<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202">CLIMATE ACTION NEWS SHEET 51, 24.7.05<BR></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202">Compiled and sent out by Rising Tide UK: <A href="mailto:info@risingtide.org.uk">info@risingtide.org.uk</A></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202" face="Arial"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202" face="Arial">To receive this News Sheet monthly, email </FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="mailto:news-request@risingtide.org.uk"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">news-request@risingtide.org.uk</FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> with the subject line 'subscribe' (without the quotes)</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202" face="Arial"></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202"></FONT></FONT></DIV><P class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 252.0pt 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN lang="EN-US" style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202">1.) </FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang="EN-US" style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202">ART NOT OIL AT OXFORD HOUSE, LONDON, AUGUST 5-28, (OPENING PARTY THURSDAY 4TH) </FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang="EN-US" style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202"><O:P></O:P></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 252.0pt 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN lang="EN-US" style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202"><SPAN lang="EN-US" style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">2.) </FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang="EN-US" style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">POST-G8 CLIMATE ACTION DEBRIEF AND FILM SHOWING OF 'I HEART HUCKABEES', LONDON, 7.8.05</FONT></FONT></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 252.0pt 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN lang="EN-US" style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><SPAN lang="EN-US" style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">3.) READING RISING TIDE CLIMATE DEMO & PICNIC, 15.8.05. </FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 252.0pt 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN lang="EN-US" style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202">4.) PARTY TO STOP GLOBAL MELTDOWN, BRIGHTON, 24.8.05</FONT></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202"><O:P></O:P></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 252.0pt 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN lang="EN-US" style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202">5</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202">.)</FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang="EN-US" style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202"> </FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang="EN-US" style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202">IRAQI OIL WORKERS HOLD 24-HOUR STRIKE, 17.7.0</FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang="EN-US" style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202"></FONT>5</FONT></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 252.0pt 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN lang="EN-US" style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202">6</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202">.) </FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang="EN-US" style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202">NOISE PROTEST AT BRITISH AIRWAYS CHIEF'S HOUSE, 19.7.05</FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang="EN-US" style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202"><O:P></O:P></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 252.0pt 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN lang="EN-US" style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">7</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">.) A LONDON RISING TIDER REPORTS BACK FROM THE ANTI-G8 MOBILISATIONS: </FONT><SPAN lang="EN-US" style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">www.londonrisingtide.org.uk</FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang="EN-US" style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><O:P></O:P></FONT></FONT></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">----------------------</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202">1.) ART NOT OIL at Oxford House, Derbyshire St., London E2 6HG (Bethnal Green tube)</FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202" face="Arial"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202">EXHIBITION RUNS AUGUST 5th-28th</FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202">Mon - Fri: 9am - 10pm; Sat & Sun: 10am - 6pm</FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202">Leaflets & posters available from <A href="mailto:info@artnotoil.org.uk">info@artnotoil.org.uk</A></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202">FREE PUBLIC OPENING, THURSDAY AUGUST 4th, 7PM:</FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202">art – music - film – sound – food – talk</FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202" face="Arial"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202">Send us your art!</FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202">07708 794665</FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202"><A href="mailto:info@artnotoil.org.uk">info@artnotoil.org.uk</A></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202">62 Fieldgate Street, London E1 1ES.</FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202">artnotoil.org.uk</FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202">nationalpetroleumgallery.org.uk</FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202">londonrisingtide.org.uk</FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202" face="Arial">indignation – inspiration – creation...solution?</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202" face="Arial">------------</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202" face="Arial"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202" face="Arial">2.) LONDON RISING TIDE FILM NIGHT presents...<FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="Helvetica"></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="Helvetica">A post-G8 climate action debrief and showing of 'I Heart Huckabees', August </FONT></FONT>7th; </DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Come along at 3pm to share your experiences of the G8 mobilisations,</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">including the July 8th climate change day of action in Scotland and worldwide.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">We'll stop for food at 5pm, then show the film at 6pm. All are welcome,</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">(whether or not you were in Scotland).</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">If you have a short film focusing on oil, climate change or a related issue,</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">please get in touch and we'll try to screen it at a future film night.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">3pm, Sunday 7th August 2005</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Place:<SPAN class="Apple-converted-tab"> </SPAN>LARC, 62 Fieldgate St, E1 1ES. (Tel - 020 7377 9088)</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Nrst tube - Whitechapel or Aldgate East, Buses - 25, 205.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="mailto:london@risingtide.org.uk">london@risingtide.org.uk</A> / 07708 794665 / <A href="http://www.londonrisingtide.org.uk">www.londonrisingtide.org.uk</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">-----------</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">3.) Reading Rising Tide are having a Climate demo and Picnic in Reading on Saturday 15 August. 11am for town centre banner drop and 1pm at Kings Meadow for picnic. Contact <A href="mailto:climatejustice@postmaster.co.uk">climatejustice@postmaster.co.uk</A> for details or phone john 0118 941 5144</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202">4</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202">.) Feeling hot under the collar....?</FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202"><BR></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202">Time to tackle the climate pirates!</FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202"><BR></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202">Party to stop global meltdown!!</FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202"><BR></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202">DJs and VJs, eclectic mix of music with something for everyone,</FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202">cocktails, face painting and climate inspired fancy dress! Get out your</FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202">scuba-gear, make an appearance as a gas guzzling 4x4, a homeless polar</FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202">bear or even the world's most famous climate pirate! Take action for</FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202">climate change while you dance the night away and raise money for dynamic</FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202">Brighton campaigns!</FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202"><BR></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202">Date: Wednesday 24th August</FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202">Venue: Volks Club, 3 The Colonnade, Madeira Drive, Brighton BN2 1PS</FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202">Time: 8-2pm</FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202">Price: £5 (£4 with NUS, £3 with fancy dress!)</FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202" face="Arial"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202" face="Arial"></FONT></DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202">-------</FONT></FONT></P><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202">5</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202">.) </FONT></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202">Iraqi Oil Workers Hold 24-hour Strike - Oil Exports Shut Down</FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana; min-height: 15px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202" face="Arial">Sunday July 17th 2005<BR></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana; min-height: 15px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202" face="Arial"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202">15,000 Southern Oil Company workers from the General Union of Oil Employees - Iraq's largest independent union - began a 24-hour strike today, cutting most oil exports from the south of Iraq.</FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana; min-height: 15px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202"><BR></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202">The strike is in support of demands made by Basra Governor Mohammad al-Waili - reflective of the wishes of the vast majority of Basra's residents - for a higher percentage of Southern oil revenue to be ploughed back into Basra's local economy. Basra's sewage system, electricity grid and medical services are still damaged and running at limited capacity. Despite being the capital of Iraq's oil reserves, the governorate is still struggling with entrenched poverty, malnutrition and an unemployment rate of 40%</FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana; min-height: 15px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202"><BR></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202">The GUOE has been involved in an industrial dispute with the Southern Oil Company administration, Ministry of Oil and Government since June 20th when workers at the Basra Oil Refinery staged protest action and a lock out. The Union is demanding the removal of high ranking Baathist managers in the SOC and regime loyalists serving in the Ministry of Oil. The Union has given the Ministry of Oil until January 1st 2006 to comply. 15 in total are marked for removal.</FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana; min-height: 15px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202"><BR></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202">The Union is also calling for an increase in workers wages. According to the Media and Culture Officer, Faraj Rabat Mizbhan, the basic starting pay for an Iraqi soldier is 700,000 ID (£270) per month whilst a senior oil worker with 30 years service is being paid on average 400,000 ID (£150). The Union is also calling for land allowances for workers -</FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202">currently a provision limited to high ranking managers.</FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana; min-height: 15px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202"><BR></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202">The Union is also calling for an increase in risk payments - currently at the same level as workers employed in offices. Risk payments are allocated to workers working in dangerous locations usually situated far into desert regions.</FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana; min-height: 15px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202"><BR></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202">Union President Hassan Jumaa Awad al Assadi plus members of the executive committee have been involved in negotiations with the Ministry of Oil and Central Government over the past month. The Governor of Basra fully supports the demands of the GUOE. </FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana; min-height: 15px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202"><BR></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202">Negotiations between the Ministry of Oil and Government and Union have resumed in order to avert a full general strike which would involve a further 8,000 union members included in Amara and Nassiriyeh provinces. Non-Union workers have also been known to join GUOE strike action in the past. If the Iraqi government does not agree to the Union's demands, a general strike will ensue.</FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana; min-height: 15px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202">--<BR></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202">Nafutna - UK Support Committee for the General Union of Oil Employees:</FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202">Ewa Jasiewicz (0044) 07749 421 576 or Munir Chalabi (0044) 7952 683 415 </FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana; min-height: 15px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202"><BR></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202">Photographs of the recent conference and sites contact David Bacon</FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="mailto:dbacon@igc.org"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202">dbacon@igc.org</FONT></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202"> 001 510 851 1589</FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana; min-height: 15px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202"><BR></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202">See </FONT></FONT><A href="http://www.basraoilunion.org/"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202">www.basraoilunion.org</FONT></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202"> for more details</FONT></FONT></DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202"> </FONT></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202" face="Arial"></FONT></P><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202">Iraq Occupation Focus</FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://www.iraqoccupationfocus.org/"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202">www.iraqoccupationfocus.org</FONT></FONT></A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="mailto:iraqfocus@riseup.net"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202">iraqfocus@riseup.net</FONT></FONT></A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202">------------</FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202" face="Arial"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202">6</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202">.) Noise protest at BA chief's house, 19.7.05</FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202"><BR></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/berkshire/4696037.stm"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202">http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/berkshire/4696037.stm</FONT></FONT></A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; min-height: 12px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202"><BR style=""></FONT></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202">Protesters in pyjamas have held a demonstration against airport noise outside the home of British Airways chief executive Sir Rod Eddington.</FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202">Neighbours were disturbed as the anti-noise group Hacan ClearSkies set up a sound system and played loud aircraft sounds for 15 minutes.</FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202">The protests in Sherlock Row, Maidenhead, Berkshire, came before BA's annual general meeting in London.</FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202">The group is unhappy at plans for new runways at Heathrow and Stansted.</FONT></FONT></DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202">'Very loud'</FONT></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202">However, Sir Rod said the government decision on the runways was "excellent news" for the air industry, businesses and tourism.</FONT></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202">The executive, who was knighted in this year's Birthday Honours list for services to civil aviation, took over BA in 2000 and is retiring this year.</FONT></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202">Protester John Stewart said: "We apologise to neighbours as the aircraft noise wasn't aimed at them, but of course it was very loud.</FONT></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202">"We understand the fact they were annoyed, but we did want to get across a message to Rod Eddington."</FONT></FONT></P><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202">--------</FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202">7</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#020202">.) 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