Dear Friends, Friends of the Earth Australia published a Direct Action Calender in 1998 and 1999. We are working on expanding this to an A5 (day-to-a-page) diary format for 2001. We are still working on the design, and are still keen for images/graphics etc of people and actions going on around the place all in the name of making the world much more just. The diary will be distributed nationally. We're wanting to get spread the word out to people of all the amazing and inspiring campaigns, information, interesting events and dates, websites and of course contacts there are out there. The pages of the months are broadly themed along the lines of "reclaiming" i.e January - Reclaim Your Space; February - Debt; March - Water; April - Energy; May - Unions/Alliances; June - Earth; July- Population; August -Indigenous; September - Multinationals; October - Food; November - Genes; December - Diversity. Graphics, photos, quotes, campaign ideas etc are fitted in under these themes. Significant dates are highlighted daily. The format is meant to make to easy for activists or people interested in finding out such information and potentially planning with this info in mind. At this stage we are still fundraising for the publication and are also looking for ethical, "nice" organisations that may want to advertise in the small amount of space we have reserved for this purpose. We'd also like to hear from people interested in or able to help with distribution of the diaries. Hopefully some of you will be interested in finding out more about this project, or are keen on contributing in some way. Please reply soon if you are. We are trying to get this done by mid-June. The working group is based in Melbourne at Friends of the Earth Fitzroy (PO Box 222, Fitzroy VIC 3065). We also have a dedicated email address for da diary: [EMAIL PROTECTED] There will be a quiz night fundraiser in Melbourne for the project on May 25 at Trades Hall. Look out for more details soon to be posted. thanks Indira Narayan WA Mining Campaigner Friends of the Earth Australia Mobile: 0409 257 354 Fax: 08 90 311 459 PO Box 232, Laverton, WA 6440 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alexia.net.au/~www/mhutton/index.html Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink