[jnv] Upcoming events

[JNV]

In this events email:

1) JNV NETWORK NORTHERN LAUNCH - Wed 20 Aug
2) RECLAIM THE BASES SUMMER CAMP - Fri 22-Mon 25 Aug
3) StWC PEOPLE'S ASSEMBLY - Sat 30 Aug
4) CARDIFF DISARM DSEi DAY - Sun 31 Aug
5) JNV NETWORK MONTHLY MEETING
6) DISARM DSEi WEEK - Sat 6-Fri 12 Sept
7) CIRCLES OF HOPE: A HEALING MEMORIAL TO 9/11 - 10 Sept

+ Last chance for activists' discount on Regime Unchanged!

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1) JNV NETWORK NORTHERN LAUNCH

7-9pm, Wednesday 20th August
Leeds Civic Hall, Leeds

The aim of the JNV Network is to create a network of anti-war groups of all denominations, to help them to communicate directly with one another, share ideas, information and campaigning materials and to foster democratic decision-making in the development of local and national campaigning strategies. Now is the time to consolidate, re-build and strengthen our groups.

At the Northern launch meeting we'll be discussing what ingredients activists and groups would like to see in a new participatory anti-war network. The coordinating group will set out what led them to propose the setting up of a JNV Network, and explain how the initiative has developed so far. We'll then have small group discussion of what anti-war groups in the North of England would like to see in any new regional and national networks. 

Please send one or more representatives of your group!

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2) RECLAIM THE BASES SUMMER CAMP

Reclaim The Bases Summer Camp will take place at AWE Aldermaston (where they make UK's weapons of mass destruction) from 22-25 August. Practical skill sharing workshops on cutting or climbing fences, on lock-ons and other forms of blockading, on bicycle actions and wool actions. Time to exchange our knowledge and experience about military bases across the country.

Directions how to get to the camp can be found at <www.tridentploughshares.org/aldermaston/maps.php>. Please let us know
if you are coming - just that we know how much food and infrastructure is needed.

Contacts:
Email: info@thed10group.org.uk
Phone: 07887-585721
Website: www.reclaimthebases.org.uk

More information on Aldermaston can be found at www.aldermaston.net

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3) StWC PEOPLE'S ASSEMBLY

10.30am-5.30pm, Saturday 30th August
Friends Meeting House, Euston Rd, London WC1

People's Assembly to indict the government for their lies
A chance for the people of this country to voice their opinion against the war on Iraq

Speakers include:
- John Pilger, campaigning journalist and author
- Tony Benn, socialist and peace campaigner
- Hans von Sponeck, former United Nations humanitarian coordinator for Iraq
- Mark Curtis, author Web of Deceit
- Louise Christian, lawyer for Guantanamo Bay prisoners
- Azmatt Begg, father of Guantanamo Bay prisoner

Organised by the Stop the War Coalition
For more information, phone 020 7053 2153/4/5/6 or go to <www.stopwar.org.uk>.

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4) CARDIFF DISARM DSEi DAY

from 1pm, Sunday August 31st 
East Moors Community Centre, Sanquahar St, Splott

Activities will include:
- Talks on the arms trade by experts in the field
- Short films on the arms trade
- Banner making workshop
- Direct action workshop
- Planning for, and information about, the demonstrations against DSEi
- Booking seats on the buses to DSEi

The 'Cardiff Disarm DSEi Day' will be facilitated by the Cardiff Social Forum
For more info call 07754 585856 or visit <http://uk.msnusers.com/cardiffsocialforum/messageboard.msnw>

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5) JNV NETWORK MONTHLY MEETING

7.30pm, Thursday 4th September
Quaker International Centre, 1-3 Byng Place, London WC1E 7JH

We'll be discussing plans for the Grassroots Anti-War Conference on 26/27/28 September, and working on plans for the JNV network part of the conference.

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6) DISARM DSEI WEEK

Disarm DSEi is a campaign to shutdown the Defence Systems & Equipment International arms fair which is taking place at the Excel Centre in London's Docklands, from 9-12 September 2003.

