area | speakers | time | venue |
Preston | George Galloway, John Rees, Yvonne Ridley and Saeed Ahmed | Sun 19 June, 2pm | Guild Hall Foyer, Lancaster Road |
Liverpool | George Galloway and others | Tue 21 June,7.30pm | Mountford Hall, Liverpool Guild of Students, Mount Pleasant, L3 |
Sheffield | George Galloway, John Rees, Yvonne Ridley, Maulana Shoaib Desai, chair Maxine Bowler | Wed 22 June, 7.30pm (doors 7pm) | Octagon, Western Bank. Tickets £3/£1. Available from Jack’s Records, Division Street, or phone 07969 692 975 |
Unison Conference Glasgow | George Galloway | Thu 23 June, 7pm | St Stephens Renfield Church, Bath Street |
Newcastle | George Galloway, John Rees | Thu 30 June, 7pm | Journal Tyne Theatre, West Gate Road |
area | title & speaker | time | venue |
Derby | The revolutionary ideas of Karl Marx With Peter Morgan | Thu 23 June, 7.15pm | West Indian Community Centre, Carrington Street (off Trinity Street) |
Doncaster | How can we make poverty history? | Wed 22 June, 7.30pm | Regent Hotel, South Parade |
Hull | John Coltrane — jazz, racism and resistance With Martin Smith | Thu 23 June, 7.15pm | Relax Cafe, Newland Avenue (near Newland Primary School) |
Kent | The revolutionary ideas of Karl Marx | Thu 30 June, 7.30pm | St Peter’s Church, Canterbury High Street (near Cricketers) |
Luton | How can we make poverty history?
With Chris Harman | Wed 22 June, 7.30pm | Bury Park Community Centre, Dunstable Road |
Stop the War Coalition
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Southampton | War, poverty and the G8 with Andrew Murray (StWC), Claire Milne (World Development Movement) Jointly organised by Southampton StWC and Southampton MPH | Mon 20 June, 7.30pm | Sir James Matthew's Building, Above Bar Street |
Swansea | Fight poverty not war With Andrew Murray, Jane Richmond , Dr Prodromos Panayiotopoulos, chair Phil Broadhurst (Oxfam) | Fri 17 June, 7.30pm | Environment Centre, Pier Street |
Wandsworth | Fight poverty not war With Christine Blower (NUT deputy general secretary — invited), Nick Dearden (War on Want), StWC speaker, Guy Taylor (Globalise Resistance) | Mon 20 June, 7.30pm, | St Anselm’s Church Hall, 309 Balham High Road (Tooting Bec station) |
Respect
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London | Film showing of George Galloway’s appearance before the US senate Committee | Sat 18 June, 11.30am | Ravi Shankar Bhel Poori House, 133-135 Drummond Street, NW1 |
Stockport | Supporters’ meeting | Thu 23 June, 7.30pm | Arden Arms, 22 Millgate |
Movement events
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Birmingham | Free Babar Ahmad With Moazzam Begg (former Guantanamo Bay detainee), Craig Murray (ex-British ambassador to Uzbekistan), Mrs Ahmad (wife of Babar Ahmad). For more information e-mail info@peaceandprogress.org | Sat 18 June, 3pm | Carrs Lane Church Centre |
London | NO2ID rally against ID cards With Tony Benn and others Go to www.no2id.net | Wed 29 June | Old Cinema, University of Westminster, 309 Regent Street, W1 |
Manchester | Women Asylum Seekers Together and Farhat Khan campaign fundraising meal With Julie Hesmondhalgh (Haley in Coronation Street). Tickets including food £15 (adults), £10 (children over 11), £5 (children 5-11), under fives free. Asylum Seekers half price. Phone 07947 996 966 or e-mail farhatmuststay@dmt1.net | Fri 17 June, 7pm | Saffron Restaurant, Cheetham Hill Road |
Refugee week
This is a small selection of the wide ranging events taking place across Britain. For full details go to www.refugeeweek.org.uk |
Barking | Concert for Refugee Week Manuel Villet (South African concert pianist). Jide Chord & the African Melody Makers (drawing on the juju music of southern Nigeria) Tickets £5. For more details phone Rev Jonathan Evens 020 8594 2932 | Wed 22 June, 7.30pm | St Margaret’s Church, North Street, IG11 |
Bristol | Bristol’s silent refugees Zimbabwean food and music Tickets £5. For more details phone June Burrough 0117 924 4512 | Wed 22 June, 12 noon | Pierian Centre, 27 Portland Square, St Pauls. |
Cardiff | Celebrating sanctuary With Ethio Traditional Band, Aziz Salam & Karwan of Hawnaz Band, Terza Rima, Manteca and much more | Sun 19 June, 2pm | Roald Dahl Plas (Oval Basin), Cardiff Bay |
Glasgow | The Asylum A group of young artists debut a live circus based production exploring war and peace and the world in which we live For details phone 0141 248 9799 | Mon 20 June | Buddha’s Backyard, Albion Street, Merchant City |
Socialist Film Club
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London | Metropolis (1927) | Fri 16 September, 7pm | Chadwick Lecture Theatre, Main building, University College London, Gower Street (tube: Warren Street/Euston Square) |
Fritz Lang's Metropolis powerfully evokes a class ridden society of the future. The workers' live and labour underground while their rulers cavort in the palaces that tower above them. When the workers' anger finally erupts into action, their oppressors seek a strategy to divert it. £5/£3. Advance tickets from Bookmarks, 1 Bloomsbury Street WC1 (020 7637 1848) Organised by the SWP |
Summer Festivals
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London | Rise — make a stand against racism | Sat 16 July, 12noon–8.30pm | Burgess Park, London SE5 |
With acts including Lemar, Mitchell Brothers, Kano, Horace Andy, Eska, Raghav, and many, many more A free music festival celebrating London's diversity and opposing racism (formerly the Respect festival) |
Tolpuddle | Tolpuddle Festival 2005 | Fri 15 July–Sun 17 July | Tolpuddle, Dorset |
Annual music, drama and politics festival. Friday: Graham Moore and some of the best roots musicians around. Saturday: workshops on Organising Migrant Workers and Unions in the Firing Line. Worker's Playtime Cabaret with The Muddy Funksters. Sunday: procession, guest speakers, music including Hank Wangford and The Lost Cowboys and Billy Bragg For more information contact South West TUC. Phone 0117 947 0521 or e-mail southwest@tuc.org.uk |