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<big><strong style="color: red;">Draft only, page under construction</strong></big> ==London events== On September 3 the EDL have announced they will march through Tower Hamlets. The EDL have a history of confrontational and violent behaviour, and we’re looking for legal observers to help us monitor the Met’s response to this with a focus on how the local population are affected by a zero tolerance policing approach. Please email gbclegal@riseup.net if you can observe. We will let you know the meet up point nearer the time. We will be running a back office to take calls from those arrested the whole day. September 13 is a day of action against the world’s biggest arms fair DSEi. It will take place mainly on the Docklands Light Railway (DLR) to disrupt the arms fair. ==Burston Strike School Ralley, Sun Sept 4th, 11:00 to 16:00== Location Church Green, Burston, near Diss, Norfolk Annual rally to celebrate the longest strike in history: Schoolchildren 'went on strike' in 1914 to support their teachers, sacked by the rural squirarchy for organising agricultural workers. http://www.unitetheunion.org/news__events/events/burston_strike_school_rally.aspx Join us for food (or bring a picnic if you wish), drink, entertainment (John Hegley, Robb Johnson & the Irregulars), and speakers (Diana Holland AGS Unite, Kelvin Hopkins MP, Mary Robinson, Dave Carr - introduced by Megan Dobney SERTUC and Jim Kelly Unite) Travel Coaches will be organised by a number of different organisations - contact the office for information when available. Dedicated car and coach parking is available in Burston. Nearest railway station is Diss (c.4 miles). Register interest or request more information from sertucevents@tuc.org.uk ==The world's largest arms fair - DSEi -London on 13-16 September== (Defence & Security Equipment International) Arming repressive regimes. Boosting arms company profits. Displaying the latest killing technology. It's an event you don't want to miss. People the world over are yet again witnessing the horror of what happens when the UK and other military powers put weapons in the hands of repressive regimes. Crowd control equipment, tear gas and military equipment were sold by the UK to Gaddafi's regime, just months before he turned them on civilians calling for democracy. But it's business as usual for the UK government and arms companies: * David Cameron continued touring the Middle East with 8 high-level arms dealers in the week UK weapons were turned on protestors in Libya. * The repressive and authoritarian Saudi government continues to be one of the UK's largest weapons customers. There is no sign of an embargo despite their tanks rolling into Bahrain to help put down unrest there. stopthearmsfair.org.uk<http://www.stopthearmsfair.org.uk/> An event with global repercussions... At the last DSEi arms fair in 2009, the guests included an impressive number of A-list repressive regimes seeking to shore up their power with the latest weapons technologies: Algeria, Bahrain, Libya, Saudi Arabia, and more! Just months after its attack on Gaza in 2008-9, Israel hosted a huge pavilion of its "battle-tested" exports. Countries that are at threat of war with each other - such as India and Pakistan - shopped side-by-side. In 2011, DSEi publicity boasts that the arms fair will be "even bigger" and will host the "Largest Unmanned & Robotics Demonstration area in Europe". stopthearmsfair.org.uk<http://www.stopthearmsfair.org.uk/> ... that we can stop! Be there on 13th September The Stop the Arms Fair coalition is calling a mass day of action on Tuesday 13th September - the first day of the arms fair. We want to make it too difficult for the arms companies to do business by supporting a mass of diverse and creative actions against the fair. The day of action will be accessible to all whether it's your first demo or you've spent hours of your life chained to arms factory gates! Put it in your diary. Start talking to others and making links with local campaigns. Let's get a group from every town and city down to London for the Day of Action! To share ideas for the day, get involved in making it happen, or ask questions, use our contact form<http://stopthearmsfair.wordpress.com/contact/> or contact the supporting organisation of your choice. stopthearmsfair.org.uk<http://www.stopthearmsfair.org.uk/> If you are mobilising in your area, you might like to check out Disarm DSEi's map<http://www.dsei.org/exhibitors> of arms company exhibitors across