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| Key dates: |
| February |
| 4-6 NUS Disabled Students’ Conference |
| 6 Protest against Condoleezza Rice’s visit |
| 6 Pro-choice protest, London |
| 9 End the Siege on Gaza - demonstrate, Downing Street |
| 16-24 London Students’ “Go Green Week” |
| 18 Emergency in Gaza: Why the siege must be lifted - now |
| 27 NUS Anti-Racism Conference |
| 28 NUS Annual Conference amendments deadline |
| March |
| 1 Reclaim the Night march, Manchester |
| 1 UAF Conference, London |
| 4 Protest against ExxonMobil’s hostile action against Venezuelan sovereignty |
| 11-13 NUS Women’s Conference |
| 15 Stop the War national demo |
| 24 The bomb stops here - surround the base at Aldermaston |
| April |
| 1-3 NUS Annual Conference |
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 | Join the global protest on the 15th March. Assemble 12pm, Trafalgar Square, London. Troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan • Don’t Attack Iran • End the Siege of Gaza Called by: Stop the War Coalition, CND and the British Muslim Initiative. Read more | ||
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 | Seumas Milne argues that far from rehabilitating liberal interventionism, the Kosovo experience has exposed the fatal flaws that lie at its heart. Read more | ||
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 | In a historic breakthrough for student campaigners for justice for the Palestinian people, the NUS NEC has voted to call for an immediate end to Israel’s ongoing blockade of Gaza. Read more | ||
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 | Surround the nuclear base at Aldermaston: 12pm, 24th March (Easter Monday) CND invites you to participate in a lively demonstration against the development of nuclear weapons at Aldermaston and to celebrate 50 years of anti-nuclear protest in Britain. Read more | ||
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 | Student Broad Left is supporting amendments to NUS Conference 2008 in the Education, Welfare & Student Rights, Strong & Active Unions and Society & Citizenship. Read more | ||
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 | NUS Women’s Committee has passed a motion resolving “to oppose the NUS governance review in order to defend women’s representation at all levels of NUS.” The motion, submitted by Cat Smith and Bryony Shanks, will now be discussed as an amendment as NUS Women’s conference. Read more | ||
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| It is extremely regrettable that despite the possibility of unity in the full-time elections at NUS Annual Conference amongst those who claim to support progressive causes, this was not achieved, writes George Woods. Read more | |||
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 | Ruqayyah Collector, NUS Black Students’ Officer, is running for election for NUS National President at Annual Conference 2008, which takes place on 1st - 3rd April in Blackpool. Read more | ||
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 | Bryony Shanks, full-time Women’s Officer, Sheffield University, is running for election for NUS National Treasurer and Block of Twelve at Annual Conference 2008, which takes place on 1st - 3rd April in Blackpool. Read more | ||
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 | The Cuban Foreign Ministry has condemned the blockade of Gaza, which has caused an escalating humanitarian crisis affecting 1.5 million Palestinians. Read more | ||
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 | Ahead of the May 1st London Mayoral election, Ken Livingstone, standing for a third term, spells out his priorities for the capital. “My most central pledge at this election is therefore that London will continue to be successful; that I will not rely on the myth of automatic “trickle down” to ensure every Londoner shares in that success but take practical measures to ensure they do; and that London will tackle the great environmental problems, above all climate change, to ensure that our success is sustainable.” Read more | ||
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 | December’s constitutional referendum in Venezuela resulted in the narrow rejection, by 51% to 49%, of proposals which aimed to deepen the country’s social progress and expand its democratic structures. Francisco Dominguez examines the reasons behind the outcome, including right-wing media propaganda insisting that a ‘yes’ vote would make children state property, and asserts that the continuing popularity of the Chávez government and its policies mean there is no turning back for the Bolivarian Revolution. Read more | ||
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 | UPDATE: DEMO DETAILS ANNOUNCED - 12:30-3:30PM, DOWNING STREET As Bush tries to stave off disaster in Afghanistan, Condoleezza Rice, the US secretary of state, flies to London next week to ask Gordon Brown to send more troops to Afghanistan. With UK defence minister Des Browne saying that Britain could be in Afghanistan for decades, Rice will try to get Gordon Brown to commit more troops now, as a lever to get other countries to increase their deployment. Stop the War Coalition is calling an emergency protest on Wednesday, 6th February. Details of Rice’s meetings with Gordon Brown are not yet known but it is anticipated that the protest will be at Downing Street, the timing to be announced as soon as her plans are known. Read more | ||
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 | Policy Exchange, a right-wing think-tank close to the Conservative Party, has been exposed by Newsnight after a report claiming that “extremist literature is subverting Britain’s mosques” was found to be based on fabricated ‘evidence’. Read more | ||