News In Brief

• Campaigners against the Ilisu are promising a re-run of this years Balfour Beatty’s AGM which had to be abandoned after rebel shareholders invaded the stage. They are inviting people to buy shares in the company so they too can join in the fun at the next AGM. They need one thousand people by mid-August, so send your £2 (cheques etc to be made payable to The Ilisu Dam Campaign) with your name and address and they will do the rest, llisu Dam Campaign, Box 210, 266 Banbury Rd., Oxford, OX2 7DL

• Villagers from Chuquita, Bolivia were teargassed as they protested against oil leaking from a pipeline owned by Transredes (Enron-Shell subsidiary). The oil leakage is destroying their land and has polluted 200km of river. Villagers had water with them to help withstand tear gas, and carried on demonstrating, targeting the offices of Enron-Shell with stones and molotov cocktails, demanding that the company clean up and give them drinking water.

• All the people charged after last year's Manchester Reclaim The Streets have walked free. Video footage showed cops punching people in the face and hitting out with batons. mancef@nematode.freeserve.co.uk

• Mad Pride 2000, a festival and celebration of survivor culture promoting positive images of mental health; took place in London. The crowd were entertained by P.A.I.N. and Hysteria Ward. Tel: 0958 907357 www.madpride.net

• The GenetiX Snowball 'Handbook for Action Supplement' is now available. It's 105 pages, fully illustrated and costs £ 3.50 (which includes postage and packing). Send cheques payable to genetiX snowball to Box 13, Peace & Environment Centre, 43 Gardener St., Brighton, Sussex, BN1 1UN, Britain.

• Greenham Common Peace March Sculpture project, is to commemorate all the people who struggled so hard to make the world a safer place and to educate and inspire future generations to continue the struggle. www.wfloe.fsnet.co.uk

• Women's Wednesdays in Whitehall: Picket opposite Downing St, London 1-2pm, demands: wages and benefits for caring work; abolition of Third World debt; accessible water, housing and transport; non-polluting technology; asylum from rape and protection from all violence. All welcome. Tel: 020-7482 2496.