[JNV] More Events

[JNV]

Dear Folks

Here are some more events happening, mainly in London though.

Best Wishes

Maya Evans
JNV
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30 May LONDON Eyewitness Iran: What can we do to help stop an attack? With Emily Johns (JNV) - artist and activist, just back from a delegation to Iran with Fellowship of Reconciliation, Martin Newell (London Catholic Worker) and Milan Rai ("Chomsky's Politics", "War Plan Iraq" and "7/7: The London Bombings, Islam and the Iraq War"). 7pm, St Vincent's Centre, Carlisle Place, Victoria, SW1P 1NL. Org. by Fellowship of Reconciliation, JNV, Pax Christi and Voices UK.

Fri 2 June LONDON Don't Attack Iran Public meeting with Nobel Peace Prize Winner Shirin Ebadi, plus Tony Benn, Lindsey German (StWC), Jeremy Corbyn, Zibir-Mir Hosseini, Elaheh Rostami-Povey and music from Somaye Zadeh. 6.30pm Friends Meeting House, Euston Road, London WC1. More info:actioniran@hotmail.com

Fri 2 June BIRMINGHAM Bands Against Bush. Fundraiser for STWC. 7.30pm-2am at The Sanctuary, Digbeth, Birmingham. With: The Beat, Cracked Actors, 360, Cupid Stunts +guests. £8 on the door or £7 advance booking. Cheques or postal orders to: Stop the War, 25 Cadbury Rd, Birmingham B13 9BH. Contact 07815 995974 or email bandsagainstbushwestmids@yahoo.co.uk

Wed 7 June LONDON No Bases for Aggression. Meeting to organise a march with a giant B2 stealth bomber to/from the MI6 building on 19 Aug - the 53rd anniversary of the CIA/MI6 coup in Iran - to protest against the possible use of UK-controlled bases in Fairford and Diego Garica in a US attack on Iran. 7pm, central London venue tbc. Contact 0845 458 2564 or voices@voicesuk.org.

Sat 10 June LONDON 5th StTW Annual Conference Friends Meeting House, Euston Road, London WC1 Speakers include: Craig Murray, Tony Benn, Dilip Hiro, George Galloway MP, Caroline Lucas MEP, Rose Gentle, Elaheh Rostami Povey (Action Iran), Yvonne Ridley (Islam Channel), Kate Hudson (Chair CND),  Jeremy Corbyn MP, Sabah Jawad (Iraqi Democrats), Explo Nani Kofi (African Liberation Support Group), Salma Yaqoob (Respect).  

Thur 15 June LONDON Defend the democratic right to protest. Four Palestine Solidarity Campaign supporters have been summoned to appear in court and charged under the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 for protesting at Downing Street over the British government's connivance with the Israeli attack on the Jericho prison that left two Palestinian dead and many injured. PSC has organized a picket of Horseferry Magistrates Court, Horseferry Road, London SW1 at 9.30am on 15 June and is calling for support.

Fri 16 June LONDON Public Meeting: End the Occupation Speakers: Tariq Ali, Anthony Arnove (US Activist and author of 'Iraq: the Logic of Withdrawal') and Glen Rangwala (exposed Blair's 'dodgy dossier' and co-author of the new book 'Iraq in Fragments').  7pm Main Hall, Indian YMCA, 41 Fitzroy Square, London W1

Wed 28 June LONDON A Night of Conscience Flight Lieutenant Malcolm Kendall-Smith was given an eight month sentence for refusing to serve in Iraq and ordered to pay £20,000 costs. Stop the War has organised A Night of Conscience on 28 June 2006 to help raise funds to pay these costs. Intoduced by Tony Benn Comedians Mark Thomas and Mark Steel, composer Michael Nyman, actress Janet Suzman, film director Ken Loach, playwrights Caryl Churchill and David Edgar, musician Ed Harcourt, fashion designer Vivienne Westwood, Iraqi novelist Haifa Zangana, Walter Wolfgang, chair of CND Kate Hudson, Lindsey German, John Rees and many others from film, stage, television and politics will appear at this benefit concert. 7.30PM St. James Church, 197 Piccadilly, London, W1J 9LL Tickets are available from Stop the War Coalition at £15 You may also pay by credit/debit card by calling 020 7278 6694 or by sending a cheque made payable to 'Stop the War Coalition' to Stop the War Coalition, 27 Britannia
Street, London WC1X 9JP.

June LONDON Art not Oil 2006. Exhibition showing powerful political / ecological art to help build movements for climate justice and end oil sponsorship of the arts. 11-24 June, 12-7pm: 491 Gallery, 491 Grove Green Road, E11 4AA (next to Leytonstone tube - www.491gallery.com); 29 June - 1 July, The Foundry, 84-86 Great Eastern Street, London EC2 3JL (Old Street tube). A LAUNCH GIG AND OIL-FREE CABARET will be taking place at the 491 Gallery, 8pm - midnight on 10 June. www.artnotoil.org.uk.