Networking Newsletter: Issue 21

Last updated: December 1998

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Editorial

Thursday 10 December is a special birthday that everybody in the world should be celebrating. It will be fifty years since the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was signed and agreed. Unfortunately, not everybody is in the mood for celebrating - thousands around the world are still imprisoned and tortured for their beliefs by governments who are blatantly breaking several Articles of the UDHR.

Although, in signing up, governments have promised to educate their peoples on the contents of the UDHR it is, according to Amnesty International, one of the world's best kept secrets.

In this issue of the Networking Newsletter we focus on what the UDHR should mean to all citizens of Planet Earth and what local groups are doing to ensure the principles of the UDHR, such as equality to all, are upheld, both at home and abroad.

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News

This section covers news, information, and updates on campaigns and issues relevant to activists in the region.

Dying to End Vivisection Due to Labour's Lies
	Barry Horne is on hunger strike over the government's failure to meet its election manifesto promise to set up a Royal Commission on vivisection
UDHR
	Fifty Years of Human Rights?
Get the $HELL Out of Nigeria
	Shell action in memory of Ken Saro Wiwa
Tameside Carers
	Latest news from the striking Tameside Care Workers

Human Rights in Sri Lanka?
	News on human rights issues in Sri Lanka
Manchester Amnesty
	What does Amnesty International actually do, and how does the Manchester group help?
Mumia Mustn't Die
	Recent actions to highlight the plight of Mumia Abu-Jamal, currently on "Death Row" despite pleading his innocence
Vanunu
	Vanunu, prisoner of conscience, for telling the world about Israel's nuclear weapons
Trident Waives the Rules
	How Trident breaks the UDHR
Western Sahari
	Hope, at last, for the Saharawi?

Silver Lining for Transport
	Report from GM Transport Action Group's 25^th anniversary celebrations
Rolls Royce Base is Disgraced
	Report from a national anti-nuclear action day held in October
Genetically Modified Food goes Wild in the Aisle
	The FFBI (Frankenstein Food and Beverages Investigators) check out what the Coop are selling

Another Gandalf Victory
	The remaining GA (Green Anarchists) and ALF editors have their court case dismissed
Depleted Uranium Weapons
	Breaking the silence on one of the deadliest of weapons
Arthur Battles On
	Latest news from the campaign against Manchester Airport's second runway

Not included in the on-line version
News included in the newsletter, but not here, includes:

Victory - Manchester City Council's plans to deface the Free Trade Hall with a towering hotel are rejected
Typing to Save Lives - raising awareness of the US' Death Row and how it breaks the UDHR
Siemens - meeting the big knobs to discuss why Siemens sell energy efficiency products in Western Europe but dangerous nuclear reactors in Eastern Europe
Human Economy Forum - power to the people, not to faceless institutions

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Clash Avoidance Calendar

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Contacts

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Focus

An (almost) regular feature in the Networking Newsletter is a spotlight on different groups working towards similar goals. Previous Networking Newsletters have focused on the following:

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A look at networks in Manchester (issue 11)
Neil Lea discusses campaigning tactics (issue 10)
Hazel Greenwood reports back on her recent visit to Iraq (issue 9)
anti-Trident campaigning in the US (issue 8)
racism (issue 7)
green groups (issue 6)

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