[JNV] Events listings

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Dear all

Here are some events we hope you find useful in your work.

Hope to see you at the Remember Fallujah weekend 28-29 October in London!

Best wishes

Maya Evans
JNV

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Every Wednesday!
Noise Demonstrations at EDO MBM, Home Farm Road, 4-6pm

Mon 4- Mon 18 Sept BRISTOL Trial Of Fairford Peace Disarmers. Trial of
peace activists Paul Milling and Margaret Jones, who nonviolently
disabled support vehicles for the B-52s in the run-up to the invasion of
Iraq. Bristol Crown
Court. Please put this date in your diary and come and support them!
More info contact nabataat@yahoo.co.uk

Mon 4 Sept ISLINGTON Public Rally with MOAZZAM BEGG AND HAIFA ZANGANA.
7pm Islington Central Library with Moazzam Begg (ex-Guantanamo
prisoner), Andrew
Murray (STWC chair), Haifa Zangana (Iraqi novelist/Guardian columnist)
and Jeremy Corbyn MP. More Info: 07747 744 921

Thurs 7 Sept HACKNEY Public meeting with MOAZAAM BEGG. Speakers include
ex-Guantanamo detainee Moazzam Begg and Chris Nineham, Stop the War
Coalition. 7.30 in the Round Chapel at the corner of Lower Clapton Road
&
Powerscroft Road E5.

Mon 11 Sep MANCHESTER Day of Protest at the European Microwave
Conference From 8.30am at GMEX, Manchester
EDO MBM, along with other war profiteers, is participating in this
conference. Greater Manchester CND is organising a Day of
Action. Contact: +44(0)161 273 8283 Fax.: +44 (0)161 273 8293 E-Mail:
gmdcndATgn.apc.org, www.gmdcnd.org.uk

Wed 11 Oct BRIGHTON Smash Edo Fundraiser at the Freebutt. Bands playing
will be the Inner Terrestrials, Babar Luck, The King Blues & Big Dance.
Organised by 'Hair of the Dog'. Watch this space for more info...

Mon 11 Sept EXETER Has the "war on terror" made the world a safer
place?Speakers from Military Families Against the War and Stop The War
Coalition;7pm, Mint Methodist, Church Fore Street, Exeter. Contact Mike
07738 563 398.

Tues 12 Sept REDBRIDGE Public Meeting 7pm East Ham Town Hall. Speakers:
Tony Benn, George Galloway MP, Rose Gentle, Lindsey German and Dr Azzam
Tamini. Sponsored by Newham UNISON

Wed 13 Sept  HAMMERSMITH Public Meeting Speakers: John McDonnell, Labour
MP ,Dr. Siddiqui, Leader of the Muslim Parliament, Lindsey German,
Convenor of Stop The War Coalition, Haifa Zangana, Iraqi Writer/Guardian
Columnist,
Dahabo Isse, Somali activist. 7pm, The Small Hall, Hammersmith Town
Hall, King Street W6. Nearest tube:: Hammersmith / Ravenscourt Park.
Info: 07879
424 631 / 07984 405 307 - Email: stwc_ham_sb@yahoo.co.uk.

Wed 13 Sept BRIGHTON Time to Go:Blair out, Troops out of Iraq, Don't
attack Iran Speakers: Caroline Lucas MEP Chris Nineham (Stop the War)
and speakers from the local antiwar movement (tbc) 7.30pm Royal Albion
Hotel Old Steine, Brighton Organised by Sussex Action for Peace


Sat 16 Sept BRIGHTON Mass Demo to protest against local arms company EDO
MBM's complicity in war Crimes in Gaza and Lebanon. Meet 12 noon at the
Level. See www.smashedo.org.uk

Wed 20 Sept LONDON SHS evening meeting: Imperialist Intervention in the
Middle East - Iran:Regime Change, Resistance and International
Solidarity. Speakers: Stan
Newens, one time Euro MP and President of Liberation; Dilip Hiro,
author and Middle East commentator. 7.00 pm, Marx House, Clerkenwell
Green (nearest tube Farringdon)

Sat 23 Sept MANCHESTER Military Families Against the War Peace Camp
outside the Labour Party Conference See www.mfaw.org.uk

Sat 23 Sept MANCHESTER National Anti-Occupation Demo. Timed to take
place just before the Labour Party Conference in Manchester. See
www.stopwar.org.uk.

