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Israeli Embassy - 020 7957 9500

ENOUGH demo - Justice for Palestine! London, Sat. June 9th.

Minibus fom Hull. Tickets, £15.

Gather George Street, 8am, by YPI building.

ENOUGH demo Justice for Palestine! London, June 9th.

Fri June 8th, Replacement of Trident Debate, Scunthorpe

Bombing Iran? Cenotaph, Hull 5.00pm

Iran Today: Video

 

 

 

  A rubbish recycling record >>>
  DNA file for everyone civil rights fear (Gurdian, 27.5.07) >>>
  Some soft drinks can seriously harm your health. >>>
  Year 7 kids get Vermont school buses to quit idling. >>>
  Republicans to steal 2008 elections - how they are planning it. Also how the attorney firings are about BUsh stealing the 2008 elections. (Greg Palast) >>>
  Secret memo shows Israel knew Six Day War was illegal. >>>
  "You can go outside and spit and have the same effect as doubling carbond dioxide!" - Dr Reid Bryson on Climate Change. >>>

Rich Wiles: The Children of Lajee

May 07 Stop the War Newsletter

  Friends of Hull Screen, details and contacts.
TONY BLAIR - a possible replacement for Paul Wolfowitz at the WORLD BANK - Stiglitz. Tremble ye developing countries... >>>

G8 Rostock, 6-8 June

Bono goes to Rostock. We want 0.7% of GDP in aid - AS PROMISED IN 1970 !!! >>>

BEVERLEY GREEN

FAIR l Great time had by all! A very full school with loads of stalls. Bands playing. Dancers dancing. Even politics!
Save Hull Screen - Hull Screen cinema languishing down George Street in a lecture hall now reduced to a 3 day week needs your help and support. Contact Susan on 07767 495832 or Val on 321895. Write to Hull Daily Mail. >>>
Robert Hans Rosner, 22 Sept 1930 - 27 April 2007. Architect from Hull and a child survivor of the Nazis, last wish. >>>
DEFRA approve planting of GM potatoes in Hedon. BASF decide not to plant this year... Hurrah! >>>
How big is the world!? >>>
GM Hedon - Cambridge site was planted last week by BASF, reportedly, with GM modified blight resistant potatoes... Is Hedon next?
 

Green Party third place in Avenue and Newland Wards. Greens net 15.7% and 10.5% of the vote in those wards beating Tories into third.

Hull City Council results. East Riding Results.

Hull Screen protest gets 70 cinema lovers off their seats! What effect will we have..? >>>

Requiem for the Honey Bee, 24.4.07 - In the light of GM trials for this area this ISIS Report links the demise of honey bees to GM crops and GM trials and the new systemic pesticides and insecticides they use. >>>

LA Times article on CCD, fungi and viruses >>>

GM Latest: POTATO PICNIC

Many thanks to all who supported. There were about 160 on the Picnic mostly from far across Britain. So thank you to all those who travelled 100s of miles (protest-miles?) to campaign on this most important subject.

We await the DEFRA decision, still to come. >>>

Green Grub Gathering @ Hitchcock's. What a great evening! Thanks to everyone who came and supported and to Hitchcock's themselves for a mega-spread, as ever. And not least to Mr Hitchcock himself for a generous donation , money conscious lot that we are!

Here's to next time!

Hedon Town Council opposes GM trial. 19.4.07

 

HEDON TOWN CONSULTATION RESPONSE on PROPOSAL TO TRIAL GM POTATOES IN A FIELD ON THE BOUNDARY OF HEDON, EAST YORKSHIRE.

This Council, having received information from, and discussed with experts from both sides of the argument, is strongly opposed to agreement being given to a trial of genetically modified potatoes being held in a field in Preston, bordering Hedon, East Yorkshire. The reasons are... >>>

 

Hull College - Fair Trade Fashion Show -

Horncastle Building

For one evening only! Fri 27th April 2007 (7pm for 7.30pm start). BOOK YOUR TICKET TODAY!!

Hull College School of Art and Design Fashion students send their Fairtrade designs down the catwalk. A formal event with guests expected to attend in black tie or evening wear.

Tickets £15 , include fashion show, entertainment, meal and fairtrade wine. Booking line: 01482 598754 . from Bryan

Kingston Art Group Exhibition, the Gallery @ Kingswood 21st April - 18th May. FREE!

There's a preview evening of 20th April from 7pm to 9pm! The exhibition has, opening hours Mon to Fri 9am to 5pm and Sat 10am to 2pm. from Nick via Clare.

ISIS GM report (Mar 07) claims GM crops have killed livestock, rat pups, and caused severe immune allergic reactions in humans. >>>

 

  Aspartame - Diet Cokesweetener (brought to market by Donald Rumsfeld before becoming Sec.Def....) BANNED IN THE PHILIPPINES for its connection to brain tumours, epilepsy, etc, etc. >>>
  Porritt, Stop Shopping! (Guardian, Easter) >>>

Land Area Map of the needed to provide total Solar Power >>>

Ten area candidates in record UK Green Party stand are to contest 13 seats across Hull and East Riding. The record stand will be over 1400 Green candidates nationally. City of Hull >>> Beverley & E.Riding>>>

GM Crop Hedon - BASF crop on way subject to probable DEFRA approval - seeking representations til April 20th.... Object here: gm-regulation@defra.gsi.gov.uk quoting 07/R42/01 in the subject line. >>> More documents>>>
£90,000 ? Spring Bank West bus lane!! Will also cost 30 old trees - and won't solve the traffic problem! PLUS 2 metre (incomplete!) fence around cemetery to 'protect' it. Residents outraged. Council offers them to pick THE COLOUR OF THE FENCE! Vote Green, etc.
  Green Party Budget : Hold onto Your Socks! (rtf) >>>
Queen's Gardens Car Park! - they plan to dig up Queen's Gardens, build a car park underneath it and then reinstate the park... of course, this is in no way a car-centred policy... Anyone voting Green yet?
Quaywest - WAS PASSED on March 9th by Hull City Council. Yet another massive new shopping development costing £300 million to run from Princes Quay to Ferensway down to Staples. >>>

 

The Big Screen Questionnaire

the Green Party consulted people in Queen Victoria Square on 10th March on the Big Screen. Did people want to keep it or bin it or move it?? Results coming soon! >>>

Behind the wall - "We won't accept no thought control!" - Rich Wiles, from Hull to Palestine. [Next PSC event, Mon 26th March, with Bernard Regan, Hop and Vine, Albion St.] >>>

Kissing-Gate for Amenity Field - Let's just get one! The playing field rear of Ella St / Reynoldson St. requires a person-but-not-bike friendly gate. Email your encouragement for Wyke Area Team to fund this (£2500) and make the field safely available for local children and families. Send to - jacqui.cole@hullcc.gov.uk

Behind the wall - 'The Ugly Hands of Occupation' - Rich Wiles, from Hull to Palestine. >>>

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