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==Transition Norwich December meetings==
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=TRANSITION NORWICH=
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==Tuesday, 1 December - 18:30 -21.30 Transition Circle West==
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Venue: NR2, details on request from Helen Wells, email heavenwells@mac.com
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Transition Circle West welcomes anyone living in the west of Norwich who wants to reduce their carbon emissions with the help, support and challenge of fellow Transitioners. We meet monthly in each others homes.
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Bring food to share. Theme:Energy in the Home
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For venues and to join the group contact Helen Wells, email heavenwells@mac.com
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==Monday, 7 December - 19:30 -21.30 Heart and Soul meeting==
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Venue: The White House, Foulger's Opening, off Ber Street NR1 3AH
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Collective Intelligence - Part 2. With William Duffield facilitating.
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==Tuesday, 8 December - 19:00 -2100 Open Space on Creating Change ==
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Venue: Alexander Room, United Reformed Church, Princes Street, Norwich
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The Resilience Plan group together with the Heart and Soul Group invite you to join us in a discussion about "getting from here to there". A lot of the Resilience Plan has been written and gives some clear ideas about how we need to change our food, transport, home heating etc. But how do we get from here to there? What are the inner, as well as outer, obstacles to change, and how do we help to overcome them?
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=PALESTINE SOLIDARITY=
==Wednesday December 2nd,lecture by Ben White "Israeli Apartheid: A Beginner's Guide."6 p.m. UEA Arts 0.100 ==
==Wednesday December 2nd,lecture by Ben White "Israeli Apartheid: A Beginner's Guide."6 p.m. UEA Arts 0.100 ==
This event is open to the public and we encourage all those interested to please attend. Bring your friends! Knowledge is power!
This event is open to the public and we encourage all those interested to please attend. Bring your friends! Knowledge is power!
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Websites:
 
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For information on the book: http://israeliapartheidguide.com/
For information on the book: http://israeliapartheidguide.com/
Ben White's website:http://www.benwhite.org.uk/
Ben White's website:http://www.benwhite.org.uk/
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Background information on our speaker:
 
Ben White is a freelance journalist and writer specialising in Palestine/Israel. He also writes on the broader Middle East, Islam and Christianity, and the ‘war on terror’. Ben has been visiting Palestine/Israel since 2003 for periods of between two weeks and three months, typically basing himself in the Bethlehem district of the West Bank.
Ben White is a freelance journalist and writer specialising in Palestine/Israel. He also writes on the broader Middle East, Islam and Christianity, and the ‘war on terror’. Ben has been visiting Palestine/Israel since 2003 for periods of between two weeks and three months, typically basing himself in the Bethlehem district of the West Bank.
His articles have appeared in a variety of international publications, including the Guardian online’s ‘Comment is free’, the New Statesman, Electronic Intifada, Christian Science Monitor, Palestine Chronicle, Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, Middle East International, Church Times, Church of England Newspaper, Third Way, and Palestine-Israel Journal.
His articles have appeared in a variety of international publications, including the Guardian online’s ‘Comment is free’, the New Statesman, Electronic Intifada, Christian Science Monitor, Palestine Chronicle, Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, Middle East International, Church Times, Church of England Newspaper, Third Way, and Palestine-Israel Journal.
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In 2008, along with blogger and film-maker Philip Rizk, Ben organised the ‘JustPeace60’ declaration of Christian leaders around the world. On Israel’s 60th anniversary, this statement was published in the UK national newspaper ‘The Independent’ and reproduced all over the internet.
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In 2008, along with blogger and film-maker Philip Rizk, Ben organised the ‘JustPeace60’ declaration of Christian leaders around the world. On Israel’s 60th anniversary, this statement was published in the UK national newspaper ‘The Independent’ and reproduced all over the internet. He has given numerous talks on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in universities, churches, and community centres.
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He has given numerous talks on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in universities, churches, and community centres.
 
