BATH STOP WAR COALITION Bulletin 24 August 2006

COACH TO MANCHESTER

We are running a coach from Bath to Manchester for the Stop the War Coalition / CND autumn demo on Saturday 23 September 2006, coinciding with the Labour Party conference. Coach departs Laura Place 07.45, return by midnight. Tickets: £20 return (£10 concessions). Please buy your ticket on the vigil, or if cannot get there, phone Bath 461167 to arrange payment. Cheques payable to Bath CND.

PREVENTING TRIDENT REPLACEMENT

Day conference on 2 September at TUC Congress House, Great Russell Street London WC1, 10.30 to 5 pm. Speakers include Kate Hudson, A.N. Wilson, Gen. Hugh Beach and 3 MPs. See www.cnduk.org for full details.

AN EVENING WITH MARK THOMAS

(comedian) with his new show “As Used On The Famous Nelson Mandela”. Wednesday 13 September at 7 pm at Invention Studios (formerly Windows Arts Centre), Lower Borough Walls, Bath BA1 1QR. We will be leafleting and selling coach tickets outside.

WEEKLY VIGIL OUTSIDE BATH ABBEY

11.30 am – 12.30 pm every Saturday. Current focus on the vigil: Don’t Attack Iran, End the Occupation of Iraq, Make the link between terrorism and military aggression.

We sent in all our signed Anti-Trident petitions (about 400 signatures over the summer) and CND reported that they received 53,000 signatures.

In October, the special focus of the vigil will be on the iniquities of government-sponsored arms dealing: CLOSE THE DEFENCE SALES ORGANISATION (DESO).

AN INTERESTING INTERVIEW

Canadian radio interview with Tom Nagy, the US academic who talked to Bath SWC in January 2004.

HELP WANTED

Would someone with internet access like to monitor a couple of interesting websites for new information both for this bulletin and for our own website (www.bathstopwar.org.uk) which is being updated? We are thinking of sites such as commondreams which has excellent coverage of US politics. It means visiting a site or reading a bulletin twice a week, following up any links which look promising, and emailing the bulletin editor or the website manager with suggestions for new material.

In general if you see something you would like to share with other supporters, just send the article - or a link to it - to postmaster@bathstopwar.org.uk and we will do the rest. Please put something very clear such as “Bath SWC Item for Newsletter” in the subject line; the email address is infested with spam, and my first action every day is to delete between 50 and 75 rubbish messages!

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