Tues 26 Sept NATIONAL Phone Blockade-Ring the arms dealers to ask them
any questions you might have on the arms trade - 01273 810500 tell EDO
MBM what you think about profiting from murder. If the switchboard isn't
working call 810 501, 810 502, 810 510, 810 511 etc or send a fax on 810
600
141 to withhold your number (or preferably call from a payphone)

Fri 29 Sept BRIGHTON Peace Not War @ Sussex Uni Fresher's Ball Mandela
Hall, Sussex University 9:30pm - 2:00am Excentral Tempest and Friends
United Vibrations with The Rub, Bad Science, More TBC

Sat 7 Oct CROUGHTON Keep Spearce for Peace, No bases for War Rally and
picnic outside "RAF" Croughton (a major US communications facility
supporting US military operations in Europe and the Middle East). 12noon
- 3pm. With John McDonnell MP and Felicity Arbuthnot.Transport from 
Oxford & Bicester rail stations. For more information: 07949 320 026 
or e-mail oxonpeace@yahoo.co.uk

Sun 8 Oct LONDON Nonviolent Direct Action Workshop and Legal Briefing
for the 28/29 Oct "No More Fallujahs" weekend of nonviolent resistance
to the occupation (see www.rememberfallujah.org). 11am - 4pm, Diorama
Gallery 1, 34 Osnaburgh Street, NW1 3ND (tube: Great Portland Street).
Workshop run by Seeds for Change: www.seedsforchange.org.uk.

Sun 8 Oct BRIGHTON Action Training Day 1pm at the Friends Meeting House,
Ship St, Brighton

Fri 13 Oct LONDON Peace Not War @ The Synergy Project  SeOne Club,
London 10:00pm - 8:00am
Line-up TBC

Mon 16 Oct LONDON Day of Action to shut DESO (the Defence Export
Services Organisation). Meet 11am, Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church,
235 Shaftesbury Avenue, London WC2H, to help encircle DESO and designate 
it as a "global danger zone." Organised by Campaign Against Arms Trade: 
0207 281 0297, anna@caat.org.uk or www.caat.org.uk.

Wed 25 Oct BRIGHTON  Remember the Palestinian victims of EDO MBM. 4-6pm
EDO MBM have admitted that they profit from selling equipment for the
illegal occupation of Palestine and the bombing of Lebanon. Organized by
Smash EDO

Sat 28 Oct LONDON Nonviolent Direct Action Workshop and Legal Briefing
for the 24-hour "unauthorised" peace camp in Parliament Square om 29 Oct
(see below). 4.30pm - 7.30pm, Diorama Gallery 1, 34 Osnaburgh Street,
NW1 3ND (tube: Great Portland Street). Workshop run by Seeds for Change: 
www.seedsforchange.org.uk.

Sat 28-Sun 29 Oct LONDON "No More Fallujahs" A weekend of nonviolent
resistance to the occupation of Iraq on the 2nd anniversary of the
November 2004 US/UK attack on Fallujah.

Events include:

* PEACE JOURNEY FROM THE UK MILITARY NERVE CENTRE IN NORTHWOOD (nearest
tube Northwood) on 28 Oct. Meet 11am, Northwood tube station.

* "UNAUTHORISED" 24-HOUR PEACE CAMP IN PARLIAMENT SQUARE to demand an
end to the occupation on 29 Oct (MEET 12 NOON, PARLIAMENT SQUARE). The
camp will begin Maya Evans and Milan Rai reading the names of 100 Iraqis 
who have died as a result of the occupation - one year after their arrest 
for doing this in Oct 05. NB Under the Serious Organised Crime and Police
Act participation in such an “unauthorised” demonstration is a criminal 
offence punishable by a fine of up to £1000.

Accommodation will be available on request on the evenings of 27 and 28
Oct.Org. by the Mass Action Group and supported by Iraq Occupation
Focus, JNV and Voices UK. Contact 0845 458 2564 or e-mail voices@voicesuk.org. 
For more info see www.rememberfallujah.org.

Sat 2 Dec BRIZE NORTON National Demo outside the RAF base used to ferry
British troops to Iraq and Afghanistan and US bombs to Israel (during
its recent attack on Lebanon). Assemble 12:00 noon in Carterton.