VITAMINS
Hi
As you are probably aware the E.U. is passing legislation trying to tighten up the choices we have around supplementation. Vitamin C and lots of other products will be heavily restricted unless we all let them know this is completely unacceptable. The Conservative Party has started a petition which I have signed and if you believe in this cause please add your name to it (even if you do not vote Conservative). This is just the start of the slippery slope I feel and I strongly believe we need to do something now. Please forward this email to your friends and colleagues. Ask them to visit the campaign site
www.conservatives.com/vitamins
Ask them to sign the petition as well, and get their friends to do so too. Many thanks for your help.

Craig ComanÊ Registered Osteopath (GOsC), Acupuncturist(BAC) and Naturopath(GCRN), Chelsea Complementary Clinic, 281 Fulham Road, Chelsea, London SW10 9PZ

BREAST CANCER - DCIS (Ductal Carcinoma in Situ)

Dear Friends
As you may know, I was diagnosed with an early form of breast cancer (DCIS) in 2002. As a result of my experience I started a DCIS Information Project. I now have produced a short report on what I have been finding and doing. The issues are relevant to any woman who may be screened for breast cancer, and their families and friends, so I am giving it fairly wide circulation for information.
The report is 8 pages, and you may wish to print it out. If you do look at it, and have any queries, comments or other feedback, do let me know. If you know anyone who may be interested in DCIS issues, I would be glad if you could send them a copy. I will be producing occasional, not frequent, reports from time to time. Best Wishes

Remaking Internationalism

Social Forums and the Politics of Global Solidarity
7pm, Friday 5th March, Hong Kong Lecture Theatre, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, WC2. Nearest Tube: Holborn

Speakers:
Tariq Ali - writer
Annick Coupe - SUD PTT union, France
Marco Berlinguer - Transform & Partito della Rifondazione Comunista, Italy
John Appollis - Anti-Privatisation Forum, South Africa
Annie Pourre - No Vox, France

Across the globe an extraordinary range of groups and movements are challenging the rule of the American empire and the US model of neoliberalism. The globalisation of this resistance is best represented by the growth of the World and European Social Forums. In Mumbai, Porto Alegre, Florence and Paris, hundreds of thousands of activists have come together inspired by the idea that another world is possible. In November 2004 London will host thenext European Social Forum.

On Friday 5th March author and anti-war campaigner Tariq Ali will join speakers from key activist groups in Italy, France and South Africa to explore how the pluralist practice of grassroots internationalism might help shape the future of oppositional politics in Britain.

The Radical Activist Network is a network of individuals active in the movements for social, economic and environmental justice and against war and repression. Our aims are to provide a space for activists to discuss common strategic and political issues, to encourage pluralist practices and structures, and to co-operate with others to support and initiate campaigns.

We are united in the following principles:

• An opposition to all forms of oppression, exploitation and domination in society, which dehumanise people, destroy our natural environment and reduce life to a system of economic values.
• A rejection of top-down, hierarchical and authoritarian models of political organisation.
• A belief that radical and sustainable social change can only be achieved through collective, grassroots organisation based on solidarity, equality, democracy, openness and respect for others.

info@radicalactivist.net
Website: www.radicalactivist.net (in preparation)

KYOTO MARCH: Saturday May 15th
Time to stand up for the environment
Time to make a stand against Bush

The Kyoto March is an annual event that allows people to get together and onto the streets to sound the alarm about the accelerating deterioration of the global environment and in particular the huge threat posed by the catastrophic destabilisation of global climate. It is a chance to make a stand against those with the greatest power who are most to blame:  currently George W Bush and his backers in the US fossil fuel industry, who sabotaged the world's efforts to deal with global climate change by dumping the Kyoto treaty now 3 years ago. Our event marks the anniversary of that greatest of environmental crimes and includes:

A 'Long March' from Exxon-Mobil HQ, near Leatherhead, Surrey, 20 miles to the US embassy, central London. Starts 7.oo am - but you can join anwhere en route (or leave the march, leapfrog ahead by tube/train and join again, etc..): for timetable and and 'night-before' accommodation near the start see below. ExxonMobil is the world's largest oil company and Bush's principal anti-Kyoto corporate backer : it has been waging a cynical war of disinformation on climate change, for many years. See www.stopesso.com.

Rally at the Imperial War Museum, 3.30 pm for the main march (last leg of the 'Long March') through central London to the US embassy.

Speeches and 'DINOSAUR PARTY' at the US embassy, from 5.30 pm. The dinosaurs in the White House and the US fossil fuel industry,  with very large bank accounts but very small brains, are taking all of us the way of the dinosaurs. Join us for some MASS-EXTINCTION fun !

Route of Long March: From Esso HQ, Ermyn Way, off the A24 just North of Leatherhead, follows the A24, diverging from this for Ewell centre and Wimbledon (Dorset rd, Hartfield Rd., to centre - Broadway, Merton High St to regain A24); then from Clapham Common via the A3, to Kennington Road, via which to the Imp War Museum. Timetable: 7.00 am, leave Esso HQ; 8.oo am Epsom Town centre; 10.20 am morden Tube; 11.15-12.15 Wimbledon Centre (Safeways,Broadway); 2.25 pm Clapham Common Tube; 3.30 pm Rally at Imperial War Museum; 5.30 pm US embassy, Grosvenor Square. Go the whole way, join in along the way, or at the Rally at the Imperial War Museum for the march through central London......or come to the 'Dinosaur Party' at the US embassy.

Anyone joining us for the whole march who would like overnight accomodation with transport to starting point in the morning please contact us (contacts below). Dress code theme: Dinosaurs, extinct species, threatened species, Oil/Coal industry Dinosaurs, Bush/Cheney Dinosaurs, Uncle Sam Dinosaurs, or of course just identify yourself as a member of a threatened species!  Plus anything that shows Bush, Uncle Sam, Exxon fat-cats etc ...as climate /environmental villains.

Organised by the 'Campaign against Climate Change',
Up-to-date details and full timetable: www.campaigncc.org
info@campaigncc.org,  0208 8553327,  07903 316331