"SELF DETERMINATION IS KEY TO THE WORLD PEACE"
Join the Cricket and anti-GAP boycotts this month!
[Tuesday, 10 May 2011 18:47] Forthcoming Events, News[Act Now]
The boycott Sri Lanka campaign is now expanding to sport. The Tamil Youth Organisation (TYO) is with AN support launching a boycott of Sri Lankan cricket to coincide with their tour of England.
Their first warm-up match is a Middlesex county team v Sri Lanka on 14th May (Saturday). Demonstrators are to meet outside the Uxbridge Cricket Ground, Gatting Way, Park Road, Middlesex, UB8 1NR at 10.00 am. The nearest tube station is Uxbridge (Metropolitan and Piccadilly lines). We ask our supporters to attend. BRING YOUR PLACARDS AND BANNERS!
Next Global anti-GAP pickets May 28th (Saturday)
London: We shall be covering a number of stores around Oxford Street from 12.00 pm (meet at GAP 50 yds to the right of Exit 7 of Oxford Circus tube). Please help us cover them all!!
If you can run a picket outside London please contact us urgently on info.actnow@gmail.com so that we can supply you with leaflets. Check out your nearest GAP store (see http://gap.eu/stores/).
ACT NOW IN THE NEWS
Graham Williamson has recently been on LBC, Sunshine Radio and GTV talking about the UN Advisory Panel Report and the need for boycotting. He will be addressing a Sikh group on Sunday.
Tim Martin has been interviewed over his call for India to help Tamils and his conversation with Sonia Ghandi at a recent London meeting (similar to his confrontation with Ban Ki moon in Oxford).
Sockalingham Yogalingam has been on Deepam TV twice recently discussing why we must boycott Sri Lanka. You can view this by visiting his facebook site at http://www.facebook.com/#!/home.php?sk=group_183334711712608.
Activists joined a TUC anti-cuts march in London and handed out boycott leaflets as part of our ‘outreach’ campaign.
HELP US CONTINUE THE STRUGGLE!
Such campaigns need more than just bodies on streets but the materials too! For example, we shall soon need to reprint a revised version of the leaflet. It all costs money! If you give a donation however large or small this would be a great help. If you can’t make the Boycott pickets you can……………….donate to the campaign!
* For just £10 a month you will help us keep up the boycotting pressure upon the IC and Sri Lanka to bring peace and justice to Tamils (see standing order attached or request one via info.actnow@gmail.com)
* Alternatively you can give a one-off donation via our website by clicking on the link below to donate via PayPal. PayPal is a secure and a simple way to send and receive money online at http://www.act-now.info/Site/Donations.html
* Or contribute directly to our ethical bank account at the Co-operative at:
Act Now - Sort Code: 089299 A/C No: 6537322200.
* Or send a cheque ASAP to ACT NOW, c/o of our address at PO Box 4351, Hornchurch RM12 4PJ. We will acknowledge your donation and keep you posted.
Don’t forget to join the Global boycott of
GAP on May 28th!
For further information, please contact:
Tim Martin, Director, Act Now
Tel: +44(0)7817 504 227
Email: info.actnow@gmail.com
Site: www.act-now.info
Graham Williamson, Director, Act Now
Tel: +44(0)7970 455 445
Email: info.actnow@gmail.com
Site: www.act-now.info
Sockalingham Yogalingam, Asst. Director, Act Now
Tel: +44(0)7948 380433
Email: info.actnow@gmail.com
Site: www.act-now.info
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Global Peace Support Group UK Ltd is a registered organisation based in London. The organisation dedicated to be involved in humanitarian and other related issues. We also work along with other similar organisations to promote peace and harmony among various societies..
GLOBAL PEACE SUPPORT GROUP - UK - TIRELESSLY WORK ON THE CONCEPT OF:
"SELF DETERMINATION IS KEY TO THE WORLD PEACE"
MOURNS ON THE CONTINUED TRAGEDY OF THE PEOPLE OF North & East of Tamil EELAM WITH THE HOPE OF ALL OF OUR ENDEAVOURS WOULD BRING AN END TO THOSE SUFFERING DURING THE YEAR AHEAD.
The International community has a duty towards the long suffering Sri Lankan Tamil population to restore their rights of SELF DETERMINATION.
Global Peace Support Group - believes that this is the ONLY way for a permanent PEACE in Sri Lanka.
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