[NOTE: This is an overview of the very full programme events: for more detailed information on individual events, as well as info on the convergence centre, getting to DSEi, accommodation and transport, see <www.dsei.org>!]

Saturday 6th September
* Unity march in Central London
 
Sunday 7th September
* Day one of the Disarm DSEi conference at the convergence centre, Kingsley Hall, Powis Road, London E3

Monday 8th September
* Day two of the Disarm DSEi conference 
* Multi-faith silent vigil outside the ExCel centre.

Tuesday 9th September
This is the day of non-violent action against the arms fair.
* 'Facing the Arms Traders', a peaceful demonstration at Custom House organised by CAAT.
* Fluffy DSEi are planning non-violent mass direct action at the ExCel centre.
* Public demonstration organised by Globalise Resistance.
* Day one of the Disarm DSEi Film festival, 6:30pm - 10:30pm.

Wednesday 10th September
This is the no rules, no guidelines day of direct action against the arms fair.
* 'Day of Direct Action Blockades', being organised by Destroy DSEi.
* A Reclaim The Streets Party will be taking place in the afternoon.
* A Critical Mass is being planned for this day, contact <cm_dsei@reallyfast.info>. 
* Various affinity group actions.
* Women in Black vigil in Central London.
* Day two of the Disarm DSEi Film festival, 6:30pm - 10:30pm.

Thursday 11th September
* Mass protest and affinity group actions for the "Delegate's Dinner" at a central London Hotel. This is where a lot of the arm's traders networking and deals take place. More details soon.
* Peaceful silent vigil opposite Custom House tube, with respect for September 11th 2001. Please wear black.
* Day three of the Disarm DSEi Film festival, 6:30pm - 10:30pm.

Friday 12th September
* An open forum to discuss what happened through the week and looking at how to do things in the future. This is for all supporting groups to come together and see how things could be done next time.

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7) CIRCLES OF HOPE: A HEALING MEMORIAL TO 9/11

September Eleventh Families for Peaceful Tomorrows invites you commemorate September 11th with Circles of Hope.

Please join us in creating Circles of Hope to commemorate the two-year anniversary of our loved ones deaths on September 11. We plan to encircle the World Trade Center site with a candlelight vigil on the night of September 10, 2003. Gather with us in New York City or create a Circle of Hope candlelight vigil in your own community and link it to other circles by registering your event with us.

Suggestions for vigils:
- Expand your circle-We often gather in our own comfortable circles-who can you invite to create the circle with you? How can you make it inclusive and welcoming to people you don't usually interact with?
- Consider whether you want to add art, music, poetry, dance, spiritual expression, and story telling to your vigil. In San Francisco, organizers are planning art activites such as decorating candleholders. In New York City, the vigil will be silent.
- Let participants know what to expect. For example, the New York vigil flyers state, "this is a silent vigil, not a political rally. Please bring a candle and leave your signs at home."
 
For more information, see <www.peacefultomorrows.org>.

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+ Last chance for activists' discount on Regime Unchanged!

JNV has secured a limited quantity of advance copies of Milan Rai's 256-page book, REGIME UNCHANGED, from Pluto Press, for sale to UK activists. For orders sent from a UK address on or before 20 August 2003 (tomorrow!), the book will be available for £8.50 incl. p&p. The price after 20 August, incl. p&p, will be £10. The bookshop price is £10.99.

REGIME UNCHANGED is an angry battery of arguments for preventing the re-writing of history, documenting how the US undermined and finally shut down UN weapons inspections, and how the US and UK deliberately restored leading Ba'athists to power in Iraq in the first month after 'liberation'. It demonstrates unequivocally that this was a war based on lies, a war not for disarmament or for 'regime change', but for power.

To secure your copy/copies of REGIME UNCHANGED, please print off the order form at <www.j-n-v.org/orderform.htm>, fill it in, and send with a cheque made out to 'ARROW PUBLICATIONS', to 29 Gensing Road, St Leonards on Sea, East Sussex TN38 0HE. Unfortunately we have no method of dealing with credit card orders, either online or by telephone. Our apologies.