Stephens, London 0171 436 4636 >Janet Moir, Birmingham 0121 449 1539 > >-- >----------------------------------------------------------------------- >This is a discussion list run by the Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq >For removal from list, email soc-casi-discuss-request@lists.cam.ac.uk >Full details of CASI's various lists can be found on the CASI website: >http://welcome.to/casi > -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a discussion list run by the Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq For removal from list, email soc-casi-discuss-request@lists.cam.ac.uk Full details of CASI's various lists can be found on the CASI website: http://welcome.to/casi