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Demonstration against new anti-terror laws

    by Various groups
    12th May 2008
   
A demonstration about proposed new anti-terror laws which MPs will vote on in June 2008.

Speakers include:
* Mark Thomas - comedian/writer
* Gareth Peirce - Human Rights Lawyer
* Sabina Frediani - Liberty Campaigns Co-ordinator
* Liz Davies - Chair, Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers
* Bruce Kent - Progressing Prisoners, Maintaining Innocence
* Lindsey German - Convenor Stop the War Coalition
* Arzu Pesmen - Chair Kurdish Federation UK
* Mahan Abedin - Director of Research Centre for the Study of Terrorism (CFSOT)
* Asim Qureshi - CagePrisoners

The National Coalition Against Anti-Terror Powers, includes more than 21 organisations, is co-ordinated by the Campaign Against Criminalising Communities - CAMPACC

For more details, email: estella24@tiscali.co.uk (mailto:estella24@tiscali.co.uk ) or call Mark on 07854 390 408.

Monday 12 May 2008, 5-7pm

Parliament Square (tube: Westminster)

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After May 1st: how can Labour win the south?

    by Progress
    13th May 2008
   
This event aims to continue the debate we started in March around the resurgence of Giles Radice 'southern discomfort' theory.

Unless Labour can hold onto its seats in the south of England, we will not be able to continue in power.

This event will examine Labour’s fortunes in the south, and whether the 1 May’s local and London elections give any indication of what can be expected at the next general election.

With
Rt Hon John Denham MP, Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities & Skills, and MP for Southampton Itchen
Rt Hon Charles Clarke MP, MP for Norwich South
Peter Kellner, president of YouGov
Steve Reed, Leader of Lambeth Council (chair)

13 May 2008
18:00 to 19:30

Thatcher Room, Portcullis House, Westminster

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Spotlight on Russia

    by Foreign Policy Centre
    14th May 2008
   
Taking place only days after Dimitry Medvedev formally takes over as President of the Russia Federation, this Chechnya Peace Forum and Foreign Policy Centre event will focus on what is happening in Russia today. Please see the invitation below for further details of speakers and a draft programme for the day. A confirmed programme will be issued to registrants ahead of the event. A buffet lunch will be provided.

Confirmed speakers include:
* Boris Nemtsov, Former Deputy Prime Minister of Russia
* Ed Lucas, The Economist and Author of 'The New Cold War: How the Kremlin Menaces Both Russia and the West'
* David Clark, Chair, The Russia Foundation
* Akhmed Zakaev, Prime Minister, Resistance Government of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria
* Tony Wood, Writer & Author
* Andrei Piontkovsky, Executive Director, Centre for Strategic Studies, Moscow

Venue: Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), Whitehall, London SW1A 2ET

If you would like to attend, please RSVP to Geoff Duggan on tel: 020 7149 3705 or email your acceptance to: info@chechnyapeaceforum.com. Please include your name and organisation, as well as your contact details.

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University science - a public good?

    by Demos
    15th May 2008
   
Should we be worried about companies funding university science? Does it make for more innovation or is it poisoning science and blackening our ivory towers? Join us for a debate on the future of public science.

Demos are delighted to have the following speakers:
* Philip Moriarty, Professor of physics, University of Nottingham
* Ben Goldacre, Scientist and journalist
* Terence Kealey, Vice Chancellor University of Buckingham
* John Pethica, Chief Scientist, National Physical Laboratory
* Ian Gibson MP
* Phil Willis MP
* Jack Stilgoe, Demos (chair)

Date and time: Thursday, 15th May 2008 at 4:00pm
Location: Portcullis House, London SW1A 2LW

To attend RSVP to science@demos.co.uk

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What about the workers?: Has the government done enough to secure working people’s support for a fourth term?

    by Progress
    21st May 2008
   
A speech by Brendan Barber, general secretary of the TUC.

In this lecture Brendan Barber, general secretary of the TUC, will examine Labour’s record in office for working people and ask whether the government has now become too close to business and the super-rich.

Chaired by Anne Moffat MP

18:00 to 19:00

Committee Room 12, House of Commons

Contact: Mark Harrison
Tel: 020 3008 8180
e-mail: mark@progressives.org.uk

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Progress annual conference

    by Progress
    6th September 2008
   
We have decided the date for this year's annual conference - please put it in your diary - more details will follow in early summer.

10:00 to 17:30

Venue
Central London venue (tbc)

Contact
Mark Harrison
Tel: 020 3008 8180
Fax: 020 3008 8181
e-mail: mark@progressives.org.uk