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10 Jan.: Subjects include Berkshire Anti-Nuclear Campaign (BANC) torchlight procession. 25 Jan.: Subjects include rape and police response (following BBC broadcast of 'Police' episode 'A Complaint of Rape' - fly-on-the-wall documentary filmed in Reading); proposed eviction of Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp; BANC meeting; rights and the police; 1982 May Day festival. 7 Feb.: Subjects include proposed eviction of Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp; Michael Hesletine's 'Heseltown' development; march on Reading Police Station to protest against treatment of rape victims; Israel and Palestinian Solidarity Campaign; Reading unemployment centre. 22 Feb.: Subjects include Cruise and Polaris missiles and anti-nuclear movement; proposed establishment of Rape Crisis Centre; 7 Mar.: Subjects include rape; fox hunting; anti-nuclear movement (Torness protests). 21 Mar.: Subjects include Greenham Common peace festival; police; demonstration against US involvement in El Salvador (attached: leaflet for public meeting on 1982 Employment Bill). 4 Apr.: Subjects include police and crime rates; Reading Unemployment Centre; the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in Bracknell and Reading; Reading Women's Centre; food (attached: leaflet for May Day march and rally). 18 Apr.: Subjects include cycle paths; Falklands War; food; Peace Week; police; Reading Women's Centre. 2 May: Subjects include May Day march and rally; Reading Women's Centre; Reading Borough Council; Labour Party public meeting; gay life in Reading; anti-nuclear movement. 16 May: Subjects include 'Don Summers International Crusade'; local transport plan; 'alternative cabaret'; 'Greenham demonstration - increasing T.U. involvement for peace'; anti-nuclear movement. 30 May: Subjects include anti-nuclear movement (including Burghfield Peace Camp); Reading Rape Crisis Line; Ronald Reagan's visit to Europe; language and social programming. 13 Jun.: Subjects include anti-nuclear movement (including CND London rally); Women's Right to Work march; Workers' Education Association; language; Reading University Students Union and elitism. 27 Jun.: Subjects include disbanding of Reading University women's group; homeless and housing; anti-nuclear movement (including CND and the Labour Party); Falklands; Rape Crisis benefit gig at Reading University Students Union. 11 Jul.: Subjects include CND labour movement conference; Greenham Common and Burghfield peace camps; housing (enclosed: leaflet re NHS pay campaign); Legalise Cannabis Campaign. 25 Jul.: Subjects include National Health Service workers; non-display of Red Rag in local library; description of life in psychiatric hospital; anti-nuclear movement (including Burghfield peace camp and BANC); SDP; Anti-Falklands War Support Network. 16 Aug [July written on magazine].: Subjects include Alan Reeve, former Broadmoor patient, and Pat Ford; description of life in psychiatric hospital; County Council business; review of 'The handbook of non-sexist writing for writers, editors and speakers'; anti-nuclear movement (including 'Non nuclear defence', text of speech of Sir John Figgis to Woodley Peace Group, and report on Direct Action Network). 5 Sep: Subjects include NHS pay campaign; psychiatric treatment; the Reading Festival; anti-nuclear movement and Greenham Common and Burghfield peace camps; Conservative trade union legislation; unemployed. 19 Sep.: Subjects include NHS workers; anti-nuclear movement; County Council social services cuts (enclosed: Animal Aid leaflet re vivisection and experiments on laboratory animals). 3 Oct.: Subjects include anti-nuclear movement (including eviction of camp at Greenham Common); public service cuts; prosecution of anti-Falklands War protestors; Reading District Plan and local situation; pirate radio; Family Planning Clinic; Reading Temperance Society. 17 Oct.: Subjects include Reading Unemployment Centre; anti-nuclear movement; public spending including re NHS and education; Militant Tendency and the Labour Party; pirate radio. 31 Oct.: Subjects include NHS and private medicine; proposed city farm; prosecution of animal rights campaigners and local anarchist; Rainbow Peace Camp; Reading University Women's Group; Reading Unemployment Centre; pirate radio; Militant Tendency; multinational business; video (with draft front cover). 14 Nov.: Subjects include violence against women; Berkshire Anti-Nuclear Campaign; Greenham Common Halloween gathering; pirate radio ('Red Pages' directory enclosed). 28 Nov.: Subjects include Reading drugs squad; language; pirate radio; anti-nuclear movement and CND meetings; feminism and animal liberation; pensioner bus passes; legalise cannabis questionnaire; pornography and 'video nasties'; Reading Borough Council. 13 Dec.: Subjects include proposed deportation of Shehnaz Sheikh; BANC and CND; interview with reggae band Urban Warrior; unemployment benefit; pirate radio (enclosed: price list for Free Life Foods). 25 Dec.: Seasonal boredom special. Subjects include Burghfield peace camp. File also includes leaflet for Red Rag; minutes of Red Rag collective meetings on 28 Feb. and 28 Mar.; leaflet for 'Accidental death of an anarchist' at Progress Theatre, May 1982.

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