the UK, and CAAT's ideas for local action<http://caat.org.uk/campaigns/this-is-not-ok/dsei-localaction.php>. ==Friday, 16 September, UNA AGM== Dr Nitya Rao will talk on issues relating to Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment. ==Little g film night: 6pm, Friends' Meeting House, Upper Goat Lane== A busy activists' alternative to a book group. September's film will be "Shock Doctrine" Based on Naomi Klein's bestselling book, The Shock Doctrine argues that America's 'free market' policies have come to dominate the world through the exploitation of disaster-shocked people and countries. Both the film and the book argue that governments all over the world exploit natural disasters, economic crises and wars to push through radical free market policies. Klein calls this 'disaster capitalism' and in her view, disaster capitalism is as effective as psychiatric shock therapy at wiping our collective memory. The film concludes that the result is often catastrophic for ordinary people and hugely beneficial to big corporations. The documentary also adds to Klein's thesis - which was written before the recent market turmoil - and includes an analysis of how the financial world got into its current troubled state. http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-shock-doctrine/episode-guide/series-1/episode-1 The book highlights the need for resilient communities in interesting times. September is the first, if people like the idea and turn up, it will be a regular. The idea is to relax over a film and food (bring something shareable if you can), and have time to talk about it. ==The world's largest arms fair - DSEi -London on 13-16 September== (Defence & Security Equipment International) Arming repressive regimes. Boosting arms company profits. Displaying the latest killing technology. It's an event you don't want to miss. People the world over are yet again witnessing the horror of what happens when the UK and other military powers put weapons in the hands of repressive regimes. Crowd control equipment, tear gas and military equipment were sold by the UK to Gaddafi's regime, just months before he turned them on civilians calling for democracy. But it's business as usual for the UK government and arms companies: * David Cameron continued touring the Middle East with 8 high-level arms dealers in the week UK weapons were turned on protestors in Libya. * The repressive and authoritarian Saudi government continues to be one of the UK's largest weapons customers. There is no sign of an embargo despite their tanks rolling into Bahrain to help put down unrest there. stopthearmsfair.org.uk<http://www.stopthearmsfair.org.uk/> An event with global repercussions... At the last DSEi arms fair in 2009, the guests included an impressive number of A-list repressive regimes seeking to shore up their power with the latest weapons technologies: Algeria, Bahrain, Libya, Saudi Arabia, and more! Just months after its attack on Gaza in 2008-9, Israel hosted a huge pavilion of its "battle-tested" exports. Countries that are at threat of war with each other - such as India and Pakistan - shopped side-by-side. In 2011, DSEi publicity boasts that the arms fair will be "even bigger" and will host the "Largest Unmanned & Robotics Demonstration area in Europe". stopthearmsfair.org.uk<http://www.stopthearmsfair.org.uk/> ... that we can stop! Be there on 13th September The Stop the Arms Fair coalition is calling a mass day of action on Tuesday 13th September - the first day of the arms fair. We want to make it too difficult for the arms companies to do business by supporting a mass of diverse and creative actions against the fair. The day of action will be accessible to all whether it's your first demo or you've spent hours of your life chained to arms factory gates! Put it in your diary. Start talking to others and making links with local campaigns. Let's get a group from every town and city down to London for the Day of Action! To share ideas for the day, get involved in making it happen, or ask questions, use our contact form<http://stopthearmsfair.wordpress.com/contact/> or contact the supporting organisation of your choice. stopthearmsfair.org.uk<http://www.stopthearmsfair.org.uk/> If you are mobilising in your area, you might like to check out Disarm DSEi's map<http://www.dsei.org/exhibitors> of arms company exhibitors across the UK, and CAAT's ideas for local action<http://caat.org.uk/campaigns/this-is-not-ok/dsei-localaction.php>. ==Peace One Day, Wed Sep 21st, Norwich, afternoon + evening== {| class="wikitable" |- |width="10%"|[[Image:POD.png|150px]] |width="85%"| Events in Norwich (tbc): *4:30 pm Gathering + speech at the Peace Pillar in Chapelfield Garden *Walk to the Forum with banners *5:00 pm Vigil for Peace outside the Forum *6:00 pm Welcome by the Mayor and 'Peace One Day Exhibition' in the City Hall *7:00 pm Shared simple supper at the Friends Meeting House (Upper Goat Lane) *8:00 pm Showing of the 'Peace One Day' film: 'The day after peace' (http://www.peaceoneday.org/en/film/jeremy-films) in the FMH *Reflection and Close More details closer to the day. Organised by Norwich Peace Camp http://www.norwichpeace.org/ |} {| class="wikitable" |- |width="85%"| UN peace day. |width="10%"|[[Image:PODblue.png|150px]] More information on the UN peace day: http://www.peaceoneday.org/en/welcome |} ==24th September, Clothes Swap at the Belvedere Centre, 12-2== Belvoir Street, Norwich, NR2 3AZ. Due to popular demand, and random donations of clothing, Greens are hosting a second clothes swap will be held. The perfect time to swap your summer t-shirts for something autumnal with longer sleeves! Tea and coffee will be on sale in the centre and there will be the opportunity to join in taster sessions for different types of dancing (not organised by the Green Party).As before, you can swap an item of clothing you no longer want for something someone else has brought, or you can come empty-handed and give 50p for each item you decide to take home with you. ==24 September“Moving Planet: A day to move beyond fossil fuels”== The next big global mobilization we're organizing at 350.org. We’re calling the day It will will be a day for our movement to get out in the streets in large numbers, on foot and on bicycle, to bring strong calls to our leaders that we need to get off fossil fuels and move to 350ppm. We got into much more detail on the call, so for those of you who missed it, please click on the link to read a summary of the calls and listen to a recording: www.350.org/global-call-report It was really exciting to see people dialing in from all around the world - 29 countries in all, and hear some great feedback and questions too. It was a real reminder of the collective power of this movement to shape something really powerful to do together this year--we do hope you check out our call report here: www.350.org/global-call-report ==Autumn Human Rights Film Programme at Cinema City.== A five-week programme of Monday night showings, covering five decades of Human Rights in film. 19, 26, September 3, 10, 17 October Saturday 22 October – Big Sky Concert at Norwich Assembly House. An exciting World Premiere of a newly commissioned choral work, to celebrate Amnesty’s Anniversary. The Norwich concert will be part of a national concert programme, involving choirs from a number of cities throughout the UK. Autumn series of Philosophy Lectures at UEA – November (dates tbc) This year’s public lectures will have a Human Rights theme. Check our website for updates. For all enquiries please contact info@norwichamnesty.org.uk or 01603 810740 and do please share this programme as widely as you can with friends and colleagues. ==Stop the War events== ===WEDNESDAY 28TH SEPTEMBER 7PM=== FUEL ON THE FIRE, OIL AND POLITICS IN OCCUPIED IRAQ SPEAKER: GREG MUTTITT, THE AUTHOR OF THE BOOK Wednesday 28th September The Cube in the Forum Greg Muttitt will speak on his much acclaimed book Fuel on the Fire ===Fr 30th Sept: 10 YEARS OF WAR OF THE WAR ON TERROR & OCCUPATION OF AFGHANISTAN=== Vigil near the Forum on Friday 30th September The vigil will include speakers, poster parade, poetry readings, and possibly music. ===ANTI-WAR MASS ASSEMBLY Oct 8th IN TRAFALGAR SQUARE, LONDON 12 noon=== A Norwich coach will leave Theatre Royal, Norwich at 8.15am. Tickets £15/12 concessions from The Greenhouse, Bethel Street, Norwich or call Frank 01493 664499 ===Sign the pledge=== I pledge that if British Troops are still in Afghanistan on the tenth anniversary of the invasion I will join the mass assembly in Trafalgar Square on Saturday 8 October to make it clear to the government that they must not continue this brutal and pointless in defiance of the will of the people. To sign this pledge go to www.stopwar.org.uk and at the home page click on “Sign the pledge” to join Tony Benn, John Pilger. Caroline Lucas, John McDonnell, Laurie Penny. and many, many others. It all helps to build for the Mass Assembly on the 8th Oct. {{Norwich Scoop footer|}}

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