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He graduated from Cambridge University with a BA in English Literature in 2005. His final year dissertation was a comparative study of the representation of dispossession in the contemporary literature of Palestinians and Native Americans.
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==Norwich PSC Meeting  Thursday December 17,  7.45PM Belvedere Centre, Belvoir Street Norwich ==
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==Afghanistan: Imperialist Intervention and Resistance, Thu. 3rd Dec., 7pm, ARTS 01.02, UEA==
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If you want to give Christmas gifts which help PSC to raise funds and help keep the most underprivileged inhabitants of the Holy Land in the forefront of people's minds, I hold a small stock of PSC T-shirts (£12), scarves (£10), Christmas cards (£3.50 per pack of 5) and Ghadi Karmi's book Married to Another Man; Isrtael's Dilemma in Palestine (£12). Please contact me ASAP if you are interested.
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Film & talk on Afghanistan (John Rees)
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Chair_NPSC <chair@norwichpsc.or
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'John Rees, a national officer of Stop the War Coalition, presents a short
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=NORWICH STOP THE WAR COALITION=
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video history of imperialist intervention and local resistance, bringing the
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story up to the present day, when America, Britain and their allies are
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==Wedneday 2ND DECEMBER,Committee meeting==
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fighting yet another unwinnable war in Afghanistan'.
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7.30PM JURNET'S BAR, WENSUM LODGE, KING STREET,NORWICH
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Followed by discussion with members of the NSTWC.
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== THURSDAY 3RD December,7PM,AFGHANISTAN FILM & Discussion,IMPERIALIST INTERVENTION & LOCAL RESISTANCE==
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public meeting all welcome UEA, ARTS BLOCK ROOM 01.02,
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John Rees, a national officer of Stop the War Coalition, presents a short
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video history of imperialist intervention and local resistance, bringing
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the story up to the present day, when America, Britain and their allies
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are fighting yet another unwinnable war in Afghanistan.
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==Wednesday  9th December 2009,AFGHANISTAN PUBLIC MEETING DEFEND LANCE CORPORAL JOE GLENTON==
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7.30pm in THE CURVE (downstairs) at the FORUM, MILLENNIUM PLAIN, NORWICH
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SPEAKER: JOHN TIPPLE, (FROM JOE’S LEGAL TEAM)
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Lance Corporal Joe Glenton is the soldier who faces desertion charges for
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refusing to return to Afghanistan plus additional charges for speaking out
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in opposition to the presence of troops in Afghanistan, for which he could
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face 10 years in prison.
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The latest poll (for the Independent on Sunday)shows that 71% of Britons
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back the call for withdrawal of forces within a year. They, like Joe
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Glenton, are saying the war is not being fought in their name.
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The Independent also reports that "this ill-conceived and ill-judged war
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has left as many as 32,000 Afghans dead and 235,000 displaced."
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While generals are free to speak in support of sending more soldiers to a
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futile war in Afghanistan, when a soldier speaks out he is imprisoned.  As
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we cannot have Joe speak to us, we are pleased to have John Tipple, one of
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his legal team, to update us on this matter.
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Help us to make this an important meeting in our campaign to bring the
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troops home and to support a courageous soldier.
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HOW TO SUPPORT  LANCE CORPORAL JOE GLENTON
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*Email: Secretary of State for Defence Bob Ainsworth: defencesecretary@mod.uk or ainsworthr@parliament.uk
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*Write: Secretary of State for Defence, Floor 5, Main Building, Whitehall, London, SW1A 2HB • FAX: 020 7218 6538
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*Messages of support: defendjoeglenton@gmail.com
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==Wedneday 16TH DECEMBER,Committee meeting==
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7.30PM JURNET'S BAR, WENSUM LODGE, KING STREET,NORWICH
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==Philosophy Public Lectures 2009, 'The meaning of life', Thu. Dec 3rd, 7.00pm, UEA Lecture Theatre 2==
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=PHILOSOPHY PUBLIC LECTURE,'The meaning of life', Thu. Dec 3rd, 7.00pm, UEA Lecture Theatre 2=
The UEA Philosophy Public Lectures will this year be devoted to "Matters of Life and Death".  
The UEA Philosophy Public Lectures will this year be devoted to "Matters of Life and Death".  
See also the UEA announcement: http://www.uea.ac.uk/phi/publiclectures
See also the UEA announcement: http://www.uea.ac.uk/phi/publiclectures
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==Friday 4th December,8pm, Dance workshop==
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=Friday 4th December,8pm, DANCE WORKSHOP=
Trio Pe de Serra play traditional Forró, the hip-shaking, party music of Brazil’s Northeastern states, and more.  Regulars at the Caipirinha Bar and Guanabara Club in London, the band is developing a following because of the quality and warmth of their performance.  Get there early and join Menino, Pedro, Dudu and Leticia for a short workshop before their set, when you can learn some basic steps.
Trio Pe de Serra play traditional Forró, the hip-shaking, party music of Brazil’s Northeastern states, and more.  Regulars at the Caipirinha Bar and Guanabara Club in London, the band is developing a following because of the quality and warmth of their performance.  Get there early and join Menino, Pedro, Dudu and Leticia for a short workshop before their set, when you can learn some basic steps.
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==Quaker Simple Gift Sale, Sat, Dec 5th, time: 11-2, Friends Meeting House==
 
