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Another busy year draws to a close. In 2004, we've attempted to do a newsletter each month to keep you right up to date on campigns in and around Manchester on issues of peace, development, environment, human rights, animal rights and other areas of social justice. We think we've done pretty well, but welcome your feedback!
The Networking Newsletter has a 10 year history of helping campaigners in and around Manchester to work together more effectively. The focus is on those who are working for positive change on issues of peace, development, environment, human rights, animal rights and other areas of social justice. But we're also looking to the future and want your views on how you think the Newsletter should develop.
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Welcome to the 59th issue of the Networking Newsletter with the latest news on recent actions and current campaigns, plus our comprehensive calendar of forthcoming activities
and a huge list of contacts. The newsletter is also available as a high resolution PDF (2.8Mb)
and text only version.
Articles for the next newsletter should be sent using the online form, by email, by snail mail to 6 Mount Street, Manchester M2 5NS or by fax 0161 834 5797 (marked FAO: Networking Newsletter). Articles should be 50-200 words long, preferably with a picture or colour graphic, and include your full contact details. Please send us high resolution images (250DPI, full colour and not compressed if a JPEG) so I can use them in the printed newsletter.
Articles from issue #59 (December 2004) are listed below in the order they appeared in the printed edition. Also check out the STOP PRESS section for breaking news items.
- MPs Vote for Trade Justice
The aim is to collect 30,000 votes in Manchester- Speak Up for Grass Roots Campaigns
What do you think about whether LSP is helping grass roots groups in Manchester?- Free Palestine
Promoting the Palestinians' cause- Action Stations!
Using the media to publicize your campaigns and group- Care Leavers
National office opens in Manchester- Who Goes There: Immune System Friend or Foe?
Creative Arts and Visual Arts workshops
- Campaigning for Disabled Rights
GMCDP is looking for people to set up a campaigns subgroup- Resources Revealed
CTAC launch an online "resource finder"- Hebden Woodland Destroyed
Developers clear woodland to build... eco-houses!- Do Summat
Subvertized signs spring up- Trade Justice Needs More than a Band Aid
How to Make Poverty History- Do They Know it's Africa
WDM ask whether the Band Aid lyrics convey the right message- Fair Trade Fair
Consumerism of Christmas to help some of the world's poorest- Asylum Seekers Festive Appeal
Appeal for help and donations to give a good seasonal knees up for those who often have nothing- Keep Off the Grass!
Students and staff protest against University plans to build on green space- Park 'n' Ride, not Drive 'n' Queue
Take some of the stress out of Christmas shopping and let yourself be driven to the shops and back- Sustainable Learning
Anybody interested in forming a supportive action learning group to make changes for a more sustainable world?
Not Included in the Printed Edition
The following articles didn't make it to the printed newsletter.
They were originally "stop press" items and are reproduced here for interest.
- Moazzam Begg
Moazzam speaks at launch of Greater Manchester Guantanamo and Belmarsh Campaign- No Loss of Fletcher Moss!
South Manchester residents are concerned that a local botanical garden will go to weed
Events Calendar
The main events calendar has hundreds of activities and meetings coming up over the next few months. Please use this calendar both to find things to get involved in, but also to plan your activities - try to work with others planning similar things at the time you were thinking of and avoid clashes, where possible.Regular events, such as monthly group meetings and fortnightly working weekends, are listed separately to the main calendar. Not that they are less important but to save repetitive typing!
Please let us know of your activities so we can post them here so others can read them and get involved them.
Check out the most up-to-date and comprehensive contacts list of campaigners in and around Manchester. We're often imitated, the information copied, but we're never beaten for quantity of contacts and the reliability of them being correct.Enquiries about the Networking Newsletter Project should be made to:
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Email: info@networkingnewsletter.org.uk
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