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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 60th 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, 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 #60 (February 2005) are listed below in the order they appeared in the printed edition. Also check out the STOP PRESS section for breaking news items.
- Speaking Out for the Animals
Manchester protests at Snow and Rock and Oxford animal lab- Greening Manchester update
Call for more thoughts on how green the council is- A Europe for Peace
Annual CND conference will look at NATO and nuclear weapons- Food for the Future
Sold out meeting discusses slow food and fair trade- Anarchy on the Airwaves
What is "Under the Pavement"?- Ministry of Truth
The men & women from the ministry reveal all about the government's proposed ID cards- Councillors Back Trade Justice
A majority of local councillors vote in favour of trade justice- Motiv8 4 G8
Oxfam are running workshops on their 'make poverty history' campaign and how to get the message to those attending this year's G8 meeting- Police Criminalise Pro-Palestinian Protest
Despite the end of the ban on picketing Marks and Spencers, protestors stll feel hassled- Climate Crisis
Meeting about putting pressure on the US now that Kyoto comes into force
Find out what's Under the Pavement
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.Picket of British Airways Travel Shop
Stopping Zimbabwe deportations
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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