[diggers350] Fwd: Info on 'All Red and Green' Conference, Leicester, Mar 25

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>From: "Leicester Radical Alliance" <leicesterradical at hotmail.com>
>To: Leicesterradical at hotmail.com
>Subject: Info on 'All Red and Green' Conference, Leicester, Mar 25
>Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 21:14:57 GMT
>
>Dear Friendly-looking Organisation,
>
>We'd like to tell you about a conference that we're trying to organise, to 
>take place in Leicester on March 25th. Details below. We want to attract a 
>lot of different people from many different backgrounds. So if you like the 
>look of it, feel free to distribute the email flyer below far and wide. If 
>you're about to do a mailing or a newsletter, or if you've got a place to 
>display them, then we'd be quite happy to send you any number (up to about 
>200) of paper flyers to go out with it.
>
>Thanks for your time, and sorry to bother you if it isn't your cup of tea.
>
>Chris Williams
>Leicester Radical Alliance
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>"All Red and Green: activism beyond the battle for Seattle"
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>Convened by the Socialist Alliance. Organised by the Leicester Radical 
>Alliance.
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>Date: Sat 25th March, 2000
>Time: 10:30am-3.30pm
>Place: Secular Hall, Humberstone Gate, Leicester
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>Activists can change the world
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>At the start of 2000 the world looks set to change - although perhaps none 
>of us yet know quite how. The forces fighting for a more humane, more just 
>and more democratic world are growing every day. SchNEWS summed up the new 
>movement for change when it reported on the November 30th demos in Seattle:
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>"SchNEWS meets Mexican, Indian and French farmers, Tibetan refugees, 
>steelworkers, striking cabbies, anti logging and deforestation protesters, 
>all experts on the WTO, its power and its direct repercussions on their 
>lives. These people are no random mob, they have gathered from all over the 
>world to be heard and no matter how many issues are at stake here they speak 
>with one voice, united in their opposition to an institution which has no 
>respect for the ordinary people of the world. They are calling for an end to 
>sweatshops, child labour, the erosion of environmental laws and the third 
>world debt. These people are well informed, well organised and determined."
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>Activists are starting to change the world. This conference is an 
>opportunity to share some of our experiences, to think about the way 
>forward, and to plan for the new millennium.
>
>Come to Leicester's Secular Hall on March 25th, 2000, to share your 
>experiences, join with other likeminded people and plan for a better world. 
>This will be a chance to talk back as well as to be talked to.
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>                **** Programme ****
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>10.30 Registration
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>11.00 <United we stand?> Chair: Mandy Taverner (Leicester Radical Alliance). 
>Speakers: Dave Nellist (Socialist Councillor); John Morrissey (editor, 'The 
>Way Ahead', green radical monthly).
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>12.00 Activist workshops
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>(a) <Local magazines> Speakers: Tristram Hooley ('GrassRoots', Leicester); a 
>spokeswoman from 'SchNEWS'.
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>(b) <Running effective campaigns> Speakers: Kala Subbuswamy and Nick Jukes 
>(LEAF, Leicester); Marlene Yeo (Trident Ploughshares 2000).

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>(c) <Standing in elections> Nick Long (Greenwich and Lewisham Socialist 
>Alliance, who've just won one); Dave Church, Walsall Democratic Labour 
>Party.
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>1.30 Lunch. Provided real cheap - see below. Or bring your own.
>With: fringe meetings on 'The Green Left', 'How to run a radical bookshop' - 
>and probably more. Let us know if you want to run one.
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>2.30 <Onwards and Upward!>
>Chair: Declan O'Neill (Socialist Alliance). Speakers: Kathryn Busby 
>(Liberty) on the 'Anti-Terrorism Bill'; Spokesman from the Anti-PFI 
>campaign.
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>4.00-5.00 <Socialist Alliance AGM>
>The Socialist Alliance is a broad-based pluralist red/green organisation. We 
>hope that you will feel able to contribute to its development by staying for 
>this session either as a member or an observer.
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>In the evening, join us for a fundraising beer and curry night followed by a 
>quiz with top prizes. An entire evening's fun for just 5.
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>Booking form - print this off and send it to us:
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>Sign up for:                        Time           Price
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>[   ]    Conference                 10.30-3.30     5/3
>[   ]    Lunch                      1.30pm         2
>[   ]    Socialist Alliance AGM     4-5pm          Free
>[   ]    Evening do - incl meal     8pm            5
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>Phone: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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>Method of payment:
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>[   ] Cheque (preferred) to 'Leicester Radical Alliance'
>[   ] Cash
>[   ] Local currency (ring to discuss)
>[   ] Pay on the day (if you must)
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>Please pay as soon as you can to give us the funds to publicise the 
>conference as widely as possible.
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>Signed: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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>Return to:
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>Leicester Radical Alliance
>c/o Littlethorn Books
>Humberstone Gate
>Leicester
>0116 244 0956
>leicesterradical at hotmail.com
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