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Simple Gift sale -  crafts, cakes, books, bric a brac - and a shoppers' lunch
 
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=CLIMATE EMERGENCY=
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==Saturday 5 December: UK Climate Emergency Rally 'The Wave', London. Coaches from Norwich.==
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==Saturday 5 December: 'The Wave', London Rally. Coaches from Norwich.==
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More info from  http://www.co-operative.coop/ethicsinaction/takeaction/thewave/book-transport-for-The-Wave/
More info from  http://www.co-operative.coop/ethicsinaction/takeaction/thewave/book-transport-for-The-Wave/
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==Global Day of Climate Action, Sat. 12th Dec., Copenhagen==
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==Global Day of Climate Action, Sat. 12th December, Everywhere==
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Copenhagen UN summit: ‘The most important meeting in history’
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Copenhagen UN summit: ‘The most important meeting in history, probably squandered’
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In December 2009 in Copenhagen (Denmark) the world’s governments will meet for what may be the last chance to agree on
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Millions of people are pressing their governments to do more – and to agree the best policies at Copenhagen, even if some powerful oil, bio‐fuel and aviation businesses oppose this.
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joint global actions to cut greenhouse gases, to prevent runaway global warming. This is being called ‘the most important
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Local action to be arranged - contact norwichscoop@googelemail.com with your ideas
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meeting in history’. Millions of people are pressing their governments to do more – and to agree the best policies at
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Copenhagen, even if some powerful oil, bio‐fuel and aviation businesses oppose this.
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http://www.globalclimatecampaign.org/
http://www.globalclimatecampaign.org/
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=QUAKER SIMPLE GIFT SALE, Sat, Dec 5th, time: 11-2, Friends Meeting House=
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Simple Gift sale -  crafts, cakes, books, bric a brac - and a shoppers' lunch
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=Amnesty Christmas Sale=
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Saturday 5th December 11-5pm  Norwich Amnesty Group Christmas Sale at Gill's house. On sale will be Amnesty Christmas cards, crafts and cakes. We would be delighted to receive offers of cakes, crafts and raffle prizes and help on the day. More details from Gill info@norwichamnesty.org.uk
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==12th December - Norwich NO2ID Street Stall==
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=NO2ID 12th December - Norwich Street Stall=
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Saturday 12th December, 1-3pm at The Haymarket, Gentleman's Walk. Meet
Saturday 12th December, 1-3pm at The Haymarket, Gentleman's Walk. Meet
the public and spread the word! It's only a couple of hours a month and
the public and spread the word! It's only a couple of hours a month and
along to air your views and get involved in positive action to stop the
along to air your views and get involved in positive action to stop the
database state.
database state.
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=SECRET PEACEMAN'S BALL, Monday, 21st December 7.30 – 10.30pm, St Thomas Church Hall, Earlham Road=
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[[Image:caat.jpg|CAAT logo|600px]]
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'''CAAT invites you to the Secret Peaceman’s Ball''' (masks optional, unless you’re special branch) , to meet, greet and have fun with other activists.
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For activists who like activists
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What to bring –
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food, drink, any info or activities you’d like to share, raffle prizes you’d like to pass on
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Surplus stuff for swapshop – (but you have to take it away if nobody else does)
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Here are some suggestions:
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* Co-operative games
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* make a friendship tree from branches
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* make an origami  christmas stocking,
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* with your campaign wishlist, and put on  tree
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* Campaign  Christmas cards to send to decision-makers
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* Cards for people in prison
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STOP PRESS - Collective Christmas newspaper - 'as if' stories from people's wishlists
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Raffle of campaign items - pens,D-locks, boltcroppers, coach tickets etc
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